Moulds? I’d rather have FRESH mussels ;-)
Hope for you the beer stew won’t be too sweet.
I remeber having had eels there in the late 70s - a very vivid memory to this
day.
Enjoy the drinks, the views, the food and the museums and architecture
altogether.
Amities
Philippe, waiting for the photos now.
> Le 23 sept. 2019 à 19:20, John Duggan via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> a écrit :
>
> Moulds tomorrow night. Hopefully with white wine and cream sauce ( hopefully
> with some chopped chilli blended in. Tonight a really rich beef in beer stew
> , with a couple of Bruges tripped as an aperitif 😃
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 23 Sep 2019, at 17:29, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Moules, frites, and chocolate, tonight?
>>
>> Bon appétit!
>>
>> Amities
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>>> Le 23 sept. 2019 à 17:25, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Aah Bruges - lovely!
>>>
>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 15:49, John Duggan via olympus <
>>> olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In Bruges at present.....When I get home I will dig out my old
>>>> “unfinished” balsa wood kit of a Lysander. You might have given me the kick
>>>> up the backside to finish it ..... or at least photograph it.
>>>> Regards, JohnDuggan
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>>> On 23 Sep 2019, at 13:44, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> A Lysander in balsa wood, Jim? Wow, very impressive - there is a*lot* of
>>>> glazing to fit, how did you manage to hold the wings in place?
>>>>>
>>>>> Having once lived about 15 miles away, I know the Shuttleworth
>>>> collection reasonably well, but I didn't know they had a Lysander. One of
>>>> its more important operating bases was maybe 10 miles north.
>>>>> I will leave it to Wikipedia to fill in the details.
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Tempsford
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Piers
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: olympus <olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> On Behalf Of Jim Nichols
>>>>> Sent: 20 September 2019 16:10
>>>>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Focus Magic
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks very much for the link to the Shuttleworth Collection. I did
>>>>> quite a bit of exploration of the site. That is a very impressive
>>>>> collection. I was happy to see the Lysander. That was the first balsa
>>>>> and tissue scale model that I built, in the very early 1940s. It always
>>>>> impressed me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 9/20/2019 1:13 AM, ChrisB wrote:
>>>>>> Bill
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It’s called the Avro Tutor, one of the Shuttleworth Collection which is
>>>> near my home, at an airfield called Old Warden. The Collection is very
>>>> interesting as most of them are flown in displays, but this is the Tutor
>>>> page on the website:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.shuttleworth.org/collection/avrotutor/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>
>>>>>> C M I Barker | Gamlingay
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 19 Sep 2019, at 21:45, Bill Pearce <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chris,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is the biplane on the top or your home page? It sure doesn't look
>>>> anything like a Stearman.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 4:49:42 AM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Focus Magic
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In Capture One I find myself using much more of the Clarity sliders
>>>> than Sharpening ones. I think that it’s a LCE adjustment, but the result is
>>>> more pleasing lighting as well as sharpness (apparent, I’m sure).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This example has +34 of Clarity and Structure sliders applied, for
>>>> instance:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://show.cbimages.uk/Photography/Blipfoto/i-kk2rzN6/A
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am probably less discerning than some on the List, but it works well
>>>> for me, as in this example as well:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://show.cbimages.uk/Photography/Blipfoto/i-zNGBtxT/A
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 17 Sep 2019, at 22:00, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 9/17/2019 1:57 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>>>>>>>>> PESO:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I recently had to reinstall Windows 10 and all of my Photoshop
>>>> plug-ins had
>>>>>>>>> to be reinstalled, too. The only one I've had problems with is Focus
>>>> Magic
>>>>>>>>> which I use a lot. I get a runtime error:
>>>>>>>>> Runtime Error (at 5:198):
>>>>>>>>> Internal Error: Failed to expand shell folder constant "userdocs"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The software company is no help just saying that they've never seen
>>>> that
>>>>>>>>> error before and have no suggestions. I'm tired of messing with it
>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> started looking for a similar program. I downloaded SmartDeblur but
>>>> it is
>>>>>>>>> awful and nothing like Focus Magic.
>>>>>>>> It's important, well, useful, to understand the differences in these
>>>> programs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1. The vast majority of sharpening programs/apps use UnSharp Mask, a
>>>> technique inherited from film, where it was a physical technique. While
>>>> powerful and useful in some ways, unsophisticated applications easily lead
>>>> to troublesome artifacts. I have not used an USM for sharpening for a long
>>>> time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2. Deconvolution is another approach to sharpening that works by
>>>> recreating detail lost in the aberrations on the lens. There are quite a
>>>> few specialized versions that work from knowledge of the characteristics of
>>>> specific lenses.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Canon does that in their Raw conversion program. DPP. Some speculate
>>>> that DxO uses deconvolution in their sharpening.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The only generalized versions that I know are Focus Magic and Topaz
>>>> InFocus. I did this comparison for another purpose, but it does provide
>>>> some idea that Topaz IF will do pretty much what FM does, albeit with a
>>>> different interface and settings. <
>>>> http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Focus_Magic/_B003950fpACRvsPlugin.htm
>>>> <
>>>> http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Focus_Magic/_B003950fpACRvsPlugin.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 3. The newest approach is AI, in the form of a trained neural
>>>> network. Topaz Sharpen AI does this. It's both almost magic, and
>>>> frustrating.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Like other Topaz AI products, when it works, which is most of the
>>>> time, it is head and shoulders above anything else I've seen. Also like
>>>> their other AI apps, where it doesn't "understand" the subject, or some
>>>> part of it, it can fail. I've also had an image where it didn't do anything
>>>> obviously wrong, but it wasn't as nice a result as FM.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It is also a machine eater, taking what seems forever to do a whole
>>>> frame. Because it's slow, even at showing previews, getting to know the
>>>> settings is also slow.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How Sharp Moose
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