Hello Mike,
"Foss" was just my feeble attempt at humour. We don't have them here; I
am surprised that one would allow itself to stay so close to you, but have no
personal experience of them to judge by.
The pano #8 is magnificent; (pun warning) I'll defer to your choice of framing
vegetation !
Cheers, Brian
Date sent: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:25:25 -0800
From: Mike <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Copies to: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Taking the sp350 for a spin
> Good morning (here) Brian,
>
> That shadow is of my five legged tripod ... me hunched over a 3-legged
> tripod :).
>
> Foss? Is that one of those Kiwi-isms? With so many versions of English
> on the list I can't be sure if you bumped the 's' key by mistake or not.
> To clarify, that is a fox warming himself in the first sunlight. Wish I
> had had a longer lens.
>
> I wouldn't call my wife a Zuikoholic but I did give her a OMPC w/ 35~70
> 3.5-4.5 a while ago and the SP350 is her's too. Now I have to get her to
> use them more as I think she has a good eye.
>
> And yes my file sizes have been creeping up since DSL, such as it is,
> finally became available out here. If it is a problem for anyone let me
> know as it wasn't so long ago that I had to endure the glacial
> downloads. In any event I will warn if over 200kb such as the following
> pano taken on our recent trip over to Orcas. This view includes many of
> the islands between here and Vancouver Island including Saltspring and
> other Gulf Islands. Autostitch seems to be a feasible way to get around
> the limited wide capability of the sp350 and most other p&s's. I do
> notice a slight softening but perhaps that is more a result of camera
> shake and parallax error. Corrected with a tripod. Also there is some
> weird color visible in the sky. I'm not sure if that would show up if I
> did a full res stitch. This new computer seems to take whatever I throw
> at it without balking. I'll have to try printing one of these stitches
> to see how that works.
> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/WalkDogs/Turtleback/panoB.jpg>
> uncropped, 400kb
>
> Mike
>
>
> Brian Swale wrote:
>
> >Hi Mike,
> >
> >I see one of the Pano shots has one of those new-fangled two-legged tripods
> >in
> >it (shadow only) :-))
> >
> >Was that Scout or a foss on top of that rock? I guess the latter since the
> >file was larger than usual for you, presumably to show the fine detail (which
> >it did).
> >
> >Your missus should be an honorary member of Zuikoholics anonymous - or
> >perhaps she is. That is a great shot.
> >
> >Brian
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