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Subject: Re: [OM] IMGS: Duomo Dome
From: Frank Wijsmuller <wijsmuller@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:50:09 +0100
Interesting. When I was in Florence I don't think the "The Baptistery of
St. John" was open to the public. Everybody was making pictures of its
'golden' doors though (<http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=9643>).
Thanks for posting.
Best, Frank.



2013/11/24 Fernando Gonzalez Gentile <fgonzalezgentile@xxxxxxxxx>

> What an amazing thread ...
>
> Just a few weeks ago, I dared to scan an Ektachrome 100 I had shot,
> handheld, back in August 1991.
>
> I uploaded the original size .jpg in sRGB to Flickr, on October 30 2013:
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/n65sd7z>
>
> This one links to a more comfortable resize to 1080 pixel high:
>
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=9631>
>
> The golden hue is much more enhanced both by the daylight film and by
> the yellow artificial lighting, which you may care to spot rather
> easily in the original size scan.
> It took me some years of learning before I faced the challenge to scan
> this slide, and carefully match colors.
> Then, I felt more confident - and scanned two more views of Firenze.
> All these during a week in October 2013 ...
>
> One of them, I had previously attempted to scan long ago - but both my
> knowledge and software were lacking - and I couldn't locate where had
> I spotted that view, until Piers help arrived.
> I remember I started a thread named 'Lost in Firenze'; recently, I
> located the exact coordinates - and corrected quite a bit of blur and
> other details the original caption suffered from, making use of
> everything I had grasped from Mosse at the List.
> I will post a link to Statua equestre di Ferdinando Iº de Medici in
> Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Firenze. Via Dei Servi, Duomo de Santa
> Maria del Fiore e Cupula de Brineleschi, desde Basilica della
> Santissima Annunziata.; later and better in another thread, so as not
> to drift out of the Battistero.
> While scanning these three [actually, four - I remember we discussed
> long if such a cloud over David looked like a real cloud or not, and
> Moose strongly argued it didn't, so I started over ... but that's
> History now :) ] views of Firenze, I felt an urgent call  to come back
> there  ... if you don't want to wait until another thread on Firenze
> starts, I already uploaded those other two recent scans to Tope 2, at
> 1080 high.
>
> ____________*_____________
>
> I wrote down the following info ... just in case we're not talking
> about the same Dome:
>
> Battistero di San Giovanni (Firenze)
>
> « Non mi parean [i fori] men ampi né maggiori
> che que' che son nel mio bel San Giovanni,
> fatti per loco de' battezzatori »
> (Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia, Inferno, XIX canto, versi 16-18)
>
> handheld Olympus OM 2n on Auto mode, Zuiko 28mm ƒ/2,8 @ ƒ/5,6, +⅓
> exposure compensation - (hyperfocal).
> Film: Kodak Ektachrome 100
>
> C & C welcome.
>
> Hope I managed to paste those 2 links right, shall check them out
> immediately and if wrong I'll post then again.
>
> Best,
>
> Fernando.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Frank Wijsmuller <wijsmuller@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Brings back nice memories.
> >
> > I was there last year... look for the differences ;-)
> >
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