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Re: [OM] Focus Magic

Subject: Re: [OM] Focus Magic
From: Philippe <photo.philippe.amard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:29:58 +0200
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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