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 😃
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> 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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