Today I acquired...........

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Compacts like that are usually under rated or discarded due to "not enough megapixels"

In reality they are often better than most phones (yes I know, your phone camera is awesome) but they use ai and processing to achieve it, blown up or viewed on a calibrated monitor most phone camera pics look like phone camera pics, and the new ai bokeh modes just look wrong

Compare a shot taken on an f1.4 50mm lens and a phone camera with fake bokeh and you will see what I mean

Yes I agree.

The future of this camera is for Mini MIS.
It is cheep. 3Gb is big enough for their needs. Plus it will replace the dead one.
That means the MIS can document teir projects, with an In house camera.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

@Kayos
That phone is a one for a friend. Just needs unlocking etc.

 

[Kayos]

@Kayos
That phone is a one for a friend. Just needs unlocking etc.

Wasn't a direct reference to you, just someone reading and thinking "my phone camera is awesome"

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Wasn't a direct reference to you, just someone reading and thinking "my phone camera is awesome"

I hear that all the time.

 

[Maker]

new ai bokeh modes just look wrong

I can't wait for that to die out, I see people put it on Instagram and always wonder how can anyone be happy with that.

 

[Farside]

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Fired the camera up this morning
3Gb memory card and that was soon formated.
2 new batteries and it works a charm.

Excellent.
I've noticed that mid-life digital pocket cams are peanuts now. Been picking up a couple for workshop and ite-and-abite use, saving wear and tear on my decent kit.
Workshop use is more than adequately catered for by an old Pentax Optio (6MP) and general outside stuff is easily accomodated by a Canon SX200-IS (12MP).
Either can be thrown into a pannier or tank bag and I wouldn't care if they got nicked or broken.

 

[Farside]

I can't wait for that to die out, I see people put it on Instagram and always wonder how can anyone be happy with that.

When I hear the word 'bokeh' I reach for my revolver.

 

[Hood]

More bits for the bike, waiting for the comments from @MCKDAVID but again all I will say is spanners

 

[25.4_mechanic]

More bits for the bike

Have you weighed your moped lately?

If you continue to add so much lightness, eventually you no longer have enough ground pressure for the tires to work ...

Carsten

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[stuvy]

Have you weighed your moped lately?

If you continue to add so much lightness, eventually you no longer have enough ground pressure for the tires to work ...

Carsten

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Needs to be riding around with huuuuuuge empty panniers so wide he can’t filter in traffic first

 

[Hood]

Needs to be riding around with huuuuuuge empty panniers so wide he can’t filter in traffic first

They are not empty, they are full of lovely Scottish air and we don't have to filter up here because our roads are not clogged up with tin cans

 

[Hood]

Oh and even if I head to Englandshire the bars are as wide as the panniers so doesn't matter, if the bars fit the panniers will

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

I got this Wiltshire style Concentrate Dye Pot the other day.
I was told it used charcaol to melt the wax dye.

A few coffies today with a old mill worker from the town has increased my knowlage on this item.

It is a Wiltshire style dye pot, but was fuel with char cloth, not charcoal, the char cloth gave a lower temp and slow melt. This was to help the dye blend with the wax.
This is important when making up a new dye. A Kettle like this would make enough dye to do a batch of wool cloth.
The town made WD blkankets in WW2, amoung other things. So any old service people withh recall the green, blue, red and white blankets.
The old mill worker recalls in the end of the 1960's they had so many blankeys they were selling them to Pickfords as packing material.

Each pot in her mill had a number. So it could only be used for a single colour range. She has a image of a whole range of these gems on hooks above the boilers.

Plus I also got cake as we talked.

I oly went up to drop the camera off.

Now I am going to make some char cloth in the near future.

 

[RichardM]

Yesterday a nice wooden box arrived:



This is what's inside



A bit of furniture polish and some ACF50 on any bits going rusty.
My best buy of the week

 

[slim_boy_fat]

^^ Looks like high quality kit

 

[Kram]

Amazons, £2 for 6.

 

[Blobber]

Got these free today from an old boy in the village, he had lost his kitchen lights and even though I dont normally like to get involved in stuff like that I knew if I didnt he would get tucked up by ABC lectrics with weekend call out etc, anyhow 1 replacement light switch later he was sorted, I wouldnt take any money but he did offer me these and I thought it rude to say no, unfortunately he does not have the lathe to go with them!

 

[stuvy]

They are not empty, they are full of lovely Scottish air and we don't have to filter up here because our roads are not clogged up with tin cans

You can keep the midges, Iv got sweet blood they love me

 

[Hood]

You can keep the midges, Iv got sweet blood they love me

We don't get any here but even if I go west I am not bothered by them, I must smell or something

 

[25.4_mechanic]

We don't get any here but even if I go west I am not bothered by them, I must smell or something

Of course, I know that this was about a joke, a snappy saying, but seriously ...

... I live about 1,100km southeast of you, here it is sometimes really warm and vermin from the Mediterranean region has more of a chance to survive.

I never had problems with the different critters, all went to HWMBO ....

... then, some more than six years ago, I quit smoking
... you wouldn't believe what kind of critters I attract now and always the really nasty ones with thick swellings ....
... somtimes with Doctor's visit and cortisone injections etc.

So, the decades while smoking I must have smelled quite intense ...


Anyway: I still won't get into the habit of smoking again, I'm glad to be rid of it ....

Good evening to all

Carsten

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