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A fellow doll friend shared a couple pictures of their scanned doll on the London FB group and challenged everyone else to do the same and share the results. Here are my results XD My scanner has given me a really weird effect, wasn't really expecting it hahahahah~
I tried putting a black t-shirt behind to see if it would make things better but like he really looks tortured DX I'm so sorry Onai~
Well I reached the location in time to catch 1V93 (the 09:50 Edinburgh to Plymouth service) for a second time with 55007 Pinza. The inbound working is the 08:05 Liverpool, to Newcastle hauled by a Class 47.
Scan from a 35mm negative on Ilford XP1, Olympus OM1n camera.
Two photos this time!! This photo was taken, I think, by my brother in 1969. I can see it was taken from the top of the Round Tower and quite a lot has changed! The rather iconic power station has gone and most of the buildings around the Camber have made way for housing now. I remember the chimneys well, particularly on a day trip to the Isle of Wight, as we could work out roughly where our house was, which was close by! Most of those buildings belong to Vospers Shipbuilders, and I used to feel nervous walking past the workmen on my way to school!!
One for Tootdood!
The graceful great crested grebe is a familiar sight on our lakes and reservoirs, and is well-known for its elaborate courtship dance, during which it rises vertically out of the water and shakes its head.
Species information
Category
Grebes and divers
Statistics
Length: 45-51cm
Wingspan: 88cm
Weight: up to 1.1kg
Average lifespan: 10-15 years
Conservation status
Common. Classified in the UK as Green under the Birds of Conservation Concern 5: the Red List for Birds (2021).
When to see
January to December
About
Grebes are diving waterbirds, feeding on small fish and aquatic invertebrates. A little bit larger than a coot, great crested grebes nest on floating platforms made up of waterweed. They can be found on lakes and reservoirs everywhere.
How to identify
The largest and most often seen grebe, the great crested grebe has an impressive plume on its head and orange ruff around its neck during the breeding season. It has white cheeks, a dark cap, a white neck and a dark body.
Distribution
Widespread.
The latest iteration of my scanning rig - 18mm MDF board and 3/8in threaded rod.
SOOOOOO much more stable and easy to use than an inverted tripod, with no vibration to speak of at all. And it's up on a bench with saves my back, and it lets my tripod get back to being a tripod.
I've changed my scanning technique too - I still take around 10 to 25 digital frames per 6x9 slide, with 50% overlap, but notice that the camera is now cross-wise to the transparency so that there aren't any frames of "just sky" for the stitching software to struggle with - it has a horrible time trying to find control points when there isn't much detail in the frame, and that seems to cause the only stitching failures I encounter.
Additionally, I have started shooting each frame as a bracketed stack to get more dynamic range and rescue a LOT of highlight and shadow detail - 4 to 6 images 2 stops apart, and then fusing each stack in Photomatix Pro, using the "soft" preset, which gives really natural results. Photomatix has a "Batch" menu, so I can set up a big merge job for several hundred images and then just go to bed!
I have also given up on stitching with Hugin - it's too manual and makes too many stitching errors. I'm now using Autopano Giga, which works great if you enforce a lens focal length on the image properties tab of > 1000mm (I use 9999mm) so it does a totally flat stitch, and render with a planar perspective. The resulting image is just a little sharper than the one from Hugin too. Autopano also has fantastic "fire and forget" workflow, which means I can go do something else while it renders the frames for several slides in one go (I put the merged HDR files for each slide in a separate sub-folder, so Autopano sees each one as a separate panorama).
Here is an example of the results - around 46 megapixels, cropped down from around 62 megapixels in this instance:
www.flickr.com/photos/119759627@N06/15174233631/sizes/o/
I'm still using my old-school Schnieder Componon enlarger lens on some cheap x-mount extender rings and a m42 mount adapter ring, however I am starting to suspect it is not resolving all the detail off the slide - I can read some of those signs with the 10x loupe, but they are blurry in the digitized image. I think I am going to have to try a modern computer-designed-aspherical-low-dispersion-multi-coated-autofocus macro lens for comparison.
Next task after that: laser-cut acrylic film holders, and an Arduino controlled stepper motor setup with a Ruby script driving a Sony a5100 with 30mm macro lens via Sony's RESTful wireless API, to make it almost fully automatic!
credit for original inspiration:
petapixel.com/2012/12/23/why-you-should-digitize-your-fil...
Dasha, photographed with my new Leitz/Minolta (Leica) CL.
Anybody not familiar with the CL: The camera and lenses are pretty much Leica, but the 40mm lens and the body were made in Japan. The 90mm lens was made in Germany. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but it comes down to this: It is the most affordable way to get a Leica and Leica lenses, and lives up to the Leica name.
Lens was the 90mm f/4 M-Rokkor, and it was pretty awesome. This was my first proper rangefinder experience, and I started really getting into it by the end. I can’t wait to shoot on really good film and in better lighting conditions. I probably shot this around 1/125 at f/4 or so. The film was 400 ISO Kodak Ultramax, which served as affordable sacrifices in case the camera didn’t work.
Backlit film scanned by Nikon D800 on an enlarging stand. See how I edited it here: jamiemphoto.squarespace.com/blog/2013/12/26/digital-editi... ... And this is how I "scanned" the image with a DSLR: jamiemphoto.squarespace.com/blog/2013/12/22/yes-your-dslr...
Scan of my oldest daughter taken from a 26-year-old 35mm (Kodak Gold 200) negative. The negative was in bad condition, so I'm satisfied with the results - for documentary purposes.
I found an old, scratched negative and scanned it. My efforts to restore it follow. I do not know the date or place. Does anyone recognize the location of this photo?
D 426 is seen at the 7 terminus on Eden Quay with a departure to Sallynoggin via Ballsbridge. 12/02/1988
The latest update to Off The Beaten Track covers the 7 and can be found here:
KC 9 on Mount Prospect Avenue at the terminus of route 44A, days before the route was replaced by City Imp route 130. Clontarf, 09/03/1996