SH-50 - Last 8 Days

Thursday last week we had no Morris practice, but danced in Mission Bay instead. There were many apologies, and I was the only musician. This meant, I could not take my hand off the accordion keyboard during a dance to take a picture. This one was taken while they were discussing which bits of 'Simon's Fancy' they had forgotten -


There is pandemonium when I have to be reminded of how a tune starts.

The video was taken earlier when there was still a bit of sun -


During the weekend, Sandra demonstrated how she wanted the new post heads fitted, and I took this picture as a safeguard against giving Steve any wrong instructions to do the job -



For Sandra, the instructional stills and videos she does are the main reason for me to have the SH-50. Like the SZ-30MR before it, the SH-50 does not test her impatience, since the shot-to-shot times are similar to what she remembers from her film-based modelling days.

At the radio club on Monday I took a video of our annual lecturer, doctor Gary Bold ZL1AN, which he then uses to edit his lecture for re-use at other radio clubs. The still is for 'The 29-ER', the newsletter for the radio club branch that I edit. It will be printed in a 2-column display -


The processing is done so that the picture will not go black when printed in black and white by the commercial printers. And the emailed Word document will print in colour without soaking the paper with excessive amounts of ink, which would make the other side unreadable.

So we get around to Thursday again. Sandra had changed the priorities for Steve, which he is used to, because HIS lady does the same to him. But I did happen to see yet another bloom of the red hibiscus, in the sun this time -



So my SH-50 is a working mule, rather than a toy. The Morris video went up on YouTube, which is where about half our gigs come from. Gary got his video disk. As an aside, he keeps getting called out of retirement to assist university students who are a little hard of understanding. Sandra will get her Maori carvings fitted correctly. And I still get my occasional recreational pictures.

Henry

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Henry Falkner - SH-50, SZ-30MR, SP-570UZ

Henry Falkner said:

... to assist university students who are a little hard of understanding.

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Nice. I'll borrow that phrase if I may?

Henry Falkner said:

Thursday last week we had no Morris practice, but danced in Mission Bay instead. There were many apologies, and I was the only musician. This meant, I could not take my hand off the accordion keyboard during a dance to take a picture. This one was taken while they were discussing which bits of 'Simon's Fancy' they had forgotten -

There is pandemonium when I have to be reminded of how a tune starts.

The video was taken earlier when there was still a bit of sun -

During the weekend, Sandra demonstrated how she wanted the new post heads fitted, and I took this picture as a safeguard against giving Steve any wrong instructions to do the job -

For Sandra, the instructional stills and videos she does are the main reason for me to have the SH-50. Like the SZ-30MR before it, the SH-50 does not test her impatience, since the shot-to-shot times are similar to what she remembers from her film-based modelling days.

At the radio club on Monday I took a video of our annual lecturer, doctor Gary Bold ZL1AN, which he then uses to edit his lecture for re-use at other radio clubs. The still is for 'The 29-ER', the newsletter for the radio club branch that I edit. It will be printed in a 2-column display -

The processing is done so that the picture will not go black when printed in black and white by the commercial printers. And the emailed Word document will print in colour without soaking the paper with excessive amounts of ink, which would make the other side unreadable.

So we get around to Thursday again. Sandra had changed the priorities for Steve, which he is used to, because HIS lady does the same to him. But I did happen to see yet another bloom of the red hibiscus, in the sun this time -

So my SH-50 is a working mule, rather than a toy. The Morris video went up on YouTube, which is where about half our gigs come from. Gary got his video disk. As an aside, he keeps getting called out of retirement to assist university students who are a little hard of understanding. Sandra will get her Maori carvings fitted correctly. And I still get my occasional recreational pictures.

Henry

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Henry Falkner - SH-50, SZ-30MR, SP-570UZ
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Henry,

Great video again from Mission Bay. It looks like everyone had a good time, and you and your new SH-50 have all the right settings.

Here is one of the hibiscus images I took yesterday at Longwood Gardens in nearby Pennsylvania with my XZ-1. I like the one in your garden best.


Longwood Hibiscus

Regards,

Larry C.

Paul T. said:

Henry Falkner said:

... to assist university students who are a little hard of understanding.

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Nice. I'll borrow that phrase if I may?

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I am not sure. I cannot remember whether Gary coined the phrase or whether I did.

The problem appears to be that both the broadness and the depth no longer exists in intermediate school tuition. The students simply don't have the points of reference for assimilating new material by way of associating it with what the already know.

However, I recall a mathematics lecturer at Grammar School in Switzerland who lamented this fact way back in 1958. Indeed, when I re-took University Entrance for Mathematics in New Zealand, I found that the standard was higher here than the one I remembered from the country I was born in.

Thanks for READING my post.

Henry

I do like yours. Your XZ-1 still uses a CCD, but it does have better colour separation than my 2008 vintage SP-570UZ.

Thanks for looking.

Henry

Nice Flower shots gentlemen, the reds on Henry's flowers are amazing.

This is what I call Hibiscus the hard way, shot in Raw then PP in Capture One with a bit of nostalgia for me, a kind person worked out Fuji Velvia slide film ICC profiles to apply to the image. I sometimes wonder where this will go in the future , the lens used is a 70-300 equivalent zoom. Which reminds me I better pull out my mounted slides and check them for any fungus etc. Tedious but necessary white glove time :-(

These were at the city botanical gardens.

Aaron

Aaron Sur said:

Nice Flower shots gentlemen, the reds on Henry's flowers are amazing.

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Thank you. On my cameras with CCD sensors, such reds were impossible.

Aaron Sur said:

This is what I call Hibiscus the hard way, shot in Raw then PP in Capture One with a bit of nostalgia for me, a kind person worked out Fuji Velvia slide film ICC profiles to apply to the image.

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Don't talk to me about film profiles! I have a guy who insists on providing me with stippled images for our newsletter - and he does not know how to switch off the effect.

Your hibiscus does look spectacular, but I do wonder what it would look like without this much processing.

Aaron



Thanks for joining in.

Henry

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Henry Falkner - SH-50, SZ-30MR, SP-570UZ

Henry Falkner said:

Aaron Sur said:

Nice Flower shots gentlemen, the reds on Henry's flowers are amazing.

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Thank you. On my cameras with CCD sensors, such reds were impossible.

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Henry,

I must credit most of any success I've had with my XZ-1 to many who have contributed here with basic settings like (Jon404), and the Olympus engineers who provided the programming and the iZuiko lens. As for the CCD sensor itself, it's all I have at this time.

Henry Falkner said:

Henry Falkner said:

This is what I call Hibiscus the hard way, shot in Raw then PP in Capture One with a bit of nostalgia for me, a kind person worked out Fuji Velvia slide film ICC profiles to apply to the image.

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Don't talk to me about film profiles! I have a guy who insists on providing me with stippled images for our newsletter - and he does not know how to switch off the effect.

Your hibiscus does look spectacular, but I do wonder what it would look like without this much processing.

Aaron

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Aaron,

Your hibiscus image is spectacular in Fuji Velvia, and the Fuji lens is very sharp. I wish I knew more about post processing, and I'm hoping to experiment more with RAW images now that I have a little more time to do so.

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Thanks for joining in.

Henry

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Regards,

Larry C.

Henry Falkner said:

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Hi Henry,

One reason i like the Olympus and Fuji cameras is their very nice OOC jpegs. Great for sharing via email web etc.

I always shoot Jpeg and Raw, then when I get a keeper I have every bit of info the sensor has recorded. When a camera captures 22MB of data and discards this to get a 4 MB file a great deal is lost.The Hibiscus Jpeg was 80% quality to keep file size down.With Capture on eyou can set up a number of presets to trat the files as you want so each step does not have to be applied individually.Newer Raw converters are much more user friendly than early photoshop , the reason why most folks ran away.

The flower was captured on a windy day and I was able to use a high enough ISO and shutter speed to get a sharp result. IS helped frame and compose the image.
I did not keep the OOC jpeg for the hibiscus since I was happy with the PP result, this will give you an idea of the OOC jpeg capabilities of the camera.

I felt the PP Hibiscus was overdone, so I very much appreciate to see what the camera gives you. Your example, to my eyes, needs very little work. I probably would make it less blue in the shadows (PSE7), which would help the greens without stuffing up the colour differentiation in the blooms.

Henry

No problems Henry my pleasure.

Fujia Velvia is all about color saturation , love it or hate it. here is a one step click of the same image with the Fujia Astia (soft) film profile. Spoilt rotten is what modern photographers are





BTW I see you are still using the CCD version of PP , PSE7 , mate you are a modern man with 5 axis video IS , time to explore new boundaries for the digital darkroom maybe

cheers

Aaron

Aaron Sur said:

BTW I see you are still using the CCD version of PP , PSE7 , mate you are a modern man with 5 axis video IS , time to explore new boundaries for the digital darkroom maybe

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Occasionally, An offer for PSE10, or 11, or 12 pops up. I click on it, and nothing happens.

With stills it is not a great problem. But it gets magnified when I process videos. The changes are much bigger than the preview suggests.

Once I find out where Adobe is now hiding their upgrade offers, I will have a go.

Henry

Video doesn't look too bad - I like the sound on it!

The interior high ISO shot perfectly acceptable.

Hi Henry,

I did not expect you to be out of pocket for such a venture, especially embellishing the coffers of Adobe.

I can't help you with the video , I simply don't do it yet . I am sure there are excellent freeware video editors available now.

Even Microsoft now has codecs for most manufacturers raw files, and Google+ has incorporated Snapseed a really good simple fast editor originally created by Nik software.Their original packages cost hundreds .

Raw therapee is another free editor I can reccomend, extensive PDF instructions available as well.

Have a look below


good hunting

Aaron

photophile said:

Video doesn't look too bad - I like the sound on it!

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Thank you. It is me playing.

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The interior high ISO shot perfectly acceptable.

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These pocket P&S jobs have come a long way.

Yesterday's Morris gig was at Botany Town Centre -


Thanks for looking.

Henry