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Spad's Astro Part Tre - The Comet
Here it is..... C2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.... Here are two versions using two different Processes. This is also the first time I have imaged a comet with my telescope with all big kit, as well as processing one. Shortly I hope to get some better software called Pixinsight. I had a demp version o...
Posted by Spad on 26/10/2024 - 16:44
Spad's Astro Part Tre - The Comet
Did you get the comet from a few years back? That had a beautiful green core with a blue ion tail. This one didn't give off as much colour it seems. I think there might be a Pixinsight trial. There's so much to learn that a trial doesn't give you the time to really get into things. I used the ...
Posted by HarisF1 on 27/10/2024 - 12:19
Spad's Astro Part Tre - The Comet
Did you get the comet from a few years back? That had a beautiful green core with a blue ion tail. This one didn't give off as much colour it seems. I think there might be a Pixinsight trial. There's so much to learn that a trial doesn't give you the time to really get into things. I used the ...
Posted by Spad on 27/10/2024 - 12:38
Photography and Video Show UK March 25
Even though Pentax/Ricoh rarely feature, the 'Societies' Convention/Trade Show at the Novotel in Hammersmith is a good show to go to...the Trade Show is free (you have to register) but the Convention is paid for (talks and stuff). Great deals on accessories and it lets you handle stuff as well.... ...
Posted by Pwynnej on 03/12/2024 - 11:26
Need Help with Photographing Paintings – Colors Look Dull and Shadowy
One off the top of my head .... Download a copy of Faststone Image Viewer (ignore the title - it's the unchanged original from years back). It's free and very good. It is quirky in that you need to shove the mouse against the sides, top and bottom of the screen to access the features but ignore th...
Posted by davidwozhere on 16/01/2025 - 00:50
Spad's DSO fannyings!
Fantastic set, any of them would make a superb massive print on the wall. (Thinking back to the posters I would buy as a kid many many years ago)
Posted by Mike-P on 17/01/2025 - 15:30
Sharing images and social media
Afternoon Kris I don't do any social media at all, so I'm probably unsociable :-) I do however share stuff via my website ( Zenfolio ) via links etc and it also has a back office whereby I can password protect access to clint images which they can then share / download. Costs are £120 pa an...
Posted by Chrism8 on 20/01/2025 - 13:40
AI and Copyright
This will just turn us into useless slabs of flab!! Speak for yourself. It won't do it to me - because I already am!! :tease: Strange how a technology is seen as bad if it means that some people won't have jobs. Was it a bad thing when newspapers started to print pictures in colour? It was for my...
Posted by Lubbyman on 18/02/2025 - 16:58
AI and Copyright
Then the robots will declare war on the AI factories and we can sit back with smiles on our faces and say "See, I knew nothing good would come of it. Now be a good slave-bot and get me another beer." 😆 😂 😆 made me laff I may have it wrong, but I read Getty are worried the...
Posted by loadoftripe on 18/02/2025 - 17:18
Aurora Watch UK - Aurora Likely
I got back from the Camera club just after 10 p.m. I had the camera set up on the tripod. I went out with great expectations. I just got the last few minutes of a faint reddish glow, and then it was gone. Oh well, better luck next time.
Posted by markm on 17/04/2025 - 11:58
SRS Microsystems
Hi, SRS recently ended their sponsorship after many years due to the declining Pentax market and photographic market in general, which is a real shame. Along with it, the 10% discount. We’re hoping they may come back, as we grow the site, so thank you for your membership and participation which ...
Posted by tj on 28/04/2025 - 13:10
One from last night.....
I had a nice night out last night in some clear and WARM!!! weather. Was so nice not freezing my nuts off in the back of a vancicle! Milkway composite image shot with dirty word FF camera with a Samyang 15mm f2.8. Core image info - 26 x 10 sec exposures at 3200iso f2.8. Stacked and stretched i...
Posted by Spad on 01/05/2025 - 18:44
Summer Projects
No travels or holidays for me, thanks to Mrs L's health (or lack thereof). But I haven't done any serious macro for a while so the macro rig is being rebuilt (it has to be dismantled when a visitor needs to use the bedroom :sad: ) with the aim of doing some interesting things during the summer. And ...
Posted by Lubbyman on 27/05/2025 - 11:42
Summer Projects
I might just think about getting a substantial tripod (cheap and used) for macro work outside because the Benbo Trekker can get horribly unstable when there are focus racks and a geared head on it. Steve I can recommend a Giottos Aluminium one. I use one for long exposure stuff, so like me you ne...
Posted by Spad on 27/05/2025 - 12:35
Summer Projects
I've just put a set of new batteries in my ME-Super and it's working again! So it'll be traveling with me to Italy for a week in the Dolomites loaded with Kodak Portra 160. Remember that many airports now have newer, more powerful x-ray scanners for hand luggage and they will completely destroy film...
Posted by Jonathan-Mac on 02/06/2025 - 10:10
Is this the end of the creative arts?
Auto focus and predictive text are not AI... they have both been around long before AI. They're based on patterns or algorithms. AI learns.... this is vastly different. As for machines making our lives easier, copying things or sorting things IS NOT a valid argument. This about it mimicking w...
Posted by Spad on 02/06/2025 - 11:21
Is this the end of the creative arts?
Auto focus and predictive text are not AI... they have both been around long before AI. They're based on patterns or algorithms. AI learns.... this is vastly different. Not true. AI is also based on patterns or algorithms. In essence, AI tools are enormous curve-fitting algorithms, no different in p...
Posted by Lubbyman on 02/06/2025 - 12:35
Is this the end of the creative arts?
Can auto focus, computers, cars, predictive text, and all the other things mimick what we do???? All things we have talked about are things we programme or tell what to do. AI at present still needs us, but as this technology progresses then what? It makes us lazy now.... you type something in...
Posted by Spad on 02/06/2025 - 13:26
Messages - a major improvement
The behind the scenes work continues steadily with the latest improvement (IMO) being the change to messages. Previously an interchange of messages with another forum member would result in a string of individual sent and received messages, and if there was some information in one of these that y...
Posted by LennyBloke on 23/06/2025 - 19:42
My version of...
Chicken head? I saw a trio of Meercats stretching up on their back legs - as they do. Keep it up Spad. I have no comprehension of how you do it but the results shine!
Posted by davidwozhere on 07/07/2025 - 23:38
