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Yet more Miami Beach pictures

March 11, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

I’m getting down to the end of the Miami Beach pictures, but I have a few more for you.

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More “Stacatto” pictures from Miami Beach

March 3, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

I’m still working though the images I captured in Miami Beach two weeks ago. Here are a few more.  

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Synology DS1511+ performance

March 3, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

Using large files and Vice-Versa with CRC on, I’m getting sustained write throughput of between 90 MB/s and 110 MB/s. That’s pretty much all a 1 Gb/s Ethernet pipe can handle. Read performance is about the same, indicating that the limiting factor is the gigabit Ethernet connection. During these transfers, CPU usage in the 1511+ runs about… [Read More]

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Synology DS1511+ OOBE

March 2, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

My Drobo FS took itself offline last week. Again. Actually, it was only partly offline. A server that had mapped a network disk drive to it through the Drobo Dashboard could still see it and write to it, but no Drobo Dashboards on any computer could see it. I needed to shut it down to… [Read More]

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“Stacatto” pictures from Miami Beach

February 24, 2012 JimK 5 Comments

I apologize for the long gap between posts. I spent much of the time exposing and processing  “Stacatto” pictures in Miami Beach.  Here’s what I’ve got so far:

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      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
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      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
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      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
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      • Good 35 mm FF lens
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      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
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      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
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      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
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      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
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    • Goals for this test
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    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
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    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
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    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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