Recent content by ancient_mariner

Back to normal for me too now.

Well done for just keeping going in the heat.

That looks like a challenge. ;)

I've just installed the new edition of PhotoRaw : 2026.4 and suddenly all those promises of making it faster have become true. I could use it if I didn't have lightroom, but it's just not quite as good to use.

We aim for 3-4 years, although if they keep working ok then we would hang on rather than change.

I think detail is a better consideration than sharpness, which might not be the same thing. I like a lens with enough resolution to out-resolve my (24mpx) sensor, but beyond that I don't care. Sharpness might be viewed as high edge contrast, which may be unkind in a portrait setting.

None of the roads resurfaced round here have been planed. I walked up the road outside my house yesterday, and could see 5 or 6 layers of tarmac and stones in different colours in the holes where the surface is ablated. FWIW the road bed is different, a pale creamy yellow material.

This is becoming a problem in Oxfordshire, where some of the manhole covers are a couple of inches below the surface and form an intentional pot hole until they get raised.

The wonky angle can add drama and a sense of movement in the right photo, but it's become something of a caricature in recent times.

I'm using the PC I built in 2021. Moderate spec (for the time) Ryzen processor, 32GB RAM, 2TB NVME drive, Radeon XT6600 8GB graphics card. Takes 15-20 sec for denoise of a 24MP (50MB) image in LR classic. In general it's not about how big the SSD is, nor about RAM space provided you don't run...

It's been a decade or so since I last used GIMP, but it was necessary to create tif files before importing into GIMP for editing. Maybe there's a codec or something that will let you work on a raw file in the program, back it will be making irreversible changes to the image file, so I don't...