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Post by leo on Aug 27, 2018 20:35:42 GMT
If I was in the white cottage I'd be singing "who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? you big fat bastard, who ate all the pies?" In an eey eye adio type chant What fun! Big Mac, fries and a diet coke please you skinny bastard Have you EVER seen an overweight MacDonalds "crew" member? They're aliens pumping us full of fat. Bloody tempting mate , the majority was sweating women shovelling hands full of chips into their faces . Don't know what it is with Yorkshire woman wearing under sized black leggings , the damn flies was having a field day
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Post by leo on Aug 26, 2018 22:29:03 GMT
Nice photo Leo....... would be great going down those steps but a bit of a bugger going up I'd imagine ? We was staying in the white cottage on the left , you can imagine some of the sights walking up those steps . More than once I thought to myself s/he will never make their fat arse up there
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Post by leo on Mar 20, 2018 21:16:58 GMT
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Post by leo on Mar 20, 2018 19:47:45 GMT
BTW do my pics look light enough ? Annoying they look a lot different on the Asus laptop compared to my macbook. I really need to get a decent monitor to plug the laptop and macbook in
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Post by leo on Mar 20, 2018 19:45:06 GMT
Your photos are SUPERB Leo! I spent DAYS trying to capture footage of a woodpecker this far North and the little bastard refused to peck Excellent ! totally missed this, BTW they seem to like sunflower hearts and suet pellets
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Post by leo on Mar 20, 2018 19:42:35 GMT
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Post by leo on Dec 27, 2017 23:12:15 GMT
Bloody Christmas , couldn't even be arsed to send out cards this year . Last time I had a day like yours Mike I went back to bed and thought stuff it I couldn't even get out for a walk because the weather was crap and had a flare up with me guts
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Post by leo on Nov 28, 2017 21:07:31 GMT
Macro for capacitors / opamps etc. Leo........ not bugs Be no problem for components etc , its worth experimenting with lighting if theres not enough natural light. The standard camera flash tends to reflect blowing out highlights on smooth surfaces , I'd try a diffuser like tracing paper over the flash
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Post by leo on Nov 26, 2017 20:52:51 GMT
Leo, My pheasants not only peck at the nut feeder, one of them is so clever he jumps up and knocks it off the feeding pole to empty the nuts onto the ground! He's a little (not so little) bastard! I was over at Caithness livestock breeders last week and asked the owner if he had anything for pheasants (I want to detract them from the small bird feeders) and he said "oh yes..... follow me"........ 20KG of "Poultry corn" for £6.50..... they absolutely LOVE it so I am gradually going to move them away from the small bird feeding station to the bottom of the garden..... they're just running riot at the moment! £6.50 for 20KG of poultry feed is sustainable but £20 for 20KG of bird seed is NOT, if the pheasants are eating all of it! This type of thing would work: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-x-30-00kg-Pheasant-game-Chicken-poultry-Hanging-feeder-14-99-delivered-/372138483830I am also thinking along the lines of 2 metres of plastic guttering with a wooden stand..... a kind of feeding trough for the pheasants..... I'd need two metres because they are quite bitchy with each other and there is many a fight over seed.... a two metre trough would ensure they all get space to peck. I've got so much "pheasentry" going down outside Leo but can never get the buggers to stay still so how the hell do you get such perfect photos? Burst mode? Maybe 100 snaps with only one being a good one? I've just taken ownership of a Panasonic Lumix G2 (old I know) for £125 so looking forward to trying it out...... it's in MINT condition and has more features on it than the Star Ship Enterprise....... I've got a couple of automatic extension tube rings on their way for it because I aim to use it mainly for Macro duty... do you think they will be OK / do the job? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Automatic-Macro-Extension-Tube-Ring-for-Olympus-Panasonic-four-thirds-Micro-M-SS/232501273557?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 My only concern is the lens may "hunt" with the tube extensions but I can't afford a dedicated Macro lens at the moment so thought these may be an el cheapo way of going about it or have I got this totally wrong? All the best mate, Mike. I thought that thing was a powder keg at first and you was going to blast them :-D good idea though regarding the poultry corn, should be more than enough to keep the greedy little shits filled. We have the same problem with wood pigeons , they eat all the food I put out for the smaller birds so I have to buy large bags of cheap seed to satisfy them. They'll eat and eat until they are about to burst. For fast action I use 1/800 -1/1600 shutter speed for larger birds and 1/2500-1/3200 for smaller birds. My camera can do 10fps in RAW and keep going without running out of buffer until 200 shots but its rare I do anywhere near that many, usually a quick burst of 3 is enough for flying birds. I sometimes get a bird half out the frame but you get used to fast moving objects with practice . You need good light with these fast shutter speeds so fast glass really helps, I mainly use f2.8 and f4 prime lenses although slower zooms is fine if you have good lighting . I've not used a Lumix G2 but I do like Panasonics sensors , their really nice . £125 is a fantastic price for a camera of that calibre . Extension rings are a good way to start and much cheaper than a dedicated macro lens, you do loose more light though and with the small apertures needed for macro it'll take practice . Focusing is likely to be very slow so you may want to try manual focus. I love macro and its something I'm very interested in although it is quite fiddly and requires a lot of patience . The downside with macro is that you need to stop down the aperture down because of the tiny depth of field . What sort of macro do you like ? bugs , flowers or general small objects ?
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Post by leo on Nov 19, 2017 17:49:20 GMT
Funny to see, Leo, that these later photos are better that the ones on the first page ot this topic. Thanks nando, I'm hoping maybe I'm improving with practice I'm getting more used to the manual settings now , instead of auto I wanted to get straight into manual so theres more control . I'll sometimes use auto ISO for fast moving things like birds but prefer to set the aperture ,shutter speed manually
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Post by leo on Nov 19, 2017 17:45:24 GMT
Beautiful Leo....... stunning photography, better than the naked eye. Do you edit all the exif details? I was looking to see what settings you had the camera on but there was no info...... I suppose that's something you professionals do? Mike. I'm no pro mate just a hobbyist I'm not sure why the EXIF details don't show up, I use DXO optics for converting the camera RAW files to DNG for Lightroom , I'll crop and add watermark and export to JPG or PNG maybe it gets lost during conversion . TBH I'm shite at the post process stuff so try to get the exposure etc right with the camera , I'm no good at faffing about with altering stuff . If theres any exif you need just let me know, the cameras RAW files should still have them
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Post by leo on Nov 10, 2017 22:12:12 GMT
I really like Pheasants nice shot btw, we had one once a few months ago but I never seen it since . We have a fox and Hedgehogs (now hibernating in the nesting boxes I put under the hedge) We sometimes see Pheasants whilst out on our early morning weekend walks This one was strutting his stuff trying to impress the females _DSC6109_openWith by leon kirkbride, on Flickr _DSC6125_openWith by leon kirkbride, on Flickr
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Post by leo on Oct 31, 2017 8:08:49 GMT
The green ones look to be wire wound , the grey ones are either thick film or wire wound and those brown/beige ones are 1-2 watt carbon . I'd say the 2r2 wire wound ones could be the output device emitter resistors . Its hard to tell from the photo but it seems some of the suspect emitter resistors go to pads where theres no output transistors .The 3r3 grey one could be part of the zobel network. The 6r8 hard to say maybe feeding the output devices I don't know this amplifier so can't really suggest what to try, tbh you have to be careful with high powered amps, some types of parts can be used on purpose to keep it stable , if something like this would to go unstable it could cause disaster to your speakers if theres no output DC protection. Before fiddling with it I'd take measurements first and write them down, bias current etc and then compare after the mods are complete to be on the safe side.
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