maizeydaze
Member
copmom, did you go back and change your post after Bubby asked where the peanut butter was smeared?
Bubby, that made me laugh. :D
goodgotd
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my guess is pretty puzzled.
copmom, the answer is too few pixels in the original, that is, not enough detail.
It's about half to 2/3 the pixel size of the samples posted- before crop.
after cropping, enlargement (which involves interpolation- read: guessing) and jpeg recompression wipes it to a blur.
sorry.
you could try less enlargement (or enlarge before cropping) and saving at absolute minimum jpeg compression, but I doubt it would help much.
copmom
Member
Guess I was just too far away when I took that shot anyhow.. actually it was in the background of a picture I took of my daughter in law, and I cropped it out of that. I'll learn the hard way! Haven't had as much time for messing with pictures lately as I'd like to have!
But, now that I've spilled the beans on that picture, just have to dream up something else! Still haven't even set up that new little teensy $69 camera I bought! Don't know why I did buy it, except I was getting it for my daughter and thought, why not me too? She said she has already tried hers doing videos of the kids softball games, but hasn't plugged it into the TV yet to view those. I think I need to teach her how to upload from camera to computer! For that matter, I think I need to give her some basic photo programs to put on her machine!
maizeydaze
Member
Oh, do-do-do, da-dee-da-dee-dum.
goodgotd
Member
copmom- err.. are you running win 2000 or better? most of the time setup can be as easy as charging the battery, checking the usb under settings is 'removeable drive' and using a usb cable.
Or (better) just charge the battery (AAA, oops. pop in alkalines. while you charge the batteries if that's an option) use a card reader that appears as one, and transfer the card by hand. shouldn't need any software, I think. though freeware move-it programs are available- I use picmove but there are others that move movies too.
that's 5 mp, IIRC, so my guess is for jpeg stills will run 1-3 megs, depending on settings, possibly smaller- and the little thing might surprise you, the extra resolution never hurts when it comes to cropping later.
md, I thought you didn't want to run 2 at once? did I mess up posting the pic? ?
maizeydaze
Member
Goody, sorry I didn't see it. Is G31 a aluminum cane or crutch?
maizeydaze
Member
Is it a blow torch?
copmom
Member
G31.. it does look like there's wood shavings in those holes!
And goody.. of course I'm running better than win2000.. it's XP SP2 here for me. I'll get her a card reader, I already have one on my machine.. but when I said about getting her some programs, she needs a few for messing with her pictures .. she hasn't done much on her computer since she works FT and then busy running with the kids for their after school sports, softball, soccer, etc.
And most of my pictures are taken inside looking out but have turned off the flash on my camera so there's no glass reflecting back.
CreamyPretzel
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Bubby said:
"Smeared peanut butter on the cat or the tree?"
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That reminds me of something. You know how if you are spreading peanut butter on a piece of bread, and you drop it, it always lands peanut butter side down? And you know how when you drop a cat, he always lands feet first? Well, my question is this:
If you smear peanut butter on the back of a cat, then drop him, how does he land?
goodgotd
Member
woo, that was surreal- fell asleep to the wife listening to 'rush hour' on the tv, and until I woke up, first I watched a jackie chan movie with 'me' in it, then made the movie from 2 viewpoints- retakes and all. first dream I've recalled in years. I wonder what meds did that, I want MORE!
pissed me off to wake up, that much fun even including owies.
no, dust and cobwebs in them thar vents- no wood chips- though in the past I've had to clear some out after a fall- haven't been able to afford ammo, much less, um, 'range' fees (range ammo) to chase the mice outta the barrel for a couple years.
cold, not hot exhaust.
I use xnview for most crops and viewing with irfanview to run the topaz DeJPEG plugin to look at some clues, PhotoFiltre 6.3.1 free if I need to rotate images- if I take them at an angle, like that slide.
for this laptop. I have other tools (panorama factory for pans) on the 2800, but that and picmove work fine on here.
eye second the comment on mitch's I.
goodgotd
Member
peanut buttered cat?
on it's feet.
the standard question around here is about strapping a buttered piece of bread to the back of a cat and tossing it in the air.
doesn't work without the bread, Y'see.
we leave the question about attaching the generator for later.
I was suggesting you get yours running, that's all.
maizeydaze
Member
G31 - Is it a paintball gun? Never saw one, myself.
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It's nice you all like Mitchie's eye. I'll be sure to let him know how popular his portrait is.
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The peanut butter wouldn't last a minute around here once the dogs got wind of it.
CreamyPretzel
Member
If the dogs got wind of the peanut butter, the cat wouldn't last long either.
goodgotd
Member
yes- it's a set of "stabilizing" vents near the end of a paintball gun barrel. quotes because stabilizing a gelatin shell with semi-liquid inside is futile. shot I cropped from here.
this model marker (the p.c. term used to avoid the wrath of the 'guns are evil' crowd- they started out as 'remote paint markers' for trees to be cut) is a Spyder-A- for the aluminum rather than plastic trigger housing.
also not a gun- i.e. firearm- in oregon except inside the city limits of portland.
here's the oregon trail plaque from down by the civic center, some odd flowers in someone's front yard, and a shot of an evergreen bush, the latter 2 in the rain yesterday.
It's not as cruel as peanut butter on a cat, but it seems there are sticky tape bandits who will stop at nothing to drive a poor kitty crazy.
CreamyPretzel
Member
My parents put sticky tape on my hands once when I was little. You shoulda seen all the stuff I walked out of K-Mart with!
maizeydaze
Member
Goody, that gun sure does look lethal! I don't think PA considers them a firearm either.
Thanks for the pictures. I like the look of wet flowers, often taking pictures of them with early morning dew. There are a lot of historic plaques around these parts too. Never thought of taking shots of them. Neat.
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Dan, they didn't put tape on your hands. The tape is was remained after this. Remember now?
CreamyPretzel
Member
That is EXACTLY what my wife did to me on our honeymoon.....but my face wasn't the only palce where there wasn't any tape.
goodgotd
Member
paintball markers toss only 2 grams of payload, at a maximum of 350 feet per second for outdoor use, and are stepped down to 200 fps for indoor sport where snap encounters at 10 feet or less occur.
the pellets they fire are a dollop of semiliquid paint, in a thin-skinned ball of 68 caliber, over two-thirds of an inch across.
they are the least lethal projectile weapons I own- and that includes the co2 pistol of BB (17.7) caliber and the wrist slingshot.
since you wear a mask that protects the eyes and ears, about the worst they can do is raise a nasty welt. (usually a 'hot-shot' from one of the shoddy pump-action field guns that can be set to 200 and still toss an occasional 350 as a fluke)
sometimes a breaking shell can scratch up blood on bare skin. no penetration at all- you know you've been hit, but real damage? zip.
'looking' lethal is the sillyness that makes 'assault rifles' evil and a hunting rifle ok- though the former are designed more to wound than kill, and the latter have twice or more range, thrice the accuracy and designed for one-shot kills all the way out to max range.
Varmint rifles can reach out a thousand yards or more and hit inch-and-a-half targets with regularity, while a paintball gun you have to be lucky to hit a 2-foot square at 50 yards one time in 20.
knowledge makes that spyder look like an awkward toy and this model 422 .22 target pistol a quarter it's size a deadly weapon to 50 yards and beyond to anything hand-sized with reasonable skill by the person aiming it.
The problem is too many have been denied that basic knowledge, so they do dumb things out of ignorance, without knowing malice at all.
then they blame inanimate objects for their mistakes. Which is more irrational than doing something dumb in the first place.
goodgotd
Member
I'm gonna hold off on the next ones, let somebody else have a turn.
and as for the plaque, as I told gary about a shot up the hill from the library:
that's what most of my photos are for- informational and not artistic in the least.
the number of pics is an expression of how much I find the camera useful. (3149 so far)
the occasional pretty spots are accidents. I like to share.
most really *have* to have the rest unseen to be pretty- pans are simply the best memory stimulants in the arsenal, not 'look what I can do'.
maizeydaze
Member
Goody, I have a little toy too. My husband gave it to me for my birthday a couple of years ago. I'd mentioned that I had a protection permit to carry a handgun, for several years, but all I had were rifles. So, instead of a blender or a sweeper I got a gun. A good investment!:)
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Let's see if any one can identify MD #50.
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