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I am very happy to announce three changes today to the LUGNET News web interface: Fixed-width font now used for plain-text messages. Once upon a time, when LUGNET first served up messages via the web, messages were displayed in a fixed-width font. (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX) !!
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| | Re: MOCpages is here -- Free web hosting for LEGO creations
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(...) I think "first North American serial rights" is the usual phrase. It still reserves the right to the author to publish it again later, but it should be previously unpublished. This is one reason I won't submit to Bricks Magazine: they don't (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: MOCpages is here -- Free web hosting for LEGO creations
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(...) My understanding is that posting something to the web in ANY form constitutes publishing for the sake of this. Print publications will not pay full rates for previously-published material, if they accept it at all. If you're interested in (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: taking good photos
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(...) I didn't think that sounded right, but I couldn't figure out why. This sounds an awful lot like how LCD laptop screens work, where they look fine if you set the screen size according to the actual physical pixelation of the screen, but if you (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: taking good photos
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(...) I think you are confusing color depth with image area resolution. If the CCD chip has an area of X-by-Y pixels and you are at maximum optical zoom, then any form of digital zoom requires interpolating between adjacent real pixels. The color (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) I tried using thick white paper tape over my flash...and all I got was a blurry large glare spot where previously I'd been getting a crisp large glare spot. The problem is not so much in the quality of light as it is in the direction. If the (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: Update from Bricks Magazine
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(...) Thanks! (...) I'm not sure yet, but that's a very good point. Give us some time and we'll try to find a solution for that. Once they're resolved, I believe we're going to send out a confirmation mail. I'm just not sure how we're handling (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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If you don't have alternative flash solutions there's a trick, put a small piece a transparent (Scotch) tape over the flash lens, it acts as a little diffuser and cost ~$0.000001. Maybe even a smear of some vaseline on the flash lens would work (I'm (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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| | Re: Update from Bricks Magazine
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(...) Hi James - Let me assure you, you won't need to prove it. The issue has been mostly with separating fields for email addresses, in order to easily generate an email list (that's why we finally gave up on holding out to update only subscribers (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Update from Bricks Magazine
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Tim, Thank you for the update. Let's hope you can get the first issue(s) out soon. James Wilson Lugnet member #1783 Dallas, TX Bricks Magazine Charter Subscriber (and I can provide the PayPal receipt, if your "database issues" require) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ah, but that only works if you've got hand-held flashes. Not all cameras have that capability (I know mine doesn't). So, to be more accurate, never use the built-in flash to photograph LEGO bricks. If you can set up a flash source that's not (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Yeah, I'll second that. The GIMP rocks. John -- GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. (URL) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) ^^^^^^ Err, I mean a 48-bit image (16 bits per channel) (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Unless you know what you're doing. In which case: nothing beats flashes -- not even the sun.[1] --Todd [1] Yup, high-power strobe flashes are even brighter than the sun. Try making a 1/1000 second exposure at f/22 or f/32 from sunlight! And (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) I think that's changing. I've seen explicit aperture settings on $400 consumer-grade digital cameras. (...) Every digital camera has the capability to do multiple apertures -- the trick is coaxing the camera into doing what you want if there (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) That's if he wants the very closest spot to be in perfect focus. :-) If he can shoot with a small aperture, then he should be able to get as close as 1.8 ft -- or closer. It all depends where in the model the lens is focused. Also, just (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) I don't think that's quite correct. If your CCD or CMOS chip has greater than 8 bits of depth on each spectral band (most do), then an on-camera digital zoom should contain more information than a post-processed zoom. For example, suppose you (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) The GIMP is totally free and I think it should be useable for this kind of thing. (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Not that I'm aware of. Well, unless you want to use a trial version of regular software, but that will expire after a month, usually. (...) When I got my digital camera, I spent an entire Saturday and about 500 discarded shots figuring out (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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(...) Hi. I live in western Michigan. I also run a popular website. I can't afford to wait six months for a perfect day. I think I'll keep shooting indoors... ;P (...) I've got manually adjustable shutter speed (I think that's what it is, since it (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography)
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