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| (...) have (...) Given that price is probably important to you, I would suggest scanning the sales and specials for whatever cameras are cheap at local camera shops, Harvey Norman, OfficeWorks, etc, and buy one that meets these needs: Pixels: I (...) (21 years ago, 1-Apr-04, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.loc.au)
| | | | | Re: Great background images found
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| (...) Excellent. What a great resource. I'll definitely have to play with these when I get some spare time. Thanks for posting it! J (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, FTX)
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| Hi, I found a great source of background images: (URL) Check it out, there are high quality pictures of the moon, earth, mars, of nebulae, etc. These pictures are not big enough for being printed, but they do fine for web publishing. If you use a (...) (21 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, FTX)
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| (...) Jonathan, We bought the DSC-P5 (also 3.2 megapixel) after Christmas 2001 (Love it!) If you want additional memory keep an eye on Buy.com's "Today's Deals" They were selling the Lexar MS128 - Flash Memory Stick - 128MB for $29.99 with free (...) (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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| I just bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-P32 (there is no way my budget could stretch to anything more, plus I got this one at a discount). Anyone got any tips for using this camera to photograph lego? (the manual says you can go as close as 10cm to the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Mar-04, to lugnet.publish.photography)
| | | | | Re: Photos (Re: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.)
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| (...) Cool I will have to try a setup like that when I get some time. Thanks, Kevin (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | Re: good camera to get?
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| (...) Not sure about the camera, but you might want to buy a tripod as well. I've found it helps avoid blurry shots. Cheers, (URL) Sci-Fi LEGO> (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| I just got AU$250 in birthday money so I am now in a position to buy a usable digital camera (what I have is no good for lego since it doesnt have a macro mode). So, I want to know what camera to buy with my AU$250 (plus some of my own money). Any (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.loc.au)
| | | | | Biomechanical Bricks on LUGNET: An Online History of Lego Creations by Eric Sophie
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| I developed this set of pages on LUGNET to help chonicle the creations and adventures I have, had, and continue to pursue and ejnoy. An online history of Lego Creations by Eric Sophie. Contains just about everything I have done and connects it with (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.people, lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Kevin! Here are some details on what I usually do... Setup: Here's a (URL) of my usual photography setup. I used to use a long piece of heavy paper from a (very) large printer but I find the bed sheet is much easier to work with. Due to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, FTX)
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| Very nice Jason. Between that and Junkbot I can see you've been using your time very well :) I have one question. How are you taking such high quality photographs - especially the ones with the all white backgrounds? The photographs are brilliantly (...) (21 years ago, 27-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.publish.photography, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
| | | | | I need your help... and info!
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| (Note: please trim newsgroups on reply) All, As you know, I work both with you and with colleagues inside the LEGO Company. My efforts internally include a large bit of "training and introduction" about AFOLs. Projects like the "AFOLs" comic are (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer
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| (...) Are humans visiting Brickshelf and displaying the site in Netscape 1-4? Does this level of usage of Netscape 1-4 in displaying Brickshelf make the support of Netscape 1-4 in designing the viewer experience of Brickshelf necessary? Does (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I had trouble parsing this sentence. Would you consider restating it, perhaps as several sentences with less convoluted sentence structure? Clearly, it's a point you'd like to make, but I am not yet getting what point it is. Thanks. (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I think the comment "does not work in Netscape 4.x (and probably other legacy browsers)" is funny and sad at the same time. Frankly, that Brickshelf currently works in Netscape 4 (and be honest, it works in Netscape 3, 2, and 1, as well, where (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
| | | | | Re: Brickshelf Viewer
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| (...) Wrong, not for PNG. JPEG yes because thats a lossy format. But PNG is lossless and there is no data that is thrown away when its compressed. Perhaps have an option to convert *.bmp files to either *.jpg or *.png depending on which is more (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I'll second that - provided there is an option to turn it off at my discretion. Like Kevin said, there are some things that it would be very bad to do conversions on. But the overall idea is good. Could probably save a good deal of space on (...) (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| (...) Let me add in my vote for autmaticly converting a *.bmp file that is uploaded to a *.png file. (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Heretic. ;-) -Tim (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| (...) Converting to PNG would avoid those problems. The compression ratio generally isn't as good as JPEG but it's a heckuvalot smaller than a BMP. Steve (21 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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