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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> 120520 Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> as Philip later remarked, it turns out the lens was likely a 75mm prime |
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> The picture of the camera looks exactly what I remember, |
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> tho' there might have been different models with different lenses. |
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> It was a very good camera for its time. |
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I'll say! Based on that pic, other things you've said, and the |
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information I found[1], that's an Ikonta 521 B with a Tessar f/3.5 |
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lens, which appears to have been a high-end lens. Meanwhile, all of |
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the lenses for that camera appear to have been 75mm; the big |
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difference appears to be f-stop, which has an impact on |
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depth-of-field/bokeh. And an f/3.5 lens isn't something your modern |
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DSLR's kit lens can usually do. |
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[1] http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Zeiss_Ikon_Ikonta |
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>> The leftmost portion will never look all that great, |
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>> as he captured the Sun setting behind a building |
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>> or maybe that's a water spot |
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> The Sun was indeed setting to the left at that time + date, |
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> but the bluish blemish is some sort of physical decay in the negative, |
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> which was stored in a cardboard box for c 55 yr without being touched. |
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>> If these source JPG files are scans of paper photos |
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> No, they're 2 overlapping scans of the same negative, |
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> whose size is 58 x 43 mm = 2,3 x 1,7 inch . |
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Ah. Well, the same holds true; a higher-resolution scan of the source |
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image, stored in an HDR image format (such as 16-bit-per-channel TIFF, |
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16-bit-per-channel PNG, or OpenEXR) would ultimately give better |
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results. Any of the 16-bit-per-channel formats would increase the |
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available dynamic range (of the format, at least) by a factor of 16, |
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at least. (IIRC, JPEG models luminance in 12 bits, and, for monochrome |
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images, that's at least somewhat advantageous over 8-bit-per-channel |
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grayscale or RGB formats.) |
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>> Anyway, the final Hugin pto file is here: http://pastebin.com/gudxvAEa |
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> What is a 'pto' file ? -- I downloaded it & it's text. |
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It's a Hugin project file; you can load that file with Hugin. It |
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assumes the two source JPEG files are in the same directory. |
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>> And the final stitch is here: |
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>> http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2030/brum3068brum30702.jpg |
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> All Firefox gives me is a black window : can you check ? |
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Works on my system. It comes up all-black in geeqie, though; I had to |
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load it in Chrome. Also loads fine in Gimp 2.6. |
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:wq |