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Benvista PhotoZoom Pro 4 vs. onOne Perfect Resize 7 vs. Photoshop resize test

February 6th, 2012

A few weeks ago I received an email offering a 50% discount on some image enlargement software, BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4 for Windows.

The examples in the promotional email were very impressive, and, to be honest, rather unbelievable. Since they offer a free trial, I thought I might as well download it and at least give it a try.

I cropped a small section from one of my images, then resized it by 400% using PhotoZoom Pro 4, onOne Perfect Resize 7, and Photoshop. For PhotoZoom and Perfect Resize I used the default enlargement settings. For Photoshop I used the Bicubic Sharper method. This resized the original image from 666x650px to 2664x2600px (2665x2601px for Perfect Resize).

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Positions of a camera that can be construed as anti-social or indecent

February 1st, 2012

Sometime before Christmas I came across this video of a photographer that was arrested for failing to give his details to police:

Reading the report of the arrest on the amateur photographer website (Arrested Street Photographer 'antisocial', police maintain):

Lancashire Police said it does not routinely stop people taking photographs in a public place but 'clearly felt that the manner in which he was positioning his [Leica] camera and the way it was making some members of the public feel, could be construed as anti-social or indecent'.

A spokeswoman added: 'The gentleman refused to co-operate on three occasions and so officers felt they had no choice but to make an arrest in order to make further enquiries into his actions.'

Now, I had to wonder, what positions of a camera can be construed as anti-social or indecent, but not actually be anti-social or indecent? (If the positions he used the camera in were anti-social or indecent, then he wouldn't have been released without charge).

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Olympus LS-5 Digital Sound Recorder mini test

January 22nd, 2012

As promised, here are the test files I recorded with the Olympus LS-5 portable sound recorder:

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Recent panos

January 18th, 2012

Still no Scotland photos processed yet, but we've had some nice weather lately so I've been out and about a bit locally, taking some panoramas.

Above is the Church, St. Dionysius, which is in the centre of Market Harborough. Nearby you can see the old red brick building, which is the only remaining part of Symington's Corset factory. The factory used to be quite large, now the building is used for council offices, the library, and museum. You can see the VR version here: Church Square, Market Harborough 360 VR.

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