borat123 Here's a few pics from a recent visit to a dry mill, owned and run by a farmers co-operative in Ethiopia. The pics show the story from receiving the parchment, dry milling (parchment removal), initial sort by machine/s, then final sort by hand. All profits go back into the co-op. Good onsite worker facilities such as a canteen, medical clinic, showers, toilets etc. Very early days yet for the harvest, so the warehouse looks pretty empty. The day I was there, they were processing for local consumption only.
admin Koffee Kosmo wrote: Earlier today I had a feathered visitor It's my guess that this parrot must have escaped as it was not scared off by me Anyway we have a peach face and he landed near his cage to have a chat [attachimg=1][attachimg=2] on the subject of birds, took this shot of lorrikeets fighting over a sugar packet at a Sydney cafe recently [attachimg=1]
Dry_bean Koffee Kosmo wrote: Test photo of my new 18-135 ISM lens What's the quality like to your eyes Bit hard to tell on such a low resolution image KK. What make of lens is it?
Koffee_Kosmo Dry bean. wrote: Bit hard to tell on such a low resolution image KK. What make of lens is it? Canon 18-135 ISM Try another photo then
cosmic_couple22 Nice image but as Db says KK low res images are never a fair representation, there is a reasonable amount of gradient blur that would still exist in the high res image but somewhat sharper I presume.
Dry_bean What I'm saying KK is the file size is way to small at 30 to 50 kb to convey any meaningful information, to determine image quality I would like to see the original. If I had to judge on these two shots I would say very soft, and I imagine the original full size shot was much better than what I'm looking at here. I saved the first image and at 300% magnification it starts to pixilate badly.
Koffee_Kosmo Yes I agree the original photo is way better I have only taken about 6 photos and a video so far so I will get to know it better as its used Main reason for this lens is for video The lens auto focuses on moving objects and being ISM makes no motor noise ect Now since this is a coffee forum here is a shot (reposted) of coffee cherries on my trees as of today
Brett_H Here's a picture of a big lump of fossil wood that I've just finished polishing. Specimen is western Queensland-ish.... iPhonograph until I get some time in the studio.
Dry_bean Brett H wrote: Here's a picture of a big lump of fossil wood that I've just finished polishing. Specimen is western Queensland-ish.... iPhonograph until I get some time in the studio. Morning Brett, Nice looking piece of wood, how did you polish it, Vibrolap or similar?
Koffee_Kosmo Brett H wrote: Here's a picture of a big lump of fossil wood that I've just finished polishing. Specimen is western Queensland-ish.... iPhonograph until I get some time in the studio. That piece of petrified wood has potential to be part of an audio system rebuild KK
Brett_H Dry bean. wrote: Morning Brett, Nice looking piece of wood, how did you polish it, Vibrolap or similar? Thanks guys. The wood was polished on the vibrolap starting at 220 grit and finishing with tin oxide on linoleum. The shine is like a mirror... I'm chuffed because with petrified wood you don't really know how it will come up until you try. Now I'm off to C-man's Island!!
