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Wow, that's neat, but I suppose it makes sense given the material that these would show up once in a while, but that's a new one for me.
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No, actually the camera does all the focus shifting to take the 20 photos. Many modern DSLRs offer this feature. Most of the work for me is the setup and then a few minutes of processing them through the software. A lot of photographs you see, especially close-ups, are using this technique because of limited depth of field on lenses.
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Thanks for all of the hard work
bumblebee replied to akroorka's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Thank you! It helps practically and also inspires me to get down and dirty battling the technology. I imagine I will give the new server transfer a shot next weekend. -
Thanks for all of the hard work
bumblebee replied to akroorka's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Thanks I appreciate it! Long story short: A year or so ago, I increased the maximum image size significantly, not realizing that the board stores all pasted photos as an uncompressed format known as PNG. So suddenly our storage usage at least doubled, especially with more activity in the past year. My new hosting has limited storage, so we ran out of space today. I reconverted and reuploaded a bunch of these uncompressed PNG files as specially compressed formats, but it's a tedious manual process. I also reduced the maximum image size to reduce future image sizes. Finally, my server doesn't support the latest board versions, so I have to spin up a new one and transfer everything. I figure it's time to get a bigger one, so it'll be $20/m base instead of the current $10/m base. That will buy us more storage and give us another year before I have to look at another option which is to locate all of our images on cheap "cloud" storage. -
Kudos to Chad G for playing spammer whack-a-mole. I tried a few things and finally just turned off automatic registration for new users. Now I have to approve new users before they can post.
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Nice colorful marbles suitable to a colorful Carnaval !
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I have been putting off a major update because it requires setting up a new server with newer hosting software, otherwise the board updates will no longer install. I'm a professional procrastinator but eventually I'll have no choice!
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Canadian Transitionals?
bumblebee replied to PittsburghMarbles's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
@Steph, didn't I find some newspaper ad from Canada that mentioned a more colorful variety than the usual offering from Asia? My brain betrays me. 😗 -
Such a loss. He brought much joy and knowledge and passion to the hobby.
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Nice group! You guys are inspiring me to come up with some sort of custom case where the marble holes contain a bright LED light for backlighting. That would be fantastic!
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Wow, you have patience! Your last one is gorgeous with all that backlighting. Looks like a full moon! Happy New Year
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My macro lens can do better with better lighting, but this is a good example for now. Just beware using a lens like this on your "mint" glass marbles. They're more damaged than you think. 😉 Notice the grind pattern of the facets varies because the marble was being turned.
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Happy New Year 2023 show some weird!!
bumblebee replied to akroorka's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Three unusual things on a mildly rotting Halloween pumpkin I'm finally throwing away before 2023. The center one was affixed to something once but looks like slag glass that was pressed into a mold. Left is an undyed faceted agate and right is a vaseline glass tear drop. -
OK people, when your adult child gives you this mug for Christmas, you are officially chronic. To be fair, I am unsure whether I agree with this mug. What I do agree with is that I have a problem. 🤣
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Hah! This is one of the greater lines in contemporary literature. Noted! 🤣
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Marbleholics Anonymous welcomes you:
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A Holiday shout out to our big brother Chad
bumblebee replied to akroorka's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Apparently Chad sent some of his surplus karma my way today with a faceted 1.13" agate marble mail. 🤣 I believe this was part of a display piece originally, as the bottom pole has some significant pitting that was filled in with some sort of hard yellow filler. -
Wow such a special lot. Any backstory on these in terms of provenance? I once heard some families in Germany would make their own bullet mold marbles, but haven't heard that since.
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A Holiday shout out to our big brother Chad
bumblebee replied to akroorka's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Some Chad-worthy marbles. Perhaps the Universe gave them to me just so I could share the joy here with Chad and Co? 😉