Category: NZTekonverse -> Digital Imaging
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Simple PHP Photo Gallery For NZ Rail Maps Volumes Site
The New Zealand Rail Maps Project aims to create free maps of the present and past national public railway network, which are produced and distributed by a variety of means, through several web sites. One of these is the Volumes site, and it is intended to distribute individual images that each represent a small part…
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Free Linux video editors [3]
Well I have written about free video editors for Linux a number of times, this is the third article in this series. It’s taken me a few years to get to this point of discovering good quality software for Linux because there are so many open source projects that people have started and then abandoned,…
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Google Photos: The free photo service’s automatic deduplication creates challenges
Yeah, we all know what Google Photos is. Another cloud based service from Google, and one that other cloud providers like Flickr find it difficult to compete with. I was quite keen on Flickr, but they have their own issues, like that people outside the US have no rights under the DMCA, anyone can send…
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Tamron AF 70-300 Di LD telephoto lens for Canon EF-M?
UPDATE: Since first writing this I discovered I can get the EF-EOS M adapter from Canon for $199. Although having to add this to the camera won’t really help to make adding lenses to the EOS-M affordable, it would give me the option to use the telephoto lens from my existing EOS 600D with the…
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Python Scripting [4D]: Exif Based Image Renaming 4
After testing the Exif renaming script for the past couple of weeks I have added a piece of code to check for collisions and rename any file that collides with an existing filename. With Exif data, the most likely cause of a filename collision is when a camera is set to shoot continuously and it…
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Python Scripting [4C]: Exif Based Image Renaming 3
After letting this one slide for quite a while, I picked it up again yesterday and have completed most of the coding. This is the full code to date (barring any further modifications found to be needed after testing). The script is run from the directory that is to be acted upon and takes no…
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Webcam with Linux [1]
We need to do some livestreaming on Facebook Live for a project I am working on. Using a phone is quick and convenient, but pretty limited unless it is a selfie. So the next option is a webcam connected to a laptop and remotely located from it by a 5 metre cable which lets me…
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Python Scripting [4B]: Exif Based Image Renaming 2
Today I am going to have a look at Pillow and its interface for reading EXIF data from images. As I mentioned previously, Pillow is a fork of PIL (the Python Imaging Library) and contains capabilities to read and write EXIF data from images. Although there are official documents for Pillow at Readthedocs, it is…
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Python Scripting [4A]: Exif Based Image Renaming
This is now a new scripting project I am starting for Python. I need this script to rename all my photos off the camera, replacing the use of IrfanView which I used on my Windows 10 computer. Whilst I still have that computer and the software, I am looking to do something with Python scripting…
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Scanning with Linux [2]: Epson Perfection V200 Photo scanner on Debian
Last time I wrote about scanning I had done the installation on mainpc. So having a new post is because of reinstalling on mediapc and a few hiccups. The main thing I am writing about is Epson now gives you the wrong download package for the Perfection V200 Photo scanner for Linux. If you search…