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Weeknd Photo fun May 14, 15, 16
Posted by Robby P. on Friday, May 14, 2010 10:11 AM

 No one has started it yet, so I thought I would!!!   Plus I have to go to work Banged Head.

 Just a rusted up Rock hopper.

 "Rust, whats not to love?"      

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Posted by wedudler on Friday, May 14, 2010 10:19 AM

 I've build a loading chute for my stock yard.

 

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, May 14, 2010 11:08 AM

Great weathering, Robby.  Wolfgang, excellent modeling of that chute.

 

Pennsy EMD's in the yard. DJ.

 

 

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Posted by G Paine on Friday, May 14, 2010 11:14 AM

A friend sent this link to a great model railroad, The Coast Line RR. He ia a Danish artist living in Sweden who is modeling Maine narrow gage in On30. The water modeling is increadible, look for a video link near the bottom of the first page
http://coastline.no13.se/

 

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Posted by jdobo on Friday, May 14, 2010 11:24 AM
Today's switcher in E-Street Yard
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Posted by UncBob on Friday, May 14, 2010 11:25 AM
Grampys Trains

Great weathering, Robby.  Wolfgang, excellent modeling of that chute.

 

Pennsy EMD's in the yard. DJ.

 

  

Grampys Trains

Great weathering, Robby.  Wolfgang, excellent modeling of that chute.

 

Pennsy EMD's in the yard. DJ.

 

  

 

Way cool !!!!!

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Posted by C&O Fan on Friday, May 14, 2010 11:50 AM

wedudler

 I've build a loading chute for my stock yard.

  

Wolfgang

 

Really nice work Wolfgang

Do you plan to darken the tops of the posts ?

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Posted by wedudler on Friday, May 14, 2010 11:54 AM

 Yes, I did so. But I'm still working with this.

 

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Posted by mononguy63 on Friday, May 14, 2010 12:03 PM

Great start to the weekend, guys. I always look forward to this thread.

Not much has been happening on my end. Did finally finish a building project that had been languishing

 

And just for funsies, since this is weekend photo fun...

Jim

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Posted by Motley on Friday, May 14, 2010 1:24 PM

I finally got my new Athearn F59-PHI back from the DCC installer yesterday!! Now I have an official Amtrak consist!!!

Picking up passengers at Denver Union Station


And I started planting trees on the mountain tunnel....(I will have the new backdrop in by next week)

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Posted by selector on Friday, May 14, 2010 3:52 PM

Wolfgang, your work is excellent, if you don't my my saying so.  Nice cattle chute you have there. Cool

I had to buy a new flat panel monitor near Christmas, and it is a very wide one that seems to distort all my images unless I crop them to the same aspect ratio.  It is disconcerting because I take care to get decent focus in my images, at least as well as an automatic point and shoot can do.  However, I learned of a programme that stacks several shots with different depths of focus (not Helicon, but a freeware called CombineZM) and I played with it for the first time last night.  I have just forgotten about how the single images look and relied, or trusted, on the camera to get it right.  But, with CZM I can actually improve the entire focal range.

Here is the first image I feel I can display.  It comprises a stack of three images, all aimed to about the same angle, but with different foci.  It shows a UP 2-10-2 that broke down near Seneca.  The shop foreman at Seneca agreed to fix it for the UP.  Billable, of course. It is ready to roll, and is being shunted across the turntable to a holding radial track.

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Posted by wedudler on Friday, May 14, 2010 4:25 PM

 Thank you, Crandell.

 I've used CombineZM too. It's a good tool. This way you get pictures like with the prototype. You have only to cut off the frame.      Smile

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Posted by Motley on Friday, May 14, 2010 4:31 PM

Wow! that is a fantastic pic Crandell. As far as your resolution issues, do you have a dedicated graphics card in your computer? (desktop?) What resolution are your settings?

If you don't have a graphics card, I would suggest to get one, they're cheap.

If you have a PCI slot then here is one for less than $80 Video Card

Or if you have a newer desktop with a PCI-Express slot here's another card for you. Video Card PCI-E

Very easy to install, and supports widescreen high resolutions up to 1920x1200.

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Posted by james saunders on Friday, May 14, 2010 4:56 PM
Been a while since I posted here! I ordered some stuff from modeltrainstuff.com (MB Klein) on Tuesday Australian and received it yesterday (friday) cool! I got a couple of Kato locomotives, a three pack of ExactRail Trinity hoppers and two Maxi IV sets by Kato. The ExactRail hoppers are very nice! Kato Dash 9 Kato SD70ACe One of the ExactRail hoppers Well cars Might have to order more, soon. Wink

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Friday, May 14, 2010 5:01 PM

Crandell:

Go to "control panel" and look for "display settings"  Change the settings to the settings needed for your new monitor.

The monitor may have come with a software disk if needed.  You don't always need it.

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Posted by selector on Friday, May 14, 2010 6:05 PM

Thanks, fellas, for your thoughtful and helpful replies.  The graphics cards and other stuff is all Greek to me, but it is worth doing some fact-finding and asking around locally to see if I need something besides just plugging in the new monitor.

One would think that everything else would look fuzzy or skewed, such as graphics on this page, other pictures posted....but they are all sharp and IE8 fills the screen nicely...although with wide olive green bands to the sides of this column and the column of ads at the right.  But I'm guessing IE8 and Fire Fox must have this all built in.  Also, my image manipulation software consists of two others, and only the one seems to show fuzzy images...regretfully, and that's FastStone.  Sagelight, which I have also acquired just recently, doesn't seem to suffer from the problems that FastStone does.  Maybe the settings do need some tweaking.

Thanks again for the tips...I'll take 'em and run with them over the next few days. Smile

-Crandell

Settings for display are 1600 X 900, and I have an NVIDEA GeForce FX 5200 that must be five or more years old by now.

 

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Posted by jasperofzeal on Friday, May 14, 2010 7:55 PM

selector
One would think that everything else would look fuzzy or skewed, such as graphics on this page, other pictures posted....but they are all sharp and IE8 fills the screen nicely...although with wide olive green bands to the sides of this column and the column of ads at the right.  But I'm guessing IE8 and Fire Fox must have this all built in.

Think of it like this, web pages can be compared to older tv shows which were made in the 4:3 aspect ratio.  If you're using a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor, you're going to get the enlarged columns on either side of the main image.  There isn't much you can do to fix that other than to stretch the image, but doing that will probably distort images, text, and such.  The true fix for this "problem" would be for websites to be made in a 16:9 aspect ratio in order to fill the widescreen monitors, just like HD shows have done for widescreen televisions.

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Posted by Motley on Friday, May 14, 2010 8:31 PM
What Tony said. You're graphics card and settings seems fine.

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Posted by Margaritaman on Friday, May 14, 2010 11:16 PM

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, May 15, 2010 5:29 AM

Margaritaman

That's one very cool billboard !

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Posted by stebbycentral on Saturday, May 15, 2010 7:22 AM

selector
One would think that everything else would look fuzzy or skewed, such as graphics on this page, other pictures posted....but they are all sharp and IE8 fills the screen nicely...although with wide olive green bands to the sides of this column and the column of ads at the right. 

What you are describing is exactly what I see on my widescreen.  As was mentioned before, it's the way the website is constructed, which is primarily so that it can be viewed without difficulty on "square" screen monitors which are still the norm with most users. 

 

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Posted by jwhitten on Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:27 AM

selector

I had to buy a new flat panel monitor near Christmas, and it is a very wide one that seems to distort all my images unless I crop them to the same aspect ratio.  It is disconcerting

--Crandell

 

 

 Crandell,

Your description is a little vague but that sounds suspiciously like a driver problem. Have you checked to ensure that you've installed and are actually using the correct and latest version driver for your monitor? And then, assuming that's "yes", have you checked your 'display settings' to make sure you have selected the correct aspect ratio for your monitor-- it's the one that agrees with the 'max', or sometimes called 'native', resolution of your screen? If its not, then sometimes you have to find and press an 'advanced' tab or button which will have additional options-- the exact makeup will be different based on your video driver (which is not the same thing as your monitor driver) somewhere there is a button probably actually named 'advanced' that will permit you to see *every* resolution your video card can produce-- look in this list to see if one of them corresponds to your monitor's optimal resolution.

The reason I say all this is because I've had to deal with that problem on a lot of computers / monitor lash-ups. Particularly with "cheap" monitors, and especially with "Dell" cheap monitors-- they are very prissy about getting the *exact* resolution-- or sometimes its the clock / refresh rate-- fed to them before they'll "lock-in" and display right. Depending on your monitor, or the video card / monitor combination, sometimes you can use lower, "intermediate", or alternate settings that will "work" and the monitor will display something but it isn't optimal. In fact, its very often the case that your computer will select something for you, or else offer you a set of choices that look reasonable but none of them exactly match the stated resolution (or maybe timing) of your monitor, which can confuse people and cause them to believe that's the best they can do.

Two very common symptoms of this conditions is where either the "image" seems right but "slides around" in the monitor (panning) which indicates you video card and/or monitor are able to agree on some resolution settings but the chosen dimensions are larger than your monitor's "optimal" dimensions so it (the video card) creates a "viewport" and then "pans" the screen around in the viewport for you. (I personally hate viewport mode).

The second condition, and the one that it sound like you might have, is "aspect ratio distortion". The monitor displays "sorta okay" but there's something that's not quite right about it. The letters or icons seem oddly formed-- two tall or maybe too wide maybe. Or things seem "too large" in the screen. It may be accompanied by the "panning" symptom mentioned above. That "aspect ratio distortion" is a classic symptom of the wrong driver problem-- and is nearly always curable.

I have also learned to suspect it whenever I hear someone say "I just had to buy a new widescreen monitor for my computer..."

 

Hope this helps ya!

 

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Posted by howmus on Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:56 AM

 Crandell, you mean stuff looks like this?

I'm really not THAT fat!

I would guess what was just said, the aspect ratio is not set for the monitor.  Don't know much about those PeeCees, but on the Mac the monitor settings in the System preferences will only suggest what would work properly with the new monitor.  Any that will distort the images are listed as such.  You probably have already done this, but be sure to read the manual that came with the monitor.  The problem should be an easily corrected setting.

I had a similar problem hooking up a square display to use with my MacBook to show powerpoint slide shows.   It was esily corrected as soon as I figured out to uncheck "Mirror Displays".  Can't have 2 different aspect ratio displays sharing the same output.  I think your display panel is just probably still set for your old monitor.

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Posted by selector on Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:08 PM

Thanks, John and Ray.  I think I have it in hand...am getting a driver.  The images aren't distorted in aspect ratio...that setting is okay.  They appear perfectly focused for about half a second, and then fuzz.  So, it's a driver or its the software I'm using.

 

Back to WPF. Smile

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Posted by Motley on Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:51 PM

selector

Thanks, John and Ray.  I think I have it in hand...am getting a driver.  The images aren't distorted in aspect ratio...that setting is okay.  They appear perfectly focused for about half a second, and then fuzz.  So, it's a driver or its the software I'm using.

 

Back to WPF. Smile

-Crandell

 

Crandell, download these driver here, for windows xp. Here

Sorry, now back to WFP!!

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Posted by zgardner18 on Saturday, May 15, 2010 4:33 PM

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Saturday, May 15, 2010 5:49 PM

 A couple of new additions this week:

First was a bit pricey but very nice.

Woodland Scenics Home Sweet Home

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Saturday, May 15, 2010 5:51 PM

 Next is Atlas Kim's Classic American Home

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Saturday, May 15, 2010 5:52 PM

 Shiny New PRR R50B to go with recently acquired MP54's

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