Museum Pictures

[Tarbicus]

For those of you restricted by low light and having to handhold your camera, you may want to check this out this photo repair application, especially if you have a lot of photos already that are blurred or streaked. Looking at the examples it's a very nice piece of software.
[url:3gvmortn]http://www.focusmagic.com/[/url]

[aitor iriarte]

Has anybody tried it? Are the results worth the 45 bucks? And, last but not least, is it easy to use for not very handy persons? :roll:

Aitor

[Tarbicus]

Hi Aitor, I downloaded the demo version and it seems to work well. If you want to send me a test image I have 7 loads left and am more than willing to give it a go. My email is (repolace the AT with @):

tarbicus AT aol.com

Send me a few if you like, all the better to test it with.

[aitor iriarte]

OK, Jim, I'll search for a really blurry one! Many thanks!

Aitor

[tlclark]

* the Ostia Museum is inconsistent. Sometimes, it is not permitted to take photos, sometimes, they allow it. I think it has much to do with the mood of the guards.

This has been my experience too. Many of my loricata are from the Ostia Museum. I bet if I had used flash, I might have gotten a sneer, but I didn't want to push it. Otherwise I had no problems. Time before last, they made me check the camera at the door!

In fact, aside from the Uffizi and the Vatican, this has been my impression of every museum/church in Italy. Last April I walked into St. Ivo's by the famous Italian architect Borrmini and shot everything with flash. Last time before that I got an earful for just taking out the camera.

Actually, the Egyptians are the most consistent I've ever met. They generally forbid everything without prior approval and permits from the SCA. Getting approval is a bureaucratic hassle but they almost never turn anyone down with a legitimate research purpose.

As for publishing on the web: the document I had to sign in Brussels forbade the publication in print. This has an amusing result: I can publish a photo on the web, but if you decide to print it, I break an agreement!

The laws in Belgium and France are nuts. My prof got a letter for posting a picture of the Victor Horta House he took himself from the street!

[Jona Lendering]

The laws in Belgium and France are nuts.

The Belgian writer Dimitri Verhulst mentions in Problemski Hotel (translated into several languages) how a refugee who is looking for asylum in Belgium hears from the judge that he has to leave the country within five days. The refugee also receives thirty days to give notice of appeal.