KNP Posted September 12, 2018 Author Share Posted September 12, 2018 (edited) Now this is not for the faint hearted and needs total faith in that all the fixing knobs are tight! Yes the camera is hanging up side down over the layout and under remote operation..... Balance needs to be right and this where a lightweight camera comes into its own One slip and ******* But boy, can I recommend one of these for getting into unusual places. Pictures to follow when I have had a drink to calm my nerves Edited March 22 by KNP 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted September 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2018 Can you use it to get more track-level images ? For example from the main lines, looking into the curve around the farm ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted September 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2018 Would be no good to me. I'd have to start modelling the other side of things. L.A.Zee Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted September 12, 2018 Author Share Posted September 12, 2018 Can you use it to get more track-level images ? For example from the main lines, looking into the curve around the farm ? Early days, Stu, still messing about working out how to exactly use it without taking half the scenery with it. But I would expect so. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted September 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2018 Early days, Stu, still messing about working out how to exactly use it without taking half the scenery with it. But I would expect so. Take half the scenery out first... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted September 12, 2018 Author Share Posted September 12, 2018 Take half the scenery out first... Agree, but I expect I would then take the other half out with the Uniloc tripod!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 12, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2018 (edited) Post focus edit of the first picture by the PW area. This area was part of the original 2009/10 part of the layout with my original way of doing the GWR wire fencing.... Glad I changed to the current method, this seems to have got wavier with age! Edited March 22 by KNP 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podhunter Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 This area was part of the original 2009/10 part of the layout The wheat or corn field looks terrific! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted September 12, 2018 Author Share Posted September 12, 2018 This area was part of the original 2009/10 part of the layout The wheat or corn field looks terrific! Thanks. Field is from plumbers hemp cut into 10mm lengths glued vertically Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 12, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2018 (edited) This was the second picture from post 2876 with camera suspended over the allotment. Edited March 22 by KNP 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 I like it when the 3D scene blends into the 2D background and you can't spot the join. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeOxon Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 You could also consider a mini video cam, mounted on a wagon. I have used one successfully, to examine the state of the track in hidden corners! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 13, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 13, 2018 (edited) A few more.... The crew for Deano has arrived from Modelu, worked out have to fit them in the cab after a bit of surgery, which I am pleased to say has been carried out successfully. They are now in the paint shop recuperating. Edited March 22 by KNP 30 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted September 13, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 13, 2018 The driver of 4825 is a study of concentration - doesn't even look at the photographer! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Kevin, that last picture looking up the yard to the stop blocks is superb. The colours you've used in the whole model work so well....and is there actually a designed fall in the engine shed guttering? If so, I don't think I've ever seen that modelled - and if its not meant to be like that then you are very fortunate in your accidents! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted September 13, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2018 You could also consider a mini video cam, mounted on a wagon. I have used one successfully, to examine the state of the track in hidden corners! Not sure I want to know what's going on in my hidden corners, but this is a very good idea; Kudos, Mike! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Anotheran Posted September 13, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2018 These new angles and close proximity to the action (or often inaction I suppose) are fantastic. The only drawback is that we're now so close in with the realistic viewpoints that it's noticeable that there aren't any telegraph wires on the poles. I'm not suggesting that you put them in as they would be totally counter productive as they'd make it impossible to get the camera down there to take the pictures! Maybe you need to train some spiders... Kind regards, Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 14, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 14, 2018 (edited) Another picture but with the camera 'floating down the stream'... With the camera suspended upside down, the view finder automatically will rotate to the correct view but not the picture stored in the memory. So without investigating further, I just process the focus merge upside down and then rotate the correct way! Edited March 22 by KNP 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted September 14, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2018 Another picture but with the camera 'floating down the stream'... 1544.jpg With the camera suspended upside down, the view finder automatically will rotate to the correct view but not the picture stored in the memory. So without investigating further, I just process the focus merge upside down and then rotate the correct way! This brings armchair modelling to new heights! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KNP Posted September 14, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 14, 2018 (edited) New transpotting location found, on top of the grass bank behind Middle Farm. Ken set the tripod up facing towards Little Muddle and was just in time to catch the 10.45 passing by. Bye, have a nice journey! Edited March 22 by KNP 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 How do you get such deep depth of field - I am looking at the train on the viaduct pic. Do you use a huge aperture or a long exposure, or both? Or is there some digital shenanigans going on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 How do you get such deep depth of field - I am looking at the train on the viaduct pic. Do you use a huge aperture or a long exposure, or both? Or is there some digital shenanigans going on? I suppose you could call it digital shenanigans. The camera I use, a Panasonic ZS 100, can do something called Post Focus. What this involves is a 1 sec MP4 burst of video that uses the auto focus function of the camera to focus from macro to infinity. Using a media reading program I can read and save each focal step and then running it through an editing suite - in this case Serif Affinity, I use the focus merge program that stacks all these images together making the focusing to be from 35mm (or thereabouts) to infinity. That then makes the picture in focus all the way through the depth of field. Takes a while, about 10 mins from start to finish for each pictures that I post using this method but the results speak for themselves - I hope. Clever and sophisticated internal electronics it certainly is but I would now not be without it. You can use a conventional DLSR to do this by using the focusing in manual mode, take a picture then moving the focusing ring a couple of small notches, taking another picture and so through the range....I used to do this with my Nikon D5100 but that took absolute ages. Then I would run it through an image stacking program - in my case that was Helicon Focus which I paid an annual subscription to use, which merged all the stepped focus images together - called stacking. If your camera can manual focus then give it a go, most of these image stacking programs come with a 30 day free trail so nothing lost if it does work for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted September 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 14, 2018 As ever, brilliant pics but even better when you click on them and get them full size, (especially #2893) Stunning! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 (edited) Camera floating down the stream again, gives this unusual angle Edited March 22 by KNP 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeOxon Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 I suppose you could call it digital shenanigans. The camera I use, a Panasonic ZS 100, can do something called Post Focus................... I use an Olympus E-M1 camera, which has two features called focus bracketing and focus stacking. The first of these simply takes a series of photos, automatically changing the focus between each shot in small steps, while the latter goes a step further and combines up to 8 images into a single 'stacked' image, with an extended depth of field. I describe it in more detail on my website at http://home.btconnect.com/mike.flemming/stacking.html Back in post #2887, I mentioned using a mini-video camera for track inspection. I've written about it in my blog at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1405/entry-12761-search-and-rescue/ and also show a video taken from a train on my narrow gauge layout at this link Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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