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Using a Samyang 14mm in darktable

Posted on Friday, October 7, 2016
in Category Howto
A rose shot with the 14mm lens on a full frame camera

I just got myself a Samyang 14mm lens, more precisely the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 AE ED AS IF UMC, branded as Walimex Pro, but that is basically just a sticker, the lens is the same. In its latest incarnation with AE, so there is no more manual aperture …

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Comments are great

Posted on Friday, September 9, 2016
in Category Howto

When programming I write small programs all the time. Sometimes as a test bed when looking for a bug, sometimes to help understand a library, sometimes as a tool to do things for me. They are relatively small in general, a single file, few hundred lines of code max. And …

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Fake Miniatures in darktable

Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2014
in Category Howto

Faking the looks of a miniature shot with its shallow depth of field is quite easy in raster image editors like GIMP, but sometimes you might want to do that step directly inside of darktable. While that is not as flexible and fast for single images when you have a …

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First test animation with Tupí

Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2013
in Category Howto

I always liked playing with animations, in the past I used Blender most of the time, but for some things that’s not the best tool. So I looked around for something that makes 2D animations easy and stumbled on Tupí. Since I love danger I decided to not use …

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DOF animation test

Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
in Category Howto

Today I experimented with making a short animation and depth of field.

Setup

Since this was only a technical experiment I didn’t pay any attention on the physical setup of the scene, lighting, … I just put the first thing I found on my desk, mounted the camera on my …

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