Immedion Ready When You Are Batteries (for external flash units)

03/19/2012

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These are 2400 mah batteries, come precharged and ready to go.  The recycle time on the flash is very fast, and if 
you forget to charge your regular batteries, these are perfect to grab and go.  Found a supplier in Canada (Paul's
Finest), so no duty or exorbitant charges from the States,  I would highly recommend them.  They hold a 75 percent
charge for up to a year.

I bought three packs @ 15.99 ea, and they have a handy little carrying case with them.  They are made by Power Ex
and if you don't have their recharger, I would recommend that as well.  It charges each individual battery, so no one
battery will overcharge.
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Enlarging A Friend's Photo

03/04/2012

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Picture
A friend sent me this pic and asked me if I could do anything with it.  The
dimensions are 496 x 374 pixels.  Not very big for a print.  I have Genuine
Fractals and enlarged the print to 1240 x 935 @ 72 ppi and approx. 17 x 
12 inches. I then put it through a noiseware reduction program as the 
noise was quite evident from enlarging it.  It also sharpened it at the same 
time. I use a program called Noiseware Professional by Imagemonic and

I am quite happy with it.

Below are the original, upsampled image, and then put through a painting
program. Crops are at 100 percent.  You can upsample using bicubic smoother in PS in 10 percent increments but I 
find this much faster.  I bought Genuine Fractals for 159.99.  (now called Perfect Resize 7)  Alien Skin also makes a
 program called Blow-Up, which retails for 199.00.  I have never used it, but they allow a trial of their product.  Not a 
perfect picture, but a nice memory made larger!  Final print was cropped slightly and printed on satin paper on an
8.5 x 11 piece of paper.

Original

Genuine Fractals Upsample

Final Image

Final Image with Painting Effect

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