To my American Friends

[CDN_Merlin]

This is the symbol on the front gates to the US Embassy here in Ottawa Canada. I walk by it daily.





Full size image is :

[Red_5]

Very cool. Thanks a ton.

[Dakatsu]

Holy Huckabee! They used \"E Pluribus Unum!\"

[Kiran]

You Rock, Merl. Thanks for bringing that to us!

[Duper]

Huh? of course. It's our national seal.

Any idea what that metal is Merlin? Almost looks like bronze.
great pic btw.

[Testiculese]

Perty slick

(We have an embassy in Canada? Why?! A can+string would suffice, really...)

[CDN_Merlin]

Duper, no idea what metal it is.

Testi, yes you do have one. In case Americans come to visit and they need help.

We have about 4-5 Embassies in the US ourselves.

[Dakatsu]

Duper, no idea what metal it is.

Testi, yes you do have one. In case Americans come to visit and they need help.

We have about 4-5 Embassies in the US ourselves.

I knew it, Canadian World Domination; first they put four-five embassies, next tanks are rolling through North Dakota!

[CDN_Merlin]

Duper, no idea what metal it is.

Testi, yes you do have one. In case Americans come to visit and they need help.

We have about 4-5 Embassies in the US ourselves.

I knew it, Canadian World Domination; first they put four-five embassies, next tanks are rolling through North Dakota!

Tanks? What tanks? You mean our army mounted on horses? Or the RCMP with thier canoes? Or our paper airplanes?

[Dakatsu]

Duper, no idea what metal it is.

Testi, yes you do have one. In case Americans come to visit and they need help.

We have about 4-5 Embassies in the US ourselves.

I knew it, Canadian World Domination; first they put four-five embassies, next tanks are rolling through North Dakota!

Tanks? What tanks? You mean our army mounted on horses? Or the RCMP with thier canoes? Or our paper airplanes?

The one in the South Park movie, with the big ass missiles on the back!

EDIT: 6:35

[Testiculese]

Hey Merl, how do I process RAW files? I found a hacked firmware for my Canon, and now I can take RAW pics (extension is CRW?). They're 10mb!

[Sergeant Thorne]

You should be able to deal with them in any good graphical editing application, Testi (I use Paint Shot Pro). Generally you have to know the resolution (and the palette/color scheme?) I think. Could you send that hack my way? I've got a Canon and I'd love to try some uncompressed shooting.

Neat pic, Merlin. Thanks!

[Testiculese]

I changed the extension to .raw, Photoshop 7 asks for the width (3264) the height (1832) the channels (?) Depth (?) and Header (? bytes). Leaving the Channels at 1, Depth at 8 bits, and 0 header, it says it's too small, and the image is garbage. Changing depth to 16 says the image is to large for the file.



Here's the article with all the relevant links.

What's nice is that it is not destructive. You don't modify your camera in any way, you just drop some files on it and access a new menu with the settings.

[Grendel]

Hey Merl, how do I process RAW files? I found a hacked firmware for my Canon, and now I can take RAW pics (extension is CRW?). They're 10mb!

You should be able to use the software that came w/ the camera (EOS DIGITAL Solution Disk Vers. 1-15.x or DIGITAL CAMERA Solution Disk Vers. 2.) Check the Canon website for software updates. I use DPP for my raw images, works fine.

Edit: slick hack!

Edit2: Here's the answer to your question

[Testiculese]

There'sn't software for my camera. I saw DPP for some of the SLR's, but mine's an A630.

[CDN_Merlin]

I use Adobe Light Room.

I find shooting RAW files better since you can actually edit them afterwards (to some degree). You can change the settings like ISO, Flash, White Balance etc like if you had chosen those settings on the camera before taking the pic.