Digital Imaging

cPicture in Taiwanese and Chinese

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:27:28 GMT

Thanks to 王泉富 (Chyuan Fu Wang) and 王燊 (Wang Shen),

the Taiwanese and Chinese language version is completed and ready for download!

Taiwanese language version

http://cpicture.net/tw/cpicture.exe

Chinese language version

http://cpicture.net/ch/cpicture.exe

cPicture 1.7.4

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:04:25 GMT

cPicture is updated to version 1.7.4 to include

improved GPS tagging
new option to remove GPS data
improved filtering for lens data

cPicture 1.7.3

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:06:20 GMT

cPicture is updated to version 1.7.3 using a new C++ compiler and to include a new interface for the function plugins.

The function plugin samples are updated to version 1.3:

http://cpicture.net/cpp_fp1.dll

http://cpicture.net/cpp_fp2.dll

http://cpicture.net/cpp_fp3.dll

cPicture 1.7.2.7

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:41:02 GMT

cPicture is updated to version 1.7.2.7 to include a reordering of the items for the selected action.
Simply drag with the mouse the items in the list to set the order. This is useful for actions where the order is
important, for example web pages or picture index pages:

Moon eclipse

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:47:25 GMT

My pictures of the moon eclipse from Feb 20th 2008:

58mm, 5s, f/2.8, ISO200

500mm, 1.6s, f/8, ISO800

Function plugin: HDR, combine several pictures taking at different exposure levels

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:19:23 GMT

Update: The plugin http://cpicture.net/en/cpp_hdr.zip is updated with the latest enfuse program from http://panospace.wordpress.com/

The free function plugin "HDR" for cPicture can combine several pictures taking at different exposure levels using the "enfuse" program.
No complicated settings and fully automated. Unlike different complicated HDR software, you only select the pictures and the plugin is doing the rest.

Example:
In the following example the first picture is correctly exposed for the interior, but leaves the bright window areas over exposed.
The second picture is correctly exposed for the window area but leaves the interior under exposed.

The function plugin "HDR" combines the two pictures to create a single picture with correctly exposed areas:

+ =

To create a combined picture:

Select the individual pictures with the different exposure levels:
Select the function plugin "HDR" from the menu in cPicture:
Confirm the settings and click "OK":
The output of "enfuse" is displayed in the console window:

Click "OK" to close the window.
The combined picture is created and will be displayed in cPicture as a new picture.

Installation:

Download the plugin from http://cpicture.net/en/cpp_hdr.zip
and unpack the cpp_hdr.dll and the enfuse.exe in the same folder where you copied cPicture.exe.

cPicture 1.7.2.5

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:13:41 GMT

cPicture is updated to include a re-date function with different time stamps.
Set a start date and an optional time step (time difference between the pictures) to set new file dates for the pictures:

This is useful for devices reading and sorting files by file date instead of the file name.

cPicture 1.7.2.3

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:13:55 GMT

cPicture is updated to include an updated Picture Check (see http://jurgene.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!ECF9470581AA39EA!205.entry)

Are your backups without errors?
Have you ever checked your backups?
You have all your pictures on a CD/DVD or backup drive, but how do you make sure they are actually OK and not broken? Quite often a picture file gets broken because of a faulty drive or storage media and maybe you keep making backups of these broken pictures.

One solution is to view all pictures in fullscreen and check each one. But there is a better way.

The steps are very easy:
Instead of first selecting the pictures, you can now specify the folders/drives directly.

Step 1:

Select "Check pictures" from the start menu.

Step 2:

By default, the current folder is pre-selected. Change if necessary.

Step 3:

The Picture check is launched as a task and progress is displayed in the task section.

Step 4:

Once the check finish, a dialog is display with the error result or an OK message.

Nokton 58mm F1.4 SL II update

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:23:22 GMT

Updated: http://cpicture.net/Nokton/

Night exposures with the distance ring at infinity:

f/1.4 13s

f/2 6s

f/2.8 10s

Nokton 58mm F1.4 SL II update

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:06:05 GMT

The samples on http://cpicture.net/Nokton/ are updated with two pictures taken at the infinity distance setting and one panoramic image:

f/7.1 1/800s

1:1 crop

f/8 1/800s

1:1 crop

f/8 1/1000s

1:1 crop

First panoramic image using the Nokton:
Using the pano tools, the 'b' parameter used for the barrel distorsion was optimized to a very
low value of -0,001406.

f/6.3 1/640s

Nokton 58mm F1.4 SL II

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:12:20 GMT

In November 2007, Cosina/Voigtländer announced the Ultron 40mm F2 SL II and
the Nokton 58mm F1.4 SL II for Nikon and Pentax systems.
http://www.cosina.co.jp/seihin/voigt/v-lens/sl2/58sl2/index.html

The Nokton 58mm F1.4 SL II for Nikon arrived!

The lens is all metal with manual focus and feels very solid.

The Nokton is a CPU lens and meters on all Nikon DSLR.
The aperture ring needs to be set to f/16 (orange).

All samples are shot with f/1.4:

Unlike the Nikkor f/1.4 50mm, at f/1.4 the Nokton delivers excellent results.
The depth of field is then very shallow of course and can be difficult to set.
In the viewfinder, a green dot is displayed for subjects in focus in the center frame
(The AF mode is set to Single Area [.]).

f/1.6 1/40s (handheld)

1:1 crop lower-left corner

f/1.4 1/10s (tripod)

1:1 crop

f/2.0 1/60s

1:1 crop

f/3.2 1/125s

1:1 crop

f/2.5 1/100s

f/2.5 1/80s

f/3.5 1/200s

f/2.8 1/125s

Function plugin: HDR, combine several pictures taking at different exposure levels

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:16:08 GMT

The function plugin "HDR" combines the two pictures to create a single picture with correctly exposed areas:

+ =

To create a combined picture:

Select the individual pictures with the different exposure levels:
Select the function plugin "HDR" from the menu in cPicture:
Confirm the settings and click "OK":
The output of "enfuse" is displayed in the console window:

Click "OK" to close the window.
The combined picture is created and will be displayed in cPicture as a new picture.

Installation:

Download the plugin from http://cpicture.net/en/cpp_hdr.zip
and unpack the cpp_hdr.dll and the enfuse.exe in the same folder where you copied cPicture.exe.

cPicture 1.7.2

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:24:34 GMT

cPicture is updated to version 1.7.2 to fix the display problem for the map geotagging view with Firefox.

cPicture 1.7.1

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:07:25 GMT

cPicture is updated to version 1.7.1.

Note:

A change in the EXIF template parser required a change for the modified/created date placeholder from %dm/%dc to %um/%uc.

In order to display the template with the new EXIF/image data, the placeholders %dm and %dc need to be changed to %um and %uc in case they were used.

To revert the template to the default, simply remove the template in the settings and click "OK".

The updated language versions will follow shortly.

cPicture 1.7

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:25:59 GMT

cPicture is updated to 1.7 to include:

GPS data import for garmin .gpx files
new GPS features
picture resize and crop is expanded to accept size units (based on the default printer). Convenient for printing passport pictures for example.
Customizable tooltip/picture information

Download:

http://cpicture.net/de/cpicture.exe
http://cpicture.net/en/cpicture.exe

Plugins:

http://cpicture.net/de/cpp_raw.dll
http://cpicture.net/de/cpp_tiff_png.dll
http://cpicture.net/en/cpp_raw.dll
http://cpicture.net/en/cpp_tiff_png.dll

cPicture 1.6.12.4

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:09:57 GMT

cPicture is updated to fix a display problem of the field of depth calculator in the F1 help.

Digital VR and Panoramic Photography

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:02:43 GMT

As a member of IVRPA and 10+ years of panoramic experience, contact digitalVR@cpicture.net for Digital VR and Panoramic Photography services in the Seattle Eastside area (Redmond, Bellevue).
360x180 interactive VR (see http://cpicture.net/digitalVR for an example) and panoramic images (horizontal/vertical). Partial services are welcome (pictures are provided by customer).

cPicture.de

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:56:43 GMT

Please note that the old website http://cpicture.de/ (established in 1998) is no longer forwarding to http://cpicture.net and is retired.

http://cpicture.net is in service since last year to accomodate the rather large traffic and the old site was held in service since then to support transitioning and provide forwarding requests.

Thank you!

cPicture 1.6.12.2

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:05:22 GMT

cPicture is updated to version 1.6.12.2 to include combined GPS/Location search by entering either bei GPS data or location (town/place) name in the search box. Added general map to the F1 help with right click function to copy GPS data.

cPicture 1.6.12

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:32:12 GMT

cPicture 1.6.12 is updated to add Geotagging and GPS support.

Switch to the new 'Map' view, right click a position to add a pin and add the GPS data.

The following new features are available:

Search pictures containing either GPS Data or not yet tagged with GPS data
Edit GPS data
Display position using the new Map view.
Added 16:9 aspect ratio for the loss less crop.

Custom List: Links

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:41:25 GMT

Links

EMail
Nokton 58mm F1.4 SL II
Samples of the Nokton 58mm F1.4 SL II
DigitalVR - Virtual Tours
Digital VR and Panoramic Photography
cPicture - Digital Imaging Software
Digital Imaging Software