You wouldn't have much of a photo without some processing, each pixel records light round a particular frequency commonly known as red green or blue. So at the very least each pixel requires interpolation of the data from its neighbouring pixels as each pixel is missing around 2 thirds of the color data. There will be adjustments applied at least some contrast and some stylistic choice. So you are asking the impossible really there is always postprocessing Automatic or automatic with some manual input.

The daft thing is I moved into the village about 3 months ago and have been in to Doneraile park about 2 or 3 times since then. There is a gate less than 5 minutes from my door which also brings you in at the top of the hill by the main house and café.

I guess its true you rarely visit the features near your home unless you have visitors from out of town. The current lockdown measures here are limiting home visitors to 1 or is it none now. So it's a good place to mooch round without getting into crowds.

I'm tempted to do a photo essay on people and their masks maybe it will be a good thing to have a record of these strange times.

Hi today was bright and sunny so i decided to walk over the road and have a play with my panasonic GX85 a small cheap mirrrorless with an even cheaper 14-42mm lens. Dynamic range was a bit of a problem but I enjoyed my walk.

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you might find some software called 'Touch Portal' useful pretty much makes custom buttons for doing most things using ios or android device on a PC or Mac you can have several commands on a single button. There is a free version but its limited on buttonsbut enough to see if its something you would use.

It really can do a lot, say you need a calculator you can set a button to start the application lets say you want to convert say pounds to kilos you can create a button with the conversion factor on it. press that and then do the sum. limits really mostly your imagination.

beautiful but is it missing the native lens magnification?

Touch Portal
is some interesting software that works with android and ios devices to control PC's and Macs, by using the tablet or phone as an input device for your computer. The free version limits you to 2 pages with a maximum of 11 by 10 (110 buttons per page) or 220 buttons. The pro version supports plug in modules and unlimited modules. The tablet acts as a Gui for actions which are received by the computer over wifi, they need to be on the same network.

Most programs have keyboard shortcuts and a button can be a keyboard shortcut, some keyboard shortcuts are os level and some application specific. A button can be a series of commands which are executed in order.
When you first install touch portal it has just 4 buttons on the main page and there are a number of pages which you can download and import into touch portal some are free some you pay for at a reasonable cost. Some programs have 100's of keyboard shortcuts and mapping them into a custom page can be a lot of work, which may make paying for a page worth it to you. There are pages for lightroom, photoshop and many others premade. All the functionality is on the host pc the tablet receives the pages from the host and sends back the press to the host.

There is way more functionality than i can put in a single post but i will give you a few basic ideas.
you can launch an application and give it an argument. So you might use a button to open excel with a specific spread sheet. It can also open url's in your web browser. So you might have a button to open a page on uglyhedgehog.com and maybe others to open specific sections.

The application launch is quite interesting for example a button to open lightroom will either launch lightroom or bring it into focus if it is already running. As buttons can contain a stack of commands you can also add a command to switch to a different page. E.g with the lightroom launch button you can switch to a page of lightroom specific buttons with a single button press. So your main page may be application launchers with subpages for individual applications. With lightroom there are different modules Library , develop, print ect so you can have a page for each module and specific buttons for that module. You can create more generic buttons such as cmd W this closes a tab in a web browser but it can also close an application e.g lightroom if it has focus. Buttons can be text only colored or have an image which is a 256x256.png file. if you export a page it creates a zip file with icon images and a text file for the defined functions. This is mostly used for sharing pages with other people but you can use it to import to another computer. You can also cut and paste buttons between pages, the editor is pretty straight forward. Commands are grouped logically into sections and plugins create a new section when they are imported.

A plugin might allow you to run say some applescript to tell an application to do something. It really is quite open ended. The possibilities are mainly limited by the program you are using if you can't use a control other than by using a mouse you can't create a button for it.

So basically it allows you to create shortcuts to make things easier and faster. You don't have to remember the keyboard shortcut to activate a particular action as you can have a button available for the context you are using touch portal.
You can create macro functions in touch portal or trigger a macro within a program.
If you don't want to create your own buttons there are pages created already and if you don't need some of the functions you can customise the pages to just what you want. It's a lot simpler to use than explain to be fair.

The only thing which was confusing when i imported the free page for lightroom was how to make it active. Each page has a name and you need to create a navigation button on main to switch to that page. The mobile app is available in the ios and android stores and the host program can be downloaded on the touch portal website. The pro version is an in app purchase. You can use the mobile apps on macs and pc's, that is you can use an ios device on a PC not just a Mac same with Android devices.

Hope you found this interesting, it's a great tool for simplifying your interactions with the computer.

You can find reviews on touch portal on youtube.

They are kinda like reading glasses a 1 diopter has a maximum focus distance of 1 meter a 2 is 1/2 meter a 3 is 1/3 (33cm) 1/4 25cm a 1/2 diopter would be 2 Meters and rare there is another kind of half diopter which is a half a diopter lenses. giving two planes of focus it can tricky to hide the join.

The chipped adapters will report lens details usually it's a 50mm you can see this in the exif information of a photo as well as the f-stop used. On the camera body you should be able to adjust the F-stop readout but it only causes problems unless you calculate the shutter speed yourself. Have a look at the exif and see what the camera thinks is happening.

If you are not stopping down and shooting wide open, the F-stop will be wrong but it shouldnt effect the exposure.

Canon will meter wide open in aperture priority mode if you close up the aperture some , it just sees a darker day. Where you go wrong is telling the camera the f-stop you are actually using. if the lens is saying its F1.4 50mm then if you tell it you are using f2 it expects light to be half what it measured wide open and adjusts the shutter speed to suit. Do not tell the camera its f-stop is anything other than wide open and it will expose for the light it is measuring "wide open". Doesn't matter what the real aperture is. With some lenses you have a fully variable aperture more often than not I will monitor the shutter speed as I stop down and ensure it is fast enough for the lens I am using.

On the Canon adapters there is usually an internal lip and when you screw down the lens the lip pushes in the pin, alternatively if you careful you can remove the back plate and access the pin a little bit of a biro refill will slip over the pin and when you put it back together it holds the pin in.

It kinda depends on the adapter, it probably reports a max aperture. Eg f1.4 set the camera in aperture priority mode adjust the focus and then stop down to what you want but don't tell the camera this just let it think that the camera lens is wide open at the e.g f1.4 now it will base the exposure on the available light which depends on where you have the aperture set.

Focus at wide open this minimises the depth of field and helps the camera see the maximum contrast where you are focusing.
Why you set the maximum aperture reported by the adapter is that the camera expects the aperture to close down which it won't so say it reads the exposure and calculates say 1/200th of a second if you are telling it you are using f2.8 it says 1/200 wide open so 1/50 stopped down 2 stops. The result an over exposure by 2 stops.

In manual mode you can just work out the values yourself and set an aperture shutter speed and iso then its all your fault. Even then you can take a test shot look at the histogram if its too far left then you need a longer shutter speed to far right a slower shutter speed. Aperture priority is easiest.

I think it's fair to say , your health isn't the best, so you really shouldn't be risking your life, you could pick up covid 19 on all manner of surfaces even if the hand dryer is not a risk. At the moment here in ireland there are just 5 recovered and about 45 dead from Covid 19 Thats an insane 90% death rate. Two of them were Doctors, it is concerning there are so few recovered patients at this stage.

I think the way things are going you might be able to go back out in the 2nd week in june.

Gentlemen may I kindly ask you wtf you are doing in a public bathroom?
You are supposed to be at home keeping away from people who are likely infected.

If you are following the rules, hand dryers are not a problem.

I would include the people who help bring us food especially the shop workers, most of us can limit interaction with other people but they get to be exposed to everyone and the ugly side of humanity.

I guess i'm lucky to be an essential worker that can mostly work from home.