marty
1 MW
In the very beginning of computers. The computer guy said. Make pictures smaller. Never try to make a picture bigger. As to enough resolution. If you want bigger? Skorohod might be willing to sell pictures with more pixels.
Eternal outskirts of Moscow and beyond (LOTS of pics!)
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Skorohod
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Not trying to sound old or something, but i do remeber those times! Screen resolution 1024x768 considered high and wasn't available for a lot of PC users in the mid 90's. 800x600 was "more than enough". There was a lot of pioneering digital cameras, whose goal was to reach the Holy Grail of a consumer digital imaging - a megapixel. Yep, just the one megapixel!
Time cut to a first half of 00's, when internet access for the most people was not that broadband and inexpensive as now. The "good form" for a blogging was to put a thumbnails around 200x150 px or even less with a clickable link to a 600x400 "full size image". That is what i actually did in my early days on LiveJournal. If your post has a "cut" - you should warn your viewers with something like "Achtung, traffic! There is a 10 photos of 967 kb of total size under the cut!".
Now we open a 100+ megabytes web page from our smartphone and don't even flinch. Odds are there a little to none photos or videos on the said web page, just a some short text.
I've used the Canon EOS 300D ("the first affordable DSLR camera in the world") from 2004 to a 2008. It has 6 megapixels - "why do you need that much, you showoff!". Now the full size photo from that camera has the less pixel count than a common 4k display. It has black bars all around your photo, when you view EOS 300D images in full size on 4k display (you can see it in the attached screenshot). In that very moment i have actually felt, how far the tech did go over those years.
Oh, you did send me down the memory lane!
Skorohod, the notorious pixel peddler
But seriously, though: Dzen natively provides a 2400 px images on the longer side, and with a minimum DPI of 100 you could print out a 60x40 cm poster. Just don't look very close at the result
And if you still be in need of the picture of higher resolution - i can provide it for free. I'm always trying keep my hobbies as far from commercialising as possible.
Skorohod
10 kW
Well, today i'm a bearer of a bad news. I'm slowly dying from the ALS. It is totally uncurbable and nobody knows for sure how much time i got left. Maybe a several months - this is my reckoning.
From the start of 2024 to this time i'm bound to my apartment and barely walking from a bed to a chair or kitchen or a bathroom. Well, at least i'm still walking at all and can stand by my own - for this decease it is a kind of victory!
The 2023 is a year when i've start to feel there is something wrong with me. And i've ignored it as long as i could - the very rare example, when ignoring one's health is a good thing. The summer of 2023 i've even managed to visit Mariupol! The autumn of 2023 i've ride my Sur-Ron for the last time. The december of 2023 was the last time i've walked the streets of Moscow on my own with my camera.
Now i'm putting my things in order, my wife and my friends are very helpful.
Well, i'm sorry to be a bearer of a bad news, but i felt i must at least keep you all in the loop and not just disappear all of a sudden.
Here is a short playlist of my recent life, just to set a proper mood:
It's right in front of me
The throne of maladies
It's right in front of me
Your malignancy!
No more sickness
No more struggle
Can't believe I did this
But today it's gone
On the other side, I have survived
Didn't think it'd be
The hardest path I've ever walked
Alive again, alive as me
Scattered to the four winds
The cinders of the tide we lived
Memories of the work done
Of a proud son of silent Earth
Now you're a breath of a butterfly
Riding upon the wind by my side
From the start of 2024 to this time i'm bound to my apartment and barely walking from a bed to a chair or kitchen or a bathroom. Well, at least i'm still walking at all and can stand by my own - for this decease it is a kind of victory!
The 2023 is a year when i've start to feel there is something wrong with me. And i've ignored it as long as i could - the very rare example, when ignoring one's health is a good thing. The summer of 2023 i've even managed to visit Mariupol! The autumn of 2023 i've ride my Sur-Ron for the last time. The december of 2023 was the last time i've walked the streets of Moscow on my own with my camera.
Now i'm putting my things in order, my wife and my friends are very helpful.
Well, i'm sorry to be a bearer of a bad news, but i felt i must at least keep you all in the loop and not just disappear all of a sudden.
Here is a short playlist of my recent life, just to set a proper mood:
It's right in front of me
The throne of maladies
It's right in front of me
Your malignancy!
No more sickness
No more struggle
Can't believe I did this
But today it's gone
On the other side, I have survived
Didn't think it'd be
The hardest path I've ever walked
Alive again, alive as me
Scattered to the four winds
The cinders of the tide we lived
Memories of the work done
Of a proud son of silent Earth
Now you're a breath of a butterfly
Riding upon the wind by my side
marty
1 MW
Try to keep your mind happy and your body will feel better.
DaLanMan
10 kW
I hear you brother, I look forward to meeting in the green lands some day.
It is a terrible burden to know your fate, and timeline, but we all face the same end, know you are not walking your path alone.
It is a terrible burden to know your fate, and timeline, but we all face the same end, know you are not walking your path alone.
(I don't know what to say)
Ditto what AW said. I'm sad for you and your family. I'll miss your beautiful pics.
goatman
10 MW
havent been on here for awhile, thanks for letting us know my crazy Russian friend
socks and crocs
socks and crocs
SlowCo
1 MW
Damn that must be hard on you and your family. Stay strong and enjoy your time with friends and family!