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Went to try to photograph today s solar eclipse. I have to say I m not 100% happy with the results. The mix of a somewhat unsophisticated lens, and a crude homemade filter resulted in lots of unwanted artefacts on the images. I cleaned up the worst ones in GIMP, but everything else is pretty much SooC... The post Solar eclipse appeared first on GarfNet .
Found myself on top of Portsdown Hill again today, with its magnificent views over Cosham, Portsmouth, Southsea, the Solent and 13 km+ into the distance, the Isle of wight. Despite the bright sunshine, it was still quite hazy over the conurbation. Still, I was somewhat reassured to discover that our green and pleasant land is... The post Another view from Portsdown Hill appeared first on GarfNet .
As temperatures in Washington DC reach record highs in excess of 40°C, seven loyal Trump supporters have been hospitalised, due to the excessive heat. Of course, no one can possibly blame the US president s high-quality, safe, and long-lasting construction projects for any this. It s not the president s job to make sure these plebs are safe.... The post Weather machine conspiracy: the truth behind…
Sandwiched between the suburban sprawl of Fareham, and a section of the 42 kilometres of perpetual roadworks also known as the M27 motorway, there is, or there will be, Welborne Garden Village . At the moment, it s 405 hectares of grassy hillsides, sparsely peppered with excavators and other builders junk. However, the glossy AI-generated video at... The post Welborne Garden Village appeared first…
[Jump to gallery script] These are some almost SooC images BUT cropped square AND with left and right images swapped AND “alignment circles” at the bottom. These 3D square stereograms were captured with my recently constructed stereo camera module. This is part of an ongoing project to create a modular GNU/Linux digital camera system... The post 3D square stereograms and BASH script appeared first…
[Jump to Gallery] As part of my embryonic GNU/Linux digital camera project, I recently built a 3D camera module. Basically its a ELP board, in an aluminium 1590A type stomp box with a short internal USB3 extension lead. This is a small collection of processed images I created while I was testing my 3D camera... The post Building and testing my 3D camera module appeared first on GarfNet .
I thought it might be handy to make a small collection of web-based resources for outdoor photography and similar activities. Some of these resources are right here on GarfNet. The rest are dotted around the worldwide web. So I thought it would be helpful to list all these links here, all on a single page,... The post Useful online resources for location shoots appeared first on GarfNet .
[Jump to gallery scripts] This article documents my first experiments in producing red-cyan anaglyphs. The gallery contains of four near-identical 3D anaglyphs with varying amounts of X Y offset to compensate for the fact that the cameras on the board don t quite point in the same direction. One can create anaglyphs in GIMP.... The post 3D Anaglyphs with BASH scripts appeared first on GarfNet .
[Jump to gallery script] These are some almost SooC images BUT with left and right images swapped AND alignment circles at the bottom. They were captured with my recently constructed stereo camera module. This is part of an ongoing project to create a modular GNU/Linux digital camera system using easily available generic components. Although... The post 3D stereograms and alignment circles with…
[Jump to gallery script] These are some almost SooC images BUT with left and right images swapped. They were captured with my recently constructed stereo camera module. This is part of an ongoing project to create a modular GNU/Linux digital camera system using easily available generic components. Although the images themselves are unedited, the... The post Almost SooC swapped left right with BASH…
I visited the recently rewilded Knepp estate earlier today. Consequently I found myself within 1500 metres or so of Shipley, the location of the infamous Kings Mill. Not to be confused with Kings Mill in Castle Donnington, some 200 km or so north-west of here, this King s Mill (aka Vincent s Mill) is a smock windmill... The post Kings Mill, smock windmill, Shipley, in infrared appeared first on…
Today is my wife s wedding anniversary 🙂 and she has a bit of a penchant for white storks. I think it is a Central European obsession. Anyway, she said we should go visit the white storks at the recently rewilded 1416 hectare Knepp Estate in West Sussex. So I packed my little Lumix DMC-GX7 camera... The post Storks at Knepp appeared first on GarfNet .
[Jump to gallery script to add exif] These are some unedited 3D SooC (straight out of camera) 1600 x 1200 pixel stereo pairs (3200 x 1200 pixel overall) from my recently constructed stereo camera module. This is part of an ongoing project to create a modular GNU/Linux digital camera system using easily available generic... The post Unedited 3D SooC stereo pairs adding EXIF appeared first on…
Found myself near Cobden bridge, in Southampton, armed with my recently converted , full spectrum Lumix DMC-GH2 Micro Four Thirds camera. This was converted just before Christmas 2025 by Protech Photographic in Crowborough. So I thought I would capture some images of Cobden bridge by Infrared Cobden bridge is a busy road and pedestrian bridge... The post Cobden Bridge by Infrared appeared first on…
Following on from a discussion on a photographic forum who which I belong, an old hobby horse of mine raised its head again. Namely the possibility of building one s own Debian GNU/Linux digital camera, using Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer, or similar, and one of the camera modules that s available for it. Or indeed some... The post A modular Debian GNU/Linux digital camera. Feasible or…
These are a few infrared snaps using studio lighting. I also took a couple more snaps of my old Wray Stereographic 3D camera. With many thanks to my friend and model Estella Rose who posed for the infrared images in the above gallery. The post Infrared studio snaps and 3D camera appeared first on GarfNet .
I suffer dreadful mental blocks at times. I m also a tad forgetful. To work around this, I use Jaap Karssenberg s Zim . This is an excellent indexed, searchable, cross-linkable, exportable, cross-platform note-taking program. Described by its developer as a desktop wiki Zim turns effective note-taking from a tedious chore into a simple and routine task. And... The post Zim desktop wiki appeared…
This is the tale of yet another crappy British telecoms provider. On 2025-12-05, I bought and paid for 30GB per month Lebara data SIM card from its Amazon store. But the SIM card Lebara sent was ONLY 25GB. What a con! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQLKFN4H I did not notice that I had been cheated, until it was too... The post Lebara, what a con appeared first on GarfNet .
It was a cold but sunny day today. So I decided to take my full spectrum converted camera up to Portsdown Hill for some infrared snaps. I thought it might also be interesting to try it on my 120 year old Bausch Lomb + Beck 101.6mm lens. Whilst this is not a sharp lens,... The post From Portsdown Hill in Infrared appeared first on GarfNet .
Seems this time it s Venezuela’s turn to have its infrastructure destroyed and its citizens blown to pieces. Trump claims it s to stem a drug problem and that President Nicholas Maduro wasn t fairly elected. Much of the world thinks United States Invasion of Venezuela is mostly to satisfy the United States insatiable appetite for other people s... The post United States invades Venezuela appeared…
Fora all over the worldwide web are buzzing that Windows 10 reached end of life, c/w cries of but, but, my computer won t run Windows 11 . Whatever shall we do? These fora offer various solutions, almost all involving using more proprietary products of the same large foreign software corporation that caused this problem in the... The post My computer won t run Windows 11 appeared first on GarfNet…
End of year tends to make one reflect, and look back over the last year or so. As I did so, my inner six-year-old s mind wandered onto the subject of my favourite camera lens. Problem is that I kinda like them all and I ve had a lot of fun with them. My favourite lens is... The post My favourite old lens appeared first on GarfNet .
I am slowly becoming accustomed to infrared photography, with the full spectrum Lumix µ4/3 camera that by Protech Photographic recently converted for me. I m finding that near-infrared images can make even very boring ugly things look quite interesting. So I decided to pop out to what is generally reckoned to be the ugliest of Havant s... The post Harts Farm Way in infrared appeared first on…
Well today is Boxing day, and the sun just managed to struggle its way out of the clouds around 14:00. As luck would have it, my variable infrared filter actually arrived from Shenzen late Christmas eve. So, following on from my early IR adventures on Christmas Eve, I thought I d pop out to our backyard... The post More infrared photography appeared first on GarfNet .
Well, there goes another year whizzed past even faster than the last one. Not much else has changed. AI is still over-hyped and yet remarkably lacking in any actual intelligence. Donald Trump is still alive. Still, on the bright side, I have another nice new toy well a modification to an old toy,... The post Merry Christmas 2025 appeared first on GarfNet .
It s Christmas Eve and my old Lumix DMC-GH2 has just been delivered back, Special Delivery, following its conversion to full spectrum , by Protech Photographic in Crowborough. Infrared photography is something I have wanted to do for many years. So this year, as a sort of Christmas present to self , I decided to have one of... The post Infrared with a fairly decent camera appeared first on GarfNet…
On one of the photographic fora to which I belong, there seems something of a panic with regard to AI photography taking over the likes of Instagram, Facebook et al. Well, what does or doesn t get posted to foreign antisocial media websites is a matter of total indifference to me. And even on sites... The post AI still not all that bright a whole year later appeared first on GarfNet .
I just sent a spare µ4/3 camera body off to Protech Photographic in Crowborough to have it converted to full spectrum for Infrared work. Meantime, I thought it might be fun to go back over some of my earlier IR stuff, captured off somewhat lesser cameras. My earliest adventures into IR date way back to... The post Infrared retrospective appeared first on GarfNet .
Arne Haugrud was a fairly well known Norwegian pewter maker. It made some special celebratory pieces for Norwegian electronics manufacturer Tandberg. These particular drinking vessels were made to celebrate Tandberg s Huldra 10 multiband receiver. You can learn more about this here. The beer is Pécsi Sörfőzde Barna a fine central European brown beer, which... The post Haugrud pewter made for…
I found myself in my wife s old hometown of Pécs, a small university city and former Roman settlement about 200 km south of the Hungarian capital Budapest. She kindly organised a visit to the Pécsi Sörfőzde or the Pécs Beer Factory . This is the largest brewery in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It also has... The post Pécsi Sörfőzde Pécs beer factory appeared first on GarfNet .
These are some rather useful additional applications or features that are not currently in the Debian repositories. However I find them very useful and I don t consider a full installation complete without them. It is the final part of our three part Moving to Debian series. Moving to Debian series Dedicated to my friends and... The post Additional packages to enhance your Debian (or Ubuntu)…
Now here s something you can t do with Microsoft Windows install a fully loaded Debian 13 system in a single command. In this article we are going to install a whole shedload of applications all at once with a single shell command albeit quite a long one! This is a quick and easy way... The post A fully loaded Debian 13 system appeared first on GarfNet .
Regular readers will know I m quite a Tandberg fan especially arguably Vebjørn Tandberg s greatest works, the Huldra series. Well Tandberg commissioned pewter maker Haugrud to produce several commemorative pewter products to celebrate its products. I ve had a set of the 50mL whisky tots for years. My late father was given them when he ran... The post My Huldra 500mL tankard appeared first on…
I don t have a TV licence I don t intend to buy one either. We have a nice big roof mounted TV aerial which I have repurposed for much better things. For a start, it receives FM and DAB radio perfectly adequately. We re only a 35 km crow s flight from the hefty Rowridge VHF transmitter.... The post Using my redundant TV aerial for DAB and FM radio appeared first on GarfNet .
Skip preamble and launch Units Converter applet Another GarfNet software project snatched from the grave, this is a complete rebuild of the original GarfNet Unit Converter. The main feature of the new GarfNet converter applet is that it is bi directional. Whatever Quantity: box you use, the conversion will automagically appear in the other box.... The post GarfNet Unit Converter applet appeared…
Windows 10 officially reaches end of life 2025-10-14. Unfortunately for Windows users, Windows 11 has some rather specific hardware requirements that a lot of perfectly serviceable PCs currently running Windows 10 do not satisfy. Consequently, lots of Windows 10 users are asking me about alternatives to Microsoft Windows. My stock answer these days is simply... The post Install Debian 13 appeared…
Skip preamble and launch DoF calculator applet now. Welcome to the latest rework of the GarfNet Depth of Field Calculator. It is based on quite an old JavaScript application that appeared on the web back in the mid 1990s. I rewrote and extended it in the mid 2000 s. Consequently, it was looking rather old and... The post GarfNet DoF Calculator appeared first on GarfNet .
Skip preamble and launch METAR applet now. This is a modern rework of a very old PHPWeather project that we eventually abandoned nearly a decade ago. I built this new version in PHP/MYSQL pretty much from scratch, albeit with a lot of help from PerplexityAI. Its main emphases are speed and simplicity. Basically it collects... The post GarfNet METAR viewer appeared first on GarfNet .
How do I change my Google password is another of those frequently asked questions that customers regularly ask me. It s one of those easy when you know how things. But it is rather nested away amongst all Googles various other settings. So here s how to do it Open a browser and go to: https://accounts.google.com. Log in... The post How do I change my Google password? appeared first on GarfNet .
Seems as if it were only the day before yesterday, but it is in fact thirty years to the day since GarfNet had its own domain. Granted, this represents a somewhat trivial achievement on the overall scheme of things. Frankly never I actually achieved all the things I hoped I would with GarfNet. Like it... The post GarfNet is thirty years old today appeared first on GarfNet .
Finally got decent fibre to the property (FttP) broadband here on Hampshire s new high-speed CityFIbre network as retailed by local provider toob . I immediately took the opportunity to dump the appallingly poor internet provided by a British outfit called Global4, that we d put-up with for the last decade or so. Which also meant I could... The post My Grandstream HT801 forgets my new password…
Question that comes up from time to time amongst the Android users I support is, How do I change my email password in FairEmail? Now FairEmail is generally pretty straightforward to setup, and it works with most email providers, including Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo! It also works well if you have email addresses on your... The post How to change your email password in FairEmail appeared first on…
In this article I will attempt to address issues upgrading to KDE Plasma 6 from Plasma 5 that I have encountered lately. This is not an exhaustive list. But having undertaken a number of Debian 12 ( Bookworm ) to Debian 13 ( Trixie ) upgrades recently, these are the KDE issues that cropped up for me. I thought... The post Issues upgrading to KDE Plasma 6 from Plasma 5 SOLVED! appeared first on…
Do you remember Macromedia Flash? Now, thanks to the canny lads and lasses at Ruffle, Flash is back! To celebrate Garfnet s 30th anniversary, we thought it would be fun not merely to reinstate the Flash presentations we used to host here, Only this time we ll fix it so that readers can watch them on any... The post Ruffle to the rescue for Macromedia Flash appeared first on GarfNet .
I m not a big fan of computer games. Generally I take the view that computers are difficult enough already, without installing software that effectively makes them even more recalcitrant. However, I make an exception for Tux Racer. Originally written back in 2000 by Jasmin Patry, Tux Racer is an open-source winter sports racing video game... The post Tux Racer soundtrack appeared first on GarfNet…
Shortwave radio recordings is a small collection of recordings of various HF and VHF transmissions. These have been hanging around since I recorded them using my Icom IC-R20 radio scanner back in the mid-late noughties. I m not sure how much interest these will be to other people. But considering Garfnet s 30th anniversary is only just... The post Shortwave radio recordings appeared first on…
Debian version 13, aka Trixie is due to be declared stable 2025-08-09. I ve been using Trixie as testing for a couple of years now and have found it very good indeed. So much so that we are already upgrading our Bookworm machines to Trixie. In all cases so far, this has proven a relatively smooth... The post How to upgrade Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 13 (Trixie) appeared first on GarfNet .
Considering that internet radio has become quite a hot topic on this site, I thought it might be useful to compile a database file for Yuri Saurov s excellent and increasingly popular Advanced Radio Player widget for the KDE plasma desktop. This list contains international streams for all the BBC national and local stations. It also... The post BBC stations database file for Advanced Radio Player…
I rather like Micro Four Thirds. Currently I have three µ4/3 bodies and a collection of both dedicated AF (autofocus) and adapted vintage MF (manual focus) lenses. Trouble with µ4/3 is that whilst we are very well catered-for in terms of long lenses, there s a bit of a vacuum in shorter ones. So I decided... The post Around Havant with a Risespray 7.5mm lens appeared first on GarfNet .
Took some more time out to grab some more snaps of the bumblebees working the lavender today. Like the snaps I took yesterday, I used my gardening lens a rather battered 90mm f/2.5 Tamron prime macro between f/8 and f/11, attached to my Lumix DMC GX7 µ4/3 mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. Weird as it... The post More Bees appeared first on GarfNet .