Your Canon Photos No. 35: 31st December 2023 to 6th January 2024

Steve,

A few minutes ago I did successfully get the printer working from one computer. I found it necessary to follow the instructions carefully. The instructions I had did not describe where to install the two print heads, but see the printer between "Remove Packaging Materials" and "Installing the Print Heads". They should have put an arrow in there, describing exactly where the print heads are to be installed. When you lift up the cover, it's in the center, towards the back. This is where the orange protective plastic piece is to be found that is removed as shown in steps 1 and 2. I assume your instructions are the same as what I had.

This G7020 unit does not have ink cartridges but rather ink bottles that you pour into the appropriate tank. The PGBK bottle is the black ink and the colored ink is identified by C, M and Y.

If you are planning to use a Cat5e cable for a LAN wired connection, the port is in the back. It can't be seen because they put in there a white/gray plastic piece that covers it. Since I already had a cable available, that is what I decided to do (rather than using wireless). For the driver installation and getting this to work it can be a little complicated. They gave me and assume you too a CD-ROM for the drivers. Now some computers do not have a DVD-RW/CD-ROM tray for that, so you can either use an external DVD-RW device that connects to the computer with a USB cable or you can download the drivers as instructed.

I found that since I was planning to use a wired LAN connection, I had to enable that in the printer first (in the menu). Canon does provide good instructions for that with a google search. Once that is done then you can install the drivers. Hopefully it should find your printer on the network. In my case it did (Yay!).

I put in there plain paper and tested it. Success!!! 😀 Hey I didn't break anything so far. That is good news being that there is plastic everywhere. 😀

I hope that helps.

P.S. I'll edit this for a couple of more things. If you are using plain "letter" sized paper instead of A4 paper, you have to move the plastic blue piece to the correct location in the cassette. Be sure you know about that. It can be a little confusing.

Photo paper apparently is loaded in another tray (maybe...I'm still reviewing that). That will be something I want to do on another day. First I'm going to buy Canon photo paper that is good for this unit. I don't want to take a chance. I don't want there to be any reason that the paper jams again.

Another edit: OK, I did find that we load the photo paper in the back. We remove the covers and slide the blue plastic pieces to the width we want. Now, I can't wait to test that, as soon as I purchase the Canon photo paper. I hope that will be tomorrow.

Subject: New and Improved

OK, I adjusted the first in-camera HDR photo a little. I think this is better. You may or may not like it, but it's the best I could do with the Canon M50 Mark II without using something like Lightroom software.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/800 seconds
FNumber - 4.50
ISOSpeedRatings - 500
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 26 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

"Where the Cold Wind Blows"

On the question of HDR software, I'm struggling to find a FOSS (Free and Open Source) HDR program for linux that actually works. I've seen exposure blending in GIMP suggested, so I'm gonna try that when I've got a bit of time.

Hi Dunlin.

Have you tried any of these????

www.linuxlinks.com/hdrimaging/

Took my tiny little EF 40 f2.8 pancake for a spin on the S5 new years eve. It's a little marvel when you consider the size and weight, and what it can produce. This was beautiful



This too

Just playing around checked how the adapted 40 worked with a bit of movement. Not too bad. Not great, but somewhat usable

Happy new year

When I was a kid there were a few locals in my district who had hotrods. Every now and then they would have different ones, which I later discovered were short term swaps / borrows. I remember seeing one of these "gangster" cars, as I used to think of them, and being totally enthralled by it.
In my early teens I got into surfing and I used to imagine rocking up to the beach in something like the orange one, roof rack and boards on top... 😁

OpenCube,

That does look cold with empty tree branches blowing in the wind.

David,

That's a beautiful church with the lighting as seen at night.

Ghundred,

Those are beautiful photos. I like the bright colors. The orange car is my favorite. 😀

"The Little Boy Nobody Loved"

A couple of them. I'll try a few of those tomorrow, thanks for the link.

For the specific photo I was working on, a single RAW file combined with a gradient exposure mask in darktable pretty much did the trick. I'm still looking for a dedicated HDR solution, though. The lower half of the photo (raised shadows) was quite noisy. Darktable has fairly good noise reduction, though it's certainly not AI.

Dig,

I got mine set up too. I had a little trouble because I missed the step about pushing down the two little blue clamps behind the print heads until they clicked into place, but once I had that figured out, I was good to go.

I couldn't get wireless set up either, so, like you, I'm using the wired connection. I prefer that anyway for my home computer. Tomorrow, I'm going to see if I can get wireless set up on my phone and tablet. I'll also try printing out a couple of photos too.

Steve

OpenCube,

I hope the little boy knows he is loved. It only takes a hand to hold onto another.

Steve,

Yes, we have to push down on those blue clamps on the back side of the print heads. Yesterday I printed out a few more photos with plain paper (but I had to instruct the software that I was using plain paper from the cassette). So far, so good. I'm glad you figured it out. I hope my tips for you helped out. When I first got the printer, I could not see the LAN port. But there it was...all covered up with the while/gray plastic piece. I got it set up for more than one machine. One time the setup software said it could not detect the printer on the network. So I shut off the printer and started it again and then pushed the cables in more firmly. I don't know what I did, but then it worked and all the drivers were installed.

Dunlin,

I like your landscape photo. Great job! Keep trying different things. So far what I've learned is creating a HDR photo is not always easy, either with software or in-camera. But I think no matter what we do, often we can see improvements in situations where there is a high dynamic range.

The Karlskirche does look impressive at night. Especially with the large circular pond just outside. The students sit around the edge and enjoy the warm summer nights there.
Here's a Phone picture from when I visited my son this summer with the reflection of the church in that pond,

Half an hour later it started to rain, which is great for more reflections in the wet streets :-)

Fireplace33,

Thanks for sharing with us your photos. The second photo is my favorite, with the reflections on the wet pavement. I don't take pictures with my cell phone, but I have been saying how improved they have become over the years. The second one also looks similar to my HDR photos of buildings at night. But I have to wait for the motion to stop for about 2 or 3 seconds since I take three photos in succession for it.

Fireplace,

Those are nice shots. I liked the woman walking in the rainy street.

Steve Thomas

For as long as I can remember, I've always loved checking out hotrods. Going to the local drag strip, watching them race, going to shows and events, loved it all. It's changed a little bit I think in the last 10 years or so, a lot more older enthusiasts compared to years ago, when it seemed more younger person oriented. I think there's also been a corresponding increase in the amount of $$$ tied up in the cars too. I've always found the scene to have a really good atmosphere too. I go to one event every year, where the town closes off the streets from around 4pm? on the Saturday night for quite a few hours for the hotrods, they get a huge crowd, and you've never met or mingled with a happier, good natured bunch of people. You can physically feel it. Just a happy, enthusiastic bunch of people enjoying themselves. And not a cop to be seen. No drunks, dickheads or violence. I've seen giant heavily tattooed men pull up in their cars, motion for young kids watching to hop in for a spin around the block, and off they go, the kids beaming with happiness. Thoroughly thoroughly enjoyable.