benji,
After hitting the two little rectangles to insert a photo into your post that Dunlin showed, over on right side the will see a button that says :Preview.
You can hit that and preview what your post will look like before you actually post it.
If you are trying to insert a photo that sits on an external web site (and not on your computer), you have to hit the little icon that looks like an mountain, and type in the url address of the location where your photo is sitting.
Steve Thomas
Yes, I figured that out already. What bugs me with the upload method is the file size limit. More work.
I may resort to Flickr in the end.
I did go out today. But was not 100% successful: the sun was too high, and then the clouds moved in -- no actual rain, so that was a plus!
Here are photos of the man that stands precariously atop the Wiener Rathaus (town hall), called, appropriately enough "The Rathaus Man".
To make up for the lousy quality of the close up on the Rathausman, here is a full resolution copy of one of the adornments of the Pallavicini Palace, in front of which Harry Lime was supposed to have been run over (The Third Man film). There is not much wrong with the RF24-240 lens!
I am still working on the rose photos: the yellow ones are no problem; but it is amazing how difficult I find it to fit the red ones within the synamic range of a digital photo. I shall return to them tomorrow.
David
Well, it is very complicated here. I live by the country side and I have to have the whole house working. In the past year, we were without power for 11 days in all with one episode of six days, can you believe that?
And I have an artesian well functioning at 240 volts. No power, no running water. Even more, I have no decent cellular signal so when the power goes out I’m totally isolated from the world!!! I have to set my phone on wifi calling at home and even this doesn’t work well because I have a 4 mbps on 800 kbps Internet line!!!! We’re supposed to have fibre very soon. The wire is one post away from my home!
And keep in mind that our winters are freezing cold with 3-4 feet of snow on the ground. Also, from November to February, a simple night light powered by a little solar panel cannot even last for more than a couple of hours on 16 hours night.
On our lake there is a 1.5 miles long island with only summer cabins. A lot of solar panels there.
It will take a long time before you get to the limit of 4GB!
David
David,
I was curious, so I looked it up.
The City of Vienna
www.wien.gv.at/english/cityhall/rathausmann.htm
The Rathausmann and the Tower of the City Hall
The Rathausmann
"Atop the 97.9-metre-high steeple, an iron standard-bearer - the Rathausmann - guards the City Hall. Cast from melted-down Russian kopecks, he is 5.4 metres tall (3.4 metres without his flagpole) and weighs 650 kilograms. The statue of a medieval knight was modelled on the armour of Emperor Maximilian I. A sphere weighing approximately 800 kilograms (a kind of giant pendulum acting as a counterweight) helps him to keep his balance and defy even the fiercest storms.
In 1985 the workshops of the Vienna gasworks were commissioned with the restoration of the Rathausmann. As a surprise, the the gasworks craftsmen produced an exact replica of the Rathausmann. This replica is on display in the Rathauspark.
A bit of trivia:
The Rathausmann would have some trouble finding comfortable footwear - he takes size 63 (size 29 in Great Britain."
Interesting fellow.
Steve Thomas
HessleHiker,
I like all of that green grass. It's very pretty around there. The building is interesting too.
Benji,
Welcome. I don't know what to think about Dpreview. We will have to wait and see. Maybe someone will purchase it.
David,
The architecture and statues are beautiful. That's great you did not get rain.
The issue is not the Internet speed, it is the fact that I keep all my iCloud Photos high res. And yes, when I upload a batch, the Internet link is working all night!
Hi Digirame
Yes it’s a lovely site. The vegetable garden and small orchard were looking good too.
David
This looks great with the sunlight on it. Nice shot.
Benji, how big are the files you're trying to upload?
DPRevived currently has a 100MB file limit.
I remember seeing a size limit on uploads. Has it been fixed? Usually I’ll have photos in the order of 10 mb size if processed. For old photos scanned and heavily processed it can go to 25 mb. Of course, at that size, uploads are very long.
Ok. Retrying with bigger size files. From my marine aquarium in 2010. Older users from dpreview will have seen this already. These are the most complex photos I have ever done. Post processing was done a few years ago using new AI software as there were bubbles, window scratches, etc. visible on the photos.
Photos captured with my Canon 40d and 7D.
Makes no sense to me to upload my photos to Flickr because of my slow internet speed.
Yeah, it was recently updated, to 100MB.
dprevived.com/t/drum-roll-file-size-limit-increased/3155/
Now we’re talking. While we’re on the subject, I noticed that uploaded files need to be clicked on to be viewed. Is there a way to change that behaviour? Also, I tried last month to link a photo from my OneDrive drive and it wasn’t working. Retrying one right now. Seems to work. If that’s the case, this forum is really improving!
I was expecting a link from OneDrive to be showing automatically. Not the case it seems.
This photo was taken from my iPhone because bringing my dslr on the Sea-Doo is complicated. Not so to transport it but not to drop a lens in the water.
