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The Men’s Shed (North Shore) Trust
January/February 2021
Sheddies’ Chatter
Welcome to the Jan/Feb 2021 Edition of Sheddies’ Chatter. I can’t believe a couple of months have passed already. So far, things are looking good and 2021 promises to be a lot more positive.
Our Shed keeps attracting more members and followers as well as an increase in community projects so it looks to be another busy and interesting year
I’d welcome any contributions to this newsletter (photos, articles snippets etc.) and would love to hear from you.
Wishing you a safe, healthy and prosperous 2021.
Feel free to join our Facebook Community Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/235015333829819/
See you at The Shed.
Roger Curl, Editor Ph: 027 264 1932
New Weather Vane John recently built this clever Men’s Shed weather vane and with help from some experts and supervisors, he and Frank installed it on the corner of the tennis courts.
Several more experts with the assistance of their phones and Google Maps were able to help line it up with True North (We think!)
Community Projects -
Help Needed! Once again, the list of community projects is mounting again and more help is urgently needed.
The projects involve a variety of different tasks and skills and can provide an opportunity to contribute to the community. You may be able to offer your particular skills or find opportunities to learn new ones.
If you wish to know more and would like to help out with these important projects, please see David Wardlaw at the Shed.
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Christmas BBQ 2020
Once again our Christmas barbeque on 19th Dec 2020 was a huge success with another record turnout. After all we’ve been through in 2020, it was wonderful to experience some good old socialising and reality.
A huge thank you to Jim & Margaret Rogers, Tony and Barbara Moore, Mathew Cantell, Trevor Pugh and Roger Lewis for your tremendous efforts.
Photos: Richard Redgrove
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Photos: Richard Redgrove
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Right: The award recipients with Elaine Mead
Elaine Mead, Rotary District Governor making the presentations to Roger Dallimore (Right) and Richard Redgrove (Below)
Photos Dave Whiting
On 22nd Feb, I attended the launch meeting for the Kaipatiki Rotary Club, (the amalgamation of 2 other North Shore Rotary Clubs). As part of their community outreach they awarded six Paul Harris Fellowships to members of the community who have made significant voluntary contributions to their various communities.
Most of the recipients were adults but one was a school. I was there principally to support Roger Dallimore and Richard Redgrove who were nominated by the Shed. In Roger’s case his citation mentioned his volunteering with the Kaipatiki Project and with boating club activities as well as his considerable contribution to the Shed.
Richard’s citation covered his work with the Shed and many years (along with his wife Carol) involvement with the scout
movement in their home area of Sunnynook.
As a matter of interest the Paul Harris Medal is named for the founder of Rotary who worked with other men in Chicago in 1905 to found the organisation. A fellowship costs a Club $US1,000 and the funds are used by the Rotary Foundation to finance many projects around the word including health and education. Their most spectacular success has been the virtual elimination of polio with Afghanistan and Pakistan remaining as the only two countries where the disease is endemic.
Dave Whiting
Rotary Awards to Shed Members
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Food Sharing Cupboard for Northcote
Photos: Richard Redgrove
The guys have been busy building this Food Sharing Cupboard for the Kaipatiki Trust.
It is located in Tonar St, Northcote and local residents can donate or collect food as required.
Kevin, Richard, Jim, David and Bernard have spent several weeks building and installing the cupboard
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Potters’ Wheel Refurbishment
The Men’s Shed North Shore has recently undertaken the refurbishment and maintenance of several Potters’ Wheels for the Mairangi Bay Arts Centre.
As this has proved very successful, the Shed has decided to offer this service to other local arts centres.
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Digital Conversion of Colour Negative Film .Part 3 By Robert Denize
This article will deal with how to build a light table and how to use the DSLR camera to set the colour balance.
The Light Table.
You probably do not realise it, but you may already have one in your garage.
That’s right, an old flat screen computer monitor has a light box built in to illuminate the screen of your computer display. The Men’s Shed has a shelf of these out-of-date monitors and all you have to do is remove the front LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen to reveal the light box.
I will not go into how to do this, but a search on the Internet will bring up articles showing how it is done, e.g. click on the link below or copy and paste this URL into your web browser:
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Turn-an-Old-Flat-Screen-Into-a-LightBox-for/
The Work Light Table.
To keep your light table free of scratches and to lift the film 1-2mm away from the light table diffuser surface when photographing, fit a glass screen in place of the LCD screen. A convenient source of this glass screen is the glass top from an old printer scanner.
Now you have a light table suitable for sorting and illuminating the transparency/negative film you want to photograph.
It now remains to mount the DSLR camera over the light table to focus onto the slide/negative photo you want to work on. A tripod will do the trick, or, as I have used, an old overhead projector suitably modified works as well.
The Film Carrier.
Photographing colour slides is easy as the slide is usually mounted in its own carrier. A strip of negative film is not so easy as it can shift on the light table and can curl giving out-of-focus areas.
To hold the negative steady and flat a suitable carrier can be fashioned out of stiff sheeting.
Colour Balance.
Now here is a question, what is the colour temperature of your light table?
You do not need to know this temperature value but you do need to set the DSLR Camera White Balance before you start taking slide/negative photos.
The Digital Camera comes with a selection of canned in light source temperatures, including AWB (Auto White Balance). These come close to a suitable setting, but on using it I found that I still had to adjust the temperature using RAWtherapee to get a better result. Not a good way to go initially.
Using “Custom White Balance” setting in the Camera.
This works! For negative film, the light source is also modified by the negative film base, we thus have the options:-
a) Directly set from the light table without the film.
b) Set from the light table with the film in place.
My logic and experiments point to option b) using an unexposed section of the negative film. This proved to be surprisingly successful.
The custom WB setting needs to be matched to the manufacturer’s film type, be it Kodak, Ilford, Agfa, Fuji, ...
RAWtherapee uses as default the camera colour balance, thus, getting camera WB right is essential.
Colour Temperature Logic.
Arriving at the above colour WB setting is worth a few more words.
The table below contains the Colour temperature of a Monitor itself and the Colour temperature of three different negative fi lm types seen through an unexposed frame on the film, as measured by the camera custom WB setting.
The table illustrates that the colour temperature setting is dependent on the originating light source and film type.
Conclusions.
With your negative films now part of your digital photo collection, it remains that they be sorted.
You do have a photo management program to organise your photos. don’t you?
You should as you are the only one to know the background story of your collection.
I use “Shotwell” as my organiser, but there are plenty of others to choose from. Not only does Shotwell help organise my collections but can ‘enhance’ and do other corrections to improve the look of each photo.
The ‘enhance’ button improves the look of the converted negative photos yet again, and this is useful as RAWtherapee conversion still leaves a slight ‘haze’ over the converted negative photos. I have not been able to track down the source of this and will have to leave this to do some time in the future.
Meanwhile, the additional use of Shotwell gives acceptable quality photos to add to Alan’s collection.
Robert Denize.
Light table/Colour Temperature Fuji Konica Kodak
Dell / 4530°K. 3250°K. 3200°K. 2370°K.
Phillips / 6540°K. 3410°K. 4180°K. 2720°K.
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Lance & Shelley’s Q & A Forum
Call or email Lance and Shelley if you would like to know the value of your home or would like a free assessment on preparing your home before selling
Lance and Shelleys available times
You can send your questions to Lance and Shelley:
By email: [email protected]
On Facebook messenger on Shelley Boyed and Lance Clarke Real Estate:
https://www.facebook.com/shorerealestatenz/
View their Website:
https://www.barfoot.co.nz/s.boyed
My client testimonials and recent sales
Lance and Shelley regularly donate a prize at our monthly Barbeques
A couple of photos from The Chooks Christmas get together at Christmas. See story on Page 9.
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March BBQ Lunch -All Welcome Our next Barbeque will be at 12:00 on Wed 3rd March.
Sausages and bread will be provided. Feel free to bring your own salads, desserts etc. to share. Guests welcome!
Please note, that the BBQ charge is $2 per serving to cover costs.
A serving is 1 sausage, onions, bread and a hash brown.
Please put your money in the dish provided.
March BBQ Guest Speaker James Caldwell - GaShWoki
Our Guest Speaker at the March 3 BBQ will be James Caldwell, founder of www.GaShWoKi.com.
GaShWoKi is the abbreviation of Gardens - Sheds – Workshops - Kitchens and will be a Digital Magazine for Makers.
It will include articles about Projects, Techniques, Upcoming Events, Product Reviews, News and Editorial articles.
Sheddies can both use GaShWoKi as a source of information and be able to contribute content with financial considerations going to The Shed..
Major Supporters
The Men’s Shed (North Shore) Trust, PO Box 311012, Glenfield, Auckland 0747 442 2145
The Men’ s Shed North Shore
Address:
Elliot Reserve
34 Elliot Ave, (off James St) Glenfield
Hours:
Mon, Wed: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Fri, Sat: 9:00am - 2:00pm
Phone: 09 442 2145
Website: http://www.mensshednorthshore.org.nz/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mens-Shed-North-Shore-214684608553333/
Facebook Community Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/235015333829819/
Feel free to add comments or interesting stuff.
Send your ideas, photos, comments or contributions to: [email protected]
See me at The Shed, or phone 027 264 1932
Lance Clarke & Shelley Boyed
New Members: We welcome the following new members who have joined the Men’s Shed North Shore since the last edition of The Sheddies’ Chatter:
Please extend them a warm Sheddies’ welcome when you meet them.
Guy Ken Smith Lucas Gougon Louis Buckland Allen Johnson
Tong Liu Paul Vermaak Paolo Delmonte Michael Miller
The Chooks - Tales from the Henhouse The chooks are back in full swing, meeting for coffee and a chat. Already we are moving into autumn and it only seems like a minute ago we were having our Chooks Christmas get together. It was absolutely lovely we all had a great time.
We are looking forward to many more coffee dates this year. We would love to see some new faces join our happy group for a coffee and get to know some new friends in lovely company. I would like to ask the Sheddies to encourage their wife/partner to come along and enjoy a coffee and a chat with some lovely ladies.
For more info about our next coffee date and to have a chat don't hesitate to contact Sandy. I hope to see new faces there.
For more information, please contact Sandy by phone or email.
Mb: 021 465 046
Email: [email protected]
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