Number 1224 is the only unidentified item this week, maybe someone will know what piece of equipment it was used with.Rob

and again some silly guesses from germany1221 no idea1222 early music box?1223 knocks at your door? or maybee used to hold your curtain1224 similar tools are used to remove your car radio.1225 maybee used to roughen something, maybee the downside of your shoes (missing word: Schuhsohle) or any other thing made from leather1226 no ideagreetings, chris

What is it? CCXIX

Feb 14, 2008 26 Replies

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Leon Fisk 18 years ago

Hi Rob,

Irfanview, Xnview... and the other image editors I tried don't display the embedded thumbnail. It must have been pushed around inside a bit too (by Picasa?) because the exif location for it has been slightly moved. I could hex-edit it (thumbnail) from the file and then view it okay with other programs. It looked to me like the thumbnail was actually created in your camera when you took the picture.

If you happen to have the unadulterated image from your camera for this image and want to send/post it somewhere I could tell for sure.

Some of us get our clues anyway we can, so yes indeed your images are well scrutinized :)

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Gerald Miller 18 years ago

People who major in artistic impression deal in anti-logic Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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Smaug Ichorfang 18 years ago

I was thinking of:

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that wraps poorly bodumusa web site > tea > mugs & cups > Pavina > double wall iced tea glass, set of 2 (third from bottom)

They actually make nice stuff. I've got a set of the Assam double-walled tumblers and tall iced tea glassed.

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R.H. 18 years ago

My original was the same as the thumbnail that Merskeen posted, I've used a couple different image editors and none of them have shown the embedded photo so I had no idea it was there. I'll have to do some research and see if there is a setting that determines what thumbnail you see. Yes, I used Picasa to edit the photo, and I also used Paint to remove the thread and tag.

Rob

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Leon Fisk 18 years ago

Hi Rob,

Okay, I took your original image from the question page and used the "JPG Lossless Operations" in Irfanview (ver 4.00) to strip out all such info. It seems to have removed all thumbnails, exif, iptc and comments okay. Modified image can be seen here:

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You can compare this version to your original if you wish.

Supposedly this is a lossless conversion using Irfanview (ie it wasn't re-jpeged).

You may have a similar method in one of your software programs.

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R.H. 18 years ago

Thanks, looks like Irfanview works pretty well, someone else emailed me and recommended some freeware called "jhead" to do the same thing, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet. Sorry, I had forgotten to post the original image last night and was planning to do it tonight when I got home from work, but I guess it won't be necessary now.

Coming this week on the site: three woodworking tools, a wrench, a bench, and a mystery device.

Rob

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Leon Fisk 18 years ago

Hi Rob,

I use Irfanview a lot for general viewing, format changing and simple transformations. The latest version 4.10 has some weird bugs though. Probably nothing that you would be bothered by but I find quite annoying. So I have both 4.00 and 4.10 to choose from. See:

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XnView is much the same and could easily be used just as much. I just got used to using Irfanview and know the keyboard commands better. See:

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The full array of plugins for either of these is much larger than the base program. I have pretty much all of the plugins made for them too. Either program can use/run Adobe plugins if you have some favorites.

Lossless Jpeg transformations is a plugin for either program (part of their standard plugin array). Just be warned though that it works on the original file being viewed and overwrites same when applied. Make sure you have a backup file or your original will be toast!

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