Cutty Sark Photos - Free!

[Kevin-the-lubber]

I made another visit to the Cutty Sark last week and took around 1000 photos. For obvious reasons these are all detail photos aimed at helping me with aspects of the model. They are largely focussed on the masts, spars & rigging. I'm uploading these to dropbox for anyone to download and do with as you will. Due to free storage limitations I'll need to do this in three or four. The first tranche is accessible via this link 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5xnj0nrvpfztcnj/AAAAgu-W1ZY5fpTL8c3hYcKHa?dl=0. I'm not at all au fait with dropbox so if that doesn't work I won't know how to fix it!

 

I'll delete these and upload the next load in about 2 weeks time, and so on. If anyone reads this, say next year, drop me a pm if you want them.

[shipman]

That's great, Kevin, you're a gent.

 

I neither have or want a 'Dropbox' account. They are 'zip' files, not jpeg and when I tried opening a few, the images are too small. Or am I missing something?

[Kevin-the-lubber]

Hi Shipman. These are all full fat photos, typical file size = 4Mbs, plus a few videos. When I follow the link myself it all seems to work as expected, I can download a copy of the original. There's no zipping at this end. maybe you have to submit to having a dropbox account in order to access them properly.

 

I'm quite happy to upload to a different free portal if someone has a suggestion, it just has to be quick and easy. The folder is about 7Gb in total.

[BANYAN]

Working for me also Shipman and Kevin.

 

Many thanks Kevin some great detail photos there that will be useful for my research also. 

 

cheers

 

Pat

[mgdawson]

Thanks Kevin, have successfully downloaded (2GB).

 

When downloading from a shared link, dropbox packages all the files into a zip file so you're just downloading the one file not 200+ individual files.

 

Shipman, I had no problem with the images, they all came down at 4928*3264 pixel resolution (16MegaPixel), perhaps your viewer is doing something funny.

Are you viewing them from within the zip file ? if so your viewer may just show a thumbnail instead of the full image, maybe different if you unzip the files and view an extracted image.

 

Mark

[Kevin-the-lubber]

Sadly Dropbox has suspended sharing of my account due to too much traffic. The suspension apparently  lasts for 24 hrs, so anyone who didn’t manage to get the files may have more success later. If not, send me a pm and I’ll do workaround.

 

I may need to handle the remaining photo batches a little differently, I.e. smaller sets. I suppose we can’t complain, it’s free!

Edited December 1, 2022 by Kevin-the-lubber
Update

[shipman]

Kevin, I'm delighted your CS dropbox account was so popular that the organization withdrew the service!!!

It's very encouraging for the hobby to see such demand for your photo's and hope whatever problems there may be will quickly overcome.

As for me, if I have to dance through digital hoops I don't understand, then there are other multiple sources to find similar images.

What would be useful would be someone associated with CS, who has access aloft, to take photo's from up there and reveal details which aren't clear from deck level.

[allanyed]

On 11/30/2022 at 3:41 AM, Kevin-the-lubber said:

Due to free storage limitations I'll need to do this in three or four.

What is the limitation?  I have saved  800 high resolution plans from the Wiki Commons site.  The original thought was to have them in the articles base or similar place here at MSW with access for all members and set up for it to be live, thus able to take on new high res plans and grow.  Seems this is not going to happen due to other priorities which I totally understand but I really hate to see all these plans sitting in folders on my computer rather than easily accessible to the entire membership.  Maybe a dropbox set up is an alternative way to go.  Most plans in my folders are between 20mb and 50mb each so we are looking at about 30gb maybe more.

The plans are set up as follows and example shown below.  First are the main category folders, second are the individual vessel/class folders, and last are the plans.

Allan

Edited December 1, 2022 by allanyed

[Kevin-the-lubber]

47 minutes ago, allanyed said:

What is the limitation

Allanyed, as I understand it, it's like this: there is a bandwidth allowance which gets eaten into by each download. For my free account I have 2Gb of storage and an allowance of 20Gb of bandwidth, meaning the upload probably consumed 2Gb and downloads a further 2Gb each time. The inference is that the files have been downloaded 12 or 13 times since dropbox tells me I've consumed 26Gb of bandwidth. (Bored already by the tech stuff? Me too!). But it seems I can workaround this by renaming the folder and creating a new sharing link. This is fine if one really wants or needs to share with specific people but is probably a bit too much hassle for what you & I want to do, which is simply make freely available a load of reference material. And to be honest I don't understand or even care how dropbox monitor or apply the constraint - is it daily, weekly, forever? There is obviously some demand for a 'central library' for donations such as yours and mine but, setting aside all the copyright-type issues that would need managing, I expect this would need enormous amounts of server storage.

 

Shipman, I think many would echo your sentiments about having to jump through hoops. To some extent I'm the same, but just accept that I have to do some jumping or forego freebies. I briefly considered asking if the rigging climb was open as there didn't seem to be anything happening in that respect, but given my level of decrepitude I went and had a cream tea instead. Really, it needs someone to go round and round with a drone camera at stepped heights but drones are forbidden. Though I wonder to what extent i.e. is that within a mile or just 50 feet.

 

[shipman]

Of course....a drone to do the job! That's a brilliant idea.

 

I'll bet the curators could use a drone as part of their maintenance schedule; I'm sure drone permission would be granted for that. All we have to do is intercept the signal and download the feed LOL.

[Kevin-the-lubber]

Like this https://youtu.be/ipibBzaByIU

 

[shipman]

Yep, that put a different perspective on the subject.

 

So in principal all the features aloft can be photographed an studied.

The sooner a survey of that sort is done the better.

 

Makes you realize the guy's that scaled that rig in all weathers day and night had big balls!

 

Thanks for what looks to be a trove of video's I hadn't considered existed.

[Boccherini]

Kevin,

thanks for making this available. I've just downloaded the zipped file, won't be able to check it until later. If there are any issues, I'll let you know.

 

Regards,

Grant.

[Cirdan]

I also thank you very much. Today it was possible to download the files. 

[Kevin-the-lubber]

Photo set 2 is on dropbox, this is the link https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzgifbreac8850s/Set2.zip?dl=0

 

If you can't access/download I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about it, you just have to try again on another day. Dropbox temporarily stops allowing downloads after X many, then allows them again after a day or two. They would like me to buy lots of storage space to avoid this, but that's not happening!

[mgdawson]

Set 2 downloaded thank you Kevin.

 

Mark

 

 

Edited December 17, 2022 by mgdawson

[BANYAN]

Many thanks Kevin, much appreciate these.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[berhard]

Thanks Kevin! Great pictures, these will come in handy.