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This is great. Well done Panasonic.
Hope that soon we can see cameras using this kind of sensors, preferably on the Micro 4/3 G System cameras.
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Panasonic has devised a method to increase the sensitivity of image sensors, by replacing the near-universal colour filter array with prism-like 'Micro Color Splitters' to generate colour information. The key advantage is that all of the incoming light is directed to the sensor, instead of half or more being absorbed by the colour filter dyes. This promises to deliver images with less noise in low light. The development is published in the journal Nature Photonics, and outlined in a press release on Panasonic's website.
According to Panasonic, the dyes used in conventional colour filter arrays absorb at least half of the incoming light before it reaches the sensor's photosites. In contrast, the company's 'Micro Color Splitter' technology passes all of the incoming light to the sensor. In practical terms, this corresponds to a sensitivity increase of a whole stop, which should in turn result in a stop improvement in noise performance. In other words, a 'Micro Color Splitter'-based sensor should give similar noise at ISO 3200 as a conventional Bayer sensor does at ISO 1600, for example.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this development is that it may be the first serious alternative to colour filter array-based sensors since the Foveon X3 appeared over 10 years ago. Like any new technology there'll be plenty of development to do before it appears in a real product, but the prospect of a stop better high ISO performance is certainly a tantalising one.
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Constitution and features compared with the conventional method |
Osaka, Japan - Panasonic Corporation has developed unique "micro color splitters", which separate the light that falls on image sensors by exploiting light's wavelike properties. Applying them to actual image sensors allows bright color images to be achieved even under low-light conditions. This development makes color filters unnecessary by using the micro color splitters that control the diffraction of light at a microscopic level. Panasonic has achieved approximately double the color sensitivity in comparison with conventional sensors that use color filters.
Image sensors are used in devices like smartphones, digital still cameras and video cameras, as well in security, vehicle parking, office, and healthcare applications - anywhere, in fact, that digital imaging is needed. Conventional color image sensors use a Bayer array, in which a red, green, or blue light-transmitting filter is placed above each sensor. These filters block 50 - 70% of the incoming light before it even reaches the sensor. Progress is being made in increasing the resolution of image sensors used in mobile and other devices by reducing pixel size, but demand for higher-sensitivity cameras is also increasing. Panasonic has developed a new technology that can be applied to existing or future sensors to enable them to capture uniquely vivid color images.
The developed technology has the following features.
This development is based on the following new technology.
Panasonic holds 21 Japanese patents and 16 overseas patents, including pending applications, for this development.
This development is described in general terms in the Advance Online Publication version of Nature Photonics issued on February 3, 2013.
Conventional method using a color filter | Developed method using a micro color splitter |
FDTD is widely used to analyze light in wave form, but its heavy computation workload has up to now made it impractical for designing micro color splitters. On the other hand, BPM is an effective method of fast computation, but it has lower precision than FDTD and cannot accurately simulate color splitting. This prompted Panasonic to develop a practical and original design method that permits fast and precise computation of wave-optics phenomena. This technology allows the precise modeling of optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, and diffraction by modeling spaces in regions with different optical constants and applying BPM to the spaces. This method can be applied not only to the design of micro color splitters, but can be extended to the design of other nano-scale optical processing systems.
Color separation of light in micro color splitters is caused by a difference in refractive index between a) the plate-like high refractive material that is thinner than the wavelength of the light and b) the surrounding material. Controlling the phase of traveling light by optimizing the shape parameters causes diffraction phenomena that are seen only on a microscopic scale and which cause color separation. Micro color splitters are fabricated using a conventional semiconductor manufacturing process. Fine-tuning their shapes causes the efficient separation of certain colors and their complementary colors, or the splitting of white light into blue, green, and red like a prism, with almost no loss of light.
Since light separated by micro color splitters falls on the detectors in an overlapping manner, a new pixel layout and design algorithm are needed. The layout scheme is combined and optimized using an arithmetic processing technique designed specifically for mixed color signals. The result is highly sensitive and precise color reproduction. For example, if the structure separates light into a certain color and its complementary color, color pixels of white + red, white - red, white + blue, and white - blue are obtained and, using the arithmetic processing technique, are translated into normal color images without any loss of resolution.
This is great. Well done Panasonic.
Hope that soon we can see cameras using this kind of sensors, preferably on the Micro 4/3 G System cameras.
This is not the same technology patented by nikon. Nikon uses dichroic mirrors which work by interference. The panasonic patent uses a splitter that works by diffraction. Comletely different technologies implemented in a completly different way.
This approach has been patented by Nikon a few years ago.
Their patent uses dichroism to separate and divert colors at the sensel level which scales to very small photo sites.
Summary of this article states:
"should give similar noise at ISO 3200 as a conventional Bayer sensor does at ISO 1600"
But actually, that's not true. ISO performance will be the same, all else equal. It's just higher ISO's won't be needed since more light reaches the photo site.
forget the funny ISOs,
it's 3 dB better SNR at the same exposure.
Yabokie youre such a sad angry troll...does it make you cry that the sensor will match a full frame snr?
yabokkie is not trolling here...
Noise is measured in DB, it's a logarithmic scale, 3DB is the full stop advantage DPR is talking about... So he's just stating a fact in mathematical value... Really.
@erikandmarcie: "But actually, that's not true. ISO performance will be the same, all else equal. It's just higher ISO's won't be needed since more light reaches the photo site."
This is a misunderstanding of the definition of ISO that's used for digital cameras. It simply links shutter speed, aperture, and JPEG image brightness. If two cameras give the same image brightness at a given shutter speed, aperture and light level, by definition they're shooting at the same ISO, regardless of the sensor's efficiency.
As a consequence, the fact that the 'Micro color splitter' sensor design is more sensitive doesn't mean the camera can use lower ISOs. It means more light is used to form the image under directly comparable conditions, which should give a stop better noise performance at any given ISO.
@Andy. Interesting indeed, thank you. This must mean the new sensor will have a higher native/base ISO limit compared to conventional sensors?
I would interpret this as a camera of this type, if set to the same shutter and aperture as a conventional camera, assuming equal sensor sizes, would have a stop greater exposure at the sensor. In conditions where there is not enough light this will mean less ISO amplification needed to create the correct image brightness. Accordingly a one stop lower ISO setting may be used, and less ISO amplification means a better signal to noise ratio.
In conditions where there is enough light to fully expose the sensor at the minimum acceptable shutter and aperture settings, then this would translate into the ability to use one stop faster shutter speed or one stop smaller aperture for the same exposure (at the sensor).
A sensor with this technology could be smaller than a conventional sensor but still give equal performance, and this may be the primary way the technology is exploited - i.e. current full frame performance at less than full frame size, and so on down the range of sensor sizes.
it looks the design will have problems with large apertures and wide angles, nothing the current micro-4/3" cares.
What I want is massive dynamic range. I am still using film cameras for exactly this reason. There's only so far you can go with NDGrads, HDR etc.
How many stops do you get with film? Nikon D800 gives you 14 stops, D4 over 12 stops.
I hope by "film cameras" you mean medium format, because 35mm film can't match dynamic range of today's DSLR.
The dynamic range reported by DxO is entirely bogus. Yes, technically you can get 14 stops, but in practice it's more like 9.
With film there is no problem at all. Even the limited range Neopan 400 smashes the Nikon d7000 which has a supposedly high DR.
The immediate problem at the moment is resolution. At smaller photosite scales (read: Phonecams to DSLRs) it becomes incredibly difficult to manufacture to maintain the diffraction accuracy of the deflectors. Looks extremely promising. In the meantime, I'm expecting stacked sensors and pixel-binning (Like the Nokia 808) to be the next upcoming features on camera sensors.
Stacked sensors: as in Foveon?
Pixel-binning sensors: as in Fuji's EXR sensors?
well well, this is not the first time such use of optical prism. Nikon and I believe a couple others had similar setup in previous patent and design. what differs though is that the previous obes all center around doing a full spectrum recording on single collected site, where Panasonic is more about replacing the Bayer patterned filter with the prism. I wonder if and how this tech would be implemented in a real product ... would be very nice if Panasonic would give that bit more in depth
Franka, the system does NOT use a prism, which is REfractive. It uses DIiffractive optics.
Can't believe the filters have been losing that much light! Real glad that Someone's on to it though.
If the intensity of light onto the sensor is doubled I wouldn't be surprised if the end result looks even better than 1 stop particularly under the dimmest lighting conditions.
It will gather more light without decreasing DOF which in some curcumstances maybe very desirable so I think this is pretty big. Well done PanI
By their very nature colour filters absorb light of the wavelengths they do not pass. So (simplistically) green absorbs blue & red, red absorbs blue & green etc. This means approx 50-70% of the light falling on the sensitive areas of the imager is absorbed and wasted.
This diffraction technique deflects the "unwanted" colour onto an adjacent pixel. Rather than being absorbed it is still used to create the image.
It is unusual for this sort of thing to be announced unless it has been implemented in some form. Hopefully we will see it in a product in a few years.
Interesting concept.
Dyes as used in Bayer filters are not light stable and would degrade with time producing a colour shift. Wonder if anyone has ever experienced this?
Then again possibly the other mechanics of the camera would fail first before this becomes problematical with the number of actuations required to get to a noticable degradation threshold.
Now if only they could design photosites that were sensitive only to some specific light frequency bands (RGB) this would do away with the requirement for any 'pre-processing' of the light (Bayer array etc) to start with.
As far as I understand that would not make much difference:
White Light is parted into red, blue and green.
If you filter away red and blue, you have a loss of around 66% light.
If a certain (sub)pixel is just sensitive to green light, it ignores red and blue, which means it ignores around 66% of the available light.
Not if you manage to have three micro prisms sending the light to three pixels... then each pixel receives this 33% of red, blue, or green, that it is destined to receive. That's what the bit about layout is, if you have the correct layout under your micro prism, you loose about zero light on the surface exposed.
But that's still very theoretical...
Waiting for them to make one and show it =P
While on a bayer array, most of the light is absorbed to let through only the expected wavelength but even the correct wavelength will lose a bit of intensity, so that's why you lose 50 to 70% of the incoming light at a pixel level on regular bayer array sensors.
Other detail, these micro-prism as good as they are are bound to lose light as well, especially if they work through diffraction... CF pattern of a wave after diffraction, or any "hair-split" diffraction with a ray of light.
Plus as some other noted, what about light incidence ? Some rays will have very specific incidence on extreme lenses, and MFT might be 'the most' "telecentric" system yet, it's still not actually telecentric...
But it's an interesting bit of technology. (More likely to find immediate use than Lytro's current tech.)
Amazing the amount of sensor engineers we have on this site, that are so eager to disprove the sensor. Its a miracle someone here hasn't made a 60 mp noiseless sensor with 32 stops of dynamic range.
white + red
white - red
white + blue
white - blue are obtained and, using the arithmetic processing technique, are translated into normal color images without any loss of resolution....planned light room support in 2036. Foveon support still TBD
According to the figure, only W+R and W-R are provided !
So, the question is not answered here.
Is there a second raw with B or G ? (no mention of that in the article).
First: thanks for letting us know. Could be interesting.
Second: I realize that this is a press release, which means it is obliged to spend a lot of high sounding words saying practically nothing. In which it succeeds (their note on diffraction is hilarious). So how about a little analysis: how it works (beyond the fluff), what might prevent it from working, that sort of thing. That is, a reality check of all the market-buzzword speak. Thanks!
Unfortunately, Panasonic sensors usually show a level of noise at ISO 400 equal to that of ISO 800 on a Sony sensor. Also, I don't suppose these new sensors will do anything to alleviate Panasonic's JPEG color issues. Maybe Olympus will use them in the XZ-3. :)
Strange that, - as my own Sony and Panasonic cameras produce results opposite to yours. The Panasonic produces very fine detail without the horrid colour noise that Sony always cleverly manage achieve with their own sensors!
In what world? And on which Calibrated screen?
Not trolling...
Three sony sensors, one panasonic sensor, on the bottom right. In which way does it have more detail?
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Not on the side of the bottle of Baileys, not on the green-violet fabric, not on the feather, not inside the box... Do not confuse with spurious resolution, like on the queen, you can tell from higher res cameras that there are many more lines than appears on this GX1 sample...
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Right now Sony's line of production is about as good as it gets in terms of CMOS chips...
So, in summary, it's basically the 3CCD camcorder idea, but on a pixel level.
I thought exactly the same thing... As many others I guess.
But I mean their idea is kind of cool. Just not so sure it's that feasible.
A Lumix teaser to go head on with the Sigma Merrill Fovern all color sensor.
Well, they have got a lot of catching up to do. Foveon has a 10+ year start on them. And Foveon uses the properties of silicon itself to determine RGB values. Anyway, it will be interesting to see how long this development takes - AND if it ever gets to market.
Makes most sense iff integrated within the u-lens, to also compensate for the incident angle delta (center - edge). But it's a lab prototype, not mass product yet.
Some mathematical details from nature article:
Looks like a pixel pitch of about 1µ is required and the micro lenses have to ensure less than 10° angle of light at splitter. But this is only my clueless interpretation.
>>> "...pixels of white + red, white - red, white + blue, and white - blue are obtained and, using the arithmetic processing technique, are translated into normal color images without any loss of resolution."
I wonder if no resolution is lost only providing the pixels are ~1/4 the area as for the conventional filter approach, because the final light entering a pixel actually derives from that pixel plus its adjacent pixels. For the same size pixels, it seems that sharing the light between pixels should result in a loss of resolution.
I wonder if this approach will have the same colour problems as CYM filter arrays? It's a shame no-one managed to perfect that technology as it would have been an easy improvement over RGB arrays.
The fact that there is no such thing as magenta light is of course one problem with CYM filter arrays. CYMG has possibilities.
(btw, if any DPR admins are paying attention, I found the product pages for a lot of older discontinued stuff seems to be pointing to the wrong places. I had to employ google to find that, since your internal links are broken.)
It is to consider, light does not come in from an recticular angle as shown in the advertisement images above.
It comes from all angles with bright lenses and if aperture or focal length (zoom factor) changes, the angles will change. So it must be much more complicated and sophisticated, if this should be an universal sensor for ILS cameras.
I suspect it is for webcams and cellphones only.
Actually the microlenses (top lense on the diagram) collect the light from the different angles and direct it to the sensor area.
I would want to hope so, but no lens does change the angle of a light beam that goes straight through the center of the lens.
This is already a problem with Bayer sensors and wide angle lenses, false colors in corners can occur.
Sorry, I am a little bit pessimistic to see this soon in a Camera ;-)
OK, it is so nice... What is the trade-off?
I guess, this technology will not work equally well for all sensor sizes, as there must be limitations on the photocells (and/or deflector) dimensions.
The way I understood it, they just have to keep the pixel pitch very small, so larger sensors are possible, but the rez would have to be massive. FF of 100mp?
If it brings us even a step closer to the Foveon-like true-color sensor, I'm all for it.
Actually, this is a first time something what appears to be easy to manufacture is proposed.
But I'd love to hear how that "fine-tuning" of splitter supposed to work though. And the "white + red, white - red, white + blue, and white - blue" thing sounds to be quite prone to clipping in both directions.
If one uses different capacity on 'sum' pixels than on 'sub' pixels the electrical signal wouldn't differ too much. But I think we'll see Panasonic patents quite soon. Otherwise they wouldn't have published this work now.
Possibly this must be calibrated to the lens in use and so could prevent usage of arbitrary lenses. So is this for fixed lenses only?
Not sure. It just replaces the color filter in the stack, so below the micro lenses so the micro splitters should behave similar.
@BJN: "The sensor should be agnostic to the light it receives."
But not to the angle of the light hitting the sensor. Deeper the wells are, worse the light capture at edges. And now we got here also the splitter and anyway you look at it, it would be sensitive to the angle.
What an excellent idea. And like all the best ideas, so incredibly simple!
I suspect the reason we are seeing this approach being applied first on four thirds is because it is easier to do with highly telecentric optics which characterise four thirds systems.
I wouldn't call this a simple idea, it's probably very complex to manufacture tiny beam splitters like that.
Also they don't mention four thirds so it's still to be seen whether this technology will apply to large sensors or (like BSI) only compact sensors.
I am sure there must something to complain about with this, just not sure what.
Interesting that nobody invented it earlier. The splitter can be a kind of microprism.
It's much smaller than a microprism: Size below the wavelength of light. So the dimension will be approx. in 100nm range. Not sure about available diffraction angle. If only small angle is possible small sensor pixel have to be used, otherwise the splitted wavelength will end on same pixel again.
It is 2 TIMES better. The color filter is removed and the complementary color now reaches the sensor. Copmplementary color was blocked at the color filter on Bayer.
Interesting. Hmmmmm .... of course no one knows when or if this is going to materialise into real world sensors.
Excellent concept!
Would be great to have it in a camera, soon.
And please not only in µ43, but also in compacts like XZ-3 or LX8!
Hope they won't run into moiré problems...
I'll take a wild guess:
Huge is using (also) the Nokia 808 and
38391936 pixels
These are micro-lenses. At this stage, you do not care too much about distortions, chromatic aberrations or any such thing. The only important thing is that the light travels in roughly the correct direction.
My first concern would be that it might lead to color reproduction problems. Foveon has poor color reproduction with certain colors as it makes a hard delineation between where red stops and where green starts and where green stops and where blue starts. The human eye over-laps these colors so there's some green in many reds and some blue in many greens, bayer filters mimic this overlap and have fewer problems with color reproductions. Without seeing specifics I can't say for certain that this technology will have problems, but I have a feeling that it is quite a possible concern.
I agree. All I'm seeing here is white+red, white, and white-red. I don't pretend to understand how visible colors could be reconstructed using pink(?), cyan, and white but it does sound like it's the long way around to get green, the color we're most sensitive to. One stop of sensitivity is good, but only if color rendition doesn't suffer.
They're only showing one row. In current Bayer sensors one row of photosites is r,g,r,g and the next is b,g,b,g. The row they're showing would replace one row, the next would instead split out the blue, so would be w-r,w+r,w-r,w+r and the next would be w+b,w-b,w+b,w-b. Each pixel consists of four photosites. In Bayer they are r, g on one row and g, b on the next.
In this the photosites would be w-r,w+r, then w+b, w-b. It takes slightly more computation to turn that into an rgb value (assuming you want one) , but what you need is there. Many video cameras have worked with analogous principles, measuring white, red, and blue. This is a bit more sophisticated. I've been hoping someone would come up with something similar. It's potentially a lot simpler to make than a stacked sensor, though it doesn't have all the advantages. It would still need an aa filter, though only in one dimension. Not a pro, so could be wrong about that.
Foveon disadvantages too. Also If fuji works out then 6x6 random could be used with this. no aa. j
This has nothing to do with Foveon - completely different concept.
It wouldn't take a long time.
No no new manufacturing technology required.
Well, this is very annoying. I promised myself after last year's camera acquisitions that those would be the last for at least 10 years. Now this?! Well this is just great, just great.
This seems to have all the benefits of Foveon with none of it's weaknesses.
Wouldn't this also improve color rendering and resolution over Bayer?
(From the press piece: "The result is highly sensitive and precise color reproduction. For example, if the structure separates light into a certain color and its complementary color, color pixels of white + red, white - red, white + blue, and white - blue are obtained and, using the arithmetic processing technique, are translated into normal color images without any loss of resolution.")
Hopefully they can get it to actually work outside the lab.
Wrong. You're misunderstanding.
It's just different color pixels than Bayer and will have the same (kind of) drawback as Bayer. This one also will require AA filter.
@plasnu. I wonder if that Panny sensor can be somehow combined with the Fuji X-Trans...
I wouldn't jump to any conclusions before seeing results from a production model. Fuji's XTrans design does away with the AA filter but it still needs demosaicing, so you get higher resolution and different demosaicing artifacts than from a Bayer sensor. This one might be similar (with yet another tradeoff, and new challenges to makers of raw converter software).
Not the same drawbacks as Bayer, since Bayer uses light absorbing dyes while this uses diffraction to guide "complementary" wavelengths away from the cell and onto neighboring cells, increasing the light reaching the (w+r/b) sensors.
The split is happening at each photo site so there would be no need to demosaice. The problem could be with the math as a result of the overlap red on one side big whit blob in the middle and yellow on the other. The red and yellow sections are liable to be quite a small part of the deflected light so like foveon I suspect that at low light levels (where those small sections don't get enough light) colour accuracy and saturation will start to fall off.
I'm sure that Panny can't wait to outfit the next generation Olympus m4/3 camera with the latest breakthrough in sensor technology :-\
Well their sensor division sells its production, to whoever. It may be Panasonic themselves, or an external company, in which case they do make a quick profit on it, instead of having to actually sell the cameras that use these sensors.
also, no full-frame sensors either. Panasonic knows what "some people" have been saying about their cameras and lenses.
With a one stop improvement, Panasonic may finally bring their sensors to the level where Sony sensors are today. Nice :-)
it is not just a stop better , according to Pana site , it will have 2 times better light sensitivity to any other kind of sensor tech available now including you mentioned Sony ones.
and Sony sensors are not really the best, I mean the new Toshiba sensors in the latest Nikons easily beat the Sonys.
I believe the D800 sensor is a Toshiba , this is why Sony has no access to it and using silly old 24.3mp junk used in the A99v and D600.
I have both A99v and D800E and know that the D800E sensor is much better , though as a whole camera I prefer the A99v.
Not that it matters much, but for the record and all...
I think the biggest detail improvement will occur with low light and high ISO performance. Being able to accurately represent color in low light is a huge plus especially if your lifting shadows. In addition high ISO performance receiving a boost may also receive the ability to resist color shifts and retain fine detail. If these two things are possible by this technology alone, it could be a big deal.
3system: d800 has sony sensor. BTW, distribution noise figures of 24 "Toshiba" sensor are too close to Sony (other sensors differ much). And I was told the Nikon D3200 uses Sony sensor. This can only mean Toshiba licensed production of Sony.
@3systermuser According to Chipworks, the D800's 36 mp sensor is made by Sony. The Nikon D5200's APS-C sensor is made by Toshiba, and like the D800 sensor, it's absolutely fantastic, topping all other APS-C sensors tested by DxOMark.
They are already close enough for practical purposes in RAW and pretty close in JPEG too. This has the potential to leap ahead of everyone by increasing sensitivity, resolution and color accuracy all at the same time. Can't wait to see it in a body ...
D3200 and D5200 have different sensors, interestingly enough. According to Chipworks, D5200 has a Toshiba 5105 sensor, whereas D3200 has a Nikon NC81369R sensor (manufactured by Renesas.)
In other words, none of the Nikon 24 Mp cameras have the Sony IMX096AQL sensor from A77/NEX-7! And the three sensors have different architecture, meaning that it's not just a case of "rebranded" Sony sensors. For example, Toshiba uses copper metallization, whereas the other two use aluminium. Similar performance doesn't necessarily imply the same technology or manufacturer.
Here's the Chipworks teardown of D5200:
I'm skeptical this will have wide use. I see the potential for color cross talk that varies by lens and aperture.
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And when they read that I had to take time off from Drive in order to manage my obligations on Stripped and Sheldon, they had a proposal. What if they sponsored Drive for a whole month, to make sure a whole big chunk of the story could spin out? It's a brilliant idea...and guys, it's happening all throughout April.
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Woo! More Drive! I'll definitely have to check out Star Pirates, since they're nice enough to sponsor you here. :D
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I looked into the game and I will start playing soon.
I suggest that others should play too.
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Bustle advice, rush project! :)
January 12, 2012, 05:43:54 pm »
As usual I'm being over ambitious in my sewing plans!
Currently making good progress on my skirt to wear at Gala Nocturna in February (hoping to complete the majority of it at the weekend!) - I'm making Truly Victorian's Parisian Trained Skirt
so I'm now trying to plan what would be the best way to achieve the required bustle effect at the back, but with only a limited time to make anything else.
One of the patterns on my "to-do" list is a bustled petticoat (TV101) but never have the time to make one, instead wearing a smallish bustle pad and non-boned petticoat underneath, which has served perfectly well for other outfits.
However for this outfit, I would like it to be "out" at the back as much as possible - mainly because I've spent most of Christmas hand embroidering the side-back panels, so want them to be on full show.
anyone who has made a bustled petticoat, either the TV101 pattern or similar, how complicated are they to make? Would it be an easy weekend project or am I being over-optimistic?
Alternatively, any other quick fixes for a big floofy bustle? I'm not necessarily after the massive rear effect (although that's fine too!), the main priority is for the back panels/train of the skirt to drape as well as possible and not just hang down limply (as I've seen on some photos of this skirt made up). Would a full petticoat and bustle pad do the trick or do I need to bulk it out some more.
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Re: Bustle advice, rush project! :)
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January 12, 2012, 08:47:18 pm »
i always make a bustle seperately, easier to wasn, iron and handle all round.
I currently have 2 that i use, a lobster style bustle and a much shorter one.
They can be made with simple plastic boning inserted into channels and are far far better than a cushion.
I's saw that you'd be fine with a petticoat and bustle over the top, as you can add starched frills aplenty to add volume
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January 13, 2012, 03:12:36 am »
The TV 101 is not difficult and it does a great job. It's what I wear for a bustle.
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January 13, 2012, 10:13:21 am »
thanks both! Think I'll throw caution to the wind and order the componants to make the TV101 petticoat - hopefully they'll arrive by next weekend and I can have a go at it!
It will feel odd enough going to Gala Nocturna without a big hoop-skirt (size is everything!
), so it would be a shame not to make the most of such a lovely skirt design and not wear it with the correct undergarments.
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January 15, 2012, 09:31:48 pm »
Be sure and post some pictures of the finished project! I can't wait to see how it turns out.
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January 16, 2012, 12:11:30 am »
i wearthe TV101 bustle. It was pretty easy to make-just getting the right weight of hoop/steels is most important. Def use steel. I was advised initially to try triple flex-DOnt DO THIS! def use boning steel but not the thickest as it's too heavy and gives you backache!.
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January 16, 2012, 05:18:59 am »
TV101 is a fantastic pattern. I don't bother using steel though, I use thin plastic tubing with a small metal connector (For the closed hoops) that I get at the home supply store. I use it for farthingales too, it's cheap, super light and well strong enough to hold up excessive weight in fabric. It survives very well getting stuffed into the trunks of cars without getting terrible kinks in it and is very easy to work with.
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January 16, 2012, 01:04:22 pm »
I looked at the TV ones and thought- I want one of those- then made a contraption out of an old linen sheet, some grommets and a 1" plastic drainpipe! - i NEEDED A BUSTLE THEN AND THERE
I cut the drainpipe down with a hacksaw then filed it smooth, cased it in more sheeting & sewed 5 graduated half hoops from waist to hip height, the whole of which is then sewn onto 2 panels with drawstring & grommets so that it can be tightened to give a high bustle, or looser for a more natural form look.
its a temporary thing until i get my hands on some steels etc but its lightweight, lifts the skirt out at the derriere and can fold upwards so that you can acutally sit in the thing.
I'll see if i can post a pic as that explanation isn't great
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January 17, 2012, 10:22:31 am »
now I've tried on the completed skirt, the bustle pad is definately not going to give enough support, so I'm going to have to go for it and make up the TV101 pattern. Fortunately the webstore Vena Cava are wonderful and not only promptly sent me a list of what components I needed to order with the pattern but upon placing the order, sent it out to me straight away!
I have gone for steel bones but ordered 10mm instead of the recommended 13mm (to ensure they fitted in the bias binding I already had in my stash to make the casements). I don't have any fear of working with steel boning though, particularly as I have a patient boyfriend who's a dab hand at DIY, so he'll be called upon to get those prepared for me!
I've been advised by a friend that I might need to wear another small hoop skirt underneath too, as the lower apron of the skirt is a bit saggy (not sure why TV overskirts always turn out that way for me), so additional support around the hem should hold it out a bit better! At this rate, I'll be wearing full scaffolding under this skirt!
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Zeppelin Captain
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January 17, 2012, 03:34:37 pm »
Wearing a petticoat on top of the bustle woud probably help that saggy bit. I didn't think I needed the extra petticoat until I got around to making one. The Parisian skirt really needs the extra support -- but it looks o fab!
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January 17, 2012, 04:40:55 pm »
Quote from: Wilhelmina Frame on January 17, 2012, 03:34:37 pm
Wearing a petticoat on top of the bustle woud probably help that saggy bit. I didn't think I needed the extra petticoat until I got around to making one. The Parisian skirt really needs the extra support -- but it looks o fab!
It is a wonderful skirt, didn't realise it would be quite so big until all the pieces were put together! I guess I can leave any adjustments to the "saggy" bit until after making the petticoat, just in case that does the trick. Otherwise I have either a small hoop or a fishtail hoop that i could wear in addition.
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January 30, 2012, 08:31:54 pm »
The TV bustle is what I had on under my skirts at new year. Its a good pattern and I am sure you will manage it in a weekend.
Go Girl,
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Quote from: ladyelsie on January 30, 2012, 08:31:54 pm
The TV bustle is what I had on under my skirts at new year. Its a good pattern and I am sure you will manage it in a weekend.
Go Girl,
Thanks, yes I managed to get it done! Quite fun to make, however I found it didn't really help with the bottom apron of the overskirt, so I've ended up having to wear a small hoopskirt underneath too - first attempt of that I looked like a dalek
but Rob's managed to sufficiently reduce the diameter of the hoops for me, so that its just wide enough to hold out the bottom hem of the skirt but without the lampshade/dalek effect.
Miss Groves
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Re: Bustle advice, rush project! :)
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January 31, 2012, 04:51:39 pm »
you exterminated it! o ho ho...
ok sorry...
glad things worked out for you
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United Kingdom
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Quote from: Miss Groves on January 31, 2012, 04:51:39 pm
you exterminated it! o ho ho...
ok sorry...
glad things worked out for you
LOL, with the pattern and style of the skirt - shiny striped fabric, with adornments in a couple of horizontal rows - it really did resemble a dalek somewhat!
Deck Hand
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February 01, 2012, 04:42:19 pm »
I've made both TV bustles, and the Laughing Moon bustles and petticoats versions "C" and "E". They were all very straightforward to do. Good luck and post photos when you are done!
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Nukemarine wrote:
Here's the final file: Kore 2k/6k Optimal Indexes
Now, if someone can give me an unmunged set of audio and images, I can add those columns. After that, it's a simple matter to create the Anki files.
Has anyone made an Anki deck from the new optimized spreadsheet? That correspond to the media files and such, or are we still waiting on unmunged audio files (whatever that means ).
Yay an update. Welcome back Nukemarine.
Last edited by ryuudou (2012 April 21, 4:33 pm)
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Has anyone made an Anki deck from the new optimized spreadsheet? That correspond to the media files and such, or are we still waiting on unmunged audio files (whatever that means ).
I just uploaded a new Anki deck. The title is "Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese Vocabulary" and is the entire deck. I'll edit the first post to refer to this deck as I'm sure having separate decks created confusion for beginning users of Anki.
This new deck looks awesome. Thanks Nukemarine! This is a classic thread.
Nice. I've only just started Core 400 so I've considering switching to this deck.
Currently my listening is a bit poor so I was studying kana + audio -> kanji + meaning. I was planning on doing this for the first few hundred cards at least.
Interestingly though your beginner cards are now English cloze deletions. Given how most on this site are opposed to studying English -> Japanese, what was the reasoning behind this?
Thanks for making such a great guide by the way.
*edit* one more thing - it seems to be missing card 6000? "An unexpected problem arose."
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Nice. I've only just started Core 400 so I've considering switching to this deck.
Currently my listening is a bit poor so I was studying kana + audio -> kanji + meaning. I was planning on doing this for the first few hundred cards at least.
Interestingly though your beginner cards are now English cloze deletions. Given how most on this site are opposed to studying English -> Japanese, what was the reasoning behind this?
Thanks for making such a great guide by the way.
*edit* one more thing - it seems to be missing card 6000? "An unexpected problem arose."
Production reviews are the strongest reviews. If it wasn't for the cloze deletion sentences someone put the time to create, I'd have probably stuck with kana to kanji. However, kana to kanji is pretty much recognition where even the sentence and picture gave too much of a hint. Now you get English to Kana+Kanji which will pay off greater dividends. You have to know the words and hopefully there's enough clues to bypass legitimate but false results.
On the intermediate cards, there's merit to keep doing English to Kanji+Kana (fairly easy to switch cards to that) or to even create two sets that's both kana to kanji and kanji to kana cards.
Main reason I made the switch is realizing these decks, along with grammar and kanji decks, are meant to get you to the real Japanese material where it'll be all about sticking to as much Japanese as you can. The deck is simple enough that anyone that cared to can switch it up with minimal fuss.
I had been wondering for a while if I should go through the Core 2k6k deck. I've already done KO and would hate to waste my time going over vocab I already know, but I've found that my biggest issue is that even though I encounter words I "know" in the wild, I can never remember what they mean. I know that this is common and a natural progression of learning the words, but it's very frustrating.
I sampled a small batch of the production cards in this deck, and it might just be exactly what I'm looking for. I'll give it a whirl soon enough and see how it goes. Thanks for putting the deck together.
But all that yellow! I prefer to review with style.
So, I fancied it up just a little.
<image removed>If anybody else fancies this layout, extract the images to the media directory. Then:
- Put this in the question template.
- Put this in the answer template.
See update: here.
Works on Ankidroid, too.
The background image is scaled proportionally and therefore cropped, and the deck goes up by 4MB since the templates are larger for each card, but you don't really care about any of that.
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Netsplitter, how do you get your Anki interface to look like that? Is it through Windows or through Anki settings? And I really like the style
The colours? It's running on Linux, and that's a KDE colour scheme. KDE happens to use the same UI framework as anki (Qt4), so they play very nicely with each other. The button area colours wouldn't change though, and there's a plugin to fix that (descriptively called "Get answer button area background to use Qt color scheme")
I don't like staring at bright things, that's all.
Thanks, netsplitter!
Nukemarine: Thanks so much for the effort put into the decks and information on this thread! The new deck looks cool and just what I was looking !
Since I've been going through the cards with the photos showing (I used to hide them), I notice more than just a few are mixed up. If any one has a corrected list or something so that I can match up sentences with the correct photos, please post a link. I'll update the Anki shared deck soon after that.
Netsplitter, love the card layout. Only reason I choose yellow and black was it's similar to Koohii's layout which is relaxing to read over black letters on white background (for me at least).
I've gone through the first 500 cards of the new Core 2k/6k deck with English cloze deletions and I'm loving it so far. It's exactly what I need. I'll discuss a few changes I made to the layout from my previous post some time later this week.
For now, I'm wondering what you think is the best way for fixing errors in the deck. That is, where is the official master copy kept? Who edits it, and how? There are a bunch of errors in the cloze deletions (and other small things) which I'm fixing as I go along, but it'd be a waste to keep the fixes to myself.
I can give editing rights to the main list to a few that would like to update it. I haven't been correcting the main spreadsheet, just my own deck since I'm starting from scratch. Given that, no problem accepting help to update the google doc.
The cloze delete errors are annoying and a bit tedious to fix since it's three or four items on the fact. The image errors less so. For both, it may be best to tag the card each time an error comes up, then after a few are marked fix as a group if possible.
Anyway, send a request via e-mail from the google doc (I had two requests already I haven't got to yet).
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For both, it may be best to tag the card each time an error comes up, then after a few are marked fix as a group if possible.
That's what I've been doing so far for cloze/other errors, but I'm not bothering with the images. I'll leave that up to you. How do you know which image is the right one, anyway?
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Anyway, send a request via e-mail from the google doc (I had two requests already I haven't got to yet).
Is this an option in Google Docs? I'm not seeing it anywhere.
The pictures are more of a "this picture has nothing to do with the sentence" then finding one that does seem close enough.
For google docs, send me an e-mail to my username at gmail.com.
A gentleman named CJon256 was able to automatically locate the mismatched images using an older list he had available. Definitely better that doing it manually for almost 300 images. Anyway, I've updated the main spreadsheet on google but I'm holding off updating the Anki file until the cloze deletes are finished.
For the clozed delete, it'll be difficult to use a spreadsheet formula to find the mistakes. Can anyone do quick method to compare the main vocab word with the sentence with the word highlighted with  then post those index numbers as the ones needing change. Likely just the first one or two characters should be compared to prevent false positives due to conjugation of verbs. That can give volunteers and myself the sentences they need to change without going sentence by sentence looking for them.
It should be simple to do with a python script. I'll whip one up now.
I've decided that this will be the quickest way to do it:
I wrote a script that goes through my anki deck and checks for any discrepancies between the first character of the Vocabulary-Kanji field and the first character of the contents inside  of the Expression field. I have a list of 84 cards with errors now. Since I've already gone through the first ~900 cards and fixed the errors myself, about 25 of those are already fixed. Another 10 or so look like they have hiragana as the keyword but katakana in the sentence (do we want to fix those?), so they don't really count.
So my plan is to manually fix the remaining 50 or so this weekend. Then, use a bit of wizardry to fix the main spreadsheet. Of course, I'll test it on a private copy first, and I'll generate a list for you guys to look over just in case I did it all wrong. But I think this will be the quickest way.
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I really love your question and answer templates for the deck, but I just have problem. Kanji are replaced by their readings in the question container rather than displaying the furigana for it. I'm not sure what's causing it, but do you know how to fix that? Thank you.
I actually thought that was intentional, and that's how I've been using it. It makes you think a little harder, which is (strangely enough) just what I wanted, although I can see why others might not want it. I'll have a closer look at it tonight though since that field should be printing furigana in the first place. It worries me that I never noticed that.
I've also made a bunch changes to the template that I'll post later tonight. Sorry for the delay in submitting the cloze fixes as well. I ran into a few issues (and insist it's the computer's fault). I'll have those done in a day at most.
Dashwolf, it turns out that that's how the Japanese plugin does things. It removes kanji from question cards and replaces them with their readings. Not much I can do about it (although I disagree that it should outright make this decision on your behalf). Ankidroid mimics this behaviour as well.
Now, about the template. It looks like this now. I've removed some of the excessive padding and the "notes" field, which was useless (to me). Since I review on my phone, I need as much space as I can get.
I also centered the image properly and fixed an error where it breaks on apostrophes in the English meaning.
I changed the English cloze portion to use a monospace font, and the Japanese text is using my font of choice, VL PGothic. I've removed the font change from the template I'm posting here though since I know people are very particular about their fonts. You can still change it from the field editor if you want. (The default Japanese font on Android uses Chinese variants of a lot of the characters, which is very frustrating, so if you use Ankidroid I encourage you to change it.)
The only major change is the English sentence, which I am hiding on the question side. I found the English sentence very distracting; it's the first thing my brain notices and it won't let me read the Japanese text without sliding over to the English and reading it until the end. It also meant putting much less effort into trying to derive a meaning for the sentence since I've already read a translation of it. I can still show the English by hovering (or tapping) the covered portion if I need to. Sometimes this is required since it isn't obvious what the sentence means with a missing word (usually at the end). The English sentence is revealed on the answer side.
I also added a hint field, which is sometimes needed to disambiguate similar terms. (I'm adding these for myself and aren't part of the original deck).
As before, if you want this layout, make sure you have the images in the media directory and:
- Put this in the question template
- Put this in the answer template
Of course, it's just a template, so feel free to modify it to suit your needs where they differ from mine.
Thanks for your help and updates. Hiding the English sentence with option to hover over it is extremely helpful, because I was having the same problem with it. I've also been trying to find a nice font for Japanese text and VL PGothic looks great.
I'm done with fixing the cloze deletion errors. I think comparing the changes is a little unwieldy, so you might just have to trust me that they're correct. There's a diff over here if you want to have a look, or download a copy of the output and compare them with your own diff tools. Or just take my word for it.
Nukemarine, I will submit the updates to the main spreadsheet if you're fine with those changes.
There are also lots of harmless formatting issues that I'd like to fix eventually. Things like extra spaces or commas inside furigana (e.g., 明日、 [あした] instead of 明日[あした]、 ). It misaligns the furigana, and that upsets me . It's mostly automated fixes so it shouldn't be a problem.
Edit: I updated my own deck with the new Sentence-Image paths, and now they're all wrong. Either the list you used was bad or you added it to the spreadsheet incorrectly. Please look into that.
Double edit: It looks like the corrected list was indexed against the opt-voc-index instead of the core-index field. That should be an easy fix. I'll do it now.
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Sorry for the stupid questions but I'm kind of confused on how to begin with the first 555 in RTK Lite.
From what I understand the 555 is based on the first 555 in KO2001, so I should ignore Heisig's ordering and jump around in the book according to KO2k1? Or follow Heisig's ordering but skip non-KO2k1 kanji? Or should I not be using the RTK book itself at all, and just using Anki with Heisig's mnemonic system/stories from here?
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I really love your question and answer templates for the deck, but I just have problem. Kanji are replaced by their readings in the question container rather than displaying the furigana for it. I'm not sure what's causing it, but do you know how to fix that? Thank you.
Here's how you can fix this
1. Settings>Plugins>Open Plugins Folder
2. Open the 'japanese' directory
3. Open 'furigana.py' in a text editor.
4. Search for 'reading_in_question' and change the 1 to a 2. You can also set it to 3 to show the kanji and have the reading in a tooltip.
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