Digital light meter

I am replacing ?dl=0 with ?raw=1 at the the end of the dropbox link as I did previously.

Managed to upload pic from dropbox to tinypic then to the forum from tinypic.
No idea why tinypic was refusing to accept the dropbox code earlier ?

ah, there it is! :wink:

Looking good!
I think the one I ordered must be much MUCH better :stuck_out_tongue:

You just need to replace dl=0 with dl=1.

If download is false (0) then it tries to pull us to dropbox.com. If you set download to true (1) then it does a download right into the page.

Well it”s just over 2 dollars cheaper but where is it :person_facepalming:
BTW have you read the FAQ”s in the ad for yours ?
Says if you buy more than 5 pieces you get 95% discount !

That is exactly what I am doing, I will do it again

Oops misread that so lets try gain

Look at your quote, it says raw=1

Sorry yes but this is with dl=1

Nope, still says raw=1. Replace raw with dl

Well, for one thing, Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life doesn’t seem to exist.

Also, in my limited experience, Dropbox absolutely sucks for sharing files in an open, public way. Maybe it’s just me, but when I tried to link the cute 404 pic above to the URL you provided (Quote this message for details) I get:

503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.

But clicking it again seems to work. Or not, if I test it (in Preview) again. ??? Not-so-much negging, but Dropbox seems to be another of those shaky Google hive-mind hacks that never seems to get “finished”.

So what URL do you get from TinyPic or Imgur?

Do you use the Simple Post Editor? The orange-brown “Insert Image” button only needs a valid URL. The width and mouseclick boxes don’t technically need to be filled, just the Uniform Resource Locator of the image file itself.

I’ve never used anything but dropbox my whole time on BLF and love it. However bella seems to have broken it, I can’t even log into dropbox.com! That’s a first!

This is the same sort of BS that has given our PhotoBucket fans worlds of grief. If the Host insists on processing your image (even if it looks like a valid URL), you’re not going to like what you have to go through to make this work.

The Host has to stay out of the way. I don’t get the feeling Google does that for anybody.

Here’s a tip that might help:

Get the URL of the image without parameters (the ‘?’ and whatever follows it), so that the URL string ends with the filename.jpg Use ONLY that, from “http” to “jpg” and nothing else. Get that string of characters into your clipboard & try to “Paste and Go” (if you’re using FireFox) or whatever your browser needs for you to directly input a URL & browse to it. If that works, the Insert Image URL box should work, and if not, post it anyway with a note & I’ll Quote your post & work it out for you.

This is the image code I get from tinypic
I use dropbox (with no problems I may add) for 2 reasons.

  1. It automatically uploads any pics taken with my phone to my laptop almost immediatel, no plugging in cables & downloading pics.
  2. The other main forum I use, a fishing forum, changed it”s server platform & when it did, photobucket which I had been using previously would not work with it but it was suggested to me to use dropbox which works perfectly with it.
    It also works fine with the Koi forum I use & also the football forum I am on.

I agree it seems dumb to default it to false. But if you think about it, it probably costs far less to run their server farm if they don’t send the whole image every time someone views a post. Some of these BLF posts get 3000 views. If the BLF user posts a link, maybe 100 requests burden the server at dropbox.com. If the image is loaded into every page view, that’s a burden of 3000 images. And I’m only talking one photo for one user. Dropbox has 300 MILLION users and billions? of photos.

One of my babies about 80cm long

Us old farts used to use ftp (File Transfer Protocol) for this bonehead-simple function. When “brain-dead AOL-ers” (Weird Al) wanted to send huge pictures attached to E-mail bodies, we’d have to show them how to simply paste links to ftp: sites into E-mails & preserve the sanity of Mail Admins around the world. That seems to be basically how the “Insert Image” function works here.

And as always, if a User can break the system with just a mouse, that’s canonical proof the system isn’t finished yet.

Any suggestions to my earlier questions please
“Now can anybody suggest a light meter app for an Android phone as I would like to reference it against something.
I will use a light with a known ANSI rating first to judge how accurate both the light meter & app are.
Oh & can somebody point me to good thread (or explain) on how best to use the meter & interpret the results please.”

Sorry…

I just DLd a Light Meter app, called (ironically enough) “Light Meter”, but I can’t recommend it until someone (like you :slight_smile: ) tests it against a calibrated meter. It’s cute and free, but YMMV depending on how accurate it is.