USB cable

2005-03-07 Thread Anders Hultman
Is there anything special about the USB cable that comes with the *istD? I have bought a second cable from a third party source, to use with a second computer, but the camera and the computer never recognize each other. Do I have to get a Pentax brand cable? This is the cable I bought:

Re: USB cable

2005-03-07 Thread Anders Hultman
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Scott Loveless wrote: According to Pentax, the interface is USB 1.1. This is a standard and shouldn't need a Pentax branded camera. It's standard USB at the computer end, but I wasn't sure that it was standard at the camera end as well. All those different B connectors...

Re: PAW PESO - Becky Organizing Files

2005-02-24 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Putting the files in alphabetical order seems to work pretty well ... Sort by colour, is my suggestion. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: Photoshop .jpg Color Shifts

2005-02-24 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Tom C wrote: Recently I've noticed substantial (by that I mean someone as careless as myself can notice and do a double take) color shifts when I save images as .jpgs using the 'Save for Web' feature. I don't see the color shifts when I create a .jpg using 'Save As'.

Re: PAW PESO - Becky Organizing Files

2005-02-24 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Putting the files in alphabetical order seems to work pretty well ... Sort by colour, is my suggestion. Color of what? Sort by colour is my standard suggestion whenever people ask how they should sort their record collection, their book shelf

Re: On-the-Go Storage, it works!

2005-02-23 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Mark Cassino wrote: The only problem with the X's Drive is the battery - after a year's use my X's Drive II can't hold a charge long enough to dump a 1 gig card. I contacted the place where I bought the drive, who basically said they recommended sending the drive in

Re: OT - Computer nerds unite! I have a networking problem...

2005-02-22 Thread Anders Hultman
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, John Francis wrote: Doesn't fit the symptoms. 1) She doesn't have a router 2) The cable modem is working just fine, as she can get to the internet on her primary (desktop) machine. Ok, but how is the laptop connected to the Internet then? Is it connected at

Re: Change File Attributes

2005-02-19 Thread Anders Hultman
Michael Heim: Does anybody of you know a program (or some lines of DOS-Code) to change file attributes of picture files (like the title or the author of a picture)? I often have lots of files with only the exif-information an need to set some attibutes when giving the files to our image editor.

Which flash?

2005-02-17 Thread Anders Hultman
I'm considering bying a flash for my *istD. Which one is best of the 500 and the 360? It seems to me that both have functions that the other do not. Which functions are more useful, and which functions are less important? Advantages of the AF 500 FTZ * more powerful (higher GN) * possible to

Re: *ist D Anomalies

2004-11-11 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Peter Loveday wrote: As another note, every time I've had my *istD do something odd, (...) Half the time, re-inserting the same batteries will fix it Yesterday my *istD did a quite odd thing. It got stuck. The display continued to show what it previuosly was showing,

RE: Over to the Dark side.. ist D vs 20D brief comparison

2004-11-11 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Haynes, Grady (PPC) wrote: At the risk of starting a heated discussion (really really please that's not what I want!!), it seems to me that most people on this list that talk about going to the dark side use that phrase to mean switch to Canon. Is there any particular

Re: White Pitbull (an hommage to Elliott Erwitt)

2004-11-06 Thread Anders Hultman
Bob W: 5) Don't disturb a dog at it's mealtime. 6) In Romania, carry a big stick. There sure are some scary dogs roaming the streets of Bucarest. And we didn't exactly got less scared of our guide's reassuring words that only quite few of them has rabies... anders -

Sony Cybershot (was Re: Anyone interested in doing a Generic poll...)

2004-11-02 Thread Anders Hultman
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Jim Apilado wrote: 2-Have you previously owned other digital cameras,either PS or DSLR Yes, a little tiny Sony U30. I have a Sony U60. You can operate this one with just one hand, unlike the U30. What? I operate my U30 with one hand most of the time, actually. It's

RE: Anyone interested in doing a Generic poll regarding *istD and its owners

2004-11-01 Thread Anders Hultman
1-Why did you buy a Pentax *istD. I had a long time wanted to have a digital SLR compatible with my old lenses, but when the *istD came I hesitated. High cost and I wasn't sure of the quality, this being Pentax' fist model and all. But when I borrowed a Canon 10D to shoot some seals I realized

Re: state of the art 35mm DSLR

2004-10-28 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mark Roberts wrote: A change from one shade to the next, say from level #240 to #241 is very small in percent, but if you go from shade #1 to #2 it's a 100 percent increase. Only if you're using a linear scale. Yes, the exact values I quoted are based on a linear

Re: state of the art 35mm DSLR

2004-10-28 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Tom C wrote: A change from one shade to the next, say from level #240 to #241 is very small in percent, but if you go from shade #1 to #2 it's a 100 percent increase. Is this true? That a 256-grade grayscale is non-linear? I thought a 100% change would be going from

Re: Lunar Eclipse under way!

2004-10-28 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Graywolf wrote: Surely the moon is at infinity. I can not even begin to see how you could have a focus problem. Autofocus problem yes, focus no. Long lenses don't always are set to infinity at the end of the scale. If getting the moon in focus only had required to turn the

Re: state of the art 35mm DSLR

2004-10-27 Thread Anders Hultman
Shel Belinkoff: What are quantization effects? The effect that comes from that you only have distinct levels to play with, and that subtle changes have to be either on or off. Assume 8 bit gray scale. That means 256 distinct shades of gray from 0 (full black) to 255 (full white). A change from

Re: Lunar Eclipse under way!

2004-10-27 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mark Roberts wrote: Absolutely clear skies and a great view of the moon from my bedroom window! ist-D, Sigma EX 300/2.8 and 2x teleconverter in operation here. :-) This is from Stockholm, Sweden: http://anders.hultman.nu/dagens/041028-043855 *ist D, Vivitar 400/5.6

Re: DS

2004-10-20 Thread Anders Hultman
Leon Altoff: My wife brought home a digital camera from her work the other day. A Kodak DC-50. It uses PCMCIA cards (still work), doesn't even manage 1 megapixel and has no preview screen. Oh, I had one of those at my work back then. Not a pleasurable experience. a totally bizarre shutter lag

Re: Minolta Maxxum wth BODY IS

2004-10-15 Thread Anders Hultman
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Rob Studdert wrote: when a disc is spinning at 52x (ie 52x500RPM on the outside edge) 52 x 200 rpm actually. 200 rpm is the slowest speed a standard audio CD spins at (when reading the outermost track) and it is that speed that is used when quoting modern day large speed

Re: De-Lurking and Replacement Decision

2004-10-15 Thread Anders Hultman
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, John Francis wrote: All the DSLRs I know retain the 3:2 aspect ratio of 35mm film, as do many of the PS digitals. The only 4:3 aspect ratio I've found has been on the low end, with the 640x480 cameras All DSLRs Ive seen use 3:2 (Canon, Nikon, Pentax) but all other

Re: nondedicated, non-TTL flash: How difficult?

2004-10-14 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mishka wrote: Get an auto flash, and it will be as easy as TTL (esp. with aperture-priority: you set the aperture on the flash and just shoot). Well, almost. Used Vivitars and Sunpaks are pretty cheap. I have a Sunpak flash from 1990. Is it possible to use it with the

Re: *ist D image quality-_Was -Stupid Question #999

2004-10-14 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Chris Stoddart wrote: If you are a pro you just charge for post-production work. If you spend 2 hours shooting a job, then 6 hours at the computer, and only charge for 2 hours you are a fool and deserve to be paid poorly. Of course that's what any pro will do, but

Re: OT - Supercomputers

2004-10-11 Thread Anders Hultman
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, John Francis wrote: That suggests 2048-bit keys should be secure for maybe the next 20 years. Adding two bits per year to the key length should more than keep up with the increases in processor speed, if you're really being paranoid. Still, this whole discussion is based

The meaning of f

2004-09-26 Thread Anders Hultman
There have been a discussion on another list about what the f in the aperture value means, like when one say f2.8 or such. Different theories have been put forward. Anyone here who has an authoritive answer? anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: Back - and stormy

2004-09-22 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Peter J. Alling wrote: Could people please put Antonio's name in the subject if they respond to him. I'd like my filter to catch it so I don't have to even see his spew. You won't be able to make people comply with that. I'll give you another tip, though. Most mail

Re: istDs - what a great camera!

2004-09-17 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Graywolf wrote: reindeer meat? Humm...? Me thinks you have your tribal lore mixed. Tribal lore? Over here you can buy reindeer meat at the supermarket. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: istDs - what a great camera!

2004-09-17 Thread Anders Hultman
Ryan: You'd be able to have so much fun with those sorta people! You have to eat the reindeer if not they eat you, really. Their teeth are much sharper in real life.. Another friend of mine used to tell those sorta people that she attended not only the car wash but also the reindeer wash when she

Re: Use of Green Button (was Re: istDs - what a great camera!)

2004-09-16 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Once the exposure has been set and the aperture chosen, is it necessary to use the green button for subsequent exposures if they are all going to be at the same aperture and exp value? No. A press on the green button does a light metering that takes

Re: PESO-Unique captured flash

2004-09-13 Thread Anders Hultman
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, frank theriault wrote: I have never captured the flash of another camera before. This was an istD DA16-45 at 40mm 1/45 at f4 existing light. http://www.cmstringer.com/peso/annette_anne.jpg Odd enough to be supernatural(?) or a sign, (christening, mother's best

Re: Semi OT: Cradle/Docking Station

2004-09-10 Thread Anders Hultman
graywolf: there is no direct requirement that a cradle connect the camera to anything more than a battery charger. Docking Station definately implies a connection to the computer. ...but not nessecarily to a charger, right? -- anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens

RE: Amazing Discovery (was: IST D and Pentax-F 1.7x AF adapter)

2004-09-08 Thread Anders Hultman
Shel Belinkoff: What, BTW, is the difference between software and firmware? Firmware is software in an embedded system, placed so far inside a gadget so you need some kind of tool to remove or replace it. Every time you switch the gadget on, the firmware is there, and there is room inside for

RE: problems posting

2004-09-05 Thread Anders Hultman
Don Sanderson: Hey Frank, how did you sign up for gmail? When I try it says it's only in a test phase, no way to sign up. You'd have to get an invitation from another user. People with gmail accounts occasionally get invitations that they can hand out. I currently have two unused. Mail me if you

Re: Fotolabo Film

2004-09-01 Thread Anders Hultman
Anders Hultman wrote: Turned out good for 9x13 and 9x15 cm prints. Correction: 10x13 and 10x15 cm prints. The former from my Sony PS with 4:3 ratio and the latter from my *istD with 3:2 ratio. Fotolabo has a special upload application where you can choose a paper format that fits the original

Re: Fotolabo Film

2004-08-31 Thread Anders Hultman
Toralf Lund: They give decent results on prints, though. I have twice ordered prints from digital cameras, transfered them via the Internet and gotten them in the mail. Do you know anything about their film development service? Nope. The only contact I have had with them is remote printing of

RE: A3 prints from *istD

2004-08-27 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Don Sanderson wrote: Jostein what's the size in MM (or inches) of A2/A3? A4210 x 297 mm 8.3 x 11.7 in A3297 x 420 mm11.7 x 16.5 in A2420 x 594 mm16.5 x 23.4 in A4 is the standard sheet of writing, copy etc paper in this part of the world. A3 is the

Re: black and white

2004-08-24 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, frank theriault wrote: I've always liked the French term for reversal films: Diapositif. In Swedish we usually call it dia but diapositiv is understood too. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: Ilford in trouble? and digi snappers

2004-08-24 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, frank theriault wrote: Can't afford it. For what I'd get for my film stuff, I'd not be able to afford the DSLR and peripheral equipment, plus the computer and peripheral upgrades I'd need. I think someone here said to expect to spend at least what you spent on your

Re: Prosumer vs. DSLR (was Re: two new digicams...)

2004-08-18 Thread Anders Hultman
Rob Studdert: I suspect people don't realize just how low resolution video (even HD) is compared to even the most basic digicams. American TV: 0,3 Mpix. European TV: 0,4 Mpix. I think HDTV is somewhere about 2 Mpix, but I'm not sure of that. -- anders -

Re: Letter to the priincipal

2004-08-17 Thread Anders Hultman
Kevin Waterson: Of course, every time an improvement has come along, picture quality has suffered, Some think this is the case, some think not, so I don't really think you should say of course here. there is further savings here also. There is an increasing amount of image editting Typo here.

RE: Prosumer vs. DSLR (was Re: two new digicams...)

2004-08-17 Thread Anders Hultman
Rob Brigham: Does the CRT display its data from the sensor, or does it read back what has been written to the tape/media? It has to be data from the sensor, or else the tape player must have separate playback heads after the record heads. I don't think that is the case in either Betacam SP or

RE: Prosumer vs. DSLR (was Re: two new digicams...)

2004-08-17 Thread Anders Hultman
ERN: Didn't some of the prosumer Olympus digitals (SLR-style but with permanently attached lenses) have optical viewfinders? Yes, the 2020 and the 5060 both have it that way. Are those SLR-like models? I was thinking E-10, E-20, but only what I remember reading about them as I've never

Re: Stupid digicam question

2004-08-16 Thread Anders Hultman
Is there a button cell inside the camera that keeps the clock working ? This is the way it works on the *istD. There's even a special battery lid for this cell. It's possible. However, it's also quite possible that there's a capacitor that stores enough of a charge to keep the clock working

RE: Prosumer vs. DSLR (was Re: two new digicams...)

2004-08-16 Thread Anders Hultman
ERN: Now that would be an interesting discussion. For the moment they're about same price same size, with the prosumers having fixed lens and high sensor noise as main disadvantages. But there's a conceptual difference there. Electronic viewfinders vs. optical with mirror and pentaprism. ...

RE: 50 or 100 mm

2004-08-10 Thread Anders Hultman
J. C. O'Connell: I think the question was 50 or 100mm. Go go the 100 if you can afford it the working distance for the same results makes all the difference in the world... Vic It will not give the same results as the 50mm, it is a 100mm after all now isnt it? Once you get near 1:1 the 100mm has

Re: 50 or 100 mm

2004-08-10 Thread Anders Hultman
William Robb: Through the magic of thread drift, we have lost track of one of the original poster's parameters, which was maximum magnification on a bellows. For this, the 50 will be the better choice, since it will give more magnification than the 100 at any given extension. You mean if I both

RE: 50 or 100 mm

2004-08-10 Thread Anders Hultman
Rob Studdert: In order to show the visible (but sometimes subtle) differences that FL makes I set up a semi-scientific macro test (2:1) using 50, 125 and 200 macro lenses. (...) The easiest way to compare the images is to DL them and use an image browser with sync capabilities like ThumbsPlus,

50 or 100 mm

2004-08-09 Thread Anders Hultman
Exciting with the new lenses. Could someone please explain what the difference in focal length will mean for macro shots? I fully understand what difference it makes in regular shooting conditions, but wouldn't life size 1:1 magnification become 1:1 regardless? What difference does it make

RE: 50 or 100 mm

2004-08-09 Thread Anders Hultman
J. C. O'Connell: Focal length differences are the same for macro as for regular shooting: a 100mm is going to give only half the angle of view as a 50mm, but there is one thing you have to keep in mind though and that is the effective focal length DOUBLES by the time you get to 1:1 vs. infinity,

Re: 50 or 100 mm

2004-08-09 Thread Anders Hultman
Mark Roberts: Exciting with the new lenses. Could someone please explain what the difference in focal length will mean for macro shots? I fully understand what difference it makes in regular shooting conditions, but wouldn't life size 1:1 magnification become 1:1 regardless? What difference does

Re: Pentax Zx-D in Korea

2004-08-06 Thread Anders Hultman
http://www.chalkak.co.kr/board1/view.html?bID=Breviewnumber=433 Is this a joke? The zxD logo seems very photoshopped to me. -- anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

RE: Mike Johnston's latest...

2004-08-03 Thread Anders Hultman
Don Sanderson: In that article Mike says: quote All-purpose 28-200mm zoom lenses: Bad snapshots. Also great for making five rolls of film last a whole year. All-purpose = no purpose end quote Do you folks agree or disagree with this? I've been thinking this range would make a good

Re: Mike Johnston's latest...

2004-08-03 Thread Anders Hultman
graywolf: How often do you use a 200? Oh, then why would you want to carry the thing around all the time? I use 200 all the time. Outdoors I constantly change between wide angle to get the big picture and long tele to get detail. So for me, a 28-200 makes a very suitable walk around lens as Don

Re: Remove MakerNote and save 55K!

2004-08-03 Thread Anders Hultman
So after some days of hacking, I now present my own MakerNote removal tool: http://anders.hultman.nu/data/makernote/ I found and corrected a coding error yesterday, so now there is a new version on the above page. In the old version (0.9.0) I didn't adjust the offset value to the thumbnail

Re: *ist-D owners: help wanted finding lens codes

2004-08-03 Thread Anders Hultman
John Francis: I'm back to my occasional hobby of peering into the Pentax digital image file format. My latest discovery has been to identify where Pentax hide the code to identify the lens (which isn't available in the standard EXIF information). This is interesting. I just wrote a program to

Remove MakerNote and save 55K!

2004-07-31 Thread Anders Hultman
When I publish pictures on my web site I usually scale them down to 500 pixels in width. The files typically become 20 to 60 kbytes each. When I started to publish pictures from my *istD i noticed that they were significantly larger, often in excess of 100 kbytes. After a while I found out

Re: Remove MakerNote and save 55K!

2004-07-31 Thread Anders Hultman
Joseph Tainter: Great, Anders. However, I haven't worked with raw code in nearly 30 years. Please, some instructions on how to put this to use. The program is written in Perl. Maybe not the best choice, but it's the only programming language that I know well enough to accomplish such a thing.

Re: Orientation information (EXIF) auto lossless rotation

2004-07-29 Thread Anders Hultman
Ryan Lee: Anyone have a good software, which reads camera orientation info in EXIF tags and does an automatic, lossless batch rotation, to recommend? A friend of mine was telling me about his C***n ixus s400 having an orientation sensor, which I thought was pretty spiffy. He also mentioned

MakerNote

2004-07-24 Thread Anders Hultman
On examining the JPEG files that the *istD produce, I have found that they contain an unusually large entry in the EXIF data called MakerNote. This entry is in excess of 50 Kbytes. Does anyone know what kind of data it contains? It feels quite silly to keep it in the file when I have resized

Re: apologetic

2004-07-14 Thread Anders Hultman
Henri: Specifically, in Sweden a pastor was recently sentenced to 30 days in jail for simiply reading Bible passages which dealt with a Christian view of homosexuality. What's more fascinating is that I haven't heard of this said pastor. And I _live_ in Sweden. The story is true, and have gotten

Re: civil discourse (was Re: PAW: Temptation of Eve, the three shot series)

2004-07-13 Thread Anders Hultman
Tom C: 2. Morals have declined significantly in the past 100 or so years. I don't agree. Morals have changed, for certain, but I'd say that most of these changes have been for the better. My assessment is that people on average are more happy now than a hundred years ago, and that is partly due

Re: OT: Non-Microsoft browsers are most secure choice

2004-07-09 Thread Anders Hultman
Antonio Aparicio: So, is anyone gonna let me in on what the rules are? I have asked before but they seem to be some sort of secret or something as nothing then materialized. From my experience so far with this group, the rules seem to change depending on who is involved and how long you have been

Re: Lens compatibility questions

2004-07-08 Thread Anders Hultman
This M lens, however, kinda does work, but not really as expected: Cosinon-T 135/3.5 Metering with the green button works, but only at full aperture. The lens don't ever stop down, not at metering nor exposure. alex wetmore: Look to see if there is anything unusual on the mount around where

Re: Windows Scob virus collects passwords, financial data; Macintosh unaffected

2004-07-06 Thread Anders Hultman
Mark Roberts: There are plenty of (poorly designed) web sites that won't work if you have scripting (JavaScript) turned off, but I can't remember ever finding one that wouldn't work because I had Active-X turned off. Some webmail systems. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/

RE: My website has moved...

2004-07-01 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er det ønskelig med flere språk nå, eller blir det bare sært med norske bokstaver? De norska tecknen ser helt okej ut härifrån, men jag är kanske partisk :-) anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: PAW - Man Getting a Shoe Shine

2004-06-30 Thread Anders Hultman
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, frank theriault wrote: I hate Hotmail. I guess ya gets what ya pays for, eh? I can recommend Gmail, Google's new web mail service. Makes mailing lists very easy to follow, too. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

RE: FA* 80-200/2.8 discontinued?

2004-06-26 Thread Anders Hultman
Completely disagree. There are time I like to shoot very chose to the subject for some interesting effect. The background will appear very out-of-focus. Like this one, for example: http://anders.hultman.nu/album/en/pride-2003?13 anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/

Re: *istD firmware wishlist (open letter?)

2004-06-24 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Frantisek Vlcek wrote: ND Actually, I was right the first time because ISO goes to 3200 (4 digits) and ND remaining number recordable images display only has 3 digits - so it can't ND be done. Ugh Ogh. How about 1.6K or 3.2K ? Is it too hard to understand ? ;-) Or

Re: *istD firmware wishlist (open letter?)

2004-06-24 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, keller.schaefer wrote: 1.6K and 3.2K still are four symbols, but 1K6 and 3K2 may fit. If the display isn't figures only, and actually can show a K at all... 16h and 32h would work fine for me... Ah. Excellent solution! Three symbols and possible to show on a 7-segment

OT: Terminals (was SpaceShipOne)

2004-06-24 Thread Anders Hultman
Malcolm Smith: Now come on, every one likes flying - it's crashing that people don't like. What other form of travel could bang on about how safe it is and insist that people depart from something called a 'terminal'? Bus terminals, ferry terminals and even train terminals have already been

Re: *ist D remote (was Pentax Cable Switch F question)

2004-06-22 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Michel Carrère-Gée wrote: Does the cable remote have some additional functions that warrant purchasing it rather than the wireless one? Remote IR is only operable from front of the body ! I suppose that cable generally is more reliable than IR, especially in bright

Re: Vivitar 400mm 5.6, K-mount (MF)

2004-06-19 Thread Anders Hultman
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jens Bladt wrote: Vivitar 400mm 5.6, K-mount (MF) Anyone know this lens? I have one. What do you want to know? It's a Vivitar 400mm f/5.6 with a K-mount, at least. Not sure of what you mean by (MF) though. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med

Re: Pentax advertising slogans - Was: Pentax Mid-term Management Plan

2004-06-19 Thread Anders Hultman
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Tom C wrote: I think it's stupid but no more than any other Official this or that. MM's the offical candy of the WInter Olympics. I could have that slightly wrong but the same for Coca-Cola, Subaru, you name it. Yes, but the thing is that MM have been appointed that

Re: Pentax advertising slogans - Was: Pentax Mid-term Management Plan

2004-06-19 Thread Anders Hultman
Tom C: I realize everything you said... I know there's no official internet organization... PENTAX did not say there is... they are simply using this slogan like any other advertiser... But if they don't say that there is an official internet organization, who appointed them then? If they are

Re: Traveller's questions

2004-06-16 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Bob W wrote: 1. Is photography officially allowed inside the airport buildings? That varies from country to country. (...) 2. Is photography officially allowed on the planes? I have never had any problems with this. That would probably also vary from contry to

RE: Traveller's questions

2004-06-16 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: BTW, it totally sucks shooting on commercial airline. The windows are two layers, and made of this plasticky stuff. There is usually fingerprints and scratches and stuff all over them. The figerprints and scratches would be so totally out

RE: reagan cortege - E-Dope Slap

2004-06-11 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Shawn K. wrote: PLONK (whatever the hell that means) http://www.clueless.com/jargon3.0.0/plonk.html anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: Public photography was - RE: Future PUG idea?

2004-06-11 Thread Anders Hultman
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Cesar Matamoros II wrote: Graffiti in the Stockholm Underground: http://anders.hultman.nu/pickup/DSC04321_(031127)_.JPG Your first photo brings to mind the proposed ban on photography in the New York City subway system. I read where about 100 photographers protested

Re: Future PUG idea?

2004-06-10 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, William M Kane wrote: Idea is this. Everyone posts there x-numbered picture from their *ist D . . . say maybe their 4321st picture? The number shouldn't be too high to start with, since some people don't have THAT many pictures . . With my Sony PS I have rolled over

Re: Transit of Venus

2004-06-08 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Kevin Waterson wrote: Will anyone here try to photograph the Transit of Venus that will take place in some eight hours? (05:19 to 11:22 GMT) I was curious as to what methods people are using to photograph the sun like this. My 1,000,000X ND filter is missing. I have a

Re: Transit of Venus

2004-06-08 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Henri Toivonen wrote: I managed to see it too, after all. Took one roll of b/w and one roll of color neg film with a 400mm lens. Damn, we had a really cloudy day up here in Haparanda. Was it nice? It was raining heavily in Stockholm so at 6:30 it was time to think of a

Re: photography vs cameras

2004-06-07 Thread Anders Hultman
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Tom C wrote: No, not intending to debate the chicken or egg. It's obvious the chicken came first. If you accept the evolution theory, the answer would actually be that the egg came first. It was laid by an animal that was nearly, but not quite, a hen. anders

Transit of Venus

2004-06-07 Thread Anders Hultman
Will anyone here try to photograph the Transit of Venus that will take place in some eight hours? (05:19 to 11:22 GMT) The weather forecast here in Stockholm doesn't look to good, so I may well miss it, but if the sky is clear tomorrow, I will set up a tripod and a 400 mm lens with proper

Re: Transit of Venus

2004-06-07 Thread Anders Hultman
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Steve Sharpe wrote: I'm going to try through my Celestron 5...though it is raining here right now... It's raining here too, but I have just gotten access to a fast car and a driver, and will soon ride some 100 miles west to try to catch it there. anders

Hasselblad gives notice to 50

2004-05-23 Thread Anders Hultman
Classic MF camera maker Hasselblad has been taken by surprise by the quick shift from film to digital. Half a year ago they let 25 employees go, and now they've given notice to another 50 -- of currently 180. The market is weak, especially in Europe, says managing director Lars Pappila. The

Re: Hasselblad gives notice to 50

2004-05-23 Thread Anders Hultman
Steve Jolly: Lars Pappila talks about a dramatic change that gives extra effect for the production side, since digital cameras don't require the same amount of manufacturing work as the old film technology. Huh? Well I don't know. That's what the managing director says in the newspaper anyway.

Truncated links (was Re: eBay Listings)

2004-05-22 Thread Anders Hultman
Shaun Canning: Check out the auctions at: http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItemsuserid=scann i01include=0since=-1sort=3rows=50 Sorry if the link truncatees. I can't set my page width any higher. A handy tip is to place long links between and marks. Several e-mail programs

RE: Truncated links (was Re: eBay Listings)

2004-05-22 Thread Anders Hultman
J. C. O'Connell: there is a web site called tinyurl.com that converts long links into little ones, havent tried it but I have seen and used the tinyurl redirection links. Competitor shorl.com makes even shorter links. It's also run by a couple of friends of mine :-) anders

Re: Why can't they just... was Re: Anyone still using windows ME

2004-05-21 Thread Anders Hultman
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Henri Toivonen wrote: I wasn't allowed to, during my brief encouter with the Swedish military. I'd have to register my camera with the higher officers and have every picture approved for security reasons. Was it a while ago? Yes, it was in 1990. Fourteen years

RE: Future Practicality of Film

2004-05-20 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 19 May 2004, frank theriault wrote: Rob, I know you meant well, but now you've gone and ruined it. I had no idea that Badger is a phone company, and they just want to get me to buy one. A phone company? From here it looks like the badgerphone.co.uk web site is a personal web site

RE: Future Practicality of Film

2004-05-19 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Yefei He wrote: I live in Iowa too and I don't raise hogs or corn. I do run over badgers from time to time:-) http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: Trolls

2004-05-18 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 18 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really want to get into an argument about whether people should eat beef at all? Because cattle are laying waste to large areas of land with their grazing? Oh, the cattle are laying waste to large areas of land with their grazing? Good thing

Re: Reply, antwort, svar etc

2004-05-14 Thread Anders Hultman
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Ryan Lee wrote: What about Åland? Autonomous part of Finland, with mostly Swedish-speaking population. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: 50/1.4 and 135/2.5

2004-05-13 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Ryan Lee wrote: German users, what's the difference between AntWort and Svar? Antwort means answer in German. Svar means answer in Danish and Swedish. Svar is, as far as I know, not a German word at all. However, it is very silly of Microsoft to have translated the Re:

Re: Pentax High End DSLR

2004-05-13 Thread Anders Hultman
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Frantisek Vlcek wrote: I am curious, does any maker of the image tanks give important information like the make of the hdd inside (some cheap crap or what?), vibration/impact it can stand (normalised for peak impact and long vibration, both in standby and operation) and

Re: Monday evening (in Switzerland) survey - have you ever made self portraits

2004-05-10 Thread Anders Hultman
1 have you ever made self portraits ? Yes, several times. 2 If yes , serious ore funny ones, did you choose a theme ? Both serious and funny. And once in a while even a theme. 3 If no, why not? 4 How did you do it, with a remote control or the build in self timer ? *

Re: Way OT re: Moire

2004-04-24 Thread Anders Hultman
John Forbes: What does strumpbyxor? Sounds interesting. Stretch tights; panty hose. She has two pairs on at the same time. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: Way OT re: Moire

2004-04-24 Thread Anders Hultman
What does strumpbyxor? Sounds interesting. Stretch tights; panty hose. It sounds much more interesting in English than it is... I checked my dictionary; I didn't know the word strumpet before, actually. But now I see what you mean. However, in Swedish, strump- doesn't bring up those thoughts

RE: CD-R lifetimes disputed

2004-04-23 Thread Anders Hultman
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, J. C. O'Connell wrote: What he did forget was to burn at the slowest possible burn speed your burner will allow. Makes for most reliable playback. Not always true. Some claim that there is a smear effect when burning too slow. The laser heats up the disc where the beam

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