Re: testing testing

hi folks, you haven't heard from me for a while, but i look in on the group now and then and i'm pretty sure i get all the emails; for reference i use Fastmail, which requires a modest payment and has no ads, no tracking; i transitioned from Thunderbird to the web version about a year ago, but

Re: OT: CA Wildfires

On 2020-09-9 10:33, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: There is no "safety" in 2020, it seems. AQI was up into the 130+ "Unhealthy" range for the past three days along with ambient temperatures floating up into the 100-115 range even here in the SF Bay Area. The particulates in the air are particularly

Re: Mac questions, system setup

On 2020-03-13 15:21, Larry Colen wrote: I currently have two computer systems that I can use for photo processing. My “at home” system is an early 2009 mac pro and my laptop is a mid 2014 macbook pro. [...] I’m very tempted to try to set up the MBP as my main processing computer and the pro

Re: GESO: Snaps from Colorado

which part of the Collegiates were you in? in case you didn't already know, 7e302524 is penstemon whippleanus On 2019-08-8 13:20, Mark Roberts wrote: Here's a gallery of shots from my trip to Colorado last week. This is a temporary gallery because it includes some personal friends & family

Re: OT I gave up

On 2019-02-21 08:39, David J Brooks wrote: So, work around was to just transfer photos to iPad mini 2 and will do a swipe right and show the photos that way next month. well, with the photos on your iPad in the Photos app, you can use the built-in slideshow feature, which has numerous

Re: OT: Nat Geo paying homage to the PDML

On 2019-01-10 08:34, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: The cormorant fishing I observed in 1966 was near Hiroshima, in a small inlet off the Inland sea. It was quite interesting. i probably read _The Story About Ping_ 50 times as a young child; it features "strange dark fishing birds" which are

Re: Ball Head Question

On 2018-08-25 11:12, Mark C wrote: It seems that wanting a lever vs knob knocks out a lot of heads. i don't know if it would suit you, but i really like my Arca-Swiss P0 ball head, which i think was recommended here a few years ago; there is a packaged version with integrated lever clamp:

Re: OT: Dark Sky Weather App

On 2018-08-24 06:57, Rick Womer wrote: Since the excellent Storm app was senselessly gutted and replaced by the slow and inadequate Storm Radar, I've been looking. Weather Live, Weather live (yup, the name differs by the capitalization), Weather Channel, AccuWeather, NOAA Radar Pro, Weather Bug,

Re: so if you are on ebay... do this search :-)

On 2018-06-4 08:19, ann sanfedele wrote: every now and then I want to see what my book is going for so I search Ann Sanfedele   in the search for items box look what turned up (in addition to the two things I have listed of mine myself) Ann, Sign Language is available on AbeBooks too, at

Re: Amazon did it again!

On 2018-05-21 14:14, Paul Stenquist wrote: I was shocked to see that once again, the lens was not boxed! I refused delivery. Called Amazon and told them to see if they could figure out how to put lens number three in a box. They will deliver another one tomorrow. We will see. be glad you

Re: OT: [Sam Nzima]

On 2018-05-14 16:07, steve harley wrote: On 2018-05-14 01:19, Alan C wrote: Can't get this to go. Trying with no subject. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/13/sam-nzima-south-african-photographer-dies-aged-83-soweto not completely OT — i noticed in another article i saw before

Re: OT: [Sam Nzima]

On 2018-05-14 01:19, Alan C wrote: Can't get this to go. Trying with no subject. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/13/sam-nzima-south-african-photographer-dies-aged-83-soweto not completely OT — i noticed in another article i saw before your message that his apocryphal shot was

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

On 2018-05-9 14:37, Larry Colen wrote: You might be able to boot it using an external drive and holding the option key as you power it up. first i'd try holding shift as it boots, until after the Apple logo appears — this will disable third party extensions that may be causing it to hang on

Re: Mac help needed!

On 2018-02-20 06:30, Rick Womer wrote: Two external drives are now connected to my MBP, and are working normally. The photo drive shows up on my MBP, but won't open, and Disk Utility tells me (in red) that it can't be un-mounted in order to be repaired. you describe two problems: 1) your Mini

Re: OT: Coffee

On 2017-12-04 16:13 , Bob W-PDML wrote: Coffee is good. It's one of the few real pleasures in life that actually helps prevent rather than induce gout, so one the few earthly pleasures remaining to me on my road to martyrdom. Compared to me Simeon Stylites lived a life of sybaritic esurience.

Re: OT: Speaking of nits to be picked - Thunderbird

On 2017-08-10 18:20 , John wrote: The only way to get it to go into "junk" so the adaptive junk control will work is to go up into the message pane, right click the message and scroll down through the menu to find "Mark as Junk". or press the j key (unless you've remapped it) -- PDML

Re: OT: Speaking of nits to be picked - Thunderbird

On 2017-08-10 10:23 , John wrote: Someone used the expression in a recent post & it triggered a thought. Every message I receive using Thunderbird has a "Junk" button I can click ... EXCEPT for those messages Thunderbird thinks ARE junk. They have a "Not Junk" button I can click, but nothing

Re: Controversy around McCurry

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017, at 20:20, Subash Jeyan wrote: > he is quite popular here and this controversy made mild headlines here > in india at the time. fwiw, here is another perspective: > > https://thewire.in/36155/exposing-steve-mccurrys-photoshopped-world/ thank you for that, it's very

Re: OT: BBC News: Night-time in America's small towns

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017, at 20:46, Stanley Halpin wrote: > > Night-time in America's small towns > > > > Photographer Daniel Freeman's nocturnal journey around the United > > States. these are nicely done; what interests me most is trying to put

Re: New standard lens on the horizon

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017, at 16:37, Bill wrote: > On 2/23/2017 2:10 PM, steve harley wrote: > > On 2017-02-22 17:04 , Bill wrote: > > > >> I really don't want to use an A15/3.5 as a short tele. > > > > i really like how short tele macros work on µ4/3 — Pentax-

Re: New standard lens on the horizon

On 2017-02-22 17:04 , Bill wrote: > I really don't want to use an A15/3.5 as a short tele. i really like how short tele macros work on µ4/3 — Pentax-M 100/4 macro handles really well with focus highlighting, increased effective focal length and depth of field just ordered a K-mount Panagor

Re: OT -- Need to identify this font.

that font is a real bastard; it has letter forms from the stereotypical Bauhaus typeface, but stretched lower case and high ascenders from some of the more exaggerated display fonts; i can't find any font with that weird lowercase g, nor any with both the Herbert Bayer symmetrical lower case y

Re: An opinion: How much better can things get?

On 2017-01-09 8:21 , Collin B wrote: When I look at almost everyone's digital camera offerings, they're all so good. i think the smaller-sensor cameras still need a new sensor technology to surpass their limits in dynamic range and low light capabilities; plus EVF display tech could still

Re: Long time no see, and ramping up for an FS Friday (K5 and 16-50 for starters)

On 2017-01-06 8:30 , Charles Robinson wrote: Howdy, folks! I used to be on this list and things got busy/weird and I left about a year or two ago... I came to the realization a while ago that since getting into the Olympus OM-D line, I've not used my Pentax gear for ages - almost a couple of

Re: OSX and externals

On 2016-12-20 8:57 , David J Brooks wrote: Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for $89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does anyone else go this route or do you just

Re: OT? Transfers

On 2016-12-08 16:39 , David J Brooks wrote: oh another question. Am i getting into any troubel if i go more then 2TB for the drive, say a 3 or 4. its an older computer, 2011 iMac 21.5" with OS 10.11.6 8 petabytes (8000 TB) is the biggest drive OS X can handle; some cheap old USB cases can

Re: OT? Transfers

On 2016-12-09 5:16 , David J Brooks wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Is your iMac one of the vintage where you can use it as a thunderbolt monitor for another mac? Not sure Larry i'd have to search that yes, it can — Target Display Mode is

Re: Getting in touch with my inner lesbian

On 2016-10-06 24:31 , Igor PDML-StR wrote: steve harley Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:55:04 -0700 wrote: Subaru is the state car of Colorado; yes, a lot of strong women drive them, and they seem to hold up well (i've never had one); they are also favorites of car thieves You are still talking

Re: Getting in touch with my inner lesbian

On 2016-10-03 15:14 , Larry Colen wrote: I bought a new toy yesterday, took a few snapshots on my way home from brekkies today. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157673495755641 I know there are some people who hate on Subarus, but this one seems to be mechanically solid, it was

Re: Camera mount brackets (for quick orientation flipping)?

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016, at 17:24, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Larry has suggested a ball head as those typically have a slit that allow to tilt the camera by 90 degrees. That is a possibility, but: 1. I would be overpaying for the functionality I don't need. (Or maybe I am not looking at the right ball

Re: GESO spider and cocoon

On 2016-09-27 21:10 , Larry Colen wrote: the hose bib as stage for this drama intensifies the sense of impending doom It's just an itsy-bitsy spider. i meant doom for the spider and/or pupa ;?> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: GESO spider and cocoon

On 2016-09-27 20:08 , Larry Colen wrote: The caterpillar I photographed a couple days ago seems to have gotten around to wrapping a cocoon. However, there seems to be a spider that thinks it's a pretty nifty MRE. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157673270739161 the hose bib

Re: Mac Yosemite--"This is a bug, not a feature"

On 2016-08-18 14:11 , John wrote: There are plenty of PRE-built Windoze systems that match Mac in terms of "slimmest, lightest, daintiest" and lack of expandability. For a given price point it seems like the only major difference is the Macs are all i5 processors and the Windoze machines are all

Re: OT - Wisdom of the List sought......

On 2016-08-13 5:45 , Steve Cottrell wrote: I have an old but possibly still useful Nikon LS-1000 film scanner with a SCSI connection. Is there anything readily available on the market that would allow me to connect the scanner to either USB or FireWire on a recent Mac computer? i would buy a

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

On 2016-07-13 16:25 , Larry Colen wrote: I've got an adapter for mounting a green laser to my hot shoe. I'd love to have something similar for holding my smartphone. Does anyone know of something existing? there seem to be dozens of options; this is just the first i clicked on:

Re: Mounting a phone or tablet to a camera? Also tripod heads

On 2016-07-13 19:52 , Larry Colen wrote: It also seems that I might be able to make a fairly sturdy adapter to mount my big Induro ball head to the tiltall, and I'd be able to use the tilt-pan of the tiltall to easily level the base of the ballhead. any standard ballhead should screw right

Re: What goats look like

On 2016-07-13 14:31 , Steve Cottrell wrote: Nice as usual BUT this is extraordinary: Absolutely amazing. Everything about it is fabulous. Love it. i agree, Bob is an extraordinary goat-portraitist (no sarcasm) -- PDML

Re: What goats look like

On 2016-07-13 13:07 , Larry Colen wrote: Bob W wrote: Some snaps from central London on this historic day http://www.web-options.com/T262c/ I do quite like the goat photo. Is there anything historic about the day, other than using the new toy? i thought he might be speaking of British

Re: Amazon Prime Day

On 2016-07-12 13:57 , Bob W-PDML wrote: It's prime year next year, 2017. No zooms allowed. it's never great to be in a rush -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and

Re: OT English test

On 2016-07-12 13:52 , mike wilson wrote: http://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/ 30150 29800, the internet exists to praise us while our life drains away -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: Amazon Prime Day

On 2016-07-12 13:11 , Nicole Jacque wrote: I’m not seeing any Pentax gear :-( irrespective of Prime Day (which should be a celebration of neotraditionalist photography), K-3ii is listed at $730 on Amazon today -- PDML

Re: "You must have a nice camera!": Results vs. Tools (or Toys)

On 2016-07-10 13:55 , Mark Roberts wrote: Igor PDML-StR wrote: How many times have you heard (usually from people you don't know closely): "You've got nice photos, you must have a nice camera!". I have heard this precisely zero times. I think it's a photographer's Urban Legend. i've heard

Re: scanner help

On 2016-07-10 10:27 , David J Brooks wrote: bought a new cable, still the same no scanner found error message. with Image Capture as well? Now i can't get the vuescan program to load, the icon just bounces and i have to force quit. have you tried unplugging the scanner and launching

Re: scanner help

On 2016-07-09 12:37 , David J Brooks wrote: I did manage to get it to work breifly after a series of off and on's and unpluggings. Now it not seeing it at all. try different USB cable(s) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: scanner help

On 2016-07-09 10:43 , David J Brooks wrote: running OSX 10.6.8 i have installed the driver for my OS 10-12 times now. I cannot find it anywhere on my computer first of all, Vuescan does not require drivers to use an Epson 2450 — it just sees the scanner without help; i don't know whether

Re: OT Brexit Aftermath

On 2016-07-06 11:42 , Steve Cottrell wrote: Like you, I love my country and I don't want to see it watered down by a conglomerate entity composed of politicians from across the union, some with their own agendas that bear no parallel with the UK's interests. i'm just reading this thread

Re: OT: iPhone question

On 2016-07-07 15:12 , Stanley Halpin wrote: As I alluded in an earlier comment, you can purposefully use the iPhone to build a track of your locations but it seems unnecessarily complicated to me to transform that track to a map trace within Google Maps, and so I use the Track feature in the

Re: OT: iPhone question

On 2016-07-06 19:49 , Bill wrote: OK, I'm trying to stay with a somewhat general question, so I will get more specific. Hypothetical situation, a person has a company supplied iPhone with location services, wifi and bluetooth turned off. The company runs find my iphone periodically. Can they

Re: Upgrade a Mac Mini?

On 2016-07-04 10:36 , Rick Womer wrote: My photo computer is a Mac Mini with a 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo processor, 8 gig RAM, and a spinny internal hard drive (my pics are on a 1T external drive). I have been considering upgrading it with a 480 GB internal SSD and 16 GB RAM. I figure that would cost

Re: OT: Life's little lessons learned

On 2016-06-23 10:29 , John wrote: The Vet says this food is fine, especially since she WILL eat it. She won't eat some of the better, more nutritious specialty foods, which is good for me, 'cause I can't really afford them. i realize it's a choice, and i've been down the road of "i hate this

Re: OT: Life's little lessons learned

On 2016-06-23 9:37 , John wrote: Friskies Salmon & Shrimp cat food is little chunks of salmon with tiny shrimp mixed in. It explodes in the microwave. It sticks to all three walls, the roof & the inside of the door. I don't know how it gets down under the rotating glass plate, but it does. You

Re: vignetting on the K-1 --- Lightroom 6.6

On 2016-06-18 12:40 , John wrote: Can't see it unless you create a Tumblr account. Ain't gonna. On 6/17/2016 8:20 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: I get what you're saying about Facebook, though. It inspired me to create, and rapidly abandon, this Tumblr:

Re: Card not formatted

On 2016-06-04 13:51 , Bruce Walker wrote: There are always writes, Larry. Eg: file metadata like "last time accessed". A few others too that make sense to the OS, but that are unimportant to "we the people". And these writes are to the directory structure. i'm really surprised by this and

Re: DVD ripper recommendations?

On 2016-06-03 24:04 , Bipin Gupta wrote: Hello Christine, a good DVD Ripper is DVD Decrypter. It was Open Source Software and totally FREE. Bipin, i found it here: however it is Windows-only and it does not transcode the content — Christine needs a Mac

Re: OT: DVD ripper recommendations?

On 2016-06-02 10:55 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Handbrake is decent on OS X, but not great. It fails to rip about half of the titles I've tried using it, where WinX DVD for Mac has only failed to rip two titles (out of 35) so far. i've ripped more than 300 movies and episodes with Handbrake

Re: The interior shoot

On 2016-05-25 18:48 , Paul Stenquist wrote: I passed up an excellent opportunity to buy the DFA 15-30. The 12-24 in crop mode really isn't wide enough for interiors. This was a lot of work. At some point I couldn't bear compositing another set of windows and resorted to burning them in.

Re: Boris PESO #23 and #24 - Using SMCP A 50/1.2 on Olympus EM-1

On 2016-05-20 12:42 , Boris Liberman wrote: Using this lens even at f1.2 and getting accurate focus is extraordinarily easy... The view finder (being really nice and comfortable for me EVF) shows in-focus transition really clearly. Also, on-demand magnification and focus peaking help a lot. i

Re: OT: Telemarketers

On 2016-05-19 15:26 , Igor PDML-StR wrote: Yep, and "You've got a virus on your computer" is yet another popular one. this is Windows Technical Support, we have detected some problems with your computer … i have had this one probably 50 times in the last five years; it is my mission to

Re: PESO: Heron

On 2016-05-09 16:13 , Nicole Jacque wrote: Well, this is turning into a PESO/GESO a day-so, but I’ve now gone through my pictures from the other side of Morro rock. My favorite picture from the south side was a tiny bird, but on the north side, it’s a big one: Coming in for a landing:

Re: no mas mark

On 2016-05-14 7:10 , Bob W-PDML wrote: All the Marks should change their name to Steve. That would simplify things. At least according to Ockham's theory. Steve of Ockham, that is. that doesn't work; i was one of three steves in 3rd grade; they decided to call me the surname of my mother's

Re: Way OT - iPhone cat pic

On 2016-05-12 19:08 , Marco Alpert wrote: Tucker feels the Internet is sorely lacking cat videos. https://www.dropbox.com/s/3275i3k6rkzz6uw/Tucker2.jpg?dl=0 catching up on his twitter feed no doubt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: This is an HTML email

On 2016-05-13 10:34 , John wrote: On 5/11/2016 7:04 PM, steve harley wrote: just to exercise the new config here are some non-ASCII characters: üµ•°√`¡™£¢∞§ (my UTF-8 emails to the list are often converted to ASCII by the listserv) FWIW, some of those characters (£, ¢) worked before

Re: K-1 on Amazon for $1996

On 2016-05-11 19:13 , Larry Colen wrote: Someone with the account "Pentax" on Amazon has a K-1 for $1996, it seems to be in stock. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BL6L3G6/ref=s9_dcacsd_bhz_bw_c_x_1 Have they already raised the price? "by Pentax" is the manufacturer; "Ships from and sold

Re: This is an HTML email

On 2016-05-10 10:27 , Rick Womer wrote: Herr Listmeister set the software to accept html, but it converts it to plain text, IIRC. indeed, that's what it is doing; one odd side-effect is that Unicode email is coming in base64-encoded; it's plain text, and it's legal, but it seems unnecessary:

Re: And again, in the Chicago area ...

On 2016-05-09 7:19 , Collin B wrote: http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/phd/554219.html K85/1.8 you might be interested in this: in case it's gone by the time you look, it's FA* 85/1.4 for $600 in Denver; i am tempted, but i'd rarely

Re: price question

On 2016-05-07 5:37 , David J Brooks wrote: Is a A three year old plus or minus, mac book pro with 4 gig ram El Capitan OS at $895 Canadian a little high?? coming at this late, i am shopping for a new (used) laptop so i have a sense of the market, and yes, that price seems just a bit high

Re: Questions regarding drives

On 2016-05-03 2:45 , Larry Colen wrote: The second is that I've heard a lot of anecdotal evidence that an SSD for the primary drive, and for the lightroom catalog will make a big difference in performance. The one person I was able to find who benchmarked this found no difference in

Re: Stupid Mac Question

On 2016-05-01 12:57 , Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: While all of that might be useful if you're working with corporate security, the VAST majority of users will never have the sophistication to crack the system and really track down all the bits. No need to change or wipe machines, and very very

Re: Stupid Mac Question

On 2016-05-01 7:46 , Bill wrote: A friend (yes, I have 2, and I value them), has an Apple laptop of some sort. It's a few years old. This might give a hint. Anyway, she is going through a bit of a breakup and wants to change her passwords to keep the soon to be ex out of her computer, and she

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 2016-04-29 14:52 , Larry Colen wrote: What are the options for long focal length macros? How are they optically? Are there any teleconverters that do well? Or, am I just better off cropping tighter? this 300mm mirror lens has 0.5X maximum magnification and theoretically exists in

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 2016-04-29 14:52 , Larry Colen wrote: What are the options for long focal length macros? How are they optically? Are there any teleconverters that do well? Or, am I just better off cropping tighter? one option is to use a 100mm macro on a Micro 4/3 camera; i find that the Pentax M 100/4

Re: OOF rendering in focus stacks

On 2016-04-28 11:49 , Jostein wrote: Had another go at stacking today, and followed the simplest possible variation of the suggestions from the List. One extra exposure at f/22 at the far end of the focus stack. Looks like an improvement to me. :-) http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/ the

Re: OT: Monitor Specs

On 2016-04-28 11:04 , Darren Addy wrote: Flat out - if you're mostly displaying your work on the web, use sRGB. Read this article: https://fstoppers.com/pictures/adobergb-vs-srgb-3167 Your goal should be to work in the same color space that your target audience will be seeing. For 99% of

Re: PESO - A few grains of pepper

On 2016-04-26 11:44 , Jostein wrote: http://www.alunfoto.no/sider/peso/ Comments most appreciated. This photo is an experiment in stacking. It's made from about 40 exposures, which may be overkill but is at least without glitches in the focus area. Personally I don't like the sharp transition

Re: OT: Monitor Specs

On 2016-04-26 3:27 , Larry Colen wrote: I mentioned that used mac pro I got a great deal on, it turns out that my thunderbolt display does not work with it. I suspect that backward compatibility is against the macintologist religion or something. Thunderbolt at the video source is directly

Re: iCrap

On 2016-04-23 12:07 , John wrote: If you're setting it up to recognize fingerprints, register as many of them as it will let you - from both hands. i use one main thumbprint, give it a couple of rounds, then wait and give it a round with my finger just after a shower, or after a

Re: SMC Pentax M 100/4 Macro

On 2016-04-22 2:25 , Alan C wrote: Any comments on this lens? Would $40 be a fair price? i have one that i've used a fair amount on µ4/3 and i enjoy using it and get good results; if it's in good shape that's a good price i've also had the K-mount Sigma EX 105/2.8 Macro and now the DFA

Re: a different test

On 2016-04-21 10:11 , steve harley wrote: i don't have a "Correspondents" column i take this part back — it turns out the first update didn't get me all the way to Thunderbird 45; now i have that version and see Correspondents, (though it's not acting like yours) and the inst

Re: a different test

On 2016-04-20 19:30 , ann sanfedele wrote: [...] Now, there is a column entitiled "Correspondents" [...] Am I stuck with this, Fellow users of Thunderbird? do ya know? Do you see the mail coming from me as being from the list in the indexes of your mail? OR can you see my name in that column?

Re: Peso - Office Sharing

On 2016-04-17 18:43 , ann sanfedele wrote: NSFMJ Used tripod - ISO 400 f 7.1 21mm - got away with this because I didn't try to evict her... i'm "all ears" waiting for the link ;?> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: I am an idiot: Broke off the battery door on my K-3 II

On 2016-04-16 15:30 , Darren Addy wrote: No idea how it happened, but I know I was stupid enough to leave the camera with the battery door open. if this helps you a little bit, i was stupid enough to leave the whole camera once -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PDML: Where are you located? (Lurkers also welcome to reply.)

On 2016-04-16 20:13 , ann sanfedele wrote: a tourist in Boston asking a cabby where he could get Scrod and the cabby replied "I didn't know that verb had a past plu-perfect" thank you for re-enlightening me (grew up in Maine, of Boston ancestry, but never belonged) [and brought to my knees

Re: PDML: Where are you located? (Lurkers also welcome to reply.)

On 2016-04-14 8:07 , Darren Addy wrote: I'm curious as to where in the world PDML people are located. Denver, Colorado, USA in the ancient alluvial plain of the South Platte River, steppe climate, purple politics, inflated real estate market, beer -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: OT: Word of the Day

On 2016-04-13 13:28 , Bob W-PDML wrote: Roads shouldn't be straight. They should follow contour lines, or old animal migration trails, or drove roads. Straight roads are an abomination. Although it's quite nice to follow Roman roads. There's a good one leading from Pontoise right into Paris.

Re: PESO - 'Looking at you'

On 2016-04-11 14:30 , Ken Waller wrote: A White-breasted Nuthatch captured with a K3 & FA 300mm f4.5 - @ f5.0, 1/400sec, 800 ISO, handheld. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18216352 eye-catching! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Word of the Day

On 2016-04-12 17:43 , Bruce Walker wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:40 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: my grandmother Priscilla's lifelong nickname was Pike; she was the opposite of an ecdysiast Which, presumably, is someone who pulls clothes on for the amusement (

Re: OT: Word of the Day

On 2016-04-12 16:21 , P.J. Alling wrote: That's my understanding as well. It gets more confusing here because the State removed the Tolls from the Connecticut Turnpike about 20 years ago so it's properly speaking no longer a turnpike. US 36 in Colorado was still called "the turnpike" long

Re: OT: Word of the Day

On 2016-04-12 15:49 , Brian Walters wrote: Speaking of words, 'turnpike' is one I've never understood. I know it refers to what we (ie. downunder) would call an expressway or motorway, but what's the etymology of 'turnpike'? it's specifically a toll road in the U.S.; online etymology

Re: OT: Good photographic essay

On 2016-04-10 13:22 , Stanley Halpin wrote: From today’s NY Times, some very compelling photos… http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/08/sunday-review/exposures-kuwait-salgado.html?ref=opinion that was intense another powerful take on that same apocalyptic episode was Werner Herzog's

Re: Breakfast

On 2016-04-08 23:56 , David Mann wrote: Sadly the winters here are too cold so I have to start from seeds again each spring. note that you can bring pepper plants inside for the winter and they keep producing; ours don't get full sun in winter so their production drops; there are some small

Re: Bag Heaven in Europe

On 2016-04-07 14:33 , Steve Cottrell wrote: I wasn't going to post this to the PDML as it appears the things can only be purchased in Europe and thereby denying our esteemed rest-of-the- world colleagues the chance to (should their bag-envy kick in) buy one. Found a heavenly leather camera bag

Re: OT

On 2016-04-06 17:40 , David J Brooks wrote: Its just that i'm a tad concerned due to my reluctance to upgrade my OS and am still on 10.6.8 ClamXav will run on that -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: OT

On 2016-04-06 17:07 , steve harley wrote: i don't use it, but i tend to be skeptical about such products, and that is borne out by the testing of the 2.9.4 version of MacScan noted in this article: <http://www.thesafemac.com/mac-anti-virus-testing-2014/> and further by the Amazon r

Re: OT

On 2016-04-06 9:06 , David J Brooks wrote: Anyone else use Macscan. I bought it a few years ago and run it now and then. It seems to find 1-20 tracking cookies which i delete each time. Am i expecting to much from Macscan.?? i don't use it, but i tend to be skeptical about such products, and

Re: OT: Floppy Brummy

On 2016-04-04 11:28 , John Francis wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 08:47:13PM +0100, Bob W-PDML wrote: also tried to dig into his multiplication algorithm, but became impatient [...] Booth's algorithm attempts to speed the multiplication process up by reducing the number of addition steps

Re: OT - a silly thing.. veso

On 2016-03-29 15:07 , Steve Cottrell wrote: At the moment it is. The thing about Youtube which is so shit is that it doesn't matter what format you upload your video in, Youtube will re- encode it into Flash Video which has major suckage factors. i don't have Flash installed for my browser

Re: OT: Floppy Brummy

On 2016-04-02 14:41 , Bob W-PDML wrote: An interesting article for the computer people on the list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35924858 got me interested enough to find a photo of Booth's original magnetic drum

Re: OT: stuff does wear out

On 2016-03-31 9:08 , Stanley Halpin wrote: Yesterday I received from B a new Airport Extreme basestation (6th Gen) to replace my old Airport Extreme basestation (2nd Gen). Life is good. I am once again living in the fast lane… I am still a bit baffled as my naive expectation is that

Re: Changes (aging) new beginnings & HD v SMC

concerned about the difference. As steve harley wrote, there are some trade offs. yeah that was the article; i have the SMC 15mm as well, and didn't see reason to yearn for either of the HD versions -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Fwd: Spring Pond size

On 2016-03-29 8:10 , Jack Davis wrote: As is obvious, I sent this response to Dan, but have now decided to post it to the list. Anyone else find this an unwieldy sized image? httP://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=1043 it loaded a bit slowly, making me think you might have used

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