On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 23:52:32 +0000, you wrote: >On 24/12/16, Brian Walters, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>If anyone wants to spend a bit of ideal time during the holidays, you >>can spend an hour or so perusing the old galleries, You'll find the >>complete PUG here, all the way back to April 1997: >> >>http://pug.komkon.org/general/pastgalleries.html > >Cool - thanks for posting - had a look at the first few years. My first >pic was in February of 2001 but pretty sure I found the list and started >lurking late 1998. I was looking for info on re-celling a Pentax LX >motor drive and dear Rob Studdert pointed me to one of his web pages >detailing just such info.
The PUG archive is a fascinating tour through the past. What's interesting about the web is how it's a continually updated time capsule that one can consult any time. It's particularly fascinating to be able to go through the era during which photography made the transition from film to digital. When the PUG began in 1997 serious photography, even at the most basic amateur level, was a strictly analogue endeavour; digital cameras of the time were toys with hopelessly limited resolution and dynamic range. Look at those early galleries, made at a time when 400 x 600 pixels was a large online image (when the standard monitor had 600 x 800 resolution). I seriously hope there are good back-ups of the entire PUG kept because it's the kind of thing that will be of inestimable value to historians of future generations. ...and on that note I'd like to add that the PDML Photo Annual has similar value. I do wish we'd started it a few years earlier, so as to capture the height of the transition between film and digital (probably beginning with the Canon D30, which appeared in late 200/early 2001, and being "stick a fork in it" done by 2003 with the Pentax ist-D". But I doubt the print-on-demand publishing industry was quite up to speed at that time either. Still, we're planning on doing another Photo Annual for 2017. Start getting your best images ready. -- 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 follow the directions.
