Re: PESO -- What am I?

[kwaller]

According to my 'Birds of Michigan Field Guide" its definitely a Kildeer,

Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller

- Original Message - 
From: "P. J. Alling" 

Subject: PESO -- What am I?


One last shot from Monday.  I wanted to identify this bird before I posted 
this but I can't.  The closest I could come is a Semipalmated Plover.  But 
this bird has very noticeable red ring around it's eye.  Otherwise it's a 
good match.  Anyone have any ideas?


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20whatami.html

Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax A*300mm f4.0/smc Pentax F 1.7x AF 
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RE: GESO - Power Drive 2012 -Big Gallery

[knarftheria...@gmail.com]

Wonderful gallery! You really seem to have captured the spirit of the event.

Were these different colleges and universities competing? I see that cars had 
corporate sponsorship in some cases. Must be an expensive "hobby".

;-)

I'm sure the kids will love your photos.

Cheers,
frank

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- 
Christopher Hitchens

--- Original Message ---

From: George Sinos 
Sent: May 9, 2012 5/9/12
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
Subject: GESO - Power Drive 2012 -Big Gallery

This is a big gallery of photos from Saturday's Power Drive finals.
Normally I try to make much smaller galleries, but this is for the
kids.  They spend all year making these electric cars and they all
want to see their team's car and use the photos on Facebook.  I don't
think anyone here in PDML will look at everything in the gallery.



These competitions are a lot of fun to shoot.  I was joined by four
other members of the Omaha Camera Club.  The day starts at 7am with
check-in, safety inspections, performance and braking trials.  The
actual races don't start until about 10am and finish around 2pm.  It's
non-stop action and fairly spread out.  My pedometer clocked over 5
miles while I was on site.

If I wasn't a believer in Lightroom for big batches of photos, I
certainly am now. This is the first relatively big job since upgrading
to Lightroom 4. I imported everything into Lightroom on Saturday
evening and made my selection of about 150 finalists on Sunday
afternoon.  Monday, I made the final selections, then cropped and
processed what you see in the gallery.  After processing a few photos
to see what needed to be done I made a three presets for processing
the remainder.  Other than cropping, they could all be processed in
batches and it went fairly fast.  The upload to Smugmug took a while.
Like most everyone, my internet provider's upload speed is much slower
than the download speed.

I'm looking forward to doing this again next year.  I always get ideas
about how to shoot better next time while I'm processing the current
batch of photos.

gs

George Sinos

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Re: ISO Torture Test: Sony A77 vs Pentax K-5

[P. J. Alling]

This  echos the DxOMark test of K-5 vs just about every other APS-C and 
quite a few larger sensor size cameras.  I kind of expected the result, 
and I wasn't surprised.


On 5/9/2012 8:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote:

From Larry's Bête Noire, The Phoblographer.

Might be of interest to some - well, me anyway - seeing as I've just 
ordered a K-5.



http://www.thephoblographer.com/2012/05/08/iso-torture-test-sony-a77-vs-pentax-k-5/ 









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Re: PESO -- What am I?

[Ann Sanfedele]

John - is this the photo you meant to send? cant see a red circle around 
eye


ann



On 5/9/2012 22:56, John Sessoms wrote:

From: Jeffery Smith

The killdeer photos seem to be consistent with two black rings around
the neck area rather than one.


The second ring is hidden by the angle it's photographed from. It
extends across the chest lower than the ring around the neck.

Here's a good closeup that shows the red circle around the eye & how the
lower black "ring" is not complete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killdeer_%28Charadrius_vociferus%29_-female_on_nest.jpg




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Re: PESO - To Brighten the Apartment

[Jack Davis]

Beautifully warm and colorful shot, Frank. 

Jack
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Subject: PESO - To Brighten the Apartment

Slice o' street life in Toronto's Parkdale:

http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/05/to-brighten-apartment.html

Hope you enjoy.  Comments welcome.

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Re: PESO -- What am I?

[John Sessoms]

From: Jeffery Smith

The killdeer photos seem to be consistent with two black rings around the neck 
area rather than one.


The second ring is hidden by the angle it's photographed from. It 
extends across the chest lower than the ring around the neck.


Here's a good closeup that shows the red circle around the eye & how the 
lower black "ring" is not complete.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killdeer_%28Charadrius_vociferus%29_-female_on_nest.jpg

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Re: PESO - To Brighten the Apartment

[Paul Stenquist]

colorful, pleasant, and nicely composed.
Paul
On May 9, 2012, at 10:09 PM, frank theriault wrote:

> Slice o' street life in Toronto's Parkdale:
> 
> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/05/to-brighten-apartment.html
> 
> Hope you enjoy.  Comments welcome.
> 
> cheers,
> frank
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PESO - To Brighten the Apartment

[frank theriault]

Slice o' street life in Toronto's Parkdale:

http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/05/to-brighten-apartment.html

Hope you enjoy.  Comments welcome.

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Re: Bird stuff -- semi-OT - you guys need to see THE BIG YEAR

[Christine Nielsen]

I haven't heard about that one... but you had me at "Steve Martin."
Will check it out!

:)
-c

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> I've just watched it for the second time... it is out on DVD
>
> Really sweet movie based on a non-fiction book about birding and
> competitiveness.
>
> Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Brian Dennehy, Angelica Houston and
> somemore familiar faces whose names I cant recall cause they are young :-)
>
> I had it from Net flix and then got it out of the library to watch again so
> I could see the extras and get more birding details..
>
> A friend of mine loved it even though he was by no means a birder.
>
> A charming  unpretentious and beautifully acted film - and hard
> core birders won't even mind the few slip-ups in terms of where
> they saw what.
>
> check it out
>
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Re: ISO Torture Test: Sony A77 vs Pentax K-5

[Christine Nielsen]

Wow.  That was an ISO smackdown!

They are into torture tests over there at the Phoblographer... today's
feature involved stomping on a Pentax wg-2 to see how it fared...
http://www.thephoblographer.com/2012/05/09/attempting-to-break-the-pentax-wg-2-stomping-on-the-camera/

:)
-c

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Brian Walters  wrote:
>
> From Larry's Bête Noire, The Phoblographer.
>
> Might be of interest to some - well, me anyway - seeing as I've just ordered 
> a K-5.
>
>
> http://www.thephoblographer.com/2012/05/08/iso-torture-test-sony-a77-vs-pentax-k-5/
>
>
>
>
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Re: ISO Torture Test: Sony A77 vs Pentax K-5

[Jeffery Smith]

I hope you liked the right column way better than the left column. 

JLS

Sent from my iPad

On May 9, 2012, at 19:58, Brian Walters  wrote:

> From Larry's Bête Noire, The Phoblographer.
> 
> Might be of interest to some - well, me anyway - seeing as I've just ordered 
> a K-5.
> 
> 
> http://www.thephoblographer.com/2012/05/08/iso-torture-test-sony-a77-vs-pentax-k-5/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
> ++
> Brian Walters
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Bird stuff -- semi-OT - you guys need to see THE BIG YEAR

[Ann Sanfedele]

I've just watched it for the second time... it is out on DVD

Really sweet movie based on a non-fiction book about birding and 
competitiveness.


Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Brian Dennehy, Angelica Houston 
and somemore familiar faces whose names I cant recall cause they are 
young :-)


I had it from Net flix and then got it out of the library to watch again 
so I could see the extras and get more birding details..


A friend of mine loved it even though he was by no means a birder.

A charming  unpretentious and beautifully acted film - and hard
core birders won't even mind the few slip-ups in terms of where
they saw what.

check it out

ann


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ISO Torture Test: Sony A77 vs Pentax K-5

[Brian Walters]

From Larry's Bête Noire, The Phoblographer.

Might be of interest to some - well, me anyway - seeing as I've just  
ordered a K-5.



http://www.thephoblographer.com/2012/05/08/iso-torture-test-sony-a77-vs-pentax-k-5/




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June PUG (and what's happened to May?) - Another thing...

[Brian Walters]

I forgot to mention that although I can't upload at the moment, the  
submission form is working fine, so you don't need to wait if you have  
a submission ready to go.




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June PUG (and what's happened to May?)

[Brian Walters]

G'day all

A bit of a hitch with the May PUG.  It's ready to go but there's  
currently a server issue which is preventing me uploading it.  It's  
being worked on so it should be up soon.


In the meantime, give a bit of thought to June - we have something a  
bit unusual.


The theme is 'Songlines'.  Pick any song title (or title of any piece  
of music) and submit a photo that illustrates that title.  The photo  
doesn't need to fit the theme or mood expressed in the actual music,  
just its title.


When you go to the submission form, you'll see two additional fields:

* Song: Artist Name

* Song: Web URL, if available

As I said, it doesn't have to be a song - any piece of music is fine  
and I'll amend the wording when I can next upload to the server.  The  
Web URL is optional.  However, if you know where the piece of music  
can be heard online (eg. YouTube or MySpace), include the URL so we  
can all have a listen and maybe educate ourselves to some new music.


This should be fun!

As usual, submit here:

http://pug.komkon.org/submit/

Submission Guidelines here:

http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html


The main requirements are:

* Max. pixel dimensions: 800 x 800 pixels
* Max file size: 300k
* Third party equipment is acceptable provided either the camera body  
or lens used is Pentax.
* If you embed a colour space in the image, it should be sRGB to  
ensure that the image is displayed correctly on line.

* Nominal closing date for submissions: 31 May.


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GESO - Power Drive 2012 -Big Gallery

[George Sinos]

This is a big gallery of photos from Saturday's Power Drive finals.
Normally I try to make much smaller galleries, but this is for the
kids.  They spend all year making these electric cars and they all
want to see their team's car and use the photos on Facebook.  I don't
think anyone here in PDML will look at everything in the gallery.



These competitions are a lot of fun to shoot.  I was joined by four
other members of the Omaha Camera Club.  The day starts at 7am with
check-in, safety inspections, performance and braking trials.  The
actual races don't start until about 10am and finish around 2pm.  It's
non-stop action and fairly spread out.  My pedometer clocked over 5
miles while I was on site.

If I wasn't a believer in Lightroom for big batches of photos, I
certainly am now. This is the first relatively big job since upgrading
to Lightroom 4. I imported everything into Lightroom on Saturday
evening and made my selection of about 150 finalists on Sunday
afternoon.  Monday, I made the final selections, then cropped and
processed what you see in the gallery.  After processing a few photos
to see what needed to be done I made a three presets for processing
the remainder.  Other than cropping, they could all be processed in
batches and it went fairly fast.  The upload to Smugmug took a while.
Like most everyone, my internet provider's upload speed is much slower
than the download speed.

I'm looking forward to doing this again next year.  I always get ideas
about how to shoot better next time while I'm processing the current
batch of photos.

gs

George Sinos

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Re: Three GESO's from last Saturday, Castle Rouge Manor, Cinco de Mayo in Eureka Springs, and Super moon Rising.

[Bob Sullivan]

Ted,
The orange moon with the reflection on the water is my favorite.
Also counting down to GFM here.
Regards,  Bob S. (& Lynn)

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Theodore Beilby  wrote:
>
>  Last Saturday, Diane and I went to Castle Rouge Manor with the PSNWA group 
> that
> we belong to. Spent a couple of hours photographing there, then we went into
> Eureka Springs, Arkansas for lunch and a photowalk. That evening, I decided to
> go to a small local lake and photograph the rising of the "Super Moon" from 
> the
> top of the dam at sunset/moon rise.
>
> All sets:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/
>
> Castle Rouge Manor:
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/sets/72157629975945557/
>
> Eureka Springs:  
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/sets/72157629611747188/
>
> Moon rise:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/sets/72157629975762045/
>
> Small sets, comments appreciated.
>
> Counting down to GFM,
>
> Ted
>
> "The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer." Albert Maysles
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Re: PESO -- What am I?

[Jack Davis]

My dandy field guide appears to verify all marking but for the distinct red 
ring around the eye.(?)
 
Jack

From: P. J. Alling 
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Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 12:38 PM
Subject: PESO -- What am I?

One last shot from Monday.  I wanted to identify this bird before I posted this 
but I can't.  The closest I could come is a Semipalmated Plover.  But this bird 
has very noticeable red ring around it's eye.  Otherwise it's a good match.  
Anyone have any ideas?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20whatami.html

Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax A*300mm f4.0/smc Pentax F 1.7x AF adapter

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Re: PESO: Staff of Life

[jn289]

Paul, another good portrait...Joe

A young woman, who appears to be of middle-eastern descent, sells 
bread at the farmers market every week. I've photographed her 
before, but haven't gotten anything I like, Although I don't know 
her name, she's a friend of sort, as we've spoken briefly many 
times, and she always has a smile for me. Most of my previous 
portrait failures have come when she saw me shooting and became self 
conscious. She never objected, but always became artificial. This 
week I managed to shoot her unawares from in from of an adjacent 
booth.


I don't like the background clutter and may take the time to modify 
it by removing the green verticals. Anyway, here it is as shot, save 
for  a bit of retouching and a moderate crop to eliminate some 
foreground clutter..


http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15671867
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RE: PESO - Super Moon ? I forgot the word PESO again

[jn289]

Thanks Frank, Joe



Excellent moonshot!

cheers,
frank

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." 
-- Christopher Hitchens


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Sent: May 8, 2012 5/8/12
To: pdml@pdml.net
Subject: PESO - Super Moon ? I forgot the word PESO again

I forgot what you told me, Ann


Here is a shot from last night. Shot with Pentax K20D and Pentax
300mm F4.0 A Lens..Joe

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15682973


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Re: Super Moon ?

[jn289]

Thanks Ann, Joe


Nice moonshot but I suppose, technically, it isn't "super" :-)
looks like it is just barely waning.

Anyone got a shot where it ws just rising and therefore rather colorful?

ann


On 5/8/2012 15:02, jn289 wrote:

Here is a shot from last night. Shot with Pentax K20D and Pentax 300mm
F4.0 A Lens..Joe

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15682973



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RE: Super Moon ?

[jn289]

Thanks, I do have a bigger boat, but my tripod is not up to par..Joe



not bad, but your gonna need a bigger boat, make that longer lens.

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Subject: Super Moon ?

Here is a shot from last night. Shot with Pentax K20D and Pentax
300mm F4.0 A Lens..Joe

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15682973

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Re: PESO - Power Drive Revisited

[jn289]

George, A nice set of photos. I had photo assignment years ago at  a 
college in downtown Philadelphia to photograph a car like the ones 
you have on your page.

When I find it. I will put it up..Joe http://photo.net/photos/pjjdxn



The annual Power Drive final competition is coming up in May. High
School students from all over the region spend the year designing and
building electric cars. The day starts early with safety inspections,
performance trials and ends with several races.

This is a photo from 2011. While going over last years photos I
decided to reprocess this one with Lightroom 4. If I hadn't already
been convinced to upgrade, this result would have pushed me over the
edge. The new process engine pulled out much more color and detail.

I think this may be the first time I've linked a photo from google+.
Let me know if you have any trouble.



gs

George Sinos

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Re: PESO -- What am I?

[P. J. Alling]

That should be significant I have no idea what sugnificiant means...

On 5/9/2012 4:23 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I'm not sure you're right.  It's similar in markings but there are 
differences that would probably be sugnificiant to another bird.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killdeer.jpg

On 5/9/2012 3:45 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote:
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:38 PM, P. J. 
Alling  wrote:


One last shot from Monday.  I wanted to identify this bird before I 
posted
this but I can't.  The closest I could come is a Semipalmated 
Plover.  But
this bird has very noticeable red ring around it's eye.  Otherwise 
it's a

good match.  Anyone have any ideas?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20whatami.html

That's a Killdeer. They're often seen in parking lots and and the
roofs of buildings (they like nesting in gravel), but every now and
then they remember they're plovers and get their feet wet.







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Re: PESO - Paul Joseph Miles

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Paul, very nice and clean photograph. Joe


Detroit's blues man. Paul looked good and sounded great today.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15671854

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Re: PESO -- What am I?

[P. J. Alling]

I'm not sure you're right.  It's similar in markings but there are 
differences that would probably be sugnificiant to another bird.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Killdeer.jpg

On 5/9/2012 3:45 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote:

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:38 PM, P. J. Alling  wrote:


One last shot from Monday.  I wanted to identify this bird before I posted
this but I can't.  The closest I could come is a Semipalmated Plover.  But
this bird has very noticeable red ring around it's eye.  Otherwise it's a
good match.  Anyone have any ideas?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20whatami.html

That's a Killdeer. They're often seen in parking lots and and the
roofs of buildings (they like nesting in gravel), but every now and
then they remember they're plovers and get their feet wet.




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Re: GESO: Faraways

[jn289]

Reminds of shooting fuji film at 6400 and 3200 asa


"vintage-telephoto grainy dreaminess": http://goo.gl/2wQbp

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Re: PESO -- What am I?

[Matthew Hunt]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:38 PM, P. J. Alling  wrote:

> One last shot from Monday.  I wanted to identify this bird before I posted
> this but I can't.  The closest I could come is a Semipalmated Plover.  But
> this bird has very noticeable red ring around it's eye.  Otherwise it's a
> good match.  Anyone have any ideas?
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20whatami.html

That's a Killdeer. They're often seen in parking lots and and the
roofs of buildings (they like nesting in gravel), but every now and
then they remember they're plovers and get their feet wet.

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PESO -- What am I?

[P. J. Alling]

One last shot from Monday.  I wanted to identify this bird before I 
posted this but I can't.  The closest I could come is a Semipalmated 
Plover.  But this bird has very noticeable red ring around it's eye.  
Otherwise it's a good match.  Anyone have any ideas?


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20whatami.html

Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax A*300mm f4.0/smc Pentax F 1.7x AF 
adapter


As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored.

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Three GESO's from last Saturday, Castle Rouge Manor, Cinco de Mayo in Eureka Springs, and Super moon Rising.

[Theodore Beilby]

 Last Saturday, Diane and I went to Castle Rouge Manor with the PSNWA group 
that 
we belong to. Spent a couple of hours photographing there, then we went into 
Eureka Springs, Arkansas for lunch and a photowalk. That evening, I decided to 
go to a small local lake and photograph the rising of the "Super Moon" from the 
top of the dam at sunset/moon rise. 

All sets:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/

Castle Rouge Manor: 
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/sets/72157629975945557/

Eureka Springs:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/sets/72157629611747188/

Moon rise:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/sets/72157629975762045/

Small sets, comments appreciated.

Counting down to GFM,

Ted

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Re: GESO: Faraways

[Tim Bray]

- agreed, the lens gets out of the way when shooting eagles on a
nearby treetop as opposed to mountains 10km away
- I hand-hold the lens. Which got a lot easier with the K-5 because I
don’t mind shooting at ISO3200 so I can have a fast shutter speed even
when it’s not very bright. Except for when you’re sitting there aimed,
waiting for the eagle to fly away, your arms get tired fast.
- “trashy”

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:33 AM, P. J. Alling  wrote:
>
> Nice, the results seem to be consistent with those from my considerably
> more beat up Vivitar  TX mount 400mm f5.6.  Since the cosmetics are
> identical, except for the addition of a TX mount ring, I expect that they
> are identical optical formulas late 70's early 80's Tokina products.
>
> The results are much better, maybe better isn't the best word, lets say,
> sharper and with higher contrast, (though the contrast may be the result of
> atmospheric effects), on closer subjects, as if it were optimized for  focus
> distances of about 100-200 yards as opposed to infinity.
>
>  I read your description and thought I'd mention that there doesn't seem
> to have been a dedicated tripod mount for this particular lens.  I don't
> know if was because it was thought to be small and light enough to be used
> primarily hand held or if for the same reason it was thought that
> photographers could simply hang it off the end of a camera mounted on a
> tripod.  When I got mine it came with a third party, (third, third party?
> fourth party? whatever), tripod ring that didn't really fit the lens, the
> previous owner had built up the lens barrel between the focus ring and
> aperture ring with some kind of shiny metal tape.  It interfered with the
> aperture ring, I removed it a while ago and haven't missed it. the lens
> doesn't weight any more than a Pentax A* 300 f4.0 and I just use the camera
> tripod socket with either on my crappy travel tripod, (I've got to find a
> word that begins with t that has the same relative meaning as "crappy" to
> complete the alliteration).
>
>
>
>> “vintage-telephoto grainy dreaminess”: http://goo.gl/2wQbp
>>
>
>
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> avoid a lengthily search.
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Re: GESO: Faraways

[P. J. Alling]

Nice, the results seem to be consistent with those from my considerably 
more beat up Vivitar  TX mount 400mm f5.6.  Since the cosmetics are 
identical, except for the addition of a TX mount ring, I expect that 
they are identical optical formulas late 70's early 80's Tokina products.


The results are much better, maybe better isn't the best word, lets say, 
sharper and with higher contrast, (though the contrast may be the result 
of atmospheric effects), on closer subjects, as if it were optimized 
for  focus distances of about 100-200 yards as opposed to infinity.


 I read your description and thought I'd mention that there doesn't 
seem to have been a dedicated tripod mount for this particular lens.  I 
don't know if was because it was thought to be small and light enough to 
be used primarily hand held or if for the same reason it was thought 
that photographers could simply hang it off the end of a camera mounted 
on a tripod.  When I got mine it came with a third party, (third, third 
party? fourth party? whatever), tripod ring that didn't really fit the 
lens, the previous owner had built up the lens barrel between the focus 
ring and aperture ring with some kind of shiny metal tape.  It 
interfered with the aperture ring, I removed it a while ago and haven't 
missed it. the lens doesn't weight any more than a Pentax A* 300 f4.0 
and I just use the camera tripod socket with either on my crappy travel 
tripod, (I've got to find a word that begins with t that has the same 
relative meaning as "crappy" to complete the alliteration).




“vintage-telephoto grainy dreaminess”: http://goo.gl/2wQbp




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RE: Home / Loreo loupe Lubot 10× | Roman Melihhov Photography

[knarftheria...@gmail.com]

Wow, quite impressive!

cheers, 
frank

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http://roman.blakout.net/index.php?/category/31

F/16, loupe Lubot 10× magnification 

^^^ Loreo lens in a cap with Loupe Lubot 10× magnification. Very nice
small plastic pinhole lens with variable aperture holes and 10×
magnification loupe for macro closeups.  I haven't used it earlier
with ,y K-20 because live view had to be digged from the menu. Now with
K-5 its just one button press and I could actually use F/16 when I see
what I photograph. Focus is manual, either rotating loupe thread or
moving camera. Latest is more preferable when hand-held.



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RE: GESO: Faraways

[knarftheria...@gmail.com]

Beautiful, Tim!

cheers,
frank

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“vintage-telephoto grainy dreaminess”: http://goo.gl/2wQbp

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Home / Loreo loupe Lubot 10× | Roman Melihhov Photography

[Roman Melihhov]

http://roman.blakout.net/index.php?/category/31

F/16, loupe Lubot 10× magnification 

^^^ Loreo lens in a cap with Loupe Lubot 10× magnification. Very nice
small plastic pinhole lens with variable aperture holes and 10×
magnification loupe for macro closeups.  I haven't used it earlier
with ,y K-20 because live view had to be digged from the menu. Now with
K-5 its just one button press and I could actually use F/16 when I see
what I photograph. Focus is manual, either rotating loupe thread or
moving camera. Latest is more preferable when hand-held.



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Re: GESO: Faraways

[Darren Addy]

I like all three images a lot.

"Back in the day" the standard 400mm was an f6.3. Tamron made one that
was sold under a myriad different labels and gave quite good
performance. I imagine that some sacrifices had to be made to gain the
speed (at least before the use of ED glass, etc.)

I also read the story of your Tokina. I think it is an interesting
exercise sometimes, to just plant oneself somewhere and then see what
sort of good images can be made without moving... just looking in
different directions and working on our "eye", composition, etc.

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Re: GESO: Faraways

[Bruce Walker]

I like those, Tim.

Per your discussion, Lightroom has a nice Grain effect under the
Effects tab in the Develop module. I've used it to produce dreamy
softness or contrasty graphic noise. You have to play with the 3
sliders a bunch to get a non-"digital" looking result, but it's worth
while.


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GESO: Faraways

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“vintage-telephoto grainy dreaminess”: http://goo.gl/2wQbp

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