Re: DSLR future wish-list
Could you use those universal programmable remote controls for TV, VCR etc? Problem is how to program it. On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 09:44, Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! I wonder how long it wil be before we have a wireless remote control complete with LCD? Even a wired one would be nice, sometimes; there are several times when I can't stand where I'd like to for a shot. It is there. Just not long ago someone posted how to turn one's Palm Pilot into Pentax IR Remote... It only remains to enrich the protocol with functions more interesting than mere shutter release g. Boris -- Frits Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Fame and Fashion and Photography: Bailey's 70s - BBC4 Tuesday 23:25
Subject: Fame and Fashion and Photography: Bailey's 70s - BBC4 Tuesday 23:25 Duration in Mins: 75 Fame and Fashion and Photography: Bailey's 70s Profile of photographer David Bailey, whose name was once synonymous with fashion, fame and beautiful women. At the top of his profession, Bailey split with the magazine that had made his name to set up his own fashion magazine and travel the world. Contributors include Anjelica Huston, Alice Cooper, Lord Lichfield, Marie Helvin and Jerry Hall
Re: DSLR future wish-list
Frits Wüthrich a écrit: Could you use those universal programmable remote controls for TV, VCR etc? Problem is how to program it. You can use it, if the remote know a code for 'Pentax VCR' Michel
Where can I get a grip strap for PZ1p?
Where can I get a grip strap for PZ1p? Mark Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSLR future wish-list
Anders Hultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Rob Studdert wrote: Copyright data could be embedded in the EXIF data (or most preferably IPTC/NAA). The point is that if you put it there and someone uses or edits your image and strips the data then you can always refer to the original document if copyright is being disputed. Couldn't they just insert their own copyright data and claim you're the one forging it? Then you could retaliate by changing the date in your EXIF data to predate *that*! (Easy to do with a hex editor. Which makes the whole exercise kind of pointless, really.) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Unusual subjects to photograph.
Stan, Are you still in a rural area or has the city/suburbs grown out to surround you? ...An interesting place to live nonetheless and under 200 years old! Regards, Bob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And some older houses just got lucky. I live in a log cabin constructed in 1837, the year that this portion of Missouri was bought from the native inhabitants. Some termite damage over the years, but the basic original log cabin is the shell around which the rest of the house is built. Actually, to be precise, it was two log cabins constructed in the typical southern dog-trot or mule-trot style. Later covered over to look like a typical Federal Style farmhouse. The original family lived here until 1946, the second owner had the house until the late '60's, we've had it since '83. Stan
Re: DIY Product table - results
Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And of course the url is... http://www.oceania.net/light_table/ Well the first couple of photos look a bit underexposed and the composition is really static... Oh, all right. *Great* work Kevin and thanks for sharing both the design and sample results! You know you could probably build a few of these things and sell them on eBay to other people who sell things on eBay. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Pizza Sign
Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We all held our breath as Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/nypizza.html Nice neon. Just out of curiosity, What is a New York City style pizza? When you open the box, the pizza tells you to go %#% yourself! ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Unusual subjects to photograph.
We are within the Kansas City city limits. The second owners sold most of the farm to a developer; our two acres is surrounded by duplexes and townhouses. stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stan, Are you still in a rural area or has the city/suburbs grown out to surround you? ...An interesting place to live nonetheless and under 200 years old! Regards, Bob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And some older houses just got lucky. I live in a log cabin constructed in 1837, the year that this portion of Missouri was bought from the native inhabitants. Some termite damage over the years, but the basic original log cabin is the shell around which the rest of the house is built. Actually, to be precise, it was two log cabins constructed in the typical southern dog-trot or mule-trot style. Later covered over to look like a typical Federal Style farmhouse. The original family lived here until 1946, the second owner had the house until the late '60's, we've had it since '83. Stan
Re: DSLR future wish-list
On 12 Jan 2004 at 8:41, Anders Hultman wrote: Couldn't they just insert their own copyright data and claim you're the one forging it? I suppose they could but they'd likely be hard pressed to provide the out-takes from the series as evidence :-) Simple enough request and one that would save me from forgetting to add it later as sometimes happens. I'll deal with the problem of this type of information being volatile when the time comes. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: Chromes,was: Hi there
Cool, that sure is a lot of different kinds. So, are these just what you will buy according to what's on hand, or do you have a specific purpose for each of these, for instance, fuji for landscape photos because of its blue and green saturation, stuff like that? Rebekah a day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Hi For Chrome film,some of us TOPDMLers like Kodak 100vs.I also like the Fuji Provia 100. Dave
Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed....
I've been getting up to 3 viruses a day in email these days. I'd vote for the virus infection too. I just recently went back to win 2000 on my laptop and main system for the purposes of large picture file editing. 2000 runs much faster then XP to my notion. I did have several glitches, but most of them were removed by installing all the updates. Networking is much faster and glitchless when using 2 win 2000 based machines together as well. Another adantage to my notion that may be of assistance to you is the IE 6 repair function. Simply go to control panel/add-remove software/ Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP 1. Click the change/remove button and you will get options to downgrade to IE 5 or repair IE 6. Win 2000 is a bit more difficult to repair then some operating systems, but worth it IMHO. Suggest going to Microsoft Knowledge base and google doing searchs for the problems your having. Using the event viewer to see errors happening is very important. I usually get the text for my searches there. You can get there from Control Panel/administrative tools/event viewer. You can use the Services menu to trouble shoot problems as well stopping operations currently running to isolate problems. There are some services you will not want to mess with, so you should do a search for the critical win 2000 services before doing this. I can't remember which ones are a problem right off the top of my head. You can also use regedit with the run command to change registry settings. BE CAREFUL HERE!!! Go to HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINES\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHere you can see programs starting that may not be in the services menu. By simply selecting a key and choosing modify, you can disable that key by putting the letters rem in front of the key. This way the key is not deleted, but is still disabled for trouble shooting reasons. You can also go to the start menu and make a folder called disabled startup items Go into the startup folder can cut and paste anything you do not want running into this folder. To reenable simply cut and paste back into the startup folder. Check out all your running processes one at a time. Verify that these are not viruses. When you get to the point that no errors are showing in the events your system should be running seemlessly. Hope that might help. Dave - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:58 AM Subject: Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed Hi, I think the w2k.blaster.worm or what ever it's name was can be the course for it. There's a remove-tool, I think you can get it from the symantec website. I don't know what mouse you have, but I had problems with my mouse and laptop too, and that was a hardware problem. Microsoft optical wheel mouse (at least the older ones) has _sometimes_ problems working on a laptop. it worked sometimes and then suddenly stopped working... you could do whatever you want (reboot, etc) it just didn't work again.. and sometimes it started to work again days later... but at an other pc it was just fine... there was also a microsoft page about it, but I can't find it again... hope this helps.. bye Katrin danilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.01.2004, 11:46:17: Hi, It seems like a virus infection. or, maybe, windows is bored of life, you must re-install it. But windows 2000 is a quite stable OS, so the former seems the most realistic hypotesis. Hoping it isn't an hardware problem... ciao, Danilo.
Re: Pizza Sign
There is a great story that the former mayor of NY Ed Koch went into a restaurant (one sunny day). Another patron walked up to him, poked him in the chest and said you were a terrible mayor. Ed promptly relied in a loud voice you, to the applause of the rest of the restaurant. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/12/04 08:16AM Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We all held our breath as Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/nypizza.html Nice neon. Just out of curiosity, What is a New York City style pizza? When you open the box, the pizza tells you to go %#% yourself! ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: DSLR future wish-list
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 03:18:59 -0500 (EST), John Francis wrote: I wonder how long it wil be before we have a wireless remote control complete with LCD? Even a wired one would be nice, sometimes; there are several times when I can't stand where I'd like to for a shot. Well, John, Sony (I think) already makes one for TVs, stereos, etc. I think it's a learning remote, so it could possibly be set up to send the right codes for the camera. I believe that it also can put a script on each button, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know if it will do what you want. I do know that it usually goes for US$ 150-200 around here, so it's a little pricey. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
Used DSLR prices
I noticed in a KEH flyer that an Ex D30 was going for $850. Given that the *ist D is starting lower ($1350 US should be the new street price), the $600 predicition of Cotty seems like a good one. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSLR future wish-list
Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Jan 2004 at 8:41, Anders Hultman wrote: Couldn't they just insert their own copyright data and claim you're the one forging it? I suppose they could but they'd likely be hard pressed to provide the out-takes from the series as evidence :-) Simple enough request and one that would save me from forgetting to add it later as sometimes happens. I'll deal with the problem of this type of information being volatile when the time comes. I really like the suggestion (first floated in a PDML post, I believe) of cropping your images slightly before publishing them or putting them on the web. A copyright violator would be unable to provide the missing information in the outside edge of the original. (Indeed, he wouldn't even be aware of it.) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: DLab7 and 7Dayshop for processing? And Agfa Precisa
Bob, I really don't see RSX II 100 as a high saturation film. It may be a bit more saturated than Provia 100F in the warm colors but certainly lacks the punch of Velvia. On the contrary, the colours look very natural and well balanced, it excels especially on the skin rendering and control of highlights. Servus, Alin Bob wrote: BW Agfa describe RSX II as a high saturation film. BW Have you found that it compares with Velvia in this regard?
Re: Used DSLR prices
Steve Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed in a KEH flyer that an Ex D30 was going for $850. Wow. That's much *much* higher than I would have expected! You can get a 6 megapixel 300D for that price! Given that the *ist D is starting lower ($1350 US should be the new street price), the $600 predicition of Cotty seems like a good one. What does a used D60 go for now, do you suppose? -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Soon to be new istD owners
I have very large hands, but I haven't had any problems so far (except see below) - though I haven't tried with gloves on yet. Go without gloves. You must suffer for your art. Does anyone know the dynamic range of the sensor compared with transparency film? The most common estimate I hear is 5-6 stops. I've installed the firmware upgrade (I held off on buying the *istD until I could use my non-A lenses) and this works well, although whether I'll always remember to press the green button is debatable. Am I right in thinking that if I use A-type lenses off 'A' I can only use them on M and also have to press the green button? A lenses don't need the green button as long as you keep them on the A setting. You can use P, Av, Tv, etc. . . . Another feature I'd like is the option for a histogram in the instant review - the Fuji S2 I use at work has this option and I find it very useful to glance at the LCD after I've taken the picture without having to enter review mode. This would be good. A Recent Luminous landscape article talked about the best exposure being the histogram pushed up against (but not off of) the highlight end of the scale. I'm trying to use the histogram more when I have the time. I apologize if these questions have already come up, but I only rarely find time to read more than a few postings to this list. Amen, brother. Sometimes it's like trying to take a drink from a fire hydrant. Cheers Andy - Original Message - From: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:06 PM Subject: Re: Soon to be new istD owners I have ordered mine yesterday. Jens, Denmark
Re: Soon to be new istD owners
- Original Message - From: Steve Desjardins Subject: Re: Soon to be new istD owners . Am I right in thinking that if I use A-type lenses off 'A' I can only use them on M and also have to press the green button? Yes. William Robb
Re: Unusual subjects to photograph.
Pat White wrote: Here in Victoria, we have quite a few older buildings, You also have that Legislature building, that is lit up like a christmas tree at night.
OT: Binoculars?
Thinking about the DCF 8*43 SP which replace the 'old' 8*42 WP. The WP's were said by some to be amongst the finest binoculars in the world. Anyone have any experience of the SP's? They are supposed to be brighter, smaller, lighter and focus closer! Also, in the more compact arena does anyone have any suggestions? I don't think I will go for any of these because the brightness is likely to be much poorer, but may eventually got some as a second pair... Thanks Rob
Re: DSLR future wish-list
My (future) wishes really haven't changed: 1. Make CF port more generic, not just memory. -- allow for network cards. 2. Set network login name/password. (so someone isn't listening!) 3. Select the default port for transfer. 4. Immediate transfer after taking shot. 5. Lightweight, low power, external high-capacity storage. Like 20 gig CF teathered but just in my pocket. Collin
Re: Unusual subjects to photograph.
- Original Message - From: Daniel J. Matyola Subject: Re: Unusual subjects to photograph. You also have that Legislature building, that is lit up like a christmas tree at night. Those British Columbians are a clever lot. Those lights are powered by turbines at the back of the building. Hot air, directed from the Legilative chamber to the turbines provides the motive power. William Robb
Re: Used DSLR prices
A LN- goes for $1079. This is pretty high by comparison to current new prices. Although I don't look at the digital section regularly (as opposed to Pentax lenses, for example ;-) I suspect that there just aren't a lot available. That D30 is already gone. In a few years, there could be more DSLR bodies available. OTOH, E10 and E20's are still commanding more than I would have thought. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/12/04 09:00AM Steve Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed in a KEH flyer that an Ex D30 was going for $850. Wow. That's much *much* higher than I would have expected! You can get a 6 megapixel 300D for that price! Given that the *ist D is starting lower ($1350 US should be the new street price), the $600 predicition of Cotty seems like a good one. What does a used D60 go for now, do you suppose? -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: DSLR future wish-list
Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 03:18:59 -0500 (EST), John Francis wrote: I wonder how long it wil be before we have a wireless remote control complete with LCD? Even a wired one would be nice, sometimes; there are several times when I can't stand where I'd like to for a shot. Well, John, Sony (I think) already makes one for TVs, stereos, etc. I think it's a learning remote, so it could possibly be set up to send the right codes for the camera. I believe that it also can put a script on each button, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know if it will do what you want. I do know that it usually goes for US$ 150-200 around here, so it's a little pricey. here's a page of learning remotes, some as little as $22.95 http://shop.store.yahoo.com/eenidmarket/audio-video-home-office-remote-controls-learning.html -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: DSLR future wish-list
Is that a 20 gig CF card in your pocket or are you happy to see me? (This will date people.) Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/12/04 09:31AM My (future) wishes really haven't changed: 1. Make CF port more generic, not just memory. -- allow for network cards. 2. Set network login name/password. (so someone isn't listening!) 3. Select the default port for transfer. 4. Immediate transfer after taking shot. 5. Lightweight, low power, external high-capacity storage. Like 20 gig CF teathered but just in my pocket. Collin
Re: Unusual subjects to photograph.
Tee hee. Hell, there's enough excess energy there to sell some of it to Colly- fohhnya if they need it. Quoting William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Those lights are powered by turbines at the back of the building. Hot air, directed from the Legilative chamber to the turbines provides the motive power. William Robb - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
Re: Digests tardy
At 02:29 AM 1/12/04, throwing caution to the wind, Cotty wrote: Just a quick note that is probably already known about but I mention it here because there's no way I can know if it's known about (a sort of known unknown) Haven't received any digests for at least 10 hours now, which is highly unusual. Best Cheers, Cotty I'll take a look, Cotty. Thanks, Doug
Re: Pizza Sign
Mark Roberts recently wrote: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, What is a New York City style pizza? When you open the box, the pizza tells you to go %#% yourself! A while back, he also wrote: Have you heard the correct way to ask for directions in New York? Excuse me, could you tell me the way to Radio City Music Hall or should I just go $#@ myself? So you got a t'ing about N'Yawk, Mark? ;-) Have you heard what a New York echo sounds like? You: Helloo Echo: Shut the up! Regards, Stephen
Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed....
Well, guys! Thankyou SO much! It surely WAS that bloody Blaster WORM!!! Downloaded the fix tool, and the patch, did a live update and whammo - all fixed! I don't think that it actually came with the virus though as I have been surfing the internet for the past two days, downloading service packs, software updates, patches etc, and it didn't occured to me until this morning that I didn't have any Anti virus installed. So I quickly installed Norton's System Works, but obviously it was too late by then! So, thankyou to all who replied and particularly to John and David for your very detailed and most helpful responses!! tan. - Original Message - From: David C Miers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed I've been getting up to 3 viruses a day in email these days. I'd vote for the virus infection too. I just recently went back to win 2000 on my laptop and main system for the purposes of large picture file editing. 2000 runs much faster then XP to my notion. I did have several glitches, but most of them were removed by installing all the updates. Networking is much faster and glitchless when using 2 win 2000 based machines together as well. Another adantage to my notion that may be of assistance to you is the IE 6 repair function. Simply go to control panel/add-remove software/ Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP 1. Click the change/remove button and you will get options to downgrade to IE 5 or repair IE 6. Win 2000 is a bit more difficult to repair then some operating systems, but worth it IMHO. Suggest going to Microsoft Knowledge base and google doing searchs for the problems your having. Using the event viewer to see errors happening is very important. I usually get the text for my searches there. You can get there from Control Panel/administrative tools/event viewer. You can use the Services menu to trouble shoot problems as well stopping operations currently running to isolate problems. There are some services you will not want to mess with, so you should do a search for the critical win 2000 services before doing this. I can't remember which ones are a problem right off the top of my head. You can also use regedit with the run command to change registry settings. BE CAREFUL HERE!!! Go to HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINES\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHere you can see programs starting that may not be in the services menu. By simply selecting a key and choosing modify, you can disable that key by putting the letters rem in front of the key. This way the key is not deleted, but is still disabled for trouble shooting reasons. You can also go to the start menu and make a folder called disabled startup items Go into the startup folder can cut and paste anything you do not want running into this folder. To reenable simply cut and paste back into the startup folder. Check out all your running processes one at a time. Verify that these are not viruses. When you get to the point that no errors are showing in the events your system should be running seemlessly. Hope that might help. Dave - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:58 AM Subject: Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed Hi, I think the w2k.blaster.worm or what ever it's name was can be the course for it. There's a remove-tool, I think you can get it from the symantec website. I don't know what mouse you have, but I had problems with my mouse and laptop too, and that was a hardware problem. Microsoft optical wheel mouse (at least the older ones) has _sometimes_ problems working on a laptop. it worked sometimes and then suddenly stopped working... you could do whatever you want (reboot, etc) it just didn't work again.. and sometimes it started to work again days later... but at an other pc it was just fine... there was also a microsoft page about it, but I can't find it again... hope this helps.. bye Katrin danilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.01.2004, 11:46:17: Hi, It seems like a virus infection. or, maybe, windows is bored of life, you must re-install it. But windows 2000 is a quite stable OS, so the former seems the most realistic hypotesis. Hoping it isn't an hardware problem... ciao, Danilo.
Re: Pizza Sign
Excuse me, could you tell me the way to Radio City Music Hall or should I just go $#@ myself? So you got a t'ing about N'Yawk, Mark? ;-) Have you heard what a New York echo sounds like? You: Helloo Echo: Shut the up! ... ... ... and in the film Coming to America the prince is greeted quite nicely by the locals. :-) (*)o(*) Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MX CLA in NYC?
How's that for alphabet soup? Anyone have recommendations for where to get a Pentax MX a cleaning, lubrication and adjustment in New York city? Thanks, Rob
Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed....
Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I quickly installed Norton's System Works, but obviously it was too late by then! Do you know how long it takes for an unprotected computer to be infected when it's connected to the Net? Someone in one of the network abuse newsgroups tried it recently as a test. The answer: His test machine was hit - on a dial-up connection - within two SECONDS. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Digital: Motives for upgrade
Most here seem to agree that the firmware upgrade is a big improvement for the *istD. I tried some real shooting over the weekend with my Tak Bay 135 2.5 and the green button rapidely became a comfortable shooting style. Which of the following scenarios do you think best fits Pentax's motives: 1. They actually planned to have the *ist D work like this but wanted to release the camera before they were able to implement the green button meter 2a. They rather cluelessly though no one would care about the difficulty of using K/M lenses on the *istD and when they saw some fuss they said Gee, sorry, we can fix that . . . 2b. They rather cluelessly though no one would care about the difficulty of using K/M lenses on the *istD and when someone suggested they could use the DOF preview button they said Wow, what a good idea. 3. With ruthless corporate thinking they tried to coerce people into buying more new lenses but realized they could sell more istD bodies if they fixed it. Or, they were afraid that the loss of compatibility might cause enough folks to switch to Canon. 4. The folks who want to use K/M lenses have no real impact on business but when Pentax had the time to get a round to it they found a work-around with the green button as a favor to long time loyal users.. The mechanical coupler is gone because it just doesn't really matter anymore in the big picture. Part of me wants to say 3 but in all honesty I think they would have done better business-wise to stay the course and push folks into buying more new lenses. I'm leaning toward 2a or 2b, with 4 close behind.
FS Tamron lenses and Camera backpack
Tamron 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 LN- with hood, caps and uv filter $30 Tamron 80-210mm f/4.5-5.6 LN- new with hood, caps and uv filter $30 Tamrac 5273 Expedition 3 Ex+ $20 /Paul _ Rethink your business approach for the new year with the helpful tips here. http://special.msn.com/bcentral/prep04.armx
Good database for wedding clients?
A friend of mine who shoots 10-20 weddings a year is looking for recommendations for a good database program to let her keep track of client info for the next 10+ years. It will be for pre-wedding info as well, so it needs to be able to record all the stuff photographers need to know about the clients and their requirements. It needs to be searchable by client name, date, etc., and able to be sorted according to those fields (ie. can call up every wedding from a particular year, or shot at a particular location). I imagine most db programs can do this, but she's not very computer literate, so it would be nice to have software designed for this purpose, with the templates already made. It doesn't have to be free/shareware (though that would be nice), but it can't cost $500 either. She's hoping to spend under $100. Any recommendations? Thanks! chris
Re: Pizza Sign
I thought Giuliani was the former mayor of NYC, or is it correct in English and it can be anyone who had the position in the past, not just the last one? On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:44, Steve Desjardins wrote: There is a great story that the former mayor of NY Ed Koch went into a restaurant (one sunny day). Another patron walked up to him, poked him in the chest and said you were a terrible mayor. Ed promptly relied in a loud voice you, to the applause of the rest of the restaurant. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/12/04 08:16AM Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We all held our breath as Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/nypizza.html Nice neon. Just out of curiosity, What is a New York City style pizza? When you open the box, the pizza tells you to go %#% yourself! ;-) -- Frits Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Used DSLR prices
- Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dealers are flogging off the Sigma SD-9 brand new for not much more than that (anybody actually ever seen one of these??) Seen and touched, but not used. Back in the day, I was about to switch brands to Sigma because they offered a ton of features in their SLRs for a good price. I'm glad I didn't because I never would have met you clowns! Christian Not flogging off for the record...
Re: Pizza Sign
Anyone who has held the position is refereed to as a former or past mayor. For example, Clinton, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., are all referred to former presidents. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: boat, was: Unusual subjects to photo now OT
Bob W wrote: In central London all building work has to have the archaeologists in first so the builders don't destroy stuff. If valuable relics are found then the building plans can be changed to enforce the preservation. Many modern buildings in the City have basements open to the public where you can go and look at the finds in situ. Bob, that stuff is interesting to me. They had a program on the tv here in the US about the huge graveyard full of plague victims that they found in London. Once in a while the US news networks report that unexploded WWII bombs were found. Is that something that happens often? I work in construction but we've never found anything except old bulkheads and chunks of concrete. Tom Reese
Re: Pizza Sign
The use of the title former mayor is correct, Frits. . . So long as he's not the current mayor, he is a former mayor - so that would apply to Koch as well as Mr. Giuliani.. Just like my former wife. The former wife I still talk to prefers that title to ex-wife for some reason! g keith whaley Frits Wüthrich wrote: I thought Giuliani was the former mayor of NYC, or is it correct in English and it can be anyone who had the position in the past, not just the last one? On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:44, Steve Desjardins wrote: There is a great story that the former mayor of NY Ed Koch went into a restaurant (one sunny day). Another patron walked up to him, poked him in the chest and said you were a terrible mayor. Ed promptly relied in a loud voice you, to the applause of the rest of the restaurant. Steven Desjardins
Re: NOT IST*D: Blue filter usage
Ian bromehead wrote: I decided to invest a little in some simple filters after reading a few pop photo mags back issue. I just bought a few blue, yellow, warming, cloudy and will start to mess with 'em a little during the next few weeks. I'll go to the library to seek out decent writings on their usage, but I wonder if anyone remembers how to use these instead of pop down menu bar layer expertise in front Photoshop and a monitor. I'm sure there are some folks on this thread who'd have good ideas and URL suggestions to help a poor old film amateur. Ian, if you are doing black and white, orange and red are great for darkening skies,sculpting clouds to make them stand out more but also for architectural detail on sunny days. HElps with doing photography at a time of day when color photos fall flat because the sun is so high in the sky Yellow is nice for rainy days, too. THe warming filter can give you that Maria Cosindas look in color. Blues are for using daylight film under tungsten light to color balance. Of course, i have no clue about these relationships with digital cameras - I'm a KX, LX and older dark side cameras kinda gal. ann
Re: DIY Product table - results
Looks like a lot of work just for a photo of a tape measure grin. Nice, Kevin, very nice. -- Kevin Waterson wrote: And of course the url is... http://www.oceania.net/light_table/ blush -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com You might as well accept people as they are, you are not going to be able to change them anyway.
Re: DSLR future wish-list
Hi! JF You missed the most important part: ... complete with LCD. JF I know I can trigger the shutter release - I don't even need a Palm JF Pilot (or other PDA) for that. I want to be able to look at the JF resulting image, histogram display, etc. I don't think we'll see JF that on the *ist-D, but I'd like to see it on a future camera model. Indeed I did miss that. That is I rather misunderstood you. You see, the highest modern PDA can go is either 320x240 (soon to be 640x480 or thereabouts) or 480x320... I don't know about you, but none of the above looks any reasonable to me for the purpose in discussion. So it kind of never occurred to me that you meant *that* g. I think that if I were rich enough to buy *istD or similar, I'd also buy big enough a card and shoot like crazy. Then I would review my stuff on the screen of my PC. At least, it is 17 and can do 1600x1200 if I ask nicely g. It is 1152x864 by default... But the most expensive MF digi backs use iPAQs as viewfinders and such. So, I estimate in no more than two years, enablement of this kind would be possible... Boris P.S. I just occurred to me that it would be Enablement of the third kind - neither camera body, nor lens - a weird accessory g...
Re: Pizza Sign
Good photo, and cool sign! It reminded me of the Monster Donuts sign at the corner Weston Road and Jane Street in Toronto, featuring Godzilla or one of his kin munching a very large donut. Unfortunately, the sign's no longer there, and I never got a picture of it. Pat White
Re: boat, was: Unusual subjects to photo now OT
Hi, Bob, that stuff is interesting to me. They had a program on the tv here in the US about the huge graveyard full of plague victims that they found in London. we have plague pits everywhere. It killed a lot of people and some communities still have festivals every year to celebrate their salvation - particularly well-dressings in Derbyshire, where they garland the wells with flowers. I think the pit you're talking about may have been at Spitalfields in London. This was formerly a medieval hospital - hence the name and the pits full of bones. The nearest plague pit to me that I know of is in Deptford, about 1.5 miles away in the church of St. Nicholas. The great Christopher Marlowe was thrown into the pit after he was murdered, and remains there to this day. People are not inclined to open plague pits. Here are some cheerful snaps of the church: http://www.web-options.com/Nick1.jpg http://www.web-options.com/Nick2.jpg http://www.web-options.com/Nick3.jpg This sort of thing is quite common here, and presumably also in other parts of Europe. One of the interesting beneficial side-effects of the plague in England was that as a result of so many deaths, demand for agricultural labour outstripped supply, which led to significant improvements in the power of the common man, the end of feudalism and the birth of the idea of ordinary people having rights and freedoms. Once in a while the US news networks report that unexploded WWII bombs were found. Is that something that happens often? Not so often any more. Still, we do find them occasionally. Greenwich, where I live, and its neighbours Deptford, the Isle of Dogs and Woolwich, were major targets during the war because of the docks. There is a block of flats being completed just now by the river. I've walked past it most days for the last 6 or 7 years. Last summer the path had to be closed for a while because the builders found what was described as 'ordnance' - an unexploded bomb - next to it. -- Cheers, Bob
Re: Digital: Motives for upgrade
On 12/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: 1. They actually planned to have the *ist D work like this but wanted to release the camera before they were able to implement the green button meter 2a. They rather cluelessly though no one would care about the difficulty of using K/M lenses on the *istD and when they saw some fuss they said Gee, sorry, we can fix that . . . 2b. They rather cluelessly though no one would care about the difficulty of using K/M lenses on the *istD and when someone suggested they could use the DOF preview button they said Wow, what a good idea. 3. With ruthless corporate thinking they tried to coerce people into buying more new lenses but realized they could sell more istD bodies if they fixed it. Or, they were afraid that the loss of compatibility might cause enough folks to switch to Canon. 4. The folks who want to use K/M lenses have no real impact on business but when Pentax had the time to get a round to it they found a work-around with the green button as a favor to long time loyal users.. The mechanical coupler is gone because it just doesn't really matter anymore in the big picture. 4!!! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
Re: FS: Excellent+ PZ-1p kit, 28-105 powerzoom, AF 500 FTZ flash
Joe, would you consider selling the grip strap by itself? I've been looking for one for a long time. I've had one backordered at BH for 2 1/2 months and I'm tired of waiting. It's 69.95 new at BH, so how about $50 including s/h? Josh
Re: Pizza Sign
Thanks for this. On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:55, Keith Whaley wrote: The use of the title former mayor is correct, Frits. . . So long as he's not the current mayor, he is a former mayor - so that would apply to Koch as well as Mr. Giuliani.. Just like my former wife. The former wife I still talk to prefers that title to ex-wife for some reason! g keith whaley Frits Wüthrich wrote: I thought Giuliani was the former mayor of NYC, or is it correct in English and it can be anyone who had the position in the past, not just the last one? On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:44, Steve Desjardins wrote: There is a great story that the former mayor of NY Ed Koch went into a restaurant (one sunny day). Another patron walked up to him, poked him in the chest and said you were a terrible mayor. Ed promptly relied in a loud voice you, to the applause of the rest of the restaurant. Steven Desjardins -- Frits Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pizza Sign
So 'a former' and 'the former' have the same meaning in this respect? On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:50, Steve Desjardins wrote: Anyone who has held the position is refereed to as a former or past mayor. For example, Clinton, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., are all referred to former presidents. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Frits Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boat, was: Unusual subjects to photo now OT
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 20:57, Bob W wrote: Once in a while the US news networks report that unexploded WWII bombs were found. Is that something that happens often? Not so often any more. Still, we do find them occasionally. Greenwich, where I live, and its neighbours Deptford, the Isle of Dogs and Woolwich, were major targets during the war because of the docks. There is a block of flats being completed just now by the river. I've walked past it most days for the last 6 or 7 years. Last summer the path had to be closed for a while because the builders found what was described as 'ordnance' - an unexploded bomb - next to it. This also happens in the Netherlands from time to time. People in neighburhoods surrounding the site are evacuated, sometimes the railroads and highways are closed for a short while. As the bombs get older it is getting more dangerous. Also we have places where complete bombers and their crew crashed into the sea, areas which are now reclaimed land. Very often this is left alone out of respect, or carefully removed, the families informed, and the bodies burried. A lot of planes on their way to Germany or their way back to England didn't make it. -- Frits Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Used DSLR prices
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Cotty wrote: I think all here who bought the *ist D would be very reluctant to sell in a year's time. Even in two. Yes, but for different reasons than D60 owners. :-P Kostas
Re: Pizza Sign
Frits Wüthrich wrote: So 'a former' and 'the former' have the same meaning in this respect? Yes. In English, the only difference would be, the former could mean there were no others, but allows for more. By saying the former mayor you eliminate any other possibilities as to who you mean. It somehow adds a little importance to the position. And to anyone who held that position. Makes him a little bigger, more important. He certainly wasn't the dog-catcher! g A former give this person no discinction at all. He's just one of many holding office. A former mayor might be distinguished for other reasons, so they just mention that that was one of his titles, but admits of no particular importance. keith whaley On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 19:50, Steve Desjardins wrote: Anyone who has held the position is refered to as a former or past mayor. For example, Clinton, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., are all referred to former presidents. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Frits Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boat, was: Unusual subjects to photo now OT
Bob W wrote: Hi, Bob, that stuff is interesting to me. They had a program on the tv here in the US about the huge graveyard full of plague victims that they found in London. we have plague pits everywhere. It killed a lot of people and some communities still have festivals every year to celebrate their salvation - particularly well-dressings in Derbyshire, where they garland the wells with flowers. [. . .] This sort of thing is quite common here, and presumably also in other parts of Europe. One of the interesting beneficial side-effects of the plague in England was that as a result of so many deaths, demand for agricultural labour outstripped supply, which led to significant improvements in the power of the common man, the end of feudalism and the birth of the idea of ordinary people having rights and freedoms. That's quite interesting! I never thought of it that way. Must have been asleep during that portion of my history lessons. When in Vienna one time, I visited a catacomb, under a cathedral I think, wherein tens of thousands of bones lie, all separated into femurs, skulls, humerous's, and such. Each bone had it's own place, and all skulls here, all femurs there, so neatly stacked. . . keith whaley
Re: Chromes
Thanks very much. I think I lean towards Kodak, and the more information I get on it, the more I like it. Meet? I heard there is a national meet somewhere, sometime, but I don't know anything about it. Maybe you could tell me about it, please? Rebekah a day without sunshine is like, you know, night. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 6:30 AM Subject: Re: Chromes,was: Hi there Hi For Chrome film,some of us TOPDMLers like Kodak 100vs.I also like the Fuji Provia 100. Dave Are those slide films? What is the difference between the two, in your opinion? Rebekah a day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Yes they are slide films.Doing an unscientific,side bt each comparison,i and several others find the VS to be a BIT more saturated,nicer blues in frames with a lot of sky. We had a chance to compare the Fuji and the Kodak at our last meet in November,using fall colours,shot my Jeff,using the Bronica RF645 on the same day and sites, and everyone of the group of 4 picked the VS as better. BTW it appears the meter on his RF645 is bang on. Hope that helps. Dave
Re: Pizza Sign
Also, of course, Ed Koch is rather well known and was mayor for quite a while. I have no real idea of how well known the mayor of NY is outside of the Northeast or the East Coast or the US. Mr. Giuliani is of course well known because of events on 9/11. BTW, I real do like the sign and the picture of it. I've always thought that movie is one of the great images of NY. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: *ist D resolution (was:Soon to be new istD owners)
Hi Rob Hmmm. Not so sure about how to test lens resolution on film. I'm sure 100 linepairs pr. mm has been occationally achieved on film. In those days the lenses was often setting the limmits. As opposed to todays technology where the CCD are setting the limits. Hav you ever seen digital images blown up to - let's say - 1200 x 1800mm. Like in a slide show. Or a moovie - made with 35mm film. Simple math tels me that 3000 pixel covering 24mm gives 125 pixel/mm. But you need three to make a PAIR of lines. Gives you appr. 43 line pairs/mm, right. So, using a 6MP body is like using the poorest lens ever made by Pentax - resoluton wise, of cource. Like 100 lp/mm seemed to be the sound wall of analog photography, it seems appr. 5000 dpi is the sound wall of current digital photography. But I'm sure they'll break throug this sometime soon. SONY is now marketing a 8MP consumer camera - with a 2.0 Carl Zeiss lens - for appr. 1000$ (Sony DSC F-828). Maybe we'll get there earlier than we relly want. My old faithful PZ1 has served me well for 12 years. How long do you think my Pentax *ist D will keep up - 2 years, 3 years? By the way - did you ever think about this - the digital photographic technology pretty much works like the human eye? All the best Jens -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 11. januar 2004 23:56 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: *ist D resolution (was:Soon to be new istD owners) On 11 Jan 2004 at 11:26, Herb Chong wrote: i don't know where you read that. there are a few sensors in use as digital backs that have that kind of dynamic range, but not the sensors in DSLRs. I'll eventually put up a page like I did for my Oly with my findings on this matter, see: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/contrast/ as for resolution, the conditions under which you can reliably achieve 100 line pairs per mm are when shooting resolution charts under high contrast conditions with very high resolution film on a tripod at high shutter speeds with a top lens at its optimum aperture and focus bracketed. It's not actually that difficult if you have gear that it well matched. the reason digital cameras can compete is that under real life conditions, few people can possibly exceed 40 line pairs per mm worth of resolution and that a digital SLR has negible amounts of noise compared to film even at higher ISO ratings. The *ist D sensor provides a theoretical 128 pixels per mm after demosaicing however in practical terms the body can only resolve between 45 and 50 lpmm, which is very close to what I expected. This figure I derived using bracketed focus on a technical target with optics that should provide well over 100lpmm on film. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: DIY Product table - results
With a song in his heart, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know you could probably build a few of these things and sell them on eBay to other people who sell things on eBay. My wife said something similar, although I perhaps I would not use such a sturdy framework. From my engineering days our motto was Build it like a brick s**t house, then re-inforce it, and true to this I went for a bit of overkill on the construction. It could easily have been made from lighter timber. An addition I may make at a later date is to put a sheet of glass beneath the acrylic sheet to support more weight. Or perhaps a thick piece of acrylic. Kind regards Kevin -- __ (_ \ _) ) | / / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \) \_||_| \) \) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia
Great quote snarfed off Usenet
I consider myself a technical expert: I know exactly why my pictures come out junk. ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
RE: *ist D resolution (was:Soon to be new istD owners)
On 12 Jan 2004 at 22:28, Jens Bladt wrote: Hi Rob Hmmm. Not so sure about how to test lens resolution on film. I'm sure 100 linepairs pr. mm has been occationally achieved on film. Hi Jens, Plenty of resources here: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/lenstesting/ Simple math tels me that 3000 pixel covering 24mm gives 125 pixel/mm. But you need three to make a PAIR of lines. Gives you appr. 43 line pairs/mm, right. So, using a 6MP body is like using the poorest lens ever made by Pentax - resoluton wise, of cource. Sure, the Kell factor in this case appears to be about 0.7 therefore the resolution in lpmm can effectively be calculated as 3008pixels/23.5mm/2pixels*0.7kell factor=44.8lpmm. I used a conventional test chart in conjunction with a very high resolution lens in order to reduce it's effect on the measurement and I calculated an optical resolution of 44.6lpmm and this was before I made any theoretical calculations. Like 100 lp/mm seemed to be the sound wall of analog photography, it seems appr. 5000 dpi is the sound wall of current digital photography. But I'm sure they'll break throug this sometime soon. SONY is now marketing a 8MP consumer camera - with a 2.0 Carl Zeiss lens - for appr. 1000$ (Sony DSC F-828). Maybe we'll get there earlier than we relly want. I don't think so, I doubt there will be that much to gain by making smaller pixels, look at the noise generated by the Pentax *istD at higher ISO already. Smaller pixels will reduce the effective exposure latitude, colour accuracy and increase the noise floor. By many accounts the F-828 offers more promises than performance. My old faithful PZ1 has served me well for 12 years. How long do you think my Pentax *ist D will keep up - 2 years, 3 years? You are probably right, 2-3 years, the *ist D isn't an ideal solution, nor is the Canon 1Ds, the Kodak comes closest at 14MP as it offers the same effective lpmm as the Pentax but using the full frame. Unfortunately it was before it's time technology wise however I am sure that it would be all that most photographers would ever require resolution wise. I don't think we'll see 24x36mm sensors with higher densities any time soon. By the way - did you ever think about this - the digital photographic technology pretty much works like the human eye? I think it may be a while before we are doing image capture Matrix style :-) Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: DSLR future wish-list
Hi! JF You missed the most important part: ... complete with LCD. JF I know I can trigger the shutter release - I don't even need a Palm JF Pilot (or other PDA) for that. I want to be able to look at the JF resulting image, histogram display, etc. I don't think we'll see JF that on the *ist-D, but I'd like to see it on a future camera model. Indeed I did miss that. That is I rather misunderstood you. You see, the highest modern PDA can go is either 320x240 (soon to be 640x480 or thereabouts) or 480x320... I don't know about you, but none of the above looks any reasonable to me for the purpose in discussion. So it kind of never occurred to me that you meant *that* g. I think that if I were rich enough to buy *istD or similar, I'd also buy big enough a card and shoot like crazy. Then I would review my stuff on the screen of my PC. At least, it is 17 and can do 1600x1200 if I ask nicely g. It is 1152x864 by default... That's not a lot of good when I'm 400 miles from home, and my camera is about 20' away from me on a bracket (and somewhere where I'm not allowed to stand). I'm just looking for a remote equivalent of the LCD screen on the back of the camera, which is perfectly good enough for checking exposure with the histogram, and something I don't want to give up if I don't have to. That's the purpose under discussion, and I think even a 320x240 PDA would be good enough for that. The instant exposure check with the histogram (and even focus check by zooming in to part of the resultant image) is a valuable part of the benefits from a digital camera, and not something to discard lightly.
Re: *ist D resolution (was:Soon to be new istD owners)
Simple math tels me that 3000 pixel covering 24mm gives 125 pixel/mm. But you need three to make a PAIR of lines. Sigh. Here we go again. You need two pixels (one black, one white) to make a pair of lines (also one black, one white). So 3000 pixels in 24mm is 62.5 lp/mm.
Re: OT: That Shot was: Pizza Sign
Don't you hate that, Pat? I never got a picture of it. And now it's gone. I hate missing opportunities like that. You've reminded me of something, and now I shall ramble a bit: A bar here in Toronto on Gerrard near Parliament (sort of a British style pub) used to have a derelict old Jag (I think it was a Mark IV saloon as I believe the Brits call sedans - but someone can correct me if I'm wrong on either the Mark IV or the saloon). There was something alluring about it, and I probably took dozens of pics of it over the years: http://urbancaravan.com/images/cabbagetown_jaguar.JPG http://urbancaravan.com/images/jag_grill.jpg http://urbancaravan.com/images/jag_peeking.jpg The scan of the first one is especially bad, even for me g, but those are just three of many shots. I never did get that one. You know, sometimes you take a shot of something, you know it's perfect, and you either know you need not shoot it again, because you'll never get it better, or in the alternative, you try shooting it again, but never quite capture that magic again. Well, I never got that shot of the Jag, and after several years of grabbing shots of it, I decided one day to try again, and it was gone. I was actually a bit sad. I know it sounds odd, but I felt like I had some sort of relationship with that car. Ah well. At least I got some decent (if not perfect) shots of it. cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Pat White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pizza Sign Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:37:22 -0800 Good photo, and cool sign! It reminded me of the Monster Donuts sign at the corner Weston Road and Jane Street in Toronto, featuring Godzilla or one of his kin munching a very large donut. Unfortunately, the sign's no longer there, and I never got a picture of it. Pat White _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
Re: Woo-hoo-DOH!
Very cool, Mark (pun intended - get it? Snowflakes? Cool? Okay, I didn't say it was either a good or a clever pun... g). Let me add my congrats! cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Woo-hoo-DOH! Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:56:16 -0800 Hi Mark ... Congratulations ... feels nice, doesn't it ;-)) MC I finally got my 15 minutes and likened myself to Homer Simpson (DOH! MC Slapping forehead..) MC http://www.newhouse.com/archive/sefton010604.html _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
Re: Is there an analog only Pentax list?
I too have the one for the MZ-S with two front sections, but compared to the MX version it can't be described as close-fitting. Nick -Original Message- From: wendy beard[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/01/04 04:13:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is there an analog only Pentax list? At 05:28 PM 10/01/2004 -0500, you wrote: Unfortunately Pentax seem to have given up making close fitting ERCs. Too many combinations now I suppose. Nick. No they haven't. I have one for my MZ-S Wendy Beard, Ottawa, Canada http://www.beard-redfern.com
Re: OT: That Shot was: Pizza Sign
My, what an abused ol' Jag! It would have cost about $8 to 10k or so to bring it back to some kind of shape. Darned near bought one like that. in San Francisco. Romantic town, to be driving around in a big old black Jag Saloon, all polished up! What a kick! I think fortunately I never did buy it. . . g It would cost a mint for upkeep! Especially since I wouldn't leave it with just anyone to work on it. Nice memories, tho'. keith whaley frank theriault wrote: Don't you hate that, Pat? I never got a picture of it. And now it's gone. I hate missing opportunities like that. You've reminded me of something, and now I shall ramble a bit: A bar here in Toronto on Gerrard near Parliament (sort of a British style pub) used to have a derelict old Jag (I think it was a Mark IV saloon as I believe the Brits call sedans - but someone can correct me if I'm wrong on either the Mark IV or the saloon). There was something alluring about it, and I probably took dozens of pics of it over the years: http://urbancaravan.com/images/cabbagetown_jaguar.JPG http://urbancaravan.com/images/jag_grill.jpg http://urbancaravan.com/images/jag_peeking.jpg The scan of the first one is especially bad, even for me g, but those are just three of many shots. I never did get that one. You know, sometimes you take a shot of something, you know it's perfect, and you either know you need not shoot it again, because you'll never get it better, or in the alternative, you try shooting it again, but never quite capture that magic again. Well, I never got that shot of the Jag, and after several years of grabbing shots of it, I decided one day to try again, and it was gone. I was actually a bit sad. I know it sounds odd, but I felt like I had some sort of relationship with that car. Ah well. At least I got some decent (if not perfect) shots of it. cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Pat White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pizza Sign Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:37:22 -0800 Good photo, and cool sign! It reminded me of the Monster Donuts sign at the corner Weston Road and Jane Street in Toronto, featuring Godzilla or one of his kin munching a very large donut. Unfortunately, the sign's no longer there, and I never got a picture of it. Pat White _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
Re: OT: Binoculars?
Rob, I recently bought my wife a Pentax DCF 8*42 HRII. They are considerably less expensive than the DCF 8*43 SP and waterproof too. Close focus is the only apparent difference. See the Pentax USA site to compare 3 models side by side. I really like the brightness of the binoculars. The 8*42/43 and 10*50's are great on brightness and long eye relief for eye-glasses wearers. Regards, Bob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thinking about the DCF 8*43 SP which replace the 'old' 8*42 WP. The WP's were said by some to be amongst the finest binoculars in the world. Anyone have any experience of the SP's? They are supposed to be brighter, smaller, lighter and focus closer! Also, in the more compact arena does anyone have any suggestions? I don't think I will go for any of these because the brightness is likely to be much poorer, but may eventually got some as a second pair...
Re: I want a FA 28-105mm f/3.2-4.5 AL IF...BUT NOT IN SILVER!
Good question. I've been wondering about that one for a while. I've see black 28-105 on BH website shortly after they began selling the lens. They sold out quickly and never appeared again. Maybe writing to BH or Adorama customer service to inquire about the possibility of ordering the lens directly from foreign Pentax distributor will help. Best regards, Albert
Re: *ist D resolution (was:Soon to be new istD owners)
- Original Message - From: John Francis replying to Jens Bladt Simple math tels me that 3000 pixel covering 24mm gives 125 pixel/mm. But you need three to make a PAIR of lines. Sigh. Here we go again. You need two pixels (one black, one white) to make a pair of lines (also one black, one white). So 3000 pixels in 24mm is 62.5 lp/mm. Jens, I take it you think of three adjacent sensors in RGB. Before you measure lp/mm, you have to interpolate (Bayer) the data for each pixel with data from the adjacent sensors. John, (or Rob or anyone...) This may be a stupid question, but is the relationship between lp/mm and sensors as straightforward as two adjacent sensors equal to one line pair, irrespective of sensor colour? cheers, Jostein
Re: I want a FA 28-105mm f/3.2-4.5 AL IF...BUT NOT IN SILVER!
Look on ebay. They are available there. Bob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read many good things about the lens in the subject line. I am considering making this the standard lens for an MZ-S of which I am awaiting shipment. This lens is apparently made in black, as well as silver, but the the silver appears to be the only version imported to the US. If I understand the Pentax Germany website, the black version can be obtained there, but the German price is significantly higher (289 Euros). Is it possible to get the black version in the US without paying a high (in excess of 15% of the silver price) premium?
10mpx step child
So what's up with the Sigma SD-10? It's reported to be a 10+ mpx dslr, yet it's rarely if ever mentioned here. is there some about it that makes it a dog, or is it one of those unrecognized and under appreciated cameras that we sometimes hear about too late?
RE: 10mpx step child
-Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So what's up with the Sigma SD-10? It's reported to be a 10+ mpx dslr, yet it's rarely if ever mentioned here. is there some about it that makes it a dog, or is it one of those unrecognized and under appreciated cameras that we sometimes hear about too late? I think it has its own proprietary mount, which would make it unattractive to me at least. It's a shame, because the camera appears to have some great features.
Re: 10mpx step child
Hello Shel, First and foremost to me, is that it only uses Sigma's proprietary mount for lenses. That means the only lenses you can ever get for this one are from Sigma. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, January 12, 2004, 3:51:09 PM, you wrote: SB So what's up with the Sigma SD-10? It's reported to be a 10+ mpx dslr, SB yet it's rarely if ever mentioned here. is there some about it that SB makes it a dog, or is it one of those unrecognized and under appreciated SB cameras that we sometimes hear about too late?
Re: Excellent+ PZ-1p kit, 28-105 powerzoom, AF 500 FTZ flash
I may be interested in your Z1P kit. Do you have any photos to show us condition? How much i.e. rolls of film shot etc.? - Original Message - From: Joe Wilensky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: FS: Excellent+ PZ-1p kit, 28-105 powerzoom, AF 500 FTZ flash FS: PZ-1p, purchased last year from KEH in EX+ condition. I'm offering it together with the original instruction manual, a full case and a bottom half of a case, and the grip strap (grip strap in EX condition -- just the lettering PENTAX is slightly worn). Kit will ship with a couple of new 2CR5 batteries. Camera works beautifully, has all its covers, and is in beautiful condition. The package also includes an EX+ condition FA 28-105 power zoom lens with a hard case (generic brand) and an AF 500 FTZ flash (good condition, works fine) with instruction manual. http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/wilensky/eBay/PZ-1p.jpg http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/wilensky/eBay/PZ-1p_front.jpg http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/wilensky/eBay/PZ-1p_top.jpg http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/wilensky/eBay/PZ-1p_grip.jpg Prices include shipping/insurance in the continental U.S., and I'll kick in a bit toward shipping costs overseas. Prices: $425 for PZ-1p with grip strap/batteries/case, $125 for the 28-105 zoom. $125 for the flash if other parts of the kit are purchased. Joe -- Joe Wilensky Staff Writer Communication and Marketing Services 1150 Comstock Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-2601 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 607-255-1575 fax: 607-255-9873
Re: Excellent+ PZ-1p kit, 28-105 powerzoom, AF 500 FTZ flash
Do you have manuals for everything? - Original Message - From: Joe Wilensky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: FS: Excellent+ PZ-1p kit, 28-105 powerzoom, AF 500 FTZ flash FS: PZ-1p, purchased last year from KEH in EX+ condition. I'm offering it together with the original instruction manual, a full case and a bottom half of a case, and the grip strap (grip strap in EX condition -- just the lettering PENTAX is slightly worn). Kit will ship with a couple of new 2CR5 batteries. Camera works beautifully, has all its covers, and is in beautiful condition. The package also includes an EX+ condition FA 28-105 power zoom lens with a hard case (generic brand) and an AF 500 FTZ flash (good condition, works fine) with instruction manual. http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/wilensky/eBay/PZ-1p.jpg http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/wilensky/eBay/PZ-1p_front.jpg http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/wilensky/eBay/PZ-1p_top.jpg http://people.clarityconnect.com/webpages/wilensky/eBay/PZ-1p_grip.jpg Prices include shipping/insurance in the continental U.S., and I'll kick in a bit toward shipping costs overseas. Prices: $425 for PZ-1p with grip strap/batteries/case, $125 for the 28-105 zoom. $125 for the flash if other parts of the kit are purchased. Joe -- Joe Wilensky Staff Writer Communication and Marketing Services 1150 Comstock Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-2601 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 607-255-1575 fax: 607-255-9873
Re: Good database for wedding clients?
she wants contact management software, not a database. Act! is one that i hear a lot of good things about. it's not specific to photographic uses and i don't see why she needs something that is that specific. Herb - Original Message - From: Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:13 AM Subject: Good database for wedding clients? A friend of mine who shoots 10-20 weddings a year is looking for recommendations for a good database program to let her keep track of client info for the next 10+ years. It will be for pre-wedding info as well, so it needs to be able to record all the stuff photographers need to know about the clients and their requirements. It needs to be searchable by client name, date, etc., and able to be sorted according to those fields (ie. can call up every wedding from a particular year, or shot at a particular location).
Re: 10mpx step child
- Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff Subject: 10mpx step child So what's up with the Sigma SD-10? It's reported to be a 10+ mpx dslr, yet it's rarely if ever mentioned here. is there some about it that makes it a dog, or is it one of those unrecognized and under appreciated cameras that we sometimes hear about too late? Well, to start with, it's not a Pentax, so right away it is off topic. Not that this has ever stopped us. I suppose no one here gets penis envy over a Sigma like we do over a Nikon or Canon. William Robb
Re: *ist D resolution (was:Soon to be new istD owners)
- Original Message - From: Jens Bladt Subject: RE: *ist D resolution (was:Soon to be new istD owners) with 35mm film. Simple math tels me that 3000 pixel covering 24mm gives 125 pixel/mm. But you need three to make a PAIR of lines. Gives you appr. 43 line pairs/mm, right. So, using a 6MP body is like using the poorest lens ever made by Pentax - resoluton wise, of cource. You show me any lens anywhere that can do significantly better than 43lppm under real world (not high res test target) situations. With digital capture, there is no resolution loss when subject contrast drops, unlike film.. The thing about film and lenses is that they increase in resolving power as contrast increases. Thats why people like to look at the 1000:1 TOC numbers. In the real world, a TOC of 1.6:1 is considered closer to normal, and 43 lppm is very good indeed. William Robb
Re: Digital: Motives for upgrade
market analysts today reported that Kodak's film sales, excluding disposables, was down about 17.6% from a year ago, and that Fuji's film sales, excluding disposables, dropped by 25.8%. both of these drops were larger than expected. Herb - Original Message - From: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:13 PM Subject: RE: Digital: Motives for upgrade Hi Jim I think a lot of us have had similar considerations. Sticking to film isn't such a bad idea. Digital photography still has a long way to go. 3000 dots in a 24 mm CCD still equals just 3000 dpi. Printed in - let's just say - 300 dpi - still just gives you a 240 mm print (a prin sized 160 x240mm = less than A4). Any size above that requires the computer or printer to invent pixels, that were not in the scene you shot. A 35mm neg can retain 78MP. So waiting semms to be OK.
Re: *ist D resolution (was:Soon to be new istD owners)
John, (or Rob or anyone...) This may be a stupid question, but is the relationship between lp/mm and sensors as straightforward as two adjacent sensors equal to one line pair, irrespective of sensor colour? Not quite, because the sensor colour does enter into it. But if your stimulus pattern is black-and-white lines, two sensors do equal one line pair, pretty much, if the interpolation is done based just on intensity. If, however, the stimulus is black-and-red (or black- and-blue) lines, you only get half the spatial resolution, so you need four sensors to get a distinguishable line pair. Black-and-green falls somewhere in between. In real life, of course, most patterns are lower-contrast than all black/all white, so deliver lower than theoretical maximum resolution. But they tend to be closer to black-and- white than to single-sensor colours, so the right limit to use is the two-sensor-per-line-pair number. It all depends on the input colours, the contrast ratio, and most of all on the quality of the image reconstruction algorithms (commonly referred to as Bayer interpolation).
Re: 10mpx step child
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Shel Belinkoff wrote: So what's up with the Sigma SD-10? It's reported to be a 10+ mpx dslr, yet it's rarely if ever mentioned here. is there some about it that makes it a dog, or is it one of those unrecognized and under appreciated cameras that we sometimes hear about too late? Well, this is a Pentax list. I'm not sure why we would talk about Sigma cameras (but that is more on topic than 50% of what is on this list anyway...this list has really gone downhill). The Sigma D-SLRs use 3.3mp sensors that capture full R, G, and B for each pixel. They are advertising this as a 10mp camera, but that is not really true. I personally think that the images compare pretty well to 6mp D-SLRs but they are far short of what you see from the 11mp Canon. I don't think that I would buy a camera from a 3rd party lens manufacturer. With a Pentax/Nikon/Canon/Minolta camera you can buy lenses from many sources (Pentax, Sigma, Tokina, Tamron, etc). With a Sigma camera you can only buy lenses from Sigma. alex
Re: 10mpx step child
So what's up with the Sigma SD-10? It's reported to be a 10+ mpx dslr, yet it's rarely if ever mentioned here. is there some about it that makes it a dog, or is it one of those unrecognized and under appreciated cameras that we sometimes hear about too late? It's not really a 10+mpix dslr; it's a 3.3+mpix dslr, but one which measures R,G B values at every pixel (it uses the Foveon sensor). Sigma call it a 10MP camera because it takes as many samples as a digital camera with a 10MP Bayer-pattern sensor. It doesn't have the spatial resolution of a 6MP *ist-D (or even a D2H), but it doesn't suffer from chrominance aliasing or any of the other artifacts created by Bayer interpolation. For some purposes it will out-perform the *ist-D or the Nikon D2H. On other subjects it won't perform much better than a 3.3MP Optio.
Re: Where can I get a grip strap for PZ1p?
KEH has one. They list a base without a strap and also a grip strap, which to my knowlege should mean the base and the strap (the strap won't work without the base). Hopefully the link here will work, if not go to www.keh.com an then used then 35 mm pentax then accesories, then grips. Hope this helps Greg Cooper - Original Message - From: Mark Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML - Pentax (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:05 AM Subject: Where can I get a grip strap for PZ1p? Where can I get a grip strap for PZ1p? Mark Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: *ist D grab shot
Burnt out whites, it isn't properly focused? but what's strange about the image? :-) http://members.ozemail.com.au/~audiob/temp/_igp0874m.jpg
Re: Rain Picture
Hi Frank, I suppose, in great part, that's what photography is all about. Like radio, it allows you to put yourself into the scene, into the picture as it were. There was a series of books many years ago called the Foxfire Books. In one volume a young woman was interviewing a woman in her eighties, and asked if she missed not having a television. The older woman replied that she didn't need a television, she had a fireplace. Perhaps a photo is something like a fireplace ... shel frank theriault wrote: I imagine that she'd be great to great to sit down and have coffee or tea with; she'd have some great life stories to tell. Like I said, I've no idea if my thoughts have much to do with reality, but those things are what I thought and felt when I looked at your photo.
Re: 10mpx step child
Plus it's the same 3.34 mp foveon chip that's in the SD-9. Since it doesn't use the Bayer pattern interpolation they have gone on to call it a 10 mp chip (3.34x3) Plus the lens mount issue plus the very high (@X) magnification factor over 35mm. Check out DP review for more info. Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
Re: boat, was: Unusual subjects to photo now OT
Nah, There's still lots of Goth places around Queen and Bathurst. It would be fun to go down around there some night and shoot some of them. I do like bw film and they'd look best in bw... Thanks for the idea, Pat! g cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Pat White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: boat, was: Unusual subjects to photo now OT Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:51:29 -0800 Frank, did you ever get a picture of Sanctuary, the vampire sex bar, on Queen West? When driving by late in the evening, I always chuckled at the sight of the wannabe vampires with the white faces and the black lipstick. Goth Central. It saddened me when it became a Starbucks about three or four years ago... Pat White _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcommpgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca
Re: Rain Picture
I can sit for hours in front of a fireplace or (even better) a campfire. Great analogy, that. cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Frank, I suppose, in great part, that's what photography is all about. Like radio, it allows you to put yourself into the scene, into the picture as it were. There was a series of books many years ago called the Foxfire Books. In one volume a young woman was interviewing a woman in her eighties, and asked if she missed not having a television. The older woman replied that she didn't need a television, she had a fireplace. Perhaps a photo is something like a fireplace ... shel _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/viruspgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca
Re: OT: Binoculars?
Hi Bob, I have a set of the Olympus10 x 25 RC IIs. Love 'em! Also known as Outback. They too are bright and rubber coated, and exceptionally clear. Rubber eye cups that roll back for eyeglass wearers. keith whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob, I recently bought my wife a Pentax DCF 8*42 HRII. They are considerably less expensive than the DCF 8*43 SP and waterproof too. Close focus is the only apparent difference. See the Pentax USA site to compare 3 models side by side. I really like the brightness of the binoculars. The 8*42/43 and 10*50's are great on brightness and long eye relief for eye-glasses wearers. Regards, Bob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thinking about the DCF 8*43 SP which replace the 'old' 8*42 WP. The WP's were said by some to be amongst the finest binoculars in the world. Anyone have any experience of the SP's? They are supposed to be brighter, smaller, lighter and focus closer! Also, in the more compact arena does anyone have any suggestions? I don't think I will go for any of these because the brightness is likely to be much poorer, but may eventually got some as a second pair...
Re: Chromes,was: Hi there
A highly subjective, quick and dirty run down of the major Echtacrome slide films (ISO 100 and less): Velvia: (ISO 50, many people shoot it at ISO 40): Delicious saturated colors, saturated but accurate, fine grained, high contrast (especially at ISO 50), narrow latitude, the standard for many nature photographers. Obviously, very slow. Provia (ISO 100): Fine grained, good color accuracy and saturation but rather low contrast. Decent latitude. Also the standard for many nature photographers. I bought a brick of it last year - it's OK and I got some good shots using it. I prefer the Kodak emulsions that are a bit punchier but would use Provia without a second thought if need be. Kodak E10oG: I've only shot one roll of this. It's said to be nearly identical to the E100S film that it replaced. E100S was fine grained, had a bit more saturation and contrast than Provia (IMO), about the same latitude. It's been my standard for serious work - I still have a brick in the freezer and will probably switch to E100G when it's gone. What I like about this film is the color accuracy and saturation - when I look at the fine gradients in a bird's feathers, IMO E100S and Vevlia do the best job of capturing the subtle tonal changes. But I miss too many bird shots with the slow shutter speeds with Velvia, so prefer E100S. Kodak E100 VS: Very saturated, not quite as fine grained as E100S / E100G, higher contrast. Can be a great film in the right conditions. My #2 choice after E100S. Sensia: I've hardly ever used it so have no opinion. Kodak Elite Chrome: Kodak's consumer ISO 100 standard saturation slide film. Good stuff, great with reds, a little more grainy and less sharp than E100S. Kodak Elite Chrome EBX: The high saturation consumer slide film. Wickedly sharp, somewhat grainy, very punchy colors and high contrast. I've not used the Agfa RSX films for some time, but found them to be quite good a few yeas ago when I did try them out. Hope this helps - MCC At 11:30 AM 1/12/2004 -0600, you wrote: Hi For Chrome film,some of us TOPDMLers like Kodak 100vs.I also like the Fuji Provia 100. Dave Are those slide films? What is the difference between the two, in your opinion? Rebekah a day without sunshine is like, you know, night. - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, MI http://www.markcassino.com -
Ducks
Hey, I'm going out to shoot pictures of ducks tomorrow at a nearby moat. Water, pine trees and grass. Any tips and pointers? Please and thank you. :o) Oh, and it will probably be either overcast and bright or sunny and bright. Really bright. Rebekah a day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Re: *ist D grab shot
You got painted ladies down in Oz? (The butterflies of course...) - MCC At 12:15 PM 1/13/2004 +1000, you wrote: I just made a hand-held grab shot of a butterfly on my brick wall using a Lanthar 125/2.5 APO Macro lens. Camera was set at ISO800 exposure was 1/125th @ f3.5 but what's strange about the image? :-) http://members.ozemail.com.au/~audiob/temp/_igp0874m.jpg (220kB) Also here is a later moon shot with optimum lens/tc combo and settings: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~audiob/temp/imgp0618m.jpg (95kB) Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, MI http://www.markcassino.com -
Re: Chromes,was: Hi there
Wow! Thanks so much. I will definitely save that for future reference. What kind of birds do you take pictures of? Is that a hobby or your job? Rebekah a day without sunshine is like, you know, night. - Original Message - From: Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Chromes,was: Hi there A highly subjective, quick and dirty run down of the major Echtacrome slide films (ISO 100 and less): Velvia: (ISO 50, many people shoot it at ISO 40): Delicious saturated colors, saturated but accurate, fine grained, high contrast (especially at ISO 50), narrow latitude, the standard for many nature photographers. Obviously, very slow. Provia (ISO 100): Fine grained, good color accuracy and saturation but rather low contrast. Decent latitude. Also the standard for many nature photographers. I bought a brick of it last year - it's OK and I got some good shots using it. I prefer the Kodak emulsions that are a bit punchier but would use Provia without a second thought if need be. Kodak E10oG: I've only shot one roll of this. It's said to be nearly identical to the E100S film that it replaced. E100S was fine grained, had a bit more saturation and contrast than Provia (IMO), about the same latitude. It's been my standard for serious work - I still have a brick in the freezer and will probably switch to E100G when it's gone. What I like about this film is the color accuracy and saturation - when I look at the fine gradients in a bird's feathers, IMO E100S and Vevlia do the best job of capturing the subtle tonal changes. But I miss too many bird shots with the slow shutter speeds with Velvia, so prefer E100S. Kodak E100 VS: Very saturated, not quite as fine grained as E100S / E100G, higher contrast. Can be a great film in the right conditions. My #2 choice after E100S. Sensia: I've hardly ever used it so have no opinion. Kodak Elite Chrome: Kodak's consumer ISO 100 standard saturation slide film. Good stuff, great with reds, a little more grainy and less sharp than E100S. Kodak Elite Chrome EBX: The high saturation consumer slide film. Wickedly sharp, somewhat grainy, very punchy colors and high contrast. I've not used the Agfa RSX films for some time, but found them to be quite good a few yeas ago when I did try them out. Hope this helps - MCC At 11:30 AM 1/12/2004 -0600, you wrote: Hi For Chrome film,some of us TOPDMLers like Kodak 100vs.I also like the Fuji Provia 100. Dave Are those slide films? What is the difference between the two, in your opinion? Rebekah a day without sunshine is like, you know, night. - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, MI http://www.markcassino.com -
Re: 10mpx step child
At 10:19 PM 1/12/2004 -0500, Butch Black wrote: Plus it's the same 3.34 mp foveon chip that's in the SD-9. Since it doesn't use the Bayer pattern interpolation they have gone on to call it a 10 mp chip (3.34x3) Plus the lens mount issue plus the very high (@X) magnification factor over 35mm. Check out DP review for more info. I was wondering about that. I know a guy who has a Leaf Volare' camera back and considers it to be an 18 megapixel camera, since it takes three 6 megapixel shots using red, green, blue filters. The color accuracy is indeed exceptional (though you can't shoot anything that is not stationary) but the resolution is only 6 megapixels. - MCC - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, MI http://www.markcassino.com -
Re: 10mpx step child
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 10mpx step child ICKY! We have a winner in the Grossest Comment of the Year contest, and 2004 is but a few days old. Glad I could help out. William Robb
Re: Ducks
Rebekah Gonzalez wrote: Hey, I'm going out to shoot pictures of ducks tomorrow at a nearby moat. Water, pine trees and grass. Any tips and pointers? Please and thank you. :o) Oh, and it will probably be either overcast and bright or sunny and bright. Really bright. Rebekah a day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Actually, Rebekah, a day without sunshine is like, you know, a great day to take photos - certainly true if you are photoing animals -- annsan
RE: Rain Picture
You can. -Original Message- From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9-Jan-04 16:18 To: pentax list Subject: Re: Rain Picture On 9/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Just a quick grab shot taken earlier today ... comments welcome http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/paper.html Cracking great shot. Love it. I wish I could do street as good as you and Frank T.
Re: Ducks
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:30:52 -0500, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Actually, Rebekah, a day without sunshine is like, you know, NIGHT! TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
Re: Ducks
I'm sorry is my quote like annoying to everyone? I actually like overcast days that are bright and leave no shadows also, Ann. - Original Message - From: Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:14 AM Subject: Re: Ducks On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:30:52 -0500, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Actually, Rebekah, a day without sunshine is like, you know, NIGHT! TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
