Re: My Daughter's Big Break
On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:13 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: I missed the first report, and are late on this one too. I hope for a fast recovery. This isn't very relevant, but today marks 1 year since I broke my collar bone. I've even managed to avoid breaking more since then (I had one good attempt at my spine but managed to come out with only bruising). After saying that I bet I'll be collected by a bus tomorrow :) - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
Interesting to see your arguments, John. Some comments are interspersed below: 2008/10/13 John Celio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So you *want* government-sanctioned art portraying smoking as cool? Golly gee, that's a fabulous idea. What's next, Scottish stamps of Ewan McGregor shooting up heroin? Jamaican stamps of Bob Marley smoking pot? Great, send them to the presses! Maybe we could make them old-fashioned lick-em stamps and put some LSD in the paper. How's that for stretching an argument? None of those drugs were ever socially accepted and you know that. Why on earth do you want those pics on stamps in the first place? But okay, if that's what you want on your correspondance, I still think that portraits should go undoctored. Can't say that I remember any famous photogs of the situations you describe, btw. It's a painting of a photo of a dead celebrity. I'd barely count that as history. I can see being mad about a stamp portraying important historical figures like Douglas MacArthur without his pipe or George W. Bush with a brain, but an actress (who made no significant contributions to human history besides looking pretty and becoming the subject of a Rod Stewart song) without a cigarrette? Come on. I'm coming on. :-) There are countless photos of Dubya out there trying to portray him more favourably than (in my opinion) his foreign policies should give him credit for, but I'm sure they'll pick one of those when it comes to honor him with a stamp of his own. But it'd be wrong to tamper with it nonetheless, wouldn't it? I don't know who Douglas MacArthur is. As for the actress in question, she smoked. So what? If it's so damned important to decorate letters with her portrait, then choose either (1) to use a portrait that shows her for what she was in a time when smoking was socially acceptable, or (2) go find a portrait where she's without the cigarette in the first place. As it stands now, it really is just another case for the photoshopdisasters blog. On a tangential note, I would like to ask you about another famous historical photograph, where Nikita Khrushchev was banging his shoe on the table in the UN assembly: http://www.kp.ru/upimg/logo/18951.jpg The event is documented in many places, but the photo is a hoax. A rather bad one too, as you can see even on the small web-image that the shoe is pasted in. Would you consider this manipulation to be acceptable too, since the event took place without being photographed? sincerely, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: leaf
Nice one! The contrast between the leaf and the imprint on the concrete really makes it. best, Jostein 2008/10/13 Luka Knezevic-Strika [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z93/posluzno/Photo32_3S2d.jpg spotmatic sp II, super tak 50 1.4, fuji pro 160s -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Cape May Wildwood, NJ
On 12/10/08, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: The snake, lighthouse, and cottontail are my faves. Since the Dawn of Man, I cannot see how this sequence of words has ever before met up in the same sentence - in any language, anywhere in the world. Congrats on a first Rick. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Silver Pants
Oh, hey, wait a minute..I think the pavarotti finally found me. Looks like she has the runway walk down. Nice bold grab. Paparazzi perhaps? Pavarotti was, IIRC, an Italian singer. That completely changes the tenor of the shot. True, but I think the photograph still strikes the right chord for a lot of us. She was music to my eyes, for sure. BTW, that's a decent pick-up line. I tried it on her, but it struck sour note. Wouldn't mind tightening up her G string :) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
Martin Trautmann wrote: Is there any reasonable explanation for http://www.pentaximaging.com/products/product_specs/digital_camera--K2000_Lens_and_Flash_System/reqID--10540163/subsection--digital_slr - other than stupidity? Mess. K2000 names the KAF3 lens mount (for the body itself!) - and names compatibility for KAF2. Scroll down that page and you'll see the camera mount is stated to be KAF2. I doubt that KAF3 would be KAF2 without mechanical AF drive, but it's hard to say as long als Pentax messes up those things themselves. I fully agree. Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
Martin Trautmann wrote: I doubt that KAF3 would be KAF2 without mechanical AF drive, but it's hard to say as long als Pentax messes up those things themselves. Just look at the endless mess they did by not distinguishing the crippled KAF2 from the true KAF2 and you'll have no more doubts about the ability of Pentax to mess up things. All that mess produced in Pentax instruction manuals and public knowledge - just because a marketing genious didn't want to give different names to different bayonets - will never cease. At least this time they introduced the KAF3 name... Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
Martin, I agree it doesn't make much sense on the camera side of things except to state the range of compatibility. On the lens side of things, KAF3 means that it won't AF with a KAF2 camera. When a camera is described as compatible with both 2 and 3, I assume it supports lenses with either shaft-driven and the SDM AF. I wouldn't expect PowerZoom functionality, though, which is what the SDM contacts were used for in KAF2. Still with the reservation of having got this right myself... :-) If you look at the joint press release for the 55mm and 60-250, for example, the prime is KAF3 and the zoom KAF2, but both have SDM. Jostein 2008/10/13 Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the official thing about KAF3 is lack of support for camera-driven AF, leaving the lens or camera with SDM as the only means of AF. Hi Jostein, could be. Is there any reasonable explanation for http://www.pentaximaging.com/products/product_specs/digital_camera--K2000_Lens_and_Flash_System/reqID--10540163/subsection--digital_slr - other than stupidity? K2000 names the KAF3 lens mount (for the body itself!) - and names compatibility for KAF2. I doubt that KAF3 would be KAF2 without mechanical AF drive, but it's hard to say as long als Pentax messes up those things themselves. Thanks, Martin -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
I think the official thing about KAF3 is lack of support for camera-driven AF, leaving the lens or camera with SDM as the only means of AF. Hi Jostein, could be. Is there any reasonable explanation for http://www.pentaximaging.com/products/product_specs/digital_camera--K2000_Lens_and_Flash_System/reqID--10540163/subsection--digital_slr - other than stupidity? K2000 names the KAF3 lens mount (for the body itself!) - and names compatibility for KAF2. I doubt that KAF3 would be KAF2 without mechanical AF drive, but it's hard to say as long als Pentax messes up those things themselves. Thanks, Martin -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
Martin, I think the official thing about KAF3 is lack of support for camera-driven AF, leaving the lens or camera with SDM as the only means of AF. Jostein 2008/10/13 Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, is KAF3 the official name now? Is there any change, other than adding support for SDM (Supersonic Drive Motor) support? http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/technology/summary/index.html ends at crippled KAF2 for 1997. It does name the latest models up to the K20D, but does not name the K-m (K2000D) yet. It does not differ between KAF3 and KAF2. Same for e.g. dpreview.com: they did not update the specs for K10D (after firmware update), K100D super and upwards. Thanks, Martin -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/6169196 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Silver Pants
From: Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/10/13 Mon AM 02:34:03 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants --- On Sun, 10/12/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 12, 2008, at 7:59 PM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants Rick Womer wrote: From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, hey, wait a minute..I think the pavarotti finally found me. Looks like she has the runway walk down. Nice bold grab. Paparazzi perhaps? Pavarotti was, IIRC, an Italian singer. That completely changes the tenor of the shot. True, but I think the photograph still strikes the right chord for a lot of us. She was music to my eyes, for sure. BTW, that's a decent pick-up line. I tried it on her, but it struck sour note. It was flat, so you gave it a rest and went to the bar. (If you were a Brit, there would have been a quaver in your voice, at minim). If he had been a Brit, he would have struck a bum note. - Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Guitars
Thanks for all advice received. Have ordered a Telecaster Nashville and Super Champ XD amp http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/8/7/8/267878.jpg http://www.sweetwater.com/store/closeup/SuperChampXD--Main Looks like I'm destined to be an oldie roadie - oh well, beats working for a living! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Silver Pants
What, have I missed a pun thread? Darn. Jostein 2008/10/13 Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or..twanging her G string. J --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants To: pentax list PDML@pdml.net Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 1:37 AM Oh, hey, wait a minute..I think the pavarotti finally found me. Looks like she has the runway walk down. Nice bold grab. Paparazzi perhaps? Pavarotti was, IIRC, an Italian singer. That completely changes the tenor of the shot. True, but I think the photograph still strikes the right chord for a lot of us. She was music to my eyes, for sure. BTW, that's a decent pick-up line. I tried it on her, but it struck sour note. Wouldn't mind tightening up her G string :) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Guitars
Looks like a nice, classic combo. A lot less spooky than my new guitar for sure -Adam Who just picked up an Ibanez RGTHRG1 H.R. Giger Signature guitar. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all advice received. Have ordered a Telecaster Nashville and Super Champ XD amp http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/8/7/8/267878.jpg http://www.sweetwater.com/store/closeup/SuperChampXD--Main Looks like I'm destined to be an oldie roadie - oh well, beats working for a living! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Guitars
On 13/10/08, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: Looks like a nice, classic combo. A lot less spooky than my new guitar for sure Which is? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
Prompted by Jos's efforts, I found the base image here: http://classicmoviefavorites.com/davis/davis051.jpg It also happens to be the image on the cover of Bette Davis Speaks as pictured on Amazon.com. Even though the image has differently posed hands, I overlaid one on the other and found that Davis's face is 100% identical in both. The problem is that there is no cigarette in this shot, so I'm left with egg on my face and with much diminished respect for Roger Ebert who has apparently misled me. Still, I'm not too sure. WTF, I wonder, was the artist thinking when he altered Davis's hand to a position that seemed to hold an invisible cigarette when the source image unequivocally lacked a cigarette. But I'm not so certain that the book image is the source. The tonality of the glove is strange, and the coat looks patchy where Davis's hand would be according to the postage stamp version. I suspect that Bette Davis's smoking has been censored both times. The book cover version has concealed her smoking habit as much as airbrush retouching could achieve. Paradoxically, the modern artist has very likely made the truer rendition by leaving the cigarette's omission evident. It's a shame that the oldest findable version of this picture is the biography cover. The original studio release would settle any doubts. BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture that has been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp. Regards, Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AlunFoto Sent: Monday, 13 October 2008 9:42 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history I will moderate my stance on this one. Spent the lunch break zooming through a couple of internet databases on stills from Bette Davis career. There was a link to a youTube clip from All about Eve on the original blogpost, which came close as a possible inspiration for the stamp, where she's wearing the same coat, haircut and mittens. However if this is the source, the stamp must be regarded as an independent work of art however photorealistic it seems. So only one question remains. Would depicting Bette Davis with a cigarette in hand on a stamp actually promote smoking? I don't think so, but I'm open to arguments... :-) best, Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Guitars
Yeah.. no kidding.. Pics or BAN! CW Cotty wrote: On 13/10/08, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: Looks like a nice, classic combo. A lot less spooky than my new guitar for sure Which is? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1721 - Release Date: 10/12/2008 12:00 PM -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
KAF3 is SDM-only interface (see the DA 17-70mm). Currently, it's only been implemented on lens side, but there's nothing preventing it to show up on cameras too. Nikon has done something like that with the D40 series. Dario - Original Message - From: Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:56 AM Subject: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support? Hi all, is KAF3 the official name now? Is there any change, other than adding support for SDM (Supersonic Drive Motor) support? http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/technology/summary/index.html ends at crippled KAF2 for 1997. It does name the latest models up to the K20D, but does not name the K-m (K2000D) yet. It does not differ between KAF3 and KAF2. Same for e.g. dpreview.com: they did not update the specs for K10D (after firmware update), K100D super and upwards. Thanks, Martin -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/6169196 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
Well done to find that image, Anthony! Now it looks like the artist has improved the shot to hint at her smoking habit. Not sure if I accept the tampering yet, but all of a sudden the stamp pic is more in the same class as is the Shoe Incident with Nikita Khrushchev... Although this is more cleverly done. I was certainly had. :-) Best, Jostein 2008/10/13 Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Prompted by Jos's efforts, I found the base image here: http://classicmoviefavorites.com/davis/davis051.jpg It also happens to be the image on the cover of Bette Davis Speaks as pictured on Amazon.com. Even though the image has differently posed hands, I overlaid one on the other and found that Davis's face is 100% identical in both. The problem is that there is no cigarette in this shot, so I'm left with egg on my face and with much diminished respect for Roger Ebert who has apparently misled me. Still, I'm not too sure. WTF, I wonder, was the artist thinking when he altered Davis's hand to a position that seemed to hold an invisible cigarette when the source image unequivocally lacked a cigarette. But I'm not so certain that the book image is the source. The tonality of the glove is strange, and the coat looks patchy where Davis's hand would be according to the postage stamp version. I suspect that Bette Davis's smoking has been censored both times. The book cover version has concealed her smoking habit as much as airbrush retouching could achieve. Paradoxically, the modern artist has very likely made the truer rendition by leaving the cigarette's omission evident. It's a shame that the oldest findable version of this picture is the biography cover. The original studio release would settle any doubts. BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture that has been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp. Regards, Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AlunFoto Sent: Monday, 13 October 2008 9:42 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history I will moderate my stance on this one. Spent the lunch break zooming through a couple of internet databases on stills from Bette Davis career. There was a link to a youTube clip from All about Eve on the original blogpost, which came close as a possible inspiration for the stamp, where she's wearing the same coat, haircut and mittens. However if this is the source, the stamp must be regarded as an independent work of art however photorealistic it seems. So only one question remains. Would depicting Bette Davis with a cigarette in hand on a stamp actually promote smoking? I don't think so, but I'm open to arguments... :-) best, Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: St. Petersburg Youth Accordion Orchestra it Tallinn
I'm far behind on commenting. There are things in my life keeping me away from the list. But I'd like to share a personal observation. Accordians looks a lot better when you photograph them extended. A closed accordian is dead, an open one is alive. Just my two øre ;-) MaritimTim 2008/9/27 Roman Melihhov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://roman.blakout.net/?year=2008s=0category=portraitblog=20080927224146 ^^^ I'll equip story with the names of the solists later on, it has been a lot of work with photos for one day and I kinda like em. Comments are always welcome. You may browse through entire 4 sets. I can barely keep my eyes open. It's one exxhausting, yet lovely day... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- MaritimTim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
AlunFoto wrote: So only one question remains. Would depicting Bette Davis with a cigarette in hand on a stamp actually promote smoking? I don't think so, but I'm open to arguments... :-) Because some people seem to think that if you photograph it, it becomes cool, or something like that. I guess. Kinda like how video games promote violence, rap music tricks all who hear it into joining a gang, and LOLCats makes us believe that cats have really bad grammar. I once saw a picture of a man who was completely covered in tattoos. As soon as I have enough money.. ;) -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, PA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
Is there any change, other than adding support for SDM (Supersonic Drive Motor) support? side note: pentax.de names SDM as Super Dynamic Motor (google: 18 instead of 88 hits) I'm afraid that Pentax never ever will learn how to use matching names for their products. Upper or lower case, with or without dashes, maybe it's all the same for a company which is used to Japanese text. -- Pt! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
Ok, Jostein -- Never heard of Douglas McArthur? If I said WWII and Midway and called him a General will a light bulb go on? is Old soldiers never die, they just fade away a phrase you might heard ? anyway -- here is stuff about him. http://tinyurl.com/53pjzv Here is a much reprinted photo I googled for: http://tinyurl.com/3pzqbz http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/mydans_carl_general_macarthur_landing_luzon_philippines_1945_16x20_L.jpg Throughout my childhood I was told that the short soldier beind him and to _his_ right was my half-brother, LT. Sterling A. Blackstone... who was killed in April of 1945 when a plane he was in was either shot down or just crashed. He is buried in Luzon. However, while he was one of McArthur's lieutenant's, he may have been elsewhere in that group - one of my kin thought something about him didn't look quite right -- but she is 5 years younger than I am and is judging only from photos - where as I idolized him I think it was New Years eve of 1942 when he picked up a sandwich from the floor and ate it. I was 6... I thought him very brave. :-) As to Robert Johnson, I have this recording of his work (an ebay listing, not mine) http://tinyurl.com/3gus7h no cig. I never knew the bit about Khruschev photo doctoring. ann AlunFoto wrote: Well done to find that image, Anthony! Now it looks like the artist has improved the shot to hint at her smoking habit. Not sure if I accept the tampering yet, but all of a sudden the stamp pic is more in the same class as is the Shoe Incident with Nikita Khrushchev... Although this is more cleverly done. I was certainly had. :-) Best, Jostein 2008/10/13 Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Prompted by Jos's efforts, I found the base image here: http://classicmoviefavorites.com/davis/davis051.jpg It also happens to be the image on the cover of Bette Davis Speaks as pictured on Amazon.com. Even though the image has differently posed hands, I overlaid one on the other and found that Davis's face is 100% identical in both. The problem is that there is no cigarette in this shot, so I'm left with egg on my face and with much diminished respect for Roger Ebert who has apparently misled me. Still, I'm not too sure. WTF, I wonder, was the artist thinking when he altered Davis's hand to a position that seemed to hold an invisible cigarette when the source image unequivocally lacked a cigarette. But I'm not so certain that the book image is the source. The tonality of the glove is strange, and the coat looks patchy where Davis's hand would be according to the postage stamp version. I suspect that Bette Davis's smoking has been censored both times. The book cover version has concealed her smoking habit as much as airbrush retouching could achieve. Paradoxically, the modern artist has very likely made the truer rendition by leaving the cigarette's omission evident. It's a shame that the oldest findable version of this picture is the biography cover. The original studio release would settle any doubts. BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture that has been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp. Regards, Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AlunFoto Sent: Monday, 13 October 2008 9:42 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history I will moderate my stance on this one. Spent the lunch break zooming through a couple of internet databases on stills from Bette Davis career. There was a link to a youTube clip from All about Eve on the original blogpost, which came close as a possible inspiration for the stamp, where she's wearing the same coat, haircut and mittens. However if this is the source, the stamp must be regarded as an independent work of art however photorealistic it seems. So only one question remains. Would depicting Bette Davis with a cigarette in hand on a stamp actually promote smoking? I don't think so, but I'm open to arguments... :-) best, Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
Hi all, is KAF3 the official name now? Is there any change, other than adding support for SDM (Supersonic Drive Motor) support? http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/technology/summary/index.html ends at crippled KAF2 for 1997. It does name the latest models up to the K20D, but does not name the K-m (K2000D) yet. It does not differ between KAF3 and KAF2. Same for e.g. dpreview.com: they did not update the specs for K10D (after firmware update), K100D super and upwards. Thanks, Martin -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/6169196 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
From: Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/10/13 Mon PM 02:20:08 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history AlunFoto wrote: So only one question remains. Would depicting Bette Davis with a cigarette in hand on a stamp actually promote smoking? I don't think so, but I'm open to arguments... :-) Because some people seem to think that if you photograph it, it becomes cool, or something like that. I guess. Kinda like how video games promote violence, rap music tricks all who hear it into joining a gang, and LOLCats makes us believe that cats have really bad grammar. I once saw a picture of a man who was completely covered in tattoos. As soon as I have enough money.. You're going to get them all lasered off? - Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Farmer's Market Family
Thanks Rick. After seeing my rendering for the first time with my glasses on and no scotch in my belly, I agree that it needs a bit of a tweak.:-). I'm on it. Paul On Oct 13, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Rick Womer wrote: Nicely caught, Paul. It might benefit from some playing with curves to deepen the mid and dark tones. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sun, 10/12/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: Farmer's Market Family To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 10:35 PM I love backlight that makes hair glow in combination with some fill-in flash. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8004513 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT:Raw File Extender (for JC)
- Original Message -
From: Walter Hamler
Subject: OT:Raw File Extender (for JC)
http://www.raw-converter.com/en/index.php?id=81software=149
This is the one I use and it seems to work with every raw format I have
tried.
Take this bit of code and paste it into a text editor and save it as
dng_thumbnails.reg
Double click on the resulting file (or single click if you work that way),
and viola!!
Your WinXP box will thumbnail DNG files.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dng\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@={3F30C968-480A-4C6C-862D-EFC0897BB84B}
I can't recall who I got this info from, but it was some kind soul on this
list.
William Robb
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Re: PESO: Silver Pants
- Original Message - From: PN Stenquist Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants Oh, hey, wait a minute..I think the pavarotti finally found me. Looks like she has the runway walk down. Nice bold grab. Paparazzi perhaps? Pavarotti was, IIRC, an Italian singer. That completely changes the tenor of the shot. True, but I think the photograph still strikes the right chord for a lot of us. She was music to my eyes, for sure. BTW, that's a decent pick-up line. I tried it on her, but it struck sour note. Sometimes these things can get you in treble. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Farmer's Market Family
The foreground is a bit soft too -- dad's wrist for example. I focused on the child and apparently didn't have enough DOF to pull it off. Since I've already posted this, I'll leave a slightly enhanced version for now, but it will eventually be axed from my folder. Not a good shot. Paul On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:10 AM, PN Stenquist wrote: Thanks Rick. After seeing my rendering for the first time with my glasses on and no scotch in my belly, I agree that it needs a bit of a tweak.:-). I'm on it. Paul On Oct 13, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Rick Womer wrote: Nicely caught, Paul. It might benefit from some playing with curves to deepen the mid and dark tones. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sun, 10/12/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: Farmer's Market Family To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 10:35 PM I love backlight that makes hair glow in combination with some fill-in flash. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8004513 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Silver Pants
Or..twanging her G string. J --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants To: pentax list PDML@pdml.net Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 1:37 AM Oh, hey, wait a minute..I think the pavarotti finally found me. Looks like she has the runway walk down. Nice bold grab. Paparazzi perhaps? Pavarotti was, IIRC, an Italian singer. That completely changes the tenor of the shot. True, but I think the photograph still strikes the right chord for a lot of us. She was music to my eyes, for sure. BTW, that's a decent pick-up line. I tried it on her, but it struck sour note. Wouldn't mind tightening up her G string :) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
-Original Message- From: AlunFoto (snip) Now it looks like the artist has improved the shot to hint at her smoking habit. (snip) Agreed. It seems to me that the artist, with access to the unaltered original (which we haven't found on the web), has omitted the cigarette at his client's (US Postal Service)request, but changed little else. The earlier airbrush retouching seems more invasive in order to resolve the 'empty hand' effect that just erasing the cigarette creates. I suspect that the postage stamp rendition is more authentic than the Bette Davis Speaks version of the picture, within the limitations of political correctness. Apparently the postage stamp artist wants us to know that the cigarette is missing, but the biography artist wanted to conceal the fact. Regards, Anthony -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
Martin Trautmann wrote: side note: pentax.de names SDM as Super Dynamic Motor (google: 18 instead of 88 hits) Pentax De has a weakness for changing names. They dubbed as Limited Edition those lenses released by the parent company as just Limited, and then they interpret SDM as Super Dynamic Motor instead of Supersonic Drive Motor or just Sonic Drive Motor (as stated at the press conference in Dubai) last January. I'm afraid that Pentax never ever will learn how to use matching names for their products. Upper or lower case, with or without dashes, maybe it's all the same for a company which is used to Japanese text. Yes, I believe that the Japanese people of Pentax don't care so much about latin-spelled names for their product. That will explain how can they even allow name changes by the funny volks at their subsidiary in Hamburg. Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
I will moderate my stance on this one. Spent the lunch break zooming through a couple of internet databases on stills from Bette Davis career. There was a link to a youTube clip from All about Eve on the original blogpost, which came close as a possible inspiration for the stamp, where she's wearing the same coat, haircut and mittens. However if this is the source, the stamp must be regarded as an independent work of art however photorealistic it seems. So only one question remains. Would depicting Bette Davis with a cigarette in hand on a stamp actually promote smoking? I don't think so, but I'm open to arguments... :-) best, Jostein 2008/10/13 AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Interesting to see your arguments, John. Some comments are interspersed below: 2008/10/13 John Celio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So you *want* government-sanctioned art portraying smoking as cool? Golly gee, that's a fabulous idea. What's next, Scottish stamps of Ewan McGregor shooting up heroin? Jamaican stamps of Bob Marley smoking pot? Great, send them to the presses! Maybe we could make them old-fashioned lick-em stamps and put some LSD in the paper. How's that for stretching an argument? None of those drugs were ever socially accepted and you know that. Why on earth do you want those pics on stamps in the first place? But okay, if that's what you want on your correspondance, I still think that portraits should go undoctored. Can't say that I remember any famous photogs of the situations you describe, btw. It's a painting of a photo of a dead celebrity. I'd barely count that as history. I can see being mad about a stamp portraying important historical figures like Douglas MacArthur without his pipe or George W. Bush with a brain, but an actress (who made no significant contributions to human history besides looking pretty and becoming the subject of a Rod Stewart song) without a cigarrette? Come on. I'm coming on. :-) There are countless photos of Dubya out there trying to portray him more favourably than (in my opinion) his foreign policies should give him credit for, but I'm sure they'll pick one of those when it comes to honor him with a stamp of his own. But it'd be wrong to tamper with it nonetheless, wouldn't it? I don't know who Douglas MacArthur is. As for the actress in question, she smoked. So what? If it's so damned important to decorate letters with her portrait, then choose either (1) to use a portrait that shows her for what she was in a time when smoking was socially acceptable, or (2) go find a portrait where she's without the cigarette in the first place. As it stands now, it really is just another case for the photoshopdisasters blog. On a tangential note, I would like to ask you about another famous historical photograph, where Nikita Khrushchev was banging his shoe on the table in the UN assembly: http://www.kp.ru/upimg/logo/18951.jpg The event is documented in many places, but the photo is a hoax. A rather bad one too, as you can see even on the small web-image that the shoe is pasted in. Would you consider this manipulation to be acceptable too, since the event took place without being photographed? sincerely, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT: Black Silicone Could Change Digital Photography Forever
http://gizmodo.com/5062412/black-silicon-discovery-could-change-digital-photography-night-vision-forever or: http://tinyurl.com/47m7wt Certainly sounds intriguing! John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/10/13 Mon AM 12:07:13 GMT To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history Perhaps it's not OT regarding photography, but there's no Pentax content: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/10/thank_you_for_smoking.html http://tinyurl.com/4qun6c I hate revisionist history, even if old practices are now officially frowned upon. If the picture was no good in its original form then they shouldn't have used it at all. regards, Anthony Farr Different background, different angle on guitar neck, different chord fingering on the guitar, shirt open at the top, not closed. Possible in Photoshop, but that's a lot to do, even for a stamp. Maybe the guy moved for the photographer to a different place nearby and put down the butt. Just as plausible. Or maybe he left it at the crossroads... According to the correspondence lower down, that's the only known photograph of Robert Johnson. The stamp looks like a photo but maybe, like the Bette Davis picture, it's a painting or something - looks like it to me anyway. Not correct. The one shown is not even the better known one. This is. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/RobertJohson.png It's strange how quickly attitudes to smoking have changed. I gave up over 15 years ago, after smoking for about 20. A few days ago I mentioned in passing something about smoking at my desk to one of my younger colleagues and he was aghast at the thought of people smoking in the office. He didn't know it had ever been legal, let alone normal, but if I left work without a medium-sized Alp of fag-ends in my ashtray I felt as though I hadn't been trying hard enough. Now it already feels strange being in countries where smoking is allowed in public places such as bars and restaurants. When they make stamps of Keith Richard I wonder if they'll airbrush the cigarette out of his machine head. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. - Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
Sleeping Dario wrote: K2000 names the KAF3 lens mount (for the body itself!) - and names compatibility for KAF2. Scroll down that page and you'll see the camera mount is stated to be KAF2. I stand corrected: the KAF2 down there refers to the DA L 18-55 lens. In any case, the K2000 is KAF2, not KAF3. Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Farmer's Market Family
Nicely caught, Paul. It might benefit from some playing with curves to deepen the mid and dark tones. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sun, 10/12/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: Farmer's Market Family To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 10:35 PM I love backlight that makes hair glow in combination with some fill-in flash. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8004513 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Farmer's Market Family
Paul, for my taste there's just too much Glow on her hair. Makes it look likes it smoking or on fire ! Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: Farmer's Market Family I love backlight that makes hair glow in combination with some fill-in flash. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8004513 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: Black Silicone Could Change Digital Photography Forever
Sounds very promising. Solar cells would be more important, but ISO 12800 with little noise would be nice too. John Celio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/2008 11:54 AM http://gizmodo.com/5062412/black-silicon-discovery-could-change-digital-photography-night-vision-forever or: http://tinyurl.com/47m7wt Certainly sounds intriguing! John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. !SIG:48f37678316798239214097! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Guitars
Here's a pic of one (not mine, but identical) http://cachepe.samedaymusic.com/media/quality,85/brand,sameday/RGTHRG1-594e52bca8f77a2d576e14ef43a029f1.jpg The art is Giger's NYC XIX print on a otherwise stock '05 Ibanez RGT42 body (Mahogany body, Maple/Walnut thru-neck, Rosewood fretboard, Abalone Shark-fin Inlays and binding, Edge Pro II trem, matte black finish) -Adam On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/10/08, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: Looks like a nice, classic combo. A lot less spooky than my new guitar for sure Which is? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Guitars
On 13/10/08, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: Here's a pic of one (not mine, but identical) http://cachepe.samedaymusic.com/media/quality,85/brand,sameday/ RGTHRG1-594e52bca8f77a2d576e14ef43a029f1.jpg The art is Giger's NYC XIX print on a otherwise stock '05 Ibanez RGT42 body (Mahogany body, Maple/Walnut thru-neck, Rosewood fretboard, Abalone Shark-fin Inlays and binding, Edge Pro II trem, matte black finish) Interesting! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Cape May Wildwood, NJ
On Oct 13, 2008, at 02:16 , Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/10/08, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: The snake, lighthouse, and cottontail are my faves. Since the Dawn of Man, I cannot see how this sequence of words has ever before met up in the same sentence - in any language, anywhere in the world. Congrats on a first Rick. Cheers, Cotty A big snake slithered under the door of the lighthouse last night and ate my pet cottontail bunny, one of my faves in the hutch. Said that just last year, Cotty! But you're on the right track - it's the first time I said it... :-) Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: GESO - Cape May Wildwood, NJ
On 12/10/08, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: The snake, lighthouse, and cottontail are my faves. Since the Dawn of Man, I cannot see how this sequence of words has ever before met up in the same sentence - in any language, anywhere in the world. Congrats on a first Rick. it was Sidney Reilly's preferred pass phrase for the agents he ran in Baku during the 1920s, and passed into spy lore as a way for agents of CI5 (such as Rick, obviously) to identify themselves to others without anyone else finding out. I thought everyone knew that. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: KAF3 - now the official name for SDM support?
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:12:52 +0200, AlunFoto wrote: If you look at the joint press release for the 55mm and 60-250, for example, the prime is KAF3 and the zoom KAF2, but both have SDM. But the prime has NO drive-shaft. Live with it, KAF lenses are LESS capable than KAF2 ones are. (allthough they could be faster at what to can do, SDM) Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
On Oct 13, 2008, at 08:10 , Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture that has been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp. Regards, Anthony You obviously missed my post on this image, Tony. Different background, different angle on guitar neck, different chord fingering on the guitar, shirt open at the top, not closed. Possible in Photoshop, but that's a lot to do, even for a stamp. Maybe the guy moved for the photographer to a different place nearby and put down the butt. Just as plausible. As far as the Kruschev photo that was referenced, I had never seen it from that angle before, and a google search indicates that the image in question was doctored. The original just shows a raised open fist. However, the whole incident was televised and recorded by the media, and probably by several United Nations photographers. It was most certainly not a 'fake' staged or doctored event. Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Silver Pants
AlunFoto wrote: What, have I missed a pun thread? Darn. Jostein oy. now we've become unravelled ann 2008/10/13 Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or..twanging her G string. J --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants To: pentax list PDML@pdml.net Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 1:37 AM Oh, hey, wait a minute..I think the pavarotti finally found me. Looks like she has the runway walk down. Nice bold grab. Paparazzi perhaps? Pavarotti was, IIRC, an Italian singer. That completely changes the tenor of the shot. True, but I think the photograph still strikes the right chord for a lot of us. She was music to my eyes, for sure. BTW, that's a decent pick-up line. I tried it on her, but it struck sour note. Wouldn't mind tightening up her G string :) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Silver Pants
My wife tells me I've never been wound too tightly. Not real sure if that's a compliment.(??) ;) Jack --- On Mon, 10/13/08, ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 12:32 PM AlunFoto wrote: What, have I missed a pun thread? Darn. Jostein oy. now we've become unravelled ann 2008/10/13 Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or..twanging her G string. J --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants To: pentax list PDML@pdml.net Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 1:37 AM Oh, hey, wait a minute..I think the pavarotti finally found me. Looks like she has the runway walk down. Nice bold grab. Paparazzi perhaps? Pavarotti was, IIRC, an Italian singer. That completely changes the tenor of the shot. True, but I think the photograph still strikes the right chord for a lot of us. She was music to my eyes, for sure. BTW, that's a decent pick-up line. I tried it on her, but it struck sour note. Wouldn't mind tightening up her G string :) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: Black Silicone Could Change Digital Photography Forever
Please note that there´s a significant difference between silicon, used in microprocessors, sensors etc , and silicone, used in film stars etc. DagT Den 13. okt.. 2008 kl. 17.54 skrev John Celio: http://gizmodo.com/5062412/black-silicon-discovery-could-change-digital-photography-night-vision-forever or: http://tinyurl.com/47m7wt Certainly sounds intriguing! John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even a stamp should portray visual fact. Visual reality. Correcting history should be permanently buried in the past. The Russians, the Germans, whoever else perpetrated this unconscionable editing to change reality of what was, were wrong. Almost literally everyone who sees this stamp says, Where's her cigarette? Suckin' on a smoke is Bette Davis! Quite. It's not just that they edited the cigarette out of the photograph (although even that would be pretty bad) - it's also that the photograph is so well known that most people who recognise the subject also spot the fact that the cigarette has been removed. Tempest in a teapot. Actually read the article, and you might see 'The PORTRAIT by Michael Deas was inspired by a still photo from All About Eve.' [emphasis added] It's a painting, not a photograph. The photo itself has not been edited. In fact, I don't think there IS *A* photo. Looking through all the Bette Davis images Google brings up I didn't find one that I could say for sure is THE ONE. What I did see is the face appears to be based on one All About Eve photo, one in which she isn't smoking BTW; her hands are not even visible. The hair appears to be from a publicity still for Watch on the Rhine and the fur coat is from Deception. There is a photo of her holding a cigarette where the glove is similar to the one in the painting, her hands face are in a completely different position. Then there are all those other photos where she doesn't appear to be holding a cigarette. Seems to me, y'all are guilty of the same kind of political correctness you accuse the government of. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT: Black Silicone Could Change Digital Photography Forever
Oh, I dunno. Pammie Anderson, Mictosoft Windows - they're both overblown, pumped-up bloatware that go down every chance they get. Please note that there´s a significant difference between silicon, used in microprocessors, sensors etc , and silicone, used in film stars etc. DagT -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
From: Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Besides, it is a famous photographic image. Yeah, it's so famous Google Image doesn't seem to have a link for it. Not one I was able to find anyway. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: recommedations wanted - need to view raw files in xp file explorer
From: JC OConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since a recent hard drive crash, I need a replacement Program-shell that will allow me to view pentax RAW Files in Win XP file explorer (my computer). Anybody have a recommendation? Freeware preferable, I got one 18 months ago but can't seem to find it Now with google. Irfanview. It has a plug-in for viewing raw files that includes Pentax PEF. Works with the K10D version of PEF anyway. And it's freeware. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: Black Silicone Could Change Digital Photography Forever
Damn you, Bob W! I just cleaned my monitor a few minutes ago ... Now I have to do it all over again! ]'-) G On Oct 13, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Bob W wrote: Oh, I dunno. Pammie Anderson, Mictosoft Windows - they're both overblown, pumped-up bloatware that go down every chance they get. Please note that there´s a significant difference between silicon, used in microprocessors, sensors etc , and silicone, used in film stars etc. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
From: Mark Roberts oseph McAllister wrote: On Oct 12, 2008, at 12:26 , Anthony Farr wrote: Perhaps it's not OT regarding photography, but there's no Pentax content: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/10/thank_you_for_smoking.html http://tinyurl.com/4qun6c I hate revisionist history, even if old practices are now officially frowned upon. If the picture was no good in its original form then they shouldn't have used it at all. Different background, different angle on guitar neck, different chord fingering on the guitar, shirt open at the top, not closed. Possible in Photoshop, but that's a lot to do, even for a stamp. Maybe the guy moved for the photographer to a different place nearby and put down the butt. Just as plausible. Wow! I hadn't even noticed all that. The Robert Johnson photos are clearly different shots! Actually, no, the stamp image is a painting loosely based on the photograph. There are only two known photographs of Robert Johnson in existence, so it's gotta be one or the other, and it ain't the other. The important part of the painting is the face, the rest is just window dressing. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: recommedations wanted - need to view raw files in xp file explorer
Back in May, Thibouille posted this link. I've downloaded it and it works like a charm. HTH. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Thibouille Subject: Re: Codecs for DNG Thumbnails Ok, William, download this: http://www.earthboundlight.com/files/dng_thumbnails.reg Run it. And voila. You, my friend, are a God. Thank you for showing me this. William Robb Subject: RE: recommedations wanted - need to view raw files in xp file explorer From: JC OConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since a recent hard drive crash, I need a replacement Program-shell that will allow me to view pentax RAW Files in Win XP file explorer (my computer). Anybody have a recommendation? Freeware preferable, I got one 18 months ago but can't seem to find it Now with google. Irfanview. It has a plug-in for viewing raw files that includes Pentax PEF. Works with the K10D version of PEF anyway. And it's freeware. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso Ducks in Flight
Hi Matthew, Joseph, and Rick: I think I'll just refer to them as flying feathered creatures of some sort :-). Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:04 PM Subject: Re: Peso Ducks in Flight On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could have sworn they were ducks. They are ducks, specifically drake Mallards. On the upper side of the wing is a blue rectangle, the speculum. (Of course, you can't see that it's blue in BW.) The speculum is bordered by a thin white line, front and back. The thin white ring around the neck is also visible. Here's a color shot for comparison (not mine): http://www.flickr.com/photos/markklotz/1520031746/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Bookworms
Nice catch. The male does seem to be reading at a slightly faster rate (skimming?) while the female is probably comprehending more Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:37:37 +0100, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A sunny day in Greenwich brings out the Greater Striped Bookworm (Vermis Librorum) and its lesser-striped mate. Note the slightly different markings around the eyes, and the apparently synchronised 'reading', a thinly-disguised pair-bonding ritual. http://www.web-options.com/Bookworms.jpg B -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Guitars
From: Cotty Thanks for all advice received. Have ordered a Telecaster Nashville and Super Champ XD amp http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/8/7/8/267878.jpg http://www.sweetwater.com/store/closeup/SuperChampXD--Main Looks like I'm destined to be an oldie roadie - oh well, beats working for a living! Just out of curiosity, how are you going to plug that amp in? I don't see any provision for switching the mains voltage to 220v. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Silver Pants
- Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] My wife tells me I've never been wound too tightly. Not real sure if that's a compliment.(??) ;) Jack From: ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] AlunFoto wrote: What, have I missed a pun thread? Darn. Jostein oy. now we've become unravelled ann 2008/10/13 Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or..twanging her G string. J --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: Silver Pants To: pentax list PDML@pdml.net Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 1:37 AM Oh, hey, wait a minute..I think the pavarotti finally found me. Looks like she has the runway walk down. Nice bold grab. Paparazzi perhaps? Pavarotti was, IIRC, an Italian singer. That completely changes the tenor of the shot. True, but I think the photograph still strikes the right chord for a lot of us. She was music to my eyes, for sure. BTW, that's a decent pick-up line. I tried it on her, but it struck sour note. Wouldn't mind tightening up her G string :) I don't know, Cotty. She looks the type to give you the pitch. :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso Ducks in Flight
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matthew, Joseph, and Rick: I think I'll just refer to them as flying feathered creatures of some sort :-). Cheers, Christine As long as you've got your bats-vs-birds distinction down, that'll work. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
From: Anthony Farr Prompted by Jos's efforts, I found the base image here: http://classicmoviefavorites.com/davis/davis051.jpg It also happens to be the image on the cover of Bette Davis Speaks as pictured on Amazon.com. Even though the image has differently posed hands, I overlaid one on the other and found that Davis's face is 100% identical in both. The problem is that there is no cigarette in this shot, so I'm left with egg on my face and with much diminished respect for Roger Ebert who has apparently misled me. Still, I'm not too sure. WTF, I wonder, was the artist thinking when he altered Davis's hand to a position that seemed to hold an invisible cigarette snippage Perhaps he was thinking the same thing that motivated the painter of the Robert Johnson stamp to move HIS hands so they fit better on the stamp? BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture that has been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp. Artistic license. Or maybe he just don't draw hands so good? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Happy Thanksgiving
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:28 PM, John Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good God Dave, Isn't Madawaska all snowed in already? Nothing like driving in the WOODS in the winter.. Look out for the lumber trucks. O:-) No snow yet, but its not far off.:-) Weekend was perfect, mid 20's and sunny. Good food and company. I'm experienced in winter woods driving, btw.:-) Dave John Graves WA1JG David J Brooks wrote: I;'ll be heading out to beautiful downtown Madawaska right after my last school run, at 4pm today. ( lets make this a challenge, and find the place on a map.:-)) Colours are supposed to be very good this week and sunshine is forecast all weekend. Hope to get some good fall shots. I have a bag of chips and 4 cases of beer. I'm all set. g Have a good weekend and don't bug Cotty to much.:-) Dave No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1718 - Release Date: 10/10/2008 7:07 AM -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Happy Thanksgiving
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a great trip, Dave. Looking forward to the pics. But isn't it a little early for the Thanksgiving cheers? ;-) Cheers, Christine Canadians like to get things out of the way early.:-) Dave - Original Message - From: David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax Discuss pdml@pdml.net; Barbara Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Yvette Sheppard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:52 AM Subject: Happy Thanksgiving I;'ll be heading out to beautiful downtown Madawaska right after my last school run, at 4pm today. ( lets make this a challenge, and find the place on a map.:-)) Colours are supposed to be very good this week and sunshine is forecast all weekend. Hope to get some good fall shots. I have a bag of chips and 4 cases of beer. I'm all set. g Have a good weekend and don't bug Cotty to much.:-) Dave -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Cape May Wildwood, NJ
Matthew: Those are very nice pics, and thanks for posting that rental link. I might try them out some time. Looks like the rates are reasonable enough. Looks like you gave the 300 a real workout--and it was a success. That snake is something. Great pic there. You also caught some great early evening light. Silhouette is also very nice. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:22 PM Subject: GESO - Cape May Wildwood, NJ An album from our recent vacation to Cape May and Wildwood, New Jersey: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coneslayer/sets/72157607770191688/ I rented a DA*300/4 from www.cameralensrentals.com for the trip, with an eye toward buying it next summer. Good service from the company, and I found it to be an outstanding lens. Sharp and contrasty from f/4, with no noticeable CA or purple fringing. My K10D have me some AF trouble, mostly trying to shoot birds in flight. If the bird ever slipped off the AF sensor, and the camera only saw clear blue sky, it would send the lens to the close-focus limit, and stay there (with the AF hexagon blinking). Releasing and re-pressing the shutter wouldn't budge it, nor would switching between AF.C and AF.S, nor would turning the camera off and back on. I had to switch to MF, move the lens focus out, and then switch back to AF. I was able to reproduce this problem on the DA*300, my Tamron 70-300, and my DA 18-55. Now that I'm back home, and thinking of sending the camera in for service, I can't reproduce it any more. :-/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Cape May Wildwood, NJ
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew: Those are very nice pics, and thanks for posting that rental link. I might try them out some time. Looks like the rates are reasonable enough. and Rick Womer wrote: The snake, lighthouse, and cottontail are my faves. Thanks, Christine, Bob, Jack, and Paul for your comments. And thanks, Rick, for listing your favorite positions from PDML Kama Sutra. :-) On the topic of www.cameralensrentals.com, two notes: 1) Be sure to use the discount code CLR on your first order to get a discount. 2) They shipped my order by FedEx Ground, probably since it's only 1 or 2 days from their location. The issue is that they (quite reasonably) require a direct (in-person) signature, but at least in my area, FedEx Ground doesn't let you pick up the package at the FedEx facility. That means if there isn't someone there during the day to sign for your package, you may be in trouble. If this is an issue for you, you should probably discuss the shipping method with them. They're a small outfit with with good communication, so I'm sure they can make suitable arrangements. After the DA*300, the next lens on my wishlist is either the Pentax 12-24, or the Sigma 10-20. Since they carry both, I'm thinking of using them for a head-to-head comparison. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: GESO - Cape May Wildwood, NJ
Damn, Bob. I really didn't want to have to kill you... --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] The snake, lighthouse, and cottontail are my faves. Since the Dawn of Man, I cannot see how this sequence of words has ever before met up in the same sentence - in any language, anywhere in the world. Congrats on a first Rick. it was Sidney Reilly's preferred pass phrase for the agents he ran in Baku during the 1920s, and passed into spy lore as a way for agents of CI5 (such as Rick, obviously) to identify themselves to others without anyone else finding out. I thought everyone knew that. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
Diligence fail for you. I found it. Read my posts. Regards, Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2008 9:23 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history From: Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Besides, it is a famous photographic image. Yeah, it's so famous Google Image doesn't seem to have a link for it. Not one I was able to find anyway. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Daily life in Fez (British Condiments)
Not sure this got out the other day. Cleared a few dozen windows from my desktop and there it was. On Oct 11, 2008, at 12:28 , Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some foods which have a place on every English table, however humble: http://www.web-options.com/Lids.jpg Bob Those must be the modern condiments. I'm talkin' http://gallery.me.com/jomac#100197 Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history
About the Robert Johnson picture The blog post that claimed there to be only one ever photograph of Johnson is wrong, there are two confirmed photographs, this one and the one that Anne pointed to, and there is a third unconfirmed photograph that was more recently discovered at (a) swap meet digging through a photo album of old south delta type photos: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/long_lost_third.html As to the alterations between the cigarette smoking Johnson against a sheet compared to the smoke free Johnson against the weatherboards, whose guitar neck is nearer and steeper what is your point, Joseph? The work involved to make these changes is trivial, and producing a postage stamp is not a trivial job. I think they'd make the effort. Here is an illustration I made of the postage stamp images of Robert Johnson and Bette Davis, which matches them to the images they were derived from: http://picasaweb.google.com/FarrAnthony/Illustrations#5256802623552356754 But don't take my word, here's the NY Times take on it the topic: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2D91F30F934A15753C1A9609 58260 BTW, the US Postal Service aren't the only cigarette censorers: http://g.sheetmusicplus.com/Look-Inside/covers/5449537.jpg Just so you know, I'm not a smoking defender. I'm a political correctness hater. regards, Anthony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph McAllister Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2008 5:47 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: OT - Govt Agency doctors photograph to sanitize history On Oct 13, 2008, at 08:10 , Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW the Robert Johnson portrait is without a doubt the same picture that has been massaged so that it fits better onto a postage stamp. Regards, Anthony You obviously missed my post on this image, Tony. Different background, different angle on guitar neck, different chord fingering on the guitar, shirt open at the top, not closed. Possible in Photoshop, but that's a lot to do, even for a stamp. Maybe the guy moved for the photographer to a different place nearby and put down the butt. Just as plausible. As far as the Kruschev photo that was referenced, I had never seen it from that angle before, and a google search indicates that the image in question was doctored. The original just shows a raised open fist. However, the whole incident was televised and recorded by the media, and probably by several United Nations photographers. It was most certainly not a 'fake' staged or doctored event. Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: recommedations wanted - need to view raw files in xp file explorer
Thanks, I found arcsoft on a recommendation. But, Irfanview is a file viewer, not a shell for the file explorer, What I wanted was ability to see raw file thumbnails with xp filer explorer, Instead of generic icons. Arcsoft does this. JC O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:27 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: recommedations wanted - need to view raw files in xp file explorer From: JC OConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since a recent hard drive crash, I need a replacement Program-shell that will allow me to view pentax RAW Files in Win XP file explorer (my computer). Anybody have a recommendation? Freeware preferable, I got one 18 months ago but can't seem to find it Now with google. Irfanview. It has a plug-in for viewing raw files that includes Pentax PEF. Works with the K10D version of PEF anyway. And it's freeware. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO: At the Farmers' Market
This is from a Saturday morning, a couple of weeks ago: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8010551size=lg K10D, DA 50-200, ISO 200, f/9.5 @ 1/500. (I kept getting jostled in the crowded market, so I kept the shutter speed high.) Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: recommedations wanted - need to view raw files in xp file explorer
Thanks, JC O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christine Aguila Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:52 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: recommedations wanted - need to view raw files in xp file explorer Back in May, Thibouille posted this link. I've downloaded it and it works like a charm. HTH. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Thibouille Subject: Re: Codecs for DNG Thumbnails Ok, William, download this: http://www.earthboundlight.com/files/dng_thumbnails.reg Run it. And voila. You, my friend, are a God. Thank you for showing me this. William Robb Subject: RE: recommedations wanted - need to view raw files in xp file explorer From: JC OConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since a recent hard drive crash, I need a replacement Program-shell that will allow me to view pentax RAW Files in Win XP file explorer (my computer). Anybody have a recommendation? Freeware preferable, I got one 18 months ago but can't seem to find it Now with google. Irfanview. It has a plug-in for viewing raw files that includes Pentax PEF. Works with the K10D version of PEF anyway. And it's freeware. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: At the Farmers' Market
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is from a Saturday morning, a couple of weeks ago: Nice tubers. This is the last month of our farmers' market, and I'll miss it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: At the Farmers' Market
Thanks, Mark. Our market runs all year, though it's every other week from November through April, and the pickins' get rather slim. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is from a Saturday morning, a couple of weeks ago: Nice tubers. This is the last month of our farmers' market, and I'll miss it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: At the Farmers' Market
Hi Rick- Very nice looking table of veggies there. Our local farmers' market is year-round depending on location. Love the seasonal eating. Regards, Pat On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is from a Saturday morning, a couple of weeks ago: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8010551size=lg K10D, DA 50-200, ISO 200, f/9.5 @ 1/500. (I kept getting jostled in the crowded market, so I kept the shutter speed high.) Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Farmer's Market Family
On Oct 12, 2008, at 10:35 PM, PN Stenquist wrote: I love backlight that makes hair glow in combination with some fill- in flash. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8004513 That hair's too hot for me, Paul. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
