HELP! Are old Tamron lenses incompatible with digital?

[Francis]

Hi Pentaxians
Do you know if Tamron's SP 300mm f2.8 (60B) is compatible with Pentax 
DSLRs or not?
I bought one of these lenses this spring to use for wildlife photography 
on my Pentax K20D and when it arrived (looking almost new)  it seemed to 
have sharpness issue which I was not familiar with. The images are very 
soft (in an odd way) and "fringy" when the lens is used wide open and 
only become sharp after about F6 or F8. I have uploaded a sample photo 
at: http://www.islandlight.ca/fm087749-100-crop.jpg it is a 100% crop at 
f2.8 on a tripod.


I sent the lens in to Tamron Canada who didn't fix (or find) the 
problem, but fixed the mount instead. They said that if there was a 
problem that they had missed (the technician hadn't actually tested it 
because they had no adaptall mount on hand to test it with :( ) that no 
one would fix it because it was discontinued, but indicated that the 
problem was just that it wasn't designed for digital media.


Do you know anyone who has used one of these lenses on a Pentax digital? 
Should I invest in sending it to Tamron USA (who said they could likely 
fix it) or is it just not going to work with a digital SLR.


Thanks for your help,
Francis



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Another Aussie jumps on the bandwagon

[Paul Ewins]

Yup, popped out this afternoon and had a play with a K7 at my local  
camera store (Kirk's in Ringwood) and then bought it. It wasn't really  
a hard decision as my current camera is an *ist-D and this is like  
moving from a K1000 to an LX.  I paid AU$1650 (US$1310) and will get  
another 10% off as I can claim the tax back when we head off overseas  
at the end of the month. That looks pretty good against the $2500 that  
the *ist-D cost.  I could have saved another $100 by buying online,  
but I like to support the local store where I can still look at stuff  
before I buy. They got a delivery of 9 K7s yesterday and mine was the  
5th they had sold so it looks like there are still a few Pentax people  
around here.


Paul Ewins
Melbourne, Australia


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Re: I love my pusher

[Doug Brewer]

Hey Bill, what firmware are you running? Hold down the menu button and 
turn on the camera to find out.


William Robb wrote:



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Re: I love my pusher

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
From: "David Savage" 
Subject: Re: I love my pusher




Thank's for the report.

I'd be interested to know if they have addressed the long exposure amp
glow problems of all their previous DSLRs.



Tell me what to do and I'll send you a file.

William Robb

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Re: ot: more e-p1 foto fun

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
From: "paul stenquist" 
Subject: Re: ot: more e-p1 foto fun



What's an e-p1? Is that the successor to the K7?

I think it's a camera.

William Robb

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Re: I love my pusher

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi"

Subject: Re: I love my pusher



Good to hear they're getting into the stores and proving to be a nice
boost up on the K20D.
My local dealer seems to be in the process of disinvesting themselves
of Pentax so I haven't seen one yet.

I'll be curious to hear how the new viewfinder seems.
--


I have a Katz-Eye in my K20, so in my case, the K7 viewfinder is not as 
good.
I should have compared it to my K10 finder, but today I gave it to a young 
lady that I am quite fond of, who is quite an imaginitave studio 
photographer, but is living on borrowed Nikons..

I suspect she will make better use of it than I ever did.

William Robb 



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Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
From: "paul stenquist"

Subject: Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).


When I got my K20D I simply shot in RAW/DNG mode and did my  conversions 
in an ancient PSCS 1 ACR converter. I now have PSCS4, but  shooting DNG 
always works. Pentax is to be commended for providing  that alternative.


Why I like DNG;

I've been having a bitch of a time getting my computer to work right for 
quite a while. In and out of the shop, finally I just had then give it a 
guts transplant. Anyway, thats not important.
What is important is that for the past several months I've been working with 
my old computer, running PS7. Because I shoot DNG, I've had no problem 
processing my K20 files.
If I shot PEF, I would have pretty much been dead in the water unless I 
wanted to figure out new software (I don't).


William Robb 



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Re: Happy Birthday My Fellow Pentaxian :)

[Joseph McAllister]

On Jul 3, 2009, at 16:12 , tim...@clancode.hu wrote:

I just noticed (facebook ftw) that one of us on the list has his  
birthday

today (here in London it's 4th already :D).

I wish you a happy birthday and a lot of 'pentaxed' years, Mr.  
McAllister

;) So what's your 2 other wish (I suppose K-7 is No.1 :D)?

Cheers,
.timber


Thank you so much, Timber.

Birthdays tend to have less meaning as one grows older. Possibly an  
attempt by the mind to push out the meaning of another year slipping  
into the past. The click of another abacus bead hitting the beads  
you've already counted. And not having the beads yet to count visible  
in the haze of the future.


At least that where my mind is at.  Much preferable to spend any time  
thinking about when the beads will run out.


Wishes? I already ordered a DA* 60-250, and plan on waiting a few  
months before I order the K-7.


How about meeting a nice woman who will help make the rest of my life  
comfortable, and doesn't mind carrying a tripod and backpack?


That, and my Dodge Caravan lasting through the rest of my abacus  
beads.:—)



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Without Nature there isn't any humankind. Without humankind, Nature is  
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Re: I love my pusher

[David Savage]

Thank's for the report.

I'd be interested to know if they have addressed the long exposure amp
glow problems of all their previous DSLRs.

Cheers,

Dave

2009/7/4 William Robb :
> I actually took my time getting over to the pusher's store to pick up my
> K-7. I had breakfast and I decided it would be nice to have an armed guard,
> so to speak, so I hitched up Jester and off we went.
> This is the Pentax I've been waiting for.
> It feels smaller than the K20, but at the same time, just as substantial. It
> does fit my hand better, and the vertical grip is more rounded on the front,
> making it more comfortable as well. There is more grip to grip, so to speak.
> There are a LOT more menu adjustments, but they've done away with the pages
> and pages of depth, instead opting for a tabbed style of menu, with only one
> page of depth per tab.
> Overall, if you can work a K20, the K-7 won't be difficult, though there are
> some pleasant surprises hidden in menuland.
>
> My major nitpik with the camera so far, and I expect reading the manual will
> answer it, is that the camera defaults to the rocker switch panel
> controlling the Fn functions rather than the AF point select, and I haven't
> found a menu option that will let me change it. This makes it really easy
> (possibly to easy) to adjust Fn settings, but it will be frustrating until I
> get used to having to push the OK button every time I turn the camera on so
> that the rockers adjust the AF point.
>
> Hopefully I'll find a solution in the manual, but if not, I hope Pentax
> writes it into a firmware update so that the camera will remember that
> setting, along with the other settings it is happy to remember.
>
> Something they have done that I think I'll appreciate is to put a lock
> button on the mode dial. No more accidentally changing the mode by brushing
> up against the to of the camera. This is a good thing.
> The User mode is still, as far as I am concerned, broken. I would really
> appreciate it if one could lock a discrete shutter speed and aperture value
> combination into the user mode by offering the settings to the user mode
> set-up. I find that I have a tendency to bump the dials when I am shooting
> quickly at weddings, so I am constantly having to babysit the camera.
>
> We now have the option of switching noise reduction off, both for long
> exposure and for high ISO.
> As well, there is the standard weak, medium and strong settings.
>
> So far, I am thinking this is quite a step upwards for Pentax from a
> performance POV. The camera truly does feel more responsive. The screwdrive
> AF is definitely faster, the jury is still out on whether SDM focusing is,
> as the partially charged battery that came with the camera died almost
> immediately, so I am running it on AA alkalines, which are also trying to
> die just from setting the camera up.
> More on this later when I have a fully operational camera.
>
> William Robb

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Re: Pentax listens to the little things

[Doug Brewer]

Matthew Miller wrote:

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 08:40:59PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

I often take photographs in my girls' room, which has big green fabric
leaves from Ikea near the ceiling. Bounce flash works great in there, but
everything, not surprisingly, ends up with a green tint. Now, I can -- and
do -- set the white balance perfectly with a gray card. But since the
lighting there is always the same, what I'd _like_ to do is transfer that
setting to one of the three custom white balance settings available.


Hah! K-7 manual, page 198:

  You can copy the white balance setting of a captured image and save it as
  Manual White Balance.

Now, I don't want to claim personal credit for this idea, because surely I'm
not the first to have it. But as with the K10D to K20D, it's awesome that a
lot of these small improvements which seem to address individual complaints
are indeed there.



yeah, when I saw that, I thought of you.

Now, if we could just talk them into allowing trailing curtain sync on 
the wireless flash..


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Re: Ommegang!

[Mat Maessen]

On 7/3/09, Mark Roberts  wrote:
> That's the name of the fine Belgian beer I'm drinking in my hotel room
>  in Boston at the moment. Splendid stuff. It's very nice to be able to
>  buy beer and wine in the supermarket where you buy your food. Very
>  civilized indeed.

Brewed in Cooperstown, NY. Take a trip out this way, and we'll visit
the brewery. :-)

-Mat, who has a couple of bottles of it kicking around

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Re: ot: more e-p1 foto fun

[paul stenquist]

What's an e-p1? Is that the successor to the K7?

On Jul 3, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:


A friend was picking up her M.Zuiko 17mm lens this morning so I popped
up to K&S to see it and visit with her again.

I was early, she was running late, but while I waited I unloaded my
bag full of goodies onto the counter and nabbed the demo E-P1 from the
shelf and played with it. Terry arrived, we had a bit of refreshment
and yakked about the little beast at the cafe across the street until
I had to run off to do some work for a client.

My morning testing revealed:

- E-P1 focuses both the 11-22 and 35 Macro perfectly.
- It focuses the 35 Macro with the EC14 behind it perfectly.
- The Voigtländer Viewfinder 75mm works well with the 35 Macro (and my
40/1.4 as well).
- Both the M.Zuiko 17mm and 14-42mm lenses work very nicely on the G1.
- The Pentax/Cosmicar 12.5mm f/1.4 works nicely on the E-P1 too.
- Terry's G Vario 7-14/4 is a delight. Tiny, ultra-wide FoV, very
sharp, beautifully finished.
- Terry's Summilux-M 50/1.4 fitted to the E-P1 is a thing of beauty.

A couple of pictures of the E-P1 with 35 Macro and OVF as well as next
to my Olympus Pen EE, for size and shape comparison:

http://homepage.mac.com/godders/OlyE-P1_ZD35Macro.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/godders/OlyE-P1_PenEE.jpg

Darn nice camera. ;-)
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Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).

[Leon Altoff]

Hi Tim,

CS4 already handles the K7, but the latest version of Camera RAW
doesn't work with CS3 which is what I have.  CS3 does work perfectly
with the K7 DNG files (as Photoshop CS handled the K10D's DNG files,
but not the PEF files).  It's Adobe's way of making money.  I have
enough hard drive space now that I'm not really worried about slightly
larger files anymore.

Leon

2009/7/4 Tim Bray :
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Leon Altoff wrote:
>
>> One major annoyance is that Photoshop CS3 can't recognise the PEF
>> files and I need to upgrade to CS4 if I ever want to.  I think I will
>> just stick to DNG for RAW format, I have no other reason to upgrade
>> Photoshop.
>
> If you hang tight for a few weeks, there'll be an Adobe Camera Raw
> update that will handle the K7.   In the interim, it's quite likely
> that existing software will have trouble with the K7 DNG too.  I was a
> *very* early K20d adopter and had very little luck with image
> processing initially; fortunately the ACR/Lightroom updates arrived
> the night before the Hawai'i vacation...
>  -T

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Re: Exploring Boston: Bromfield Camera

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 06:06:17PM -0400, John Graves wrote:
> Welcome to Boston.  There is another camera dealer in Melrose, a suburb of 
> Boston.  They used to be Hunt Drug, but now are Hunt Photo & Video. They 
> sell most of the major brands but not much of Pentax, unfortunately.  They 
> have several branch stores including Boston at 520 Commonwealth Drive.  
> Commonwealth Drive is worth the walk or drive anyway.  A very 1920's kind 
> of promenade.

The Hunt's in Harvard Square tends to have more Pentax stuff than the
Kenmore Square (Comm Ave) one. Although neither are very exciting in that
way.

There's also Cameras Inc, which is based in Arlington (never visited that
location) and has a store in Davis Square. They had Pentax until a year and
a half ago -- I'm pretty sure they've dropped it now.

And of course there's Calumet out by the Galleria Mall (Lechemere); a bigger
chain.


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Pentax listens to the little things

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 08:40:59PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I often take photographs in my girls' room, which has big green fabric
> leaves from Ikea near the ceiling. Bounce flash works great in there, but
> everything, not surprisingly, ends up with a green tint. Now, I can -- and
> do -- set the white balance perfectly with a gray card. But since the
> lighting there is always the same, what I'd _like_ to do is transfer that
> setting to one of the three custom white balance settings available.

Hah! K-7 manual, page 198:

  You can copy the white balance setting of a captured image and save it as
  Manual White Balance.

Now, I don't want to claim personal credit for this idea, because surely I'm
not the first to have it. But as with the K10D to K20D, it's awesome that a
lot of these small improvements which seem to address individual complaints
are indeed there.

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PESO 2009 - 114 - GDG

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

Visiting with a friend from the photo forums today, this scene had to  
be photographed.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3606/3685420113_3764b9cd19_o.jpg
114 - Working Together - Palo Alto 2009
Panasonic G1 + Olympus ZD 11-22mm f/2.8-3.5
ISO 100 @ f/6.3 @ 1/125 second, fl=22mm
  flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/3685420113/

comments, etc, always appreciated.

enjoy
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ot: more e-p1 foto fun

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

A friend was picking up her M.Zuiko 17mm lens this morning so I popped
up to K&S to see it and visit with her again.

I was early, she was running late, but while I waited I unloaded my
bag full of goodies onto the counter and nabbed the demo E-P1 from the
shelf and played with it. Terry arrived, we had a bit of refreshment
and yakked about the little beast at the cafe across the street until
I had to run off to do some work for a client.

My morning testing revealed:

- E-P1 focuses both the 11-22 and 35 Macro perfectly.
- It focuses the 35 Macro with the EC14 behind it perfectly.
- The Voigtländer Viewfinder 75mm works well with the 35 Macro (and my
40/1.4 as well).
- Both the M.Zuiko 17mm and 14-42mm lenses work very nicely on the G1.
- The Pentax/Cosmicar 12.5mm f/1.4 works nicely on the E-P1 too.
- Terry's G Vario 7-14/4 is a delight. Tiny, ultra-wide FoV, very
sharp, beautifully finished.
- Terry's Summilux-M 50/1.4 fitted to the E-P1 is a thing of beauty.

A couple of pictures of the E-P1 with 35 Macro and OVF as well as next
to my Olympus Pen EE, for size and shape comparison:

http://homepage.mac.com/godders/OlyE-P1_ZD35Macro.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/godders/OlyE-P1_PenEE.jpg

Darn nice camera. ;-)
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Re: 78 rules of photography

[Paul Ewins]

I'll feel a lot more confident now that I am aware of the rules of  
sausage photography (no. 36)


Paul


http://gawno.com/2009/05/78-photography-rules/

No. 15 is s me :)

.timber


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Re: I love my pusher

[Doug Brewer]

Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

Good to hear they're getting into the stores and proving to be a nice
boost up on the K20D.
My local dealer seems to be in the process of disinvesting themselves
of Pentax so I haven't seen one yet.

I'll be curious to hear how the new viewfinder seems.


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Ommegang!

[Mark Roberts]

That's the name of the fine Belgian beer I'm drinking in my hotel room
in Boston at the moment. Splendid stuff. It's very nice to be able to
buy beer and wine in the supermarket where you buy your food. Very
civilized indeed.

I'm working on a Blurb photo book of my own at the moment. Pretty
close to finishing it, too. Another day or two is my estimation. But
it may take longer. I'm drinking good beer, after all.

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Re: I love my pusher

[paul stenquist]

The vast majority of the dealers who carry Pentax don't have a K7 in  
the store yet. Bill's pusher apparently worked hard to get one for  
Bill. As well he should!

Paul

On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:


Good to hear they're getting into the stores and proving to be a nice
boost up on the K20D.
My local dealer seems to be in the process of disinvesting themselves
of Pentax so I haven't seen one yet.

I'll be curious to hear how the new viewfinder seems.
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Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).

[paul stenquist]

When I got my K20D I simply shot in RAW/DNG mode and did my  
conversions in an ancient PSCS 1 ACR converter. I now have PSCS4, but  
shooting DNG always works. Pentax is to be commended for providing  
that alternative.

Paul
On Jul 3, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Tim Bray wrote:

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Leon Altoff  
wrote:



One major annoyance is that Photoshop CS3 can't recognise the PEF
files and I need to upgrade to CS4 if I ever want to.  I think I will
just stick to DNG for RAW format, I have no other reason to upgrade
Photoshop.


If you hang tight for a few weeks, there'll be an Adobe Camera Raw
update that will handle the K7.   In the interim, it's quite likely
that existing software will have trouble with the K7 DNG too.  I was a
*very* early K20d adopter and had very little luck with image
processing initially; fortunately the ACR/Lightroom updates arrived
the night before the Hawai'i vacation...
-T

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Dust Alert

[Tim Bray]

It refuses to run if you happen to have the camera in manual focus.

That is all. -T

PS: For those of you with a camera that has this, ignore the scary
warnings in the manual about how you should pay Pentax to clean the
sensor, buy one of those Visible Dust swab kits and just do it.  It's
a doddle witih Dust Alert.

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Re: I love my pusher

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

Good to hear they're getting into the stores and proving to be a nice
boost up on the K20D.
My local dealer seems to be in the process of disinvesting themselves
of Pentax so I haven't seen one yet.

I'll be curious to hear how the new viewfinder seems.
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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Graydon]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:35:30PM -0500, Christine  Aguila scripsit:
> From: "Graydon" 
>> Keep in mind that it's too much to learn in one go.  You're at the
>> equivalent stage of not knowing comfortably or reliably precisely what
>> exposure is.  It gets simpler once the whole concept of form/content
>> separation and the distinction between an element and an attribute
>> settle in and get comfortable in your head.
>
> Truth be told, despite the beginner frustration, I was enjoying learning  
> this stuff--it's been awhile since I learned something new that was this  
> challenging; I really enjoyed the challenge, wanted to overcome the  
> obstacles, and my brain was feeling hot and exercised--which it hasn't 
> felt in some time.

That's all good.

> But the wheels fell off when I learned how to view source information of 
> a web page (didn't know you could do that);  that was a sobering 
> moment--which led to a state of defeat.

It shouldn't; you're almost certainly seeing something that assembled on
the fly from stored information in a server using a content management
system.  This tends to produce a whole lot more stuff than is actually
required to display the web page, because there's almost no incentive to
produce clean HTML markup for the web if the production is automated.

-- Graydon

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78 rules of photography

[timber]

http://gawno.com/2009/05/78-photography-rules/

No. 15 is s me :)

.timber


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Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).

[Adam Maas]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Leon Altoff wrote:
>
>> One major annoyance is that Photoshop CS3 can't recognise the PEF
>> files and I need to upgrade to CS4 if I ever want to.  I think I will
>> just stick to DNG for RAW format, I have no other reason to upgrade
>> Photoshop.
>
> If you hang tight for a few weeks, there'll be an Adobe Camera Raw
> update that will handle the K7.   In the interim, it's quite likely
> that existing software will have trouble with the K7 DNG too.  I was a
> *very* early K20d adopter and had very little luck with image
> processing initially; fortunately the ACR/Lightroom updates arrived
> the night before the Hawai'i vacation...
>  -T

The ACR update will be for CS4 and Leon's running CS3. Thankfully CS3
will handle DNG's just fine.

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Happy Birthday My Fellow Pentaxian :)

[timber]

I just noticed (facebook ftw) that one of us on the list has his birthday
today (here in London it's 4th already :D).

I wish you a happy birthday and a lot of 'pentaxed' years, Mr. McAllister
;) So what's your 2 other wish (I suppose K-7 is No.1 :D)?

Cheers,
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RE: PESO - White-faced Heron

[J.C. O'Connell]

Anytime I use anything over 200mm, I whip out
my bogen monopod, they really help and are
nearly as easy to use as hand held, much much
easier than using a tripod.

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-Original Message-
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Brian Walters
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 6:42 PM
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Subject: Re: PESO - White-faced Heron


Jack, Ann, Bruce, Christine

Thanks for the comments.  Bruce said "The old adage holds true 'You can
never have too much focal length!"  True and I certainly could have used
more with this one.  But I probably wouldn't have been able to
successfully hand hold anything heavier than the 80-320, particularly as
all I have longer than that is an old Tamron SP300 + 2x adapter - and
fully open that combination works out at f11! - and it's heavy!  :-)>


Cheers

Brian

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> --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Brian Walters  wrote:
> 
> > From: Brian Walters 
> > Subject: PESO - White-faced Heron
> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
> > Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 4:54 AM
> > G'day all
> > 
> > I never get sick of seeing these birds.  They're very common but 
> > they are such elegant and attractive creatures.
> > 
> > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/147837/White-faced_Heron.html
> > 
> > 
> > This was taken hand held with the trusty FA 80-320
> > mm.  It perhaps lacks
> > a little contrast between the bird and the background rocks but the
> > bird's pose was quite striking.
> > 
> > This is a substantial crop of the original frame, upsized back to 6 
> > MP in multiple steps with a little intermediate sharpening
> > along the way.  
> > 
> > 
> > Comments appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > ++
> > Brian Walters
> > Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/
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Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).

[Tim Bray]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Leon Altoff wrote:

> One major annoyance is that Photoshop CS3 can't recognise the PEF
> files and I need to upgrade to CS4 if I ever want to.  I think I will
> just stick to DNG for RAW format, I have no other reason to upgrade
> Photoshop.

If you hang tight for a few weeks, there'll be an Adobe Camera Raw
update that will handle the K7.   In the interim, it's quite likely
that existing software will have trouble with the K7 DNG too.  I was a
*very* early K20d adopter and had very little luck with image
processing initially; fortunately the ACR/Lightroom updates arrived
the night before the Hawai'i vacation...
 -T

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Re: PESO - White-faced Heron

[Brian Walters]

Jack, Ann, Bruce, Christine

Thanks for the comments.  Bruce said "The old adage holds true 'You can
never have too much focal length!"  True and I certainly could have used
more with this one.  But I probably wouldn't have been able to
successfully hand hold anything heavier than the 80-320, particularly as
all I have longer than that is an old Tamron SP300 + 2x adapter - and
fully open that combination works out at f11! - and it's heavy!  :-)>


Cheers

Brian

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> --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Brian Walters  wrote:
> 
> > From: Brian Walters 
> > Subject: PESO - White-faced Heron
> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
> > Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 4:54 AM
> > G'day all
> > 
> > I never get sick of seeing these birds.  They're very
> > common but they
> > are such elegant and attractive creatures.
> > 
> > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/147837/White-faced_Heron.html
> > 
> > 
> > This was taken hand held with the trusty FA 80-320
> > mm.  It perhaps lacks
> > a little contrast between the bird and the background rocks
> > but the
> > bird's pose was quite striking.
> > 
> > This is a substantial crop of the original frame, upsized
> > back to 6 MP
> > in multiple steps with a little intermediate sharpening
> > along the way.  
> > 
> > 
> > Comments appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > ++
> > Brian Walters
> > Western Sydney Australia
> > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/
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Re: Funny readings on K10D

[P. J. Alling]

It sounds like the K10D has become a bit confused.

Try cleaning the lens contacts.  If that doesn't help, take the battery 
out of the camera and count to 100 then replace it, if that doesn't work 
pray.


David J Brooks wrote:

I set up the K10D with the Sigma 300 F4 and APO 1.4 Sigma tele today
and managed a few photos of the Cardinals that feed in our back yard.

I noticed i was getting some funny looking frames and had a closer
look at the info from the camera. What i noticed is in camera, looking
through the finder, it was telling me Tv of 80,at Av of 6.3. However
the information after the shot was Tv 500 at Av 6.3, and this latter
setting also showed up in the top lcd screen.

Setting the camera to M mode and shooting at TV 80 and Av 6.3 produced
the better image.
Any idea why this might be, converter maybe.??

Dave

  



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Funny readings on K10D

[David J Brooks]

I set up the K10D with the Sigma 300 F4 and APO 1.4 Sigma tele today
and managed a few photos of the Cardinals that feed in our back yard.

I noticed i was getting some funny looking frames and had a closer
look at the info from the camera. What i noticed is in camera, looking
through the finder, it was telling me Tv of 80,at Av of 6.3. However
the information after the shot was Tv 500 at Av 6.3, and this latter
setting also showed up in the top lcd screen.

Setting the camera to M mode and shooting at TV 80 and Av 6.3 produced
the better image.
Any idea why this might be, converter maybe.??

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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Brian Walters]

On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:35 -0500, "Christine  Aguila"
 wrote:

> 
> But the wheels fell off when I learned how to view source information of
> a 
> web page (didn't know you could do that);  that was a sobering
> moment--which 
> led to a state of defeat.

Ah

Viewing the source of many commercial websites can be confusing with all
of the scripting code that gets put in.  But you can produce a very
competent and flexible site with basic html code, and the source will be
very easy to follow.  I've been managing a web site for an organisation
I belong to for over 10 years and it now comprises well over 1000 pages.
 I've never found the need to go beyond fairly straight-forward html
with a bit of simple css.  Here's a sample page from that organistaion's
site.  If you take a look at the code, I'm fairly sure you will be able
to make out what's happening.

http://asgap.org.au/member.html


Cheers

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Re: I love my pusher

[David J Brooks]

What, no mention of IQ.:??

:-)

Dave

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, William Robb wrote:
> I actually took my time getting over to the pusher's store to pick up my
> K-7.
> William Robb
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RE: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[John Whittingham]

Hi Christine,

Try not to take it too seriously, enjoy the experience, wishing you the best of 
luck.

Regards,

John

From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Christine  
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From: "Graydon" 
>
> Keep in mind that it's too much to learn in one go.  You're at the
> equivalent stage of not knowing comfortably or reliably precisely what
> exposure is.  It gets simpler once the whole concept of form/content
> separation and the distinction between an element and an attribute
> settle in and get comfortable in your head.


Truth be told, despite the beginner frustration, I was enjoying learning
this stuff--it's been awhile since I learned something new that was this
challenging; I really enjoyed the challenge, wanted to overcome the
obstacles, and my brain was feeling hot and exercised--which it hasn't felt
in some time.

But the wheels fell off when I learned how to view source information of a
web page (didn't know you could do that);  that was a sobering moment--which
led to a state of defeat.

Still, the good cheer offered by PDMLers  who responded has sincerely
renewed my spirits, and I will give it another earnest attempt. I've logged
the advice, have already checked out Komposer, and will head back to
3wschool--after a little holiday weekend festivities.  Big thanks to all who
responded last night and this morning.  Really means a lot and was very
helpful.  Enjoy the fireworks for those stateside!  Big cheers, Christine



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Re: I love my pusher

[paul stenquist]

You talked me into it. (I'm easy:-) Placed my order at B&H.
Paul
On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:06 PM, William Robb wrote:

I actually took my time getting over to the pusher's store to pick  
up my K-7. I had breakfast and I decided it would be nice to have an  
armed guard, so to speak, so I hitched up Jester and off we went.

This is the Pentax I've been waiting for.
It feels smaller than the K20, but at the same time, just as  
substantial. It does fit my hand better, and the vertical grip is  
more rounded on the front, making it more comfortable as well. There  
is more grip to grip, so to speak.
There are a LOT more menu adjustments, but they've done away with  
the pages and pages of depth, instead opting for a tabbed style of  
menu, with only one page of depth per tab.
Overall, if you can work a K20, the K-7 won't be difficult, though  
there are some pleasant surprises hidden in menuland.


My major nitpik with the camera so far, and I expect reading the  
manual will answer it, is that the camera defaults to the rocker  
switch panel controlling the Fn functions rather than the AF point  
select, and I haven't found a menu option that will let me change  
it. This makes it really easy (possibly to easy) to adjust Fn  
settings, but it will be frustrating until I get used to having to  
push the OK button every time I turn the camera on so that the  
rockers adjust the AF point.


Hopefully I'll find a solution in the manual, but if not, I hope  
Pentax writes it into a firmware update so that the camera will  
remember that setting, along with the other settings it is happy to  
remember.


Something they have done that I think I'll appreciate is to put a  
lock button on the mode dial. No more accidentally changing the mode  
by brushing up against the to of the camera. This is a good thing.
The User mode is still, as far as I am concerned, broken. I would  
really appreciate it if one could lock a discrete shutter speed and  
aperture value combination into the user mode by offering the  
settings to the user mode set-up. I find that I have a tendency to  
bump the dials when I am shooting quickly at weddings, so I am  
constantly having to babysit the camera.


We now have the option of switching noise reduction off, both for  
long exposure and for high ISO.

As well, there is the standard weak, medium and strong settings.

So far, I am thinking this is quite a step upwards for Pentax from a  
performance POV. The camera truly does feel more responsive. The  
screwdrive AF is definitely faster, the jury is still out on whether  
SDM focusing is, as the partially charged battery that came with the  
camera died almost immediately, so I am running it on AA alkalines,  
which are also trying to die just from setting the camera up.

More on this later when I have a fully operational camera.

William Robb

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Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).

[Leon Altoff]

2009/7/4 mike wilson :
> Leon Altoff wrote:
>
> Looks like you are number one.  Spill the beans.

I don't have a lot of beans to spill yet.  Picture taking will happen
over the weekend, so you will have to accept testing and setup for
now.

One major annoyance is that Photoshop CS3 can't recognise the PEF
files and I need to upgrade to CS4 if I ever want to.  I think I will
just stick to DNG for RAW format, I have no other reason to upgrade
Photoshop.

As for the camera, it feels good.  It reminds me of the MZ-S in terms
of build quality.  I like where the controls are, particularly that
the Shake reduction is no longer a slide switch on the back - for some
reason I was forever knocking it on the K10D and turning it off while
pulling it in and out of my camera bag.  I like that the ISO, Flash,
drive mode, white balance and exposure compensation are now all easy
to get to and change quickly - I nearly never change the focus point
off centre, but the others I change regularly so this is good.  The
mode selector has a button in the middle to unlock it.  It's easy to
use, but I've never had problems with it moving in the past so I
wouldn't have thought of adding one.

Autofocus seems fast.  Particularly with the 43 and 77 limited lenses
which always seemed slow on other cameras due to the amount of
distance they have to move.  Out of the box it very slightly front
focused with some of my lenses.  It was an easy experience to adjust
each of the lenses using a large ruler and the screen on the camera
for checking the focus.  Autofocus is now fast and accurate.

It took time to go through all the menu options and set it all to my
taste, but I've come to expect this.  There were no places where I
wanted an option that was not provided, a few places where I selected
a new option and a couple of setting I still have to look up to see
what they actually do.

The AF assist light is far better than the flash flicker of the K10D.
The flash pop up is very quiet, as it the autofocus with SDM lenses
and even the shutter is quiet by comparison to others.

ISO 6400 is noisy, I'll have to see how often I use it and how far up
the ISO scale I'm happy with.  I don't do that much low light stuff so
this may take a while.  Going into movie mode immediately trips the
shutter and gives an image on the screen.  The camera gives a
countdown on the amount of time still available to record on the card.
 Again something I will use occasionally, but not soon.

There are no spare batteries available as yet, they arrive next week.
With luck I won't run out of power half way through a day (it's never
happened before, but I expect to be trying out things like movie mode
and live view and checking exposure a lot more than I normally do so
that will all eat more power.

Now with all the testing out of the way, I'm waiting for the sun to
come up so I can go out and take pictures.

-- 

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I love my pusher

[William Robb]

I actually took my time getting over to the pusher's store to pick up my 
K-7. I had breakfast and I decided it would be nice to have an armed guard, 
so to speak, so I hitched up Jester and off we went.

This is the Pentax I've been waiting for.
It feels smaller than the K20, but at the same time, just as substantial. It 
does fit my hand better, and the vertical grip is more rounded on the front, 
making it more comfortable as well. There is more grip to grip, so to speak.
There are a LOT more menu adjustments, but they've done away with the pages 
and pages of depth, instead opting for a tabbed style of menu, with only one 
page of depth per tab.
Overall, if you can work a K20, the K-7 won't be difficult, though there are 
some pleasant surprises hidden in menuland.


My major nitpik with the camera so far, and I expect reading the manual will 
answer it, is that the camera defaults to the rocker switch panel 
controlling the Fn functions rather than the AF point select, and I haven't 
found a menu option that will let me change it. This makes it really easy 
(possibly to easy) to adjust Fn settings, but it will be frustrating until I 
get used to having to push the OK button every time I turn the camera on so 
that the rockers adjust the AF point.


Hopefully I'll find a solution in the manual, but if not, I hope Pentax 
writes it into a firmware update so that the camera will remember that 
setting, along with the other settings it is happy to remember.


Something they have done that I think I'll appreciate is to put a lock 
button on the mode dial. No more accidentally changing the mode by brushing 
up against the to of the camera. This is a good thing.
The User mode is still, as far as I am concerned, broken. I would really 
appreciate it if one could lock a discrete shutter speed and aperture value 
combination into the user mode by offering the settings to the user mode 
set-up. I find that I have a tendency to bump the dials when I am shooting 
quickly at weddings, so I am constantly having to babysit the camera.


We now have the option of switching noise reduction off, both for long 
exposure and for high ISO.

As well, there is the standard weak, medium and strong settings.

So far, I am thinking this is quite a step upwards for Pentax from a 
performance POV. The camera truly does feel more responsive. The screwdrive 
AF is definitely faster, the jury is still out on whether SDM focusing is, 
as the partially charged battery that came with the camera died almost 
immediately, so I am running it on AA alkalines, which are also trying to 
die just from setting the camera up.

More on this later when I have a fully operational camera.

William Robb 



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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
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Subject: Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@








Truth be told, despite the beginner frustration, I was enjoying learning 
this stuff--it's been awhile since I learned something new that was this 
challenging; I really enjoyed the challenge, wanted to overcome the 
obstacles, and my brain was feeling hot and exercised--which it hasn't 
felt in some time.


But the wheels fell off when I learned how to view source information of a 
web page (didn't know you could do that);  that was a sobering 
moment--which led to a state of defeat.


When I took over the PUG from Mark Casinno I took it upon myself to both 
learn basic HTML and to ensure that what I was writing was W3C compliant. I 
think for the most part I succeeded.
The HTML requred for simple image viewing web pages is reasonably simple, 
and since that is pretty much what I am interested in creating, I wrote 
myself a template that I use for nearly everything and just paste in file 
names to suit.
For myself, I think the HTML that is generated by most programs is pretty 
bloated compared to what is needed, and I tend to eschew fancy code for fast 
loading, easy to navigate pages. If I can't write it myself, it's probably 
more complicated than I need.

Others have different needs though.

For generating code on the fly, when it suits me to go this way, I use Adobe 
GoLive, the GESOs I've been putting up lately have been generated out of 
Lightroom or Photoshop. At this point, I don't really want to deal with it, 
so I've let my standards slip a little in the spirit of geterdone 
expediency.


William Robb 



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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Christine Aguila]

From: "Graydon" 


Keep in mind that it's too much to learn in one go.  You're at the
equivalent stage of not knowing comfortably or reliably precisely what
exposure is.  It gets simpler once the whole concept of form/content
separation and the distinction between an element and an attribute
settle in and get comfortable in your head.



Truth be told, despite the beginner frustration, I was enjoying learning 
this stuff--it's been awhile since I learned something new that was this 
challenging; I really enjoyed the challenge, wanted to overcome the 
obstacles, and my brain was feeling hot and exercised--which it hasn't felt 
in some time.


But the wheels fell off when I learned how to view source information of a 
web page (didn't know you could do that);  that was a sobering moment--which 
led to a state of defeat.


Still, the good cheer offered by PDMLers  who responded has sincerely 
renewed my spirits, and I will give it another earnest attempt. I've logged 
the advice, have already checked out Komposer, and will head back to 
3wschool--after a little holiday weekend festivities.  Big thanks to all who 
responded last night and this morning.  Really means a lot and was very 
helpful.  Enjoy the fireworks for those stateside!  Big cheers, Christine 




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Re: News Flash

[Bruce Dayton]

And this is supposed to make me happy

How cool!  I'm envious.

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WR> My K-7 (and grip) awaits.
WR> More later.

WR> WHEEE!!

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RE: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Bob W]

> 
>  Christine  Aguila  wrote: 
> > Hence, I'm going to throw in the towel and will probably 
> use Word Web Pages 
> > to get something up.
> 
> Don't do either of those.  Writing HTML is rather like riding 
> a bicycle.  It's impossible until you can do it and then you 
> wonder what the fuss was about.  Using outriggers (wysiwig 
> programmes) will help in the early stages but you might get 
> to rely on them (it) and may suddenly find that the 
> metaphorical wheels have suddenly become square, as standards 
> change or become more strictly applied.
> 

the clever way to do it is not to write html at all, but to write xml and
css.

Bob


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Re: ImagePro at Photo.net

[paul stenquist]

I saw that but don't know what it means and haven't had time to figure  
it out.

Paul
On Jul 3, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:

Just a heads up if PDML photo.net users haven't seen it already, but  
photo.net is offering ImagePro web site capabilities free with one's  
photo.net subscription.



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ImagePro at Photo.net

[Christine Aguila]

Just a heads up if PDML photo.net users haven't seen it already, but 
photo.net is offering ImagePro web site capabilities free with one's 
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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Igor Roshchin]

Fri Jul 3 03:13:10 CDT 2009
John Whittingham wrote:

> From personal experience I'd say 90% of all the code writers I know 
> use some form of application other than notepad, it's just easier 
> and quicker that way.

... like vi(m) ;-)
(oops.. somebody has already mention it)


On a serious note, - for free WYSIWYG editors (Wavedreamer is good but
it's not free), I heard reasonable responses about DHE Editor
which has a free version:
http://www.dynamic-html-editor.com/en/home.asp


Igor


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Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).

[mike wilson]

Leon Altoff wrote:


I got a phone call just as I finished eating lunch and was wondering
if I had time to go for a walk.  "Your Camera has arrived".  OK I do
have time to go for a walk.

I managed to leave it in the box all afternoon (I did have a lot of
work to do) and now it is unpacked at home.  I'll charge the battery
overnight.  328 pages in the instruction manual will keep me busy.

Does anyone else on the list have one they have purchased from a shop?


Looks like you are number one.  Spill the beans.

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Re: What is Opteka 85mm f/1.4 ?

[Adam Maas]

It's the Samyang 85/1.4, which is sold under a number of names.

Consensus is decent but not spectacular optics, mediocre build and
really low prices.

-Adam

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I just noticed this lens: Opteka 85mm f/1.4
> I don't think I ever heard of this brand.
> What is it?
> Has anybody tried this lens?
>
> Igor
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Re: Peso, The Sewing Lady

[Christine Aguila]

I seemed to have missed this the 1st go round.  Nice shot, Joe.  Fun angle 
and subject.  Cheers, Christine




- Original Message - 
From: "Tim Bray" 

To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Peso, The Sewing Lady



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:17 PM, <27...@comcast.net> wrote:

The Sewing Lady, thoughts ? Joe

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9405124


Made me smile, thanks. -T

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What is Opteka 85mm f/1.4 ?

[Igor Roshchin]

Hi All,

I just noticed this lens: Opteka 85mm f/1.4 
I don't think I ever heard of this brand. 
What is it? 
Has anybody tried this lens?

Igor



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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Christine Aguila]

HI Doug:  Your site looks lovely, and it's very easy to move through.  I was 
just at your Artist's Page and the full justified text next to your 
self-portrait has some bigger than normal gaps in it in a few places.   Just 
thought I'd let you know. Overall it's an excellent site and the photography 
looks terrific.  Cheers, Christine






- Original Message - 
From: "Doug Brewer" 

To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" 
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:31 PM
Subject: It's about freaking time...


I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you 
think. Or not. Up to you.


http://www.alphoto.com

thanks,

Doug

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Re: Pentax DSLRS - sorted by sensor ? ?

[Graydon]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:16:52PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit:
> 3 different sensors:
> 
> Sony 6.1MP CCD - *istD, DS, DS2, DL, DL2, K110D, K100D, K100D Super
> Sony 10.5MP CCD - K10D, K200D, K-m/K2000D
> Samsung 14.6MP CMOS - K20D, K-7
> 
> There are known differences between the K20D and K-7D's sensors. The
> latter has a redesigned output stage for higher speed and lower noise
> and possibly some microlens changes.

Although the likelihood that all the Sony sensors were, despite being
the same design, the same process iteration, is pretty low.  (Maybe with
the 10.5, given that Pentax got ahold of them relatively late in the
thing's life.  But I'd be disinclined to bet on it.)  So it's really
very hard to tell which is *really* the same sensor chip.

-- Graydon

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News Flash

[William Robb]

My pusher just called.
My K-7 (and grip) awaits.
More later.

WHEEE!!

William Robb

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Re: Pentax DSLRS - sorted by sensor ? ?

[Adam Maas]

3 different sensors:

Sony 6.1MP CCD - *istD, DS, DS2, DL, DL2, K110D, K100D, K100D Super
Sony 10.5MP CCD - K10D, K200D, K-m/K2000D
Samsung 14.6MP CMOS - K20D, K-7

There are known differences between the K20D and K-7D's sensors. The
latter has a redesigned output stage for higher speed and lower noise
and possibly some microlens changes.

-Adam

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:54 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:
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>
> Anybody know how many different sensors
> Pentax has used so far and which camera
> body models share which sensors?
>
> Thanks in advance,
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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Mark Roberts]

Doug wrote:

>The image is huge intentionally, to keep it from tiling in a 
>normal-sized browser window. Also because I couldn't figure out the css 
>marking to turn off repeating.

Here's the CSS for your background image:
.background-main{
background-image: url("picts/background.jpg");
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: 0px 0px;
}

If you change "repeat-x" to "no-repeat" you'll turn off repeating :)

In fact, you could change that whole class selector to the following:

.background-main{
background: url("picts/background.jpg") no-repeat;
}
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Pentax DSLRS - sorted by sensor ? ?

[J.C. O'Connell]

Anybody know how many different sensors
Pentax has used so far and which camera
body models share which sensors?

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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[David J Brooks]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Doug Franklin wrote:

>
> Well, that wasn't the best way to get started.  It's sorta like learning to
> drive nails by using a rock instead of a hammer. :-)

Then you have seen my tool box then.

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Re: How about we send

[AlunFoto]

Two days late, but heck! Congrats Dario!
Hope you had a splendid day. :-)
Jostein

2009/7/1 Joseph McAllister :
> birthday wishes to our man in Italy, Dario Bonazza!
>
> He won't tell which one it is.     :—)
>
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> Joseph McAllister
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Re: It's about freaking time...

[John Francis]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:21:42PM -0400, Graydon wrote:
> >
> > The K-7 has a field where you can enter the author and copyright info
> > and it's included in the file.
> 
> Well, sure, but that's not necessarily going to be difficult to remove
> from the EXIF info.  It's kinda like steganography in the image file --
> it's great until someone resizes the image.

Back in the days when Digimarc offered a free personal license for up to
100 images I used to use their digital watermarking.  I found that it was
quite robust - even after much manipulation the watermark was detectable.

One time, just as an exercise, I:

   o  Watermarked an image

   o  Resized and cropped
 
   o  Printed

   o  Scanned the print (at a different resolution)

The resulting image still carried a strong digital watermark!


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Re: It's about freaking time...

[ann sanfedele]

Doug Brewer wrote:


ann sanfedele wrote:




Doug Brewer wrote:

I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what 
you think. Or not. Up to you.


http://www.alphoto.com

thanks,

Doug

Ok -  couple  things: (don't know how much of this is "what browser 
are you using" related - i'm using latest

version of Firefox)

The opening page image is huge in relation to your title in words  
and falls off my screen on both sides... when
I zoom out to find the borders of it , it repeats.   also, there more 
blank screen (black) than anything else
on your opening page which gives one the feeling things are not 
coming up and something is wrong.



The image is huge intentionally, to keep it from tiling in a 
normal-sized browser window. Also because I couldn't figure out the 
css marking to turn off repeating. 


LOL!  --  

I read someone's comment about your watermarks.  I see no watermarks 
at all on any images - hmmm maybe

you removed them between his comment and this morning?



Yep, turned it off. I'll put a watermark layer on the images 
themselves when I get over the intense hatred I have for all things 
site-related at the moment. 


gee, I wonder why...



Got confused by the slide counter on top...  took me a while to work 
out that you only have 54 images total
on the site,  not 54 images in the gallery I happen to be viewing... 
Nice fonts. If I try to look at it in Netscape 7.0 I can't see that 
first banner image at all...



Only 54? Only? Do you know how long it took me to come up with 54 
decent photos? 


you?  10 minutes?   20?

but my point was, dear, that  what I expected to see was the number of 
photos in each gallery... i.e.d, shot 2 of 9 or what have you.



Glad to see a bunch of stunning images that I'd not seen before :-)



And I'm glad you like them.



Meanwhile, I hate my first page  on my smugmug site  and have been 
lazy about doing anything with it, so

good for you for finally getting to yours :-)

ann



Speaking of which, I mentioned your photos on my blog a while back, 
but I don't know if anyone clicked through from there. Did you notice 
any spikes in traffic? 


oooh thanks muchly I don't check the traffic that often... and it 
only runs for a calendar month and the stat view is per gallery...


Hmmm, maybe I should ask just what you said lol!

xo,
ann




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Re: Looks like my red flower over saturation is not just a Pentax thing.

[John Francis]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:43:47AM -0600, William Robb wrote:
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> - Original Message - From: "Tim Bray"
> Subject: Re: Looks like my red flower over saturation is not just a 
> Pentax thing.
>
>
>
>> I shoot lots of flowers and I think this isn't just a D200 problem or
>> a Nikon problem, it's a digital-camera-sensor problem in general.
>> I've never used a digital camera of any make or model that could deal
>> with really intense floral reds, particularly when there's sunlight
>> anywhere nearby.
>
> Reds are a problem for a lot of films as well.

Yep - welcome to the wonderful world of metamerism.


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FS: SMC-A 24mm f/2.8, SMC-M 24-35/3.5 zoom, SMC-M 28/2, + bodies PZ-1p, KX, more

[Joe Wilensky]

Items for sale, prices include shipping/insurance in the continental  
U.S.



Lenses:

Pentax SMC-A 24mm f/2.8 lens, EX condition, includes front & rear  
caps, plus a Sigma clip-on hood that worked well on this lens (on full- 
frame 35mm, anyway). See http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/lenses/primes/ultra-wide/A24f2.8.html 
 for specs. Very nice on digital. $180.


Photos:

http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/24_kit.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/24_front.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/24_rear.jpg


Pentax SMC-M 24-35mm f/3.5 lens, EX+ condition, includes front & rear  
caps. See http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/lenses/zooms/short/ 
M24-35f3.5.html for info. $150.


Photos:
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/24-35_side.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/24-35_front.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/24-35_rear.jpg


Pentax SMC-M 28mm f/2, BGN condition (Some signs of wear, slight  
filter ring dent, one bright mark/circular spot on front element. See http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/lenses/primes/wide-angle/M28f2.html 
 for info/specs. There is a serial number engraved on the rear mount.  
$125.


http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/28_2_kit.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/28_2_front.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/28_2_side.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/28_2_rear.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/wilensky/eBay/28_2_surface.jpg


Bodies:

Black Pentax PZ-1p: EX+, no crack by battery door. Includes strap,  
body cap, all covers, battery. See http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/bodies/Z-PZ/zpz1p.html 
 for specs. $175.


Also available: Black Pentax KX, bargain condition, split image finder  
screen installed (no microprism collar), fully functional; Pentax P5,  
EX condition, with front grip and Pentax SMC-A 35-70mm variable  
aperture push-pull zoom; Pentax SFXn, EX condition, includes the often- 
missing eyecup. Photos available upon request.



Joe Wilensky



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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Graydon]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:15:59PM -0400, Doug Brewer scripsit:
> Feroze wrote:
>> It would probally work if you put only the landscapes in, don't think
>> its very practical, I would probally just photoshop the watermark on
>> the photo itself
>
> The K-7 has a field where you can enter the author and copyright info
> and it's included in the file.

Well, sure, but that's not necessarily going to be difficult to remove
from the EXIF info.  It's kinda like steganography in the image file --
it's great until someone resizes the image.

-- Graydon

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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[John Francis]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 11:48:14AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote:
> John Whittingham wrote:
>
>> [...] 90% of all the [HTML] code writers I know use some form of
>> application other than notepad, it's just easier and quicker that way.
>
> Yeah, emacs. :-)

Or, in my case, vi (it may suck as an editor, but at least it sucks
uniformly across just about every machine I've ever had to work on).

Of late, though, I must admit that I've often been using the editor
that comes built in to Microsoft Visual Studio - it's nice to have
something that takes care of tag nesting and the like automatically.


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Re: Peso, The Sewing Lady

[Tim Bray]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:17 PM, <27...@comcast.net> wrote:
> The Sewing Lady, thoughts ? Joe
>
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9405124

Made me smile, thanks. -T

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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Doug Brewer]

Feroze wrote:
It would probally work if you put only the landscapes in, don't think 
its very practical, I would probally just photoshop the watermark on the 
photo itself


The K-7 has a field where you can enter the author and copyright info 
and it's included in the file.


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Re: PESO - Repeat

[Tim Bray]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
> Same walk, different subject.

Mmmm, tasty, thanks.  All photographs should be photographs of light,
n'est-ce pas? -T

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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Doug Brewer]

ann sanfedele wrote:



Doug Brewer wrote:

I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you 
think. Or not. Up to you.


http://www.alphoto.com

thanks,

Doug

Ok -  couple  things: (don't know how much of this is "what browser are 
you using" related - i'm using latest

version of Firefox)

The opening page image is huge in relation to your title in words  and 
falls off my screen on both sides... when
I zoom out to find the borders of it , it repeats.   also, there more 
blank screen (black) than anything else
on your opening page which gives one the feeling things are not 
coming up and something is wrong.


The image is huge intentionally, to keep it from tiling in a 
normal-sized browser window. Also because I couldn't figure out the css 
marking to turn off repeating.




I read someone's comment about your watermarks.  I see no watermarks at 
all on any images - hmmm maybe

you removed them between his comment and this morning?


Yep, turned it off. I'll put a watermark layer on the images themselves 
when I get over the intense hatred I have for all things site-related at 
the moment.




Got confused by the slide counter on top...  took me a while to work out 
that you only have 54 images total
on the site,  not 54 images in the gallery I happen to be viewing... 
Nice fonts. 
If I try to look at it in Netscape 7.0 I can't see that first banner 
image at all...


Only 54? Only? Do you know how long it took me to come up with 54 decent 
photos?




Glad to see a bunch of stunning images that I'd not seen before :-)


And I'm glad you like them.



Meanwhile, I hate my first page  on my smugmug site  and have been lazy 
about doing anything with it, so

good for you for finally getting to yours :-)

ann


Speaking of which, I mentioned your photos on my blog a while back, but 
I don't know if anyone clicked through from there. Did you notice any 
spikes in traffic?


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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Doug Franklin]

John Whittingham wrote:


[...] 90% of all the code writers I know use some form of
application other than notepad, it's just easier and quicker that way.


Yeah, emacs. :-)

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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Doug Franklin]

Christine Aguila wrote:


[...] learning how to write some html code using Notepad [...]


Well, that wasn't the best way to get started.  It's sorta like learning 
to drive nails by using a rock instead of a hammer. :-)  If you're going 
to write any sort of code or markup in raw text, you've /got/ to have a 
better editor than Notepad. :-)


I will, however, refrain from stating an editor preference, so as to 
avoid the inevitable religious war about which editor is "best".



[...] I learned to write some [HTML] code--and [...] how to write a
css style sheet [...] never could figure out how to get my little
two item list to align the way I wanted to. [...] intimidated by 
the complexity of the code [for some elegantly simple web pages].


Well, HTML and CSS are OK for what they are, but they aren't completely 
suitable for the way they are used now.  The original idea behind HTML 
was that the author marks the text for its semantic content, and the 
browser figures out how to lay it out on screen/paper in conjunction 
with the user's (not author's) configuration (fonts, sizes, etc.) and 
some "notion" of appropriate layout based on those semantics.


That lasted about eight seconds after people started putting up pages 
other people could view.  HTML went down a bad trail of adding markup 
purely for visual and layout purposes, thoroughly confusing things, and 
turning a lot of web pages into tag soup.  Eventually everyone said 
"Bah, that's crap" and CSS was born so you could, again, separate the 
semantic markup from the layout/visual markup.


But it's still immature, and it often like building a sand castle one 
grain of sand at a time.  For example, one big goal in CSS was to be 
able to do complex layouts without having to use HTML tables.  Well, you 
/can/ do it in CSS instead of HTML, but the HTML still ends up with a 
disgusting mess of tags for any non-trivial layout, but they're div tags 
instead of HTML table-related tags.



Hence, I'm going to throw in the towel and will probably use Word Web Pages
to get something up.


I've found that it helps me learn to use some tool that let's me do 
stuff visually in a GUI and writes the technical stuff for me.  So I 
start with a blank canvas and do one little thing at a time, save the 
results, and see what code the thing wrote to achieve the effect.  As I 
figure out the little stuff, I gradually do bigger and bigger stuff and 
see what it generates for that.


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Re: Looks like my red flower over saturation is not just a Pentax thing.

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
From: "Tim Bray"
Subject: Re: Looks like my red flower over saturation is not just a Pentax 
thing.





I shoot lots of flowers and I think this isn't just a D200 problem or
a Nikon problem, it's a digital-camera-sensor problem in general.
I've never used a digital camera of any make or model that could deal
with really intense floral reds, particularly when there's sunlight
anywhere nearby.


Reds are a problem for a lot of films as well.

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Re: Looks like my red flower over saturation is not just a Pentax thing.

[Tim Bray]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:05 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
> Took a few flower shots at my sister's place on Wednesday,
> and a few were of red flowers,
> using the D200 and Tamron 90 f2.8 macro.
>
> Just looking at these in LR and the red is WAAY over blown/saturated.

I shoot lots of flowers and I think this isn't just a D200 problem or
a Nikon problem, it's a digital-camera-sensor problem in general.
I've never used a digital camera of any make or model that could deal
with really intense floral reds, particularly when there's sunlight
anywhere nearby.

We've got an azalea in our front yard that turns into a shocking mass
of intense slightly-violet red every May, and I've been trying to
capture the effect with various cameras since 1997 when we bought the
place.  No luck so far. -T

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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[mike wilson]

 Christine  Aguila  wrote: 
> Hence, I'm going to throw in the towel and will probably use Word Web Pages 
> to get something up.

Don't do either of those.  Writing HTML is rather like riding a bicycle.  It's 
impossible until you can do it and then you wonder what the fuss was about.  
Using outriggers (wysiwig programmes) will help in the early stages but you 
might get to rely on them (it) and may suddenly find that the metaphorical 
wheels have suddenly become square, as standards change or become more strictly 
applied.

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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Doug Brewer]

Bob Sullivan wrote:

Doug,
First look is good.  I especially enjoyed starting with the galleries.
More in depth later.
Regards,  Bob S.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Doug Brewer wrote:

I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you
think. Or not. Up to you.

http://www.alphoto.com

thanks,

Doug


thanks, Bob. Hope you enjoy it.

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Re: It's about freaking time...

[ann sanfedele]

Doug Brewer wrote:

I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you 
think. Or not. Up to you.


http://www.alphoto.com

thanks,

Doug

Ok -  couple  things: (don't know how much of this is "what browser are 
you using" related - i'm using latest

version of Firefox)

The opening page image is huge in relation to your title in words  and 
falls off my screen on both sides... when
I zoom out to find the borders of it , it repeats.   also, there more 
blank screen (black) than anything else
on your opening page which gives one the feeling things are not 
coming up and something is wrong.


I read someone's comment about your watermarks.  I see no watermarks at 
all on any images - hmmm maybe

you removed them between his comment and this morning?

Got confused by the slide counter on top...  took me a while to work out 
that you only have 54 images total
on the site,  not 54 images in the gallery I happen to be viewing...  

Nice fonts.  

If I try to look at it in Netscape 7.0 I can't see that first banner 
image at all...


Glad to see a bunch of stunning images that I'd not seen before :-)

Meanwhile, I hate my first page  on my smugmug site  and have been lazy 
about doing anything with it, so

good for you for finally getting to yours :-)

ann







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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Bob Sullivan]

Doug,
First look is good.  I especially enjoyed starting with the galleries.
More in depth later.
Regards,  Bob S.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Doug Brewer wrote:
> I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you
> think. Or not. Up to you.
>
> http://www.alphoto.com
>
> thanks,
>
> Doug
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Re: It's about freaking time...

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
From: "Doug Brewer"

Subject: Re: It's about freaking time...



William Robb wrote:



I miss No Poodles.


No Poodles was fun, wasn't it? I bet it's still around here somewhere, 
lying dormant on a dusty scuzzy drive in the storeroom.


I swiped it from you years ago, but somehow I've managed to lose the CD that 
it was on.
Karma, I guess. I also lost Tripod Follies and a whole bunch of my early 
website content.


William Robb 



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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Doug Brewer]

William Robb wrote:



I miss No Poodles.


No Poodles was fun, wasn't it? I bet it's still around here somewhere, 
lying dormant on a dusty scuzzy drive in the storeroom.



It looks good.


Thanks, Bill.

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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Doug Brewer]

Christine Aguila wrote:
Up until 2 days ago I had never written 1 line of html code--not 
one--for any purpose.  




I used to be able to crank out the HTML and I can still scan it pretty 
well, but css gives me brain cramps and I have to stare at it for days 
before anything sinks in.


I found the best way to learn is to decide what you want to do, then sit 
down with a reference book/site and figure out how to get from concept 
to product a step at a time.


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Re: Peso Two more flowers.

[Bob Sullivan]

Dave,
Pleasantly atypical view of a gazania!  Nice shot.
Regards,  Bob S.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:36 AM, David Mann wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2009, at 6:42 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
>
>> Some flowers at my sisters house.
>>
>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9423200
>>
>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9423207
>
> First one looks like a gazania - we have a whole lot of them in our garden.
>  Mostly at my request as I think they're beautiful flowers.  There's a large
> variety available: some have really deep, rich colours, others have nice
> subtle hues.
>
> Here's one of mine from a few years ago but I think it could use a bit more
> DOF.
> http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/photodb/view.php?p=187
>
> Just makes me miss summer even more.
>
> Dave
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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Graydon]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:22:21AM -0500, Christine  Aguila scripsit:
> - Original Message - From: "Graydon" 
[snip]
>>> Hence, I'm going to throw in the towel and will probably use Word Web
>>> Pages to get something up.
>>
>> That's a lot like saying your first two tries at making bread produced
>> patio stones, so you're going to take arsenic now.
>
> lol.  I knew mentioning Word would be provocative--and get someone's hair 
> to stand on end.  :-)

Word's HTML output really is epically bad.  There are multiple software
tools that exist to do nothing but remove the suck, fail, and horrid
from Word HTML not because various persons have opinions about Microsoft
products, or were bored, but because Word's HTML output is frequently
both unavoidable and unusable without serious post-processing.

>> But, really, if you want to learn how to do this, get a decent free HTML
>> editor for your platform of choice, and start chewing through the
>> w3schools tutorial.
>
> Guess I'm just feeling tired and a bit defeated.  The kicker is, I've 
> made all my decisions on content and what pages will link to what pages, 
> and the general layout.  It's fairly straight ahead.  

Keep in mind that it's too much to learn in one go.  You're at the
equivalent stage of not knowing comfortably or reliably precisely what
exposure is.  It gets simpler once the whole concept of form/content
separation and the distinction between an element and an attribute
settle in and get comfortable in your head.

> Perhaps, I'll enjoy 
> some fireworks and potato salad this weekend and try again next week.--By 
> the way--happy Canada Day! 

Thank you!

Happy 4th of July (observed) and 4th of July (actual)!

-- Graydon

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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[Bob Sullivan]

Dave,
Lucky you're half a world away...
I wouldn't try that without the Pacific for protection.
Regards, Bob S.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:36 AM, David Savage wrote:
> There, there darling...
>
> ...now back to the kitchen.
>
> 
>
> On 03/07/2009, Christine  Aguila  wrote:
>> Up until 2 days ago I had never written 1 line of html code--not one--for
>> any purpose.  I have spent the last two days, however, learning about html
>> and learning how to write some html code using Notepad so that I might get a
>> simple index page up.  Oh my gosh, am I brain dead. (Aside:  as I write
>> this, I can hear the most beautiful live xylophone music coming through my
>> study window.  It's absolutely delightful.  Someone is playing in his or her
>> backyard somewhere across the alley.)  I did, in fact, get something
>> written, but oh, is it stinky--and I never did get it just the way I wanted.
>>
>> On the one hand I am a bit proud that I learned to write some code--and I
>> learned how to write a css style sheet--and I was successful at linking the
>> two, though they didn't link at first, and it took me forever to find the
>> typo.  I had written *type="test/css"* instead of *text*.  Ugh!  And I got
>> the jpeg to link to where I *almost* wanted it, but I never could figure out
>> how to get my little two item list to align the way I wanted to.  Still,
>> like I said, I'm a bit proud of my meager results here.
>>
>> But that's just the problem--oh, how meager the results are!  I have no
>> problem being a beginner at anything--it's where everyone starts when
>> learning something new, but gee wiz, you'd think after 2 days I'd be a
>> little further along!  Moreover, I started looking at the code for some
>> elegantly simple web pages that I admire, and I'm totally intimidated by the
>> complexity of the code and feel quite sure it would take me most of the next
>> 12 months just to get close to learning this stuff.
>>
>> Hence, I'm going to throw in the towel and will probably use Word Web Pages
>> to get something up.
>>
>> Lastly, to all you Cyber Techie Code Writers who can write this stuff at the
>> speed of light, I sincerely tip my hat to you in admiration.  Cheers,
>> Christine
>>
>>
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Re: How about we send

[Dario Bonazza]

Hi Christine. Rather well, thank-you.
Cheers,
Dario


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Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: How about we send


Happy belated b-day Dario.  Hope all is well.  Cheers, Christine




- Original Message - 
From: "Joseph McAllister" 

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Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:51 AM
Subject: How about we send


birthday wishes to our man in Italy, Dario Bonazza!

He won't tell which one it is. :—)


Joseph McAllister
pentax...@mac.com

http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html






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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
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Subject: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@



Hence, I'm going to throw in the towel and will probably use Word Web 
Pages to get something up.


Shouldn't you be using that towel to dry dishes or something?

William Robb 



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Re: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).

[William Robb]

- Original Message - 
From: "Leon Altoff"

Subject: And I don't even have to charge the battery (K7 has arrived).





Does anyone else on the list have one they have purchased from a shop?




I'm hoping mine arrives at the local PPC (Pentax Profit Center) this week 
still.


William Robb 



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Re: It's about freaking time...

[William Robb]

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Subject: It's about freaking time...



I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you 
think. Or not. Up to you.


http://www.alphoto.com




I miss No Poodles.
It looks good.

William Robb

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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Feroze]

It would probally work if you put only the landscapes in, don't think 
its very practical, I would probally just photoshop the watermark on the 
photo itself


Doug Brewer wrote:

Feroze wrote:

Hi,

Why does your copyright notice go all over the place on the 
landscapes they right off center and the portraits they in the middle 
of the pic?


Doug Brewer wrote:
I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what 
you think. Or not. Up to you.


http://www.alphoto.com

thanks,

Doug


The watermark may finish me off. I thought having a floating watermark 
might be okay, only it sits in that one spot on the page. I may have 
to just nuke that and put it on the image files themselves.


Thanks

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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Doug Brewer]

Feroze wrote:

Hi,

Why does your copyright notice go all over the place on the landscapes 
they right off center and the portraits they in the middle of the pic?


Doug Brewer wrote:
I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you 
think. Or not. Up to you.


http://www.alphoto.com

thanks,

Doug


The watermark may finish me off. I thought having a floating watermark 
might be okay, only it sits in that one spot on the page. I may have to 
just nuke that and put it on the image files themselves.


Thanks

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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Doug Brewer]

Chris Mitchell wrote:

Hi Doug

It looks good - clean lines and everything works. Only thing I feel needs
attention is where you've got images inline like on the "about us" and
"custom" pages - you could do with a little more space between the text and
the images.

Just my personal opinion...

Chris


I'll see about that, Chris. Thanks.

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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Feroze]

Paul Simon

David J Brooks wrote:

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Doug Brewer wrote:
  

I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you
think. Or not. Up to you.

http://www.alphoto.com



Who's Al.??

Dave
  

thanks,

Doug

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Re: Looks like my red flower over saturation is not just a Pentax thing.

[Juriy Lukin]

Have you applied camera profile in LR?
After introducing this feature in 2.3, processing of over-saturated
colors is much easier.
You can always choose Adobe (default), Pentax 1.00 or Camera profile.
(If you're processing RAWs from Pentax).
Adobe is less accurate with colors.
Pentax profile is "eye-candy" - vivid colors, steep curve.
Camera profile - most accurate, but less saturated colors. And -
highlighted shadows.

In my usual workflow, I never leave Adobe profile. Primarily I choose
Pentax, then if colors are not satisfying me - Camera profile.
Remember - after changing profile you need to re-adjust WB.

Wish it could help :)

2009/7/3 David J Brooks :
> Took a few flower shots at my sister's place on Wednesday,
> and a few were of red flowers,
> using the D200 and Tamron 90 f2.8 macro.
>
> Just looking at these in LR and the red is WAAY over blown/saturated.
> Been playing with the luminous and saturation sliders and i don't
> think i can save them, or if i can, the colours are not what is
> represented in the field.
>
> Under exposed them about 1/2 stop.
>
> Dave
>
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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[David J Brooks]

I would not call it experience.

LOL

Here is the link to the tutorial, that is the sum knowledge of my web
page making.;-)

http://www.ca.inter.net/en/help/homepage.php

I just followed those instructions and built a very basic page, then
went from there.

Dave

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, John Whittingham wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> You obviously have far more experience than myself, I'm more hardware 
> configuration based. I use HTML when I have to, I do remenber using Notepad++ 
> quite often during college, very useful application and intuitive to use.
>
> John
> 
> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of David Mann 
> [dm...@bluemoon.net.nz]
> Sent: 03 July 2009 09:52
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> Subject: Re: Way OT   @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@
>
> On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:13 PM, John Whittingham wrote:
>
>> I've been able to write HTML since I took a HNC in computer
>> networking c.2002/3, to be honest I always use Dreamweaver and only
>> ever edit with notepad when I can't get the application to do
>> *exactly* what I want. From personal experience I'd say 90% of all
>> the code writers I know use some form of application other than
>> notepad, it's just easier and quicker that way.
>
> I've also been writing HTML code for many years (I work as a web
> developer at the moment).
>
> I think Dreamweaver is one of the best code editors out there.  You
> can drop into code view if you're unhappy with the design/layout
> view.  But it's an expensive app and probably overkill for most
> people.  I mostly use Notepad++ which is more of a general purpose
> editor.  It's one of the 3 "must-have" apps that keep me using Windows
> (via Virtualbox).
>
> FWIW the one web tool I cannot work without is Firebug, which is a
> great inspection/debugging extension for Firefox.  It lets you play
> with the HTML, CSS and Javascript within the browser.  I also use
> EditCSS quite a bit but that has problems with background images.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
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RE: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[John Whittingham]

Hi Dave,

You obviously have far more experience than myself, I'm more hardware 
configuration based. I use HTML when I have to, I do remenber using Notepad++ 
quite often during college, very useful application and intuitive to use.

John

From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of David Mann 
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Sent: 03 July 2009 09:52
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Subject: Re: Way OT   @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:13 PM, John Whittingham wrote:

> I've been able to write HTML since I took a HNC in computer
> networking c.2002/3, to be honest I always use Dreamweaver and only
> ever edit with notepad when I can't get the application to do
> *exactly* what I want. From personal experience I'd say 90% of all
> the code writers I know use some form of application other than
> notepad, it's just easier and quicker that way.

I've also been writing HTML code for many years (I work as a web
developer at the moment).

I think Dreamweaver is one of the best code editors out there.  You
can drop into code view if you're unhappy with the design/layout
view.  But it's an expensive app and probably overkill for most
people.  I mostly use Notepad++ which is more of a general purpose
editor.  It's one of the 3 "must-have" apps that keep me using Windows
(via Virtualbox).

FWIW the one web tool I cannot work without is Firebug, which is a
great inspection/debugging extension for Firefox.  It lets you play
with the HTML, CSS and Javascript within the browser.  I also use
EditCSS quite a bit but that has problems with background images.

Cheers,
Dave

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Looks like my red flower over saturation is not just a Pentax thing.

[David J Brooks]

Took a few flower shots at my sister's place on Wednesday,
and a few were of red flowers,
using the D200 and Tamron 90 f2.8 macro.

Just looking at these in LR and the red is WAAY over blown/saturated.
Been playing with the luminous and saturation sliders and i don't
think i can save them, or if i can, the colours are not what is
represented in the field.

Under exposed them about 1/2 stop.

Dave



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Re: Flatbed glass cleaning?

[David J Brooks]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:53 PM, William Robb wrote:
>
> - Original Message - From: "paul stenquist"
> Subject: Re: Flatbed glass cleaning?
>
>
>
>
> Humor aside, I wouldn't use a wire brush on a cylinder head either.
> Certainly not on the valve seats or the gasket mating surface. The
> proper way to prepare the gasket surface, once any grease or sealant
> has been removed with a solvent,  is with a large, flat, dull file and
> even strokes. Valve pockets can be cleaned with a wire brush on a
> drill, but if the valve seats don't need regrinding, lapping compound,
> the valve, and a lapping stick are the proper cleaning tools.
>
> Hey, I get serious about cylinder heads:-).
>
> I used to lap Harley valves in that way when I was wrenching bikes.
> I used to get laughed at for being so old fashioned, but the engines I
> worked on always had higher compression when I was done than the guys using
> a power tool got.

Bills Bikes Burp Better.:-)

Dave
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> William Robb
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Re: It's about freaking time...

[David J Brooks]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Doug Brewer wrote:
> I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you
> think. Or not. Up to you.
>
> http://www.alphoto.com

Who's Al.??

Dave
>
> thanks,
>
> Doug
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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[David J Brooks]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Christine  Aguila wrote:
  I did, in fact, get something
> written, but oh, is it stinky--and I never did get it just the way I wanted.


Fear not those that are HTML impaired.

All you have to do is go to this site:
http://www.caughtinmotion.com
You can only go up from there. Hand written using the tutorial at
inter.net, my isp, then it was cut and paste for what i wanted or at
least would have liked.

Go girl.:-)

Dave


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Re: It's about freaking time...

[Feroze]

Hi,

Why does your copyright notice go all over the place on the landscapes 
they right off center and the portraits they in the middle of the pic?


Doug Brewer wrote:
I updated my old web site. Take a look around and let me know what you 
think. Or not. Up to you.


http://www.alphoto.com

thanks,

Doug

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Re: Cellphones while travelling in the US & Canada

[Paul Ewins]

Thanks for the advice folks. I'll see if I can get a cheap tri-band  
phone here and go the multi SIM card route.


Paul

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Re: Way OT @ $#*woman throws in towel on writing code*#$@

[David Mann]

On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:13 PM, John Whittingham wrote:

I've been able to write HTML since I took a HNC in computer  
networking c.2002/3, to be honest I always use Dreamweaver and only  
ever edit with notepad when I can't get the application to do  
*exactly* what I want. From personal experience I'd say 90% of all  
the code writers I know use some form of application other than  
notepad, it's just easier and quicker that way.


I've also been writing HTML code for many years (I work as a web  
developer at the moment).


I think Dreamweaver is one of the best code editors out there.  You  
can drop into code view if you're unhappy with the design/layout  
view.  But it's an expensive app and probably overkill for most  
people.  I mostly use Notepad++ which is more of a general purpose  
editor.  It's one of the 3 "must-have" apps that keep me using Windows  
(via Virtualbox).


FWIW the one web tool I cannot work without is Firebug, which is a  
great inspection/debugging extension for Firefox.  It lets you play  
with the HTML, CSS and Javascript within the browser.  I also use  
EditCSS quite a bit but that has problems with background images.


Cheers,
Dave

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