Re: OT The date has been set
Congratulations, soon, sir, you would become a grandfather ;-). It is interesting (from cultural/traditional point of view) for me to know that some set their wedding like more than 1 year in the future - not accustomed to that, my simple self, is... Boris David J Brooks wrote: Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. 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: Anyone from Belgium on the list?
On 4/9/09, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: If so, I'd just like to say thank you for the Gouden Carolus Special Blonde of the Emperor (it's a BEER, you perverts) that I just enjoyed. Ralf has probably shot the factory -- 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: Interesting K7 review
On 4/9/09, Brendan MacRae, discombobulated, unleashed: Good review. OT: He mentions the RED camera: http://www.red.com/epic_scarlet/ Borg making cameras! -- 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: Pentax - SPAMmers!
On 4/9/09, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: There's still plenty of time to get here. And if you're worried about the cost, don't - we won't make you pay for a round. She brings her own bottles, but you have to ask real nice to suck on them ;) -- 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: Pentax - SPAMmers!
On 4/9/09, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: I don't really think this is something to get twisted up about. That's a Mark. This is the PDML I am subscribed to right? -- 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: wedding photography ettiquette
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:02:09PM -0700, Rick Womer wrote: I like to get there well ahead of the ceremony, and take some pix of the site at my own pace. I wasn't able to get there early. When I see the pro, if he or she has an idle moment, I introduce myself, and explicitly assure them that I will stay out of the way. Then I do just that. When I got there, the first person I saw was the photographer. I did not introduce myself to him. It would have been silly, since we met 36 years ago. In photo class. I try to get an aisle seat for the ceremony, but I stand up and sit down when everyone else does. Since the K10D makes a racket, I don't use it during quiet or music bits. I was going to go for an aisle seat, but it turns out that most of the front row was open for whoever. So I got front row, from the end that the sun was shining from. This has worked very nicely. Often the pro has come up to =me=, during a lull, just to have a photographic chat. When my brother got married several years ago, I ran out of film during the reception; the pro sidled over as I rummaged through my bag, with my PZ-1p open on the table in front of me, and held out her hand with three rolls of Tri-X in it. At one point I saw Mark eating alone, and invited him over to our table, but he was rushed and only had a few minutes to eat. I've gotten some photos that I (and others) have been happy with, too: http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=865503 Very nice. Oh, yeah... I've also had fun. That's kind of important too. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Fri, 9/4/09, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: From: Larry Colen l...@red4est.com Subject: wedding photography ettiquette To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 4:22 PM I'm going to a friend's wedding this afternoon. I'll be bringing my camera and such. I sent him a quick note, but he's probably already left for setting things up. What's the polite way to deal with the pro photographer, if there is one? Should I introduce myself and ask if they mind if I take photos? Or just try to blend in with the crowd? I suppose I should stick to p-ttl rather than optically slaving strobes if I use them, so my optically slaved doesn't trigger off of their flash. :) -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen ...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.comhttp://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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 - Untitled XVIII
On 4/9/09, paul stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: I like this. But I'd crop out the thing that's intruding at right. MARK! I love it. Applies to any photograph at any time :-) -- 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 2009 - 166 ... Lightroom workshop! - GDG
On 4/9/09, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: Interesting notion, Christine. I've been thinking about what I can do in an online training series. You'll need a video making for you. I'll have to push a few things through to make room in my diary ;) -- 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: wedding photography ettiquette
On 4/9/09, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: Stay out of the way. Don't get in the way. Don't ever get in the way. Just stay out of the way. Say hi to the photographer in passing if you wish, definitely smile and nod, but don't bother seeking him out. As a photographer I am there to pay attention to a particular group of people. You are not part of that group, so distracting me is getting in the way. Don't get in the way. You should not have a tripod set up where it might get in the way. Really, you shouldn't have a tripod set up at all. Use flash if you like unless it triggers the photographer's flash. If it does, then use flash every picture because the guy is a moron. It's considered polite to not set up equipment, off camera flash is OK as long as you are holding onto it. I think that's a pretty good summary. As a newsman, if I were at a friend's wedding, I would wander up and say hello, smile and nod, crack a joke. I would never use a tripod anyway, those pics are covered by you know who! You wouldn't see me, I'd always be lurking in the shadows (prolly shooting the bridesmaids :) and I certainly wouldn't ask anyone any permissions. Shoot until told not to, and then shoot with covert operations plans B, C and D at the ready. But that's just news ;-) Go and have a great time and don't fret about the pro. Get the pics that he or she can't because they are too damn busy earning 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: Anyone from Belgium on the list?
You're welcome Mark :) I totally understand what you mean. I'd like to suggest that, in that matter (Belgian beers), you may just have found you only want to know more... (Ask Boris). Still a whole lot more to find out. If you know where to find some in your area and want me to give some suggestions, feel free to ask. It is Beers Weekend here in Brussels, Grand Place. Probably a couple guys will take weird ways returning home ;) Regards, -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille -- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- 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: wedding photography ettiquette
I'm glad that I was just doing this for fun, and not trying to make a living at it. I saw how hard Mark was working. I was just taking the photos that looked fun and interesting to me. I did stay out of Mark's way. Most of my chatting with him was simply because he was an old friend, not because he was the photographer. I am growing a deep and abiding hatred of the Pentax flash system. The locking lever on my 540 has broken, yet again. It seems to work, in that it'll rotate from side to side, but it doesn't actually lock the flash in place any more. The P-TTL would massively underexpose any shots that had a bright light in the background. If I tried to put the flash in manual and set things the way I wanted to, it would just ignore me and go back into P-TTL. Interestingly, I was having a similar problem with a promaster flash not staying in manual mode the other night, which makes me think that it may be a camera body, rather than a flash thing. Some of the problems were alleviated when I put the flash on the bracket and used the sync cable instead of mounting the flash to the shoe. However, the head doesn't hold itself tightly enough in position, and when I have my diffuser on it (bigger lumiquest), if I moved the camera into portrait mode, the head was likely to flop down. I didn't pull out my monopod, and I lost a lot of my available light shots due to camera blur. I did manage to get a few decent shots, nothing that I'm particularly happy with. It was good practice, I've learned how much I need to learn. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.comhttp://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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: Pentax - SPAMmers!
2009/9/5 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: On 4/9/09, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: I don't really think this is something to get twisted up about. That's a Mark. This is the PDML I am subscribed to right? Somehow I can't imagine these comments floating a Canon forum, but that's just me, I guess. :-) 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 - Untitled XVIII
Cotty wrote: On 4/9/09, paul stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: I like this. But I'd crop out the thing that's intruding at right. MARK! I love it. Applies to any photograph at any time :-) Well of course it does: http://www.cafepress.com/Robertstech.215340861 -- 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 The date has been set
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Peter Lovedaype...@loveday.org wrote: 2009/9/4 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. A basic part of any garden photographer's gearbox. ;-) And damn handy as a wedding photographer: carrying a D3x or a 1Ds mark III might get you 'pro' respect, but wielding a K7 in one hand and a chainsaw in the other trumps that any day :) Have an annoying tree in the back ground, don't move the set up, just cut 'er down. Dave - Peter -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, 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: OT The date has been set
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:12 PM, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Charles Robinson wrote: On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:05, David J Brooks wrote: Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. But you'll need a nice camera to take pictures at the wedding! -Charles I thought you were going to say he needed a nice camera to take pictures of the chain saw... Gallery being worked on. Dave -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, 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: OT The date has been set
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Scott Lovelesssdlovel...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/4/09, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: OT The date has been set Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. We should probably take up a collection for Dave. The average US wedding costs about $20,000. Converting to Canadian Dollars, that's, um, lessee.carry the oneadd a zero$21,723.60CAD. I currently have $12 in my wallet. Maybe we should publish another book. Might need two books.:-) Dave -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, 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: wedding photography ettiquette
On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Larry Colen wrote: I'm glad that I was just doing this for fun, and not trying to make a living at it. I saw how hard Mark was working. I was just taking the photos that looked fun and interesting to me. I did stay out of Mark's way. Most of my chatting with him was simply because he was an old friend, not because he was the photographer. I am growing a deep and abiding hatred of the Pentax flash system. The locking lever on my 540 has broken, yet again. It seems to work, in that it'll rotate from side to side, but it doesn't actually lock the flash in place any more. When you rotate the lever, a pin descends. If the flash isn't fully inserted, the pin will miss the hole. The assembly is a bit fragile. The P-TTL would massively underexpose any shots that had a bright light in the background. Yep. Any autoexposure system will do that. If I tried to put the flash in manual and set things the way I wanted to, it would just ignore me and go back into P-TTL. Interestingly, I was having a similar problem with a promaster flash not staying in manual mode the other night, which makes me think that it may be a camera body, rather than a flash thing. Some of the problems were alleviated when I put the flash on the bracket and used the sync cable instead of mounting the flash to the shoe. However, the head doesn't hold itself tightly enough in position, and when I have my diffuser on it (bigger lumiquest), if I moved the camera into portrait mode, the head was likely to flop down. Yeah, I wish the detent stops were firmer. Paul I didn't pull out my monopod, and I lost a lot of my available light shots due to camera blur. I did manage to get a few decent shots, nothing that I'm particularly happy with. It was good practice, I've learned how much I need to learn. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.comhttp://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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 The date has been set
Boris, Some times the economics of the new couple work out better that way. My daughter-in-law's sister is planning to wed about the same time. Long lead time and lots of places are already booked... perhaps postponing the big event to better economic conditions? Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Boris Libermanbori...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, soon, sir, you would become a grandfather ;-). It is interesting (from cultural/traditional point of view) for me to know that some set their wedding like more than 1 year in the future - not accustomed to that, my simple self, is... Boris David J Brooks wrote: Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. 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. -- 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.
Open Source Photo Editing?
We've talked several times around the PDML about using Open Source systems in your photo workflow. In the past, there really hasn't been much for the advanced amateur photographer due to two main issues: lack of 16-bit per component color support and lack of color management support. Well, I ran across an article a few minutes ago about a new version of digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/) that provides 16-bit per component color support and claims to provide at least some color management support. Not sure how that works if the underlying system doesn't have color management in place (like Linux/X). digiKam is built using the KDE libraries and user interface on Linux (I prefer Gnome, but you can't have everything). It also has a Windows project available. From my quick read of the web site, the Windows version might require the KDE-Windows project for its user interface. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll try to install and play with it next week. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- 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: SMC Takumar 135/3.5 ...
On 9/4/09, Godfrey DiGiorgi ramar...@mac.com wrote: A friend gave me a malfunctioning Spotmatic II today, but it is fitted with one of these lenses in near mint condition. I don't know the M42 lenses at all.. Is this one of the good ones? I have one of these, bought it for $10 at a camera show. Best $10 I ever spent towards photography. The bokeh is wonderfully creamy, and I was surprised at how sharp it is. Take it out, shoot with it. -Mat -- 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: wedding photography ettiquette
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM, paul stenquistpnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Larry Colen wrote: The P-TTL would massively underexpose any shots that had a bright light in the background. Yep. Any autoexposure system will do that. The Nikon i-TTL system is VERY good at avoiding it. I'd expect the K-7 to be better than older Pentax bodies as my experience is that the more zones the meter has, the less likely a background point source will cause this sort of underexposure. Nikon's 1005 pixel meter is the standard here and nobody else comes close in this specific instance (flash or ambient). My new E-30 is quite bad for this sort of thing. -- 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.
Almost bought a K-7
I got a chance to play some with the K-7 and was very impressed. I was trying to figure out how to justify getting one but I just couldn't make it work and had to settle for the Oly E-30 instead because of its lens compatibility with my G1. I'm rather disappointed, although the E-30 is a very nice camera. -- 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: SMC Takumar 135/3.5 ...
Godfrey, I have the SMC Takumar 135mm f/ 2.5, m42, 58mm filters. I do like this lens. The not-so-good lens of the time was a 2.8 version using 52mm filters - reports, not hands-on eval. From an old Takumar booklet and memory, the 3.5 is simpler, less elements - and should be crisper than the 2.5. Pls test, and comment. Since it's smaller and lighter than the 2.5, I'd consider it a fine walking option. Cheap, still in the fast zone. I'd gladly buy one as soon as I end paying the current set of enablements. lf Godfrey DiGiorgi escreveu: A friend gave me a malfunctioning Spotmatic II today, but it is fitted with one of these lenses in near mint condition. I don't know the M42 lenses at all.. Is this one of the good ones? It's nice: small and light, nice feel on the G1. Don't have time to test it today but I'll give it whirl over the weekend. :-) Godfrey - www.gdgphoto.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. -- Luiz Felipe luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ -- 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: wedding photography ettiquette
On 5/9/09, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: I've learned how much I need to learn. Mark! -- 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: Pentax - SPAMmers!
- Original Message - From: Cotty Subject: Re: Pentax - SPAMmers! This is the PDML I am subscribed to right? MARK! -- 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: wedding photography ettiquette
- Original Message - From: paul stenquist Subject: Re: wedding photography ettiquette The P-TTL would massively underexpose any shots that had a bright light in the background. Yep. Any autoexposure system will do that. This is why I still use my big dumb Metz 60 CT-2. It doesn't talk to the camera, it just fires when told to and gives correct exposure. 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--Making Tracks
In a message dated 9/4/2009 7:02:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rwomer1...@yahoo.com writes: Work has been very demanding, and I'm way behind on the list (again). Our transit agency in Philadelphia is preparing to replace some of the trolley (tram) tracks in our neighborhood. I took this on my way home earlier this week, where the new rail is being stored. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9736300size=lg (K10D, FA 50/1.7) Rick = Nice one, Rick. Kinda wish there was no shadow but realize you had no control over that. :-) Marnie aka Doe - We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- 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 - Untitled XVIII
In a message dated 9/4/2009 4:52:12 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, webstertwenty...@gmail.com writes: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20untitledxviii.html Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax FA 43mm f1.9 Limited As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. Heh. He looks like an unhappy camper. Marnie aka Doe - We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- 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.
FS - Asahi Pentax M 50mm SMC f1.7 - as new - barely used K mount
Asahi Pentax M 50mm SMC f1.7 - as new - barely used (if at all) K mount model number on lens is 4017979 includes front and rear caps. selling for a friend -- I know it isnt Friday anymore... Buy it from me, will ya? It really is in perfect condition cosmetically as well as operationally (not like my lenses :-) that are battered and bruised. I still have that Sigma wide angle with macro capability .. ann http://annsan.smugmug.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: SMC Takumar 135/3.5 ...
There were three SMC era srewmount takumars, the 135/3.5, the 135/2.5 with 5 elements, and the 135/2.5 with 6 elements. The latter is the best of the three. Whether the 135/3.5 or 5 element 135/2.5 is better or worse is a matter of debate but there is no hard fast rule that less or more elements makes a lens better or worse. I an say in this case though that the 6 element F2.5 version is better than the 5 element F2.5 version, especially wide open and at closer range. As an interesting side note, I have been actively involved with the SMC tak lenses since the mid 1980's when I first started buying and using them. What is unusual is that they are now selling at an all time high price despite the so called economic meltdown of '08-'09 and there isnt even a auto aperture supporting DSLR for them yet. Those are some really good lenses, optically, and mechanically. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) Home Page - www.jchriso.com Join the Audio CD PLAYER DISCUSSION list - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Luiz Felipe Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 10:39 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: SMC Takumar 135/3.5 ... Godfrey, I have the SMC Takumar 135mm f/ 2.5, m42, 58mm filters. I do like this lens. The not-so-good lens of the time was a 2.8 version using 52mm filters - reports, not hands-on eval. From an old Takumar booklet and memory, the 3.5 is simpler, less elements - and should be crisper than the 2.5. Pls test, and comment. Since it's smaller and lighter than the 2.5, I'd consider it a fine walking option. Cheap, still in the fast zone. I'd gladly buy one as soon as I end paying the current set of enablements. lf Godfrey DiGiorgi escreveu: A friend gave me a malfunctioning Spotmatic II today, but it is fitted with one of these lenses in near mint condition. I don't know the M42 lenses at all.. Is this one of the good ones? It's nice: small and light, nice feel on the G1. Don't have time to test it today but I'll give it whirl over the weekend. :-) Godfrey - www.gdgphoto.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. -- Luiz Felipe luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ -- 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: Kodachrome is great and all, but...
From: Joseph Tainter ...take a look at this gallery of color photography from Russian taken 100 years ago. Simply amazing. http://www.newsweek.com/id/214585 - Wow. And I thought the past was in black-and-white. What chemistry did he use to create the final images? None of the sites describes that. Joe According to the Wiki article, he projected the 3 negatives simultaneously with appropriate colored lights to display his images. His printed images were done using a photogravure - they were not chemical prints. -- 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.
Very OT: Hidden World
It gives me great satisfaction that despite war, plague, famine and the rest of the apocalyptic herd the world still contains stuff like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8206836.stm 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: Kodachrome is great and all, but...
From: Scott Loveless On 9/3/09, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:54:58PM -0400, Desjardins, Steve scripsit: I didn't realize they could do color that well back then. Arguably, they couldn't; it was a three-sequential-negatives process, and really tough to put back together chemically to get a colour image. If I'm following the various articles correctly, many of the images now available were not available at the time; digital recombination is much easier and the Library of Congress had all the possible ones done. I thought it was 3 monochrome positives projected through 3 separate filters. Red, green and blue, or something like that. And that getting the projectors set up properly was the hard part. Or maybe I'm smoking crack again. The Library of Congress server was down for maintenance last night, so I couldn't see what they had to say until this morning. It looks like he displayed his color images using the magic lantern process you describe, but didn't print them in color. The reference prints shown by Library of Congress are black white. There's a link to Making Color Images from ... that shows a camera similar to the one he used and a projector for projecting the images. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html Found another set here searching for digichromatography http://www.gridenko.com/pg1/index.htm -- 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 The date has been set
From: Peter Loveday 2009/9/4 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. A basic part of any garden photographer's gearbox. ;-) And damn handy as a wedding photographer: carrying a D3x or a 1Ds mark III might get you 'pro' respect, but wielding a K7 in one hand and a chainsaw in the other trumps that any day :) Depends on the chain saw. Show up with a McCulloch and they'll laugh you out of the church. -- 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 - Untitled XVIII
What Paul said, plus I'd crop a little off the top to prevent the sliver of dark above the white roof on the LH side. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Subject: Re: PESO - Untitled XVIII I like this. But I'd crop out the thing that's intruding at right. Paul On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:48 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20untitledxviii.html Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax FA 43mm f1.9 Limited As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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 The date has been set
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:07:23AM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote: Boris, Some times the economics of the new couple work out better that way. If it had been 13 rather than 3 months between between my proposing to my ex-wife and the wedding date, my economics would have worked out much better. We never would have made it through such a long engagement. My inclination for future weddings is that the engagement period be long enough that the honeymoon involves ice-skating on the river Styx. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.comhttp://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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 The date has been set
On 5/9/09, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: If it had been 13 rather than 3 months between between my proposing to my ex-wife and the wedding date, my economics would have worked out much better. Ooooh, that's tight. With my first wife it was 6 months between the two. With my second, it was 15 years. -- 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--Making Tracks
Nice capture. The space between the rails on the RH side adds interest. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com Subject: PESO--Making Tracks Work has been very demanding, and I'm way behind on the list (again). Our transit agency in Philadelphia is preparing to replace some of the trolley (tram) tracks in our neighborhood. I took this on my way home earlier this week, where the new rail is being stored. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9736300size=lg (K10D, FA 50/1.7) 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: PESO - Untitled XVIII
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Cotty cotty...@mac.com Subject: Re: PESO - Untitled XVIII On 4/9/09, paul stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: I like this. But I'd crop out the thing that's intruding at right. Or left Or top Or bottom MARK! I love it. Applies to any photograph at any time :-) -- 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 The date has been set
Dave - encourage them to elope... stress the fun and adventure of it... then what ever paltry funds can be gathered can be saved for something really useful like food and rent! ann David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Scott Lovelesssdlovel...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/4/09, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: OT The date has been set Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. We should probably take up a collection for Dave. The average US wedding costs about $20,000. Converting to Canadian Dollars, that's, um, lessee.carry the oneadd a zero$21,723.60CAD. I currently have $12 in my wallet. Maybe we should publish another book. Might need two books.:-) Dave -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 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. -- 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 The date has been set
On Sep 5, 2009, at 12:54 , ann sanfedele wrote: Dave - encourage them to elope... stress the fun and adventure of it... then what ever paltry funds can be gathered can be saved for something really useful like food and rent! ann Here. Here. Worked twice for me. #1 Reno. #2 Justice of the Peace in Virginia. In both cases the parents did pool their money for a proper wedding at a later date, with a lovely setting, but minimal expense on trimmings, food, etc. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com “ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Kevan Olesen -- 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 The date has been set
Elvis wedding in Vegas. You never forget it. Steve Desjardins - Original Message - From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net pdml-boun...@pdml.net To: pdml@pdml.net pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sat Sep 05 13:40:45 2009 Subject: Re: OT The date has been set From: Peter Loveday 2009/9/4 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. A basic part of any garden photographer's gearbox. ;-) And damn handy as a wedding photographer: carrying a D3x or a 1Ds mark III might get you 'pro' respect, but wielding a K7 in one hand and a chainsaw in the other trumps that any day :) Depends on the chain saw. Show up with a McCulloch and they'll laugh you out of the church. -- 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: Interesting K7 review
In my job I don't recommend productive use of M$ products until after SP1 or even SP2. I never buy a car that's been in production for less than a year. Early adoptors usually enjoy the luxury of an extra risk. I can't wait for the K-7 to mature... ]=) Cheers Ecke 2009/9/4 Desjardins, Steve desjard...@wlu.edu: Yep. They need to be careful. Lots of folks don't want to do extensive testing right off the back to see if they have a lemon or not. -- 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 The date has been set
Peter Loveday wrote: 2009/9/4 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. A basic part of any garden photographer's gearbox. ;-) And damn handy as a wedding photographer: carrying a D3x or a 1Ds mark III might get you 'pro' respect, but wielding a K7 in one hand and a chainsaw in the other trumps that any day :) - Peter Dave Brooks, is a chain saw, he doesn't have to wield one, that would be redundant. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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 The date has been set
When Dave Brooks walks in a forest, the trees clap with one hand. Only Dave Brooks can ask Adobe for a chainsaw plug-in and actually get one. Cheers Ecke 2009/9/5 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Dave Brooks, is a chain saw, he doesn't have to wield one, that would be redundant. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: SMC Takumar 135/3.5 ...
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: A friend gave me a malfunctioning Spotmatic II today, but it is fitted with one of these lenses in near mint condition. I don't know the M42 lenses at all.. Is this one of the good ones? It's nice: small and light, nice feel on the G1. Don't have time to test it today but I'll give it whirl over the weekend. :-) Godfrey - www.gdgphoto.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. I have the K version which is identical optically to the SMC Takumar, it's very sharp. I'd probably shoot more with it except, I have the K 135 f2.5 and the M 120 f2.8 the first is a lot heavier, but a lot faster, the second quit a bit much smaller and a bit lighter. I was unable to see much difference between the the two K 135mm lenses at equal f stops. The M 120 might be a bit softer wide open but it's /much/ smaller and lighter. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Kodachrome is great and all, but...
There was a three color gelatin gum process, (non silver except for the negitives), that used three bw images made with the proper filtration. The gel prints had to be floated off their backing onto a new substrate. It wasn't difficult in theory but a PITA in practice. I think it was invented sometime in the 1800's. It would produce a soft (as in focus), pastel color print if you did /everything/ right. Now I'm working from memory here, I haven't seen the book I got this from in quite some time. I tried googling and came up with this. No examples though. http://tinyurl.com/mobsa8 John Sessoms wrote: From: Scott Loveless On 9/3/09, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:54:58PM -0400, Desjardins, Steve scripsit: I didn't realize they could do color that well back then. Arguably, they couldn't; it was a three-sequential-negatives process, and really tough to put back together chemically to get a colour image. If I'm following the various articles correctly, many of the images now available were not available at the time; digital recombination is much easier and the Library of Congress had all the possible ones done. I thought it was 3 monochrome positives projected through 3 separate filters. Red, green and blue, or something like that. And that getting the projectors set up properly was the hard part. Or maybe I'm smoking crack again. The Library of Congress server was down for maintenance last night, so I couldn't see what they had to say until this morning. It looks like he displayed his color images using the magic lantern process you describe, but didn't print them in color. The reference prints shown by Library of Congress are black white. There's a link to Making Color Images from ... that shows a camera similar to the one he used and a projector for projecting the images. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html Found another set here searching for digichromatography http://www.gridenko.com/pg1/index.htm -- 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Interesting K7 review
2009/9/4 Desjardins, Steve desjard...@wlu.edu: Yep. They need to be careful. Lots of folks don't want to do extensive testing right off the back to see if they have a lemon or not. - Original Message - From: Eckehard Wegner Subject: Re: Interesting K7 review In my job I don't recommend productive use of M$ products until after SP1 or even SP2. I never buy a car that's been in production for less than a year. Early adoptors usually enjoy the luxury of an extra risk. I can't wait for the K-7 to mature... ]=) Unfortunately, because of the lifecycle of these things, by the time they might have the bugs worked out they are already ramping up new models, so rather than fix the bugs in the old product, they release a new one with it's own bugs. 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: Fred Called
52 weeks of Christinemas :-) Igor Fri Sep 4 09:57:22 CDT 2009 Christine Aguila wrote: Well, Christmas is only 4 months away. Treat yourself I've used that one for the last 52 camera-related purchases, Dave. It's suffering from overuse! ;-) Cheers, Christine -- 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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
Miserere wrote: 2009/8/28 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: In June at GFM I said I expected full-frame to hit the $2000 price point in 2010. Seems I was off the mark a bit. This means we might see full-frame at actual street prices around $1500 by next summer. Exactly, which makes me wonder if Pentax can justify asking $1,300 for their next flagship APS-C camera. And if they can't, then will they get enough financial ROI by selling them below $1k from launch? --M. I don't know, Cannon seems to think if they pack enough MP into their 1.6x crop sensor they can command $1700US for one. Sure it has specifications out the wazoo*, but when you come down to it it's noise characteristics will be a lot like the K20D/K-7 at high ISO, unless they've repealed some of the laws of physics. http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2009/09/canon-7d.html * I'm not sure what a wazoo is but Canon probably has one. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:49 PM, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know, Cannon seems to think if they pack enough MP into their 1.6x crop sensor they can command $1700US for one. Sure it has specifications out the wazoo*, but when you come down to it it's noise characteristics will be a lot like the K20D/K-7 at high ISO, unless they've repealed some of the laws of physics. http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2009/09/canon-7d.html * I'm not sure what a wazoo is but Canon probably has one. -- It's not the 18MP, but rather the 8fps and semi-pro build that commands the $1800. It's pretty much the same price as the 12MP D300s, but the 7D is overall slightly better specified. Remember, Pentax goes fairly light on the NR, preferring resolution over noise performance. Canon does the opposite. If the Rebel T1i is any indication with its D300-level noise performance despite having 15MP on a sensor smaller than the D300's 12MP sensor the 7D will likely produce cleaner files than the K-7/K20D, but probably will deliver no resolution advantage over the K-7/K20D due to NR losses. -- 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 The date has been set
Eckehard Wegner wrote: When Dave Brooks walks in a forest, the trees clap with one hand. Only Dave Brooks can ask Adobe for a chainsaw plug-in and actually get one. Dave Brooks can shoot with a Nikon D1 and get a 6-megapixel photo. -- 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.
Any hidden gems in Turin, Genoa and vicinities?
I will be in Turin in a week for a conference, but I will get to see things in the city and around. We might drive (or take a train) to Genoa for a day. We are going to drive to some wineries as well. So, if anybody is aware of any hidden gems to see (and to photography) there, I would appreciate the pointers. (I don't remember if any of PDMLers was from that part of Italy.) Thank you, Igor -- 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: Any hidden gems in Turin, Genoa and vicinities?
I will be in Turin in a week for a conference, but I will get to see things in the city and around. We might drive (or take a train) to Genoa for a day. We are going to drive to some wineries as well. In Turin there's the negative of an early self-portrait photograph by Leonardo da Vinci. Apart from that there's nothing of any interest at all in the whole of Italy. 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: OT: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
Well, I was never able to use the 5 fps on the Pentax LX, so while 8fps is a selling point, I'm not sure what it's really worth, unless you work for /Sports/ /Illustrated/, and then I expect the magazine would be supplying a 1D something or other. It looks more like Canon has repealed the laws of economics... Adam Maas wrote: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:49 PM, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know, Cannon seems to think if they pack enough MP into their 1.6x crop sensor they can command $1700US for one. Sure it has specifications out the wazoo*, but when you come down to it it's noise characteristics will be a lot like the K20D/K-7 at high ISO, unless they've repealed some of the laws of physics. http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2009/09/canon-7d.html * I'm not sure what a wazoo is but Canon probably has one. -- It's not the 18MP, but rather the 8fps and semi-pro build that commands the $1800. It's pretty much the same price as the 12MP D300s, but the 7D is overall slightly better specified. Remember, Pentax goes fairly light on the NR, preferring resolution over noise performance. Canon does the opposite. If the Rebel T1i is any indication with its D300-level noise performance despite having 15MP on a sensor smaller than the D300's 12MP sensor the 7D will likely produce cleaner files than the K-7/K20D, but probably will deliver no resolution advantage over the K-7/K20D due to NR losses. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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 The date has been set
Mark Roberts wrote: Eckehard Wegner wrote: When Dave Brooks walks in a forest, the trees clap with one hand. Only Dave Brooks can ask Adobe for a chainsaw plug-in and actually get one. Dave Brooks can shoot with a Nikon D1 and get a 6-megapixel photo. And? -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: SMC Takumar 135/3.5 ...
Well, given the replies, I don't really know which lens I have. It's a Pentax M42 thread mount, the bezel says Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR 1:3.5/135 ASAHI OPT. CO. JAPAN 5243920. Takes a 49mm filter ... To my amazement, I found I had almost the original lens hood sitting in a drawer (for the 100/4, 100/2.8 and 120/2.8 ... a little short for FourThirds format, but better than nothing). But no matter. It's irrelevant as to what it's better or worse than, for my use. I can see immediately that it is a better performer than the single-coated Takumar K-Mount 135/2.5 I had once upon a time ($22 from KEH...), particularly wide open. The lens is that beautiful old design and feel, mechanically: solid, tight, smooth in operation on all controls. Very satisfying to handle and use. It's a nice fit on the G1, L1 or E-1 bodies, will be good as a long lens to carry for travel work. This one has a six-bladed iris. I took it out this morning and did some testing. CA on all exposures is pretty restrained, corrected with about +13RG/-14YB using Lightroom's tools consistently across all apertures. First set, one at each lens opening from f/3.5 to f/22, was of a flat brick wall and garage door. I screwed up and had Auto ISO set so the last three exposures showed ISO gain up to ISO 400 and consequent intrusion of noise, but overall I'd say its performance peaks about f/5.6-8 on center and around f/8-11 at corners/edges, holds that to f/16, and drops off beyond that. I then shot a detailed target against a blank white sky to stress for fringing etc ... well constrained light green fringing wide open but not much of it and just about gone by f/8. Detailing at f/5.6-f/11 is very high, good contrast. Bokeh is very nice overall ... a couple of small specular highlights on one shot are a little hollow shaped wide open and look nicer a stop down but they're so small that I only noticed them at 2x magnification on screen. I also fitted it onto the Olympus EC14 1.4x teleconverter and did some tests there. Like with every other lens I've tested this teleconverter with, there is no apparent degradation of the lens characteristics or sharpness with this teleconverter that I can see. Same CA correction, everything else same. (Amazing teleconverter, probably the best I've ever used!) Nice lens. :-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:06 PM, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I was never able to use the 5 fps on the Pentax LX, so while 8fps is a selling point, I'm not sure what it's really worth, unless you work for /Sports/ /Illustrated/, and then I expect the magazine would be supplying a 1D something or other. It looks more like Canon has repealed the laws of economics... It's a huge selling point, since the 7D is about 40% of the price of a 1DmIII, but delivers 80% of the fps and has a newer, possibly better AF unit, along with a more compact size and much more resolution. Expect the wildlife types to buy 7D's in droves. And there's plenty of amateur and semi-pro users who need that sort of performance but don't have 1D money. Lots more guys shooting local sports than SI shooters. -- 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: peso - Brittany
Then you should be using a shorter lens, so I guess size does matter in a perverse sense after all... David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Derby Changder...@iinet.net.au wrote: BW. I would have pulled back slightly. The pose is a little awkward, so a bit less crop might have helped. Pretty set, though. The first shot is my favourite. If i was allowed to get that close to a pretty girl, i'm gona get close. :-) :-) Dave D -- der...@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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 The date has been set
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:07 PM, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Roberts wrote: Eckehard Wegner wrote: When Dave Brooks walks in a forest, the trees clap with one hand. Only Dave Brooks can ask Adobe for a chainsaw plug-in and actually get one. Dave Brooks can shoot with a Nikon D1 and get a 6-megapixel photo. And? He can also shoot with a D200 and get a 3 mp photo. Dave -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, 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: Interesting K7 review
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:46:32PM +0200, Eckehard Wegner wrote: In my job I don't recommend productive use of M$ products until after SP1 or even SP2. You made a minor grammatical error. Here let me help you fix it: In my job I don't recommend productive use of M$ products. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.comhttp://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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 The date has been set
Ann, and Steve. Liz and I took them on a 5 day trip to Vegas in 2007, they never got the hint.:-) I've had a ladder out side Erins room for so long, its part of the aluminum siding now.:-0 Dave On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:54 PM, ann sanfedeleann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Dave - encourage them to elope... stress the fun and adventure of it... then what ever paltry funds can be gathered can be saved for something really useful like food and rent! ann David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Scott Lovelesssdlovel...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/4/09, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: OT The date has been set Well, its official. Erin and Sparky, er James have set October 30 2010 as their wedding date. Let the bridzilaing begin.:-) So much for the new truck, the K7 or D300, however i just bought a Poulan electric chain saw whilst i could still afford it. We should probably take up a collection for Dave. The average US wedding costs about $20,000. Converting to Canadian Dollars, that's, um, lessee.carry the oneadd a zero$21,723.60CAD. I currently have $12 in my wallet. Maybe we should publish another book. Might need two books.:-) Dave -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Interesting K7 review
For anything other than Windoze you are actually quite right. My customers are open to most things but they will not switch OS. Yet at the same time I try to achieve as many things as possible with Windows built-in options rather than to add programs. k.i.s.s. and Pareto really. And remember: Linux for development, MacOS for productivity and Windows for Minesweeper. Cheers Ecke 2009/9/6 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:46:32PM +0200, Eckehard Wegner wrote: In my job I don't recommend productive use of M$ products until after SP1 or even SP2. You made a minor grammatical error. Here let me help you fix it: In my job I don't recommend productive use of M$ products. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
Yes, but technical viability is different from sales viability. I see a lot of E-450 and E-620, (OK, maybe E-5XX bodies), in big box stores. However I've never seen a K-2000/K-m body in any of those stores. It's difficult to comparison sell Josephine Six-Pack, on a smaller lighter camera if you can't actually compare it to the competition. People will buy what's available. In other words, 'Any idiot can buy a low end Canon/Nikon/Sony/Olympus DSLR, it takes a special kind of idiot to seek out Pentax. Adam Maas wrote: I'm unsure of 4/3rds viability long-term. I suspect strongly that the lower-end 4/3rds DSLR's will be killed off by Micro4/3rds and the higher-end line will be on life support and exist mostly to fill in the gaps for Micro-4/3rds users. 4/3rds simply hasn't been able to capitalize on the promise of smaller lenses and cameras. As a practical matter Pentax simply dominates the small DSLR segment, offering a true compact system in the K-m/DA Limiteds, a compact high-performance system with the K-7 and DA Limiteds where Olympus actually has some of the larger available crop-format DSLR's (the E-3, E-30 and E-520 are all among the largest entries in their respective segments, the E-450 and E620 are only the smallest when considered without a mounted lens, the K-m/DA40 package is smaller than either of the compact E-series bodies paired with the 25 pancake, their smallest configuration) I think that Micro4/3rds has a strong future ahead of it as it's getting the chance to build serious market share before there's any real competition in its segment. -Adam On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Desjardins, Stevedesjard...@wlu.edu wrote: I admit I'm more amenable to the APS-C forever, unless it is beaten out by 4/3. The point is that even though MF and LF existed, the smaller 35 mm dominated because the IQ was good enough. I think that's where APS-C or 4/3 is now. Of course, good enough doesn't make sense to many on this list because there is an intrinsic selection for folks with higher photographic standards. OTOH, I think that non-slr cameras like the EP-1 and the G1 are about to start eating up some of the enthusiast market. If anything kills the APS-C DSLR it will be these. -- 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:45 PM, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but technical viability is different from sales viability. I see a lot of E-450 and E-620, (OK, maybe E-5XX bodies), in big box stores. However I've never seen a K-2000/K-m body in any of those stores. It's difficult to comparison sell Josephine Six-Pack, on a smaller lighter camera if you can't actually compare it to the competition. People will buy what's available. In other words, 'Any idiot can buy a low end Canon/Nikon/Sony/Olympus DSLR, it takes a special kind of idiot to seek out Pentax. I see a lot more Pentax's around than Oly's, in fact i regularly see Pentax DSLR's of various vintages on the street. Sure they're in the big-box stores, but they don't seem to be selling much. The only thing less common is the last batch of low-end Sony's, but that's likely because their new body design causes hand cramps. -- 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: Interesting K7 review
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Eckehard Wegnereckina...@gmail.com wrote: For anything other than Windoze you are actually quite right. My customers are open to most things but they will not switch OS. Yet at the same time I try to achieve as many things as possible with Windows built-in options rather than to add programs. k.i.s.s. and Pareto really. And remember: Linux for development, MacOS for productivity and Windows for Minesweeper. Cheers Ecke The irony there being the one thing MS gets consistently right is Office, particularly Excel. -- 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.
K-7 file size?
What is the typical file size of an image produced by k7 (or a typical range)? I am interested in PEF and in DNG formats. Thank you, Igor -- 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: Interesting K7 review
Ah, for the good old days of Windows 3.x where a simple one line change in an INI file would turn your PC into a dedicated machine for playing Solitaire. Eckehard Wegner wrote: For anything other than Windoze you are actually quite right. My customers are open to most things but they will not switch OS. Yet at the same time I try to achieve as many things as possible with Windows built-in options rather than to add programs. k.i.s.s. and Pareto really. And remember: Linux for development, MacOS for productivity and Windows for Minesweeper. Cheers Ecke 2009/9/6 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:46:32PM +0200, Eckehard Wegner wrote: In my job I don't recommend productive use of M$ products until after SP1 or even SP2. You made a minor grammatical error. Here let me help you fix it: In my job I don't recommend productive use of M$ products. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.comhttp://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: K-7 file size?
I don't have a K-7 but I got the impression that the file sizes were pretty much the same as those for the K20D. 10,000~14,000KB for PEFs ~23000+ KB for DNGs. Igor Roshchin wrote: What is the typical file size of an image produced by k7 (or a typical range)? I am interested in PEF and in DNG formats. Thank you, Igor -- 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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 Enablement: Mattis Bendix and the DFA 100
Picked up an eBayed DFA 100 today, new, 25% beneath lowest internet price, hopefully there won't be too much warranty registration trouble; it is left over stock from a reseller gone belly up. First impression: lens renders crisply and nicely, shaft AF is quite fast despite long travel, my K10D tends to hunt very little but always seems to run off in the wrong direction, slam into the limiter so noisily (I wonder how long the lens will withstand that) and then go back. The hood is great to protect the front element from curious baby fingers. Took some shots of our son Mattis Bendix and being the proud dad I am, I just knew I had to post a pic of him eventually, so I might as well now seeing I have such a sweet excuse to go brag about him. Same picasa link as last time: http://picasaweb.google.de/lh/sredir?uname=eckinatortarget=PHOTOid=5378115921443436098aid=5374043372372891137authkey=Gv1sRgCNqL6t_Yvcy8eQfeat=email Love the expression, wonder if I should crop or edit the background. Comments, criticism and suggestions always welcome. Cheers Ecke -- 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: Interesting K7 review
Couldn't agree with you more but 95% of the users I deal with use less than 5% of the features of Excel. In fact they hardly do anything Works couldn't do. Office is for key and power users. All other can get OpenOffice and do their stuff just fne. Cheers Ecke 2009/9/6 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca: On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Eckehard Wegnereckina...@gmail.com wrote: For anything other than Windoze you are actually quite right. My customers are open to most things but they will not switch OS. Yet at the same time I try to achieve as many things as possible with Windows built-in options rather than to add programs. k.i.s.s. and Pareto really. And remember: Linux for development, MacOS for productivity and Windows for Minesweeper. Cheers Ecke The irony there being the one thing MS gets consistently right is Office, particularly Excel. -- 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. -- 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 TWM t-shirt
This is funny! The product: http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Mens-Three-Short-Sleeve/dp/B002HJ377A Read the reviews (and the comments after the first two reviews - once you click on read more): http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Mens-Three-Short-Sleeve/product-reviews/B002HJ377A/ Also see first few images and their captions: http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B002HJ377A/ Igor -- 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: Any hidden gems in Turin, Genoa and vicinities?
Sat Sep 5 17:05:24 CDT 2009 Bob W wrote: I will be in Turin in a week for a conference, but I will get to see things in the city and around. We might drive (or take a train) to Genoa for a day. We are going to drive to some wineries as well. In Turin there's the negative of an early self-portrait photograph by Leonardo da Vinci. Apart from that there's nothing of any interest at all in the whole of Italy. Bob Of course, ... what interesting could be in that long boot?! ;-) Igor -- 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 Enablement: Mattis Bendix and the DFA 100
Ecke, You caught a great expression! Even before reading that you asked about cropping, - I thought that I'd crop about 1/5th from the right - to the most left point of a brownish box ro something in the background, or even slightly to the left of that point - most likely right around the beginning of the shoulder. I love my DFA-100. Cheers, Igor Sat Sep 5 18:08:20 CDT 2009 Eckehard Wegner wrote: Picked up an eBayed DFA 100 today, new, 25% beneath lowest internet price, hopefully there won't be too much warranty registration trouble; it is left over stock from a reseller gone belly up. First impression: lens renders crisply and nicely, shaft AF is quite fast despite long travel, my K10D tends to hunt very little but always seems to run off in the wrong direction, slam into the limiter so noisily (I wonder how long the lens will withstand that) and then go back. The hood is great to protect the front element from curious baby fingers. Took some shots of our son Mattis Bendix and being the proud dad I am, I just knew I had to post a pic of him eventually, so I might as well now seeing I have such a sweet excuse to go brag about him. Same picasa link as last time: http://picasaweb.google.de/lh/sredir?uname=eckinatortarget=PHOTOid=5378115921443436098aid=5374043372372891137authkey=Gv1sRgCNqL6t_Yvcy8eQfeat=email Love the expression, wonder if I should crop or edit the background. Comments, criticism and suggestions always welcome. Cheers Ecke -- 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 Enablement: Mattis Bendix and the DFA 100
Thank you for the kind comment, Igor. You're referring to the back rest of the baby chair - I kinda had the same idea with the option of editing it out because I like the free space to the right. Cheers Ecke 2009/9/6 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: Ecke, You caught a great expression! Even before reading that you asked about cropping, - I thought that I'd crop about 1/5th from the right - to the most left point of a brownish box ro something in the background, or even slightly to the left of that point - most likely right around the beginning of the shoulder. I love my DFA-100. Cheers, Igor Sat Sep 5 18:08:20 CDT 2009 Eckehard Wegner wrote: Picked up an eBayed DFA 100 today, new, 25% beneath lowest internet price, hopefully there won't be too much warranty registration trouble; it is left over stock from a reseller gone belly up. First impression: lens renders crisply and nicely, shaft AF is quite fast despite long travel, my K10D tends to hunt very little but always seems to run off in the wrong direction, slam into the limiter so noisily (I wonder how long the lens will withstand that) and then go back. The hood is great to protect the front element from curious baby fingers. Took some shots of our son Mattis Bendix and being the proud dad I am, I just knew I had to post a pic of him eventually, so I might as well now seeing I have such a sweet excuse to go brag about him. Same picasa link as last time: http://picasaweb.google.de/lh/sredir?uname=eckinatortarget=PHOTOid=5378115921443436098aid=5374043372372891137authkey=Gv1sRgCNqL6t_Yvcy8eQfeat=email Love the expression, wonder if I should crop or edit the background. Comments, criticism and suggestions always welcome. Cheers Ecke -- 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 TWM t-shirt
Haha! Brilliant find, Igor! So which one of the reviewers are you? Cheers Ecke 2009/9/6 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: This is funny! The product: http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Mens-Three-Short-Sleeve/dp/B002HJ377A Read the reviews (and the comments after the first two reviews - once you click on read more): http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Mens-Three-Short-Sleeve/product-reviews/B002HJ377A/ Also see first few images and their captions: http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B002HJ377A/ Igor -- 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: Pentaxcon
It doesn't always have to be Limiteds. Here's a photo taken earlier this year with a 30-odd year old Pentacon 4/300 mm lens on my K10D. Yep, that's Pentacon, not Pentax! Meyer Görlitz for those old enough to remember. Commie stuff! Originally made for the Pentacon Six. Mounted on the K0D with an adapter straight from P6 to PK. http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2009/09/pentaxcon.html Built like the proverbial battleship and with a tripod collar that makes everything more recent look like toys, the optical performance isn't to be sniffed at either. The aperture has 23 blades! Bought on ebay for 67 euros, eight years ago. The two lower images are crops from the full frame. You can click on them to view them at 1:1 pixel scale. I've left the trace of CA in the upper one just to show how little there is. Photo taken at the Arcelor steel mill in Dunkirk, France. K10D, Pentacon 4/300 mm, f11, 1/20 sec. Enjoy. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- 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.
Pentax K20D and K200D now discontinued.
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, (I'm a bit behind on the list), but BH photo has it listed as discontinued. Pentax's Japanese site has them in the discontinued list, though Pentax Imaging, (Pentax USA), still shows then a current. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Climate camp
Huh? I expect that they make exceptions for the Queen. William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Bob W Subject: Climate camp http://www.web-options.com/L1001029.jpg It's quite interesting and seems to have the support of most of the locals, who are mostly bourgeois liberals like me. The camp is right next to an army barracks, where the police have set up a cherry-picker loaded with cameras and videos overlooking the protesters. They are apparently photographing everyone who visits, which is rather a waste of taxpayers' film if you ask me. It sounds a bit Orwellian to me. I suppose anyone who protests anything these days is a potential terrorist as far as your boffins are concerned. Amazing that your government seems to have the right to photograph anyone and anything, but the owners of that government almost appear to not have the right to photograph anyone or anything. 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: More Lyndsaye
And very nice they are too. William Robb wrote: Something a little different from what I normally post. Please note: Contains boobies. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/lyndsaye/artlynds1.html Techie stuff K-7, ISO 100. 77mm lens at f/5.6 Lit by one beauty dish from camera left. Monochromed in Photoshop. Enjoy. 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: So, that's what it looks like...
Perhaps you should raise her salary. David J Brooks wrote: Been quite a while for a cat photo. Nice. Lucy has started to curl up between the keyboard and speakers to watch me type. She has yet to correct my spelling. Dave Dave 2009/8/30 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: ...when Nikodemus holds his siesta behind my laptop. Only visible because I had not yet reconnected the computer after yesterday's trip to Belgium. Usually, you'll just hear him snore. Click on picture to enlarge. http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2009/08/so-sieht-das-also-aus.html Enjoy, Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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.
GESO Play
Probably not to everyone's taste, but I thought I'd give the technique a try. http://www.caguila.com/caguila/play/index.html Comments welcome, and if you don't like them, feel free to say so. Cheers, Christine -- 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 Enablement: Mattis Bendix and the DFA 100
Hi Ecke: Terrific expression! White balance shows up a bit yellow on my monitor, but YMMV. I'd crop a bit from the right to get rid of that thing on the right. You have a beautiful son. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Eckehard Wegner eckina...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 6:08 PM Subject: PESO Enablement: Mattis Bendix and the DFA 100 Picked up an eBayed DFA 100 today, new, 25% beneath lowest internet price, hopefully there won't be too much warranty registration trouble; it is left over stock from a reseller gone belly up. First impression: lens renders crisply and nicely, shaft AF is quite fast despite long travel, my K10D tends to hunt very little but always seems to run off in the wrong direction, slam into the limiter so noisily (I wonder how long the lens will withstand that) and then go back. The hood is great to protect the front element from curious baby fingers. Took some shots of our son Mattis Bendix and being the proud dad I am, I just knew I had to post a pic of him eventually, so I might as well now seeing I have such a sweet excuse to go brag about him. Same picasa link as last time: http://picasaweb.google.de/lh/sredir?uname=eckinatortarget=PHOTOid=5378115921443436098aid=5374043372372891137authkey=Gv1sRgCNqL6t_Yvcy8eQfeat=email Love the expression, wonder if I should crop or edit the background. Comments, criticism and suggestions always welcome. Cheers Ecke -- 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: Convex and Concave
Thats a lovely photograph of mushrooms. Daniel J. Matyola wrote: We have had a very wet summer here. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9715953 Comments and criticisms welcome. Dan Matyola -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Pentaxcon
Nice one, Ralf. Lens did a good job. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de To: Pentax Mailingliste pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 6:35 PM Subject: PESO: Pentaxcon It doesn't always have to be Limiteds. Here's a photo taken earlier this year with a 30-odd year old Pentacon 4/300 mm lens on my K10D. Yep, that's Pentacon, not Pentax! Meyer Görlitz for those old enough to remember. Commie stuff! Originally made for the Pentacon Six. Mounted on the K0D with an adapter straight from P6 to PK. http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2009/09/pentaxcon.html Built like the proverbial battleship and with a tripod collar that makes everything more recent look like toys, the optical performance isn't to be sniffed at either. The aperture has 23 blades! Bought on ebay for 67 euros, eight years ago. The two lower images are crops from the full frame. You can click on them to view them at 1:1 pixel scale. I've left the trace of CA in the upper one just to show how little there is. Photo taken at the Arcelor steel mill in Dunkirk, France. K10D, Pentacon 4/300 mm, f11, 1/20 sec. Enjoy. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- 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: Fred Called
Very funny, Igor--:-) Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org To: PDML@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 4:43 PM Subject: Re: Fred Called 52 weeks of Christinemas :-) Igor Fri Sep 4 09:57:22 CDT 2009 Christine Aguila wrote: Well, Christmas is only 4 months away. Treat yourself I've used that one for the last 52 camera-related purchases, Dave. It's suffering from overuse! ;-) Cheers, Christine -- 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: Snake oil, anyone?
Adam Maas wrote: 2009/8/31 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: http://www.oleg.bg.tf/ Ralf Hmm, The AF speedup is just making it fixed focus, the anti-dust just rattles the sensor, the JPEG 'improvments' just lower the quality setting. Snake Oil is a pretty good description. Ironically he basically describes the snake oil up front. Lets call it like it is, he cripples your camera, tells you he's crippling your camera, and eh, and, and... I'm sorry words basically fail me here. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
I see Pentax in as many places as Olympus. Paul On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:45 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Yes, but technical viability is different from sales viability. I see a lot of E-450 and E-620, (OK, maybe E-5XX bodies), in big box stores. However I've never seen a K-2000/K-m body in any of those stores. It's difficult to comparison sell Josephine Six-Pack, on a smaller lighter camera if you can't actually compare it to the competition. People will buy what's available. In other words, 'Any idiot can buy a low end Canon/Nikon/Sony/Olympus DSLR, it takes a special kind of idiot to seek out Pentax. Adam Maas wrote: I'm unsure of 4/3rds viability long-term. I suspect strongly that the lower-end 4/3rds DSLR's will be killed off by Micro4/3rds and the higher-end line will be on life support and exist mostly to fill in the gaps for Micro-4/3rds users. 4/3rds simply hasn't been able to capitalize on the promise of smaller lenses and cameras. As a practical matter Pentax simply dominates the small DSLR segment, offering a true compact system in the K-m/DA Limiteds, a compact high-performance system with the K-7 and DA Limiteds where Olympus actually has some of the larger available crop-format DSLR's (the E-3, E-30 and E-520 are all among the largest entries in their respective segments, the E-450 and E620 are only the smallest when considered without a mounted lens, the K-m/DA40 package is smaller than either of the compact E-series bodies paired with the 25 pancake, their smallest configuration) I think that Micro4/3rds has a strong future ahead of it as it's getting the chance to build serious market share before there's any real competition in its segment. -Adam On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Desjardins, Stevedesjard...@wlu.edu wrote: I admit I'm more amenable to the APS-C forever, unless it is beaten out by 4/3. The point is that even though MF and LF existed, the smaller 35 mm dominated because the IQ was good enough. I think that's where APS-C or 4/3 is now. Of course, good enough doesn't make sense to many on this list because there is an intrinsic selection for folks with higher photographic standards. OTOH, I think that non-slr cameras like the EP-1 and the G1 are about to start eating up some of the enthusiast market. If anything kills the APS-C DSLR it will be these. -- 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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Interesting K7 review
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:57:50PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: The irony there being the one thing MS gets consistently right is Office, particularly Excel. Oh, they get a lot more than Office right. Visual Studio is hands down the best interactive development environment out there, and has been for the last decade or longer. The rest of the world still hasn't caught up with the functionality of the debugger I was using on Apollo workstations almost twenty years ago. Not that I'm a fan of Microsoft's business practices (although nowadays Apple is at least as bad, if not worse). But I respect the quality of their development tools, even if I use very little other than the basic compilers (and the Standard Template Library); MFC, for example, is an ugly attempt to force everybody into the Microsoft view of the world. Borland's OWL was a much cleaner abstraction, but look where that went. -- 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: K-7 file size?
My K7 PEFs have been averaging about 13 megabytes. I haven't shot any DNG with this camera. Paul On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: What is the typical file size of an image produced by k7 (or a typical range)? I am interested in PEF and in DNG formats. Thank you, Igor -- 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: K-7 file size?
- Original Message - From: Igor Roshchin Subject: K-7 file size? What is the typical file size of an image produced by k7 (or a typical range)? I am interested in PEF and in DNG formats. DNGs are anywhere from 10-20mb, depending on the complexity of the image. They seem to average around 15mb for me. I don't know about PEFs, I've only shot a couple and I nuked them after they had served their purpose. 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: OT: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
- Original Message - From: P. J. Alling Subject: Re: OT: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000 Well, I was never able to use the 5 fps on the Pentax LX, so while 8fps is a selling point, I'm not sure what it's really worth, unless you work for /Sports/ /Illustrated/, and then I expect the magazine would be supplying a 1D something or other. It looks more like Canon has repealed the laws of economics... One thing I noticed right away when I switched over to the K-7 was how fast the mirror returns. The unheralded advantage of a fast frame rate is a fast viewfinder. 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: GESO Play
Some interesting shots here. I especially like the first two. Paul On Sep 5, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: Probably not to everyone's taste, but I thought I'd give the technique a try. http://www.caguila.com/caguila/play/index.html Comments welcome, and if you don't like them, feel free to say so. Cheers, Christine -- 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.
K-7 file size?
Thank you, P.J., Bill and Paul! Igor -- 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: Fred Called
Paraphrasing an old joke: What is the difference between a tire and 52 camera-related purchases? The former is Good Year, and the latter is a Very Good Year! :-) Igor Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:43:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Roshchin 52 weeks of Christinemas :-) Igor Fri Sep 4 09:57:22 CDT 2009 Christine Aguila wrote: Well, Christmas is only 4 months away. Treat yourself I've used that one for the last 52 camera-related purchases, Dave. It's suffering from overuse! ;-) Cheers, Christine -- 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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling Subject: Re: OT: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000 Well, I was never able to use the 5 fps on the Pentax LX, so while 8fps is a selling point, I'm not sure what it's really worth, unless you work for /Sports/ /Illustrated/, and then I expect the magazine would be supplying a 1D something or other. It looks more like Canon has repealed the laws of economics... One thing I noticed right away when I switched over to the K-7 was how fast the mirror returns. The unheralded advantage of a fast frame rate is a fast viewfinder. William Robb I think I can stipulate to that. However the K-7 ~5 fps is probably not in reality a lot slower than the Canon 7D in single shot mode. (Yes I know, I could be wrong, I haven't actual held either camera, but I'm betting the difference in frame rate has as much to do with buss speed as anything). To get that you pay a whopping $500.00 premium over the K-7. There are a lot of other features the 7D offers but most are not of interest to me as a still photographer. If I want to shoot video, I think I'll get a dedicated video camera, and since I've seen the output as a videographer, I think I'll hire a camera operator too. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
IIRC it's pretty much the same lens as the M 40mm f2.8 optically, so it will cover the format. The M 40mm was not known for it's edge sharpness, at least not wide open. Still I remember some people testing the DA on film and not hating it. Desjardins, Steve wrote: I'm trying to remember. Will the DA 40 work for FF (without significant problems)? -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Miserere Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 2:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000 Interesting and varied opinions (thanks guys!) although nobody brought up the issue that bothers me most. I believe Pentax will *HAVE* TO GO FULL-FRAME, like Mark said, out of necessity. When this happens (not *if*), what will they do with APS-C? They cannot give up on it given how much they've invested in DA lenses, so they will most likely keep an APS-C line up, but how advanced will these cameras be? I don't think Pentax has the resources to keep a parallel line of APS-C and FF cameras, so they will probably introduce only one FF model, which should be their flagship...relegating APS-C cameras to the entry-level ranks. What happens then to those of use that like APS-C? I want a K-7 for its small size (which is an advantage of APS-C not exploited in the flagship cameras since the *ist D) and other advanced features. I also happen to like the FoV offered by classic focal length zooms on APS-C sensors (the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 is my main lens), and I also like small primes. Once Pentax make FF their top-of-the line camera, will they also release a more compact APS-C equivalent? I doubt it. This means that if I want to upgrade my camera in 2-3 years time, my only options will be a fully-featured FF model, or a lower-spec'd APS-C. I fear the K-7 (or its slightly upgraded successor) will be the last of the great (small bodied) APS-C cameras in the Pentax line-up. And even if Pentax manage to squeeze a 35mm sensor into a K-7 body, I'm still left searching for a 40-115mm f/2.8 zoom lens as compact as my Tammy to serve as my workhorse. I know nobody will ever build one, least of all Pentax. Interesting times lie ahead, Gentlemen. Cheers, --M. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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: Sony Releases A850 FF Camera for $2,000
Supposed to be released in 2010. However Pentax already has a Flagship. The 645D will be their Professional offering. Bob Sullivan wrote: For your zoom, try the old A35-105 f3.5. For a FF camera, I wouldn't be surprised to see Pentax skip to a 645 format sensor as the flagship. Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Misereremiser...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting and varied opinions (thanks guys!) although nobody brought up the issue that bothers me most. I believe Pentax will *HAVE* TO GO FULL-FRAME, like Mark said, out of necessity. When this happens (not *if*), what will they do with APS-C? They cannot give up on it given how much they've invested in DA lenses, so they will most likely keep an APS-C line up, but how advanced will these cameras be? I don't think Pentax has the resources to keep a parallel line of APS-C and FF cameras, so they will probably introduce only one FF model, which should be their flagship...relegating APS-C cameras to the entry-level ranks. What happens then to those of use that like APS-C? I want a K-7 for its small size (which is an advantage of APS-C not exploited in the flagship cameras since the *ist D) and other advanced features. I also happen to like the FoV offered by classic focal length zooms on APS-C sensors (the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 is my main lens), and I also like small primes. Once Pentax make FF their top-of-the line camera, will they also release a more compact APS-C equivalent? I doubt it. This means that if I want to upgrade my camera in 2-3 years time, my only options will be a fully-featured FF model, or a lower-spec'd APS-C. I fear the K-7 (or its slightly upgraded successor) will be the last of the great (small bodied) APS-C cameras in the Pentax line-up. And even if Pentax manage to squeeze a 35mm sensor into a K-7 body, I'm still left searching for a 40-115mm f/2.8 zoom lens as compact as my Tammy to serve as my workhorse. I know nobody will ever build one, least of all Pentax. Interesting times lie ahead, Gentlemen. Cheers, --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.EnticingTheLight.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. -- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog. --G. K. Chesterton -- 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--Making Tracks
Thanks, Marnie. Actually, I did have some control: On my way to work, the tracks were in the early-morning sun (that's when I took this pic); in the evening they were in shade (and I took several others). I guess I was just feeling contrasty when I chose this one. Cheers, Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sat, 9/5/09, eactiv...@aol.com eactiv...@aol.com wrote: Work has been very demanding, and I'm way behind on the list (again). Our transit agency in Philadelphia is preparing to replace some of the trolley (tram) tracks in our neighborhood. I took this on my way home earlier this week, where the new rail is being stored. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9736300size=lg (K10D, FA 50/1.7) Rick = Nice one, Rick. Kinda wish there was no shadow but realize you had no control over that. :-) Marnie aka Doe -- 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 Enablement: Mattis Bendix and the DFA 100
Ecke, Lovely and a beautiful child. I would consider a square crop, removing the right side. Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Eckehard Wegnereckina...@gmail.com wrote: Picked up an eBayed DFA 100 today, new, 25% beneath lowest internet price, hopefully there won't be too much warranty registration trouble; it is left over stock from a reseller gone belly up. First impression: lens renders crisply and nicely, shaft AF is quite fast despite long travel, my K10D tends to hunt very little but always seems to run off in the wrong direction, slam into the limiter so noisily (I wonder how long the lens will withstand that) and then go back. The hood is great to protect the front element from curious baby fingers. Took some shots of our son Mattis Bendix and being the proud dad I am, I just knew I had to post a pic of him eventually, so I might as well now seeing I have such a sweet excuse to go brag about him. Same picasa link as last time: http://picasaweb.google.de/lh/sredir?uname=eckinatortarget=PHOTOid=5378115921443436098aid=5374043372372891137authkey=Gv1sRgCNqL6t_Yvcy8eQfeat=email Love the expression, wonder if I should crop or edit the background. Comments, criticism and suggestions always welcome. Cheers Ecke -- 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.
