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Re: Possible great deal!

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Loveday


That's a lot like how my MG wound up.

Did you have a purpose in mind, or just did it for fun?  I was after the K 
mount for a yet-to-be-finished flash project.


- Peter

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That's harsh.

On 11/30/2010 1:57 AM, steve harley wrote:

On 2010-11-29 18:54 , John Sessoms wrote:

I had an A3000 for about 3 months before replacing it with a K1000.
Whoever called it a point 'n shoot SLR got it pretty much right.


i had an A3000 for about two hours until i turned it to this:

http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/3510446/1/a3000?h=7436b3




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Re: White Balance on K-7

2010-11-30 Thread Joseph McAllister

On Nov 29, 2010, at 23:15 , Dario Bonazza wrote:

 Strong means the camera compensates for the warm cast, perfoming a 
 white-balanced (neutral) shot.


The default is strong which looking at the proof sheet of the dancers 
submitted is what the camera tried to do on some of the shots, leaving the 
majority of them with a tungsten yellow caste. Is that right?

Anyone run any test with a user set WB on a sheet of paper under any lighting 
conditions to see if the camera does it's own thing with the WB once and a 
while?

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Re: BH memory card deal

2010-11-30 Thread Boris Liberman


On 11/30/2010 8:14 AM, John Celio wrote:

I think SanDisk is overrated. I own one SanDisk card and eight
non-SanDisk cards. Never had a problem with any of them. All you get
from SanDisk that you don't get from the other brands is the name and a
lighter wallet.

John


It well may be so, John. However /all/ Sandisk cards I bought since 2006 
are still operational. And by if it ain't broken, don't fix it 
principle I kind of stick with Sandisk. Evidently, memory cards are not 
something I spend much money on...


Boris



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Re: White Balance on K-7

2010-11-30 Thread Boris Liberman


Igor,

On 11/29/2010 5:39 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:

Has anybody experienced anything of this sort?
What could be the reason (besides some malfunction of the camera)?


I will have to look in my collection but I am fairly certain that all 
three cameras I've been shooting with (*istD, K10D, K-7) exhibited this 
kind of behavior. I usually shoot in AWB mode, but get significantly 
different color casts of my pictures from time to time. Although each 
camera did improve on AWB stability and K-7 did improve significantly 
here, they did not hammer the issue out completely.


I haven't looked any further into this. Simply I correct WB in post when 
necessary and if I cannot salvage the shot (even by B/W conversion) I 
discard it.


I wonder if K-7 and/or K-5 have WB bracketing function that perhaps can 
be used along with high-speed continuous mode (7 fps of K-5 sound 
particularly impressive here) to work around this issue. Though, if you 
were shooting with flash, it would have to be some rather special flash 
or its power supply, methinks.


Boris


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Three years

2010-11-30 Thread Larry Colen


I've spent some time in the past week putting together a blurb book to give as 
a gift for the holidays.

I have it pretty close to done. It certainly isn't done to the level of 
professionalism of the PDML annual, but I think it'll be good enough for the 
task.

I was originally just going to have pictures from this year, and was going to 
title it 2010.  But, I didn't have quite enough photos to fill it, and 
decided to add a few of my older pictures. Since it was going to be my first 
book, I changed the title to Volume zero.

In the process  of looking through my photos, I realized that I bought my K100 
on November 28, 2007.  The newest photo in the book was taken yesterday, 
November 28, 2010. The book is now titled Three years, unless I think of 
something better between now and uploading it to blurb.

I used exiftool to take a look at the shutter counts on my Pentax bodies:
K100:  43175
K20:57624
K-x: 40475
which adds up to 140,912 frames.  With 45 photos in the book, that works out to 
a keeper ratio of one in every 3,131 frames.

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Re: Three years

2010-11-30 Thread Boris Liberman


On 11/30/2010 1:28 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

I used exiftool to take a look at the shutter counts on my Pentax
bodies: K100:  43175 K20:57624 K-x: 40475 which adds up to
140,912 frames.  With 45 photos in the book, that works out to a
keeper ratio of one in every 3,131 frames.

-- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est


Larry Gatling Colen...

You, sir, are surely very happy fellow, which includes great deal of 
trigger happiness...


Boris

P.S. My counts are *istD - 10K, K10D - 23K, K-7 - 11K, together - 44K

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Re: PESO: Wrecked car

2010-11-30 Thread Nick David Wright

LOL. We have our hooks into you now!!

Take heart though, film isn't really all that much more expensive than
digital if you factor everything in.

~nick

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
  Cool find, Nick.

 Just so you'll know, I went and bought a roll of film today, and a battery
 for the exposure meter.

 All they had was Fuji Superia X-tra 400 (it was a Dollar General Store).
  I'll shoot through it, get it processed at Sam's Club, and see how I like
 it.  Then, I'll probably go to the local camera shop to see if they have any
 good b/w film, shoot it and get it processed.  Then, in all likelihood, I'll
 get a damned film scanner.

 Then, you'll be getting a subpoena from my lawyer to appear as a witness on
 my behalf in bankruptcy court.

 Thanks.

 Walt

 On 11/29/2010 10:49 PM, Nick David Wright wrote:

 http://blog.nickdavidwright.net/2010/11/wrecked-car.html

 I was so surprised to find this negative in my archive (i.e.-
 shoebox). This was taken with a Pentax K1000, sometime in the summer
 1999 right when I began to get really serious about photography. I
 don't remember which lens it was, though I highly suspect it was
 either the Sears 135/2.8 or the Sears 80-200/4. Kodak Gold 100 film.

 Too bad no (non-photo) stores carry 100 speed film anymore. I guess I
 should just be thankful I can find film locally at all.

 Oh, by the way, since getting the scanner I have completely scrapped
 everything that was on my blog before. So please excuse any mess.



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Re: Wrecked car

2010-11-30 Thread Nick David Wright

I was hoping someone would be able to tell the vintage of that machine.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote:
 A 59 Ford !

 More like abandoned !

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 - Original Message - From: Nick David Wright
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 http://blog.nickdavidwright.net/2010/11/wrecked-car.html

 I was so surprised to find this negative in my archive (i.e.-
 shoebox). This was taken with a Pentax K1000, sometime in the summer
 1999 right when I began to get really serious about photography. I
 don't remember which lens it was, though I highly suspect it was
 either the Sears 135/2.8 or the Sears 80-200/4. Kodak Gold 100 film.

 Too bad no (non-photo) stores carry 100 speed film anymore. I guess I
 should just be thankful I can find film locally at all.

 Oh, by the way, since getting the scanner I have completely scrapped
 everything that was on my blog before. So please excuse any mess.

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Re: Two more PESOs from Boris

2010-11-30 Thread Boris Liberman


Thank you, Dan. You're offering me some serious compliments here...

Boris

On 11/29/2010 4:59 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

I like the empty street very much, Boris.

As for the Gelato case, I have tried to take that very shot several
times, with miserable results. Your image is just a perfect
visualization of the scene!

Dan
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Re: Two more PESOs from Boris

2010-11-30 Thread Boris Liberman


On 11/29/2010 5:39 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:

Boris,
I like the street shot.  Lighting and composition work well together.
The first shot, Ice Cream, is a little problem for me.
I can't really tell what the stuff in the case is.
Is this Gelato as Dan says or are these vegetables in grocer's case?
I need a closer or bigger image to really tell, or to sell the illusion.
Regards,  Bob S.


Fascinating, Bob. You see, I thought that the sight of the refrigerator 
vitrine and the shadows of ice cream cups were hints good enough to 
eliminate other possibilities. But it could be I overestimated the value 
of these hints. I did add some saturation and vibrance to increase the 
effect of rather artificial colors of the ice cream, but again, you were 
confused.


Thank you, as indeed I should be more careful about my presentations so 
as to make them less possible to be misread.


Boris

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Anyone ever dealt with the Montclair Who's Who in Photography scammers?

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Roberts

I'm guessing that a lot of people on the PDML have received email from
the Montclair Publishing Who's Who con artists.
(http://www.robertstech.com/blog/?p=140) They say you're being
considered for inclusion in the next edition of their book, please
call for an interview, etc. Like most people I just delete the email
(and report them for spamming) but there are several sites on the web
from people who called back for the interview that detail the rest of
the scam: Basically, one has to buy membership for an exorbitant fee
to be included.

Anyway, if anyone has dealt with this scam operation I'd be interested
in hearing about it.
 

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Amazon's is the Class 6 Transcend. BH was offering the Class 10. After
processing my order, BH e-mailed me say that a system error had occurred, and
the cards are ot in stock. They said I could request refund or leave my order
in place and wait for new tock to arrive.
i'll wait..
Paul
On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:

Amazon has them as well:

http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-Class-Flash-Memory-TS8GSDHC6/dp/B000P9ZBFA/ref=pd_rhf_shvl_4

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote:
Place order and they should fulfill it at the special price.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jim King jamesk8...@mac.com wrote:
John Celio wrote on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:36:48 -0800

8gb Class 10 SDHC cards for $12.95 each with free shipping available in
the US:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlistsku=700166AID=10603278PID=3668349is=REGA=detailsQ=

http://goo.gl/7FkB9

I ordered a couple. Pretty good deal, I think.

Darn! I saw your message after dinner, tried to order two cards, and found
that BH was out of stock. If you snooze, you lose...

Regards, Jim

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