Re: Ned mentions Mark
On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Miserere wrote: On 9 December 2010 00:34, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2010, at 9:28 PM, Miserere wrote: On 8 December 2010 15:53, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I did a quick search for this, but didn't find it. I'm about 750 messages behind in the list. I'm afraid that doing photography sometimes interferes with my reading PDML. Anyways, Ned comments on Mark's Loire valley book: http://nedbunnell.posterous.com/pentax-photo-book-for-the-holidays-0 Larry, This guy already posted about it: http://www.mail-archive.com/pdml@pdml.net/msg574546.html I should just set up a cron job to send you an email each day calling you a smart-ass. I know that's your way of letting me know you love me, and I want you to know I appreciate it. I said cron job, not pr0n job. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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 Stouffville Santa Claus Parade
Dave, the guy in the yestercentury clothes and the guy on the yestercentury bicycle are particularly good. Also #0999 is fantastic. And that person dressed like a microphone... Made me grin. In fact, I think I should really thank you for letting me glimpse into your way of life. Boris On 12/9/2010 2:23 AM, David J Brooks wrote: http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2010-parade/album/index.html About 130 or so, if you feel like 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: OT - Mamiya Cxxx TLRs and TLR in general
Thanks to all of you. Very helpful. I'm eager to receive the camera and process the films. Le mercredi 8 décembre 2010, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com a écrit : I had the C330 for a bit way back in the 1970s. There is a 'top of frame' indicator needle. As you focus closer, it drops to show where the top of the frame for a given focusing distance would be. So you focus and frame, then raise the camera vertically to put the top edge of the frame along the indicator line. The shift is only large when you're working in the very close range, for a normal to wide lens. With the tele lenses it becomes a bit more significant ... best to frame a little loose. Plenty of negative to work with so shoot loose and crop ... :-) Mamiya made a gizmo for the tripod that worked with the indicator too. The indicator had a scale of numbers, IIRC, and you could easily raise the camera with gizmo to the number once you achieved proper focus. For me, the C330 was always a tripod camera. Held with pistol grip and porroflex viewfinder, it was a large and heavy beast to tote around. For any hand-held work, I far preferred a Rolleiflex TLR (which had a more sophisticated parallax compensation built into the viewfinder system albeit for a fixed lens with a more limited close focusing range). On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@bellsouth.net wrote: As I recall, the C330 deals with parallax by having a needle enter the viewfinder field, cropping part of the field that would be cropped due to parallax. Not very sophisticated, but it worked. Jeffery On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:25 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: I had Mamiyaflex C2 and a C220. I always wanted the C330, which has some sort of parallax correction, so the upper lens shows you the frame for the lower lens. Shot with the TLR for many years and made quite a bit of money with it. I used just the 80mm lens for most of that time, but later added the 250mm. It takes a while to get used to seeing things reversed in the viewinder. That was especially difficult shooting pans of race cars, because they came through my viewfinder from the wrong end! But it was a great camera, and the lenses were excellent for the time. Paul On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Thibouille wrote: Got myself (not arrived yet) a Mamiya C330 TLR (with 80/2.8) for a couple reasons: * I want to do film * Medium format * 6x4,5 is bigger than 35mm but if going MF, just do it completely. 6x4,5 is somewhat small IMO * The challenge of using a TLR, waist level finder (although prism is available as well) * The challenge of square format, 6x6 * Interchangeable lenses on a TLR (quite rare) * Mechanical beast, easier to repair than electronic ones if it needs to. Now, I know Darren have one, he wrote so a couple weeks ago. Darren and others, what could you advise as for usage of such cameras? Like usage with or without tripod, what kind of subjects, 120 film handling etc. Thank you much. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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. -- 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection...
do you perhaps need to change the refreh rate to one supported by your monitor? (doubt this, if so, it should display 'input out of range' but you can try) also, have you tried testing with another DVI adaptor and/or cable? also, do you need to enable the external display in system settings? just some guesswork here for lack of being a mac user hth ecke 2010/12/9 Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com: I did. No difference. http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Wed, 12/8/10, John Mullan k...@hotmail.com wrote: From: John Mullan k...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection... To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 10:21 PM I don't know if it makes a difference on a Mac, try having the monitor connected and turned on before turning the Mac on. jm -Original Message- From: Rick Womer Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:13 PM To: Pentax List Subject: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection... ...and for my blood pressure! I set up a Dell U2410 monitor and connected it to my MBP via the mini display port and DVI adapter. My Dell 2408 monitor at work does very nicely this way. No dice. The monitor claims it's not getting a signal, but when I ask it to find a signal it says it's getting one through the DVI port. Clicking detect displays in System Prefs/Displays doesn't show me the Dell monitor, though. Given a choice between a skunk run over by an 18-wheeler on a hot summer day and Dell customer service, I'll take the skunk. Can anyone provide some advice? 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. -- 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: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection...
Rick, I'd guess cable problems. I've found with my older PowerBook that the mini-DVI adapter is a bit touchy and sometimes needs to be pulled out and firmly reseated to get a good connection. The pins in those connectrs are *really* teensy and suffer a bit from age/wear. Besides trying another adapter, I'd try another monitor if you can borrow one. -bmw On 10-12-09 5:10 AM, eckinator wrote: do you perhaps need to change the refreh rate to one supported by your monitor? (doubt this, if so, it should display 'input out of range' but you can try) also, have you tried testing with another DVI adaptor and/or cable? also, do you need to enable the external display in system settings? just some guesswork here for lack of being a mac user hth ecke 2010/12/9 Rick Womerrwomer1...@yahoo.com: I did. No difference. http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Wed, 12/8/10, John Mullank...@hotmail.com wrote: From: John Mullank...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection... To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 10:21 PM I don't know if it makes a difference on a Mac, try having the monitor connected and turned on before turning the Mac on. jm -Original Message- From: Rick Womer Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:13 PM To: Pentax List Subject: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection... ...and for my blood pressure! I set up a Dell U2410 monitor and connected it to my MBP via the mini display port and DVI adapter. My Dell 2408 monitor at work does very nicely this way. No dice. The monitor claims it's not getting a signal, but when I ask it to find a signal it says it's getting one through the DVI port. Clicking detect displays in System Prefs/Displays doesn't show me the Dell monitor, though. Given a choice between a skunk run over by an 18-wheeler on a hot summer day and Dell customer service, I'll take the skunk. Can anyone provide some advice? 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: Pentax slogan
Yeah, you can do that with a Pentax. It's not your father's Pentax. (But you should see if he still has those lenses) Right, but Pentax invented it. Pentax, the official lens of Cottycam's bastardizations. Nobody borrows your lenses when you own Pentax. Pentax DSLR, Stand out on the edge of the crowd CW On 12/5/2010 4:36 PM, Larry Colen (Droid Mail) wrote: Last night when someone saw my camera she comented: Pentax, the poor man's Nikon. What else could we do with this: Cannon, for the skilful photographer. Or how about Pentax 645D, Hasselblad on a budget. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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 - Hanukkah Lights
Last night was the last night of Hanukkah, so all the candles in the Menorah were lit. Looked pretty cool, I thought: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/hanukkah-lights.html Hope you enjoy. No comment really required (but you may if you wish). cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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 Stouffville Santa Claus Parade
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:23 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2010-parade/album/index.html About 130 or so, if you feel like it. Fun set, Dave! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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 slogan
Pentax pancake primes because size does matter. 2010/12/9 Cory Waters cbwat...@bellsouth.net: Yeah, you can do that with a Pentax. It's not your father's Pentax. (But you should see if he still has those lenses) Right, but Pentax invented it. Pentax, the official lens of Cottycam's bastardizations. Nobody borrows your lenses when you own Pentax. Pentax DSLR, Stand out on the edge of the crowd CW On 12/5/2010 4:36 PM, Larry Colen (Droid Mail) wrote: Last night when someone saw my camera she comented: Pentax, the poor man's Nikon. What else could we do with this: Cannon, for the skilful photographer. Or how about Pentax 645D, Hasselblad on a budget. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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 - Hanukkah Lights
Merry Hannukah and Happy Christmas /friendly smile/. On 12/9/2010 1:41 PM, frank theriault wrote: Last night was the last night of Hanukkah, so all the candles in the Menorah were lit. Looked pretty cool, I thought: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/hanukkah-lights.html Hope you enjoy. No comment really required (but you may if you wish). cheers, frank -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
I bought Tmax because that's what my reseller had in stock. Heard a couple time Tmax is the best developper, ever. Dunno what to think about that but at least it is a good one, which is OK for me. 2010/12/8 Gasha cir...@konts.lv: Welcome to the club!!! I discovered these nice things about 5 years ago. So far used only Rodinal, but i hope to try also Ilfosol. Gasha Thibouille wrote: Just understood how cheaper it was to process film in house. Got material from my brother, just needed the chemical part. Got developper + fixer for 30 Euros, dunno if it is about a right price or not... I can process 40 35mm films with that, compared to 6 euros per film when dropped to my reseller. Ouch ! BTW, just found out there're a couple nice apps helping, at least on iPhone. The Massive Dev Chart, ( http://www.digitaltruth.com ) is available with complete database of developper/film times, stopwatch etc. Very impressive. -- 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
I still have a Palm lying somewhere. It might be useful to have the Palm used just for that, why not, so thank a lot. I will try the software. 2010/12/8 d...@rileyelf.free-online.co.uk: I know it's a bit 'old school' but I use an app on my Palm called Foto Timer, http://www.jan-exner.de/software/fototimer.html it allows interval setting (for inversions etc.) with alarms. It also allows chained processes with pauses etc, so you can chain multiple processes used with a pause in between each. If anyone is still using a Palm it's well worth a download. Drew. Just understood how cheaper it was to process film in house. Got material from my brother, just needed the chemical part. Got developper + fixer for 30 Euros, dunno if it is about a right price or not... I can process 40 35mm films with that, compared to 6 euros per film when dropped to my reseller. Ouch ! BTW, just found out there're a couple nice apps helping, at least on iPhone. The Massive Dev Chart, ( http://www.digitaltruth.com ) is available with complete database of developper/film times, stopwatch etc. Very impressive. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
2010/12/8 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Tri-X in D-76 is pretty forgiving, you can soup in a bathroom and pretty much time it with your pulse. Learned to do that in a Photojournalism course taught by a semi-retried Photo-Editor from the Providence Journal. Except for the fact that that the film used was 35mm rather than 4x5 it was a technique that wouldn't have been alien to Weegee. Let me see now, what was my point... Oh, yes. Pick a film and developer combination, and learn it, until getting constant results is second nature. Then branch out. Exactly what I had in mind. It will take time to get consistant results and to try a couple other developpers. But I'm ready. I'll probably need a new Enlarger though, the one I could get is really really an old thing. Those go for cheap these days on Ebay so I'll probably get another one as soon as I'm OK with the films. Hope TriX is forgiving as well with Tmax :) -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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: The New Blog: Real Canadians Wearing Real Hats!
I like your new space choice, Frank and Canada is a fine theme addition. Jack --- On Wed, 12/8/10, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: The New Blog: Real Canadians Wearing Real Hats! To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 8:29 PM This should be fun: http://realcanadianhats.blogspot.com/ ;-) I'll be posting my Big Winter Hats on this space from now on. The title photo is new to the list, but oh so appropriate given the blog's title, no? Hope you enjoy! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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: Ned plugs Mark's book and PDML
Okay..got it! LOL.. Jack --- On Wed, 12/8/10, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Ned plugs Mark's book and PDML To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 8:31 PM On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: I wonder if Ned knows Mark recently bought a Sony A850? ;) S!! ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
a great trick i learned while teaching an introductory darkroom class to some kids was to just count the ticking clock if you have one in the darkroom. it's particularly useful for making enlargements if you don't have a clock attached to the enlarger, since the times are generally shorter than for film development. also, i don't see why you'd need anything other than any watch or clock for processing film, you do it in the tank, and you can have the light on, so.. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Thibouille pentaxl...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/8 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Tri-X in D-76 is pretty forgiving, you can soup in a bathroom and pretty much time it with your pulse. Learned to do that in a Photojournalism course taught by a semi-retried Photo-Editor from the Providence Journal. Except for the fact that that the film used was 35mm rather than 4x5 it was a technique that wouldn't have been alien to Weegee. Let me see now, what was my point... Oh, yes. Pick a film and developer combination, and learn it, until getting constant results is second nature. Then branch out. Exactly what I had in mind. It will take time to get consistant results and to try a couple other developpers. But I'm ready. I'll probably need a new Enlarger though, the one I could get is really really an old thing. Those go for cheap these days on Ebay so I'll probably get another one as soon as I'm OK with the films. Hope TriX is forgiving as well with Tmax :) -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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: The New Blog: Real Canadians Wearing Real Hats!
Thanks for keeping it RIZZEAL, Frank =) 2010/12/9 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: This should be fun: http://realcanadianhats.blogspot.com/ ;-) I'll be posting my Big Winter Hats on this space from now on. The title photo is new to the list, but oh so appropriate given the blog's title, no? Hope you enjoy! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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: The New Blog: Real Canadians Wearing Real Hats!
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:29 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: This should be fun: http://realcanadianhats.blogspot.com/ ;-) I'll be posting my Big Winter Hats on this space from now on. The title photo is new to the list, but oh so appropriate given the blog's title, no? Hope you enjoy! I've got you set up in my rss feeder. Looking forward to more entries. :) Kent -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
TMax developer works well, and it has a long shelf life. I shot a roll of BW in my Leica a few months ago and processed it with some TMax that's been sitting on the shelf for about seven years. No problems. At normal development times, the negative density was spot on. When I was shooting a lot of BW, I preferred D-76 mixed 1:1 with water -- a somewhat gentle soup that yielded a nice range of midtones-- but it involved a lot of work, since D-76 is only sold as a mix-it-yourself powder. Paul On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:54 AM, Thibouille wrote: I bought Tmax because that's what my reseller had in stock. Heard a couple time Tmax is the best developper, ever. Dunno what to think about that but at least it is a good one, which is OK for me. 2010/12/8 Gasha cir...@konts.lv: Welcome to the club!!! I discovered these nice things about 5 years ago. So far used only Rodinal, but i hope to try also Ilfosol. Gasha Thibouille wrote: Just understood how cheaper it was to process film in house. Got material from my brother, just needed the chemical part. Got developper + fixer for 30 Euros, dunno if it is about a right price or not... I can process 40 35mm films with that, compared to 6 euros per film when dropped to my reseller. Ouch ! BTW, just found out there're a couple nice apps helping, at least on iPhone. The Massive Dev Chart, ( http://www.digitaltruth.com ) is available with complete database of developper/film times, stopwatch etc. Very impressive. -- 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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: Ned mentions Mark
From: Larry Colen I did a quick search for this, but didn't find it. I'm about 750 messages behind in the list. I'm afraid that doing photography sometimes interferes with my reading PDML. Anyways, Ned comments on Mark's Loire valley book: http://nedbunnell.posterous.com/pentax-photo-book-for-the-holidays-0 It's only a problem when reading PDML interferes with doing photography. -- 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: A Swallowtail in Respite
From: Walter Gilbert Also, I'm hesitant to do much more with it as it was among my earlier shots and I wasn't vigilant about keeping my original images back then. So, unfortunately, that's the highest resolution version copy I have -- 1600 pixels long-side. I hate to give up much more resolution than that. At this point, I'm inclined to submit it as-is, and if it gets rejected, do a little cropping and maybe do a little graduated softening of focus around the edges to obscure that part of the fan leaf and see if that'll give it a boost. Idunno ... what do you think? -- Walt The hardest lesson I had to learn in Photoshop was when to quit messing with something. There's always a point beyond which you will not be able to improve your image, and that's the time to quit. You just have to be able to recognize when you've reached that point. It's the image you have, and if you think you've reached the point where you can't improve it any more, then I agree, it's time to submit it. I say go for it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: A Swallowtail in Respite
From: Walter Gilbert I don't think they allow any sort of cloning in the images, and only minor filter effects -- and not being adept at cloning at all, would most likely make a complete hash of it anyway. :-) I've done up a couple of versions both resized to the 600-pixel height required for submission: Crop with plain focus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/5244452247/ Crop with softened focus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/5244451549/ Any thoughts? -- Walt My opinion - and that's all it is - is that the softened focus version is more pleasing to the eye. Makes it easier to focus on the butterfly itself. -- 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: PPG Landmark: 200
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote: Just made 200 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bongmanayon/5180461525/ Interestingly, it was one of my K-r road test photos. For the morbidly curious, it took me 2 years (2007 to 2009; about the same time last year) to reach 100; then a year to reach 200. I sometimes wonder if I'm getting better or the standards are getting lower... Whatever. I really like your work. Beautiful photos and nice variety. I get the sense you could find and capture the beauty around you just about anywhere. Kent -- 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 Stouffville Santa Claus Parade
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: Always fun to see how other folks celebrate...Never saw a yellow police car before. Is that a common color? Apparently yes. Sharp has added it to their colour line up on their flat screen TV's.:-) It was the colour of choice for Toronto police cars for years, that and Plymouth's. I forget when they wen to all white with red letter's, Frank, Adam, do you recall.?? Dave yes it is, just not on police cars. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: Geso Stouffville Santa Claus Parade
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:14 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:23 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2010-parade/album/index.html About 130 or so, if you feel like it. Fun set, Dave! Thanks to all that looked and commented. Dave cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection...
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: Given a choice between a skunk run over by an 18-wheeler on a hot summer day and Dell customer service, I'll take the skunk. Can anyone provide some advice? Buy a second skunk.?? Dave 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. -- 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: The New Blog: Real Canadians Wearing Real Hats!
Good job Frank. I like the first shot. You should run up to Hearst or Longlac. They have some real winter hats there.:-) Dave On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:29 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: This should be fun: http://realcanadianhats.blogspot.com/ ;-) I'll be posting my Big Winter Hats on this space from now on. The title photo is new to the list, but oh so appropriate given the blog's title, no? Hope you enjoy! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
OT: Digital ice - a question
So... sic transit 1640... Im geting the V500... it says it comes with Digital Ice... I think I remember a cautionary note about using it... from some one here (or from my stock agency) any rants or raves guys? Thank goodness the scanner only costs $112 -- and that some of you (along with others) bought my calendars...! T I A for any comments ann 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: Ned plugs Mark's book and PDML
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:38 PM, P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Excellent! Kudos to Mark. Paul Ditto Dave On Dec 8, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Miserere wrote: http://nedbunnell.posterous.com/pentax-photo-book-for-the-holidays-0 Mark was wondering if they'd received the book he sent, and here's the answer. The book looks even better in person than it did online, unlike some of us. You're getting pretty good at book layout, Mark...and setting the bar very high for yourself for the upcoming PDML Annual. We expect nothing but 10% more than the best :-) —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- 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: PESO - Hanukkah Lights
Nice, it does have a pleasing effect. Dave On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:41 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Last night was the last night of Hanukkah, so all the candles in the Menorah were lit. Looked pretty cool, I thought: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/hanukkah-lights.html Hope you enjoy. No comment really required (but you may if you wish). cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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: PPG Landmark: 200
Congrat's. I gave up around the time you hit 100.;-) Dave On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote: Just made 200 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bongmanayon/5180461525/ Interestingly, it was one of my K-r road test photos. For the morbidly curious, it took me 2 years (2007 to 2009; about the same time last year) to reach 100; then a year to reach 200. I sometimes wonder if I'm getting better or the standards are getting lower... Whatever. Bong -- Bong Manayon http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bongmanayon -- 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 - Mamiya Cxxx TLRs and TLR in general
By the way, I always used the pistol side grip. Get one of those if you can. Otherwise, the camera is very awkward to hold and shoot. Jeffery On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Thibouille wrote: Thanks to all of you. Very helpful. I'm eager to receive the camera and process the films. Le mercredi 8 décembre 2010, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com a écrit : I had the C330 for a bit way back in the 1970s. There is a 'top of frame' indicator needle. As you focus closer, it drops to show where the top of the frame for a given focusing distance would be. So you focus and frame, then raise the camera vertically to put the top edge of the frame along the indicator line. The shift is only large when you're working in the very close range, for a normal to wide lens. With the tele lenses it becomes a bit more significant ... best to frame a little loose. Plenty of negative to work with so shoot loose and crop ... :-) Mamiya made a gizmo for the tripod that worked with the indicator too. The indicator had a scale of numbers, IIRC, and you could easily raise the camera with gizmo to the number once you achieved proper focus. For me, the C330 was always a tripod camera. Held with pistol grip and porroflex viewfinder, it was a large and heavy beast to tote around. For any hand-held work, I far preferred a Rolleiflex TLR (which had a more sophisticated parallax compensation built into the viewfinder system albeit for a fixed lens with a more limited close focusing range). On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@bellsouth.net wrote: As I recall, the C330 deals with parallax by having a needle enter the viewfinder field, cropping part of the field that would be cropped due to parallax. Not very sophisticated, but it worked. Jeffery On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:25 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: I had Mamiyaflex C2 and a C220. I always wanted the C330, which has some sort of parallax correction, so the upper lens shows you the frame for the lower lens. Shot with the TLR for many years and made quite a bit of money with it. I used just the 80mm lens for most of that time, but later added the 250mm. It takes a while to get used to seeing things reversed in the viewinder. That was especially difficult shooting pans of race cars, because they came through my viewfinder from the wrong end! But it was a great camera, and the lenses were excellent for the time. Paul On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Thibouille wrote: Got myself (not arrived yet) a Mamiya C330 TLR (with 80/2.8) for a couple reasons: * I want to do film * Medium format * 6x4,5 is bigger than 35mm but if going MF, just do it completely. 6x4,5 is somewhat small IMO * The challenge of using a TLR, waist level finder (although prism is available as well) * The challenge of square format, 6x6 * Interchangeable lenses on a TLR (quite rare) * Mechanical beast, easier to repair than electronic ones if it needs to. Now, I know Darren have one, he wrote so a couple weeks ago. Darren and others, what could you advise as for usage of such cameras? Like usage with or without tripod, what kind of subjects, 120 film handling etc. Thank you much. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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. -- 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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: Is there anyone on the list in, or near Butte Montana?
From: Larry Colen I've got a friend that I've known since he was a few days old. His brother was my best friend when he was born. His wife just bought a K100d and a couple of lenses from someone she was helping sell gear on ebay. They live in Butte Montana, and while I can give some help over email, it's a lot better if someone can show things in person. It's probably absolutely no help at all, but Rocky Mountain School of Photography is right up the road from them in Missoula. -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:13 AM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Old school is a timer on the wall, an interval stopwatch, or counting silently to yourself:-). Paul I used a stop watch when i was doing it at home and at trhe High school night classes i took from 2001-2004. I also used Iron Butterfly's Inagodadavida and souped till the drum solo.:-) Dave On Dec 8, 2010, at 7:01 AM, d...@rileyelf.free-online.co.uk wrote: I know it's a bit 'old school' but I use an app on my Palm called Foto Timer, http://www.jan-exner.de/software/fototimer.html it allows interval setting (for inversions etc.) with alarms. It also allows chained processes with pauses etc, so you can chain multiple processes used with a pause in between each. If anyone is still using a Palm it's well worth a download. Drew. Just understood how cheaper it was to process film in house. Got material from my brother, just needed the chemical part. Got developper + fixer for 30 Euros, dunno if it is about a right price or not... I can process 40 35mm films with that, compared to 6 euros per film when dropped to my reseller. Ouch ! BTW, just found out there're a couple nice apps helping, at least on iPhone. The Massive Dev Chart, ( http://www.digitaltruth.com ) is available with complete database of developper/film times, stopwatch etc. Very impressive. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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. -- 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: 10th GFM-PDML Anniversary
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:15 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Kenton Brede Christine, what is GFM? And what are you hoping to go to? Just curious. Thanks, Kent On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net wrote: Just wondering: ? who's going? ?Is there hope for a big do? ?Cheers, Christine GFM is Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. More specifically it's the Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography Weekend. http://www.grandfather.com/planning_your_visit/events/nphoto.php There is usually a fair contingent from the PDML in attendance. The number of photographers in attendance is limited by the number of seats in the auditorium at Grandfather Mountain - I think it's something like 160 people can attend. Registration opens at midnight April First, and it is usually fully subscribed by about 8:00am. I went in 2009 2010. I registered online at about 10 minutes after midnight and was around number 100 on the list both times. Just to add, if you do not want to participate in the seminars and contest, you can get the guest ticket(i think thats what they call it) and that gives you day access to the park, but your supposed to be out when the street lights come on.;-) Dave I hope to attend in 2011 as well. Hopefully I won't have to spend the weekend doing homework this time. -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi LOL! ... they have you in their grip, Bob. ;-) I only carry a backup body when I'm doing an assignment. Otherwise, I have a spare body at home, packed and ready to ship, in case what I'm using packs it in unexpectedly. Nothing's ever broken on me when I've been traveling. I'm carrying three cameras on my China trip, K20D with K10 as backup. The third camera is the LX I'm planning to use to shoot my last two rolls of Kodachrome. This time when I disappear off list, y'all will know it's nothing to worry about. 8-D It's almost here, and I'm getting pretty excited. Already wearing my passport in a little pouch that hangs around my neck so I won't take a chance on forgetting it when the big day arrives. -- 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: PPG Landmark: 200
Congratulations, Bong! Now, if they'll just keep lowering their standards, I should hit 200 right around, oh -- 2030, give or take. -- Walt On 12/8/2010 7:40 PM, Bong Manayon wrote: Just made 200 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bongmanayon/5180461525/ Interestingly, it was one of my K-r road test photos. For the morbidly curious, it took me 2 years (2007 to 2009; about the same time last year) to reach 100; then a year to reach 200. I sometimes wonder if I'm getting better or the standards are getting lower... Whatever. Bong -- 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: Digital ice - a question
I'm so far very impressed with digital ICE, it really works for me. The only caveat I know of is that it does not work with real BW film. ~Nick On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: So... sic transit 1640... Im geting the V500... it says it comes with Digital Ice... I think I remember a cautionary note about using it... from some one here (or from my stock agency) any rants or raves guys? Thank goodness the scanner only costs $112 -- and that some of you (along with others) bought my calendars...! T I A for any comments ann 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. -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.net/ -- 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: A Swallowtail in Respite
Thanks, John. That's the way I see it, too. On 12/9/2010 8:47 AM, John Sessoms wrote: My opinion - and that's all it is - is that the softened focus version is more pleasing to the eye. Makes it easier to focus on the butterfly itself. -- 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: The New Blog: Real Canadians Wearing Real Hats!
Great idea, Frank! On 12/8/2010 10:29 PM, frank theriault wrote: This should be fun: http://realcanadianhats.blogspot.com/ ;-) I'll be posting my Big Winter Hats on this space from now on. The title photo is new to the list, but oh so appropriate given the blog's title, no? Hope you enjoy! cheers, frank -- 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: Digital ice - a question
On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:35, Nick David Wright wrote: I'm so far very impressed with digital ICE, it really works for me. The only caveat I know of is that it does not work with real BW film. ..and you get very bizarre-looking results with Kodachrome as well. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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: Digital ice - a question
It will save you hours of spotting dust or scratches. Just don't try it with silver halide films. The ICE process will take an eternity and you'll end up with clumped garbage as a scan. If you are interested in BW, use the Kodak BW400 or Ilford XP2. If you want grain, you'll have to add it in PS. Jeffery On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: So... sic transit 1640... Im geting the V500... it says it comes with Digital Ice... I think I remember a cautionary note about using it... from some one here (or from my stock agency) any rants or raves guys? Thank goodness the scanner only costs $112 -- and that some of you (along with others) bought my calendars...! T I A for any comments ann 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. -- 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: Ned plugs Mark's book and PDML
Very nice. It's good to see Mark's work get some attention, not to mention the PDML. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote: http://nedbunnell.posterous.com/pentax-photo-book-for-the-holidays-0 Mark was wondering if they'd received the book he sent, and here's the answer. The book looks even better in person than it did online, unlike some of us. You're getting pretty good at book layout, Mark...and setting the bar very high for yourself for the upcoming PDML Annual. We expect nothing but 10% more than the best :-) —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
Some enthusiasts take considerable pleasure in the act of using the equipment. (no snide comments, please.) For them, the particular camera has to feel right in the hand or it gets left behind. This becomes a harder thing to judge in a mostly buy online field like photography has become. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:30 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Godfrey DiGiorgi LOL! ... they have you in their grip, Bob. ;-) I only carry a backup body when I'm doing an assignment. Otherwise, I have a spare body at home, packed and ready to ship, in case what I'm using packs it in unexpectedly. Nothing's ever broken on me when I've been traveling. I'm carrying three cameras on my China trip, K20D with K10 as backup. The third camera is the LX I'm planning to use to shoot my last two rolls of Kodachrome. This time when I disappear off list, y'all will know it's nothing to worry about. 8-D It's almost here, and I'm getting pretty excited. Already wearing my passport in a little pouch that hangs around my neck so I won't take a chance on forgetting it when the big day arrives. -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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 slogan
I like this one, Mark: It's not your father's Pentax. (But you should see if he still has those lenses) On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:27 AM, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: Pentax pancake primes because size does matter. 2010/12/9 Cory Waters cbwat...@bellsouth.net: Yeah, you can do that with a Pentax. It's not your father's Pentax. (But you should see if he still has those lenses) Right, but Pentax invented it. Pentax, the official lens of Cottycam's bastardizations. Nobody borrows your lenses when you own Pentax. Pentax DSLR, Stand out on the edge of the crowd CW On 12/5/2010 4:36 PM, Larry Colen (Droid Mail) wrote: Last night when someone saw my camera she comented: Pentax, the poor man's Nikon. What else could we do with this: Cannon, for the skilful photographer. Or how about Pentax 645D, Hasselblad on a budget. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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 slogan
PENTAX: One release away from perfection. On 12/5/2010 3:36 PM, Larry Colen (Droid Mail) wrote: Last night when someone saw my camera she comented: Pentax, the poor man's Nikon. What else could we do with this: Cannon, for the skilful photographer. Or how about Pentax 645D, Hasselblad on a budget. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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 - Hanukkah Lights
Quite nice indeed, Frank. Dan http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:41 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Last night was the last night of Hanukkah, so all the candles in the Menorah were lit. Looked pretty cool, I thought: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/hanukkah-lights.html Hope you enjoy. No comment really required (but you may if you wish). cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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: The New Blog: Real Canadians Wearing Real Hats!
Great series, Frank! Dan http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:29 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: This should be fun: http://realcanadianhats.blogspot.com/ ;-) I'll be posting my Big Winter Hats on this space from now on. The title photo is new to the list, but oh so appropriate given the blog's title, no? Hope you enjoy! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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: Digital ice - a question
Don't try using it with traditional BW film, ICE thinks the entire negative is dust... On 12/9/2010 10:08 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: So... sic transit 1640... Im geting the V500... it says it comes with Digital Ice... I think I remember a cautionary note about using it... from some one here (or from my stock agency) any rants or raves guys? Thank goodness the scanner only costs $112 -- and that some of you (along with others) bought my calendars...! T I A for any comments ann annsan.smugmug.com -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
Will you be able to the the Kodachrome in for processing before the deadline? http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/ On 12/9/2010 10:30 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Godfrey DiGiorgi LOL! ... they have you in their grip, Bob. ;-) I only carry a backup body when I'm doing an assignment. Otherwise, I have a spare body at home, packed and ready to ship, in case what I'm using packs it in unexpectedly. Nothing's ever broken on me when I've been traveling. I'm carrying three cameras on my China trip, K20D with K10 as backup. The third camera is the LX I'm planning to use to shoot my last two rolls of Kodachrome. This time when I disappear off list, y'all will know it's nothing to worry about. 8-D It's almost here, and I'm getting pretty excited. Already wearing my passport in a little pouch that hangs around my neck so I won't take a chance on forgetting it when the big day arrives. -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- 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: Two more PESOs from Boris
Boris, when I was going through some only travel images. I found the one where I tried to capture the varieties of color in the gelato case. Like you, I found too much dark around it. I also had some hardware for the door that block the left side. I wound up cropping severely, and this was the best I could do: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12063813 On the whole, I like your ice cream image better. Dan http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/11/peso-2010-55-ice-cream.html and http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2010/11/peso-2010-56-empty-street.html Be brutal and honest. Boris -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
Now being retired, I have also given some thought to the (film) cameras and gear that I have accumulated but don't use. So home processing appeared on the scene. Am I better off sticking with Tri-X or has anybody had any experience with Kentmere (sp) that is being pushed a bit by one of the local stores. Also seeing some reports about a new to me Kodak developer (Xtol)that is easy to use and environmentally friendly. Given a choice I think I'd buy the small packets of D-76. Also, I am on a septic system. I read on the web that developers and stop baths are fairly close to vinegar and also fairly dilute. So there is not any problems flushing them (literally.) But the fixer does contain silver and some other potentially nasty stuff. Flush it also? Or mix everything together and flush it. That is another suggestion I saw. As a really secondary question, as I was inventorying my gear, I came across a really old pack of microdol. Is there a shelf life for sealed package of chemicals? Is microdol still available? John Graves WA1JG jh.gra...@verizon.net Thibouille wrote: 2010/12/8 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Tri-X in D-76 is pretty forgiving, you can soup in a bathroom and pretty much time it with your pulse. Learned to do that in a Photojournalism course taught by a semi-retried Photo-Editor from the Providence Journal. Except for the fact that that the film used was 35mm rather than 4x5 it was a technique that wouldn't have been alien to Weegee. -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
Silver salts were used as an antibiotic, maybe still are. Large quantities would have a detrimental effect on your septic system, but you'd probably have to be processing in commercial quantities for it to be a serious problems. If you're really worried about the stop bath, Ilford's indicator stop bath is based on citric acid, (vitamin C). On 12/9/2010 12:13 PM, John Graves wrote: Now being retired, I have also given some thought to the (film) cameras and gear that I have accumulated but don't use. So home processing appeared on the scene. Am I better off sticking with Tri-X or has anybody had any experience with Kentmere (sp) that is being pushed a bit by one of the local stores. Also seeing some reports about a new to me Kodak developer (Xtol)that is easy to use and environmentally friendly. Given a choice I think I'd buy the small packets of D-76. Also, I am on a septic system. I read on the web that developers and stop baths are fairly close to vinegar and also fairly dilute. So there is not any problems flushing them (literally.) But the fixer does contain silver and some other potentially nasty stuff. Flush it also? Or mix everything together and flush it. That is another suggestion I saw. As a really secondary question, as I was inventorying my gear, I came across a really old pack of microdol. Is there a shelf life for sealed package of chemicals? Is microdol still available? John Graves WA1JG jh.gra...@verizon.net Thibouille wrote: 2010/12/8 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Tri-X in D-76 is pretty forgiving, you can soup in a bathroom and pretty much time it with your pulse. Learned to do that in a Photojournalism course taught by a semi-retried Photo-Editor from the Providence Journal. Except for the fact that that the film used was 35mm rather than 4x5 it was a technique that wouldn't have been alien to Weegee. -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
Well somehow that didn't make any sense, but you probably know what I mean. On 12/9/2010 11:51 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: Will you be able to the the Kodachrome in for processing before the deadline? http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/ On 12/9/2010 10:30 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Godfrey DiGiorgi LOL! ... they have you in their grip, Bob. ;-) I only carry a backup body when I'm doing an assignment. Otherwise, I have a spare body at home, packed and ready to ship, in case what I'm using packs it in unexpectedly. Nothing's ever broken on me when I've been traveling. I'm carrying three cameras on my China trip, K20D with K10 as backup. The third camera is the LX I'm planning to use to shoot my last two rolls of Kodachrome. This time when I disappear off list, y'all will know it's nothing to worry about. 8-D It's almost here, and I'm getting pretty excited. Already wearing my passport in a little pouch that hangs around my neck so I won't take a chance on forgetting it when the big day arrives. -- 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: DA 16-45 f/4 lens
David, I wille echo what others already said. The 16-45 is a very fine lens, better than reviews will make you believe it is. And yes, the 50-135 is a slow AF lens, but what a hell of an IQ :o Simply stellar ! 2010/12/4 David Mann d...@multisport.net.nz: I just noticed the camera shop's ad also has this lens on special (not the 16-50 f/2.8 unfortunately). What's the group's consensus on this one? It might be a bad assumption that PDML can agree on anything, but it's worth a try. Cheers, 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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: Reflecting Baltimore -- New Version
I played around some more with this image, and cropped and adjusted it a bit. I put the new version on my blog, right below the original. I would appreciate frank comments on which works best, and on the weaknesses of each. http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=20 Thanks in advance for your help. As always, Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are Welcome. Dan -- 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: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection...
2010/12/9 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Buy a second skunk.?? I'll take it you'll volunteer your school bus for the running over? 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
(white) Vinegar is OK if diluted (I think about 2%-3% acid once diluted). Some do not make proper stop bath but use water to rinse and straight to fixer. Why not after all if develop time isn't critical. Stop bath isn't needed (on a chemical point of view) anyway. Some others use old fixer. Dunno if this is a great idea but it seems to work OK. Xtol is used at school, dunno the advantages compared to other developers, but this mean they find it to be good enough. 2010/12/9 John Graves jh.gra...@verizon.net: Now being retired, I have also given some thought to the (film) cameras and gear that I have accumulated but don't use. So home processing appeared on the scene. Am I better off sticking with Tri-X or has anybody had any experience with Kentmere (sp) that is being pushed a bit by one of the local stores. Also seeing some reports about a new to me Kodak developer (Xtol)that is easy to use and environmentally friendly. Given a choice I think I'd buy the small packets of D-76. Also, I am on a septic system. I read on the web that developers and stop baths are fairly close to vinegar and also fairly dilute. So there is not any problems flushing them (literally.) But the fixer does contain silver and some other potentially nasty stuff. Flush it also? Or mix everything together and flush it. That is another suggestion I saw. As a really secondary question, as I was inventorying my gear, I came across a really old pack of microdol. Is there a shelf life for sealed package of chemicals? Is microdol still available? John Graves WA1JG jh.gra...@verizon.net Thibouille wrote: 2010/12/8 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Tri-X in D-76 is pretty forgiving, you can soup in a bathroom and pretty much time it with your pulse. Learned to do that in a Photojournalism course taught by a semi-retried Photo-Editor from the Providence Journal. Except for the fact that that the film used was 35mm rather than 4x5 it was a technique that wouldn't have been alien to Weegee. -- 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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 - Mamiya Cxxx TLRs and TLR in general
Understood, thanks. 2010/12/9 Jeffery Smith jsmith...@bellsouth.net: By the way, I always used the pistol side grip. Get one of those if you can. Otherwise, the camera is very awkward to hold and shoot. Jeffery On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Thibouille wrote: Thanks to all of you. Very helpful. I'm eager to receive the camera and process the films. Le mercredi 8 décembre 2010, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com a écrit : I had the C330 for a bit way back in the 1970s. There is a 'top of frame' indicator needle. As you focus closer, it drops to show where the top of the frame for a given focusing distance would be. So you focus and frame, then raise the camera vertically to put the top edge of the frame along the indicator line. The shift is only large when you're working in the very close range, for a normal to wide lens. With the tele lenses it becomes a bit more significant ... best to frame a little loose. Plenty of negative to work with so shoot loose and crop ... :-) Mamiya made a gizmo for the tripod that worked with the indicator too. The indicator had a scale of numbers, IIRC, and you could easily raise the camera with gizmo to the number once you achieved proper focus. For me, the C330 was always a tripod camera. Held with pistol grip and porroflex viewfinder, it was a large and heavy beast to tote around. For any hand-held work, I far preferred a Rolleiflex TLR (which had a more sophisticated parallax compensation built into the viewfinder system albeit for a fixed lens with a more limited close focusing range). On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@bellsouth.net wrote: As I recall, the C330 deals with parallax by having a needle enter the viewfinder field, cropping part of the field that would be cropped due to parallax. Not very sophisticated, but it worked. Jeffery On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:25 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: I had Mamiyaflex C2 and a C220. I always wanted the C330, which has some sort of parallax correction, so the upper lens shows you the frame for the lower lens. Shot with the TLR for many years and made quite a bit of money with it. I used just the 80mm lens for most of that time, but later added the 250mm. It takes a while to get used to seeing things reversed in the viewinder. That was especially difficult shooting pans of race cars, because they came through my viewfinder from the wrong end! But it was a great camera, and the lenses were excellent for the time. Paul On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Thibouille wrote: Got myself (not arrived yet) a Mamiya C330 TLR (with 80/2.8) for a couple reasons: * I want to do film * Medium format * 6x4,5 is bigger than 35mm but if going MF, just do it completely. 6x4,5 is somewhat small IMO * The challenge of using a TLR, waist level finder (although prism is available as well) * The challenge of square format, 6x6 * Interchangeable lenses on a TLR (quite rare) * Mechanical beast, easier to repair than electronic ones if it needs to. Now, I know Darren have one, he wrote so a couple weeks ago. Darren and others, what could you advise as for usage of such cameras? Like usage with or without tripod, what kind of subjects, 120 film handling etc. Thank you much. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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. -- 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- 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. -- Thibault
Re: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:13 PM, John Graves jh.gra...@verizon.net wrote: Also seeing some reports about a new to me Kodak developer (Xtol)that is easy to use and environmentally friendly. Xtol was my standard developer when I dabbled in the darkroom, in the early 2000s. I used it on a wide variety of film (APX 25 to Delta 3200+) with good results. I found it easy to work with. My darkroom was very warm, and I was able to use diluted solutions (1:2 or 1:3) to get long enough development times. In a cooler darkroom, you could use it straight or at 1:1. It's an ascorbic acid developer (Vitamin C) so, as you say, environmentally friendly. Almost good enough to drink. -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
I hate Microdol as it is a grain-dissolving developer that robs you of sharpness. XTOL is probably as good as D76 and won't hurt your septic system. They don't sell the XTOL in small packets anymore, so you have to make a bunch. I love Prescysol for just about everything. You mix it and discard it (highly diluted). You can get it from Photographer's Formulary. Get a few syringes for measuring the concentrate. I also love PMK-pyro, another highly diluted one-shot developer, but you have to be pickier with films for that developer. Jeffery On Dec 9, 2010, at 11:13 AM, John Graves wrote: Now being retired, I have also given some thought to the (film) cameras and gear that I have accumulated but don't use. So home processing appeared on the scene. Am I better off sticking with Tri-X or has anybody had any experience with Kentmere (sp) that is being pushed a bit by one of the local stores. Also seeing some reports about a new to me Kodak developer (Xtol)that is easy to use and environmentally friendly. Given a choice I think I'd buy the small packets of D-76. Also, I am on a septic system. I read on the web that developers and stop baths are fairly close to vinegar and also fairly dilute. So there is not any problems flushing them (literally.) But the fixer does contain silver and some other potentially nasty stuff. Flush it also? Or mix everything together and flush it. That is another suggestion I saw. As a really secondary question, as I was inventorying my gear, I came across a really old pack of microdol. Is there a shelf life for sealed package of chemicals? Is microdol still available? John Graves WA1JG jh.gra...@verizon.net Thibouille wrote: 2010/12/8 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Tri-X in D-76 is pretty forgiving, you can soup in a bathroom and pretty much time it with your pulse. Learned to do that in a Photojournalism course taught by a semi-retried Photo-Editor from the Providence Journal. Except for the fact that that the film used was 35mm rather than 4x5 it was a technique that wouldn't have been alien to Weegee. -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
jeffery, Xtol raises another question. I think I still have gallon brown plastic jugs in the garage that I had used for storage of developer etc. during a previous run at home processing. Assuming it has been more than 10 years since they were touched, can you, or anyone, suggest a cleaning method that would make them usable? John Graves WA1JG jh.gra...@verizon.net Jeffery Smith wrote: I hate Microdol as it is a grain-dissolving developer that robs you of sharpness. XTOL is probably as good as D76 and won't hurt your septic system. They don't sell the XTOL in small packets anymore, so you have to make a bunch. I love Prescysol for just about everything. You mix it and discard it (highly diluted). You can get it from Photographer's Formulary. Get a few syringes for measuring the concentrate. I also love PMK-pyro, another highly diluted one-shot developer, but you have to be pickier with films for that developer. Jeffery -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
I have always used amber glass because of the gradual hardening of plastic jugs over time. Clorox oxidizes just about everything. I don't know of another substance that would clean them up without affecting the plastic. If you invest in some 500ml amber glass bottles, you can get them squeaky clean, and can fill them up to the tippy top to eliminate the air. One caveat about XTOL...when it goes bad, it doesn't look bad (doesn't get brown). If you develop with it after it has started going bad, you will get extremely thin negatives. I tried using Patterson ascorbic acid developer (the one formulated by the late Geoffrey Crawley). By the time it got from England to the US, it was dead. Kodak's HC110 is a reliable one-shot dilution from concentrate. You wouldn't have to fool around with jugs. It has many of the characteristics of D76. And for every combination of everything, look at www.digitaltruth.com and click on the massive development chart. Jeffery On Dec 9, 2010, at 12:20 PM, John Graves wrote: jeffery, Xtol raises another question. I think I still have gallon brown plastic jugs in the garage that I had used for storage of developer etc. during a previous run at home processing. Assuming it has been more than 10 years since they were touched, can you, or anyone, suggest a cleaning method that would make them usable? John Graves WA1JG jh.gra...@verizon.net Jeffery Smith wrote: I hate Microdol as it is a grain-dissolving developer that robs you of sharpness. XTOL is probably as good as D76 and won't hurt your septic system. They don't sell the XTOL in small packets anymore, so you have to make a bunch. I love Prescysol for just about everything. You mix it and discard it (highly diluted). You can get it from Photographer's Formulary. Get a few syringes for measuring the concentrate. I also love PMK-pyro, another highly diluted one-shot developer, but you have to be pickier with films for that developer. Jeffery -- 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: Reflecting Baltimore -- New Version
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I like the looser crop in the top photo. Seems brighter and cleaner. And don't call me Frank.:-) Dave (Airplane I humour BTW) Dave On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: I played around some more with this image, and cropped and adjusted it a bit. I put the new version on my blog, right below the original. I would appreciate frank comments on which works best, and on the weaknesses of each. http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=20 Thanks in advance for your help. As always, Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are Welcome. Dan -- 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 -- 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: PESO: Reflecting Baltimore -- New Version
I like the looser crop in the top photo. Seems brighter and cleaner. And don't call me Frank.:-) Dave On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: I played around some more with this image, and cropped and adjusted it a bit. I put the new version on my blog, right below the original. I would appreciate frank comments on which works best, and on the weaknesses of each. http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=20 Thanks in advance for your help. As always, Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are Welcome. Dan -- 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: DA 16-45 f/4 lens
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: The only problem can be it only reaches 45mm, but that's hardly a surprise ;-) Dario But its a 57 on an AP-C sensor. (insert image of me ducking here.) Dave - Original Message - From: David Mann d...@multisport.net.nz To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:10 AM Subject: DA 16-45 f/4 lens I just noticed the camera shop's ad also has this lens on special (not the 16-50 f/2.8 unfortunately). What's the group's consensus on this one? It might be a bad assumption that PDML can agree on anything, but it's worth a try. Cheers, 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. - Nessun virus nel messaggio. Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com Versione: 10.0.1170 / Database dei virus: 426/3298 - Data di rilascio: 05/12/2010 -- 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: DA 16-45 f/4 lens
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: The only problem can be it only reaches 45mm, but that's hardly a surprise ;-) Dario But its a 57 on an AP-C sensor. (insert image of me ducking here.) Dave Rats, I mean a 67. Forgot to carry., Dave - Original Message - From: David Mann d...@multisport.net.nz To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:10 AM Subject: DA 16-45 f/4 lens I just noticed the camera shop's ad also has this lens on special (not the 16-50 f/2.8 unfortunately). What's the group's consensus on this one? It might be a bad assumption that PDML can agree on anything, but it's worth a try. Cheers, 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. - Nessun virus nel messaggio. Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com Versione: 10.0.1170 / Database dei virus: 426/3298 - Data di rilascio: 05/12/2010 -- 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 -- 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: DA 16-45 f/4 lens
On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: The only problem can be it only reaches 45mm, but that's hardly a surprise ;-) Dario But its a 57 on an AP-C sensor. (insert image of me ducking here.) Dave Rats, I mean a 67. Forgot to carry., Forgot to carry what? Dave - Original Message - From: David Mann d...@multisport.net.nz To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:10 AM Subject: DA 16-45 f/4 lens I just noticed the camera shop's ad also has this lens on special (not the 16-50 f/2.8 unfortunately). What's the group's consensus on this one? It might be a bad assumption that PDML can agree on anything, but it's worth a try. Cheers, 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. - Nessun virus nel messaggio. Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com Versione: 10.0.1170 / Database dei virus: 426/3298 - Data di rilascio: 05/12/2010 -- 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 -- 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. -- 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: BW film home made processing... now that is cheap (+smartphone helpful apps)
Another good page on HC-110: http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/hc110/ -- 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 slogan
On Dec 9, 2010, at 08:28 , Larry wrote wrote: Pentax, the poor man's Nikon. I prefer : Pentax, the sensible photographer's Nikon. Corollary : Nikon, for Photographers who missed finding Pentax. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com The Big Bang was silent, and invisible in it's beginning moments. And now it is posit'd that it happened after a previous event! — from the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far. -- 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: laptop recommendation
On Dec 8, 2010, at 19:47, John Sessoms wrote: Everyone keeps telling me how much better Mac is than windoze, but they can't figure out something as simple as how to store a not to do anything instruction on a hard drive, and Micro$soft can? If you read Mr. McAllister's post, he makes it clear that the reason Time Machine keeps fussing is that it is configured to run (ie, it is ENABLED) but has never been told what drive to back up to. So... you have a please back me up automatically setting in place but have never given it permission to write to anything! Each time it sees an eligible drive, it's like a little puppy: can I write here? how about now? this drive? Turn Time Machine off, already, and then live in blissful, un-backed-up, no-nag freedom. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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: laptop recommendation
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2010, at 19:47, John Sessoms wrote: Everyone keeps telling me how much better Mac is than windoze, but they can't figure out something as simple as how to store a not to do anything instruction on a hard drive, and Micro$soft can? If you read Mr. McAllister's post, he makes it clear that the reason Time Machine keeps fussing is that it is configured to run (ie, it is ENABLED) but has never been told what drive to back up to. If you read Mr. Sessom's post, he says The computer belongs to the school, and I'm not allowed to change any of the settings on the computer. So telling him to change settings on the computer is not likely to help. -- 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: Russian names required.
Sorry, but that name is not Russian. The book setting happens outside of Russia, and all characters are not Russians. Moreover, if you didn't know, - the book was written by Nabokov in English, and only than translated to Russian by the authors. The Wikipedia gives a reasonable description of the book history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita I like your translation! :-) Cheers, Igor Tue Dec 7 10:55:16 CST 2010 Jeffery Smith wrote: I'd go with Lolita. Not sure if it is Russian, but the book was written by a Russian. Translated to modern English, it means little laugh out loud. Jeffery -- 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: Russian names required.
That's the cat formerly known as khr-hr-hr :-) Wed Dec 8 10:19:40 CST 2010 Jeffery Smith wrote: My cat comes when the electric can opener calls her. Jeffery -- 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: Reflecting Baltimore -- New Version
Thanks, Frank, er . . . . . Dave! Dan On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I like the looser crop in the top photo. Seems brighter and cleaner. And don't call me Frank.:-) Dave On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: I played around some more with this image, and cropped and adjusted it a bit. I put the new version on my blog, right below the original. I would appreciate frank comments on which works best, and on the weaknesses of each. http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=20 Thanks in advance for your help. As always, Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are Welcome. Dan -- 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. -- 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: laptop recommendation
On Dec 9, 2010, at 14:55, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2010, at 19:47, John Sessoms wrote: Everyone keeps telling me how much better Mac is than windoze, but they can't figure out something as simple as how to store a not to do anything instruction on a hard drive, and Micro$soft can? If you read Mr. McAllister's post, he makes it clear that the reason Time Machine keeps fussing is that it is configured to run (ie, it is ENABLED) but has never been told what drive to back up to. If you read Mr. Sessom's post, he says The computer belongs to the school, and I'm not allowed to change any of the settings on the computer. So telling him to change settings on the computer is not likely to help. Sounds like he needs to talk to his IT department then. Or go all techno with writing that do not use me for Time Machine file onto each and every external drive he plans to use... Standard users on a Mac do not have the option to disable Time Machine. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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: laptop recommendation
I use both actually. I bought PC's as thats what we had at work and thats what i needed. I decided to get a laptop in 2005 and went through similar struggles as to what. I finally chose the iMac over a Toshiba laptop. I wanted it mainly for on the road downloads and storage. Once i got into it, i started to use the PC less and less. I like the fact i can start up the Mac and be on the net or working on a photo before the PC has closed the Intel splash screen I need to upgrade the main computer, the PC has just about had it, and have decided on the iMac. Dave On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kenton Brede kbr...@gmail.com wrote: I've decided to purchase a laptop for RAW image processing. I'm also a budding nature audio recordist, so I'll be doing audio post processing as well. So far I've only played with Bibble and Picassa a bit processing photos. My plan is to give Photoshop and Lightroom a try. I would like to purchase a mac since it's unix based, but I need a more compelling reason than that to justify spending the extra money. Those of you who've used image processing software on both platforms, what reasons made you settle on one OS over the other for working images? Thanks, Kent -- 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: DA 16-45 f/4 lens
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:39 PM, P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: The only problem can be it only reaches 45mm, but that's hardly a surprise ;-) Dario But its a 57 on an AP-C sensor. (insert image of me ducking here.) Dave Rats, I mean a 67. Forgot to carry., Forgot to carry what? The 1 Dave Dave - Original Message - From: David Mann d...@multisport.net.nz To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:10 AM Subject: DA 16-45 f/4 lens I just noticed the camera shop's ad also has this lens on special (not the 16-50 f/2.8 unfortunately). What's the group's consensus on this one? It might be a bad assumption that PDML can agree on anything, but it's worth a try. Cheers, 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. - Nessun virus nel messaggio. Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com Versione: 10.0.1170 / Database dei virus: 426/3298 - Data di rilascio: 05/12/2010 -- 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 -- 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. -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
Well somehow that didn't make any sense, but you probably know what I mean. Welcome to the PDML. -- 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: 'Cracked Up'
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12068350 Taken this spring in the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Momument, Utah. K20D, 70-210mm SMC F, Gitzo 3530LS, Bogen 375 mini gear head. Comments welcomed Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
Well somehow that didn't make any sense, but you probably know what I mean MARK ! Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Bob W p...@web-options.com Subject: RE: My thoughts on buying cameras Well somehow that didn't make any sense, but you probably know what I mean. Welcome to the PDML. -- 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: laptop recommendation
From: Matthew Montgomery On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:46 AM, John Sessoms wrote: OTOH, Time Machine ... not having any way to turn it off so it won't bug me Do you want to use 'LaCie' to back up your hard drive? every time I plug it into the school's computer. If the school wants the computer backed up let 'em buy their own damn drives. All I want to do is save my school work. If the program was worth a damn, you could tell it NO one time and tell it not to ever ask you about it again. Windoze can do that, why can't Mac? Try this. Create a file called '.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent' at the root of your portable drive. You might find it easier to do this with the Terminal using the following command. touch /Volumes/The Name of Your Drive/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent I am pretty sure I have see the option to never use a drive in the Time Machine UI but perhaps something is amiss for you. Thanks. I'll stop by the computer lab at school tomorrow and give that a try. When I get to Terminal, do I type in: /Volumes/jsessoms_mac_drive/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent (jsessoms_mac_drive is the name I gave my drive) or do I need to type in: touch /Volumes/jsessoms_mac_drive/.com.apple.timemachine.do not present The school has the Time Machine UI locked down where I cannot get to it. That's what's amiss. There are a couple of reasons I need the configuration stored on my drive rather on the schools machines. They've got a program named Deep Freeze that dumps any changes made to the system while a student is logged on. Even if I could get into Time Machine and configure it, any changes I made would be wiped out when I log off. Plus, I can't be sure I'll always be on the same computer, so I'd have to load that configuration on 75 different computers in three different labs. -- 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 slogan
Pentax: The official camera of Chicken Little. -Original Message- From: Walter Gilbert Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:00 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax slogan PENTAX: One release away from perfection. On 12/5/2010 3:36 PM, Larry Colen (Droid Mail) wrote: Last night when someone saw my camera she comented: Pentax, the poor man's Nikon. What else could we do with this: Cannon, for the skilful photographer. Or how about Pentax 645D, Hasselblad on a budget. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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: 'Cracked Up'
Nice texture and geometry. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:07 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12068350 Taken this spring in the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Momument, Utah. K20D, 70-210mm SMC F, Gitzo 3530LS, Bogen 375 mini gear head. Comments welcomed Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
Except that the Second Law of Thermodynamics being what it is ... the universe trends toward maximum perversity. You've just guaranteed yourself that if you ever do need your back-up gear shipped, UPS-FedEx-USPS-DHL is going to misdirect it to an auto-parts jobber somewhere in New Jersey where it will languish until you can no longer accomplish the job you needed it for. 8-D From: Godfrey DiGiorgi And if it does, the gear packed and ready to ship will be there in a day. No biggie. G On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 December 2010 19:37, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote: LOL! ... they have you in their grip, Bob. ;-) I only carry a backup body when I'm doing an assignment. Otherwise, I have a spare body at home, packed and ready to ship, in case what I'm using packs it in unexpectedly. Nothing's ever broken on me when I've been traveling. You know what's going to happen on your next trip... -- 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: Russian names required.
2010/12/9 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: That's the cat formerly known as khr-hr-hr so that is where Pentax got the name... over to the slogan thread... 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 - Hanukkah Lights
From: frank theriault Last night was the last night of Hanukkah, so all the candles in the Menorah were lit. Looked pretty cool, I thought: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/hanukkah-lights.html Hope you enjoy. No comment really required (but you may if you wish). cheers, frank It is purty! -- 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: Help needed for MacBook Pro-Dell Monitor connection...
From: David J Brooks On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: Given a choice between a skunk run over by an 18-wheeler on a hot summer day and Dell customer service, I'll take the skunk. Can anyone provide some advice? Mark! Buy a second skunk.?? Dave 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: OT: Digital ice - a question
From: Ann Sanfedele So... sic transit 1640... Im geting the V500... it says it comes with Digital Ice... I think I remember a cautionary note about using it... from some one here (or from my stock agency) any rants or raves guys? Thank goodness the scanner only costs $112 -- and that some of you (along with others) bought my calendars...! T I A for any comments Digital ICE doesn't work with BW, and has problems with Kodachrome. I think it's because Kodachrome is basically a BW film with color added during processing. One explanation I've heard is that Kodachrome has a lot of residual silver grain after processing and Digital ICE thinks it's dust on the emulsion. -- 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: laptop recommendation
On 2010-12-08 18:47 , John Sessoms wrote: The computer belongs to the school, and I'm not allowed to change any of the settings on the computer. if the people who administer the computers at school were any good, they'd be turning this off automatically on every Mac they administer; it doesn't make any sense for Time Machine to even be turned on if, as you suggest, these are machines that are re-imaged every night; Macs are made to work well for individuals out of the box, but there are some changes that large installations that have good IT staff will make to better suit a situation like your school's -- 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: laptop recommendation
On Dec 9, 2010, at 6:16 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Matthew Montgomery On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:46 AM, John Sessoms wrote: OTOH, Time Machine ... not having any way to turn it off so it won't bug me Do you want to use 'LaCie' to back up your hard drive? every time I plug it into the school's computer. If the school wants the computer backed up let 'em buy their own damn drives. All I want to do is save my school work. If the program was worth a damn, you could tell it NO one time and tell it not to ever ask you about it again. Windoze can do that, why can't Mac? Try this. Create a file called '.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent' at the root of your portable drive. You might find it easier to do this with the Terminal using the following command. touch /Volumes/The Name of Your Drive/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent I am pretty sure I have see the option to never use a drive in the Time Machine UI but perhaps something is amiss for you. Thanks. I'll stop by the computer lab at school tomorrow and give that a try. When I get to Terminal, do I type in: /Volumes/jsessoms_mac_drive/.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent (jsessoms_mac_drive is the name I gave my drive) or do I need to type in: touch /Volumes/jsessoms_mac_drive/.com.apple.timemachine.do not present The school has the Time Machine UI locked down where I cannot get to it. That's what's amiss. There are a couple of reasons I need the configuration stored on my drive rather on the schools machines. They've got a program named Deep Freeze that dumps any changes made to the system while a student is logged on. Even if I could get into Time Machine and configure it, any changes I made would be wiped out when I log off. Plus, I can't be sure I'll always be on the same computer, so I'd have to load that configuration on 75 different computers in three different labs. On the other hand, you could just click no when time machine asks if you want to use the drive as a backup. -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
From: P. J. Alling Will you be able to the the Kodachrome in for processing before the deadline? I hope so. The deadline to have it at Dwayne's Photo is Dec 30. We'll be arriving back in the U.S. at Newark Airport on Dec 22. According to the information on the airport's web site there is a Post Office Business Service Center in each of the terminals. If I hit the ground running, USPS Express Mail should get it to Dwayne's on time. I've already printed out the order forms for Dwayne's, and I have it on my To Do list to stop by the Post Office tomorrow for other business. I'll see if I can pre-pay the Express Mail and have the stamped envelope with me when I arrive at Newark on the return trip. I'll also check and see if they have any information on actual USPS service points at Newark Airport. They say No plan survives contact with the enemy, but that's the one I got right now. If worst comes to worst, I should be able to Express Mail (or FedEx) it from Raleigh on Dec 23. I'm also carrying a couple backup rolls of E6 just in case. -- 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: laptop recommendation
From: Charles Robinson On Dec 9, 2010, at 14:55, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2010, at 19:47, John Sessoms wrote: Everyone keeps telling me how much better Mac is than windoze, but they can't figure out something as simple as how to store a not to do anything instruction on a hard drive, and Micro$soft can? If you read Mr. McAllister's post, he makes it clear that the reason Time Machine keeps fussing is that it is configured to run (ie, it is ENABLED) but has never been told what drive to back up to. If you read Mr. Sessom's post, he says The computer belongs to the school, and I'm not allowed to change any of the settings on the computer. So telling him to change settings on the computer is not likely to help. Sounds like he needs to talk to his IT department then. Or go all techno with writing that do not use me for Time Machine file onto each and every external drive he plans to use... Standard users on a Mac do not have the option to disable Time Machine. Already talked to the IT department months ago. He happened to be in the lab one day while I was working on an assignment, and he was absolutely no help. So what I'm going to do is see if the suggested do not use me for Time Machine file will work. I only have the one drive right now, but if the file does work, and I ever need another Mac formatted hard drive, I'll do it for that one too. I don't really want to disable Time Machine, I just want it to leave me alone. I'm perfectly happy for the school to use Time Machine for backup if they want to, but they don't need to be using my hard drive to do it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
First photo at PPG
Still can't submit to the PUG for the rejected theme. One accepted and nine still waiting review. http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTISTsubSection=11214861subSubSection=1141language=EN From the trip with Walter to Steel Creek. Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- 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: PPG Landmark: 200
Congratulations Bong. I would hate to think that the standards are getting lower, My first accepted submission to the PPG today. Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- 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: My thoughts on buying cameras
Godfrey, Diane wants to know where you are going in China. She has made 2 trips there and wants to go back. She said she cried when she had to leave Tibet. Enjoy your trip. Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- 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: First photo at PPG
Beautiful shot, Ted! Congratulations! Was that at Steel Creek? -- Walt On 12/9/2010 7:06 PM, Theodore Beilby wrote: Still can't submit to the PUG for the rejected theme. One accepted and nine still waiting review. http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTISTsubSection=11214861subSubSection=1141language=EN From the trip with Walter to Steel Creek. Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- 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: lots of stuff
http://shop.ebay.com/dpconsult.com/m.html I'm changing my lens selection over time. Some others I have will also be available shortly, eg, A35/2. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- 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: First photo at PPG
That is a fine image/ Congratulations. Dan http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Theodore Beilby tbei...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Still can't submit to the PUG for the rejected theme. One accepted and nine still waiting review. http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/home#section=ARTISTsubSection=11214861subSubSection=1141language=EN From the trip with Walter to Steel Creek. Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- 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: Digital ice - a question
On Dec 9, 2010, at 11:45 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: Don't try using it with traditional BW film, ICE thinks the entire negative is dust... That would be a good description of many of my negatives. stan -- 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.
