RE: I have a secret...
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Jeffery Smith It's called Heinz-57 Brown Sauce. I don't use condiments named Brown Sauce. we have red sauce and white sauce too. You can't say we're not a nation of gourmets. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 art nudes, nsfw
On 31/05/2012 2:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote: BW is your friend. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: I have a secret...
On 31/05/2012 7:38 PM, Tanya Love wrote: ...but you didn't hear it from me. Let me say two things only: 1. September 2. FF I get Front Focus now.. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: I have a secret...
You know I just hope this FF surprise has an aperture simulator, because there will sure as heck be a shortage of Modern FF lenses in September. On 5/31/2012 9:38 PM, Tanya Love wrote: ...but you didn't hear it from me. Let me say two things only: 1. September 2. FF I can hardly contain myself!! tan. :-) Sent from my iPhone -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 art nudes, nsfw
Perhaps you should also consider some detail studies (body parts with an abstract sense). Congratulations on you both, by the way. Bulent - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun 2012/6/1 William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com: On 31/05/2012 2:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote: BW is your friend. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I have a secret...
On Jun 1, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Bob W wrote: From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Jeffery Smith It's called Heinz-57 Brown Sauce. I don't use condiments named Brown Sauce. we have red sauce and white sauce too. You can't say we're not a nation of gourmets. Has anyone made a blue sauce? It'd go well for the jubilee... I remember being in the UK for the golden jubilee. Hard to believe it's been 10 years already. On Sunday we were cleaning out the garage and came across all my old stuff from that trip. I have a map of Oxford that's been scrawled on by The Cotty Himself. Bidding starts at... 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 on Lr 4 being unusably slow
I did a bit of research on how to get it to boot in 64 bit mode and found this link, but haven't tried it yet: http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html On May 31, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Charles, How much RAM do you have? and which version of the OS? LR4 is a 64bit implementation. It runs best on Lion, and runs best on Snow Leopard when you have Snow Leopard set to boot up with the 64-bit kernel (it's set to the 32bit kernel by default). 4G is enough RAM as long as most other stuff isn't running. I have tested it on a MacBook Air running Lion, but not with an 80,000 image catalog yet. As reality check, I timed startup of LR4.1 on my MacBook Pro 13 system (1 year old, 2.4 Core Duo 2, 8G RAM, Lion, data on the external firewire 800 drive, catalog on the internal). From double click to ready to edit a new directory of raw files was 92 seconds. The MBA did the same startup with a 5000 image catalog and external drive in about 30 seconds. More important, it runs smoothly on both systems after startup. Your system is an older generation than my MacBook Pro 13, 2.5-3 minutes for startup is likely fine. Time to throw money at the problem... I'm planning to upgrade on the next round of MacBook Pro systems too. G On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On May 30, 2012, at 21:14, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Once Lr completes this operation, you have a fresh catalog and a freshly generated set of previews which are all well-formed. This will net the best possible performance, presuming the rest of the system is up to snuff. Sadly, something else is out of whack, because the new catalog takes just as long (2.5-3 minutes) to load as the original one. I've got about 100 gig free on a 7200rpm drive in my 3.5-year-old Macbook with 4GB of RAM. Sometime this year, the next step is going to be throw hardware at the problem but not yet, unfortunately. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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. -- 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.
Friday unusual WTB request
The mightily wise and infinitely literate English speakers of PDML :-). My daughter is in need of The Essential English (for foreign students) book by C.E. Eckersley. If you have such a book and you don't really use/need it, I would gladly buy/borrow if from you. In fact, I prefer to buy as she will likely need this book for several years to come. My understanding that it is 4 volumes and I would need all of them, naturally. Thanks in advance. 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: I have a secret...
On 1/6/12, Tanya Love, discombobulated, unleashed: Let me say two things only: 1. September 2. FF Insomnia cure while my hat seasons :) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: I have a secret...
On Jun 1, 2012, at 2:25 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: You know I just hope this FF surprise has an aperture simulator, because there will sure as heck be a shortage of Modern FF lenses in September. Not to worry, I suspect there will be a shortage of FF cameras as well. If you recall, Mark passed along a similar rumor from an unimpeachable source five years or so ago. Those unimpeachable Pentax sources are frequently confused. Paul On 5/31/2012 9:38 PM, Tanya Love wrote: ...but you didn't hear it from me. Let me say two things only: 1. September 2. FF I can hardly contain myself!! tan. :-) Sent from my iPhone -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I have a secret...
On 1/6/12, Tanya Love, discombobulated, unleashed: Lol! Well maybe Cotty will have to get his tools out and start making some mutant Canon lenses so he can switch back to Pentax in September! I only get my tools out for Larry. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Friday unusual WTB request
On 2012-06-01 5:43, Boris Liberman wrote: My daughter is in need of The Essential English (for foreign students) book by C.E. Eckersley. If you have such a book and you don't really use/need it, I would gladly buy/borrow if from you. In fact, I prefer to buy as she will likely need this book for several years to come. My understanding that it is 4 volumes and I would need all of them, naturally. I just took a look at Barnes Noble. I couldn't find an exact match for that title and author. It appears that the closest match I could find is out of print, at least in the US. All I could find was a reference to used copies ranging in price from US$7 to almost US$ 280. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/essential-english-eckersley/1003695185?ean=9780582520189 -- Doug Lefty Franklin NutDriver Racing http://NutDriver.org Facebook NutDriver Racing Sponsored by Murphy -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: How to photograph the transit of Venus?
You can always watch the transit here: June 5: Venus Crosses the Sun On next Tuesday, June 5, from noon to almost 7 pm HST, Venus will cross the Sun for the last transit until the year 2117. It's the final time anyone alive today will have a chance to see this rare astronomical event and the Island of Hawai'i is one of the best places on Earth to view it. Keck Observatory is hosting a complete live webcast of the event from the Keck I Telescope control room on the summit of Mauna Kea. Watch the webcast at http://keckobservatory.org/news/venus_transit_live_keck_observatory. Meanwhile, we'll also be setting up solar telescopes and showing the webcast on a large screen at our headquarters in the more temperate and accessible Waimea-Kamuela. So wherever you are, you can be part of the historic Transit of Venus. This and other locations islandwide for safely viewing the transit can be found at the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station website. Two Big Astrophysics Prizes Announced Two major astronomy prizes were announced this week going to scientists affiliated with Keck Observatory for their discoveries of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune – in what’s called the Kuiper Belt. UCLA’s David Jewitt and Jane Luu of MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories, have been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize. The same scientists, along with Caltech’s Mike Brown, were also awarded the Kavli Prize for Astrophysics for that same work on the nature of our solar system. Mike Brown and David Jewitt have given outstanding talks for the Keck Observatory in recent years. Their presentations are archived on our website. MARK YOUR CALENDAR: 7:00 pm, June 7, 2012 Keck Astronomy Talk: Transits of Venus from Earth, Jupiter Saturn: Past, Present Future. By Dr. Jay Pasachoff, Williams College Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2012 14:32, John Celio neo.venator.com+p...@gmail.com wrote: I want to try photographing the transit of Venus across the sun on June 5th, but I've never tried shooting the sun before. Any of you guys have tips you can share? Is there a special filter I should use, or would a polarizer or ND filter be sufficient? I'm planning on using my K 500mm f4.5, so I'll probably need to special order a large enough filter, and I'll need to do that soon. Thanks, John P.S.: Hey Aussie PDMLers, I loved your country! Just got home last Friday. I hope I get to go back to Australia soon, especially to see the outback and more of Tasmania. John, ND filters aren't enough (unless you stack a bunch of them). I've bought a solar filter from these guys for my own plan to photograph the transit: http://stores.ebay.com/Seymour-Solar-Filters It was listed as Solar - Sun Filter Sheets 9X12 for Telescopes, Finder and cost me $17. It lets through 0.001% of the light reaching it. I received it earlier this week but haven't had time to fashion a filter from the sheet. I plan to make a filter for my Tokina 400m f/5.6 and another for my Sigma CAT 600mm f/8. Filters for Solar observing/photography MUST ALWAYS BE ON THE FRONT-MOST ELEMENT. The situation is so dangerous that for larger reflecting telescopes (wider than 8) the filter is actually just a hole in the telescope lid (with solar filter material covering the hole, of course) because otherwise the concentrated and focused rays of the Sun (even heavily filtered) could damage the secondary mirror. In a standard lens, placing the filter in the rear filter tray would probably damage said filter after a few minutes of observing the Sun. Now for fun stuff: How long does your lens have to be? If using an APS-C camera, I'd recommend 1000mm. The Sun's angular diameter is ~31.5 arcmin (arc minutes) and it moves across the sky at a rate of ~15 arcmin/min. A 1000mm lens will give you a 1.3 degree (78 arcmin) horizontal FoV, so enough to fit ~2.5 Suns. If you orientate your camera such that the Sun moves horizontally across your frame, you should have the entire solar disc in your frame for ~3 mins (assuming you're not using a motorised mount). If you're using a motorised mount, then use a 1600mm lens and have the Sun practically fill your frame (vertically). As you're using a 500mm lens, I would suggest adding at least a 1.4x teleconverter, or ideally a good 2x TC. Venus is going to be ~58 arcsec in diameter, so some 32.5 times smaller than the Sun. Using a 1000mm lens on a K-5 you get 1.05 pixels/arcsec, so the size of Venus on your photograph will be ~60 pixels. I recommend this site for practically all information regarding the transit, including your local times of visibility: http://www.transitofvenus.org If you have an observatory or astronomy club near by, check to see if they're organising an event for the occasion. If they are I'd recommend going to take a look through a powerful telescope, even if you take your gear along and
Re: Friday unusual WTB request
Boris I can't help directly but Abe Books (UK) lists Books 1, 2 and 3 at a reasonable price. I've used Abe Books and have found them reliable. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/essential-english-for-foreign-students/author/c-e-eckersley/sortby/3/ Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ Quoting Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: The mightily wise and infinitely literate English speakers of PDML :-). My daughter is in need of The Essential English (for foreign students) book by C.E. Eckersley. If you have such a book and you don't really use/need it, I would gladly buy/borrow if from you. In fact, I prefer to buy as she will likely need this book for several years to come. My understanding that it is 4 volumes and I would need all of them, naturally. Thanks in advance. 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: PESO: Bug on a milkweed flower
Quoting Collin Brendemuehl coll...@brendemuehl.net: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55001392@N08/7309647348/in/photostream/lightbox/ Very nice. Is the flower some sort of Hoya? -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Happy Time
Quoting knarftheria...@gmail.com: One of my favourite restaurant names and signage. The light was quite harsh that day so I opted for a high-key look: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/05/happy-time.html?m=0 Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. I really like the way you've processed this. It really suits the subject. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I have a secret...
On another note, wasn't Pentax supposed announce something on June 1st? Well, it's June 1st. Anybody know what they announced? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 on Lr 4 being unusably slow
On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:41, Larry Colen wrote: I did a bit of research on how to get it to boot in 64 bit mode and found this link, but haven't tried it yet: http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html My Macbook3,1 WILL NOT boot in 64-bit mode no matter what I try. It seems I'm not alone. (I did succeed in getting it to lock up once, though. With a McAfee-encrypted drive, that meant driving 20 miles to the other office to grab the rescue boot USB stick and get things sorted again. Yikes). I'm going to let it be for now and, as Godfrey stated, throw money at the problem later. -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: I have a secret...
If the camera actually is produced, I think there should be a major gathering of Pentaxians at GFM in 2013 where Cotty can be served his banquet in grand style. From: Tanya Love Well, Cotty is kind of a legend around these parts! (don't tell him I said that tho, we want his hat to actually be able to fit on that head of his!)... Sent from my iPhone On 01/06/2012, at 12:13 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Too funny. We've got a serious FF rumor, and everyone is talking about Cotty eating his hat :-) Cheers, Christine On May 31, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: A certain Brit once declared he would eat his hat if the letters FF were ever associated with Pentax. And since I watch TopGear, I know that HP sauce is some kind of British equivalent to ketchup. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Tanya Love tanyal...@bigpond.com wrote: I have no idea what that means Steven! Lol! Sent from my iPhone On 01/06/2012, at 11:41 AM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: Who would we tell? I wonder if HP sauce goes well on hats. . . . On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Tanya Love tanyal...@bigpond.com wrote: ...but you didn't hear it from me. Let me say two things only: 1. September 2. FF I can hardly contain myself!! tan. :-) Sent from my iPhone -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I have a secret...
On 1 June 2012 20:37, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: On Jun 1, 2012, at 2:25 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: You know I just hope this FF surprise has an aperture simulator, because there will sure as heck be a shortage of Modern FF lenses in September. Not to worry, I suspect there will be a shortage of FF cameras as well. If you recall, Mark passed along a similar rumor from an unimpeachable source five years or so ago. Those unimpeachable Pentax sources are frequently confused. Paul No it's probably right as I just bought my second k5 body. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - PAD - Duck - Print-a-Day-6
This is number six in the series Print a Day for 30 Days This duck is a visitor to a small pond in a park near my home. http://georges.posterous.com/duck-print-a-day-6 The reflections on the pond surface made this one of the more challenging prints so far. Printers generally have difficulty with some of the hues in the blue-green area. There is a lot of subtle detail in the pond surface that relies on these specific colors. It's the first print that had very significant differences in the settings between the screen and print versions. In the end, the print version looks fine, but my skills haven't quite developed to the point where I can achieve the depth that is seen on the screen. I've flagged this image for more work in the future. gs George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.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: I have a secret...
But isn't that something you'd really want to see. Sadly looking at my lens lineup, I really don't care if they introduce a FF camera unless they are going to fully support their Legacy glass including full aperture metering with M and K series lenses. Since that appears to be unlikely I just need to see a few wider angle lenses a couple of high end long lenses, and a K5 replacement, and I'll be happy. On 5/31/2012 10:13 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: Too funny. We've got a serious FF rumor, and everyone is talking about Cotty eating his hat :-) Cheers, Christine On May 31, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Steven Desjardinsdrd1...@gmail.com wrote: A certain Brit once declared he would eat his hat if the letters FF were ever associated with Pentax. And since I watch TopGear, I know that HP sauce is some kind of British equivalent to ketchup. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Tanya Lovetanyal...@bigpond.com wrote: I have no idea what that means Steven! Lol! Sent from my iPhone On 01/06/2012, at 11:41 AM, Steven Desjardinsdrd1...@gmail.com wrote: Who would we tell? I wonder if HP sauce goes well on hats. . . . On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Tanya Lovetanyal...@bigpond.com wrote: ...but you didn't hear it from me. Let me say two things only: 1. September 2. FF I can hardly contain myself!! tan. :-) Sent from my iPhone -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - PAD - Duck - Print-a-Day-6
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:28 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: This is number six in the series Print a Day for 30 Days This duck is a visitor to a small pond in a park near my home. http://georges.posterous.com/duck-print-a-day-6 The reflections on the pond surface made this one of the more challenging prints so far. Printers generally have difficulty with some of the hues in the blue-green area. There is a lot of subtle detail in the pond surface that relies on these specific colors. It's the first print that had very significant differences in the settings between the screen and print versions. In the end, the print version looks fine, but my skills haven't quite developed to the point where I can achieve the depth that is seen on the screen. I've flagged this image for more work in the future. Did you have to purchase a new, what would it be ... cyan ink cartridge, after printing this one? :) What printer are you using George? -- Kent Brede http://kentonbrede.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - PAD - Duck - Print-a-Day-6
If he's only doing a 5x7... On 6/1/2012 10:37 AM, Kenton Brede wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:28 AM, George Sinosgsi...@gmail.com wrote: This is number six in the series Print a Day for 30 Days This duck is a visitor to a small pond in a park near my home. http://georges.posterous.com/duck-print-a-day-6 The reflections on the pond surface made this one of the more challenging prints so far. Printers generally have difficulty with some of the hues in the blue-green area. There is a lot of subtle detail in the pond surface that relies on these specific colors. It's the first print that had very significant differences in the settings between the screen and print versions. In the end, the print version looks fine, but my skills haven't quite developed to the point where I can achieve the depth that is seen on the screen. I've flagged this image for more work in the future. Did you have to purchase a new, what would it be ... cyan ink cartridge, after printing this one? :) What printer are you using George? -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: defringe
On 31 May 2012 19:05, Toine to...@repiuk.nl wrote: LR 4.1 is out. The defringe tool is new. A quick test: http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/blog-mainmenu-97/221-defringe I'm impressed. It does look impressive. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: defringe
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:43:57 +1000 Rob Studdert wrote: LR 4.1 is out. The defringe tool is new. A quick test: http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/blog-mainmenu-97/221-defringe I'm impressed. It does look impressive. I just tested it this morning on a selection of 'difficult' images all f2.8 or lower. Results are amazing! Out of about 15 I tried, discarded before as unrecoverable, 12 are quite good now! These were mostly tree branches and foliage against a bright sky, but also some portraits with very bright backgrounds. Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Pentax Rumor Started in Spain for June 1 Announcement Reveled
It's a cash back promotion. You may now return to your usual activities. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Thai Poutine
No, I’m not kidding; check it out at http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/05/31/-big/IMG_0067.jpg.html Context: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/05/31/Thai-Poutine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Thai Poutine
I like, well sort of, like is really to strong a word here, the response, We're all Bob. I kind of think that eating at a restaurant who's major decoration is paintings of a spoon and a fork is about like eating at a place called eats. The food could be really good, but I wouldn't bet on it. As food shots go your's looks good. On 6/1/2012 11:42 AM, Tim Bray wrote: No, I’m not kidding; check it out at http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/05/31/-big/IMG_0067.jpg.html Context: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/05/31/Thai-Poutine -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Some thoughts about a Sept announcement of a FF DSLR from Pentax
Not a lot of thoughts really. However if Pentax was really going to announce a FF K mount camera wouldn't the latest lens, the DA 50 f1.8 which is pretty much one of their 50mm designs going back to oh, I don't know the middle of the 20th century, and probably covers 24x36mm frames admirably, be designated a DFA lens? True it doesn't have an aperture ring, but it wouldn't be the first DFA lens to be released without one. In the event of a FF camera probably wiith a list price between $2500 and $3500 it wouldn't cannibalize many sales of the FA 50 f1.4 lens with that camera as the lens cost difference would be a fraction of the total package price. So either a.) Pentax marketing has their collective heads where the sun don't shine, or b.) there really isn't a FF camera that close in the pipeline. I'll not take any bets either way, since this is not necessarily an either or proposition. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Some thoughts about a Sept announcement of a FF DSLR from Pentax
So far, all D-FA lenses have an aperture ring, while it seems some DA lenses cover 24x36 format (how well, I don't know). So I have the feeling that now DA just means 'without an aperture ring' and D-FA means 'with an aperture ring', irrespectively of the lens coverage. Dario -Messaggio originale- From: P. J. Alling Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 6:03 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Some thoughts about a Sept announcement of a FF DSLR from Pentax Not a lot of thoughts really. However if Pentax was really going to announce a FF K mount camera wouldn't the latest lens, the DA 50 f1.8 which is pretty much one of their 50mm designs going back to oh, I don't know the middle of the 20th century, and probably covers 24x36mm frames admirably, be designated a DFA lens? True it doesn't have an aperture ring, but it wouldn't be the first DFA lens to be released without one. In the event of a FF camera probably wiith a list price between $2500 and $3500 it wouldn't cannibalize many sales of the FA 50 f1.4 lens with that camera as the lens cost difference would be a fraction of the total package price. So either a.) Pentax marketing has their collective heads where the sun don't shine, or b.) there really isn't a FF camera that close in the pipeline. I'll not take any bets either way, since this is not necessarily an either or proposition. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: 2012.0.1913 / Database dei virus: 2425/5038 - Data di rilascio: 01/06/2012 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: June PUG: Time's a-wasting
Finally got my submission in. That *was* actually a bit of fun, as is my submission. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: G'day all Just because I'm enjoying myself travelling around coastal New South Wales doesn't mean I haven't been watching the list and noticing the lack of submissions for the June PUG. Four so far. So, just as a memory jogger, for June we have something a bit unusual. The theme is 'Songlines'. Pick any song title (or title of any piece of music) and submit a photo that illustrates that title. The photo doesn't need to fit the theme or mood expressed in the actual music, just its title. When you go to the submission form, you'll see two additional fields: * Music: Artist or Composer Name * Music: Web URL, if available The first is mandatory but the Web URL is optional. However, if you know where the piece of music can be heard online (eg. YouTube or MySpace), include the URL so we can all have a listen and maybe educate ourselves to some new music. This should be fun! Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Submission Guidelines here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html The main requirements are: * Max. pixel dimensions: 800 x 800 pixels * Max file size: 300k * Third party equipment is acceptable provided either the camera body or lens used is Pentax. * If you embed a colour space in the image, it should be sRGB to ensure that the image is displayed correctly on line. * Nominal closing date for submissions: 31 May. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Eden, New South Wales, Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Some thoughts about a Sept announcement of a FF DSLR from Pentax
Can you imagine the flapping that would have ensued, had they called the new 50 a DFA lens...? The FF contingent would have exhausted themselves long ago in all the excitement. Rumor has it that the DA 60-250 also covers FF nicely, after all :) -c (hopeful, but not holding my breath...) On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:03 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Not a lot of thoughts really. However if Pentax was really going to announce a FF K mount camera wouldn't the latest lens, the DA 50 f1.8 which is pretty much one of their 50mm designs going back to oh, I don't know the middle of the 20th century, and probably covers 24x36mm frames admirably, be designated a DFA lens? True it doesn't have an aperture ring, but it wouldn't be the first DFA lens to be released without one. In the event of a FF camera probably wiith a list price between $2500 and $3500 it wouldn't cannibalize many sales of the FA 50 f1.4 lens with that camera as the lens cost difference would be a fraction of the total package price. So either a.) Pentax marketing has their collective heads where the sun don't shine, or b.) there really isn't a FF camera that close in the pipeline. I'll not take any bets either way, since this is not necessarily an either or proposition. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 on Lr 4 being unusably slow
For anyone following the saga, an update from the thread starter: well, so far, so good. I installed 4.1RC2, played with it a bit--seemed okay. The very next day Adobe released 4.1 Final, so I installed *that* and have been working with it since. The huge delays are gone, thank goodness. I'm still trying stuff out, but so far it's working well for me on my aging iMac, 6GB RAM, Snow Leopard (10.6.8). The Develop module is very nice to use. I've created some great images using it and can safely say it's an improvement over prior Lr versions. (Not that they were bad at all.) If anything goes off the rails, I'll be back to rant. :) On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:15 AM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2012-05-29 9:38 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote Lr4.1 is due for final release pretty soon, I suspect. good guess — LR 4.1RC informed me just now that 4.1 final is available; the release notes are very coy about any possible speed improvements, the only relevant line being Corrections for issues introduced in previous versions of Lightroom. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5392 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I have a secret...
Pentax is going to release a camera for people with Fat Fingers in September. Thanks Tanya! Sausage fingered photographers will now be able to join the Pentax Covenant, at last! —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 31 May 2012 21:38, Tanya Love tanyal...@bigpond.com wrote: ...but you didn't hear it from me. Let me say two things only: 1. September 2. FF I can hardly contain myself!! tan. :-) Sent from my iPhone -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I have a secret...
On 31 May 2012 22:13, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Too funny. We've got a serious FF rumor, and everyone is talking about Cotty eating his hat :-) Cheers, Christine We have our priorities, Christine :-) —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.
Re: Some thoughts about a Sept announcement of a FF DSLR from Pentax
On 1 June 2012 12:03, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Not a lot of thoughts really. However if Pentax was really going to announce a FF K mount camera wouldn't the latest lens, the DA 50 f1.8 which is pretty much one of their 50mm designs going back to oh, I don't know the middle of the 20th century, and probably covers 24x36mm frames admirably, be designated a DFA lens? True it doesn't have an aperture ring, but it wouldn't be the first DFA lens to be released without one. In the event of a FF camera probably wiith a list price between $2500 and $3500 it wouldn't cannibalize many sales of the FA 50 f1.4 lens with that camera as the lens cost difference would be a fraction of the total package price. So either a.) Pentax marketing has their collective heads where the sun don't shine, or b.) there really isn't a FF camera that close in the pipeline. I'll not take any bets either way, since this is not necessarily an either or proposition. Maybe they'll release a DFA 50mm f/1.7 for the new camera. Without an aperture ring. Those things are relics of the past. —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.
Re: K20D vs K-5 vs D800: portrait image rez [was: Something to think about.]
I have an example of how amazingly low shadow noise is on the K-5 in my review: http://enticingthelight.com/2010/12/01/review-pentax-k-5/#raw For those who don't want to click through, here is the evidence (warning, full-rez files): Image as shot: http://enticingthelight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMGP2690.jpg Image recovered in ACR: http://enticingthelight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMGP2690-recovered.jpg Same scene shot with proper settings: http://enticingthelight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/IMGP2687.jpg Sony should get a Nobel prize for this sensor :-) —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 20 May 2012 16:23, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: You won't notice any difference in noise between the K5 and K20D at ISO 200 in flat light. But when I have to use fill in conversion or brighten shadows with dodging, I find that those actions will generate significant noise in the K20 or K7 image but not in the K5 pic. And the few extra megapixels do appear to add some detail resolution in K5 images. I think I can see it in car pics that I shoot off tripods, but I haven't done any side by side, same day tests. I'm not into pixel peeping. But I do know I'd never go back to the K7 or K20. Paul On May 20, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: In the Something to think about. thread I opined that the D800E was likely to be in my upward growth path for more useable resolution in the type of studio shooting I'm doing lately. A few kind PDMLers suggested that the K-5 might give me what I'm looking for and sent me some RAW and high-rez JPEGs to compare against. Thank you very much, Paul, Larry and Boris! I pulled all these images into Lightroom, made a gallery of them and some of my best in-studio (untouched) raws, closely examined eyes and eyebrows in full-body and head and shoulder portraits, and here's what I concluded. - at ISO 80 (K-5) and 100 (K-5 K20D), the noise (or complete lack of) is indistinguishable between them. - in all cases, in full-body shots eyebrows are indistinct (read: fairly blurry smudges). No diff between K-5 and K20D. - in head shoulders portraits, eyes and brows are sharp and well-resolved and it's very hard to say which is better, but I think the K-5 may have a very slight edge over the K20D. - the lenses being used make more difference than the two bodies. (No great surprise here.) And Boris's Sigma (whatever it is) is *sweet!* - I'll get more resolution improvement by simply using a tripod or monopod to shoot with rather then upgrading to a K-5. I also grabbed a few D800 head shoulders portrait images from DPreview and compared. It's pretty clear that there's a large improvement in resolution, but it's also hard to see by how much. I'm convinced that the D800 shots were all done with a tripod, whereas all of mine and the loaners were hand-held. There is not an order of magnitude difference in resolution. There were no full-body, f8 or above, studio lighting D800 shots, so there was nothing for me to compare there. Final conclusion: for my work, K-5 isn't going to help much, if at all. Jury is still out on if D800E would really shake my world either. I need to investigate further -- probably rent one. I do have an acquaintance with one; maybe I can borrow that. The good news for me I don't feel so much disadvantaged by my 2008-vintage kit as I was beginning to. I'm still in the ballgame. :-) -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
Nice message from NatGeo
Worth reading: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/manipulation -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I have a secret...
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Not to worry, I suspect there will be a shortage of FF cameras as well. If you recall, Mark passed along a similar rumor from an unimpeachable source five years or so ago. Those unimpeachable Pentax sources are frequently confused. I think peaches are excellent. Especially with cream and brown sugar. -T -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Fw: photographers under attack
--- On Fri, 6/1/12, mary pitrone mapitr...@yahoo.com wrote: From: mary pitrone mapitr...@yahoo.com Subject: photographers under attack To: pdml@pdml.net Date: Friday, June 1, 2012, 1:54 PM More attack on photographers http://www.infowars.com/photography-a-crime-against-the-state-and-the-global-elite/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/30/security-tighter-than-ever-for-power-players/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
To what end? If I were submitting shots to NatGeo then maybe, but I'm not so I see nothing worth reading there. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Worth reading: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/manipulation -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Worth reading: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/manipulation Verbal vomit. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Not sure why the strong negative reactions on this. It should really come as no surprise to anyone that different outlets have different standards for what they want or will accept for publication. Photojournalistic places will want as much realism as possible and photographers who shoot for AP (for example) have been axed for altering that reality (such as the recent story involving a guy clumsily cloning out his own shadow from a photo).. National Geographic is simply stating *their* standards for publication. They aren't making value judgments on your work, unless you are submitting (or hoping to submit) to them. Anyone who writes for a particular publication needs to understand (or request) that publication's Style Guide and hopefully be familiar with the tone of writing that the publication selects. To send them something outside of that tells them that you haven't even *read* their publication enough to become familiar with what they typically use. You have to know that curating/editing this stuff for publication takes a lot of time... time that somebody is paying a salary for. If you can prevent such stuff from being submitted before someone has to spend any time on it, then you'd do it too. If most of us are honest with ourselves, we'd have to admit that we'd be delighted if an image of ours was discovered or requested by National Geographic magazine. You may think it will never happen, but it is happening right now with some of my son-in-law's work. He didn't come to them. They came to him. No idea if they discovered him through Flickr, or Getty, or Alamy or his personal blog www.bigstormpicture.com, but the point is that anyone could have this happen to them. Being aware of the existence of style guides, such as the one Tim posted, is valuable if you want to submit work that will get you a 2nd look. None of this means that I can't enjoy Instagram-ing my images or dialing the contrast saturation to eleven, or producing garish HDR work, if that is what pleases me. But it means that the version of the shot that I will submit to an individual place had better be in line with what they want, if I want it to meet with *their* approval. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
On 01/06/2012 12:01 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: To what end? If I were submitting shots to NatGeo then maybe, but I'm not so I see nothing worth reading there. New PDML Rule: No more submitting anything to the list without vetting it past Bruce first. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT on Lr 4 being unusably slow
On Jun 1, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: For anyone following the saga, an update from the thread starter: well, so far, so good. I installed 4.1RC2, played with it a bit--seemed okay. The very next day Adobe released 4.1 Final, so I installed *that* and have been I had downloaded 4.1RC2 and was about to install it when Steve's message came through. working with it since. The huge delays are gone, thank goodness. I'm still trying stuff out, but so far it's working well for me on my aging iMac, 6GB RAM, Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Sounds just like my system. I looked into the 64 bit kernel, but it doesn't seem to be supported by my iMac 7.1 The Develop module is very nice to use. I've created some great images using it and can safely say it's an improvement over prior Lr versions. (Not that they were bad at all.) I'm still learning it. If anything goes off the rails, I'll be back to rant. :) On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:15 AM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2012-05-29 9:38 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote Lr4.1 is due for final release pretty soon, I suspect. good guess — LR 4.1RC informed me just now that 4.1 final is available; the release notes are very coy about any possible speed improvements, the only relevant line being Corrections for issues introduced in previous versions of Lightroom. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5392 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- 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: Nice message from NatGeo
Well... Interesting to know what the pros consider “realistic to be”. In particular, I was fairly shocked that they were OK with HDR. -T On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: To what end? If I were submitting shots to NatGeo then maybe, but I'm not so I see nothing worth reading there. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Worth reading: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/manipulation -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Some thoughts about a Sept announcement of a FF DSLR from Pentax
Actually the latest DFA 100mm macro that's weather resistant doesn't have an aperture ring, either that or they've done a damned good job camouflaging it. http://www.pentaximaging.com/camera-lenses/smc_PENTAX_D_FA_MACRO_100mm_F2.8_WR On 6/1/2012 12:12 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote: So far, all D-FA lenses have an aperture ring, while it seems some DA lenses cover 24x36 format (how well, I don't know). So I have the feeling that now DA just means 'without an aperture ring' and D-FA means 'with an aperture ring', irrespectively of the lens coverage. Dario -Messaggio originale- From: P. J. Alling Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 6:03 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Some thoughts about a Sept announcement of a FF DSLR from Pentax Not a lot of thoughts really. However if Pentax was really going to announce a FF K mount camera wouldn't the latest lens, the DA 50 f1.8 which is pretty much one of their 50mm designs going back to oh, I don't know the middle of the 20th century, and probably covers 24x36mm frames admirably, be designated a DFA lens? True it doesn't have an aperture ring, but it wouldn't be the first DFA lens to be released without one. In the event of a FF camera probably wiith a list price between $2500 and $3500 it wouldn't cannibalize many sales of the FA 50 f1.4 lens with that camera as the lens cost difference would be a fraction of the total package price. So either a.) Pentax marketing has their collective heads where the sun don't shine, or b.) there really isn't a FF camera that close in the pipeline. I'll not take any bets either way, since this is not necessarily an either or proposition. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Serengeti on the subway
An interesting video of Magnum photographer Bruce Davison talking about his famous pictures taken on the New York subway: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-bruce-davidsons-subw ay B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Heh. I can't win: when I respond at great length to a question, it's suggested I could have answered in two sentences. When I answer in two sentences ... well now I'm going to have to respond at length. Usually we post an opinion, something newsworthy, a picture, or a pointer to somebody else's opinion, news or picture. This seemed to lack on all counts. It's a list of acceptance criteria all of which are appropriate to a journal such as NatGeo. That NatGeo accepts user shots isn't news. That they have acceptance criteria isn't news. So I went, meh. But Tim just pointed out that NatGeo okays HDR. So *that's* news ... On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:34 PM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/06/2012 12:01 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: To what end? If I were submitting shots to NatGeo then maybe, but I'm not so I see nothing worth reading there. New PDML Rule: No more submitting anything to the list without vetting it past Bruce first. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Alright, now *that's* interesting. I admit not going over that list closely to the very bottom, so I missed HDR: ok. I too am surprised at that, but I guess it's a nod to current fashion. Or perhaps they are using the steak test: HDR is okay as long as it's rare or medium rare. If it's medium to overcooked, forget it; it's out. I'd expect to see quality HDR in NatGeo myself. They do a pretty good editing job there and they know what sort of shots sell magazines. But they also say stuff like fisheye: OK, but enter at your own risk - editors tend to dislike such optical gimmicks, when I've seen plenty of ultra-wide shots in NatGeo over the years. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Well... Interesting to know what the pros consider “realistic to be”. In particular, I was fairly shocked that they were OK with HDR. -T On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: To what end? If I were submitting shots to NatGeo then maybe, but I'm not so I see nothing worth reading there. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Worth reading: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/manipulation -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Serengeti on the subway
Sounds very interesting, but I see no video on that page (even after correcting for the linebreak in the URL). Even registered, and reloading the page I see no video. Did find it on their YouTube channel though (in case anyone is having the same problems I'm having): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6o2C0O9V4feature=plcp On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: An interesting video of Magnum photographer Bruce Davison talking about his famous pictures taken on the New York subway: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-bruce-davidsons-subw ay B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Serengeti on the subway
Darren, check that your Flash player hasn't been disabled. The embedded vid appeared fine for me. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds very interesting, but I see no video on that page (even after correcting for the linebreak in the URL). Even registered, and reloading the page I see no video. Did find it on their YouTube channel though (in case anyone is having the same problems I'm having): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6o2C0O9V4feature=plcp On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: An interesting video of Magnum photographer Bruce Davison talking about his famous pictures taken on the New York subway: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-bruce-davidsons-subw ay B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Serengeti on the subway
That was beautiful, Bob. Thanks! On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: An interesting video of Magnum photographer Bruce Davison talking about his famous pictures taken on the New York subway: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-bruce-davidsons-subw ay B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Serengeti on the subway
I used the subway daily to get to high school during that time frame. Those photos are a pretty accurate documentation of the NYC subways back then. My brother was part of the NYC transit police decoy unit that was featured by Davidson. A photo of him (not the officer with the gun to the perp's head) was included in an accompanying article in New York magazine published at that time. The unit was shut down shortly after that article because they were accused of entrapment. Perry Pellechia Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Perry Pellechia snagglepus...@gmail.com wrote: I used the subway daily to get to high school during that time frame. Those photos are a pretty accurate documentation of the NYC subways back then. My brother was part of the NYC transit police decoy unit that was featured by Davidson. A photo of him (not the officer with the gun to the perp's head) was included in an accompanying article in New York magazine published at that time. The unit was shut down shortly after that article because they were accused of entrapment. Perry Pellechia Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: An interesting video of Magnum photographer Bruce Davison talking about his famous pictures taken on the New York subway: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-bruce-davidsons-subw ay B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Not sure why the strong negative reactions on this. It should really come as no surprise to anyone that different outlets have different standards for what they want or will accept for publication. Photojournalistic places will want as much realism as possible and photographers who shoot for AP (for example) have been axed for altering that reality (such as the recent story involving a guy clumsily cloning out his own shadow from a photo).. National Geographic is simply stating *their* standards for publication. They aren't making value judgments on your work, unless you are submitting (or hoping to submit) to them. Anyone who writes for a particular publication needs to understand (or request) that publication's Style Guide and hopefully be familiar with the tone of writing that the publication selects. To send them something outside of that tells them that you haven't even *read* their publication enough to become familiar with what they typically use. You have to know that curating/editing this stuff for publication takes a lot of time... time that somebody is paying a salary for. If you can prevent such stuff from being submitted before someone has to spend any time on it, then you'd do it too. If most of us are honest with ourselves, we'd have to admit that we'd be delighted if an image of ours was discovered or requested by National Geographic magazine. You may think it will never happen, but it is happening right now with some of my son-in-law's work. He didn't come to them. They came to him. No idea if they discovered him through Flickr, or Getty, or Alamy or his personal blog www.bigstormpicture.com, but the point is that anyone could have this happen to them. Being aware of the existence of style guides, such as the one Tim posted, is valuable if you want to submit work that will get you a 2nd look. None of this means that I can't enjoy Instagram-ing my images or dialing the contrast saturation to eleven, or producing garish HDR work, if that is what pleases me. But it means that the version of the shot that I will submit to an individual place had better be in line with what they want, if I want it to meet with *their* approval. Everything you say is true. What I didn't like was the high and mighty chastising verbage: I encourage you to submit photographs that are real. The world is already full of visual artifice, and we aren't running Your Shot to add to it. We want to see the world through your eyes, not the tools of Photoshop. As if THEY define REAL. We aren't running Your Shot to add to it? That's a pretty direct smack down. We look at every photo to see if it's authentic, and if we find that yours is in any way deceptive, we'll disqualify it. Now the writer is equating photo manipulation with deceptiveness. That's a moral judgement he's superimposing. And really, could they tell if I PS'd a beer can out of the grass, or an electrical line out of a clear blue sky? What if that IS the view through my eyes - minus the garbage? And don't oversaturate the color. I guess all the Velvia ever used never qualified for Nat Geo. No. If you use one of the myriad alteration filters available in your digital photo software, please stop. Wow, is that ever WHINY!!! And by the way who do you think you are telling someone to stop? HAND-TINTED IMAGES: OK, but only if you're experienced in this art. What if I'm not experienced but did a damn good job 'in this art' anyway? This doesn't reflect the same values previously espoused nor does allowing BW. CROPPING: OK, if it makes the photo better. Another whine. It's OK - If it makes the photo better. Define better. This was an amateurish way of talking. FISH-EYE LENSES: OK, but enter at your own risk - editors tend to dislike such optical gimmicks. I cant begin to count the number of fish-eye shots I've seen in Nat Geo. How is it a gimmick any more, than a macro, a wide-angle, a telephoto? It's another kind of lens that bends the light differently? What about tilt and shift? Is that a gimmick? I found the spiel to be distasteful and written condescendingly. It sounds like it came from someone who is a little too full of themselves (unlike me). Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - PAD - Duck - Print-a-Day-6
It's a Canon Pro9500 vintage 2008. Actually I'm finding that using the printer everyday consumes less ink. I think what's happening is the cleaning cycle that executes on every startup uses less ink. When I was using it every so often, it could use a half of a cartridge just blowing the cobwebs out of the print head. Multiply that by 10 cartridges and tears flow faster than ink. Shortly after I bought it, I was in the hospital for a while and didn't use it for about 3 months after I returned home. I used almost a full set of cartridges in the deep cleaning cycle. These things want to be used. After this project, if I go through a period of non-use, I'll print a nozzle check sheet every couple of days just to keep the thing happy. In the long run it will likely be less expensive. gs George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Kenton Brede kbr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:28 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: This is number six in the series Print a Day for 30 Days This duck is a visitor to a small pond in a park near my home. http://georges.posterous.com/duck-print-a-day-6 The reflections on the pond surface made this one of the more challenging prints so far. Printers generally have difficulty with some of the hues in the blue-green area. There is a lot of subtle detail in the pond surface that relies on these specific colors. It's the first print that had very significant differences in the settings between the screen and print versions. In the end, the print version looks fine, but my skills haven't quite developed to the point where I can achieve the depth that is seen on the screen. I've flagged this image for more work in the future. Did you have to purchase a new, what would it be ... cyan ink cartridge, after printing this one? :) What printer are you using George? -- Kent Brede http://kentonbrede.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: PESO - PAD - Duck - Print-a-Day-6
I'm printing 8x10s. Anything smaller and I can't really tell much about the detail. George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: If he's only doing a 5x7... On 6/1/2012 10:37 AM, Kenton Brede wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:28 AM, George Sinosgsi...@gmail.com wrote: This is number six in the series Print a Day for 30 Days This duck is a visitor to a small pond in a park near my home. http://georges.posterous.com/duck-print-a-day-6 The reflections on the pond surface made this one of the more challenging prints so far. Printers generally have difficulty with some of the hues in the blue-green area. There is a lot of subtle detail in the pond surface that relies on these specific colors. It's the first print that had very significant differences in the settings between the screen and print versions. In the end, the print version looks fine, but my skills haven't quite developed to the point where I can achieve the depth that is seen on the screen. I've flagged this image for more work in the future. Did you have to purchase a new, what would it be ... cyan ink cartridge, after printing this one? :) What printer are you using George? -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - PAD - Duck - Print-a-Day-6
So far the ink use hasn't been bad. I've replaced the gray and red carts. The other 8 are mostly full. Even though I've only posted prints 1 through 6, I'm actually on print 15. I've printed a few others things during the project so the total is about 20 8x10s. I am keeping track of this just to see how much it cost for the project. gs George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Kenton Brede kbr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:28 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: This is number six in the series Print a Day for 30 Days This duck is a visitor to a small pond in a park near my home. http://georges.posterous.com/duck-print-a-day-6 The reflections on the pond surface made this one of the more challenging prints so far. Printers generally have difficulty with some of the hues in the blue-green area. There is a lot of subtle detail in the pond surface that relies on these specific colors. It's the first print that had very significant differences in the settings between the screen and print versions. In the end, the print version looks fine, but my skills haven't quite developed to the point where I can achieve the depth that is seen on the screen. I've flagged this image for more work in the future. Did you have to purchase a new, what would it be ... cyan ink cartridge, after printing this one? :) What printer are you using George? -- Kent Brede http://kentonbrede.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: Fw: photographers under attack
another crazy heard from... On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:59 PM, mary pitrone mapitr...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 6/1/12, mary pitrone mapitr...@yahoo.com wrote: From: mary pitrone mapitr...@yahoo.com Subject: photographers under attack To: pdml@pdml.net Date: Friday, June 1, 2012, 1:54 PM More attack on photographers http://www.infowars.com/photography-a-crime-against-the-state-and-the-global-elite/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/30/security-tighter-than-ever-for-power-players/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
FS Friday: FOFA link on Boston CL
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/pho/3050631455.html A friend sent this to me knowing that I shoot Pentax, but I'm not looking ATM, but for any Boston area PDMLers looking, the prices aren't too high. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: June PUG: Time's a-wasting
Hi I submitted to PUG for the first time after being subscribed for almost 12 years :) Please, don't beat me for the simple photo... I also thought that theme was really fun and gave me an incentive to actually submit it. D. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Finally got my submission in. That *was* actually a bit of fun, as is my submission. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: G'day all Just because I'm enjoying myself travelling around coastal New South Wales doesn't mean I haven't been watching the list and noticing the lack of submissions for the June PUG. Four so far. So, just as a memory jogger, for June we have something a bit unusual. The theme is 'Songlines'. Pick any song title (or title of any piece of music) and submit a photo that illustrates that title. The photo doesn't need to fit the theme or mood expressed in the actual music, just its title. When you go to the submission form, you'll see two additional fields: * Music: Artist or Composer Name * Music: Web URL, if available The first is mandatory but the Web URL is optional. However, if you know where the piece of music can be heard online (eg. YouTube or MySpace), include the URL so we can all have a listen and maybe educate ourselves to some new music. This should be fun! Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Submission Guidelines here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html The main requirements are: * Max. pixel dimensions: 800 x 800 pixels * Max file size: 300k * Third party equipment is acceptable provided either the camera body or lens used is Pentax. * If you embed a colour space in the image, it should be sRGB to ensure that the image is displayed correctly on line. * Nominal closing date for submissions: 31 May. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Eden, New South Wales, Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- //DG LOC(NJ) //* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: FS Friday: FOFA link on Boston CL
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:02:36PM -0400, David Parsons wrote: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/pho/3050631455.html A friend sent this to me knowing that I shoot Pentax, but I'm not looking ATM, but for any Boston area PDMLers looking, the prices aren't too high. Really? Over 80% of new pricing seems more than a bit high to me ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: FS Friday: FOFA link on Boston CL
On 6/1/2012 5:29 PM, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:02:36PM -0400, David Parsons wrote: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/pho/3050631455.html A friend sent this to me knowing that I shoot Pentax, but I'm not looking ATM, but for any Boston area PDMLers looking, the prices aren't too high. Really? Over 80% of new pricing seems more than a bit high to me ... Seems an odd collection of lenses to me, like maybe just what somebody was carrying in their bag when it disappeared. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: FS Friday: FOFA link on Boston CL
The listing is legit. It's not stolen gear. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:38 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/1/2012 5:29 PM, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:02:36PM -0400, David Parsons wrote: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/pho/3050631455.html A friend sent this to me knowing that I shoot Pentax, but I'm not looking ATM, but for any Boston area PDMLers looking, the prices aren't too high. Really? Over 80% of new pricing seems more than a bit high to me ... Seems an odd collection of lenses to me, like maybe just what somebody was carrying in their bag when it disappeared. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT on Lr 4 being unusably slow
Thanks for posting this, Bruce. Maybe I will upgrade over the weekend. Cheers, Christine On Jun 1, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: For anyone following the saga, an update from the thread starter: well, so far, so good. I installed 4.1RC2, played with it a bit--seemed okay. The very next day Adobe released 4.1 Final, so I installed *that* and have been working with it since. The huge delays are gone, thank goodness. I'm still trying stuff out, but so far it's working well for me on my aging iMac, 6GB RAM, Snow Leopard (10.6.8). The Develop module is very nice to use. I've created some great images using it and can safely say it's an improvement over prior Lr versions. (Not that they were bad at all.) If anything goes off the rails, I'll be back to rant. :) On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:15 AM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2012-05-29 9:38 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote Lr4.1 is due for final release pretty soon, I suspect. good guess — LR 4.1RC informed me just now that 4.1 final is available; the release notes are very coy about any possible speed improvements, the only relevant line being Corrections for issues introduced in previous versions of Lightroom. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5392 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: FS Friday: FOFA link on Boston CL
On Jun 1, 2012, at 5:29 PM, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:02:36PM -0400, David Parsons wrote: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/pho/3050631455.html A friend sent this to me knowing that I shoot Pentax, but I'm not looking ATM, but for any Boston area PDMLers looking, the prices aren't too high. Really? Over 80% of new pricing seems more than a bit high to me ... He says he is upgrading from Pentax to Canon, plus he tries to sell a large package of body + lenses for over $2k - you have to wonder about his touch with reality . . . -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
June PUG - Last Call for 'Songlines'
G'day all I'll be closing submissions on Sunday so get 'em in while you still can. So far we have 21 themed submissions and one Open Gallery submission. The details: Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Submission Guidelines here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html The main requirements are: * Max. pixel dimensions: 800 pixels on the longest side. * Max file size: 300k * Third party equipment is acceptable provided either the camera body or lens used is Pentax. * If you embed a colour space in the image, it should be sRGB to ensure that the image is displayed correctly on line. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 statistics
Hi Was looking for PDML statistics recently (just out of plain curiosity) and couldn't find much. pdml.net only has files starting 2006 and I'm not sure how to get list of all messages from mail-archive. Not sure where is my own archive from 2000 forward, but since I switched to Gmail at the end of 2004, I quickly grabbed conversation counts per year: 20057,831 20067,381 20076,247 20085,009 20095,249 20105,295 20114,841 Again, this is not message count, but conversations as seen by Google. Thought, it may be interesting to see how other Pentax places on the net vacuumed some people from this list. Or is it frustration of old Pentaxians of not getting what they anted from the company? Dmitry -- //DG LOC(NJ) //* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: PDML statistics
I think it's me. I've gradually turned into actual photography. -- MaritimTim My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/ To err is human to arr is pirate 2012/6/1 Dmitry Gromov grom...@gmail.com: Hi Was looking for PDML statistics recently (just out of plain curiosity) and couldn't find much. pdml.net only has files starting 2006 and I'm not sure how to get list of all messages from mail-archive. Not sure where is my own archive from 2000 forward, but since I switched to Gmail at the end of 2004, I quickly grabbed conversation counts per year: 2005 7,831 2006 7,381 2007 6,247 2008 5,009 2009 5,249 2010 5,295 2011 4,841 Again, this is not message count, but conversations as seen by Google. Thought, it may be interesting to see how other Pentax places on the net vacuumed some people from this list. Or is it frustration of old Pentaxians of not getting what they anted from the company? Dmitry -- //DG LOC(NJ) //* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: defringe
I'm highly impressed too. http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/12/12_06/12_06_defringe/01.htm On 31/05/2012 7:05 PM, Toine wrote: LR 4.1 is out. The defringe tool is new. A quick test: http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/blog-mainmenu-97/221-defringe I'm impressed. Toine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
External storage of raw files
I've got several related issues that may have a single solution: I've got about 4.5TB of raw PEFs on two drives. Both drives are starting to get full. I'm very tempted to convert my library of raw files from PEF to DNG. Zab's new laptop, a 17 macbook pro has more processing power than my iMac and my desktop LInux box combined. When we upgrade the memory, it'll have more memory than all of my computers combined. When it's available, or I have a large number of photos to process, it would be handy to be able to use it, rather than my iMac. I just changed to LR4, and LR4.1, so my system is somewhat in flux as I've got various catalogs that haven't been updated yet, and I will want to split sub catalogs (aikido, music, current working etc.) out from the massive everything catalog. So, if I'm going to make any radical changes, this is a good time to do so. My gut feeling is that the right way to do this is some sort of external drive that I can share between the two machines for storing all the RAW files. I suspect that I'll want some sort of box with gigabit ethernet on one end, and several sata drives on the other end. My current drives can become backups. As to the catalogs themselves, I'll just do something careful and clever so that I've got the necessary working catalog on whichever machine I'm using, and sync things up with import from catalog. I'm looking for suggestions as to general plan (for example, gigabit NAS), as well as specifics (Todd's Network storage and fish market has the whizzbo cottystack on sale for $200 this week) on how I should go about doing this. -- 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: External storage of raw files
Lightroom is very slow over a network has been my experience. You're better off keeping your catalogue on your fixed disk. B -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: 01 June 2012 23:53 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: External storage of raw files I've got several related issues that may have a single solution: I've got about 4.5TB of raw PEFs on two drives. Both drives are starting to get full. I'm very tempted to convert my library of raw files from PEF to DNG. Zab's new laptop, a 17 macbook pro has more processing power than my iMac and my desktop LInux box combined. When we upgrade the memory, it'll have more memory than all of my computers combined. When it's available, or I have a large number of photos to process, it would be handy to be able to use it, rather than my iMac. I just changed to LR4, and LR4.1, so my system is somewhat in flux as I've got various catalogs that haven't been updated yet, and I will want to split sub catalogs (aikido, music, current working etc.) out from the massive everything catalog. So, if I'm going to make any radical changes, this is a good time to do so. My gut feeling is that the right way to do this is some sort of external drive that I can share between the two machines for storing all the RAW files. I suspect that I'll want some sort of box with gigabit ethernet on one end, and several sata drives on the other end. My current drives can become backups. As to the catalogs themselves, I'll just do something careful and clever so that I've got the necessary working catalog on whichever machine I'm using, and sync things up with import from catalog. I'm looking for suggestions as to general plan (for example, gigabit NAS), as well as specifics (Todd's Network storage and fish market has the whizzbo cottystack on sale for $200 this week) on how I should go about doing this. -- 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Third Party Batteries
I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: External storage of raw files
On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Bob W wrote: Lightroom is very slow over a network has been my experience. You're better off keeping your catalogue on your fixed disk. Yes, my catalog is on the internal disk. I've learned that lesson. I'll just need to copy that back and forth between machines as needed. But, it's a very small file. There's no way that I'll be able to put 6-8TB of files on an internal disk though. At least not this year. -- 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: Third Party Batteries
On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. I am, they seem to work as well as Pentax batteries. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- 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: Third Party Batteries
When I bought the K-5 from BH, I got the Pearstone branded extra battery. It's listed as 1700 mAh vs 1860 for the Pentax brand, but otherwise seems to work just as well...and it's half the price of the Pentax. -p On 6/1/2012 6:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. I am, they seem to work as well as Pentax batteries. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Third Party Batteries
I have two third-party, and two pentax, batteries... they seem to work the same. Once upon a time, my k-5 had mirror-flop disorder... in which the mirror would randomly and repeatedly actuate, rendering picture-taking impossible. (It was almost like blowing up!) There is some speculation that could be initiated by an over-charged battery disturbing the electrical ecosystem in the camera... I have no idea. It was never a problem in the k-7. But, I'd caution against over-charging the batteries... :) -c On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: External storage of raw files
Lightroom won't even run if the catalog isn't local. You can store files anywhere you want. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Lightroom is very slow over a network has been my experience. You're better off keeping your catalogue on your fixed disk. B -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: 01 June 2012 23:53 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: External storage of raw files I've got several related issues that may have a single solution: I've got about 4.5TB of raw PEFs on two drives. Both drives are starting to get full. I'm very tempted to convert my library of raw files from PEF to DNG. Zab's new laptop, a 17 macbook pro has more processing power than my iMac and my desktop LInux box combined. When we upgrade the memory, it'll have more memory than all of my computers combined. When it's available, or I have a large number of photos to process, it would be handy to be able to use it, rather than my iMac. I just changed to LR4, and LR4.1, so my system is somewhat in flux as I've got various catalogs that haven't been updated yet, and I will want to split sub catalogs (aikido, music, current working etc.) out from the massive everything catalog. So, if I'm going to make any radical changes, this is a good time to do so. My gut feeling is that the right way to do this is some sort of external drive that I can share between the two machines for storing all the RAW files. I suspect that I'll want some sort of box with gigabit ethernet on one end, and several sata drives on the other end. My current drives can become backups. As to the catalogs themselves, I'll just do something careful and clever so that I've got the necessary working catalog on whichever machine I'm using, and sync things up with import from catalog. I'm looking for suggestions as to general plan (for example, gigabit NAS), as well as specifics (Todd's Network storage and fish market has the whizzbo cottystack on sale for $200 this week) on how I should go about doing this. -- 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: defringe
On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Derby Chang wrote: I'm highly impressed too. http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/12/12_06/12_06_defringe/01.htm Quite! But what will PDML be like without the fringe? On 31/05/2012 7:05 PM, Toine wrote: LR 4.1 is out. The defringe tool is new. A quick test: http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/blog-mainmenu-97/221-defringe I'm impressed. Toine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- 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: FS Friday: FOFA link on Boston CL
I never suggested it was. Used equipment typically sells at no more than 65% of new pricing. Couple that with the fact that the main item - the camera body - is not a current model, and I just don't see that price as realistic. Just because I paid $1700 for my *ist-D doesn't mean I could sell it for $1400, even if it were in mint condition. On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:40:55PM -0400, David Parsons wrote: The listing is legit. It's not stolen gear. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:38 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/1/2012 5:29 PM, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:02:36PM -0400, David Parsons wrote: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/pho/3050631455.html A friend sent this to me knowing that I shoot Pentax, but I'm not looking ATM, but for any Boston area PDMLers looking, the prices aren't too high. Really? ?Over 80% of new pricing seems more than a bit high to me ... Seems an odd collection of lenses to me, like maybe just what somebody was carrying in their bag when it disappeared. -- Don't lose heart! ?They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 Fryday
Assorted goodies: #1 Mamiya RB67 with 180C lens, w/l, handle grip, and motorized back. $250 shipped (US) #2 Sekonic L308S. without case or flat sensor cover, but those can be gotten from MAC. $125 shipped (US) #3 Chinon Bellami. Works great. Flash has had a leak, so it will come along just for show. $25 shipped (US). #4 Honeywell Spotmatic with SMC 55/1.8 Meter untested, but shutter works well @ all speeds and lens is clean and clear. $30 shipped (US) #5 Fuji 4x loupe. They gave these away with Pro Packs in the late 90s. Great loupe. I had a nice Rodenstock and comparing them there was some diff, but I didn't think it was enough to keep the Rodenstock. Got this from a brother to pass on -- I don't need 2. $40 shipped (US). #6 Pentax M 50/1.7 Very good condition. $40 shipped (US). #7 Pentax M 50/1.4 Very good condition. $100 shipped (US). Pics on request. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: External storage of raw files
Large volumes of data that need to be secure require more than a single external drive. Of course. A SAN can be done inexpensively with a Linux install. And a SAN can be set up for dynamic growth. Need more space? Just add a drive and allocate it to the SAN volume. It seems our data often outgrows our storage. But then again, there is the prospect of off-line storage. 3T USB3 units are available for about $150 now. Just fill it up and put it in the safe. My 2c. Collin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Third Party Batteries
Happened to me as well. I charged both of my k-5 batteries -- grip and camera -- last week. I usually charge just one, and then get the other next time. I left each of them on the charger for a couple of hours after they were fully charged. Right after charging the second battery, I tried to use the camera, I experienced the mirror-flop disorder. At least that's what I assume it was. The camera kept making a clicking noise when the shutter was pushed and wouldn't function. I switched off the trip, and the camera started working intermittently, so I turned on preview and left it on for a few minutes. After that it worked fin, and I was able to switch the grip back on. I'm going to go back to charging only one battery at a time and taking care not to overcharge. Or if I do charge both at once, which I have to do for big jobs, I'm going to make sure they don' t spend too much time on the charger, and I'm going to leave the grip turned off until I've logged a few shots. Paul On Jun 1, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: I have two third-party, and two pentax, batteries... they seem to work the same. Once upon a time, my k-5 had mirror-flop disorder... in which the mirror would randomly and repeatedly actuate, rendering picture-taking impossible. (It was almost like blowing up!) There is some speculation that could be initiated by an over-charged battery disturbing the electrical ecosystem in the camera... I have no idea. It was never a problem in the k-7. But, I'd caution against over-charging the batteries... :) -c On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Well I'm glad to have seen it -- On a wing and a prayer - I hopped right in and submitted my red flamingo funny thing though, I couldnt find the button to log out after I did the my shot thing. Yeah, the admonishments were , perhaps, a bit heavy handed and um not as nicely written as they might have been - but I'd be unlikely to have found much in my files that wouldn't fit the technical requirements - and yeah, I'd be thrilled if actually sold them a photo - it was one of my dreams years ago to shoot for them. So THANKS for posting - now who was it that did that? :-) ann On 6/1/2012 14:28, Darren Addy wrote: Not sure why the strong negative reactions on this. It should really come as no surprise to anyone that different outlets have different standards for what they want or will accept for publication. Photojournalistic places will want as much realism as possible and photographers who shoot for AP (for example) have been axed for altering that reality (such as the recent story involving a guy clumsily cloning out his own shadow from a photo).. National Geographic is simply stating *their* standards for publication. They aren't making value judgments on your work, unless you are submitting (or hoping to submit) to them. Anyone who writes for a particular publication needs to understand (or request) that publication's Style Guide and hopefully be familiar with the tone of writing that the publication selects. To send them something outside of that tells them that you haven't even *read* their publication enough to become familiar with what they typically use. You have to know that curating/editing this stuff for publication takes a lot of time... time that somebody is paying a salary for. If you can prevent such stuff from being submitted before someone has to spend any time on it, then you'd do it too. If most of us are honest with ourselves, we'd have to admit that we'd be delighted if an image of ours was discovered or requested by National Geographic magazine. You may think it will never happen, but it is happening right now with some of my son-in-law's work. He didn't come to them. They came to him. No idea if they discovered him through Flickr, or Getty, or Alamy or his personal blog www.bigstormpicture.com, but the point is that anyone could have this happen to them. Being aware of the existence of style guides, such as the one Tim posted, is valuable if you want to submit work that will get you a 2nd look. None of this means that I can't enjoy Instagram-ing my images or dialing the contrast saturation to eleven, or producing garish HDR work, if that is what pleases me. But it means that the version of the shot that I will submit to an individual place had better be in line with what they want, if I want it to meet with *their* approval. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: PDML statistics
Maybe we're having fewer but longer conversations. Mostly real conversations that have turned into pun contests. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's me. I've gradually turned into actual photography. -- MaritimTim My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/ To err is human to arr is pirate 2012/6/1 Dmitry Gromov grom...@gmail.com: Hi Was looking for PDML statistics recently (just out of plain curiosity) and couldn't find much. pdml.net only has files starting 2006 and I'm not sure how to get list of all messages from mail-archive. Not sure where is my own archive from 2000 forward, but since I switched to Gmail at the end of 2004, I quickly grabbed conversation counts per year: 2005 7,831 2006 7,381 2007 6,247 2008 5,009 2009 5,249 2010 5,295 2011 4,841 Again, this is not message count, but conversations as seen by Google. Thought, it may be interesting to see how other Pentax places on the net vacuumed some people from this list. Or is it frustration of old Pentaxians of not getting what they anted from the company? Dmitry -- //DG LOC(NJ) //* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Wasn't Getty refusing images not taken with high end Nikon or high end Canon? That seems more absurd to me. Disqualifying by brand? Sent from my iPad Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, Louisiana -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Third Party Batteries
Argh, sorry to hear that, Paul. I think I had over-charged by placing an already charged battery back on the charger... whoops. But, I would keep an eye on it not hesitate to send it in for repair -- my camera started out with a few random issues like you describe, which then quickly degenerated into full-on non-functionality. I also found, like you, that a somewhat drained battery was less likely to create problems. I thought it was interesting that putting a problematic battery - the one that was in the k-5 when it was flopping -- into the k-7 did not produce the flops in that camera. That's when the k-5 went in for service. Luckily, it was a quick trip to Arizona back -- they knew exactly what the problem was, had seen it before, I gather... Since then, I have used the same batteries in the k-5 without issue. Also, I don't worry too much about leaving the batteries on the charger beyond the charging time... maybe I should... but I haven't had any recurrence of the flops since getting it back from service. Good luck -- :) -c On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Happened to me as well. I charged both of my k-5 batteries -- grip and camera -- last week. I usually charge just one, and then get the other next time. I left each of them on the charger for a couple of hours after they were fully charged. Right after charging the second battery, I tried to use the camera, I experienced the mirror-flop disorder. At least that's what I assume it was. The camera kept making a clicking noise when the shutter was pushed and wouldn't function. I switched off the trip, and the camera started working intermittently, so I turned on preview and left it on for a few minutes. After that it worked fin, and I was able to switch the grip back on. I'm going to go back to charging only one battery at a time and taking care not to overcharge. Or if I do charge both at once, which I have to do for big jobs, I'm going to make sure they don' t spend too much time on the charger, and I'm going to leave the grip turned off until I've logged a few shots. Paul On Jun 1, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: I have two third-party, and two pentax, batteries... they seem to work the same. Once upon a time, my k-5 had mirror-flop disorder... in which the mirror would randomly and repeatedly actuate, rendering picture-taking impossible. (It was almost like blowing up!) There is some speculation that could be initiated by an over-charged battery disturbing the electrical ecosystem in the camera... I have no idea. It was never a problem in the k-7. But, I'd caution against over-charging the batteries... :) -c On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Third Party Batteries
me too. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Paul Sorenson pentax1...@gmail.com wrote: When I bought the K-5 from BH, I got the Pearstone branded extra battery. It's listed as 1700 mAh vs 1860 for the Pentax brand, but otherwise seems to work just as well...and it's half the price of the Pentax. -p On 6/1/2012 6:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. I am, they seem to work as well as Pentax batteries. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Third Party Batteries
That is, I bought an extra battery (pearstone?) for the K-5 and have had no problems. Generally Pentax in the camera, off-brand in the grip. Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: me too. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Paul Sorenson pentax1...@gmail.com wrote: When I bought the K-5 from BH, I got the Pearstone branded extra battery. It's listed as 1700 mAh vs 1860 for the Pentax brand, but otherwise seems to work just as well...and it's half the price of the Pentax. -p On 6/1/2012 6:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. I am, they seem to work as well as Pentax batteries. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: PDML statistics
Think Pentax Forum is a competitor who has vacuumed lots of speculation, hand wringing, technical minutia out of the list. Plus maybe the old Pentaxians know all they need to about the cameras and lenses. Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Dmitry Gromov grom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Was looking for PDML statistics recently (just out of plain curiosity) and couldn't find much. pdml.net only has files starting 2006 and I'm not sure how to get list of all messages from mail-archive. Not sure where is my own archive from 2000 forward, but since I switched to Gmail at the end of 2004, I quickly grabbed conversation counts per year: 2005 7,831 2006 7,381 2007 6,247 2008 5,009 2009 5,249 2010 5,295 2011 4,841 Again, this is not message count, but conversations as seen by Google. Thought, it may be interesting to see how other Pentax places on the net vacuumed some people from this list. Or is it frustration of old Pentaxians of not getting what they anted from the company? Dmitry -- //DG LOC(NJ) //* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Third Party Batteries
Thanks for the note, Christine. I may send the k-5 in for service anyway. I think it' at about 30,000 frames. But both of my 560 flashes are in Chandler now, so I'm going to wait and see what that costs me. Lots of frames on both flashes as well, so I can count these snafus as normal service. But no warranties. Paul On Jun 1, 2012, at 10:25 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: Argh, sorry to hear that, Paul. I think I had over-charged by placing an already charged battery back on the charger... whoops. But, I would keep an eye on it not hesitate to send it in for repair -- my camera started out with a few random issues like you describe, which then quickly degenerated into full-on non-functionality. I also found, like you, that a somewhat drained battery was less likely to create problems. I thought it was interesting that putting a problematic battery - the one that was in the k-5 when it was flopping -- into the k-7 did not produce the flops in that camera. That's when the k-5 went in for service. Luckily, it was a quick trip to Arizona back -- they knew exactly what the problem was, had seen it before, I gather... Since then, I have used the same batteries in the k-5 without issue. Also, I don't worry too much about leaving the batteries on the charger beyond the charging time... maybe I should... but I haven't had any recurrence of the flops since getting it back from service. Good luck -- :) -c On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Happened to me as well. I charged both of my k-5 batteries -- grip and camera -- last week. I usually charge just one, and then get the other next time. I left each of them on the charger for a couple of hours after they were fully charged. Right after charging the second battery, I tried to use the camera, I experienced the mirror-flop disorder. At least that's what I assume it was. The camera kept making a clicking noise when the shutter was pushed and wouldn't function. I switched off the trip, and the camera started working intermittently, so I turned on preview and left it on for a few minutes. After that it worked fin, and I was able to switch the grip back on. I'm going to go back to charging only one battery at a time and taking care not to overcharge. Or if I do charge both at once, which I have to do for big jobs, I'm going to make sure they don' t spend too much time on the charger, and I'm going to leave the grip turned off until I've logged a few shots. Paul On Jun 1, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: I have two third-party, and two pentax, batteries... they seem to work the same. Once upon a time, my k-5 had mirror-flop disorder... in which the mirror would randomly and repeatedly actuate, rendering picture-taking impossible. (It was almost like blowing up!) There is some speculation that could be initiated by an over-charged battery disturbing the electrical ecosystem in the camera... I have no idea. It was never a problem in the k-7. But, I'd caution against over-charging the batteries... :) -c On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: I'm sure this has been discussed before but my memory isn't what it used to be Is anyone using third party batteries in their K-7/K-5? The prices are considerably* lower than the Pentax branded ones but I don't want to blow up my new camera. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: PDML statistics
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Think Pentax Forum is a competitor who has vacuumed lots of Yeah, they suck. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
On 6/1/2012 2:28 PM, Darren Addy wrote: If most of us are honest with ourselves, we'd have to admit that we'd be delighted if an image of ours was discovered or requested by National Geographic magazine. You may think it will never happen, but it is happening right now with some of my son-in-law's work. He didn't come to them. They came to him. No idea if they discovered him through Flickr, or Getty, or Alamy or his personal blog www.bigstormpicture.com, but the point is that anyone could have this happen to them. First off - those are some damn impressive shots on your son-in-law's website! I've never seen weather like that except in CGI movies! Amazing... Second - I agree that is National Geographic's call about what they want to publish or not, and is only fair to participants to tell them up front what to expect. While the tone of the piece may be a bit snarky, it probably was not the most snarky thing said on the internet on whatever day it happened to be published. The closest I ever got to National Geographic was the web supplement for National Geographic Explorer - http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0509/articles/gallery_1.html They cropped the photo in a way that I don't think improved it, but then they didn't over sharpen it like I did for my website: http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/new/IMGP1690.htm - MCC -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: External storage of raw files
On 2012-06-01 18:53, Larry Colen wrote: I've got several related issues that may have a single solution: Rule #1: More copies are better. Rule #2: Make a copy, see rule #1. I've got about 4.5TB of raw PEFs on two drives. Both drives are starting to get full. And they're probably in the same physical location, too, aren't they? What happens when the house burns down? My gut feeling is that the right way to do this is some sort of external drive that I can share between the two machines for storing all the RAW files. I suspect that I'll want some sort of box with gigabit ethernet on one end, and several sata drives on the other end. My current drives can become backups. As to the catalogs themselves, I'll just do something careful and clever so that I've got the necessary working catalog on whichever machine I'm using, and sync things up with import from catalog. My plan (note: I develop software for a living, and have lots of computers compared to most people, and have been doing it a long time, and have worked for several startup companies on a shoestring, so have been screwed or screwed myself many times): 1. Main computer: 4 drive RAID 10 array, two cold drives ready 2. Media computer: 4 drive RAID 10 array, two cold drives ready 3. Three external drives Both computers and one external are in my home. The second external is 150 miles away, but one version (up to six months or so) behind. The third external is 250 miles away, but two versions (up to a year or so) behind. I have additional itinerant externals that move back and forth between my home and my office, 20 miles away and much sturdier. These contain snapshots between versions. Periodically, everything rotates. I only wish those sorts of backup options had been economically available for film. -- Doug Lefty Franklin NutDriver Racing http://NutDriver.org Facebook NutDriver Racing Sponsored by Murphy -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Mark the both look fine - I dont understand their crop, either, tho... way to go! ann On 6/1/2012 22:44, Mark C wrote: On 6/1/2012 2:28 PM, Darren Addy wrote: If most of us are honest with ourselves, we'd have to admit that we'd be delighted if an image of ours was discovered or requested by National Geographic magazine. You may think it will never happen, but it is happening right now with some of my son-in-law's work. He didn't come to them. They came to him. No idea if they discovered him through Flickr, or Getty, or Alamy or his personal blog www.bigstormpicture.com, but the point is that anyone could have this happen to them. First off - those are some damn impressive shots on your son-in-law's website! I've never seen weather like that except in CGI movies! Amazing... Second - I agree that is National Geographic's call about what they want to publish or not, and is only fair to participants to tell them up front what to expect. While the tone of the piece may be a bit snarky, it probably was not the most snarky thing said on the internet on whatever day it happened to be published. The closest I ever got to National Geographic was the web supplement for National Geographic Explorer - http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0509/articles/gallery_1.html They cropped the photo in a way that I don't think improved it, but then they didn't over sharpen it like I did for my website: http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/new/IMGP1690.htm - MCC -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Happy Time
Thanks, Brian. And thanks to everyone else who looked and commented. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org Sent: June 1, 2012 6/1/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO - Happy Time Quoting knarftheria...@gmail.com: One of my favourite restaurant names and signage. The light was quite harsh that day so I opted for a high-key look: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/05/happy-time.html?m=0 Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. I really like the way you've processed this. It really suits the subject. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nice message from NatGeo
Quite an honor, Mark. Your crop is obviously much better. Paul On Jun 1, 2012, at 11:29 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Mark the both look fine - I dont understand their crop, either, tho... way to go! ann On 6/1/2012 22:44, Mark C wrote: On 6/1/2012 2:28 PM, Darren Addy wrote: If most of us are honest with ourselves, we'd have to admit that we'd be delighted if an image of ours was discovered or requested by National Geographic magazine. You may think it will never happen, but it is happening right now with some of my son-in-law's work. He didn't come to them. They came to him. No idea if they discovered him through Flickr, or Getty, or Alamy or his personal blog www.bigstormpicture.com, but the point is that anyone could have this happen to them. First off - those are some damn impressive shots on your son-in-law's website! I've never seen weather like that except in CGI movies! Amazing... Second - I agree that is National Geographic's call about what they want to publish or not, and is only fair to participants to tell them up front what to expect. While the tone of the piece may be a bit snarky, it probably was not the most snarky thing said on the internet on whatever day it happened to be published. The closest I ever got to National Geographic was the web supplement for National Geographic Explorer - http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0509/articles/gallery_1.html They cropped the photo in a way that I don't think improved it, but then they didn't over sharpen it like I did for my website: http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/new/IMGP1690.htm - MCC -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Thai Poutine
Where are the French fries? How can it be poutine without fries? Nice shot though and it does look yummy. I feared that when I went vegan I'd eaten my last poutine, but there's a place on Queen West here in Toronto called Poutini's that sells vegan poutine. Not quite as good as the real thing but still pretty damned delicious imho. Cruelty-free eating doesn't have to mean boring. ;-) Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com Sent: June 1, 2012 6/1/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Thai Poutine No, I’m not kidding; check it out at http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/05/31/-big/IMG_0067.jpg.html Context: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/05/31/Thai-Poutine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: PDML statistics
On 6/1/2012 10:42 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Bob Sullivanrf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Think Pentax Forum is a competitor who has vacuumed lots of Yeah, they suck. When they don't blow. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
