RE: PESO: 23 graduates
That's very good. B -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Tim Bray Sent: 06 June 2012 05:53 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO: 23 graduates I asked the PDMLs opinion on how I might go about shooting my sons Little Leagues graduating class. Thanks a heap for the advice; the best piece was cutting a 5x7 hole in a piece of paper, to help compose. I took some straight-on shots and a couple from up a ladder, but ended up liking this throwaway-I-thought from off to one side. http://www.tbray.org/tmp/grads.png -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Presentation
How was it. your _first_ click? -- 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 2012/6/6 rona...@skyairlines.com.br: Hello, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Ronaldo, I am Brazilian and I live in the city of Fortaleza, Ceara. I am a Canon user and recently, through a friend, I started doing a few clicks using their Pentax Kr and he showed me this mailing list to delve into the resources of this wonderful machine. I hope I can contribute and learn a lot from you. Regards Ronaldo Bomfim http://flickr.com/ronaldobomfim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Earthquake (update)
Today we've been awakened dancing at dawn (Richter 4.5), but everything's OK. Epicenter was here in Ravenna, 25Km deep. No big damages, it seems. Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - The gardeners wall
Ah :-) I have read it several times now. Not sure yet, but I think I like it. -- 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 2012/6/5 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: Sorry, Tim. My quote was from a famous Amnerican poem: MENDING WALL Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me~ Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, Good fences make good neighbors. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, but I'm not sure if I understand this comment Dan. May be a language barrier. Care to elaborate? -- 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 2012/6/5 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola Tim wrote: I think it's a start of a project of photos of walls. Something there is that doesn't love a wall . . . . Still it sound like it could be a very interesting project. Dan On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: This link leads to two pictures. http://maritimtim.blogspot.no/search/label/M%C3%B8te%20med%20veggen I think it's a start of a project of photos of walls. To make good photographs out of something two dimensional is rather challenging. The norwegian title translates to hit the wall. Thats a Norwegian saying about what happenes (figuratively speaking) when you are burned out after struggling to hard. Comments appreciated. -- 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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
Re: I have a secret...
Who said anything about Pentax? It must be the new Nikon D600 :p Alex On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@gmail.com wrote: I give up. There will be a full frame Pentax in September? If not, I'll be disappointed by the ... hype? Sent from my iPad Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, Louisiana USA On May 31, 2012, at 20:38, 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. :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Presentation
Quoting Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: On Jun 5, 2012, at 4:39 PM, rona...@skyairlines.com.br wrote: Hello, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Ronaldo, I am Brazilian and I live in the city of Fortaleza, Ceara. Another one of those Fortaleza crazies? I am a Canon user and recently, through a friend, Oh THAT troublemaker! I started doing a few clicks using their Pentax Kr I know that particular machine well. It is a very nice camera. Many, if not most of the photos in this set, were taken with it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625912266578/ and he showed me this mailing list to delve into the resources of this wonderful machine. I hope I can contribute and learn a lot from you. Welcome. Ditto. Not only is Ronaldo new here, he has also contributed to the June PUG with a quite excellent submission (but you'll have to wait a day or two to see it). -- 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: Presentation
On 6 June 2012 16:16, luiz felipe luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br wrote: Well, it's not the camera, it's the photographer - but choosing the right tool is the better start, IMHO. And here is the right place to learn about the right tool, isnt't it? You won't find a better bunch of right tools than here at the PDML };-) regards, Anthony -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - Deera and Friend
Well done. Paul On Jun 5, 2012, at 11:11 PM, Jack Davis wrote: You're a good guy, Frank! Bet she'll be pleased. Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 7:04 PM Subject: PESO - Deera and Friend A couple of weekends ago I helped out with a Dog Walkathon in the neighbouring suburb of Mimico. It was a fundraiser for the Etobicoke Humane Society at which I volunteer. (Mimico and New Toronto are old suburbs which long since got absorbed by Etobicoke, which itself has been absorbed by Toronto - I know, it's complicated) When another of the volunteers, Deera, saw my camera she asked if I could take a photo of her and pooch, as she didn't have a nice picture of the two of them. I was happy to oblige: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/deera-and-friend.html Don't know what she thinks yet as I only sent to her tonight. Hope she likes it, though. Hope you like it, too. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - The gardeners wall
Thanks Bruce. It is good to know that the title could work in english too. And while I'm at it: Thanks Frank. Thats good to know too. -- 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 2012/6/5 Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com: Exact same phrase in common colloquial English usage: to hit the wall. I really like your rendering with the colour and texture. Very nice. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: This link leads to two pictures. http://maritimtim.blogspot.no/search/label/M%C3%B8te%20med%20veggen I think it's a start of a project of photos of walls. To make good photographs out of something two dimensional is rather challenging. The norwegian title translates to hit the wall. Thats a Norwegian saying about what happenes (figuratively speaking) when you are burned out after struggling to hard. Comments appreciated. -- 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: GESO: Tired of the heat?
The two things that I could not get used to in my trips to Christchurch and around South Island.. The reversed seasons and the upside down sky at night! I went to several places in early September around Christchurch to Dunedin and nearly froze to death!! :-) Refreshing pics for us folks in FL, USA right now. Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:00 PM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: These will cool you off. Normally we get snow in July / August if we get any at all but we have about 3 at the moment with more falling. http://www.multi.net.nz/snow-6-jun/ (just 4 pics) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - Earthquake (update)
Glad to hear no big damage from this one...keep safe. -p On 6/6/2012 4:02 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Today we've been awakened dancing at dawn (Richter 4.5), but everything's OK. Epicenter was here in Ravenna, 25Km deep. No big damages, it seems. Dario -- 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: PESO - Deera and Friend
A lovely portrait, Frank; she and her pooch should be pleased. It's really great of you to volunteer at the Humane Society too. My pets approve! :-) On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: A couple of weekends ago I helped out with a Dog Walkathon in the neighbouring suburb of Mimico. It was a fundraiser for the Etobicoke Humane Society at which I volunteer. (Mimico and New Toronto are old suburbs which long since got absorbed by Etobicoke, which itself has been absorbed by Toronto - I know, it's complicated) When another of the volunteers, Deera, saw my camera she asked if I could take a photo of her and pooch, as she didn't have a nice picture of the two of them. I was happy to oblige: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/deera-and-friend.html Don't know what she thinks yet as I only sent to her tonight. Hope she likes it, though. Hope you like it, too. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -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: PESO: Fleet Week Marines
Knarf, Dan flew these in Vietnam. http://walthamler.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Some-Favorites/4592986_SzSzV9#!i=539058524k=Mk8D4lb=1s=A Hopefully he did not end up like this one! :-) Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A nice moment. Good to see the guys having a good time. Paul On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Believe me, we Marines certainly had a lot of smiles and laughs on Liberty. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:59 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: One doesn't think of a smiling Marine but I guess they have light moments like the rest of us. Fun shot, very well timed! For some reason I like the Chase sign in the background. Makes me think they were chasing and caught the fellow with his hands up. ;-) Btw (and feel free to not answer as I'm about to ask a personal question) were you a Marine when you fought in Viet Nam? When you attend an event like Fleet Week do you then wear a uniform or hat or something that would identify you as a veteran? Just curious. If so those kids like the ones in the photo must really look up to, admire and respect you. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: June 5, 2012 6/5/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Fleet Week Marines The week surrounding Memorial Day is Fleet Week in New York City: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15860593 Comments and Criticisms are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: PESO: 23 graduates
Little less formal and more relaxed. Very suitable. Jack Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 9:53 PM Subject: PESO: 23 graduates I asked the PDML’s opinion on how I might go about shooting my son’s Little League’s graduating class. Thanks a heap for the advice; the best piece was cutting a 5x7 hole in a piece of paper, to help compose. I took some straight-on shots and a couple from up a ladder, but ended up liking this throwaway-I-thought from off to one side. http://www.tbray.org/tmp/grads.png -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
Newnablement
Went to a local camera store yesterday and traded some unused stuff for a cherry Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 135/2.5. Will shoot it @ lunch today. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Fleet Week Marines
I knew what he flew, and I was pretty certain he was a Marine, I just wasn't 100% sure. Btw yours is an amazing, dramatic photo! Where was it taken and under what circumstances? The palm trees tell me it was a warm place... Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com Sent: June 6, 2012 6/6/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: Fleet Week Marines Knarf, Dan flew these in Vietnam. http://walthamler.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Some-Favorites/4592986_SzSzV9#!i=539058524k=Mk8D4lb=1s=A Hopefully he did not end up like this one! :-) Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A nice moment. Good to see the guys having a good time. Paul On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Believe me, we Marines certainly had a lot of smiles and laughs on Liberty. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:59 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: One doesn't think of a smiling Marine but I guess they have light moments like the rest of us. Fun shot, very well timed! For some reason I like the Chase sign in the background. Makes me think they were chasing and caught the fellow with his hands up. ;-) Btw (and feel free to not answer as I'm about to ask a personal question) were you a Marine when you fought in Viet Nam? When you attend an event like Fleet Week do you then wear a uniform or hat or something that would identify you as a veteran? Just curious. If so those kids like the ones in the photo must really look up to, admire and respect you. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: June 5, 2012 6/5/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Fleet Week Marines The week surrounding Memorial Day is Fleet Week in New York City: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15860593 Comments and Criticisms are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Wow. Just wow.
I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at Colonial Williamsburg. I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible low-light sensitivity and shadow detail. Everyone who said it's a huge improvement over the K-7: you were right. Many PESOs to follow (from Williamsburg and the English Midlands) when I have time to start sorting. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: 23 graduates
That is an excellent photo of the team. Exactly what the parents want and expect, I imagine. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: I asked the PDML’s opinion on how I might go about shooting my son’s Little League’s graduating class. Thanks a heap for the advice; the best piece was cutting a 5x7 hole in a piece of paper, to help compose. I took some straight-on shots and a couple from up a ladder, but ended up liking this throwaway-I-thought from off to one side. http://www.tbray.org/tmp/grads.png -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Earthquake (update)
Dario: I'm sorry to hear that the quakes aren't over, but happy to hear that you are yours are same. I think Mother Nature is angry at the way we are treating the planet, but she shouldn't take it out on Italy! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Paul Sorenson pentax1...@gmail.com wrote: Glad to hear no big damage from this one...keep safe. -p On 6/6/2012 4:02 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Today we've been awakened dancing at dawn (Richter 4.5), but everything's OK. Epicenter was here in Ravenna, 25Km deep. No big damages, it seems. Dario -- 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: Wow. Just wow.
Rick, Sometimes the Pentax gods smile on us. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at Colonial Williamsburg. I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible low-light sensitivity and shadow detail. Everyone who said it's a huge improvement over the K-7: you were right. Many PESOs to follow (from Williamsburg and the English Midlands) when I have time to start sorting. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Tired of the heat?
Boy, that looks familiar. Great images David. Last fall we had a heavy snowfall early in the season (end of October), but that was followed by a very mild winter. Perhaps you will have the same. The spring weather here today is almost perfect. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Are you hanging upside down? ;-) Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: David Mann dmann...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 7:00 PM Subject: GESO: Tired of the heat? These will cool you off. Normally we get snow in July / August if we get any at all but we have about 3 at the moment with more falling. http://www.multi.net.nz/snow-6-jun/ (just 4 pics) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - The gardeners wall
We look forward to more Walls from you, Tim. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Bruce. It is good to know that the title could work in english too. And while I'm at it: Thanks Frank. Thats good to know too. -- 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 2012/6/5 Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com: Exact same phrase in common colloquial English usage: to hit the wall. I really like your rendering with the colour and texture. Very nice. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: This link leads to two pictures. http://maritimtim.blogspot.no/search/label/M%C3%B8te%20med%20veggen I think it's a start of a project of photos of walls. To make good photographs out of something two dimensional is rather challenging. The norwegian title translates to hit the wall. Thats a Norwegian saying about what happenes (figuratively speaking) when you are burned out after struggling to hard. Comments appreciated. -- 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - Earthquake (update)
stay safe , young man gotta be a strain on the nerves even if not more on the structures ann On 6/6/2012 05:02, Dario Bonazza wrote: Today we've been awakened dancing at dawn (Richter 4.5), but everything's OK. Epicenter was here in Ravenna, 25Km deep. No big damages, it seems. Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Live transit
Nice NASA video on the transit. http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2012/multimedia/transit1.php Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasatv/ -- -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: External Storage of RAW Files
On 05/06/2012 11:51 PM, David Mann wrote: BTW there were plenty of legitimate users of Megaupload, as with any cloud storage provider. But the feds won't tell you that. From what I gather, it's the legitimate users who have suffered in this case. Their data may be irretrievably gone. It also appears that megaupload didn't really do all that much wrong, or all that much different from other cloud storage facilities. If this is the case, then it may well just be random chance that they were chosen by the FBI to be made an example of, in which case no cloud storage facility is safe, and this is just one more way to lose data. http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/document/pdf/201222/Restraint%20challenge.pdf -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Fleet Week Marines
Thanks, Paul. There are a lot of sailors, and a few Marines, enjoying Manhattan every year during Fleet Week. Since our wedding anniversary always falls during that time span, we are usually in the city for theater and dinner, and always enjoy seeing the men and women in uniform. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A nice moment. Good to see the guys having a good time. Paul On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Believe me, we Marines certainly had a lot of smiles and laughs on Liberty. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:59 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: One doesn't think of a smiling Marine but I guess they have light moments like the rest of us. Fun shot, very well timed! For some reason I like the Chase sign in the background. Makes me think they were chasing and caught the fellow with his hands up. ;-) Btw (and feel free to not answer as I'm about to ask a personal question) were you a Marine when you fought in Viet Nam? When you attend an event like Fleet Week do you then wear a uniform or hat or something that would identify you as a veteran? Just curious. If so those kids like the ones in the photo must really look up to, admire and respect you. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: June 5, 2012 6/5/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Fleet Week Marines The week surrounding Memorial Day is Fleet Week in New York City: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15860593 Comments and Criticisms are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: External Storage of RAW Files
On 05/06/2012 7:48 PM, steve harley wrote: on 2012-06-05 6:17 William Robb wrote Anyone who is depending on cloud storage should be looking at this as the potential end result of all their carefully uploaded data. anyone who is depending _solely_ on cloud storage Well yes, I mentioned that in an earlier post when I said I don't really think one digital storage technology negates the use of another one . -- 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: Presentation
From: Daniel J. Matyola Welcome. You can learn a lot from the wiser heads on this list. If they ever come back around. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Fleet Week Marines
That was shot on Guam in mid 1967 I believe. I was a Navy Photographer stationed there in a Reconnaissance Squadron Photo Lab. We were tasked to do crash scene photography as needed, and I was on call that day. The plane was one of two that were taking off together (side by side, one trailing), and the lead plane blew a left main tire almost halfway down the runway. It caused them to skid off the runway toward the brand new international airport on the civilian side of the airfield. Luckily it hit a concrete blast deflector that stopped it from going through a fence and possibly into the building. BTW, even though I was Navy, in my later years as a Warrant Officer, my favorite military people were and still are, Marines! Thanks, Dan! Walt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:03 AM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I knew what he flew, and I was pretty certain he was a Marine, I just wasn't 100% sure. Btw yours is an amazing, dramatic photo! Where was it taken and under what circumstances? The palm trees tell me it was a warm place... Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com Sent: June 6, 2012 6/6/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: Fleet Week Marines Knarf, Dan flew these in Vietnam. http://walthamler.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Some-Favorites/4592986_SzSzV9#!i=539058524k=Mk8D4lb=1s=A Hopefully he did not end up like this one! :-) Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A nice moment. Good to see the guys having a good time. Paul On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Believe me, we Marines certainly had a lot of smiles and laughs on Liberty. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:59 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: One doesn't think of a smiling Marine but I guess they have light moments like the rest of us. Fun shot, very well timed! For some reason I like the Chase sign in the background. Makes me think they were chasing and caught the fellow with his hands up. ;-) Btw (and feel free to not answer as I'm about to ask a personal question) were you a Marine when you fought in Viet Nam? When you attend an event like Fleet Week do you then wear a uniform or hat or something that would identify you as a veteran? Just curious. If so those kids like the ones in the photo must really look up to, admire and respect you. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: June 5, 2012 6/5/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Fleet Week Marines The week surrounding Memorial Day is Fleet Week in New York City: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15860593 Comments and Criticisms are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO - PAD - Dual Reflections - Print-a-Day 9
This is number 9 in the series Print-a-Day for 30 Days http://georges.posterous.com/dual-reflections-print-a-day-9 This is one half of a pair of buildings in downtown Omaha called the Twin Towers. When you first look at this photo it appears that the other half of the pair is simply being reflected in the windows. On closer examination you see two reflections. The first is the image of the second building in the windows. The brighter, diagonal is the light being reflected onto the brickwork from the other building's windows. This is one of those images that is much better when printed large. The reflections and the brick detail are what make the image. Click on the image to see it as big as your screen will allow. Printing this photo wasn't difficult. I boosted the sharpening in the print version to enhance the detail in the bricks. 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: PESO: 23 graduates
From: Tim Bray I asked the PDML?s opinion on how I might go about shooting my son?s Little League?s graduating class.?? Thanks a heap for the advice; the best piece was cutting a 5x7 hole in a piece of paper, to help compose.? I took some straight-on shots and a couple from up a ladder, but ended up liking this throwaway-I-thought from off to one side. http://www.tbray.org/tmp/grads.png Is that straight from the camera or cropped? If cropped, is there any way to re-crop it so it doesn't cut the foot off the kid on the right? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Earthquake (update)
Dario's words: Today we've been awakened dancing at dawn (Richter 4.5), but everything's OK. Epicenter was here in Ravenna, 25Km deep. No big damages, it seems. Dario Sad to read that Dario, at least there are less victims this time - once would be too much, but three times is plain unfair. Reads silly, but stay safe - as possible in such nightmare. -- luiz felipe luiz.felipe at luizfelipe.fot.br -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Fleet Week Marines
GREAT shot Walter! I am quite certain that I saw that image shortly after you took it. I was in Viet Nam until May 1967. Sailors and Marines say a lot of nasty things about each other from time to time, but behind that there is mutual respect for each other. Thanks for you service Walter, and thanks for posting the image. I bought my first Pentax -- a Honeywell branded Spotmatic -- in the PX in 1966. Some of my images from 1966-1967 are located here: http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=398541 Sorry about all the duplicates; I was playing around with different versions and different sizes, and storing them all in this folder. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com wrote: That was shot on Guam in mid 1967 I believe. I was a Navy Photographer stationed there in a Reconnaissance Squadron Photo Lab. We were tasked to do crash scene photography as needed, and I was on call that day. The plane was one of two that were taking off together (side by side, one trailing), and the lead plane blew a left main tire almost halfway down the runway. It caused them to skid off the runway toward the brand new international airport on the civilian side of the airfield. Luckily it hit a concrete blast deflector that stopped it from going through a fence and possibly into the building. BTW, even though I was Navy, in my later years as a Warrant Officer, my favorite military people were and still are, Marines! Thanks, Dan! Walt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:03 AM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I knew what he flew, and I was pretty certain he was a Marine, I just wasn't 100% sure. Btw yours is an amazing, dramatic photo! Where was it taken and under what circumstances? The palm trees tell me it was a warm place... Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com Sent: June 6, 2012 6/6/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: Fleet Week Marines Knarf, Dan flew these in Vietnam. http://walthamler.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Some-Favorites/4592986_SzSzV9#!i=539058524k=Mk8D4lb=1s=A Hopefully he did not end up like this one! :-) Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A nice moment. Good to see the guys having a good time. Paul On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Believe me, we Marines certainly had a lot of smiles and laughs on Liberty. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:59 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: One doesn't think of a smiling Marine but I guess they have light moments like the rest of us. Fun shot, very well timed! For some reason I like the Chase sign in the background. Makes me think they were chasing and caught the fellow with his hands up. ;-) Btw (and feel free to not answer as I'm about to ask a personal question) were you a Marine when you fought in Viet Nam? When you attend an event like Fleet Week do you then wear a uniform or hat or something that would identify you as a veteran? Just curious. If so those kids like the ones in the photo must really look up to, admire and respect you. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: June 5, 2012 6/5/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Fleet Week Marines The week surrounding Memorial Day is Fleet Week in New York City: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15860593 Comments and Criticisms are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net
Re: PESO - PAD - Dual Reflections - Print-a-Day 9
Very interesting colors and patterns. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:05 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: This is number 9 in the series Print-a-Day for 30 Days http://georges.posterous.com/dual-reflections-print-a-day-9 This is one half of a pair of buildings in downtown Omaha called the Twin Towers. When you first look at this photo it appears that the other half of the pair is simply being reflected in the windows. On closer examination you see two reflections. The first is the image of the second building in the windows. The brighter, diagonal is the light being reflected onto the brickwork from the other building's windows. This is one of those images that is much better when printed large. The reflections and the brick detail are what make the image. Click on the image to see it as big as your screen will allow. Printing this photo wasn't difficult. I boosted the sharpening in the print version to enhance the detail in the bricks. 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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
From what I gather, it's the legitimate users who have suffered in this case. Their data may be irretrievably gone. It also appears that megaupload didn't really do all that much wrong, or all that much different from other cloud storage facilities. If this is the case, then it may well just be random chance that they were chosen by the FBI to be made an example of, in which case no cloud storage facility is safe, and this is just one more way to lose data. http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/document/pdf/201222/Restraint%20challenge.pdf -- William Robb Cloud storage is trusting someone else with your data. It may be a convenient way of storing data, but it should never be the primary or only backup. I wouldn't consider it as any form of long term backup for two reasons, especially not with my personal photographs. 1. Basically first sentence above. One is trusting someone else with their data. That's sort of like giving the keys of your house to a complete stranger. 2. If the data actually were physically safe from loss, it's not necessarily safe from hacking or theft. In fact the idea of cloud backup strikes me as almost an abdication of 'responsibility' for the safety and security of one's data. Temporary cloud storage is fine. That occurs anytime someone puts a website up on a host. Or using a drop box to transfer data is fine. 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: Wow. Just wow.
Neat to read such! Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com To: Pentax List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 6:22 AM Subject: Wow. Just wow. I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at Colonial Williamsburg. I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible low-light sensitivity and shadow detail. Everyone who said it's a huge improvement over the K-7: you were right. Many PESOs to follow (from Williamsburg and the English Midlands) when I have time to start sorting. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Wow. Just wow.
We told you! :-) Cheers, Christine On Jun 6, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Rick Womer wrote: I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at Colonial Williamsburg. I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible low-light sensitivity and shadow detail. Everyone who said it's a huge improvement over the K-7: you were right. Many PESOs to follow (from Williamsburg and the English Midlands) when I have time to start sorting. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
test of S-M-C 135/2.5 version 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55001392@N08/7345203696/in/set-72157630003981439/lightbox/ The Alfalfa shot shows great detail capture. The Tree shot, though focused in front, shows (via the crop of the lower front) a good DOF rendering. The one poor characteristic is from the walk shots. There is some red fringing in the OOF area. Controlling light appears to be critical with this lens. A very, very good lens, though not as great as I had hoped. I will use it for certain types of work, at least for now. Perhaps I will do some product shots with it, just to see how well it performs. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Fleet Week Marines
A fascinating gallery. Great in-formation shots. Paul On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: GREAT shot Walter! I am quite certain that I saw that image shortly after you took it. I was in Viet Nam until May 1967. Sailors and Marines say a lot of nasty things about each other from time to time, but behind that there is mutual respect for each other. Thanks for you service Walter, and thanks for posting the image. I bought my first Pentax -- a Honeywell branded Spotmatic -- in the PX in 1966. Some of my images from 1966-1967 are located here: http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=398541 Sorry about all the duplicates; I was playing around with different versions and different sizes, and storing them all in this folder. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com wrote: That was shot on Guam in mid 1967 I believe. I was a Navy Photographer stationed there in a Reconnaissance Squadron Photo Lab. We were tasked to do crash scene photography as needed, and I was on call that day. The plane was one of two that were taking off together (side by side, one trailing), and the lead plane blew a left main tire almost halfway down the runway. It caused them to skid off the runway toward the brand new international airport on the civilian side of the airfield. Luckily it hit a concrete blast deflector that stopped it from going through a fence and possibly into the building. BTW, even though I was Navy, in my later years as a Warrant Officer, my favorite military people were and still are, Marines! Thanks, Dan! Walt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:03 AM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I knew what he flew, and I was pretty certain he was a Marine, I just wasn't 100% sure. Btw yours is an amazing, dramatic photo! Where was it taken and under what circumstances? The palm trees tell me it was a warm place... Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com Sent: June 6, 2012 6/6/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: Fleet Week Marines Knarf, Dan flew these in Vietnam. http://walthamler.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Some-Favorites/4592986_SzSzV9#!i=539058524k=Mk8D4lb=1s=A Hopefully he did not end up like this one! :-) Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A nice moment. Good to see the guys having a good time. Paul On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Believe me, we Marines certainly had a lot of smiles and laughs on Liberty. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:59 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: One doesn't think of a smiling Marine but I guess they have light moments like the rest of us. Fun shot, very well timed! For some reason I like the Chase sign in the background. Makes me think they were chasing and caught the fellow with his hands up. ;-) Btw (and feel free to not answer as I'm about to ask a personal question) were you a Marine when you fought in Viet Nam? When you attend an event like Fleet Week do you then wear a uniform or hat or something that would identify you as a veteran? Just curious. If so those kids like the ones in the photo must really look up to, admire and respect you. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: June 5, 2012 6/5/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Fleet Week Marines The week surrounding Memorial Day is Fleet Week in New York City: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15860593 Comments and Criticisms are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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
Re: PESO: Struggling Pine
Jack: I agree that the standards of the PPG voters appeared to be a bit lower shortly after the gallery was restarted. I find, however, that the standards seem to be a lot higher the last three weeks, at least judging my hje percentage of my submissions that have been accepted. They still, however, seem more favorably disposed towards flower macros than the other types of images that I have submitted. I really like your struggling pine image, and I hope that you keep struggling, like your pine, to get it into the PPG. It belongs there. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Yeah, I had some personal doo-doo accepted last year. I really can't complain and maybe I should feel a wee bit guilty for submitting some especially smelly stuff that got accepted. Seems to me the standards for acceptance have been lowered and I've been taking advantage of it. Submit a few more, Frank. Hopefully I'm wrong and the voters have matured somewhat since you left. My sense is that your image posts deserve and receive more glowing comments from PDML members than most Seriously, thanks for your generous comments, Frank! Jack -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Fleet Week Marines
Thanks, Paul. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A fascinating gallery. Great in-formation shots. Paul On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: GREAT shot Walter! I am quite certain that I saw that image shortly after you took it. I was in Viet Nam until May 1967. Sailors and Marines say a lot of nasty things about each other from time to time, but behind that there is mutual respect for each other. Thanks for you service Walter, and thanks for posting the image. I bought my first Pentax -- a Honeywell branded Spotmatic -- in the PX in 1966. Some of my images from 1966-1967 are located here: http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=398541 Sorry about all the duplicates; I was playing around with different versions and different sizes, and storing them all in this folder. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com wrote: That was shot on Guam in mid 1967 I believe. I was a Navy Photographer stationed there in a Reconnaissance Squadron Photo Lab. We were tasked to do crash scene photography as needed, and I was on call that day. The plane was one of two that were taking off together (side by side, one trailing), and the lead plane blew a left main tire almost halfway down the runway. It caused them to skid off the runway toward the brand new international airport on the civilian side of the airfield. Luckily it hit a concrete blast deflector that stopped it from going through a fence and possibly into the building. BTW, even though I was Navy, in my later years as a Warrant Officer, my favorite military people were and still are, Marines! Thanks, Dan! Walt On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:03 AM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I knew what he flew, and I was pretty certain he was a Marine, I just wasn't 100% sure. Btw yours is an amazing, dramatic photo! Where was it taken and under what circumstances? The palm trees tell me it was a warm place... Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com Sent: June 6, 2012 6/6/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: Fleet Week Marines Knarf, Dan flew these in Vietnam. http://walthamler.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Some-Favorites/4592986_SzSzV9#!i=539058524k=Mk8D4lb=1s=A Hopefully he did not end up like this one! :-) Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A nice moment. Good to see the guys having a good time. Paul On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Believe me, we Marines certainly had a lot of smiles and laughs on Liberty. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:59 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: One doesn't think of a smiling Marine but I guess they have light moments like the rest of us. Fun shot, very well timed! For some reason I like the Chase sign in the background. Makes me think they were chasing and caught the fellow with his hands up. ;-) Btw (and feel free to not answer as I'm about to ask a personal question) were you a Marine when you fought in Viet Nam? When you attend an event like Fleet Week do you then wear a uniform or hat or something that would identify you as a veteran? Just curious. If so those kids like the ones in the photo must really look up to, admire and respect you. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: June 5, 2012 6/5/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Fleet Week Marines The week surrounding Memorial Day is Fleet Week in New York City: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15860593 Comments and Criticisms are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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
Re: How much difference does optimizing the aperture make?
On 5/6/12, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: What would be cool would be an ND filter that went behind the reflex mirror and in front of the sensor. My video camera has three NDs on a wheel exactly in that place. -- 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.
PESO: Kran i solnedgang
A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 6/6/12, P J Alling (who I once killfiled but miraculously somehow got past the filters and actually isn't too disturbing these days), discombobulated, unleashed: Already made my res. for flight to London to take snaps of the hat slowly disappearing into Cotty's maw. You better have plenty of spare batteries then, you'll be waiting for a while... -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Struggling Pine
Thanks, Dan! I, also, believe (due to the failure of a couple recent submissions) that the standards may have been tweaked upward in recent weeks. I recently took down a two or three offerings that I had submitted primarily for their influence on the count. No doubt encouraged by the apparent ease of acceptance at that time. Ok with me. It may force me to stiffen my standards. Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:15 AM Subject: Re: PESO: Struggling Pine Jack: I agree that the standards of the PPG voters appeared to be a bit lower shortly after the gallery was restarted. I find, however, that the standards seem to be a lot higher the last three weeks, at least judging my hje percentage of my submissions that have been accepted. They still, however, seem more favorably disposed towards flower macros than the other types of images that I have submitted. I really like your struggling pine image, and I hope that you keep struggling, like your pine, to get it into the PPG. It belongs there. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Yeah, I had some personal doo-doo accepted last year. I really can't complain and maybe I should feel a wee bit guilty for submitting some especially smelly stuff that got accepted. Seems to me the standards for acceptance have been lowered and I've been taking advantage of it. Submit a few more, Frank. Hopefully I'm wrong and the voters have matured somewhat since you left. My sense is that your image posts deserve and receive more glowing comments from PDML members than most Seriously, thanks for your generous comments, Frank! Jack -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Kran i solnedgang
Gorgeous! The differences are minor. I like the second one a bit better because, on my monitor at least, the rays of light reflected on the surface of the water stand out just a bit stronger. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net wrote: A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Kran i solnedgang
I agree - but it took me a long time to notice they were different shots... they needed to be side by side for me.. I suspected they were slightly different - I'd like the bright spot of the sun to be a little less burned out but thats a nit ann On 6/6/2012 11:46, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Gorgeous! The differences are minor. I like the second one a bit better because, on my monitor at least, the rays of light reflected on the surface of the water stand out just a bit stronger. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Toralf Lundtor...@toralf.net wrote: A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Kran i solnedgang
I kind of feel there should be an obvious reason for the cable and arm assembly in the foreground. Beautiful sky, but I agree it does need an anchor. Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:25 AM Subject: PESO: Kran i solnedgang A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Kran i solnedgang
If the mast and sheets aren't visible, how would one know it is taken from a sailboat? Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: I kind of feel there should be an obvious reason for the cable and arm assembly in the foreground. Beautiful sky, but I agree it does need an anchor. Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:25 AM Subject: PESO: Kran i solnedgang A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: Grand Canyon Pano
Strange things do pop up from time to time Walt. I tried to re-format a potentially defective 1 TB drive last week, and was consistently told there was insufficient memory for the task by Disk Utility. Apple and Iomega have no idea what that means or what brought it up. On Jun 5, 2012, at 04:59 , Walter Hamler wrote: Yes, mine is only 8 months old and I added 3 - 4 gig cards right after buying. I have also updated to Lion. The machine is fast, but not a steamroller for sure. I just can't figure out why I come up with the msg that there isn't enough ram. I strongly suspect it has something to do with ram allocation from my PC days. However, it may well be that when PSE is crunching something as large as a 7 photo merge it uses up assets faster than I realize :-) Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: If your specs say that iMac will use 12 GB of RAM, it will. Maybe more. My iMac is limited to 4 GB, but if matched it will take a 4 GB and 2 GB simm. Many of the usual programs will use that extra 2 GB. Certainly speeds up Aperture and PS, and everything else. If it doesn’t excite you, This thing that you see, Why in the world, Would it excite me? —Jay Maisel Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.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...
Sorry but I didn't say that. On 6/6/2012 11:28 AM, Cotty wrote: On 6/6/12, P J Alling (who I once killfiled but miraculously somehow got past the filters and actually isn't too disturbing these days), discombobulated, unleashed: Already made my res. for flight to London to take snaps of the hat slowly disappearing into Cotty's maw. You better have plenty of spare batteries then, you'll be waiting for a while... -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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.
A Craigslist Adventure Story
I have a love/hate relationship with Craigslist. I live in a low population density area where the relatively close-by Craigslist deals are few and far between. The big city Craigslist is hardly worth looking at, since I will have next-to-no-chance of getting there first 99% of the time. It is normally psyche-damaging to even look at what is/was available there that I have no chance of getting. Yesterday was an exceptional exception. Checked Craigslist before getting down to work yesterday morning and was dismayed to see that THIS ad had been placed the middle of the afternoon (the day before): http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/pZ-1pKitCraigslist.png No phone number in the ad (thankfully) so I hit the email and asked him to please consider it sold to me (if it was still available). I explained that I lived hours away, but had a sister/bro-in-law in his town that would do the transaction for me (or so I *hoped*). Then I dashed off a plea for help in getting there first to my sister bro-in-law (not knowing if it had already been sold, which I strongly suspected it probably had been). Complicating matters further was the fact that I would not be in the office (at my email/phone) as I would be busy on a remote video shoot for my employer for the entire morning. Working in my favor, for the first time, was my 3G iPad 2. During a mid-morning break I was able to use it to check my work email (remotely). First, the seller had responded and said that it was indeed still available but that he also had another guy interested. He gave me both his address and phone number, so I immediately called him. I assured him that I was definitely purchasing it and that I just had to figure out who was getting it and what time would work for all concerned. The seller was home all day, so that was a big plus. I implored him to consider it sold to me and found out that he had not given his phone number or address to the other guy (at least not yet). My brother-in-law, who worked in the same quadrant of the city, was kind enough to do the transaction for me over his lunch break. The seller confirmed with me via email that he had indeed made the purchase (only later confirmed by my BIL). And there was Great Rejoicing. I plan on selling the body and two lenses to both reimburse my brother-in-law and buy him a nice restaurant gift certificate for he and my sister for making it all possible. The free F 100mm f2.8 macro goes in the bag. It will be my first Pentax macro longer than 50mm and also my first AF macro lens. Looking forward to doing some PESOs with it. People seem to really like that lens (and it's brethren). So my iPad 2 basically just paid for itself by facilitating that one purchase (although a smart phone would have allowed something similar, if I had opted for a smartphone instead). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Presentation
Welcome Ronaldo! One of the best things about shooting with Pentax is all of the excellent older lenses that you can use easily on it. With the Pentax in-body image stabilization, all of those older lenses become even more useful than they were originally! Looking forward to seeing examples of your work! On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: On Jun 5, 2012, at 4:39 PM, rona...@skyairlines.com.br wrote: Hello, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Ronaldo, I am Brazilian and I live in the city of Fortaleza, Ceara. Another one of those Fortaleza crazies? I am a Canon user and recently, through a friend, Oh THAT troublemaker! I started doing a few clicks using their Pentax Kr I know that particular machine well. It is a very nice camera. Many, if not most of the photos in this set, were taken with it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625912266578/ and he showed me this mailing list to delve into the resources of this wonderful machine. I hope I can contribute and learn a lot from you. Welcome. Ditto. Not only is Ronaldo new here, he has also contributed to the June PUG with a quite excellent submission (but you'll have to wait a day or two to see it). -- 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: OT: Grand Canyon Pano
That sounds like a fall over message. What ever the problem is it doesn't have it's own error message, and whoever wrote the routine just defaulted to /something/. The original programmer either no longer works for or never worked for either company, and never documented the feature. When I was working for a company on a printer routine, the HP Laserjet II driver would regularly fail when rendering large documents with no error message. When that happened rather than display a meaningless message my routine simply, cleaned up after itself and exited gracefully with a general error code. It should have probably logged the unknown error from the printer driver or popped up a dialog box, but there wasn't time to do it right and it was better than taking down the whole application, or, considering that it was for Windows 3.0, crashing the operating system. There was always a plan to go back and add some kind of logging and or error notification, as well as producing some kind of documentation besides my somewhat cryptic comment in the code. Well I get caught in the in the next big layoff about a year a later, probably because I'd peed off my bosses boss, (calling a moron, stupid to his face is probably not the best way to insure job security), and it still hadn't been done. I expect their help desk still gets calls asking where the document went. On 6/6/2012 12:11 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: Strange things do pop up from time to time Walt. I tried to re-format a potentially defective 1 TB drive last week, and was consistently told there was insufficient memory for the task by Disk Utility. Apple and Iomega have no idea what that means or what brought it up. On Jun 5, 2012, at 04:59 , Walter Hamler wrote: Yes, mine is only 8 months old and I added 3 - 4 gig cards right after buying. I have also updated to Lion. The machine is fast, but not a steamroller for sure. I just can't figure out why I come up with the msg that there isn't enough ram. I strongly suspect it has something to do with ram allocation from my PC days. However, it may well be that when PSE is crunching something as large as a 7 photo merge it uses up assets faster than I realize :-) Walt On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Joseph McAllisterpentax...@mac.com wrote: If your specs say that iMac will use 12 GB of RAM, it will. Maybe more. My iMac is limited to 4 GB, but if matched it will take a 4 GB and 2 GB simm. Many of the usual programs will use that extra 2 GB. Certainly speeds up Aperture and PS, and everything else. If it doesn’t excite you, This thing that you see, Why in the world, Would it excite me? —Jay Maisel Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com -- 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 PESO - A.
G'day All, A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to shoot a husband wife team who were between fitness figure competitions: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/7241478734_7845e8fb71_o.jpg She had won best arms in the state finals. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave PS, Please don't let this degenerate into a bunch of That's disgusting. Feed her a hamburger type posts. If you don't care for the subject matters choice of lifestyle, don't comment. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: A Craigslist Adventure Story
On Jun 6, 2012, at 11:12, Darren Addy wrote: I have a love/hate relationship with Craigslist. I live in a low population density area where the relatively close-by Craigslist deals are few and far between. The big city Craigslist is hardly worth looking at, since I will have next-to-no-chance of getting there first 99% of the time. It is normally psyche-damaging to even look at what is/was available there that I have no chance of getting. Yesterday was an exceptional exception. Checked Craigslist before getting down to work yesterday morning and was dismayed to see that THIS ad had been placed the middle of the afternoon (the day before): http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/pZ-1pKitCraigslist.png Holy Hannah! That's a great deal. I've had heart palpitations before when I see people selling worthless camera bodies with lenses that are worth four to ten times the value of the rest of the kit. Usually I'm too late to jump, although I've gotten a few good deals in the past few years. Congratulations! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT PESO - A.
Really well done, Dave! Love the color tones.and lighting. I can understand why her arms would compete successfully in a fitness competition. Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 9:33 AM Subject: OT PESO - A. G'day All, A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to shoot a husband wife team who were between fitness figure competitions: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/7241478734_7845e8fb71_o.jpg She had won best arms in the state finals. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave PS, Please don't let this degenerate into a bunch of That's disgusting. Feed her a hamburger type posts. If you don't care for the subject matters choice of lifestyle, don't comment. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Kran i solnedgang
On 06/06/12 18:09, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: If the mast and sheets aren't visible, how would one know it is taken from a sailboat? Actually cheating a bit, there (although I should not give that a way.) It's a slightly different kind of assembly on a motorised vessel... - T Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Jack Davisjdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: I kind of feel there should be an obvious reason for the cable and arm assembly in the foreground. Beautiful sky, but I agree it does need an anchor. Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Toralf Lundtor...@toralf.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:25 AM Subject: PESO: Kran i solnedgang A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: PESO: Kran i solnedgang
On 06/06/12 17:46, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Gorgeous! The differences are minor. I like the second one a bit better because, on my monitor at least, the rays of light reflected on the surface of the water stand out just a bit stronger. OK, thanks :-) - Toralf Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Toralf Lundtor...@toralf.net wrote: A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Earthquake (update)
Glad to hear you're ok. -- Godfrey Nature is impersonal. That said, when I get to see the Supreme Being, I have some complaints to make... - anonymous -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PESO - A.
Nice portrait. Nice lady also. Too bad you had to shoot her, and her husband as well. G Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: G'day All, A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to shoot a husband wife team who were between fitness figure competitions: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/7241478734_7845e8fb71_o.jpg She had won best arms in the state finals. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave PS, Please don't let this degenerate into a bunch of That's disgusting. Feed her a hamburger type posts. If you don't care for the subject matters choice of lifestyle, don't comment. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Wow. Just wow.
Rick Womer wrote: I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at Colonial Williamsburg. I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible low-light sensitivity and shadow detail. Try some BW conversions. You'll find the latest generation of sensors have yielded amazing advances in what can be achieved. :-) -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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: Kran i solnedgang
You fooled me! Then again, it's been a few years since I sold my sailboat. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net wrote: On 06/06/12 18:09, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: If the mast and sheets aren't visible, how would one know it is taken from a sailboat? Actually cheating a bit, there (although I should not give that a way.) It's a slightly different kind of assembly on a motorised vessel... - T Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Jack Davisjdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: I kind of feel there should be an obvious reason for the cable and arm assembly in the foreground. Beautiful sky, but I agree it does need an anchor. Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Toralf Lundtor...@toralf.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:25 AM Subject: PESO: Kran i solnedgang A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I have a secret...
I demand a reconsideration! On Jun 6, 2012, at 09:12 , P. J. Alling wrote: Sorry but I didn't say that. On 6/6/2012 11:28 AM, Cotty wrote: On 6/6/12, P J Alling (who I once killfiled but miraculously somehow got past the filters and actually isn't too disturbing these days), discombobulated, unleashed: Already made my res. for flight to London to take snaps of the hat slowly disappearing into Cotty's maw. You better have plenty of spare batteries then, you'll be waiting for a while... Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.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: Grand Canyon Pano
Been there - same result. Being jobless, you've nothing to cling to but the knowledge you were right, they were a moron! :-) On Jun 6, 2012, at 09:32 , P. J. Alling wrote: Well I get caught in the in the next big layoff about a year a later, probably because I'd peed off my bosses boss, (calling a moron, stupid to his face is probably not the best way to insure job security), and it still hadn't been done. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com The Big Bang was silent, and invisible in it's beginning moments. Photons were one of the earliest particles to develop, but I don't think any were able to escape for a little bit more. Once they could, there would have been a flash during expansion. No one would notice, of course, for another 4.2 billion years. Now we are trying to catch up by looking out, and back in time to that infinitesimally small fraction of a millisecond in an attempt to see what caused that singularity to become the Big Bang. This attempt will fail in any visual way, as the furthest galaxies and elements are now moving faster than light by recent theory, making the information sought beyond a theoretical event horizon. — update to the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Olympics sets limits on amature lens size.
Apparently large cameras, (and I don't know what large means Pop Photo doesn't give specifics), and lenses over 30 cm, (why don't the English just revert to form and say a foot), are prohibited. I expect to see a run on Pentax M* 300mm and Olympus OM-D cameras with 4:3 to K mount adapters is in the offing. 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: Olympics sets limits on amature lens size.
The entire games are a giant corporate stitch-up, so this sort of thing comes as no surprise. I'd rather see a scaled-down games with less corporate sponsorship and 'hospitality' and something on a more human scale geared towards ordinary people, even if it wasn't so spectacular. B -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: 06 June 2012 18:28 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Olympics sets limits on amature lens size. Apparently large cameras, (and I don't know what large means Pop Photo doesn't give specifics), and lenses over 30 cm, (why don't the English just revert to form and say a foot), are prohibited. I expect to see a run on Pentax M* 300mm and Olympus OM-D cameras with 4:3 to K mount adapters is in the offing. 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: 23 graduates
Yep, but it looks better with the poor little guy amputated. -T On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:08 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Tim Bray I asked the PDML?s opinion on how I might go about shooting my son?s Little League?s graduating class.?? Thanks a heap for the advice; the best piece was cutting a 5x7 hole in a piece of paper, to help compose.? I took some straight-on shots and a couple from up a ladder, but ended up liking this throwaway-I-thought from off to one side. http://www.tbray.org/tmp/grads.png Is that straight from the camera or cropped? If cropped, is there any way to re-crop it so it doesn't cut the foot off the kid on the right? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: A Craigslist Adventure Story
That's a great deal, opportunistically snapped-up - congratulations! B -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Darren Addy Sent: 06 June 2012 17:13 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: A Craigslist Adventure Story I have a love/hate relationship with Craigslist. I live in a low population density area where the relatively close-by Craigslist deals are few and far between. The big city Craigslist is hardly worth looking at, since I will have next-to-no-chance of getting there first 99% of the time. It is normally psyche-damaging to even look at what is/was available there that I have no chance of getting. Yesterday was an exceptional exception. Checked Craigslist before getting down to work yesterday morning and was dismayed to see that THIS ad had been placed the middle of the afternoon (the day before): http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/pZ-1pKitCraigslist.png No phone number in the ad (thankfully) so I hit the email and asked him to please consider it sold to me (if it was still available). I explained that I lived hours away, but had a sister/bro-in-law in his town that would do the transaction for me (or so I *hoped*). Then I dashed off a plea for help in getting there first to my sister bro- in-law (not knowing if it had already been sold, which I strongly suspected it probably had been). Complicating matters further was the fact that I would not be in the office (at my email/phone) as I would be busy on a remote video shoot for my employer for the entire morning. Working in my favor, for the first time, was my 3G iPad 2. During a mid-morning break I was able to use it to check my work email (remotely). First, the seller had responded and said that it was indeed still available but that he also had another guy interested. He gave me both his address and phone number, so I immediately called him. I assured him that I was definitely purchasing it and that I just had to figure out who was getting it and what time would work for all concerned. The seller was home all day, so that was a big plus. I implored him to consider it sold to me and found out that he had not given his phone number or address to the other guy (at least not yet). My brother-in-law, who worked in the same quadrant of the city, was kind enough to do the transaction for me over his lunch break. The seller confirmed with me via email that he had indeed made the purchase (only later confirmed by my BIL). And there was Great Rejoicing. I plan on selling the body and two lenses to both reimburse my brother- in-law and buy him a nice restaurant gift certificate for he and my sister for making it all possible. The free F 100mm f2.8 macro goes in the bag. It will be my first Pentax macro longer than 50mm and also my first AF macro lens. Looking forward to doing some PESOs with it. People seem to really like that lens (and it's brethren). So my iPad 2 basically just paid for itself by facilitating that one purchase (although a smart phone would have allowed something similar, if I had opted for a smartphone instead). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Grand Canyon Pano
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling That sounds like a fall over message. What ever the problem is it doesn't have it's own error message, and whoever wrote the routine just defaulted to /something/. The original programmer either no longer works for or never worked for either company, and never documented the feature. at one place where I worked the (unofficial) standard was to call a non-existent error-handler called Oh_Shit!, which caused the operator console to print something along the lines of Oh_shit! does not exist, bla bla... At another place we called ISD99_Nice_little_earner which invoked the overnight call-out routine and subsequent overtime payments. 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: OT PESO - A.
On 06/06/2012 10:33 AM, David Savage wrote: G'day All, A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to shoot a husband wife team who were between fitness figure competitions: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/7241478734_7845e8fb71_o.jpg She had won best arms in the state finals. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave PS, Please don't let this degenerate into a bunch of That's disgusting. Feed her a hamburger type posts. If you don't care for the subject matters choice of lifestyle, don't comment. Comment badly, and Dave might send her to beat you up, little man. :) -- 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: Wow. Just wow.
On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:22 AM, Rick Womer wrote: I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at Colonial Williamsburg. I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible low-light sensitivity and shadow detail. Congratulations. Everyone who said it's a huge improvement over the K-7: you were right. It's funny. No matter how many times you hear about how quiet it is, the first time you shoot one it's practically guaranteed to smack your gob. I've shot over 50,000 frames on mine, and it's still surprising me by how much harder I can push it and still get completely usable results. Yes, some of my photos from last weekend look a bit rough, but they were shot at ISO 16,000 and 1/10 second and are sharper, and cleaner, than what I was getting with the K100 at ISO 1,600 and 1/20 Sec. Sometimes I think that I need to completely relearn how to expose and process photos with the K-5. It has so much dynamic range, I'm almost better exposing to preserve highlights that one would expect to be completely out of range, and then pull usable details out of what at first looks like completely black shadow. Many PESOs to follow (from Williamsburg and the English Midlands) when I have time to start sorting. I'm looking forward to them. -- 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: Presentation
Welcome to your new home ;) Bulent Ankara, Turkey - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Kran i solnedgang
On 06/06/12 17:50, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I agree - Thank you :-) but it took me a long time to notice they were different shots... they needed to be side by side for me.. Well, they were shot from more or less the same spot only a minute or two apart, unless it was only a few seconds. I suspected they were slightly different - I'd like the bright spot of the sun to be a little less burned out but thats a nit I think the exposure times were slightly different, too... Yeah, perhaps I could have underexposed (according to the meter) a bit more... - Toralf ann On 6/6/2012 11:46, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Gorgeous! The differences are minor. I like the second one a bit better because, on my monitor at least, the rays of light reflected on the surface of the water stand out just a bit stronger. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Toralf Lundtor...@toralf.net wrote: A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Kran i solnedgang
On 06/06/12 17:53, Jack Davis wrote: I kind of feel there should be an obvious reason for the cable and arm assembly in the foreground. Fair enough. Beautiful sky, but I agree it does need an anchor. That's what I was thinking. Even though the sky was nice, I think it would be sort of dull on its own. And I suppose I aimed for the slightly uncommon, as always... - Toralf Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Toralf Lundtor...@toralf.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:25 AM Subject: PESO: Kran i solnedgang A couple of images (two different shots, same subject) I considered submitting for the June PUG - but eventually, I selected another one: http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing http://www.toralf.net/bilde.php?navn=sailing2 Comments? [ Edit: I tried to send essentially the same message, but it seems not to have reached the list, so I'm trying again... ] [ Edit 2: And for a 3rd time. Is there something wrong with the list, or the web interface I was using earlier, or with me? Or all of the above? ] - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: GESO Pentaxian
On Jun 5, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Before you spend another moment comparing MTF charts, I recommend you practice editing shoots like that down to 1 to 3 shots to post. Use the stars in Lr to rank the and do a few passes. That's pretty much what I did. I did a couple passes of rating, then had Zab do a pass. What is left are the ones I posted for him to choose from. I'm waiting for his feedback. But before you post here you need to do a couple more passes and find the gems. It's a critical part of the only show your best work manifesto. I give models, creative partners, etc. twenty to fifty shots (depending on the person) to look at from a 400 shot session. I show just 1 shot here usually. Maybe 3 if they are real winners. It's a tough house. If you just want one, my favorite photo from the set is this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7342250762/in/set-72157629997379781 -- 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.
A question for stargazers
A couple of weeks ago I got a cellphone text from a relative, whose in-law family had decided to donate a telescope to a more interested owner. Since the brand name on said piece of equipment was Pentax, they thought of me. So now I'm the happy if somewhat incredulous owner of a Pentax-75 EDHF Refracting Telescope with all original parts, including an equatorial mount I have spent two days figuring out how to align and operate. I've enjoyed the process, and have noticed a pair of threaded holes near the declination screw that makes me wonder if a stepper engine can be fitted to it, like the offerings from Celestron, for example. Does anyone know if this can be done? Jostein -- sent by K9-mail from my cellphone -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 Pentaxian
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Going over the photos, I've got a distressing number where the camera is focused on something closer to me than his eyes, despite my attempt to set the focus point on his eyes. Usually on some high contrast feature of his shirt. The close ups seem to be focused just right, so it's more of a focus point selection issue, than a front focus issue. I'm still waiting for my focus screen adjustment shims from Pentax, it's been about a month. I ordered a variety, and got a note that a couple were on back order, and I can't seem to drop those from my order and get it shipped already. . . . Correct me if I'm wrong (it's happened before) but your focus screen shim has nothing to do with AF being off. The shims would be important for what you SEE and would thus negatively affect your manual focus abilities/accuracy, but the AF should still work even if you took the focusing screen completely out of the camera. (Full disclosure: That last sentence was Pure Conjecture.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: A question for stargazers
Jostein, Congratulations! You've got a very fine scope there, optically. One quote I found on it says: This refractor was designed with astrophotography in mind, it is a Petzval design producing a very flat field. Also, they were never imported to the U.S. so are prized here. I'm curious what eyepieces you got with it? (Brand and focal length) I can't answer your question directly, but pics would help and I'd recommend asking in an astronomy/astrophotography forum. I'd recommend a European forum, since most of the scopes were sold there. In general, equatorial mounts were often sold with RA (right ascention) motors only, or with a two-motor set-up with a motor also on the declination drive. I'm guessing that the threaded holes are, as you suspect, for the optional dec drive but not sure what off the shelf model would bolt on there. In any event, if you have the scope/mount properly polar aligned, the dec motor would not normally be needed for visual use, while the RA motor works to keep things in view as the earth turns beneath the night sky. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: A couple of weeks ago I got a cellphone text from a relative, whose in-law family had decided to donate a telescope to a more interested owner. Since the brand name on said piece of equipment was Pentax, they thought of me. So now I'm the happy if somewhat incredulous owner of a Pentax-75 EDHF Refracting Telescope with all original parts, including an equatorial mount I have spent two days figuring out how to align and operate. I've enjoyed the process, and have noticed a pair of threaded holes near the declination screw that makes me wonder if a stepper engine can be fitted to it, like the offerings from Celestron, for example. Does anyone know if this can be done? Jostein -- sent by K9-mail from my cellphone -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: GESO: Tired of the heat?
On Jun 6, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Walter Hamler wrote: The two things that I could not get used to in my trips to Christchurch and around South Island.. The reversed seasons and the upside down sky at night! I went to several places in early September around Christchurch to Dunedin and nearly froze to death!! :-) Refreshing pics for us folks in FL, USA right now. When I went to the UK I don't think I ever got used to having the sun in the south of the sky. Totally screwed my sense of direction. As per the forecast it froze this morning. -5ºC here, -11 reported in Darfield about 40km west from here. It looks stunning now that the sun is up but I dare not go out as there's ice everywhere. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Photo(s) from GFM
I'm just getting around to sorting out my GFM photos. I didn't get time to shoot a lot this year (but I did put two rolls of slide film through the 67), so there isn't a huge amount to show. But I kinda like this one. On Saturday morning a few of us went out to a trail on the North side of the mountain to shoot on one of the streams there. I didn't have the 80-200 zoom that would have let me frame the shot I wanted (left it in the car...) so I shot several frames with my 180mm macro to stitch together. Without a pan head the alignment was very sloppy, so I had to get creative with the final product (which is, by the way, 7500 x 10,500 pixels). Here's the web-sized version: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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: A Craigslist Adventure Story
Great deal. That's a darn good flash that can still be used in auto mode on the newest cameras, and the macro alone is worth the price of admission. Paul On Jun 6, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Darren Addy wrote: I have a love/hate relationship with Craigslist. I live in a low population density area where the relatively close-by Craigslist deals are few and far between. The big city Craigslist is hardly worth looking at, since I will have next-to-no-chance of getting there first 99% of the time. It is normally psyche-damaging to even look at what is/was available there that I have no chance of getting. Yesterday was an exceptional exception. Checked Craigslist before getting down to work yesterday morning and was dismayed to see that THIS ad had been placed the middle of the afternoon (the day before): http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/pZ-1pKitCraigslist.png No phone number in the ad (thankfully) so I hit the email and asked him to please consider it sold to me (if it was still available). I explained that I lived hours away, but had a sister/bro-in-law in his town that would do the transaction for me (or so I *hoped*). Then I dashed off a plea for help in getting there first to my sister bro-in-law (not knowing if it had already been sold, which I strongly suspected it probably had been). Complicating matters further was the fact that I would not be in the office (at my email/phone) as I would be busy on a remote video shoot for my employer for the entire morning. Working in my favor, for the first time, was my 3G iPad 2. During a mid-morning break I was able to use it to check my work email (remotely). First, the seller had responded and said that it was indeed still available but that he also had another guy interested. He gave me both his address and phone number, so I immediately called him. I assured him that I was definitely purchasing it and that I just had to figure out who was getting it and what time would work for all concerned. The seller was home all day, so that was a big plus. I implored him to consider it sold to me and found out that he had not given his phone number or address to the other guy (at least not yet). My brother-in-law, who worked in the same quadrant of the city, was kind enough to do the transaction for me over his lunch break. The seller confirmed with me via email that he had indeed made the purchase (only later confirmed by my BIL). And there was Great Rejoicing. I plan on selling the body and two lenses to both reimburse my brother-in-law and buy him a nice restaurant gift certificate for he and my sister for making it all possible. The free F 100mm f2.8 macro goes in the bag. It will be my first Pentax macro longer than 50mm and also my first AF macro lens. Looking forward to doing some PESOs with it. People seem to really like that lens (and it's brethren). So my iPad 2 basically just paid for itself by facilitating that one purchase (although a smart phone would have allowed something similar, if I had opted for a smartphone instead). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Photo(s) from GFM
Love it. Great design work. Paul On Jun 6, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: I'm just getting around to sorting out my GFM photos. I didn't get time to shoot a lot this year (but I did put two rolls of slide film through the 67), so there isn't a huge amount to show. But I kinda like this one. On Saturday morning a few of us went out to a trail on the North side of the mountain to shoot on one of the streams there. I didn't have the 80-200 zoom that would have let me frame the shot I wanted (left it in the car...) so I shot several frames with my 180mm macro to stitch together. Without a pan head the alignment was very sloppy, so I had to get creative with the final product (which is, by the way, 7500 x 10,500 pixels). Here's the web-sized version: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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: Photo(s) from GFM
Ditto what Paul said! -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Sent: Jun 6, 2012 5:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Photo(s) from GFM Love it. Great design work. Paul On Jun 6, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: I'm just getting around to sorting out my GFM photos. I didn't get time to shoot a lot this year (but I did put two rolls of slide film through the 67), so there isn't a huge amount to show. But I kinda like this one. On Saturday morning a few of us went out to a trail on the North side of the mountain to shoot on one of the streams there. I didn't have the 80-200 zoom that would have let me frame the shot I wanted (left it in the car...) so I shot several frames with my 180mm macro to stitch together. Without a pan head the alignment was very sloppy, so I had to get creative with the final product (which is, by the way, 7500 x 10,500 pixels). Here's the web-sized version: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 Pentaxian
On Jun 6, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Darren Addy wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Going over the photos, I've got a distressing number where the camera is focused on something closer to me than his eyes, despite my attempt to set the focus point on his eyes. Usually on some high contrast feature of his shirt. The close ups seem to be focused just right, so it's more of a focus point selection issue, than a front focus issue. I'm still waiting for my focus screen adjustment shims from Pentax, it's been about a month. I ordered a variety, and got a note that a couple were on back order, and I can't seem to drop those from my order and get it shipped already. . . . Correct me if I'm wrong (it's happened before) but your focus screen shim has nothing to do with AF being off. The shims would be important for what you SEE and would thus negatively affect your manual focus abilities/accuracy, but the AF should still work even if you took the focusing screen completely out of the camera. (Full disclosure: That last sentence was Pure Conjecture.) So far as I know, you are correct. It seems that the problem is not that my autofocus doesn't work. As far as I can tell, it focuses perfectly: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7158253421/in/set-7215762980375 The problem seems to be that the autofocus focuses perfectly on the wrong thing. The autofocus zones are large enough that it will find something contrasty, like the ribs in a tank top, and will make them perfectly sharp, rather than the eyes which are at the autofocus selection point. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Photo(s) from GFM
Paul Stenquist wrote: Love it. Great design work. Thanks. That's why the Lasell College Department of Art Graphic Design pays me the big bucks. (Pffft! Oh man, I kill me sometimes...) http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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: Photo(s) from GFM
Really nice. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Kenneth Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Ditto what Paul said! -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Sent: Jun 6, 2012 5:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Photo(s) from GFM Love it. Great design work. Paul On Jun 6, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: I'm just getting around to sorting out my GFM photos. I didn't get time to shoot a lot this year (but I did put two rolls of slide film through the 67), so there isn't a huge amount to show. But I kinda like this one. On Saturday morning a few of us went out to a trail on the North side of the mountain to shoot on one of the streams there. I didn't have the 80-200 zoom that would have let me frame the shot I wanted (left it in the car...) so I shot several frames with my 180mm macro to stitch together. Without a pan head the alignment was very sloppy, so I had to get creative with the final product (which is, by the way, 7500 x 10,500 pixels). Here's the web-sized version: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
Another GFM report: Playing with the Pentax K-01
Our insider from Pentax brought a Pentax K-01 to Grandfather Mountain last weekend and a few of us got to play with it for a while. My impressions fall into two categories: 1 - I'm now certain that I have no interest at all in a camera without a viewfinder 2 - For those who don't mind (or prefer) the lack of viewfinder the K-01 is one seriously impressive piece of kit It's bigger than other mirrorless cameras, but has a nice, big (for mirrorless) APS-C sensor. And it's smaller than the K5, which is one of the smallest DSLR's on the market. But what really impresses is the solidity, heft and feel of its build. It *feels* more professional-grade than any other Pentax camera I've ever held, except possibly the 67. Now the feel of quality and actual durability/reliability are not the same thing, but the impression of quality construction is undeniable. Controls are very nicely laid out and simple to use. It's a bit different for someone accustomed to SLR's but probably easier to understand for someone just moving up from a point-and-shoot or smartphone, the major demographic this camera is aimed at. In short, the lack of viewfinder is a deal-killer for me (as I expected) but for those to whom this isn't the case it's a lot of camera for the money. -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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: Photo(s) from GFM
Cool. -- 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 2012/6/6 Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com: I'm just getting around to sorting out my GFM photos. I didn't get time to shoot a lot this year (but I did put two rolls of slide film through the 67), so there isn't a huge amount to show. But I kinda like this one. On Saturday morning a few of us went out to a trail on the North side of the mountain to shoot on one of the streams there. I didn't have the 80-200 zoom that would have let me frame the shot I wanted (left it in the car...) so I shot several frames with my 180mm macro to stitch together. Without a pan head the alignment was very sloppy, so I had to get creative with the final product (which is, by the way, 7500 x 10,500 pixels). Here's the web-sized version: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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: A Craigslist Adventure Story
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Great deal. That's a darn good flash that can still be used in auto mode on the newest cameras, and the macro alone is worth the price of admission. I hadn't give the flash a thought, but now I wonder if it is the AF400T or the AF400FTZ. Wasn't pictured. Not sure when I'll get it picked up from my Bro-in-Law. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: A Craigslist Adventure Story
Good deal! The F70-210/4-5.8 is not a bad catch either! Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I have a love/hate relationship with Craigslist. I live in a low population density area where the relatively close-by Craigslist deals are few and far between. The big city Craigslist is hardly worth looking at, since I will have next-to-no-chance of getting there first 99% of the time. It is normally psyche-damaging to even look at what is/was available there that I have no chance of getting. Yesterday was an exceptional exception. Checked Craigslist before getting down to work yesterday morning and was dismayed to see that THIS ad had been placed the middle of the afternoon (the day before): http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/pZ-1pKitCraigslist.png No phone number in the ad (thankfully) so I hit the email and asked him to please consider it sold to me (if it was still available). I explained that I lived hours away, but had a sister/bro-in-law in his town that would do the transaction for me (or so I *hoped*). Then I dashed off a plea for help in getting there first to my sister bro-in-law (not knowing if it had already been sold, which I strongly suspected it probably had been). Complicating matters further was the fact that I would not be in the office (at my email/phone) as I would be busy on a remote video shoot for my employer for the entire morning. Working in my favor, for the first time, was my 3G iPad 2. During a mid-morning break I was able to use it to check my work email (remotely). First, the seller had responded and said that it was indeed still available but that he also had another guy interested. He gave me both his address and phone number, so I immediately called him. I assured him that I was definitely purchasing it and that I just had to figure out who was getting it and what time would work for all concerned. The seller was home all day, so that was a big plus. I implored him to consider it sold to me and found out that he had not given his phone number or address to the other guy (at least not yet). My brother-in-law, who worked in the same quadrant of the city, was kind enough to do the transaction for me over his lunch break. The seller confirmed with me via email that he had indeed made the purchase (only later confirmed by my BIL). And there was Great Rejoicing. I plan on selling the body and two lenses to both reimburse my brother-in-law and buy him a nice restaurant gift certificate for he and my sister for making it all possible. The free F 100mm f2.8 macro goes in the bag. It will be my first Pentax macro longer than 50mm and also my first AF macro lens. Looking forward to doing some PESOs with it. People seem to really like that lens (and it's brethren). So my iPad 2 basically just paid for itself by facilitating that one purchase (although a smart phone would have allowed something similar, if I had opted for a smartphone instead). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 PESO - A.
On Jun 6, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Savage wrote: G'day All, A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to shoot a husband wife team who were between fitness figure competitions: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/7241478734_7845e8fb71_o.jpg She had won best arms in the state finals. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave PS, Please don't let this degenerate into a bunch of That's disgusting. Feed her a hamburger type posts. Now who would do that:-). Seriously, I like this shot a lot. Nicely lit, and she looks great. Paul If you don't care for the subject matters choice of lifestyle, don't comment. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Wow. Just wow.
Combine it with the new Processor in LR4 and your mind will be completely blown! On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at Colonial Williamsburg. I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible low-light sensitivity and shadow detail. Everyone who said it's a huge improvement over the K-7: you were right. Many PESOs to follow (from Williamsburg and the English Midlands) when I have time to start sorting. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT PESO - A.
Excellent! I like how you lit her. I'm looking to do some fitness shooting myself, and your work is inspiring. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: G'day All, A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to shoot a husband wife team who were between fitness figure competitions: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5329/7241478734_7845e8fb71_o.jpg She had won best arms in the state finals. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave PS, Please don't let this degenerate into a bunch of That's disgusting. Feed her a hamburger type posts. If you don't care for the subject matters choice of lifestyle, don't comment. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Wow. Just wow.
I knew you would like it. Dave On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at Colonial Williamsburg. I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible low-light sensitivity and shadow detail. Everyone who said it's a huge improvement over the K-7: you were right. Many PESOs to follow (from Williamsburg and the English Midlands) when I have time to start sorting. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Photo(s) from GFM
Love it Dave On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: I'm just getting around to sorting out my GFM photos. I didn't get time to shoot a lot this year (but I did put two rolls of slide film through the 67), so there isn't a huge amount to show. But I kinda like this one. On Saturday morning a few of us went out to a trail on the North side of the mountain to shoot on one of the streams there. I didn't have the 80-200 zoom that would have let me frame the shot I wanted (left it in the car...) so I shot several frames with my 180mm macro to stitch together. Without a pan head the alignment was very sloppy, so I had to get creative with the final product (which is, by the way, 7500 x 10,500 pixels). Here's the web-sized version: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Photo(s) from GFM
I like it! NatGeo wouldn't like it though. :-) On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: I'm just getting around to sorting out my GFM photos. I didn't get time to shoot a lot this year (but I did put two rolls of slide film through the 67), so there isn't a huge amount to show. But I kinda like this one. On Saturday morning a few of us went out to a trail on the North side of the mountain to shoot on one of the streams there. I didn't have the 80-200 zoom that would have let me frame the shot I wanted (left it in the car...) so I shot several frames with my 180mm macro to stitch together. Without a pan head the alignment was very sloppy, so I had to get creative with the final product (which is, by the way, 7500 x 10,500 pixels). Here's the web-sized version: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/ -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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. -- -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: PESO: 23 graduates
Very good. Relaxed and every one is visible DAAVE On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: I asked the PDML’s opinion on how I might go about shooting my son’s Little League’s graduating class. Thanks a heap for the advice; the best piece was cutting a 5x7 hole in a piece of paper, to help compose. I took some straight-on shots and a couple from up a ladder, but ended up liking this throwaway-I-thought from off to one side. http://www.tbray.org/tmp/grads.png -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Deera and Friend
Very good. Nicely composed and good back drop Dave On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: A couple of weekends ago I helped out with a Dog Walkathon in the neighbouring suburb of Mimico. It was a fundraiser for the Etobicoke Humane Society at which I volunteer. (Mimico and New Toronto are old suburbs which long since got absorbed by Etobicoke, which itself has been absorbed by Toronto - I know, it's complicated) When another of the volunteers, Deera, saw my camera she asked if I could take a photo of her and pooch, as she didn't have a nice picture of the two of them. I was happy to oblige: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/06/deera-and-friend.html Don't know what she thinks yet as I only sent to her tonight. Hope she likes it, though. Hope you like it, too. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Peso New babies today
AWW. Lovely family portraity Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:57 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15871232 The farms breeding Trumpeter swans had 5 hatch lings (cygnets) today. D2H, 70-200 f2.8 VR LR4 tweeks -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
