Re: Q 1.10 firmware
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:17:29 -0400 Steven Desjardins wrote: The 15-45 2.8 for $300 is REALLY tempting. I'd like to read some reviews first, however. I will get that one for sure, I have the 01 standard (43mm eq) and the fisheye, so I am really lacking some longer autofocus lens.The specs look really good with a constant 2.8 and around 80-250mm range making it a nice 2-lens combo with the standard lens. (Lowest price in Europe I have seen is 259 Euros, but not in stock yet) Of course the new firmware makes using all the other K-mount glass a lot more practical as well. I played around a bit with the DA 35mm macro and it is really usable now (used to be OK, but a bit hard to focus and keep still). With working SR on that now, I can use it handheld most of the time. The 180mm equivalent is quite nice for flower/insect macro work. Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: The Long Green Line
Thanks, Ann, Steve and Frank. Here is the same scene just a bit later: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16543037 Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: H I jsut saw the handicapped symbol duh On 10/27/2012 22:33, Steven Desjardins wrote: Her posture says urgency. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:17 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Ha! Love it! (but not what I expected at all) ;-) That's actually a very good shot. Well composed, nice use of perspective, and you caught that lady (other is a lady, no?) at just the right moment. The way she's grabbing at the door handle it looks like she ~really~ needs to go! Fun, but a really good shot as well. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: October 26, 2012 10/26/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: The Long Green Line From the Steeplechase Races last weekend: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16543036 Comments and Criticisms are Appreciated. 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.
Re: OT: Iconic Images
That is a valid point Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Iconic pictures of the WORLD, rather than iconic images of photography. From: knarftheriault These things are fun if for no other reason than that they stimulate discussion and controversy about images missed and ones that shouldn't be there. That being said I have to admit, many of the images would have made my short-list. But oh dear, not a single HCB? St. Ansel? Steichen? Maybe copyright issues? What surprises me most is that I see no attribution whatsoever. Is that because I'm looking at a mobile version on my Android? Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: October 27, 2012 10/27/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: OT: Iconic Images http://themetapicture.com/iconic-pictures-of-the-world/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Kinda
From: Jeffery Johnson Okay I just did an experiment and it appears that when I go to reply to someone I still have to change format to plain text for it to appear on the list. If no one saw my thank yous for all the comments on the gallery I posted I didn't realize they were not going through to the list. Thank for the comments. Now I know to change the formatting with each reply. Jeffery I don't know what email client you're using, but you should be able to set plain text as a default so you don't have to change it for every message. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: stolen pic - it finally happened to me
From: Ann Sanfedele I just got this email... Hi Ann, It's David Siegel the husband of Andrea Siegel, a Scrabble player you may remember from 30+ years ago. In Friday's Daily News there is a picture that you took about 30 years ago of our daughter Caryn that appeared in Time magazine, as I'm sure you recall. The name credited is not yours. Thought you might be interested. Hope all is well. Dave Anyone have Friday's NY Daily news?? Anyone know anyone on the city desk? The photo was one I won honorable mention for in a Time mag contest about the spirit of competition - George Plimpton was the judge. It was in a special advertising section of TIme mag that was only sent to subscribers. who shall I call at the News? ann I'm not sure that counts as stolen. What were the rules of the Time Magazine contest? You'll have to see what rights you granted Time Magazine when you entered their contest. The NY Daily News may have acquired the image lawfully. I think about the best you can hope for is a correction notice from the NY Daily News properly attributing the photo to you. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: downtown on an autumn afternoon
Nice set there. I like 5722 and 5734 Dave On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A small gallery of eight pics that will eventually go in my It Happened on Woodward gallery. This was an experiment in shooting from a single spot -- sitting on the stoop of a building. All shot within about 20 minutes. A bit of fun on a day off. http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1042828 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: stolen pic - it finally happened to me
As it turns out, John, the photo wasn't mine. They used a photo of her someone else took a few years later. While I was on the phone with the city desk the father sent me a scan of the article. I guess his gray cells are in worse shape than mine. The issue was not that they printed without permission, but that someone else got the photo credit. The city desk guy was immediately following up on it to find the article - they were definitely going to make it right, if it had been mine - which was heartening. ann On 10/28/2012 10:44, John Sessoms wrote: From: Ann Sanfedele I just got this email... Hi Ann, It's David Siegel the husband of Andrea Siegel, a Scrabble player you may remember from 30+ years ago. In Friday's Daily News there is a picture that you took about 30 years ago of our daughter Caryn that appeared in Time magazine, as I'm sure you recall. The name credited is not yours. Thought you might be interested. Hope all is well. Dave Anyone have Friday's NY Daily news?? Anyone know anyone on the city desk? The photo was one I won honorable mention for in a Time mag contest about the spirit of competition - George Plimpton was the judge. It was in a special advertising section of TIme mag that was only sent to subscribers. who shall I call at the News? ann I'm not sure that counts as stolen. What were the rules of the Time Magazine contest? You'll have to see what rights you granted Time Magazine when you entered their contest. The NY Daily News may have acquired the image lawfully. I think about the best you can hope for is a correction notice from the NY Daily News properly attributing the photo to you. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
I had a FA* 300 f/2.8 which had a recessed rear lens and, therefore, would accommodate the 1.4L T/C. I understood that the L was the better of the T/C's. (?) Jack - Original Message - From: J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:22 AM Subject: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: stolen pic - it finally happened to me
I've entered contests that limited my retained image rights only to photo credit, but allowed the contest sponsors freedom to otherwise use the image at their discretion. Obviously, in this case your retained photo credit rights (?) were ignored. Jack - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com To: pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 7:44 AM Subject: RE: stolen pic - it finally happened to me From: Ann Sanfedele I just got this email... Hi Ann, It's David Siegel the husband of Andrea Siegel, a Scrabble player you may remember from 30+ years ago. In Friday's Daily News there is a picture that you took about 30 years ago of our daughter Caryn that appeared in Time magazine, as I'm sure you recall. The name credited is not yours. Thought you might be interested. Hope all is well. Dave Anyone have Friday's NY Daily news?? Anyone know anyone on the city desk? The photo was one I won honorable mention for in a Time mag contest about the spirit of competition - George Plimpton was the judge. It was in a special advertising section of TIme mag that was only sent to subscribers. who shall I call at the News? ann I'm not sure that counts as stolen. What were the rules of the Time Magazine contest? You'll have to see what rights you granted Time Magazine when you entered their contest. The NY Daily News may have acquired the image lawfully. I think about the best you can hope for is a correction notice from the NY Daily News properly attributing the photo to you. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: stolen pic - it finally happened to me
Wish I'd read this post prior to sending my retard comments. Hope your recovery is generous. Jack - Original Message - From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 7:57 AM Subject: Re: stolen pic - it finally happened to me As it turns out, John, the photo wasn't mine. They used a photo of her someone else took a few years later. While I was on the phone with the city desk the father sent me a scan of the article. I guess his gray cells are in worse shape than mine. The issue was not that they printed without permission, but that someone else got the photo credit. The city desk guy was immediately following up on it to find the article - they were definitely going to make it right, if it had been mine - which was heartening. ann On 10/28/2012 10:44, John Sessoms wrote: From: Ann Sanfedele I just got this email... Hi Ann, It's David Siegel the husband of Andrea Siegel, a Scrabble player you may remember from 30+ years ago. In Friday's Daily News there is a picture that you took about 30 years ago of our daughter Caryn that appeared in Time magazine, as I'm sure you recall. The name credited is not yours. Thought you might be interested. Hope all is well. Dave Anyone have Friday's NY Daily news?? Anyone know anyone on the city desk? The photo was one I won honorable mention for in a Time mag contest about the spirit of competition - George Plimpton was the judge. It was in a special advertising section of TIme mag that was only sent to subscribers. who shall I call at the News? ann I'm not sure that counts as stolen. What were the rules of the Time Magazine contest? You'll have to see what rights you granted Time Magazine when you entered their contest. The NY Daily News may have acquired the image lawfully. I think about the best you can hope for is a correction notice from the NY Daily News properly attributing the photo to you. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Iconic Images
While they are iconic pictures of the world and world events they are also iconic images of photography and specific photographers. and should each have mentioned the photographer, even if they were owned by news services for whom the photographers were working for at the time. Some of these are from Magnum and some from Black Star (I think) - they always credit the photographs.. The Migrant Mother is Walker Evans I think the Yalta photo IS HCB but maybe I'm wrong. The sailor kissing the nurse is Eisenstaedt etc.. I've known some others in the past and forget now. You would never see a set of iconic paintings shown without the name of the artist, would you? ann On 10/28/2012 09:21, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: That is a valid point Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Iconic pictures of the WORLD, rather than iconic images of photography. From: knarftheriault These things are fun if for no other reason than that they stimulate discussion and controversy about images missed and ones that shouldn't be there. That being said I have to admit, many of the images would have made my short-list. But oh dear, not a single HCB? St. Ansel? Steichen? Maybe copyright issues? What surprises me most is that I see no attribution whatsoever. Is that because I'm looking at a mobile version on my Android? Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: October 27, 2012 10/27/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: OT: Iconic Images http://themetapicture.com/iconic-pictures-of-the-world/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Iconic Images
Double check the Migrant Mother - I think that was Dorothea Lange. Same group of photographers - pix for the FSA. -p On 10/28/2012 10:34 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: While they are iconic pictures of the world and world events they are also iconic images of photography and specific photographers. and should each have mentioned the photographer, even if they were owned by news services for whom the photographers were working for at the time. Some of these are from Magnum and some from Black Star (I think) - they always credit the photographs.. The Migrant Mother is Walker Evans I think the Yalta photo IS HCB but maybe I'm wrong. The sailor kissing the nurse is Eisenstaedt etc.. I've known some others in the past and forget now. You would never see a set of iconic paintings shown without the name of the artist, would you? ann On 10/28/2012 09:21, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: That is a valid point Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Iconic pictures of the WORLD, rather than iconic images of photography. From: knarftheriault These things are fun if for no other reason than that they stimulate discussion and controversy about images missed and ones that shouldn't be there. That being said I have to admit, many of the images would have made my short-list. But oh dear, not a single HCB? St. Ansel? Steichen? Maybe copyright issues? What surprises me most is that I see no attribution whatsoever. Is that because I'm looking at a mobile version on my Android? Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: October 27, 2012 10/27/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: OT: Iconic Images http://themetapicture.com/iconic-pictures-of-the-world/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- 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: November PUG: Going....going...
Well, I figured this was a good chance to try the newly added focus peaking on the Q with an old MF lens. The K 28 is now a fair telephoto (154 eq.). Also, the old lenses make the Q REALLY front heavy. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Seven submissions so far. Time to take the zoom off the camera, rummage in the lens cabinet and dust of that old 50 1.4 (or whatever...) The details: Theme: Prime Time (non zoom photography). Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Submission Guidelines here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html The main requirements are: * Max. pixel dimensions: 800 pixels on the longest side. * Max file size: 300k * Third party equipment is acceptable provided either the camera body or lens used is Pentax. * If you embed a colour space in the image, it should be sRGB to ensure that the image is displayed correctly on line. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
A2X-S or A1.4X-S. The L has a long front snout, and it won't work with the 300/4. Paul On Oct 28, 2012, at 8:22 AM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote: I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
The L is better for lenses with the recessed rear element. But the S is also a very good optic and is the only conveyer that will work with lenses that don't have a deeply recessed rear element. I believe the A 300-4 requires the S version, as does the A400-5.6. Paul On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: I had a FA* 300 f/2.8 which had a recessed rear lens and, therefore, would accommodate the 1.4L T/C. I understood that the L was the better of the T/C's. (?) Jack - Original Message - From: J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:22 AM Subject: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
Fw: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
- Forwarded Message - From: Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I had a FA* 300 f/2.8 which had a recessed rear lens and, therefore, would accommodate the 1.4L T/C. I understood that the L was the better of the T/C's. (?) Jack - Original Message - From: J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:22 AM Subject: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
I thought the S and L models stood for short and long lenses. - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Jack Davis Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:26 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Fw: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 - Forwarded Message - From: Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I had a FA* 300 f/2.8 which had a recessed rear lens and, therefore, would accommodate the 1.4L T/C. I understood that the L was the better of the T/C's. (?) Jack - Original Message - From: J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:22 AM Subject: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
That's true in general, but there are specific exceptions. Pentax used to have a compatibility chart on their website. I'm not positive about the 300/4, but i think it's an S, like the 400/5.6. Paul On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:10 PM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote: I thought the S and L models stood for short and long lenses. - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Jack Davis Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:26 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Fw: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 - Forwarded Message - From: Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I had a FA* 300 f/2.8 which had a recessed rear lens and, therefore, would accommodate the 1.4L T/C. I understood that the L was the better of the T/C's. (?) Jack - Original Message - From: J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:22 AM Subject: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
http://www.igorcamera.com/pentax.htm Igor has a 1.4x-L available 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.
Mechanical anti-aliasing?
Pentaxforums posted a quick comparison between the K-5 and the K-5IIs http://www.pentaxforums.com/news/pentax-k-5-iis-vs-k-5-sample-photos.html Which reminded me of something I've been wondering about. Rather than doing anti-aliasing optically, wouldn't it be possible to have a special setting that would move the sensor a pixel diagonally, or possibly in a one pixel diameter circle over the course of the exposure? Also, does the nyquist rate depend on the size of the RGB sets? Or just on the individual sensor sites? I'd think that it would be possible to increase the nyquist rate by analyzing the data from each sensor site. -- 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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
So, you'd have sensor based IS trying to keep the sensor stable during an exposure, and at the same time, moving the sensor to introduce AA? What does 'mechanical AA do that the optical method doesn't do? What would be the advantage of it? On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Pentaxforums posted a quick comparison between the K-5 and the K-5IIs http://www.pentaxforums.com/news/pentax-k-5-iis-vs-k-5-sample-photos.html Which reminded me of something I've been wondering about. Rather than doing anti-aliasing optically, wouldn't it be possible to have a special setting that would move the sensor a pixel diagonally, or possibly in a one pixel diameter circle over the course of the exposure? Also, does the nyquist rate depend on the size of the RGB sets? Or just on the individual sensor sites? I'd think that it would be possible to increase the nyquist rate by analyzing the data from each sensor site. -- 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:48 PM, David Parsons wrote: So, you'd have sensor based IS trying to keep the sensor stable during an exposure, and at the same time, moving the sensor to introduce AA? What does 'mechanical AA do that the optical method doesn't do? What would be the advantage of it? The advantage is that most of the time you leave it off. But, if you have something like the K5-IIs, without optical AA, and you are photographing something with a pattern, like fabric, you could turn it on. And I'd implement it as an either/or with image stabilization, not a both at the same time. -- 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.
PAW147 - Another autumn picture
http://www.thrane.name/Pictures/PAW/files/page7-1000-full.html OT equipment: Fujifilm x100, 23mm, 1/35s, f/2,0, ISO200. DagT http://www.thrane.name/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 2012 - 119 - GDG
Thank you, Dave, Ann and Frank! :-) On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:34 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent photo! You've captured the cold, clinical feel of a waiting/examination area, complete with half-hearted attempt to cozy things up with a lonely little toy. Brilliant! cheers, frank --- Original Message --- http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/the-waiting -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PAW147 - Another autumn picture
Dag, Nice idea, but I don't think it works. You need more in focus leaves, and less out of focus trees/lawn. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:05 PM, DagT li...@thrane.name wrote: http://www.thrane.name/Pictures/PAW/files/page7-1000-full.html OT equipment: Fujifilm x100, 23mm, 1/35s, f/2,0, ISO200. DagT http://www.thrane.name/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Iconic Images
Understood. My Iconic pictures of the WORLD response was to Frank's not a single HCB? St. Ansel? Steichen? - history represented by photographs; not a history of photography. As such, they should have been chronological and they should have been attributed. Migrant Mother is by Dorothea Lange. Trang Bang Napalm Attack has been censored. From: Ann Sanfedele While they are iconic pictures of the world and world events they are also iconic images of photography and specific photographers. and should each have mentioned the photographer, even if they were owned by news services for whom the photographers were working for at the time. Some of these are from Magnum and some from Black Star (I think) - they always credit the photographs.. The Migrant Mother is Walker Evans I think the Yalta photo IS HCB but maybe I'm wrong. The sailor kissing the nurse is Eisenstaedt etc.. I've known some others in the past and forget now. You would never see a set of iconic paintings shown without the name of the artist, would you? ann On 10/28/2012 09:21, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: That is a valid point Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Iconic pictures of the WORLD, rather than iconic images of photography. From: knarftheriault These things are fun if for no other reason than that they stimulate discussion and controversy about images missed and ones that shouldn't be there. That being said I have to admit, many of the images would have made my short-list. But oh dear, not a single HCB? St. Ansel? Steichen? Maybe copyright issues? What surprises me most is that I see no attribution whatsoever. Is that because I'm looking at a mobile version on my Android? Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: October 27, 2012 10/27/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: OT: Iconic Images http://themetapicture.com/iconic-pictures-of-the-world/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Word 2010 Page Numbering Help Needed
I tried for many,many hours to make this work some years ago. Eventually, I gave up and accepted that my TOC first line would read Table of contents..1 AFAIK, MS never fixed it. -- No fixed Adobe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On 28/10/2012 1:50 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:48 PM, David Parsons wrote: So, you'd have sensor based IS trying to keep the sensor stable during an exposure, and at the same time, moving the sensor to introduce AA? What does 'mechanical AA do that the optical method doesn't do? What would be the advantage of it? The advantage is that most of the time you leave it off. But, if you have something like the K5-IIs, without optical AA, and you are photographing something with a pattern, like fabric, you could turn it on. And I'd implement it as an either/or with image stabilization, not a both at the same time. Seems to me if the sensor moves in relation to the projected image during the exposure, you are going to just get a blurred image. This isn't quite what an AA filter does. -- 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: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
I've got the A-1.4X-S, A1.4 X-L A2.0 X-L I very seldom use the 2.0X-L use the A-1.4X-S the most - on my 300mm f4.5 FA. I've shot both X-L convertors on my 600 FA with very good results. Both the X-L convertors will not fit my 300 f4.5 due to their extended length or 'nose' at the mounting flange- to-lens end which would contact the rear lens element can't be connected. I've never done any testing to see if the 1.4X-S is better or worse than the 1.4X-L. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net Subject: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:26 PM, William Robb wrote: On 28/10/2012 1:50 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:48 PM, David Parsons wrote: So, you'd have sensor based IS trying to keep the sensor stable during an exposure, and at the same time, moving the sensor to introduce AA? What does 'mechanical AA do that the optical method doesn't do? What would be the advantage of it? The advantage is that most of the time you leave it off. But, if you have something like the K5-IIs, without optical AA, and you are photographing something with a pattern, like fabric, you could turn it on. And I'd implement it as an either/or with image stabilization, not a both at the same time. Seems to me if the sensor moves in relation to the projected image during the exposure, you are going to just get a blurred image. This isn't quite what an AA filter does. I thought that what an AA filter did was specifically to blur the image on the order of a pixel width so that no transition was narrower than a pixel. I.e. acting as a low pass filter to ensure that there are no patterns of a higher frequency than the sampling rate. The trick would be to only blur the image on the order of a pixel. -- 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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
Larry Colen wrote: I thought that what an AA filter did was specifically to blur the image on the order of a pixel width so that no transition was narrower than a pixel. I.e. acting as a low pass filter to ensure that there are no patterns of a higher frequency than the sampling rate. The trick would be to only blur the image on the order of a pixel. Within the shutter speed. 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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On 28/10/2012 4:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:26 PM, William Robb wrote: On 28/10/2012 1:50 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:48 PM, David Parsons wrote: So, you'd have sensor based IS trying to keep the sensor stable during an exposure, and at the same time, moving the sensor to introduce AA? What does 'mechanical AA do that the optical method doesn't do? What would be the advantage of it? The advantage is that most of the time you leave it off. But, if you have something like the K5-IIs, without optical AA, and you are photographing something with a pattern, like fabric, you could turn it on. And I'd implement it as an either/or with image stabilization, not a both at the same time. Seems to me if the sensor moves in relation to the projected image during the exposure, you are going to just get a blurred image. This isn't quite what an AA filter does. I thought that what an AA filter did was specifically to blur the image on the order of a pixel width so that no transition was narrower than a pixel. I.e. acting as a low pass filter to ensure that there are no patterns of a higher frequency than the sampling rate. The trick would be to only blur the image on the order of a pixel. -- The blur you are describing by moving the sensor would look like camera shake. The blur from an AA filter is more akin to putting a soft focus filter on the lens (albeit a VERY mild 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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On 28/10/2012 4:43 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Larry Colen wrote: I thought that what an AA filter did was specifically to blur the image on the order of a pixel width so that no transition was narrower than a pixel. I.e. acting as a low pass filter to ensure that there are no patterns of a higher frequency than the sampling rate. The trick would be to only blur the image on the order of a pixel. Within the shutter speed. Good point. -- 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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:52 PM, William Robb wrote: On 28/10/2012 4:43 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Larry Colen wrote: I thought that what an AA filter did was specifically to blur the image on the order of a pixel width so that no transition was narrower than a pixel. I.e. acting as a low pass filter to ensure that there are no patterns of a higher frequency than the sampling rate. The trick would be to only blur the image on the order of a pixel. Within the shutter speed. Good point. Yes, there would probably be an ideal range of shutter speeds, and it would take careful work to adjust the rate. if you are looking for constant blur it would have to move that distance over the span of time that the sensor is exposed. Also, it may depend on the period of time that the shutter is completely open (flash sync period), and of course it would not work with a flash. -- 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. -- 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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On 28/10/2012 5:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 3:52 PM, William Robb wrote: On 28/10/2012 4:43 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Larry Colen wrote: I thought that what an AA filter did was specifically to blur the image on the order of a pixel width so that no transition was narrower than a pixel. I.e. acting as a low pass filter to ensure that there are no patterns of a higher frequency than the sampling rate. The trick would be to only blur the image on the order of a pixel. Within the shutter speed. Good point. Yes, there would probably be an ideal range of shutter speeds, and it would take careful work to adjust the rate. if you are looking for constant blur it would have to move that distance over the span of time that the sensor is exposed. Also, it may depend on the period of time that the shutter is completely open (flash sync period), and of course it would not work with a flash. You are still missing that what you are describing is camera shake, while what an AA filter does is more akin to a very mild soft focus filter. -- 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: PAW147 - Another autumn picture
On 10/28/2012 16:23, Bob Sullivan wrote: Dag, Nice idea, but I don't think it works. You need more in focus leaves, and less out of focus trees/lawn. Regards, Bob S. I agree - while I like the quirkiness of it, it was hard to look at might not be the amount of sharp but the placement ? Unusual not to absolutely love your pix :-) ann On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:05 PM, DagT li...@thrane.name wrote: http://www.thrane.name/Pictures/PAW/files/page7-1000-full.html OT equipment: Fujifilm x100, 23mm, 1/35s, f/2,0, ISO200. DagT http://www.thrane.name/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On Oct 28, 2012, at 4:18 PM, William Robb wrote: You are still missing that what you are describing is camera shake, while what an AA filter does is more akin to a very mild soft focus filter. And the difference is that a soft focus filter works in two dimensions rather than one? A soft focus filter gives more of a guassian distribution to a point signal rather than a linear one? I see that the two would blur the signal differently, but I don't understand why mechanical wouldn't work. -- 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: OT: Iconic Images
Point taken, John, but if I emphasize PICTURES instead of world... ;-) Besides, the WORLD includes nature, landscapes, cityscapes. Those things seem under-represented in this group. That being said I agree with many of the choices they made. What irks me most is the lack of attribution. That is inexcusable especially for a photography site. Good call on the blurring of Kim Phuc's genitals. Another inexcusable action on their part; her complete and utter nakedness is an essential part of the photo imho. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com Sent: October 28, 2012 10/28/12 To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: Iconic Images Understood. My Iconic pictures of the WORLD response was to Frank's not a single HCB? St. Ansel? Steichen? - history represented by photographs; not a history of photography. As such, they should have been chronological and they should have been attributed. Migrant Mother is by Dorothea Lange. Trang Bang Napalm Attack has been censored. From: Ann Sanfedele While they are iconic pictures of the world and world events they are also iconic images of photography and specific photographers. and should each have mentioned the photographer, even if they were owned by news services for whom the photographers were working for at the time. Some of these are from Magnum and some from Black Star (I think) - they always credit the photographs.. The Migrant Mother is Walker Evans I think the Yalta photo IS HCB but maybe I'm wrong. The sailor kissing the nurse is Eisenstaedt etc.. I've known some others in the past and forget now. You would never see a set of iconic paintings shown without the name of the artist, would you? ann On 10/28/2012 09:21, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: That is a valid point Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:23 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Iconic pictures of the WORLD, rather than iconic images of photography. From: knarftheriault These things are fun if for no other reason than that they stimulate discussion and controversy about images missed and ones that shouldn't be there. That being said I have to admit, many of the images would have made my short-list. But oh dear, not a single HCB? St. Ansel? Steichen? Maybe copyright issues? What surprises me most is that I see no attribution whatsoever. Is that because I'm looking at a mobile version on my Android? Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Sent: October 27, 2012 10/27/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: OT: Iconic Images http://themetapicture.com/iconic-pictures-of-the-world/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: downtown on an autumn afternoon
Nice set. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Sent: October 27, 2012 10/27/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: GESO: downtown on an autumn afternoon A small gallery of eight pics that will eventually go in my It Happened on Woodward gallery. This was an experiment in shooting from a single spot -- sitting on the stoop of a building. All shot within about 20 minutes. A bit of fun on a day off. http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1042828 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: PAW147 - Another autumn picture
Cool! cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: DagT li...@thrane.name Sent: October 28, 2012 10/28/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PAW147 - Another autumn picture http://www.thrane.name/Pictures/PAW/files/page7-1000-full.html OT equipment: Fujifilm x100, 23mm, 1/35s, f/2,0, ISO200. DagT http://www.thrane.name/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - A Ginsu Knife of Hope
That works really well. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:31 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Bruce! I titled it from a line in a Kids in the Hall skit in which Don McKellor played a messenger. The narrator described him as (among other things) a ginsu knife of hope. Only after I posted it on Facebook did I find out that it was Kota, a Japanese messenger in town for about six months. He recently bought that orange bike, so the bike didn't help me identify him. He liked the photo and wasn't offended by the silly title; in fact it's now his profile pic on fb. I know I posted it here before but here's that KiH video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIZohIqJDUfeature=youtube_gdata_player He's delivering ~your~ package MISTER! ;-) Thanks again. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com Sent: October 26, 2012 10/26/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO - A Ginsu Knife of Hope This is dizzyingly dynamic, Frank. Terrific! On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:22 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: The title is from a Kids in the Hall video. I know I've been showing a lot of messenger shots lately, but I like this one. Had to leave it in colour. In fact, used curves quite a bit: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/10/a-ginsu-knife-of-hope.html Hope you enjoy. Comments 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Nasty Storm East Coast
I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. Ann, I was calling just to how you are..Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
on 2012-10-28 17:40 Larry Colen wrote A soft focus filter gives more of a guassian distribution to a point signal rather than a linear one? the mechanical AA could be moving the sensor in a circle of one pixel diameter (or something similar) at a rate of one revolution per shutter speed an integer multiple of revolutions per shutter speed might have some advantage -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Grace's Audience
Grace was talking to a few of our friends at the farmers market. Shot the audience this time: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16552188size=lg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Shopper
Couldn't pass her up. She had a look. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16552181 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Ralph Gibson - Point Light Gallery
Seeing in books is so much better than nothing, though. :-) Thanks for the reference, Derby. Interesting body of work. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote: Having one of my doldrums, not feeling much in the mood for shooting (and there was plenty to shoot in Surry Hills today). So I took some time to visit the Ralph Gibson show at Point Light. http://pointlight.com.au/exhibitions Wonderful. All small (A4) size prints, matted but not framed, sitting on ledges, eye-level, around the gallery. so you can get right up close to look at them. No one but Gordon, the gallery owner, in the room, so it felt like a private showing. If I had a spare $4300, I would have bought the Mary Ellen Mark portrait on the spot. Seeing prints, so much better than seeing in books. Show closes in two weeks. D -- der...@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On Oct 28, 2012, at 5:15 PM, steve harley wrote: on 2012-10-28 17:40 Larry Colen wrote A soft focus filter gives more of a guassian distribution to a point signal rather than a linear one? the mechanical AA could be moving the sensor in a circle of one pixel diameter (or something similar) at a rate of one revolution per shutter speed an integer multiple of revolutions per shutter speed might have some advantage What is the name of the pattern described by spirograph? Or by a pendulum that is both swinging and rotating? A pattern like that, at the maximum speed the sensor can handle for however long the sensor is open (or slightly longer) would probably work. That pattern would likely approximate the gaussian distribution. At lower shutter speeds it would more completely approximate an even blur, or an even gaussian blur. The question being, could it be moved that accurately, that quickly? Whether the idea works or not, I'd wager it's patentable. -- 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: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
Pictures of the aforesaid teleconverters, from the first stop anyone should make with a question abou all thngs Pentax K. http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/teleconverters/A2X-L.html http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/teleconverters/A2X-S.html On 10/28/2012 2:10 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: I thought the S and L models stood for short and long lenses. - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Jack Davis Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:26 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Fw: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 - Forwarded Message - From: Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I had a FA* 300 f/2.8 which had a recessed rear lens and, therefore, would accommodate the 1.4L T/C. I understood that the L was the better of the T/C's. (?) Jack - Original Message - From: J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:22 AM Subject: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4 I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthly search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Shopper
Paul, I will agree with you on this one. Joe Couldn't pass her up. She had a look. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16552181 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - A Ginsu Knife of Hope
Frank, This is very nice the way it is..Joe The title is from a Kids in the Hall video. I know I've been showing a lot of messenger shots lately, but I like this one. Had to leave it in colour. In fact, used curves quite a bit: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/10/a-ginsu-knife-of-hope.html Hope you enjoy. Comments 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.
Re: PESO - Brendan
No green that I can see, Tim. I even examined it in Ps. My Spydey sense is tingling for you to adjust. :-) It did benefit from having the white level lifted up a few percent. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Good portrait. Either I need to screen-correct my mac or it has a bit of a green cast. Anyone else see green, or do I need to break out the old Spyder thingie? -T On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Brendan is bike messenger who needed a portrait done. Saw my camera and asked, so I obliged: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/10/brendan.html?m=0 Just an informal in the street portrait but I am pleased with it. Hope he will be too. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. Cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Brendan
Nice. He should be pleased, Frank. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:16 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Brendan is bike messenger who needed a portrait done. Saw my camera and asked, so I obliged: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/10/brendan.html?m=0 Just an informal in the street portrait but I am pleased with it. Hope he will be too. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. Cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On 28/10/2012 5:40 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 4:18 PM, William Robb wrote: You are still missing that what you are describing is camera shake, while what an AA filter does is more akin to a very mild soft focus filter. And the difference is that a soft focus filter works in two dimensions rather than one? A soft focus filter gives more of a guassian distribution to a point signal rather than a linear one? I see that the two would blur the signal differently, but I don't understand why mechanical wouldn't work. Try taking a picture at a shutter speed just below what you can handhold, and then take the same picture with the camera on a tripod but with a very mild diffuser on the lens and try to make them equally sharp. There is a reason why we try to keep cameras as steady as possible. IIRC, Falk over at Pentax forums discovered a minor flaw in the K7(?) where the camera shook very slightly all on it's own at certain speeds. I don't think the amount of blur was much more than a pixel or two, but it was noticeable, and it had a detrimental effect on sharpness in his opinion. -- 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 - Grace's Audience
Paul, Nice group shot. They look charmed by Grace, but so are we. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Grace was talking to a few of our friends at the farmers market. Shot the audience this time: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16552188size=lg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Brendan
You gave him some personality. Fun and friendly. Paul Paul On Oct 28, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Nice. He should be pleased, Frank. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:16 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Brendan is bike messenger who needed a portrait done. Saw my camera and asked, so I obliged: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/10/brendan.html?m=0 Just an informal in the street portrait but I am pleased with it. Hope he will be too. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. Cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nasty Storm East Coast
jn289 wrote: I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. We're battening down the hatches here in Boston. We're not expected to get hit as hard as NYC and other cities farther south but it's hard to be sure how bad it's going to be. The college has cancelled classes for tomorrow so I can stay home and man the fort, so to speak. Storm surge is said to be the big threat: high tide at mid-day tomorrow could be the worst. We're far enough inland that it shouldn't be a factor for us, but people on the ocean could have big problems. -- 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: Best 2x teleconvertor for smc pentax-a* 300/4
Pentax also has a 1.7 AF Convertor which is not bad. The 2x L will not work with the 300 A F4. You will have to use the 2x S. I have the 300 A F4 and I will use the 2x S or the 1.7 AF. I also sometime use a Vivitar 2x macro convertor..The L convertors are nice to use with the 300 mm F2.8 and the 200 mm F4.0 macroJoe I want to get a good 2x TC for my pentax a* 300/4 lens. Anybody know which model is the best (2x-L?) or maybe a non pentax model? thanks in advance... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On Oct 28, 2012, at 17:45 , Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 5:15 PM, steve harley wrote: on 2012-10-28 17:40 Larry Colen wrote A soft focus filter gives more of a guassian distribution to a point signal rather than a linear one? the mechanical AA could be moving the sensor in a circle of one pixel diameter (or something similar) at a rate of one revolution per shutter speed an integer multiple of revolutions per shutter speed might have some advantage What is the name of the pattern described by spirograph? Or by a pendulum that is both swinging and rotating? A pattern like that, at the maximum speed the sensor can handle for however long the sensor is open (or slightly longer) would probably work. That pattern would likely approximate the gaussian distribution. At lower shutter speeds it would more completely approximate an even blur, or an even gaussian blur. The question being, could it be moved that accurately, that quickly? Whether the idea works or not, I'd wager it's patentable. Build it Larry, and they will come. -- It's not that life is too short, it's that you're dead for so long.. — Anon 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: Nasty Storm East Coast
Well, PA. NJ. and NY are expecting very bad weather. Earlier today I was up on the roof cleaning the rain gutters as we have a lot trees on our property and just hoping they remain standing. In the past years we lost a cherry tree and a weeping willow tree. ..Joe jn289 wrote: I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. We're battening down the hatches here in Boston. We're not expected to get hit as hard as NYC and other cities farther south but it's hard to be sure how bad it's going to be. The college has cancelled classes for tomorrow so I can stay home and man the fort, so to speak. Storm surge is said to be the big threat: high tide at mid-day tomorrow could be the worst. We're far enough inland that it shouldn't be a factor for us, but people on the ocean could have big problems. -- 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: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 28, 2012, at 17:45 , Larry Colen wrote: Whether the idea works or not, I'd wager it's patentable. Build it Larry, and they will come. Oh, yes!, he ejaculated. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Nasty Storm East Coast
I'm not expecting much from the actual rain, but storm surge and streams/dams overtopping should be interesting. Parts of my town tend to flood, but I doubt that my house will get much. I drive for work, so we'll see how many doctor's offices actually cancel appointments. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: jn289 wrote: I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. We're battening down the hatches here in Boston. We're not expected to get hit as hard as NYC and other cities farther south but it's hard to be sure how bad it's going to be. The college has cancelled classes for tomorrow so I can stay home and man the fort, so to speak. Storm surge is said to be the big threat: high tide at mid-day tomorrow could be the worst. We're far enough inland that it shouldn't be a factor for us, but people on the ocean could have big problems. -- 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Nasty Storm East Coast
We are also in the Boston area, to the south, along the coast... all's pretty quiet so far. But, school has already been cancelled for tomorrow... luckily, I was able to hide this information from the kids until all their homework was done! We did a pre-storm gutter clean-out, too. Lots of trees around, hoping this isn't the storm that brings one of them down on the house or cars... Other than that, we've prepared by doing all the laundry running the vac - advice my mother gave me long ago. Wouldn't want to sit around a messy house with no clean clothes if the power goes out. :) Good luck to all, especially those right in Sandy's path! :) -c On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:23 PM, jn289 jn...@verizon.net wrote: Well, PA. NJ. and NY are expecting very bad weather. Earlier today I was up on the roof cleaning the rain gutters as we have a lot trees on our property and just hoping they remain standing. In the past years we lost a cherry tree and a weeping willow tree. ..Joe jn289 wrote: I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. We're battening down the hatches here in Boston. We're not expected to get hit as hard as NYC and other cities farther south but it's hard to be sure how bad it's going to be. The college has cancelled classes for tomorrow so I can stay home and man the fort, so to speak. Storm surge is said to be the big threat: high tide at mid-day tomorrow could be the worst. We're far enough inland that it shouldn't be a factor for us, but people on the ocean could have big problems. -- 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. -- http://christinenielsen.com http://www.facebook.com/ChristineNielsenPhotography -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - Grace's Audience
So sweet. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Grace was talking to a few of our friends at the farmers market. Shot the audience this time: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16552188size=lg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nasty Storm East Coast
Philly is shut down as of midnight: all transit stopped, all airlines' flights cancelled, schools and colleges and universities closed, state of emergency in effect allowing only essential travel. I live a mile from work, so I plan to suit up in my GoreTex and trudge in. If things are quiet and well-covered, I'll trudge home again. Many of my colleagues live in the 'burbs, though, and I have often wound up covering for them in blizzards (precious few hurricanes, fortunately). Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW - Original Message - From: Christine Nielsen ch...@inielsen.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Nasty Storm East Coast We are also in the Boston area, to the south, along the coast... all's pretty quiet so far. But, school has already been cancelled for tomorrow... luckily, I was able to hide this information from the kids until all their homework was done! We did a pre-storm gutter clean-out, too. Lots of trees around, hoping this isn't the storm that brings one of them down on the house or cars... Other than that, we've prepared by doing all the laundry running the vac - advice my mother gave me long ago. Wouldn't want to sit around a messy house with no clean clothes if the power goes out. :) Good luck to all, especially those right in Sandy's path! :) -c On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:23 PM, jn289 jn...@verizon.net wrote: Well, PA. NJ. and NY are expecting very bad weather. Earlier today I was up on the roof cleaning the rain gutters as we have a lot trees on our property and just hoping they remain standing. In the past years we lost a cherry tree and a weeping willow tree. ..Joe jn289 wrote: I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. We're battening down the hatches here in Boston. We're not expected to get hit as hard as NYC and other cities farther south but it's hard to be sure how bad it's going to be. The college has cancelled classes for tomorrow so I can stay home and man the fort, so to speak. Storm surge is said to be the big threat: high tide at mid-day tomorrow could be the worst. We're far enough inland that it shouldn't be a factor for us, but people on the ocean could have big problems. -- 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. -- http://christinenielsen.com http://www.facebook.com/ChristineNielsenPhotography -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Nasty Storm East Coast
I'm lucky -- certainly Manhattan is in the path, but I'm in a part of Manhattan is one of those places family who are in zone A would want to come to stay, if I had any such :-) My best friend's son and his wife are in a building in lower Manhattan that has manditory evacuatlion but they are in a building that has a backup generator and are on the 4th floor and last I heard were not going to budge... last year they did and it fizzled. unfortunately that attitude is being displayed a lot here. A shame. Crossing fingers I don't lose power... which is not as unlikely as I'd like it to be because of all the dug up streets around here and recent cable outages. I certainly won't be going out tomorrow! lots of debris flying around is likely. Wind whistling outside already. now, back to Words with friends and storm watching tv Guess I will have to apply myself to get Brian a PUG entry :-) ann On 10/28/2012 21:49, Christine Nielsen wrote: We are also in the Boston area, to the south, along the coast... all's pretty quiet so far. But, school has already been cancelled for tomorrow... luckily, I was able to hide this information from the kids until all their homework was done! We did a pre-storm gutter clean-out, too. Lots of trees around, hoping this isn't the storm that brings one of them down on the house or cars... Other than that, we've prepared by doing all the laundry running the vac - advice my mother gave me long ago. Wouldn't want to sit around a messy house with no clean clothes if the power goes out. :) Good luck to all, especially those right in Sandy's path! :) -c On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:23 PM, jn289 jn...@verizon.net wrote: Well, PA. NJ. and NY are expecting very bad weather. Earlier today I was up on the roof cleaning the rain gutters as we have a lot trees on our property and just hoping they remain standing. In the past years we lost a cherry tree and a weeping willow tree. ..Joe jn289 wrote: I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. We're battening down the hatches here in Boston. We're not expected to get hit as hard as NYC and other cities farther south but it's hard to be sure how bad it's going to be. The college has cancelled classes for tomorrow so I can stay home and man the fort, so to speak. Storm surge is said to be the big threat: high tide at mid-day tomorrow could be the worst. We're far enough inland that it shouldn't be a factor for us, but people on the ocean could have big problems. -- 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: Nasty Storm East Coast
David Parsons wrote: I'm not expecting much from the actual rain, but storm surge and streams/dams overtopping should be interesting. Parts of my town tend to flood, but I doubt that my house will get much. I drive for work, so we'll see how many doctor's offices actually cancel appointments. Wouldn't you know it but Children's Hospital has the temerity to stay open during all of this so Lisa will be going in to work tomorrow! We're only a mile from the hospital so she walks in every day. Being a veteran hiker she has the clothing and fortitude to do it in pretty much any kind of weather. We'll see how much extra work she has to do for colleagues who don't have the same toughness... -- 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 - Grace's Audience
Nice! cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Sent: October 28, 2012 10/28/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO - Grace's Audience Grace was talking to a few of our friends at the farmers market. Shot the audience this time: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16552188size=lg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - A Ginsu Knife of Hope
Thanks, Joe! Thanks to all who looked and commented. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: jn289 jn...@verizon.net Sent: October 28, 2012 10/28/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO - A Ginsu Knife of Hope Frank, This is very nice the way it is..Joe The title is from a Kids in the Hall video. I know I've been showing a lot of messenger shots lately, but I like this one. Had to leave it in colour. In fact, used curves quite a bit: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/10/a-ginsu-knife-of-hope.html Hope you enjoy. Comments 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 - Shopper
I love the colors and the Greta Garbo pose. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Couldn't pass her up. She had a look. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16552181 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Brendan
Thanks, Bruce. In fact I talked to him last evening and he is pleased. Thanks to all who took a look. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com Sent: October 28, 2012 10/28/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO - Brendan Nice. He should be pleased, Frank. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:16 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Brendan is bike messenger who needed a portrait done. Saw my camera and asked, so I obliged: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/10/brendan.html?m=0 Just an informal in the street portrait but I am pleased with it. Hope he will be too. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. Cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
NEF or TIF
Not OT - I'm scanning slides negatives shot with Pentax, but Pentax didn't make a scanner AFAIK, so I had to settle for Nikon - Coolscan IV ED. I'm using my old computer that no longer has Photoshop installed to run the scanner and saving the scanned images to my NAS drive, where I can open them with Adobe Bridge. Nikon Scan offers the choice of saving as NEF or TIF file formats. Once I get them into Adobe Bridge, I'll convert them into DNG, but what are the pros cons of either of the formats the scanner offers. I'm also thinking about getting VueScan. Does anyone know if it supports saving files directly as DNG? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Nasty Storm East Coast
Hey, guys from the East coast! Please be safe! On 10/29/2012 2:14 AM, jn289 wrote: I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. Ann, I was calling just to how you are..Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: downtown on an autumn afternoon
On 10/27/2012 9:39 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: A small gallery of eight pics that will eventually go in my It Happened on Woodward gallery. This was an experiment in shooting from a single spot -- sitting on the stoop of a building. All shot within about 20 minutes. A bit of fun on a day off. http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1042828 Paul, you're as steady as ever. Seems like you had really nice weather that day. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - Samsung Reportedly Will Stop Sourcing Apple
Reply interspersed. On 10/25/2012 3:33 AM, Tom C wrote: From: Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com I think that what's moral for individual human beings does not necessarily apply to corporations. Specifically, I think that the so called grey area is much broader for corporations than it is for you and me. In theory that's correct. In practice it's wrong. I know it. You know it. The CEO's know it. (I'm not implying you didn't) :) Absolutely, Tom. I wasn't speaking specifically of Samsung-Apple series of trials all over the planet. It very well may be that Samsung did steal. And I am not being a fanboy of any of these two, although I do have Samsung cell phone, but it is one issued by my company anyway. And trust me, Samsung Galaxy S II pretty much sucks. (Frank wrote:) Doesn't mean they should stop making money from on of their biggest clients, does it? This is a simple ongoing commodity transaction that is completely divorced from the intellectual property departments duking it out. (Boris wrote:) Well, no. In fact, there is nothing immoral in stopping dealing with Apple. Like it is always said - nothing personal, just business... Someone up the ladder came up with the power point presentation that appears to support the idea that in terms of profit this would be the best move for Samsung and hence the decision was eventually made. I am surprised it wasn't made way earlier, in fact. There's several ways to look at it. I'm not a Samsung fanboy or necessarily anti-Apple. Likewise. On the one hand, if you go suing your supplier who's also a competitor... well I don't know how much profit Samsung makes on their business with Apple, but $1B probably covers what they made on A LOT of iPad displays and other chips. So it sort of looks like, in a way, that Apple would be, in essence, getting Samsung's product for less than the agreed upon price. Score for Apple. If I were Samsung would I want to do business with a company that was essentially getting my product at a cut-rate price via litigation? Rumor has it Apple was already looking for lower cost displays. If I were Samsung I'd tell Apple to shove it, which they may have done. All businesses have a legitimate interest in making a fair and honest profit. On the other hand I read that $1B is only a day or two's worth of revenue for Samsung, and that the lawsuit may have elevated Samsung in the eyes of some as a worthy Apple competitor. If so, a possible misstep by Apple. I don't think it is that much important really, Tom. You see, I don't really think it can hurt the consumers one way or another. It is not as if Samsung will be prohibited from making and selling cell phones, period. It is not as if iPhone is going away. Even Nokia, being in dire straits now (as it seems from the press) still produces bloody lot of their units. I don't think that either outcome will seriously affect either company. I don't think it is a publicity stunt because it is taking far too long for that - mass memory does not have that long a term. I sincerely think that what we're seeing today is a number of people who hold positions of immense power that have climbed up some rather tall ladders that grew to be trees and they cannot be made to climb down. However in my original message I was trying to be more theoretical. In principle, Samsung should have sat down, looked at the numbers and made the optimal decision in terms of their business going. It well may be that they *chose* to do what is being done now just like I described. I don't countenance the theft of intellectual property via Samsung or Apple and I don't know where the truth is there. I certainly don't agree with 'you cant make a product that's slim, rectangular, has rounded corners and uses icons or gestures that are meaningful'. I do remember the story about Palm Pilot creators who carried a wooden block of the form of Palm Pilot in their pocket to see if it is convenient. I reckon if late Steve Jobs or whomever else did it, they would be emotionally pissed to know that someone did not have to do this but the other person's company is producing slim, rectangular smart blocks of plastic and silicon... I think we talked about patent system few threads ago and it is indeed one of the more contorted creations of human mind, at least as of nowadays. It seems that corporations, like governments, once in power, do everything possible to stay in power and suppress contenders. Absolutely. It is animal instinct taken to the power of human mind taken to the power of size of the corporation. The actions of a corporation are the deliberate actions of thinking human beings. Those actions are either fair and legitimate or they are not, regardless of how the legal profession wishes to spin it. I have to beg to differ here. The actions of corporations are sequences of deliberate actions of human beings, some of which are not really thinking. As such, they are
Re: Nasty Storm East Coast
... and if you can’t be safe, take lots of pictures! On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, guys from the East coast! Please be safe! On 10/29/2012 2:14 AM, jn289 wrote: I hope everyone on the East Coast remains OK. Ann, I was calling just to how you are..Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Convert PEF to DNG or not?
GOn 10/26/2012 9:59 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: It's very easy to convert PEF files (any compatible native raw files, as a matter of fact) to DNG format in Lightroom. Just select all the PEF files in the Library module (grid view) and then choose the Convert to DNG command from the Library menu. You will be presented with the DNG options panel ... choose the options you want and click OK. Godfrey, et al. It is indeed most convenient as it imports the DNG files on the spot and offers to delete the original PEF files right away. Truly convenient by all means. The only question that I'd like to ask - I need to choose which version of DNG to convert to. Which one would you suggest - the older one or more modern one? Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Mechanical anti-aliasing?
On Oct 28, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: Whether the idea works or not, I'd wager it's patentable. Build it Larry, and they will come. All I need is a K5-IIs, the source code to the firmware and a dev box. -- 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.
