Re: An equipment epiphany: no MZ-S for me, yet
I don't need an MZ-S right now. Wow! It's good to see someone driven by practicality over marketing! Now, here's a Classic oxymoron if I ever saw one. Pentax? Marketing? Har de har har! -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: Sentence digital news, etc.
Pentax should knock together a quick thousand dollar digital in K-mount, something with features similar to other current mid-range 3.3 or 4 megapixel cameras. A K-mount digital would make Pentax a major player again overnight. My money is waiting on a 4-megapixel digital K-mount autofocus Pentax for 1000-1300 US dollars. Better gimme two - they're cheap, and my wife will want one of her own. They already have some of their own point-and-shoots and the SLR with HP. Nothing that real grabs me by the neck and says, Buy me. Apropos of the Pentax 110 SLR system thread recently, am I the only one who thinks this would have made the great foundation for a digital SLR system? Certainly it wouldn't have the exhorbitant cost of a 35mm full-frame imager -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: New Pentax 24-90 Lens
So sayeth Robert James: inexcusable for a single barrel extension. I also have the new Tamron 24-135, and the build quality is much bettervery tight. Again, I have I've been trying to find the specs for this lens. Tamron's web site www.tamron.com has been unreachable whenever I've tried (well over a week now). Anyone have better luck? Or know of another place to get more details about this lens? -joe . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: A Harder Game
Mike Johnston trolled for article fodder: Which body and two lenses would you choose? Totally optional: name the subject and/or locales you'd choose to photograph. Tools: Spotmatic with SMC pinhole lens Assignment: Nude street photography. Never tried this style of photography, so I hope it's not too drafty -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
More Tripod Follies?
Things have been getting dull around here with everyone preoccupied with Mike's questions. Here's one thing Bryan Geyer has to say about tripods: Why is a tripod essential? Because blur due to lens movement is inevitable at any shutter speed slower than 1/1000 sec., and because it promotes greater care in composition. Handholding is strictly for dead photographers: A human pulse beat will cause 200 microns (about 0.008 inch) displacement for 1/10th second. Assuming a shutter speed of 1/250th sec., this movement alone will cause a 22% loss of resolution with a system that is otherwise capable of reproducing 100 lines-per-mm (lpm). And at a shutter speed of 1/125th sec., this performance would degrade to only 53 lpm-a 47% waste of what you purchased. (Refer John B. Williams: Image Clarity, page 191) If you don't recognize the name, he runs Really Right Stuff. -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
MZ-S midroll rewind
Now that some lucky people on the list have the MZ-S in hand ... How does the film roll numbering system and midroll rewind work? I recall there was some debate in the past as to how these features worked. In particular, when you put a partially-used roll back in the camera, does it automatically advance the film to the first unexposed frame? -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
RE: MZ-S midroll rewind
Not automatically. If you advance the frame counter while the camera back is open (using the control dial while pushing a button) then the camera will automatically advance the film to the selected frame once the back is closed. -- John Francis(650) 429-4427 OK, so you need to use the control dial to specify the roll number and the first unexposed frame. Based on the early feature descriptions, it seemed that you only needed to specify the film roll number, and the camera would then do the rest by advancing the film to the first unexposed frame. This seemed a logical possibility given all of the exposure info that the camera stores in memory for data imprinting Not as nifty as I had imagined, but still it's so much nicer than having to fire the shutter (with the lens covered etc.) so many times to get to unexposed film. -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: June Popular Photography cover
It's a photo any of us should brag about. It's on the cover of a major publication! What have any of us done to match that? I think brag was the wrong term to use earlier Well, like I said, the heavy-handed manipulation of the central element in the photo ruins it for me. Quite obviously I don't recognize what it takes to get a picture published on a magazine cover. Apparently the photographer does (he's the Pro, I'm not). But then given that he is a Pro, perhaps he would avoid something so obvious, and this photo enhancement was done by PopPhoto to make the image look better to help move more copies off the magazine stand. But I do recognize what I like, and overdone PhotoShop editing doesn't do it for me. This is rapidly becoming one of my peeves, along with double-exposed landscapes of the moon where the moon is the wrong size, is illuminated from the wrong direction, and is in the wrong position in the sky given the landscape underneath. I'll spare you all any more of my mania :o.. -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: June Popular Photography cover
The June 2001 issue of Popular Photography has a cover photo of Mout Rainier by Tim Harris, taken with a Pentax 645 and 35mm f/3.5 lens. It's Fitzharris Anyway, not a photo I would brag about. Note in particular how much brighter the mountain's reflection is, or how well defined the mountain shadows in the reflection are compared to the absent shadows on the mountain itself. A physical impossibility; reflections are never brighter. Either he used too strong a ND grad filter or he got too carried away with PhotoShop (I tend to think it's the latter). These manipulations ruined for me what is otherwise a very nice shot. OB Pentax -- Notice the further discussion in the magazine about the MZ-S and it's tilted top? A devious strategy by Pentax: Provide an incomplete press kit so the magazine(s) will mention your new camera some more. All press is good press -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re: OT: Yosemity park, Tioga pass open?
One of these links should give you the information you want. They are both updated regularly. http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/ http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/mtnhwys.htm Thanks John (and everybody else supplying the info, IT'S OPEN! :-) If you don't have this URL already, here's a live image of Half Dome: http://www.yosemite.org/vryos/index.htm As you can see, rather anemic snow cover this year. -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
OT: Kodak Packaging
I realize that none of you aliterates are likely to read this, or even get to the bullet points, but here goes: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23370-2001May13.html Very informative, if you read it, about some rather disturbing trends; and the Kodak packing is only a minor manifestation -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
Re[2]: OT: Geography query
At 08:26 PM 2/7/01 +, Bob W wrote: We do this to confuse your president. -- Cheers, Bob This one is smarter than he lets on. We finally have a good businessman as Pres. Is this the governor who "ran" three oil companies and bankrupted them all?? -joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
