Re: PAW: Julian Holding Fritz

[JosteinPx]

Mockup as in quick'n'dirty and tongue-in-cheek.

Suited the cheekiness of your comment, though. 

Cheers,
Jostein


- Original Message - 
From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: PAW: Julian Holding Fritz


> Explain, please?  What do you mean by that comment?
> 
> Shel 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/julianfritz.html
> > > 
> >
> > IMHO, that looks like a mockup.
> 
> 

Re: unsubscribe

[JosteinPx]

Try again, mate.
You should send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject:
unsubscribe.

Jostein


- Original Message - 
From: "John Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 6:45 PM
Subject: unsubscribe


> Trying this way.
>
> John aka jmb
>

Re: PAW - Snail's pace

[JosteinPx]

Steve,
I think you have done well for a hand held shot, and I don't find the OOF
parts of the snail that distracting.

Your situation is pretty much like one I had with a shot of a swallowtail
butterfly from Shenandoah. I ended up cropping. Have you considered that for
the snail shot?

I'll see if I can put up the butterfly later tonight.

Jostein


- Original Message - 
From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 7:36 PM
Subject: PAW - Snail's pace


> I was walking in the evening a few days ago and it started raining.  I
> noticed a number snails moving out of the grass onto the wet road.
> Taking my *ist D out of the plastic shopping bag (yes I was prepared)
> and getting down on the road I took this with an A50 1.7.
>
> http://home.wlu.edu/~desjardi/
>
> I'm not completely happy with this.  I got most of the snail in focus,
> but the center of the shell is a bit off, as is the end of one "stalk"
> In addition, there are some blown highlights on the shell. The big
> problem though is that I find the out of focus gravel to be
> distracting.  Any ideas?  I tried selecting the blurred positions and
> doing a Gaussian blur to soften them a bit, but the contrast with the
> sharp gravel "path" was too much.  Any suggestions?
>
> I am planning a series of B&W's of snails playing saxophones for money
> in Lexington, but they're not ready yet . . . ;-)
>

Re: Confused! please help - 645 75mm 2.8 LS

[JosteinPx]

Hi John,

The LS lenses have built-in shutters that you have to cock manually by
turning a ring. The camera senses whether it's cocked or not. You set the
shutter speed on the same ring.

It's a long while since I sold my 75 LS, and I cannot recall how it worked
with flash, I'm sorry. I have a hunch that it might be fully manual, but I
couldn't tell you for sure...

hth,

Jostein


- Original Message - 
From: "John Whittingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 9:48 PM
Subject: Confused! please help - 645 75mm 2.8 LS


> OK I'm reading through the literature on the 645 I bought (no manual) and
I
> really fancy a leaf shutter lens 75mm f2.8 LS and it says that it can be
used
> with flash sync up to 1/500 sec. and may be used in manual mode. GREAT!!
>
> However when the LS is attached to the camera the focal plane shutter is
set
> auto at 1/8 sec. So I figure, yes well there's a shutter in the lens,
isn't
> there? (I've never even seen one!)
>
> So how do you set the shutter speed above 1/8 sec., on the lens?
>
> Could it be synchronized with say a Metz 45 CT-4 and SCA adapter if I had
the
> lead from the lens to the hotshoe?
>
> Or would everything be totally manual? (I'll dig out my Western Master
V!!!)
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> John
>
>

Re: OT - Saturn here we go...

[JosteinPx]

Thanks, mate.
It's bookmarked.
Really looking forward to the descent of the Huygens probe.

Jostein

- Original Message - 
From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "pentax list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 10:01 PM
Subject: OT - Saturn here we go...


> Well, there ar epics aplenty so what the hell...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>   Cotty
> 
> 
> ___/\__
> ||   (O)   | People, Places, Pastiche
> ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps
> _
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> 

Re: OT Recreational activity

[JosteinPx]

- Original Message - 
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Come to think of it, that game is just like really
> being drunk!!  
> 
> I wonder if we kept walking, would we have come to a
> tent-trailer in North Carolina?  

LOL

Could be...

Could be...

Jostein

Re: OT(Sort of): MF digital backs

[JosteinPx]

- Original Message - 
From: "Pål Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Herb wrote:
>
> > if the sensor is full frame for 35mm, i don't see the point. better to
make
> > one that takes the Pentax K mount and point to that as the upgrade path.
>
> The idea is of course that the sensor is larger than 35mm.
>

Apparently, many of the current MedF sensors are 40x40 mm.
Jostein

Re: Quick GFM Question

[JosteinPx]

Hi Cots,

Not fuji.
Kodak Ektachrome 100 plus.

Jostein

- Original Message - 
From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "pentax list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 8:43 PM
Subject: Quick GFM Question


> Anybody remember what the roll of slide film was that they handed out for
> the NPW contest? It was 100 ISO Fuji _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
> 
> Thx
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>   Cotty
> 
> 
> ___/\__
> ||   (O)   | People, Places, Pastiche
> ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps
> _
> 
> 

Re: PAW - Street Scene Snapshot

[JosteinPx]

>From Shel Belinkoff:


> Couldn't pass it by:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/images/tel_ave.html
>

The reflections in the windows are really annoying.
To me, they also convey an intrusion upon the people photographed.

I guess the persons involved are supposed to have some emotional
relationship to one another, but I think that fails as well. I certainly
wouldn't have wasted my time on this. But then again, I don't photograph
that species a lot.

Then again, it may have been posted just to provoke reactions from certain
people on the list. Since I'm not one of them, I can honestly say that this
pic is a no-go. For me anyway.

*shrug*

Jostein

Apologies

[JosteinPx]

For the wasted bandwidth from my part today. Sometimes, the urge to wave a
red flag before the bull is irresistable. :-)

Won't do it again...
Jostein
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Re: *istD anti-aliasing?

[JosteinPx]

You guys know a lot more about these things than I do, but I can't help but
thinking that since the *istD is softer than other 6 Mpx cameras, and even
softer than other cameras using the same chip, there must be some
differences around. Do we know fer sure that there's _one_ optimal degree of
softening for a given CCD, and that all the camera makers adhere? Or could
it be that Pentax simply put on a slightly too soft filter?

My gut feeling is that trading data loss in downsampling for data loss with
a softening filter is tit for tat. I'd love to replace that gut feeling with
some real info, though... - In the absence of information, _anything_ is
possible...:-)

Cheers,
Jostein

From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> in the absence of other information, it's not possible.


> From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Their understanding of sampling and aliasing differs from mine. The fact
> > is that no anti-aliasing software can convincingly repair problems
caused by
> > presenting data to the sensor at higher then the Nyquist frequency to
any
> > significant extent without downsampling (filtering) and losing a
> > significant amount of the wanted data.
> >
> > Software simply can't predict whether the data that it sees is detail in
> > the scene or errors caused by aliasing between the sensor pixels and
high
> > frequency image data.

Re: Messages failing to post again

[JosteinPx]

Tom,

I've been having some odd problems the latter days too. Since we're on
separate sides of the Atlantic, I think it's difficult to believe that it's
a single point of failure. That said, we're experiencing all sorts of
oddities over here nowadays.

Last night, my private domain hosting company rejected all POP traffic. This
morning, the DNS server of the ISP at my job didn't recognise the domain
name science.nasa.gov, but I got through by ping and then substituting the
domain name for the IP in the browser. Then a few messages to PDML never
showed up. A test mail between three different webmail accounts (pure text)
were bounced as containing virus...

To me, it looks like there's some major router upgrading going on deep down
in the pipelines. If that's right, I suppose it will stabilise again after a
while.

Cheers,
Jostein

- Original Message - 
From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:47 PM
Subject: Messages failing to post again


> It seems either my posts are failing to get to the list, or the list is
> failing to return them to me... don't know which...
>
> Pretty aggravating. Complain. Complain.
>
> Tom C.
>
>