RE: what makes a photograph art...
-Original Message- From: Tom Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] art brings order to chaos - it creates harmony This one seems to have very limited application. There is so much art that isn't about order and harmony. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO (s) Garden Spot and Character
Frank said: the background seems kinda flat and uninspiring I actually thought it looked like a print that had been fogged. There is definately something wrong with the flat, grey background, it seems completely un-nantural -- Peter Williams
RE: trying to answer Mark ROberts email....
-Original Message- From: Ann Sanfedele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ack - Mark - I'm not sure if it is a bug or what but I can't answer your off-list mail about our GFM plans I have the same problem and I also cannot see his website from work. There seems to be some peculiarity about his domain. -- Peter Williams
RE: OT - DNG followup (was OT - DNG question)
-Original Message- From: Anthony Farr But as I was installing Rawshooter, the dialogue told that it supported DNG from supported cameras. I don't think any current cameras can output DNG files. -- Peter Williams
RE: Boathouse III
-Original Message- From: P. J. Alling http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_boathouse3.html I like this one, the hard, dark asphalt foreground and the strong colour of the shed make a nice contrast to the soft fog. -- Peter Williams
RE: Volume 05 : Issue 958
-Original Message- From: Michael A. Russo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspected that there would be a digital enlarger down the road. Isn't that what the Agfa machines in minilabs nor are? Also the Fuji Frontier machines are a superior version of the same. Mucho dollars though, not for the home enthusiast. -- Peter Williams
RE: leaf film
-Original Message- From: Norman Baugher Derby, haven't you heard? Leaf film is dead I've heard there is a Leaf digital back though ;-) -- Peter Williams
RE: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long
-Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist I almost always convert my *istD images as 144 megabyte 16-bit files. Cripes, do you own Seagate or something ;-) -- Peter Williams
RE: Photoshop Questions
-Original Message- From: Joseph Tainter Does anyone know if either CS or CS 2 will run okay on an AMD Athlon 1.33 Ghz processor? Of course it will. There's no need to even think about it. I ran PS5 and PS 7 for years on AMD cpu machines. -- Peter Williams
RE: Photoshop Questions
-Original Message- From: Jostein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I think it will run nicely on an Athlon. It'll run fine on a Duron too. -- Peter Williams
RE: OT - Film CAMERAS are dead.
-Original Message- From: P. J. Alling Kids born 10-15 years ago will re-discover film and they'll use glorified point and shoots like the Canon Rebel, or all mechanical machines like the K1000. Bought my 14 year old son a Canon AE1 for Christmas to use in his school photography classes. He also has a Canon A75 digital PS. He uses both intelligently. -- Peter Williams
RE: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long
-Original Message- From: Markus Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] keep us informed and show some photos with your new equipment too. And try not to make us jealous with all that plasticity ;-) -- Peter Williams
RE: OT - Film CAMERAS are dead.
Depends on the type of pickup in use. A typical magnetic pickup will need pre-amplification of the usual 1-5 mV up to line levels 150mV, but also requires the special RIAA equalisation to compensate for the HF bias introduced during cutting the record. -- Peter Williams -Original Message- From: Carlos Royo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P. J. Alling escribió: Should be a relatively simple matter of taking the output from the turntable to and patching it to the aux. input on a sound card. You need a phono pre-amp, or a sound card that has one. A few of them have an external phono pre-amp.
RE: PESO: The Moon
-Original Message- From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Last night I took a shot at the Moon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/10619513/ A pretty good one too. -- Peter Williams
RE: Ist D US$709
Colin Miller wrote: I'm interested in buying an ist D I'm based in Australia and I've not bought a camera over the net before. Colin, If you can live with an *istDS instead of *istD, I recommend you have a look at http://www.centre.net.au/index.html They are nice people, located in Melbourne (Tullamarine), keep their stock in Australia, have good prices and are good with warranty. I and quite a few others I know through photography forums have been very satisfied with purchases from them. If you are close to melb they are happy for you to visit and inspect the goods prior to payment and you can pick up your goods in person. -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Passengers on a Cable Car
-Original Message- From: Boris Liberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...is cable car also called tram? For the records, in Russian it is called tramvai which comes of course from tram-way, simply pronounced differently. Tram, cable tram, trolley, trolley bus, cable car... These particular ones are like the ones they used to have in Melbourne and Geelong (Australia). There is a continuously moving cable in a trench between the tracks, a driver operated mechanism grips the cable and the tram (cable car) is pulled along till the gripper mechanism is released. -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Passengers on a Cable Car
Frits SAID: In the Netherlands it is called a tram. A trolley bus here is an electrical bus, it it powered through power lines that hang above the pavement, but it rides like normal busses, so there is no rails. That is how our trams work in Melbourne and Adelaide. Electric motor drive fed by an overhead wire, they run on tracks. All the old cable types were taken out of service and the cable system removed many years ago. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO: Rhythm of light
-Original Message- From: Boris Liberman http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=184086 SMC F 85/2.8 soft at f/4.5 or so... That's good use of a special lens. -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Passengers on a Cable Car
-Original Message- From: Graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cable cars are used in steep hilly terrain like San Francisco Isn't it on one those San Francisco cable cars on the steep hills that the Judy Garland song that goes; Clang, clang, clang went the trolley, ding, ding, ding went the bell... is set? -- Peter Williams
RE: FAJ 18-55 vs. Zenitar 16 Fisheye
Sigma's 15mm fisheye. The FOV on a film camera is 10 degrees; -Original Message- From: William Robb That seems a bit narrow for a fisheye? Yeah, this is the 1500 mm fisheye, quite rare. -- Peter Williams
RE: It Finally Happened - Lost Photos Transferring to an X-Drive
-Original Message- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry that I am replying to this third hand however I seems to only be receiving a fraction of the list traffic at the moment :-( Me too, I get answers to messages I don't see for a couple of days. -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Passengers on a Cable Car
-Original Message- From: Pat Kong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I belive that the musical you are referring to is Meet Me in St. Louis with Ms. Judy Garland. Right songstress, wrong city. The tram is apparently headed to Huntington Dell -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Passengers on a Cable Car
-Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/cable1.html Jolly good pic, I like the interaction within the two pairs of people. The whole thing works a treat and made me smile. -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Passengers on a Cable Car
Shel showed us: http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/cable1.html Then Bob said: ... the man on the extreme left with his back to the camera is very distracting. That dark space unbalances the composition... For me, that man and his bag make a perfect bookend for the pic. At the other end, the lady turning back and looking into the frame performs the same function. It's one of those pics that lead your eye around and let you find new little details each time. -- Peter Williams
RE: Filling the 50-85mm gap.
Don Sanderson wrote: My prime kit now consists of 16,24,28,35,40,50,85,90,100, 135,150, 200, 300, 400 and 500. Don, you left out the wheelbarrow ;-) -- Peter Williams
RE: Using Older lenses and Flash Systems with *ist D/DS???
-Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's easy to measure the trigger voltage... Just turn on the flash (off the camera) and use a Volt-Ohm-Meter set to DC current to measure the voltage across the center and side terminals in the hot shoe. Surely DC Volts? -- Peter Williams
RE: Freight rip off from US
-Original Message- From: Kevin Waterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Autopoles appoximately 6' long and about a 10 square and 13lb Shipping tends to be calculated on cubic metres, so light, but bulky items like your autopoles seems ludicrously expensive to ship. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO - Mungo Lunette
-Original Message- From: Brian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This photo was taken several years ago at Mungo National Park http://members.ozemail.com.au/~sgap/photos/paw/mungo-paw.html I saw someone elses pics from Mungo recently, it's an amazing looking place, I really must visit it. The effect in your sky is very pleasing, particularly in conjunction with the colours and unusual nature of the geology. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO: Others 2005 - 16p - GDG
-Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It certainly does a lot nicer at a much larger size and on paper. http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/16p.htm Yes, you can see that there should be a rich niceness in things like the texture of the wood and the smooth finish of the hinge, it just doesn't quite come across on screen. I've had a number of my pics that would have been a great BW print, lokk ordinary on-screen. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO PAW - Fire Eating Drummer
-Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/firedrum.html Nice snap, the plastic bucket drummer that often performs near my workplace never does anything this dramamtic. -- Peter Williams
New *istDS firmware V1.02
Haven't seen anyone mention this yet. http://www.digital.pentax.co.jp/ja/info/20050415e.html -- Peter Williams
RE: Three Dee Glasses
-Original Message- From: frank theriault http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3283608size=lg :-) It is an amusing and pleasing picture. Well done. -- Peter Williams
RE: A pic from second roll of film in MX
-Original Message- From: Doug Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You're being immortalized in code! It's sort of the 21st century version of being immortalized in song. :-) I'm a williams and I'm OK, I photograph all day and I sleep all night, -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Sunken Houseboat
-Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/houseboat.html That scene reminds me of Avalon Beach near Geelong, small fishing shanty town with similar surrounds. Like someone else said it's nice enough, but maybe it mneeds a little more of the boat filling the frame. But by the look of it you couldn't get closer, and if you'd used a longer lens the wide open feeling would be lost. -- Peter Williams
RE: A pic from second roll of film in MX
Bruce, I'm home now and can see this on my CRT monitor, now it is really dark looking compared to how I saw it on an LCD at work. I made a new version using the shadow/highlight adjustment in PS CS, it has lost contrast and is not as nice in some areas, but there is detail and tone in the trees. Revised version: http://tinyurl.com/3taz3 -- Peter Williams -Original Message- From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a bit less contrast perhaps or at least opening up the shadow areas a bit might be nice. Original http://tinyurl.com/63zco
RE: Pentax ist DS shutter.
-Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nearly all digital cameras have a mechanical shutter. Only very I'm rather astonished that you are all so misinformed and do not understand how digital cameras and digital SLRs operate with regard to the sensor and shutter... Peter, If you look down the barrel of the lens of your A2 and release the shutter, you'll see the shutter operate. Don, The way small sensor digital cameras work is like this: - Normal focusing/framing/viewing mode, the shutter is OPEN and the sensor chip is in live acquisition mode, refreshing its buffer according to the set refresh rate (30 or 60 fps on the KM A2). - At the time you press the shutter release to make an exposure, the camera: * Sets the focus and exposure values * Closes the shutter * Clears the sensor buffer, switches the sensor to image capture mode * Closes down the aperture * Operates the shutter * Copies the sensor buffer to the image processing buffer * Resets the aperture to fully open * Reopens the shutter * switches the sensor back to live acquisition mode Godfrey, We had quite a debate about this way back on the dpreview Minolta talk forum. I initially said that the A2 had a shutter, arguements to the contrary convinced me that there was no shutter. Others said if you look down the lens you can see the shutter, again this was dismissed as being the aperture mech. Further arguement to support the no shutter theory was that the A1 and A2 could do flash synch at full shutter speeds, that is up to 1/4000th sec. -- Peter Williams
RE: Pentax ist DS shutter.
-Original Message- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, I submit to your superior knowledge (and distinct lack of tact). I feel like it is me who lacks tact, not Godfrey. -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Interpretation
-Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/senior/bw2.html More impact and what the hell is going on factor in the new versions. I really like it. -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW PESO - Interpretation
-Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It moves the photo to a much more expressive, graphic space. Does it ever :-) -- Peter Williams
RE: Pentax ist DS shutter.
-Original Message- From: Johan Uiterwijk Winkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Before taking apart my ist DS, I am wondering if this digital body containts a mechanical shutter, or is it just firing up some electronics during the exposure time. It has a normal focal plane shutter. They are required with the dslr type sensors. -- Peter Williams
RE: Pentax ist DS shutter.
-Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nearly all digital cameras have a mechanical shutter. Only very simple cameras rely upon capture timing with the sensor alone. Do you consider the KM A2 very simple? It hasn't got a shutter. -- Peter Williams
RE: First Macro Stuff
-Original Message- From: Boris Liberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris71/8902760/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris71/8902759/ Nice ladybird :-) The plane is just generically called an ultralight here in Australia. They are usually homebuilt, either from a kit or from scratch. They have restrictions about how high they can fly, etc, but just about anyone can make and fly one without all the complications and expense of a regular plane and without all the training and licencing. -- Peter Williams
RE: inside Pentax *ist DS ...
-Original Message- From: Jim Apilado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] three transparent Pentax bodies, the SF1, PZ10, and a 110 Pentax. Surely a transparent film camera is a silly idea? Next you'll be writing an article on replacing an old field camera bellows with cling wrap ;-) -- Peter Williams
RE: Hello and Sensor cleaning
-Original Message- From: Alan P. Hayes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought I would introduce myself. Hello Alan, at least one of your fellow SP listees is here. I bought one of those ye olde match needle (LED really) jobs about a month ago (Pentax MX). The DS or it's succesor would be a likely choice if I was going to go all dslr-ish. -- Peter Williams
RE: First Macro Stuff
-Original Message- From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 'ladybird' is the British name of what you call a 'ladybug' :-) It's also what we call them here in Australia where we use proper English. -- Peter Williams
RE: Missing...
-Original Message- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] And what's this paying gig thing that I hear people talking about sometimes? Small carraige type thing pulled by horses I think. -- Peter Williams
RE: Pentax ist DS shutter.
-Original Message- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I would have thought that the vast majority of digital cameras were PS without shutters? Indeed I think that is the case. It is only the dslr type sensors which must be in the dark for the charge to be read off and stored. -- Peter Williams
RE: Pentax ist DS shutter.
-Original Message- From: Don Sanderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If they have a shutter, how can they do a full time preview on the LCD? Indeed, I think Godfrey has somehow got a sync problem on this one. -- Peter Williams
RE: Small enablement
-Original Message- From: wendy beard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's fun http://www.beard-redfern.com/IR_12.html http://www.beard-redfern.com/IR_16.html I have never, ever *got* colour IR. I have shot and loved the BW IR film, but just cannot for the life of me enjoy the results of the colour stuff. -- Peter Williams
RE: Hello and Sensor cleaning
-Original Message- From: John Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't had toclean the sensor for about 2 months, since I switched from using zooms to primes. I'm beginning to wonder if this is anything more than coincidence. I think I saw a theory that zooms act like a pump and suck in air (complete with dust) to the camera body. -- Peter Williams
RE: CR1/3N / DL1/3N / 5008LC / K58L / 2L76 Battery 3V
-Original Message- From: John Whittingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm pretty sure I've read that Pentax use a bridge circuit in the metering and that battery voltage variations don't affect metering accuracy. I see references to using 1.5V cells in place of the old 1.35V mercury cells with no repercussions. Thanks William, it looks like they're pretty safe to use. I'm Williams with an S, first name Peter. -- Peter Williams
RE: pentax-discuss-d Digest V05 #729
-Original Message- From: Tom Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Poor Peter has no idea what events he's triggered. He couldn't possibly expect the Pentax Inquisition to pay him a visit. Nobody expects the Pentax Inqusition! Cardinal Fang, read the charges. -- Peter Williams
RE: SMCP 135/2.5 comments?
-Original Message- From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You are right. And to think imperial is new to me... :-) Not to worry, didn't NASA crash their Mars Rover thing due to a similar error ;-) -- Peter Williams
RE: GFM PDML
-Original Message- From: Doug Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That lumberjack isn't quite as ... uh ... butch as most would expect. ;-) He's a lumberjack and he's alright... -- Peter Williams
ping Mark Roberts
Mark, Are you there... Can you send me the link to the pics you took with the Sigma 18-35mm lens again? I can access your site from home OK. -- Peter Williams
RE: Sigma 18-35/3.5-4.5 MF query
-Original Message- From: John Coyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter, as a price indicator, for about A$650. original list was 990. The new, in box example I have been talking about is A$350. Perhaps I should stop dithering. -- Peter Williams
RE: reflective material
-Original Message- From: Kevin Waterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rip stop nylon, I asked about fabric stores here in Australia and nobody had heard of it. If it is Rib Stop Nylon, what is it? ccould somebody send me a sample that I might try to find some in the .au fabric barns. Makers of outdoor/camping equipment would be a good source of info on where to buy small quantities of ripstop Nylon. It is used to make tents, fly sheets, etc. I'd be trying a place that sells custom made canvas goods, sunshades and similar items, or perhaps a sailmaker. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO: Ballard Locks Public Art
-Original Message- From: David Volkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Two shots of a work of art next to the Ballard locks in Seattle. http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/8174498/in/photostream/ Looks like nice sculpture, your first pic was excellent. I really like the shapes and tones captured. Well done. Isn't Ballard Locks where the dark-skinned man had the big trouble with security guards and the FBI when he was taking photos there? -- Peter Williams
RE: PAW/PESO: Double Bass
-Original Message- From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A couple of weeks ago, I was at the same bar, armed only with an MX (and therefore a flash on auto and no ttl flash capability). http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3247360 It's kind of good. I like the strong graphic lines. I like the mix of angles and the distributton of light and dark seems pretty good. I'm less enthused about the degree of out of focusness of the players head/face. Given the difficulties you faced you've probably done as well as possible. I think I might be too used to digicam depth of field. -- Peter Williams
RE: Poppy Field
-Original Message- From: Boris Liberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://boris.isra-shop.com/photos/paw/poppy-field.htm Gee that's nice, it made me smile. Great choice of lens and viewpoint and excellent cropping. The way tyhe closer flowers appear larger than life and just float in space is terrific. The two tiny human figures are just perfect to show the magnitude of this paddock of poppies. -- Peter Williams
RE: ping Mark Roberts
Thanks :-) * This is my second attempt to reply, the first, to you directly, was bounced by your postfix program. host mx1.pc-gamereview.com said: 550 Mail not accepted from this user. -- Peter Williams -Original Message- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.robertstech.com/muddy_s.htm (all but the first shot, I think) http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d101115.htm http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d101106.htm
RE: Sigma 18-35/3.5-4.5 MF query
-Original Message- From: John Coyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter, I use the AF version of this lens on the MZ-S and haven't noticed any problems with it. Thanks John. Maybe I should take the MX into the shop and shoot some pics with it and see for myself. Although no-one has claimed the lens as a paragon of iamging virtue, no-one has condemned it either. For the versatility it seems to offer it might be a good buy. It is new and priced the same as a secondhand Tamron 24/2.5 (later version with large front element) and a bit more than the earlier version of the same Tamron. I really just wanted a 24/2.8 of decent quality, but they seem quite thin on the ground in K mount. -- Peter Williams
RE: Point of No Return
-Original Message- From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3245400size=lg Look at all that lovely gleaming metal. As someone else noted, it is a bit Dr Who looking. accent type=harsh-metallic Exterminate! Exterminate! /accent -- Peter Williams
RE: Single camera bags
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Because i don't like to change lenses once i'm, at a show,i plan on taking the istD and either the A28 or 28-105 for taking presentation shots. I thought a bag that could clip on a belt would do the trick. I'm pretty sure that the Toploader Zoom bags by Lowepro are suited to what you want. -- Peter Williams
RE: just call me the Imelda Marcos of camera bags
-Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 27, 2005, at 5:58 AM, Don Sanderson wrote: Especially Tamrac, which seems to command 20-30% more for similar features. ... That's odd. At stores locally, similar models of Tamrac bags usually cost 10-20% less than the Lowepros. Agreed, Tamrac are better value than Lowepro in Australia too. -- Peter Williams
RE: New version of Photoshop announced
Every US Autumn Adobe announce a new version of PS. Maybe someone slipped up and it was put on their website prematurely? -- Peter Williams -Original Message- From: Marco Alpert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Photoshop CS2, focused on enhanced RAW workflow, to ship in May: http://www.steves-digicams.com/diginews.html
RE: just call me the Imelda Marcos of camera bags
I've got a Velocity 7 for my KM A2, when the battery grip is fitted it is of similar dimensions to your *istD and becomes a tight fit that needs a bit of wriggling to bet in and out. These new digitals and their battery grips are a different shape to the older film cameras and the bags don't seem to have caught up yet. That Reporter bag is one that has caught my ete too. -- Peter Williams -Original Message- From: Don Sanderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem is the ist-D with battery pack and a Bogen QR plate is nearly 6 inches tall by 5 1/2 inches wide. I really like the Tamrac Velocity bags but they have the same problem, too snug a fit. I've purchased a used LowePro SF Specialist 80 AW, we'll see how it does when I recieve it. I almost, and may still, try the LowePro Reporter, it's along the same lines. A slim profile top load type.
RE: two shots
-Original Message- From: Boris Liberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=172347 I rather like the first. I'm partial to graphic imagery. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO - Reflections
-Original Message- From: Marco Alpert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alpert.com/marco/pdml/peso9.html Very nice Marco. I like the contrast between the hard concrete and hardware and the soft, flowing water. Your shutter speed is just right to show the water too. The arrangement of light and dark in the frame is also very nice. -- Peter Williams
RE: Car Glove Box [Was Re: Pentax MV - Good or bad?]
-Original Message- From: John Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] These Australians are getting quite sophisticated. :-) We always were, in our own way :-) -- Peter Williams
RE: D645 musings
-Original Message- From: Sylwester Pietrzyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Replacement for D70 (it will be called D70s and will appear soon) Both - Nikon and Olympus plan to release something even chepaer very soon. AFAIK Nikon will call it D50 Konica-Minolta (what a stupid idea combining the names was) are due to release a lower price dslr soon in addition to a higher end one. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO - Double Duty
-Original Message- From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] this guy must have upset the wife last night or something... http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_1478a.htm Couldn't a man just *want* to take his child and dog for a walk? -- Peter Williams
RE: OT Stop bath
-Original Message- From: mike wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Indeedy. I was referring to vinegar, the diluted form. Oh I knew that :-) The pure (glacial) stuff is interesting, it freezes at cold room temperatures, even in Australia with a relatively mild Winter. -- Peter Williams
RE: RE: OT Stop bath
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Theoretically, it's 16 degrees C. That sound about right. I was very suprised the first time I saw it. -- Peter Williams
RE: One from my first roll in the MX
-Original Message- From: John Celio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cool! I love abstract forms. What was that, a handrail? John, It is a handrail, on some steps in the foyer of the building I work in. Glad you liked it :-) -- Peter Williams
RE: One from my first roll in the MX
-Original Message- From: David Savage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Really nice. I'm kind of partial to this type of industrial abstract image. Thanks David :-) Me too, polished metal always seems such a treat in BW. -- Peter Williams
RE: PESO: Godfrey
-Original Message- From: John Celio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newpixel.net/special/godfrey.html That's a good look :-) -- Peter Williams
RE: New member intro
-Original Message- From: Scott Loveless [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] They'll have you buying every Pentax gadget in the known universe. How do you like the MX so far? Hopefully not. It seems quite good. I remember trying one back in the early 80's or late 70's and thinking it weas like holding a bar of soap compared to the Ricoh Singlex TLS I had at the time. Then I graduated to a Nikon F Photomic FTN with a Vivitar Series One 35-85 F2 hanging off the front as my main lens, it made the Ricoh seem like a little bar of soap. Years pass... My KM DiMAGE A2 has started to seem fairly normal in size, esp. after I got the battery grip for it. Compared to it the MX seems a decent sort of thing, probably a good size. I like the compact dimensions of the 50/1.7 lens. If I want anything extra so far it's a 20 or 24mm lens. -- Peter Williams
RE: Full Frame DSLR
-Original Message- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not check out some reports from users of the Epson R-D1 I am aware of the Epson R-D1, I thought it might a good thing till I saw the price it was released at. As far as I'm aware leica have publicly said they are making a digital M camera. It has been delayed due to engineering issues. -- Peter Williams
RE: Full Frame DSLR
-Original Message- From: Bob Blakely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've heard this before and dismissed it, but after some cogitating, I can't see why the 24x36 mm digital array needs a larger lens mount that a 24x36 mm area of film. Hello pentax-ers, This is my first post as a member, I bought a secondhand MX and 50mm F1.7 M lens yesterday, hopefully I'll run a roll of film through it during the week. The lens mount thing may be to do with the fact that there is a need to minmise the angularity of the rays striking the sensor. A larger mount might allow a larger diameter lens using only the centre part of a larger coverage circle? I'm not an engineer or a physisist though. Clearly it isn't essential to have a larger mount, Kodak and Canon have been making full-frame 35mm digitals on their normal body/mount/lens foundation with varying degrees of success. -- Peter Williams
RE: Full Frame DSLR
-Original Message- From: John Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's more a matter of getting a larger register distance, so the light doesn't strike the sensor at as much of an oblique angle. I wondered about that method of reducing the angularity too. I dismissed it as being counter to the trend Pentax have led of reducing the bulk and size of DSLR bodies. Maybe it is the answer to the problems though, it will be interesting to see what Leica come up with for their digital M. After all, one of the main things that makes their wide angle lenses so superior is the tiny lens to film distance, no need for the retrofocus designs used on cameras with reflex mirrors. -- Peter Williams
RE: Full Frame DSLR (two responses in one)
-Original Message- From: John Celio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nikon is not going 35mm CCD because it is pointless to do so. Don't people want it not just for the increased pixel count, but so that their existing lenses work at their normal focal length compared to what they were on a film camera? -- Peter Williams
