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Hi Cotty, on 27 Feb 04 you wrote in pentax.list: [snip] How about popping over to London in May and we'll buy you some decent beer and you can check out my in-camera sharpening ? Good idea! I haven't been in GB before - might be a nice weekend trip to make a scientific examination of cameras, beer and whisky ;-) Cheers, Heiko
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On 28/2/04, DARIO disgorged: My main business is in the photography field as a technical translator/writer and copywriter. If I can get some money from my pictures, I won't reject it, but it happens sooo rarely! That day I was working at the track as a technical interpreter, invited there by a Ferrari sponsor. For that reason, I couldn't spend all the time I wished shooting cars and drivers, but I did my best. Coool. I understand about the working bit. I have done a few press days at Silverstone, mainly interviews and shooting (video) of a few laps by Williams drivers Ralph and Juan. It would be nice to put the damn Betacam down and take some real pics :-) It's great having the access when it's quiet. Unfortunately for us, here in the UK, during race days we cannot get accreditation as the sole UK TV access is granted only to ITV Sport, and even though we are ITV News, we can't get in! I think the Beeb and Sky get a crew each in, but that's it. Really nice shots - keep it up! Looking forward to next weekend :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads http://www.macads.co.uk
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It's great having the access when it's quiet. Unfortunately for us, here in the UK, during race days we cannot get accreditation as the sole UK TV access is granted only to ITV Sport, and even though we are ITV News, we can't get in! I think the Beeb and Sky get a crew each in, but that's it. Photographer access to F1 races is a *very* tightly controlled business. When I was in Montreal for the inaugural CART race I was amazed to find that the good photo stands were all tagged and labelled. A photographer would get his access pass to one particular photo spot for the F1 race; none of the wandering around the track and gentlemanly sharing of spots that I see on the CART (or ALMS) circuit.
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- Original Message - From: John Francis none of the wandering around the track and gentlemanly sharing of spots that I see on the CART (or ALMS) circuit. Oh what I wouldn't give for a few plane tickets and those credentials. CW --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.598 / Virus Database: 380 - Release Date: 2/28/2004
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On 27/2/04, AN F1 NUT disgorged: Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza Very nice, Dario. Forgive me, I don't recall your background. Do you shoot for money or are these for pleasure? In what capacity were you at the track? Just curious, Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads http://www.macads.co.uk
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Astonishing for me - ISO800! Now the reality shows: the low sharpening of the *istD - often criticized - is a big advantage. A stronger sharpening would have increased the noise, too. Cheers, Heiko Just as a point of information, the sharpening can be set in these DSLR cameras to the desired level. I keep sharpening set to low - I am much happier deciding if and how much to sharpen a pic later on the monitor Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads http://www.macads.co.uk
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Hi Cotty, on 27 Feb 04 you wrote in pentax.list: Just as a point of information, the sharpening can be set in these DSLR cameras to the desired level. Yes, but the highest level of sharpening that the *istD offers, sharpens less than Canon's normal or even low setting. I keep sharpening set to low - I am much happier deciding if and how much to sharpen a pic later on the monitor I like my *istD's pictures most with sharpening set to high. But that might simply be the same as your low-setting ;-) Cheers, Heiko
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On 27/2/04, DOCTOR HEIKO disgorged: Just as a point of information, the sharpening can be set in these DSLR cameras to the desired level. Yes, but the highest level of sharpening that the *istD offers, sharpens less than Canon's normal or even low setting. Interesting. Do you have any references to substantiate this? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads http://www.macads.co.uk
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dpreview showed this in their testing Christian Skofteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:43 AM Subject: Re: *ist D Formula 1 tests On 27/2/04, DOCTOR HEIKO disgorged: Just as a point of information, the sharpening can be set in these DSLR cameras to the desired level. Yes, but the highest level of sharpening that the *istD offers, sharpens less than Canon's normal or even low setting. Interesting. Do you have any references to substantiate this? Cheers, Cotty
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Hi Cotty, on 27 Feb 04 you wrote in pentax.list: On 27/2/04, DOCTOR HEIKO disgorged: LOL Yes, but the highest level of sharpening that the *istD offers, sharpens less than Canon's normal or even low setting. Interesting. Do you have any references to substantiate this? Hm, I don't have a D60 to compare ;-) but I remember to have read something like taht in the web. At least Phil Askey writes: -- Image softness One niggle however must be the soft appearance of images from the camera, this I put down to two distinct areas. Firstly the lack of pin- sharp crispness (even when deliberately stopping down the lens) reminds me of the results we got from Nikon's D100 (which uses the same sensor). Secondly it does look to me as though Pentax has chosen to take a hands- off approach when it comes to sharpening, choosing to avoid sharpening artifacts and enhanced noise by keeping the in-camera sharpening algorithms to a lower level than we are perhaps used to seeing. I would have preferred Pentax to offer more latitude of adjustment of the in- camera sharpening. -- (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentaxistd/page15.asp) Michael Reichmann says: -- The Sharpening Issue In late October as this is being written, and during the few weeks that the *ist D has been on the market, there has been discussion on some Net discussion forums about the camera's images being soft. Nonsense. Pentax has wisely avoided oversharpening images in the camera. When properly sharpened they leave nothing to be desired. Once again beginners and the uninformed are confusing resolution with sharpening. -- (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/pentax-istd.shtml) Steve writes: -- The in-camera image sharpening is very low on the normal setting and only just a little bit sharper when the hard setting is used. For my tastes I ended up using a good amount of Photoshop's USM (unsharp mask) to my final images to get the look I was used to from my Nikon D100. I imagine that Pentax has kept the in-camera sharpening low to help reduce the apparent image noise, especially in the lower contrast shadow areas. -- (http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/istd_pg7.html) But again - this is no direct comparison. I think it would be the best, if yousent me your D60 and I will make some comparisons ;-) Cheers, Heiko
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On 27/2/04, EHH WHAT'S UP DOC? disgorged: LOL Yes, but the highest level of sharpening that the *istD offers, sharpens less than Canon's normal or even low setting. Interesting. Do you have any references to substantiate this? Hm, I don't have a D60 to compare ;-) but I remember to have read something like taht in the web. At least Phil Askey writes: [snip] Excellent resources Heiko! Thanks very much. I haven't been paying attention ;-) How about popping over to London in May and we'll buy you some decent beer and you can check out my in-camera sharpening ? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads http://www.macads.co.uk
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the Pentax RAW conversion software offers more sharpening than the camera does. Herb - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:43 AM Subject: Re: *ist D Formula 1 tests Yes, but the highest level of sharpening that the *istD offers, sharpens less than Canon's normal or even low setting. Interesting. Do you have any references to substantiate this?
*ist D Formula 1 tests
Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza
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Very nice. I love the Coulthard pan and the Schumacher head shot. Great work. Thanks for sharing. paul On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza
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I forgot to write that many pictures were taken at higher ISO settings (800), with very good color rendition and no visible noise. However, the Exif will tell you the whole tech stuff. Dario (Glad to be there when Schumacher scored the new record of Imola circuit) - Original Message - From: Dario Bonazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:11 PM Subject: *ist D Formula 1 tests Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza
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GREAT shots Dario, not too sure about the music though! Kinda gave me a headache after a while, although are you trying to tease us by saying Wish you were here? vbg tan. -Original Message- From: Dario Bonazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 February 2004 7:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: *ist D Formula 1 tests Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza
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Dario Bonazza wrote: Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm *DROL* Beautiul pictures, and my first good look at the new Ferrari aero package for this year. Wonder if I can get up to Montreal in June... -Mat
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Very fine work Dario! Thank you. Stan Dario Bonazza wrote: Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza
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This one time, at band camp, Mat Maessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dario Bonazza wrote: Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm excellent stuff, my fave by a country mile is this one http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04/12panis.jpg What lens/shutter speed are you using here? Kind regards Kevin -- __ (_ \ _) ) | / / _ ) / _ | / ___) / _ ) | | ( (/ / ( ( | |( (___ ( (/ / |_| \) \_||_| \) \) Kevin Waterson Port Macquarie, Australia
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IrfanView www.irfanview.com is a nice little utility which has an exif viewer built in. It's free and I have no connection to the author. If you like it you can always send him a donation. David Madsen wrote: I have not ordered my istD yet and am very new to Exif, how can one retrieve the info once the image is on the computer, as opposed to on the camera? David Madsen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.davidmadsen.com -Original Message- From: Dario Bonazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: *ist D Formula 1 tests I forgot to write that many pictures were taken at higher ISO settings (800), with very good color rendition and no visible noise. However, the Exif will tell you the whole tech stuff. Dario (Glad to be there when Schumacher scored the new record of Imola circuit) - Original Message - From: Dario Bonazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:11 PM Subject: *ist D Formula 1 tests Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza
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Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza Dario - I'm forwarding this mail to my photo editor; he might want to put your images up on our site (if that's OK with you). Eric - here's a shot of the 2004 Ferrari, amongst other things.
