Thanks for the Welcome!
Hi again, Thanks for the welcome. Frank, that was helpful, thanks. The needle doesn't move! Is that the light meter? Where can I get a battery? Can I go to a drugstore or camera store? I love this camera! I took a roll of film when I first got it (about a month ago), but haven't developed it yet. I will in the next couple of days - it will be interesting to see how I did. Interesting or embarrassing! I have some pictures of my ex-boyfriend on there so hopefully those are the ones that DON'T turn out! One thing I would like to get is a flash-thingy. Are they hard to find? Expensive? (and yes, I said flash-THINGY - I have a fine command of the English language, thank you very much!) I just realized I've had the skylight filter on for all my photos. Is that ok? What does the filter do? It's not colored, so does it just "soften" the photos? Hey! Will it make me look younger? :) Jasmine
Thanks for the welcome
Thanks for the welcome! December 16 sounds like a great idea. I'm in! You are right about DC. I live in nearby College Park, home of the Mighty Terps. You can tell, because of all the mean looking fiberglass turtles. Grandfather Mountain sounds interesting. I'd like to hear more about it. Looking forward to meeting you. Cheers Mike = Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:34:09 -0500 From: Stan Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New to the Group (DC gathering) To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I'm ready! I'll even have my new K10D by then... guaranteed. Stan On Nov 22, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: Welcome, Mike. Good to have you. Stan has pretty much covered the bases. I wanted to add that there are quite a few of us in the mid-Atlantic region. We have PDMLers in Philly, New Jersey, several in the DC/Baltimore area, quite a few in NYC, at least one in western Maryland, Pittsburgh, I'm in Harrisburg, PA, there are several in NC, and probably quite a few others I've forgotten. I just wish I could make it to more of the gatherings. We have our disagreements online, but I've never met anyone in person with whom I wouldn't like to spend more time. If you have the time you should really consider the photography weekends at Grandfather Mountain, NC. I made it to the Camera Clinic in 2005 and the Nature Photography Weekend last June. Both were loads of fun. Just don't camp too close to Dave. BTW, I'm actually, really, honest-to-God available on December 16th. If anyone else is up for it (Stan?) I'll definitely make the trek to DC. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Thanks for the Welcome!
Hi, Jasmine First, a warm welcome from me too. If you place your skylight filter over a white sheet of paper, You'll see a faint pinkish colour. The filter is meant to take away excess blue colour when shooting outdoors in bright light. The colour is so faint, though, that you can safely leave it on at all times. Cheers, Jostein Quoting Jasmine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi again, > > Thanks for the welcome. Frank, that was helpful, thanks. The needle > doesn't move! Is that the light meter? Where can I get a battery? Can > I go to a drugstore or camera store? > > I love this camera! I took a roll of film when I first got it (about a > month ago), but haven't developed it yet. I will in the next couple of > days - it will be interesting to see how I did. Interesting or > embarrassing! I have some pictures of my ex-boyfriend on there so > hopefully those are the ones that DON'T turn out! > > One thing I would like to get is a flash-thingy. Are they hard to > find? Expensive? (and yes, I said flash-THINGY - I have a fine command > of the English language, thank you very much!) > > I just realized I've had the skylight filter on for all my photos. Is > that ok? What does the filter do? It's not colored, so does it just > "soften" the photos? Hey! Will it make me look younger? :) > > Jasmine > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
Re: Thanks for the Welcome!
Let's get more specific here ... it reduces the bluish tint in bright light and the blue in shadows for color film. Jostein wrote: > Hi, Jasmine > > First, a warm welcome from me too. > > If you place your skylight filter over a white sheet of paper, You'll see a > faint pinkish colour. The filter is meant to take away excess blue colour when > shooting outdoors in bright light. The colour is so faint, though, that you can > safely leave it on at all times.
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Jasmine, I would like to also welcome you to the list... There never can be too much "girl power" around here! lol... I have only been "back" on list for just over a month now, (I use to subscribe a couple of years ago) and I have been welcomed so warmly, it is like I was never gone. The advice, the assistance, the kind words, the knowledge, and the bloody hilarious entertainment are in a class of their own. I really feel as though I have found a little part of the world here that was designed just for someone like me - who is a mum, and married to a great guy, but whose husband has little to no interest in photography or equipment, or even computers for that matter. I am extremely passionate and pedantic about what I do, which is mainly "people" photography, and this list truly allows me to express it freely, whilst providing constructive and useful advice that I am always able to put into practice. It isn't always Pentax related, or even photography related for that matter, but that's cool cause sometimes we all need a little digression to lighten the atmosphere... And believe me, these guys are the KINGS and QUEENS of digression - prime example, the recent topic asking people to post their "Photographic New Year's Resolutions", which quickly degenerated into a lengthy, and hilarious, topic about the definition of what "whingeing pommie bastard" is and ending with people having visions of me looking like Lucy Lui in a cheerleaders outfit (yep, you can thank your official "welcomer" Frank for that saga! lol)... As for asking silly questions, well, I fear that I am very guilty of that crime, and way too frequently, too! Lucky for us, despite them primarily being a bunch of "Grumpy Old Men" , for some reason, most of them seem to tolerate my frivolous use of bandwidth with amazing patience, and usually offer explanations that are both helpful and concise and not patronising at all... If you are anything like I was when I picked up my first camera just under 4 years ago, you will soon see that not only is photography addictive, but it becomes both a passion and a way of life second to none... Again, welcome aboard, and get ready for an interesting ride... These are a great group of people always willing to help. tan. (aka fairygirl in these parts) - Original Message - From: "Jasmine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 5:43 AM Subject: Thanks for the Welcome! > Hi again, > > Thanks for the welcome. Frank, that was helpful, thanks. The needle > doesn't move! Is that the light meter? Where can I get a battery? Can > I go to a drugstore or camera store? > > I love this camera! I took a roll of film when I first got it (about a > month ago), but haven't developed it yet. I will in the next couple of > days - it will be interesting to see how I did. Interesting or > embarrassing! I have some pictures of my ex-boyfriend on there so > hopefully those are the ones that DON'T turn out! > > One thing I would like to get is a flash-thingy. Are they hard to > find? Expensive? (and yes, I said flash-THINGY - I have a fine command > of the English language, thank you very much!) > > I just realized I've had the skylight filter on for all my photos. Is > that ok? What does the filter do? It's not colored, so does it just > "soften" the photos? Hey! Will it make me look younger? :) > > Jasmine >
Re: Thanks for the Welcome!
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:43:28AM -0800, Jasmine wrote: > > One thing I would like to get is a flash-thingy. Are they hard to > find? Expensive? (and yes, I said flash-THINGY - I have a fine command > of the English language, thank you very much!) You already received a lot of good advice. I would only add that you hold back on buying a flash-thingy until you've got a good grip on taking photographs using only the light that you have available in the scenery. I have an ulterior motive, of course: once you understand natural light, I hope that you would also respect and appreciate it more, making you less likely to want to go and fry the Holy Baloney out of it with a Big Honking Raygun. As you can see, I don't much like the indiscriminate use of flash. Flash is a tool, mostly used as a weapon that makes one look more flashy and professional, and to scare your subjects into blinded submission and approriate awe of one's photographic talents. Some people also use flash as a means of carrying a kind of virtual bubble of boring, head-on, miner's headlamp frontal white lighting around with them, so as to make all there photographs appear to be taken in the same surroundings. And a smaller minority use flash, intelligently and judiciously, as a way to subtly enhance the light or make a photograph possible in a situation where they otherwise would not have been able to take one. But that intelligence and judicion builds on experience of just what possibilities the light that is there offers them, so start there. -- ,_ /_) /| / / i e t e r/ |/ a g e l
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What ~exactly~ are you driving at, Pieter? -frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Pieter Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Flash is a tool, mostly used as a weapon that makes one look more flashy and professional, and to scare your subjects into blinded submission and approriate awe of one's photographic talents. Some people also use flash as a means of carrying a kind of virtual bubble of boring, head-on, miner's headlamp frontal white lighting around with them, so as to make all there photographs appear to be taken in the same surroundings. _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
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But, seriously, I agree with you, Pieter. Despite my earlier advice to Jasmine about flashes, when I got back into photography several years ago, after my hiatus, I didn't use a flash for about 2 years. Not out of choice, just because I didn't have one. It did force me to learn to use available light quite a bit more, and I think that wasn't a bad thing. I have a flash now, and don't use it all that much. Mostly parties (at night, inside dark halls) and family snaps. I would like to learn to use the flash better, which is why I'm in the process of arranging the purchase of a ttl flash so I can exploit my LX a bit better. That's not to say that Jasmine shouldn't obtain a flash; if she chooses to obtain one (let's face it, there ~are~ situations that it's necessary or useful) there's a really cheap Vivitar that most stores sell on eBay for like $20 or something. Not too powerful, no tilt or zoom or anything, none-the-less it would make some indoor night shots more available to her. But, your advice is good - learn to use light around you first, then learn to use the flash judiciously. cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Pieter Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You already received a lot of good advice. I would only add that you hold back on buying a flash-thingy until you've got a good grip on taking photographs using only the light that you have available in the scenery. I have an ulterior motive, of course: once you understand natural light, I hope that you would also respect and appreciate it more, making you less likely to want to go and fry the Holy Baloney out of it with a Big Honking Raygun. As you can see, I don't much like the indiscriminate use of flash. Flash is a tool, mostly used as a weapon that makes one look more flashy and professional, and to scare your subjects into blinded submission and approriate awe of one's photographic talents. Some people also use flash as a means of carrying a kind of virtual bubble of boring, head-on, miner's headlamp frontal white lighting around with them, so as to make all there photographs appear to be taken in the same surroundings. And a smaller minority use flash, intelligently and judiciously, as a way to subtly enhance the light or make a photograph possible in a situation where they otherwise would not have been able to take one. But that intelligence and judicion builds on experience of just what possibilities the light that is there offers them, so start there. -- ,_ /_) /| / / i e t e r/ |/ a g e l _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca
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lol Piet! "Do it again!" "Haha it tickles!" "Again again!" - Original Message - From: "Pieter Nagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:46 AM Subject: Re: Thanks for the Welcome! > "Can you do that beam thingy again, > mate?"
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Their V1 (and I think earlier models like the S85) can do that as well. It's a good idea... the laser pattern is pretty clear. chris On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Herb Chong wrote: > they've had such a camera for more than 2 years now. Sony 707, 717, and now > the 828. > > Herb... > - Original Message - > From: "Pieter Nagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:46 AM > Subject: Re: Thanks for the Welcome! > > > > Of course, to be a real pro, one must crawl around preceded by an AF > > assist beam in addition to a flash. One of these days they'll come out > > with a camera that uses a laser scanning beam for AF assist. > >
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Pieter Nagel wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:43:28AM -0800, Jasmine wrote: > > > > One thing I would like to get is a flash-thingy. Are they hard to > > find? Expensive? (and yes, I said flash-THINGY - I have a fine command > > of the English language, thank you very much!) > > You already received a lot of good advice. > > I would only add that you hold back on buying a flash-thingy until you've > got a good grip on taking photographs using only the light that you have > available in the scenery. > > I have an ulterior motive, of course: once you understand natural light, I > hope that you would also respect and appreciate it more, making you less > likely to want to go and fry the Holy Baloney out of it with a Big Honking > Raygun. > > Jasmine, A belated welcome and a very strong agreement with Pieter's comment. There are no silly questions,btw, :) Glad to have another gal aboard too! annsan
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" once you understand natural light, I > hope that you would also respect and appreciate it more, making you less > likely to want to go and fry the Holy Baloney out of it with a Big Honking > Raygun." A true wordsmith. I finally broke down and bought a used 360, but I will avoid flash whenever I can. Probably because I've never really taken the time to learn how to use it correctly. I'm actually hoping to use the instant feedback feature of the *ist D to work on this someday. I think I'll wait until I can feed the images directly to the computer (I seem to remember that we can't do that yet w/o first storing the image to the card) This way I can put it off even longer . . . Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks for the welcome + 4sale
thanks for the warm welcome! and answering my questions. understand about ebay now . well, lasse, you see it's this way. way back when i bought i think my first SF camera i kept picking it up to find film used, settings changed etc. finally told my husband "get yer own" so he did. we just kind of kept leap frogging up the newer release ladder over the years. he bought the first digital camera (fuji 2900), i bought the next (fuji 5900) and he got the next (fuji 4900). he still has the 2900 and uses it at work, but as i get older that super nice little 5900 was just to physically small and i really missed that 35mm feel so i got the first *istD and as we go a few months later he got his. we then found that my theory of naturally going to the pentax DSLR (not that i would want to tote our daughters huge canon around) is because we already had so much pentax equipment. didn't take long to figure that the lenses that did a SUPER nice job with film wasn't going to give us the quality we wanted with the *istD so we've both purchased newer lenses in the past few months: the sigma 70-200 f2.8 EX APO and tamron 28-75 2.8. jim also uses several of his older manual pentax and takumar lenses, i did buy a super takumar 135 2.5 but as i have difficulty visually focusing it (miss that split focusing screen on the MX) i don't use it much now. hopefully my last lens purchase (who's that ROTFL out there!!!) was made last week when i purchased through ebay the pentax 100mm f2.8 macro as i do enjoy macro photography. regarding the subject of film vs digital -- i have no problem with people that prefer film, did that for many years ourselves, we will be keeping one of our film cameras as i do need slides of my paintings to enter art shows occasionally. but i sure do enjoy knowing on the spot if i have the shot i wanted and might not have a chance to get again for a long time if ever again. plus i find myself being more willing to try some things i might not try with film due to the cost of experimentation (laughing, yeah, cuz i do know it's gonna take a while to balance the cost of the new equipment vs the rolls of film!) thanks for the info re "sale day", i'll try to get a definite list together for next friday as there is a lot we won't be keeping any longer, at least a PZ1 and maybe my PZ1P if jim's old honeywell will do the slides, a couple of nice zoom lenses (70-200 and 28-300 sigmas), a couple of other fixed lenses, data back F, at least one flash, filters etc. please email privately if you can't wait till i get the list officially together. oh, and if anyone is interested in a compete darkroom setup jim is letting his go, just ask privately about it. someone asked where we are in california? atascadero which is on 101 half way between LA and SF, think they were in sacramento which is about 5 hours driving time for us. if ya'll meet somewhere half way let us know or if anyone is more our direction give a yell. i still have a lot of animals so hard for us to get away together for more than a day. karen Welcome to the list, Karen! You've got two *istD:s? Please give me one of them... Lasse >Quick question. I'm going on vacation next weekend and hope to do some >nature photography (waterfalls, etc...) Should I be shooting with a >polarizer? If yes, what brand do you recommend? > >Equipment: *IstD, Tokina 28-70 2.6-2.8, Sigma 20mm 1.8 (if it gets here >before I leave), Pentax FA 135 2.8
Re: thanks for the welcome + 4sale
So here's the lady, antithesis to the 'convince-the-missus' institution! Welcome the list, Karen. Commendable how the million or so messages a day didn't get you into panicpanicsh*thowdoiunsubscribe mode. I haven't yet had the chance to browse your site, but I will pretty soon. Til then.. Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: "Karen Clanin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 1:50 AM Subject: thanks for the welcome + 4sale > thanks for the warm welcome! and answering my questions. understand > about ebay now . > > well, lasse, you see it's this way. way back when i bought i think my > first SF camera i kept picking it up to find film used, settings changed > etc. finally told my husband "get yer own" so he did. we just kind of > kept leap frogging up the newer release ladder over the years. he bought > the first digital camera (fuji 2900), i bought the next (fuji 5900) and he > got the next (fuji 4900). he still has the 2900 and uses it at work, but > as i get older that super nice little 5900 was just to physically small and > i really missed that 35mm feel so i got the first *istD and as we go a few > months later he got his. we then found that my theory of naturally going > to the pentax DSLR (not that i would want to tote our daughters huge canon > around) is because we already had so much pentax equipment. didn't take > long to figure that the lenses that did a SUPER nice job with film wasn't > going to give us the quality we wanted with the *istD so we've both > purchased newer lenses in the past few months: the sigma 70-200 f2.8 EX > APO and tamron 28-75 2.8. jim also uses several of his older manual pentax > and takumar lenses, i did buy a super takumar 135 2.5 but as i have > difficulty visually focusing it (miss that split focusing screen on the MX) > i don't use it much now. hopefully my last lens purchase (who's that ROTFL > out there!!!) was made last week when i purchased through ebay the pentax > 100mm f2.8 macro as i do enjoy macro photography. > > regarding the subject of film vs digital -- i have no problem with people > that prefer film, did that for many years ourselves, we will be keeping one > of our film cameras as i do need slides of my paintings to enter art shows > occasionally. but i sure do enjoy knowing on the spot if i have the shot i > wanted and might not have a chance to get again for a long time if ever > again. plus i find myself being more willing to try some things i might > not try with film due to the cost of experimentation (laughing, yeah, cuz i > do know it's gonna take a while to balance the cost of the new equipment vs > the rolls of film!) > > thanks for the info re "sale day", i'll try to get a definite list together > for next friday as there is a lot we won't be keeping any longer, at least > a PZ1 and maybe my PZ1P if jim's old honeywell will do the slides, a couple > of nice zoom lenses (70-200 and 28-300 sigmas), a couple of other fixed > lenses, data back F, at least one flash, filters etc. please email > privately if you can't wait till i get the list officially together. > > oh, and if anyone is interested in a compete darkroom setup jim is letting > his go, just ask privately about it. > > someone asked where we are in california? atascadero which is on 101 half > way between LA and SF, think they were in sacramento which is about 5 hours > driving time for us. if ya'll meet somewhere half way let us know or if > anyone is more our direction give a yell. i still have a lot of animals so > hard for us to get away together for more than a day. > > karen > > > > > > > > > > > >Welcome to the list, Karen! > >You've got two *istD:s? > >Please give me one of them... > >Lasse > > > > > > > >Quick question. I'm going on vacation next weekend and hope to do some > > >nature photography (waterfalls, etc...) Should I be shooting with a > > >polarizer? If yes, what brand do you recommend? > > > > > >Equipment: *IstD, Tokina 28-70 2.6-2.8, Sigma 20mm 1.8 (if it gets here > > >before I leave), Pentax FA 135 2.8 > >
