Re: Two PESOs: GM Diesels with sound

2023-03-04 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 04.03.23 um 20:00 schrieb Bob W PDML:

There’s a link to an MP3 further down the page. The sound quality is amazing 
and the sounds themselves are very musical and interesting, in a Stockhausen 
kind of way.


I recommend using headphones. The usual computer speakers just won't
reproduce the low frequencies correctly.

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Re: Two PESOs: GM Diesels with sound

2023-03-04 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 04.03.23 um 21:14 schrieb ann sanfedele:

I have external spekers that attach to the computer via the headphone
hole.. I hate wearing headphones or earbuds.  The sound is fine for my
ears - I cant deal with stereo ..  but  I can't tell which thing to
click on to get the sounds that come from those trains -


The links to the individual sounds are in the description below the two
photos:

The train with the yellow/blue engines:
http://www.fotoralf.be/audio/2x55_Vise.mp3

and the single grey/yellow engine:
http://www.fotoralf.be/audio/66_idle_gmn.mp3

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Re: Two PESOs: GM Diesels with sound

2023-03-04 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 04.03.23 um 22:12 schrieb ann sanfedele:

I love the photos - but the sounds were unpleasant.


...which leads me to the conclusion that a high proportion of
photographers don't like sound.

Years ago, I published a few photos on my own site where the sound
playback started automatically and I almost got lynched for that.

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Re: Two PESOs: GM Diesels with sound

2023-03-04 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 04.03.23 um 22:36 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola:

I also found the sounds unpleasant.


OK. Won't happen again... ;-)

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Re: Two PESOs: GM Diesels with sound

2023-03-04 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 04.03.23 um 23:36 schrieb ann sanfedele:


anyway when youa re 86 and losing your hearing, everythign sounds weird.


I'll be 70 next year but my hearing is already far from what it used to
be. Getting near the point where I don't hear much difference between AM
and FM radio. :-/

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Re: Two PESOs: GM Diesels with sound

2023-03-04 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 05.03.23 um 00:18 schrieb ann sanfedele:

I never heard any difference in sound -- just in content (at least, over
here)


Your AM radio sounds much better than ours here in Europe and the
difference to FM isn't as big. Our AM sounds more like telephone.

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Re: Two PESOs: GM Diesels with sound

2023-03-05 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 04.03.23 um 23:36 schrieb ann sanfedele:


I played the guitar and the recorder...


Which reminds me of the typical response of a German who doesn't play
any instrument and who, when asked, will claim he plays the grammophone.

Over here, a recorder is either a tape or cassette recorder and your
instrument is a 'Blockfloete', literally a block flute.

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Re: OT Laptops and photo editing

2023-03-06 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 06.03.23 um 15:13 schrieb David J Brooks:


Just looking for comments good or bad from those that are using said
machine(s) for LR and PS.  > -is 8gig ram enough


I'd go for 16 at least


-is M2 better over M1 chip


M1 is fine. Invest the difference in more RAM.

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Re: OT Laptops and photo editing

2023-03-06 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 06.03.23 um 20:23 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi:

The 11" diagonal model has a super-crisp and easy to see screen


So, let me congratulate you on your excellent eyesight. ;-)

I'm currently using a 27" Eizo monitor with the resolution scaled down
to 1920 x 1080 and this just barely works for me.

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Re: March PUG is Up

2023-03-08 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 08.03.23 um 09:42 schrieb Brian W:

G'day all

Enjoy the new gallery here:

http://pug.komkon.org/


What a beautiful gallery of our loved companions. My favourite is Bob
Walkden's cat on the wall of *her* front garden.

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Re: Mouse/trackball question

2023-03-15 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 15.03.23 um 08:10 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi:


I've used the Magic Trackpad ever since, can barely use a mouse now.


Same here.

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Re: Hi kids!

2023-03-16 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 16.03.23 um 15:55 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola:

Welcome Back!

The number of participants keeps declining, but the forum is still
entertaining and useful, for me at least.


And so say all of us.

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Re: epson 2400

2023-03-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 22.03.23 um 20:39 schrieb Henk Terhell:

Never had any luck with printers and I estimate their life time on my desk
is around 3 years.


I had a Epson A3+ photo printer with dye-based inks which worked fine
for years and gave beautiful prints until there was a problem with
banding and Epson repaired it to death.

They offered me a discount on a new 2400 and over the next few years it
cost me a fortune in ink with all the attemps to free its clogged
nozzles. In the end I sold it as defect on ebay.

Seeing the few decent prints I've got out of it, it would have been
cheaper to haven them oil-painted.

As much as I'd like to be able to do my own printing, I'm totally put
off photo printers for the rest of my days.

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Re: Bob, Dan, Godfrey, Bill, Collin and I are alive...

2023-03-29 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 29.03.23 um 18:47 schrieb Rick Womer:

I would like to see more posts from more people too, but I’m not ready to 
leave.  Where would I go?


Same here.

Wish I had more to show but I practically haven't been out of the house,
let alone to Dunkirk, since the beginning of Covid and I've made no more
than a few dozen shots since 2019.

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Re: GESO: Doors

2023-03-31 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 31.03.23 um 07:05 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola:


This gallery then is sort of a *Salon des Refusés, *a collection of those
images rejected for my April PUG entry


What a beautiful and interesting collection. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: PESO: Easter Cactus.

2023-04-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 09.04.23 um 00:20 schrieb Bill:

As promised, here is a picture of one of this year's blooms.


Nice one.

Are there varieties for different seasons? I've got one which has been
sold to me as a Xmas cactus.

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Re: PESO: Easter Cactus.

2023-04-10 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 10.04.23 um 01:50 schrieb mike wilson:


domestic house pants.  Those generally descendants of the species truncata...


Bermuda shorts?

SCNR
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Re: PDML Gothic

2023-04-11 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 11.04.23 um 13:26 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi:

I'm in NY for a short visit to deal with some family business and see a couple 
of friends ... And of course I visited Ann while I was here. :)

PDML Gothic - Manhattan, New York City 2023 :: https://flic.kr/p/2osw7km


How nice. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-13 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 13.04.23 um 17:11 schrieb Bob W PDML:

That would be only 1,220.


Is anyone seriously expecting more than that?

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A few Easter PESOs

2023-04-13 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

We haven't made it to Dunkirk yet again, this Easter, so here are a few
PESOs from earlier years:

The Café du Cap Gris Nez was very popular with day trippers. It has been
closed and demolished in 2006 at the behest of local environmentalists:
https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/le-cafe-du-cap-gris-nez-2006-fotoralfbe/47270827

Good Friday in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer 2006:
https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/karfreitag-2006-fotoralfbe/47269020

A retired mobile chippy in the port of Dunkirk:
https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/bienvenue-chez-les-chtis-fotoralfbe/47275969

A colourful building in the port of Dunkirk:
https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/villa-kunterbunt-fotoralfbe/47279019

Enjoy
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Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-14 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 14.04.23 um 10:33 schrieb Steve Cottrell:


Interesting. I guess it’s an aspect of different cultures’ perceptions.


Different cultures and, most of all, different times. There was a time
when a photographer was the friendly guy with a camera who took nice
pictures and people were glad when someone photographed them.

Things have definitely taken a turn for the worse since Dutroux in
Belgium and the accident of an estranged British housewife in Paris.
Today, we're the perverts trying to snatch pics of their kids.

I've taken photos of the blast furnace plant in Seraing with a few
buildings behind me when a crowd emerged from those houses and almost
lynched me because they "knew what's going on with the houses and the
children and all that...".

Another time, some guy with a bad case of testosterone poisoning
followed me in his car all across Liège and insisted on seeing my ID
because I had taken photos in his neighborhood and my car had foreign
numberplates.

I won't mention the guy who stormed out of his house wanting to know why
I had taken pictures of it (I hadn't) or the woman who kicked my Zoom
audio recorder off a sea wall in Ostend because she thought I had
photographed her with it.

I've all but given up taking photos when there are people and, worse
still, children around. It's just not worth it anymore.

HCB would have a hard time nowadays and our museums would be a lot emptier.

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Re: A few Easter PESOs

2023-04-14 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 13.04.23 um 22:58 schrieb ann sanfedele:


May I ask,  what is your thing about going to Dunkirk each Easter?


Not only on Easter but also some time in autumn and over Xmas and the
New Year.

It has become a tradition and a kind of second home. We love the area
because it has a number of advantages. It's on the sea, we can be on the
Belgian coast in 30 minutes and in England in a little over 2 hours. We
can spend a day shopping and sightseeing in Kent and be back 'home' in
France in the late evening. We love the North Sea, especially when it's
rough and stormy. Did I mention the enormous steel mill and the sea port
full of great things to photograph?

If I could create the ideal place for me it would be just like that. We
might even have moved there, years ago, but with two elderly mothers,
things weren't as easy and now we're ourselves a little old for that.

In the meantime, things have changed. Our friend who used to take care
of our cats while we were gone hasn't survived her heart surgery, our
landlord in Dunkirk has fallen from the roof and most of all there are
the migrants, or rather the French police who think two guys in a car
with German numberplates hanging around at the beach or in the harbour
have got to be people smugglers.

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Re: Ricoh's target demographic

2023-04-16 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 16.04.23 um 22:49 schrieb Larry Colen:

I've been thinking about how Ricoh does things like their steadfast devotion to 
the Pentaprism, coming out with a monochrome sensor,  most of their software 
updates are for instagram style filters on JPEGs, and removing any usefulness 
from the RGB histogram.  Ricoh marketing's target demographic is people who 
want to take photos with a cellphone, but who want to cosplay what they think 
are real photographers.


This goes all the way back to the days of Pentax still ruling themselves
when the K-7 shortly after its introduction would have needed a few
urgent updates and corrections and all Pentax came up with were improved
water colour and wax crayon filters.

Much of their market research must be done in some kind of kindergarden.

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Re: Vacation suggestion

2023-04-19 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 19.04.23 um 15:59 schrieb coll...@brendemuehl.net:

Except for the 6x7. At 10 shots per roll one must be judicious.


...or take enough film.

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PESO: Have a last good look at her!

2023-04-19 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

This morning, P&O's Pride of Burgundy has been driven on to the beach at
Aliaga, Turkey, in order to scrap her.

The photo shows her arriving in Calais in the spring of 2017.

https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/seht-sie-euch-noch-mal-gut-an-fotoralfbe/47301902

As alway, comments and suggestions...

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Re: Vacation suggestion

2023-04-21 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 21.04.23 um 03:11 schrieb Stan Halpin:


In short, unless you are shooting for stock photos and don’t want to have your 
images lost in the crowd, just shoot what pleases you. And then step aside 
because 27 others want to capture that same view, and that’s ok.


...and he might want to stay away from the deepest tripod marks.

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Re: Pentax K3 Mark III Monochrome Matte Black Edition

2023-04-21 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 21.04.23 um 15:28 schrieb mike wilson:

I wonder how big a "run" is.  Not into triple figures, I would guess.


Could this be the ‘workshop-like’ approach to production that they
announced in January of last year?

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Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 21.04.23 um 21:22 schrieb Paul Stenquist:


Has anyone else on the list tried this? It’s a function in the latest version 
of ACR that is said to use SI for noise reduction. It does a very nice job. 
Still trying to decide if it looks natural, but it can certainly save a noisy 
shot.


All major image processing software appears to have some AI based
denoising function nowadays.

As some of you might know, I've ditched Adobe's ransomware in favour of
ON1 Photo RAW and its denoising never ceases to amaze me. Best of all,
it doesn't only work on RAW files from digital cameras but also on TIFF
files with analog film data and the results with scans of 25 year old
400 ISO stock are incredible.

Whatever I throw at it, noisy stuff from my *istDS or grainy colour
film, I've got a bunch of shots that I'd never have published otherwise.

The same goes for DxO Photolab 6 but sadly it only works with RAW files,
not scans.

Here's an example from ON1. ISO 400 colour negative made even worse by
having it processed in a 1-hour-minilab, scanned after 25 years.

https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/pride-of-bruges-fotoralfbe/45950975

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Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 22.04.23 um 15:56 schrieb ann sanfedele:

I"m guessing ON1 is something I can't afford :-(


The regular price for a perpetual license is around 90 dollars but it
drops as low as fifty-odd towards the end of the year.


I have sooo many slides..  LIke this shot of the Pride of Bruges .. more
interesting to my eye than the straight shot of the side of her...


The side of her? Do you mean the photo of the Pride of Burgundy, another
vessel altogether?

https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/seht-sie-euch-noch-mal-gut-an-fotoralfbe/47301902

The trouble with the shot of the Bruges is that it can only be taken
from the top of another ferry, so you'd have to go to England and back
for that. And with the mess at Dover which is getting worse by the day I
don't see us doing that any time soon.

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Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 22.04.23 um 16:48 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi:

Ralf, I'm glad ON1 is working so well for you.

I tested it pretty thoroughly some time back and found that it was near to 
unusable for my work. It seems to never stop processing and be finished with a 
job, no matter how small the number of files I gave it to work on. After a 
month of trying to use it, I gave up and erased it on my system.


It was indeed slower than LR while I had it on the Intel-based Mac Mini.
On bigger jobs it drove the processor temp up to 100 deg c and then the
computer would put the brakes on to keep it from getting any higher.

All that changed when I got the Mac Studio and moved the RAW files from
a sluggish NAS to USB3 SSDs connected directly to the computer.
Everything is fine and fast now.

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Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 22.04.23 um 18:51 schrieb Comcast:

I don’t know what “ransomware” is, but photoshop online has been a great deal. 
It’s installed on my box and faster than the last CC version. It costs ten 
bucks a month and includes bridge, ACR, photoshop, Lightroom and more. It 
upgrades automatically so I get all the latest features.


...and you lose all your work and edits in Lightroom if you stop paying.
Now, if this isn't a ransom I don't know what is.

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Re: ACR Enhanced Noise Reduction

2023-04-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 22.04.23 um 20:53 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi:


Anyway, I continue to be glad it's working well for you. It really doesn't 
matter what sort of software you use as long as you're happy with it and it 
gets the job you want done properly. :)


Amen to that.

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Re: PESO: Ile d'Aix

2023-04-24 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 24.04.23 um 05:17 schrieb Alan C:

A very appealing image, Ralf. A lot of detail visible when zoomed in. Is
a floating dock actually a dry dock?


A floating dock... well... it floats. It can be submerged partially to
let the vessel drive in and then raised again to lift the vessel out of
the water.

A dry dock is a basin with a gate that can be pumped dry once the vessel
is inside. Like a lock with a gate at one end only.

Am I making sense?

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Re: PESO: Ile d'Aix

2023-04-24 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 24.04.23 um 12:42 schrieb Alan Cole:

Yes. What I meant was "Does it serve the same purpose as a dry dock?"


It does indeed.

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Re: K3-III metering

2023-04-24 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 24.04.23 um 20:46 schrieb Larry Colen:

The K-3 III metering seems to fall down “when things go pear shaped at night”.


As you might know, I like to do the odd night shot, mostly industrial
scenes. As a matter of fact, I've never relied on any camera's metering
under those conditions.

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Re: K3-III metering

2023-04-25 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 25.04.23 um 15:45 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi:


My best "meter" for difficult situations like that is a Kodak Pocket Photo 
Guide. It has an exposure calculator based on descriptions of scene type, and I've found 
its suggestions to be right on the mark nearly all the time.


"f8 and be there" :-)

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Re: PESO: One More Tree #1

2023-04-29 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 29.04.23 um 21:14 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola:


The first is an image I recently submitted as a PESO, but should have save
for the May PUG, as it really fits the theme:

http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2023/2/13/bent


Really beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: PUG - The one that didn't make it

2023-04-29 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 29.04.23 um 20:33 schrieb Underpaid N. Overpentaxed:

Looks like a pun in a pic


Might well be. According to their website PrimaPlant's business is the
import and wholesale of palm trees.

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Re: Peso - one more lonely tree not submitted for May PUG

2023-05-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 01.05.23 um 14:08 schrieb ann sanfedele:

Ok, I'll play

Decided this one  had been seen in a PUG before and the file, scanned
from a Kodachrome slide, had
not been well processed going to digital .  Have lovely memories
associated with it though .

https://annsan.smugmug.com/Works-in-Print/Books-in-Print/North-America-Naturally/i-TFfKwNx/A


Really nice and sue me, I much prefer it sans cormorant.

I'd never thought I'd develop much sympathy for seagulls but the poor
birds don't find a street light to sit on anymore, on the French coast.
All of them occupied by cormorants. Their number has exploded over the
last 15 years.

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Re: Slide scanners

2023-05-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 01.05.23 um 17:42 schrieb Paul Stenquist:

I scan slides on my Epson V850 Pro flatbed scanner. ... The epson will scan 
them at 4900 dpi native, generating very nice hi-kres files.


You might as well scan at 2400 instead of 4800 and save a lot of time.

From the test report by filmscanner.info:

"In the scan our our USAF-test chart at 4800 ppi resolution (left
image), the horizontal lines of the elements 5.3 and the verical lines
of the element 5.5 can just be distinguished. According to our
resolution chart, this equals an effective resolution of about 2300 ppi."

https://www.filmscanner.info/en/EpsonPerfectionV850Pro.html

See also:
https://www.sebastian-schlueter.com/blog/2017/3/10/optimum-resolution-sharpening-settings-for-epson-scanners

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Re: Slide scanners

2023-05-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 01.05.23 um 18:06 schrieb Paul Stenquist:

Perhaps, but I don’t scan charts. I scan photos, and I like the results I get 
at 4800 when printed, not pixel peeking.


Sorry. Won't happen again.

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Re: May PUG is up

2023-05-03 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 03.05.23 um 12:10 schrieb Brian W:

G'day all

Enjoy the new gallery here:

http://pug.komkon.org/


What a great gallery. Definitely one of the best we've ever had. My
favourites? The lot of them. But Henk's photo really put a smile on my face.

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Re: OT: Interesting collectors item

2023-05-06 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 06.05.23 um 03:49 schrieb David Mann:

> My local camera shop has had a Red Flag camera kit come in for sale.
Going by the number of zeroes in the price they must be quite collectible.
>
>
https://www.photo.co.nz/2nd-hand/second-hand-products/collectables/red-flag-camera-kit-s-h-3p3wem/

The used camera market is full of surprises. Someone has recently opened
a shop for second-hand analog cameras, here in town. One of his offers:

https://cameradealer.de/products/olympus-mju-ii-inkl-o

Had a look on ebay and they're going for around 250 to 300 euros. Got
one in my camera ancestors' shrine. Bought it new, years ago, for a bit
over 100 euros.

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Re: RIP Dan Matyola

2023-05-11 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 11.05.23 um 01:27 schrieb Bruce Walker:

Facebook alerted me today of messages about the passing of Dan
Matyola, May 2, 2023, at 81 years of age.


So. we've lost one of the most active and friendly members of the PDML.
His posts will be sadly missed.

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Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 13.05.23 um 02:44 schrieb Rick Womer:

Moving is agony.  We’ve been fortunate in not doing it in 37 years.


38 here. I'd love to go somewhere else but the idea of moving gives me
the creeps.

Or as they say here: three moves equal one house fire.

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Re: Slide scanners

2023-05-15 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 15.05.23 um 16:21 schrieb Rick Womer:

I’d like to start digitizing some of my 35mm slides.

There are about a dozen slide-and-film scanners on Amazon, with prices ranging 
from about $140 to $350.

Any recommendations or warnings?


The really good film scanners are no longer available new. I've used
various Nikon sanners over the last 20+ years. They all have the
diadvantage of their rather 'harsh' light source that tends to emphasize
film grain. Somewhat like the difference between enlargers with
condensers and diffuse light sources.

Their second drawback is that the film plane and the light source/mirror
are disposed horizontally: more room to collect dust. So they needed
regular cleaning by the local Nikon service.

I've been using a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 for many years now and
I'm very happy with the results. The scan quality is excellent and it
comes with carriers for digitizing 4 framed slides or strips of 6 negs
in one go. The innards are positioned vertically and I've never needed
to have it cleaned.

The optical quality of this Minolta scanner is so good that many are now
cannibalised by people using teir lens for macro photography since some
*beeep* blabbed about it in his photo blog.

Software is no problem as this scanner is supported by Ed Hamrick's
Vuescan (www.hamrick.com) even under the latest versions of Windoze and
Mac OS.

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Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 16.05.23 um 12:18 schrieb Paul Stenquist:

A useless toy.


Very much so.

Then again, as long as it brings money into Pentax' coffers it's just as
fine with me as pink, neon-yellow or textmarker-green DSLRs. No-one
forces us to buy them.

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Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 16.05.23 um 16:54 schrieb Steve Cottrell:


It’s interesting to note that a lot of young people into photography are 
curious about film and want to explore possibilities. My own son has acquired a 
film SLR, and also took an old Olympus XA-2 I gave him on holiday loaded with 
Fujifilm. It seems the retro logistics of film is catching on - who’da thunk 
it?!


Some simple compact cameras from the naughties have acquired cult
status. The Olympus :mju 2 in its simplest incarnation with the 35 mm
lens goes on ebay for hundreds of euros, nowadays. Paid less than 100
new when I offered one to my mother for Xmas, many moons ago.

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Re: PESO: emerging four-spotted chaser/skimmer

2023-05-19 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 19.05.23 um 17:02 schrieb Henk Terhell:

This morning I observed the emergence of this dragonfly at the pond nearby.


Really fascinating. Proficiat.

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Re: 30th St. Station

2023-06-07 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 07.06.23 um 03:08 schrieb Rick Womer:

Three photo-friends and I had a photo-visit to 30th St. Station (Philly’s rail 
hub) this week.


Well done. But where are the trains?

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Re: What Adobe product?

2023-06-10 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 10.06.23 um 16:21 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi:


Photoshop Elements is a simplified, reduced feature version of Photoshop.


AFAIR it's 8 bit only per channel. Makes for impressive banding in the
sky and histograms that look like a picket fence.

Ralf
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Re: MX Mirror Foam Replacement

2023-06-26 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 26.06.23 um 16:46 schrieb Steve Cottrell:


Any pointers welcome thanks.


Before you start working on that camera: have you checked the shutter?
The MX's shutter curtains have a tendency to play tag when they get old,
resulting in somewhat different exposure across the frame.

Not something you could easily repair yourself.

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Re: MX Mirror Foam Replacement

2023-06-26 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 26.06.23 um 20:42 schrieb Bob W PDML:

...until I got the first roll of film back, which very clearly showed 
significant shutter lag.


So, that's what it's called. Just copied it into my vocabulary book. ;-)


I hope the MX surgery is successful too, lovely cameras.


Indeed. I had a LX and a MX, at one time. Much preferred the MX because
of it's smaller size.

Still had to give it up because I need a +1 diopter correction for the
viewfinder since I've got my first varifocal glasses. Seems quite odd as
nobody else does. Have been discussing this with a lot of people,
incuding the optical engineers at Zeiss, Rodenstock and Essilor, but
noone has been able to explain this.

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Re: MX Mirror Foam Replacement

2023-06-26 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 26.06.23 um 22:11 schrieb Steve Cottrell:


You had a Pentax MX fixed *under warranty* ?? How does that work?!


I suppose Bob had a warranty on a recent repair. One of the advantages
of living in the EU.

That notwithstanding, if you buy a used camera from a professional
dealer in the EU he has to grant a warranty as well.

SCNR
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Re: PESO: Portrait of a roe deer

2023-06-28 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 28.06.23 um 18:11 schrieb Henk Terhell:

This roe deer in our dunes stared at me and didn't move for at least a
minute. So plenty of time to make this portrait.
https://flic.kr/p/2oL1LkT


Really beautiful.

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Re: July PUG is up

2023-07-08 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 08.07.23 um 05:50 schrieb Brian W:


Enjoy the new gallery here:

http://pug.komkon.org/


Wow, what an amazing gallery. I won't even begin to look for favourites.
They're all great.

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Re: IR Photography

2023-07-13 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 13.07.23 um 01:59 schrieb Larry Colen:


You'll need to focus based on the live view, which is what the sensor sees, 
either that or manually focus based ton the distance scale and the little red 
dot that shows the IR focus point.


Maybe even a little beyond the red dot which is calibrated for an IR
wavelength of around 750 nm corresponding to the usual near-infrared
film stock like Ilford SFX200 or Konica 750. The infrared sensitivity of
a DSLR sensor extends way beyond that, well into the 800's, shifting the
focus point even more.

And don't try to step down beyond f8 to gain more DOF. Aperture
diffraction at IR sets in a lot sooner than with visible light.

I've been using a #87 gelatine filter on my unmodified *istDS. This
filter is almost completely impervious to visible light.

Here's an example:

https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/la-bistade-fotoralfbe/32223101

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Re: IR Photography

2023-07-13 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 13.07.23 um 10:22 schrieb Alan C:

I'll source a #87 filter
and give my dormant K110D a whirl as a dedicated IR camera.


The K110D should work. Basically everything before the K10D. Better
still, have its built-in IR filter removed.

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Re: IR Photography

2023-07-14 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 14.07.23 um 04:09 schrieb jco...@iinet.net.au:

That's a very fine image, Ralf


Thanks. Here's a few more, some on film, some digital:

https://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2013/03/infrarot-3.html

https://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2013/02/infrarot-2.html

https://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2013/02/infrarot.html

https://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2009/08/hauptsache-man-macht-was-daraus.html

https://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2009/08/infrarot-digital.html

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Re: Lightroom requires a TB??

2023-07-17 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 17.07.23 um 19:59 schrieb Eric Weir:


Finally getting around to signing up for Lightroom. The website indicates a TB 
of memory is required. A whole TB? Really? I only have 512 GB on my new MBA.


You can book it with various amounts of cloud storage, icluding a 1 TB
option.

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Re: Lightroom requires a TB??

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 18.07.23 um 15:07 schrieb Bill:


Subscription services seem to be the way of the future.


Either that or you'll only get updates for a year. Still leaves you with
the option of continuing with the older version.

Then again, in many cases there is a new version every year that
includes new or improved functions and you'll upgrade anyhow.

What I hate are schemes like Adobe's where you lose all use of the
software if you don't keep on paying. ("Buy once, pay forever.")

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Re: Lightroom requires a TB??

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 18.07.23 um 17:02 schrieb Bill:


I'd like a Maserati, but I can't afford it. Does this give me the right
to steal one?


Certainly not. But after you've legally bought one and paid the full
price, they won't take it away from you if you don't keep paying year
after year. Besides, an acquaintance of mine had one. That thing spent
more time at the garage than on the road.

I have paid for Lightroom since their early days and when they pulled
the plug on LR6 I've changed to ON1. Although they also lure me into
buying yearly upgrades I don't have to if I don't want to and can still
go on using it.

That said, I'm happier with ON1, the noise filter runs circles around LR
and my photos look better.

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned. I don't borrow money to buy things and I
prefer to own the things I buy. So, I'm still buying CDs instead of
streaming.

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Re: Lightroom requires a TB??

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 18.07.23 um 18:55 schrieb Larry Colen:


I'm also interested in Darktable, which has the big advantage that it will also 
run on Linux.


I've tried it, about a year ago, and to me it's something like the
proverbial horse designed by a committee. Or a software made by and for
mathematicians.

I've never quite understood their peculiar RAW developing logic. It's
said to be derived from colour correcting cine film or some such. Goes
far beyond me.

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Re: Lightroom requires a TB??

2023-07-19 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 19.07.23 um 12:22 schrieb Steve Cottrell:

The paid version is about 300 USD and then all future upgrades are included.


So they say. Until they decide it won't be any longer.

Just got a message from the author of TwistedWave saying he's changing
to a thinly veiled subscription system that costs three times as much
per year as what I paid initially for the original version.

Happens all the time for all kinds of software now.

With the selection of software I use regularly, this easily adds up to
hundreds of euros per year. Sorry, folks, that's just what our
...censored... health insurance went up this year (yet again!).

I run a translation business, not a mint.

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Re: geso, mombird with bonus sleeping babies

2023-07-23 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 23.07.23 um 20:14 schrieb Larry Colen:

I heard some peeps from outside the kitchen door, I went to look and Mombird 
just flew a short distance away, and was uncharacteristically cooperative.  I 
got a few photos with my phone, then was able to get the K-3iii with the 
18-270, then she stayed there long enough for me to get some photos with the 
bigma.


Wow. Great shots.

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Re: LrC and travel

2023-07-26 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 26.07.23 um 18:05 schrieb Toine:

I use Lr on my notebook during travel. It syncs the raw files to the cloud.
I can edit everything. Back at home I run LrC which syncs the raw files and
I continue in LrC


Works fine as long as your internet access while travelling is fast
enough. I wouldn't have to rely on it in Dunkirk, so I travel with an
external USB drive for daily backups.

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Re: Plane, Train and not a Dodge Challenger

2023-07-27 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 27.07.23 um 09:15 schrieb Larry Colen:

I'm posting this album mostly for the silly bit of play on a movie title

Though some appreciate the photo of a pusher just outside of San Berdoo


I certainly do. There are far too few railway shots on here.

But they might want to clear that riverbed before the next flood.

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Re: Plane, Train and not a Dodge Challenger

2023-07-27 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 27.07.23 um 19:09 schrieb Larry Colen:


Riverbeds seem to be pretty good at clearing themselves during floods.


Sure. If all else fails they're always ready to enlarge on the theme...

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Re: August PUG is Up

2023-08-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 09.08.23 um 15:57 schrieb ann sanfedele:

Enjoy I did.. Really interesting and nicely keeping the theme..  Like
'em all but I avhe to say ralf's knocked my socks off..


Thanks, Ann.

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Re: August PUG is Up

2023-08-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 09.08.23 um 18:26 schrieb David J Brooks:

Another well done gallery


It is indeed.

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Re: August PUG is Up

2023-08-10 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 10.08.23 um 02:16 schrieb Mark Roberts:


We can always count on Ralf for a great photo. THis one looks kind of
like a real-life Mondrian.


Thanks, but the other photos are all great as well.

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Re: Some snaps from Colorado

2023-08-10 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 10.08.23 um 02:06 schrieb Mark Roberts:

We're flying back home tomorrow after a week in Colorado. I've posted
a few shots from our adventures.


Well done. Thanks for showing.

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OT: Guardian - Photos from South-East London

2023-08-29 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Just found this series of photos by one Josh Edgoose in today's online
edition of The Guardian and thought Bob W and a few others might like them:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/aug/29/like-an-alien-world-the-banks-of-the-river-thames-and-beyond-in-pictures

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Re: OT: Guardian - Photos from South-East London

2023-08-29 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 29.08.23 um 13:01 schrieb Bob W PDML:


The people tend to be wealthy, artistically inclined, secure and confident 
enough not to be wary of the camera but to be aware of photography and often to 
play up to it.


Sounds like a street photographers paradise while the rest of the world
becomes more hellish every day.

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Re: OT: Guardian - Photos from South-East London

2023-08-29 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 29.08.23 um 13:16 schrieb Bob W PDML:


There’s a lot of money around there.


So, let everybody have enough money and the world will be a nicer place.

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Re: PANO: East & West Bankers

2023-09-06 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 06.09.23 um 13:01 schrieb Alan C:

On Saturday, I was
sitting in my car at the North end when 2 herds arrived simultaneously
on opposite sides to drink. I took 5 shots to make a Pano.


You really live in an interesting place. Having elephants at the zoo
just isn't the same.

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Re: Photos from the latest trip

2023-09-06 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 06.09.23 um 22:29 schrieb Mark Roberts:

We got home two days ago and have almost overcome the jet lag. I've
managed to put up a gallery of photos from our bicycle trip across
Austria and the Czech Republic.


If that trip was as good as the photos I really envy you.

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Re: GESO - Mercer Museum

2023-09-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 09.09.23 um 18:16 schrieb Rick Womer:

Yesterday we took a trip to Doylestown, a well-preserved town incorporated in 
1838, about an hour west of Philly.


A most peculiar place indeed.

What do you call the guy in the third and fifth photo? It would be a
Kasper in German or a Guignol in French.

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Re: PESO: Some shots just after dawn

2023-09-15 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 15.09.23 um 20:17 schrieb Henk Terhell:


It was a pleasant experience as I ended up with a few shots of roe deer in
the morning light:


Proficiat and thanks for showing.

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Re: PESO: Some shots just after dawn

2023-09-16 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 16.09.23 um 04:23 schrieb Rick Womer:

Excellent, Henk, especially the third one, which could inspire a painting.


You can say that again. ;-)

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Re: PESO: Man in the Moon

2023-09-19 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 19.09.23 um 17:37 schrieb Paul Stenquist:

A phone shot of the man in the moon.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/w09a2ijewx9rmh1afud38/moon.jpg?rlkey=kj039zllibgkkvj4ajes8utss&dl=0


Must be the dark side. ;-)

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Re: Good find today (not Pentax)

2023-09-29 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 29.09.23 um 01:52 schrieb John Sessoms:


Bought it from a hole-in-the-wall independent...


That's what exactly? The only hole in the wall I know is a ATM.

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Re: Good find today (not Pentax)

2023-09-30 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 30.09.23 um 17:55 schrieb Mark Roberts:

John Francis wrote:


On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 05:18:50PM +0100, Bob W PDML wrote:

???

On 29 Sep 2023, at 00:52, John Sessoms  wrote:

???[???] I don't even think the hole is still there in the wall. [???]


I looked on street view- the hole???s still there, but the wall has gone. It 
looks a bit like Blackburn, Lancashire.


Well, at least the holes are rather small ...


But someone had to count them all.


4000, at the last count.

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Re: Ann-San

2023-10-01 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 01.10.23 um 02:03 schrieb ann sanfedele:

Right where I am it was not a big problem...


Always good to know that you're well and safe.

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Re: PESO 2023 - Walking (262-268) - GDG

2023-10-05 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 04.10.23 um 17:55 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi:

As I contemplate where I am going with my photo efforts, I made a few more 
photos on my walk the other day.

Surfacing - Santa Clara 2023 :: https://flic.kr/p/2p72cSH


The very opposite of my kind of photography, but I like it just the same.

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Re: October PUG is up

2023-10-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 07.10.23 um 05:50 schrieb Brian W:

G'day all

Enjoy the new gallery here:

http://pug.komkon.org/


...and what a rousing success it is. ;-)

Not a single comment.

Methinks Alan's still-life really steals the show.

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Re: October PUG is up

2023-10-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 09.10.23 um 15:19 schrieb Alan C:

Thanks, Ralf. I thought of that after fruitlessly spending a couple of
days looking for a spectacular wild flower (Veldblommetjie).


Same here, even more so, as flowers etc, aren't my usual subject. All I
had was pre-Pentax.

In the end I decided that moss is also a plant... ;-)


The seasons seem to be totally confused!


Y'a plus de saisons, as they say in France. There are no seasons anymore.

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Re: 23q3 faves

2023-10-10 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 10.10.23 um 06:14 schrieb Larry Colen:

Here's a rather small quarterly "best of" set.


Yet, a nice one it is. I like the donkeys best.

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Re: PESO: mushroom time!

2023-10-17 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 17.10.23 um 09:24 schrieb Henk Terhell:

It is hard work at present to catch up with the variety of mushrooms
shooting out of the ground.
Here are just a few results of my efforts:


Amazing, absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Geso. latest forest bath walk

2023-10-25 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 25.10.23 um 17:13 schrieb David J Brooks:

Trail is about 15 min from my place


What a beautiful series.

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Re: OT: System Renewal

2023-10-30 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 30.10.23 um 23:36 schrieb Comcast:

I bought a Mac Mini M2 Pro with much more processing power than my old iMac.


I've bought a Mac Studio M1 last year and I'm a very happy camper.

Ralf

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Re: November PUG is up

2023-11-08 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 07.11.23 um 22:17 schrieb Brian W:

G'day all

A small gallery this month - see it here:

http://pug.komkon.org/


Small but excellent. Still trying to figure out the link to shipping in
Henk's photo...

Ralf

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Re: November PUG is up

2023-11-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 08.11.23 um 23:36 schrieb John Sessoms:

If you don't have something topical you can still post an image for the
"open gallery".


Nothing wrong with that and it's a really fine image. I was just
wondering if, as we say here. I was standing on the hose.

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Re: November PUG is up

2023-11-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 09.11.23 um 09:04 schrieb Henk Terhell:


(Maybe I'm obsessed about taking pictures of butterflies.)


Certainly one of the more positive obsessions as long as you don't
neglect the mushroom pictures. :-)

Ralf

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Re: November PUG is up

2023-11-10 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 09.11.23 um 17:10 schrieb Stanley Halpin:

Ralf - thank you for asking about Henk’s graphic/verbal puzzle! I was pleased 
to learn something new from his reply.


You're welcome. :-)

Moreover, it seems I woke them all up as there hadn't been a single
comment about the gallery until I did.

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Re: PESO: porcelain fungus

2023-11-16 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 15.11.23 um 22:48 schrieb Henk Terhell:

Today I finally saw the first group of porcelain fungus in this mushroom
season.
Here my first attempt with a stack of 9:
https://flic.kr/p/2pfZGGA


Brilliant!

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Re: PUG themes for 2014

2023-11-18 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 18.11.23 um 10:36 schrieb bria...@lyons-ryan.org:

Here's a list of suggested themes.  Please pick your LEAST favoured ones.


Best of 2023

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PESO: Hélène

2023-11-19 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

...on her favourite bollard in the port of Boulogne. There, she has
everything in sight, especially the chip shop on the other side, just in
case somehone might drop something.

https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/helene-fotoralfbe/47872402

Enjoy
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Re: PESO: Hélène

2023-11-22 Thread Ralf R Radermacher

Am 22.11.23 um 11:22 schrieb mike wilson:

No wonder she can't fly.


...and needs that big bollard to sit on.

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I'm back

2023-12-31 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Companies like GMX are fine while everything works, but heaven help us 
if it doesn't. They're unreachable and if yousicceed in contacting the 
they won't reply.


So, I've given up on them and I'm back with a new account. Just im time 
to wish you alle the best for the new year.


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