Sorry for this test, but I told you not to read it!
I doubt my emails are coming through lately.
Frits
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Hi all!
I just want to know whether anybody used this body. If yes, I have a
question regarding its lightmeter. A friend of mine told me that the
lightmeter of Vivitar body (He used V3000) behaves non-linear with respect
to the film speed setting. For example, you are getting an exposure value
of
But you are not in the U.S. of A. ...and that is where Paul is referring to.
Ray Allen. Sydney. Australia.
Check out Spotmatic at Yahoo!Groups at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spotmatic
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> A really big cat:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/bigcat.jpg
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That's not a cat ! It has to be a mutant snow leopard.
Don
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My son picked up an old notebook computer
at a Garage Sale yesterday. (cheaply enough,
of course) But it has a password!
How does on reset the password/cmos on an
old notebook?
We should probably keep any interaction on this Off-List
Thanks,
Collin
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Heiland Corporation was a division of Honeywell and it started importing Asahi cameras
to the US of A in 1959 and the designation appears for the first time on model H2. It
looks like the designation was changed quite early with both Honeywell and Heiland
used on models H2 and H3, and Honeywell
I have two Suntar Auto screw-mount lenses.* When I used
them on my Spotmatic F, I had trouble unscrewing them to
remove them. (They worked fine on the Chinon camera they
were bought for, but the Chinon is long gone.)
It seems as though the little diaphragm actuator pin (on the
back of the lens)
If you want a message to get through, just use "Test - Don't
read!!" as the subject. All such messages are never lost.
Len
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> Frits J. Wüthrich
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 3:26 AM
> To: [EMAIL PR
Collin,
If you can open the notebook computer's case, you will find a
tiny button cell battery inside that keeps the CMOS alive when
the notebook is turned off, or when the main battery is dead.
If you can disable that battery, by removing it, you will cause
it to forget the password along with a
Here are my favorite cats:
http://www.postkoets.btinternet.co.uk/albums/Cheetas.jpg
I need to re do the scan, but I lost the original slide somehow
Frits
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tv,
While you were taking a picture of this cute young crow out front the
wise old crows were probably stealing food from your pantry.
There's no such thing as a cute innocent crow! :->
Alexander Grigolia
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How can one NOT read it?
regards,
frank
Len Paris wrote:
> If you want a message to get through, just use "Test - Don't
> read!!" as the subject. All such messages are never lost.
>
> Len
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>
> tv,
> While you were taking a picture of this cute young crow out front the
> wise old crows were probably stealing food from your pantry.
They were circling over my head, extremely pissed off. Luckily I didn't
get 'bombed'.
BTW, I have a pic from when you trie
Hi,
The cat weighs 87-lbs and is 69-inches from nose to tail. It is the
offspring of cats that lived at the Chalk River nuclear plant in
Canada, and it's thought that the parents may have gotten into
something they shouldn't have.
Ayash Kanto Mukherjee wrote:
> That is a really big cat, oh!
Hi ...
Yesterday was the day! I was feeling refreshed, didn't have much
regular work, and the photo gods were with me.
I took two Leicas and an LX with two lenses with me yesterday
morning.
My first stop was at a site that I've wanted to photograph for a few
days, and the day was as good as it
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
> > I thought you had B+W filters for the lenses already. In that case you
> > could just take the glass out of them and replace it with cut down
> > Pentax glass, so there'd be no additional buying and selling other
> > than the SMC filters. Still expen
Most MB have a provision for a CMOS password. If the computer has a CMOS
battery and you can remove it, remove the power battery and the CMOS
battery, wait a couple minutes and replace them. If that doesn't work, you
need to contact the MB manufacturer as sometimes all you have to do is short
a c
Hi -
The dogs in the picture are German Shepherds (at least that is what we
call them in the USA. I suspect at some sort of obedience training. They
are used by police for sniffing out drugs at customs and as guard dogs.
IT is a fun picture!
annsan
Ayash Kanto Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi!
> That i
Chris Brogden wrote:
> I missed the first part of this thread, but are you talking about using
> 49mm+ filters on Leica lenses? If so, why not get a 39mm-XXmm stepping
> ring? I don't think I've ever seen one, but I'm sure they must exist. If
> not, some companies (B+W comes to mind) will mak
Chris wrote:
> If so, why not get a 39mm-XXmm stepping
> ring? I don't think I've ever seen one,
> but I'm sure they must exist. If
> not, some companies (B+W comes to mind)
> will make one for you.
I forgot to mention that 39mm-49mm step up rings do exist. FWIW,
having B+W make a custom-si
Some notebooks are pretty nasty about passwords, in the sense that it is
burned into the ROM and is not easily changed or bypassed. This is because
Laptops are a lot more likely to be stolen that the average desktop. Who
makes the computer? Who makes the BIOS?
Todd
At 07:48 AM 5/27/01 -0500,
I don't know about the Vivitar V3800N, but in general with older cameras,
the light meter won't work with high speed film and slow shutter speeds.
The Canon AE1 won't meter under 1/8 with 400 speed film, and IIRC the K1000
won't meter right under 1/4 with 400 speed film. Maybe this is what you
f
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From: "Len Paris"
Subject: RE: More Cat Pics
> And, when they break and go for the cat, what do you do?
Cats are extremely disposable.
I have never had one break. I would expect the handler to bring
the dog back under verbal contol very quickly. With Leica, it
does
I use a Chinon 500mm f8 mirror lens, and yes ring blur are one of the
characteristics I have noted. Here is an example of a Long Eared Owl I took
on the Richmond Dykes last January. It clearly shows the effect.
http://communities.msn.ca/BirdMigrationRichmondBC/
James
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Hello,
I've just bought an SMC - M 50 mm f/2 lens for my MZ-7 and paid a pretty
nice price of 130 PLN (about $ 30). I wonder if it was a good bargain. Has
anybody any comments about this lens? What can I expect?
Thx in advance
Artur
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petit miam wrote:
>
> Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does
> not have the word "Honeywell" on it. It is an Asahi
> Pentax. So that blows that theory.
>
> Jody.
>
> --- "Provencher, Paul M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I am almost certain that Honeywell name stayed on
> > Pen
A good place to look for used gear prices if you haven't yet is
http://www.keh.com, or you can also try http://www.kcamera.com. Good luck!
Jim
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From: Bart Pfeffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 12:01 PM
Subject: Help with valuati
> petit miam wrote:
>
> Well, I have a screwmount (Spotmatic SP) which does> not have the word
> "Honeywell" on it. It is an Asahi Pentax. So that blows that theory.
Just to clarify, only the Pentaxes imported into the US had the Honeywell
label. The rest of the world used "Asahi," AKAIK.
chri
Warning:
Could be offensive to some.
Two guys sitting at the bar, one says "Look at that one-eyed cat
coming in the door", the other guy says "That`s not a one-eyed
coming in, it`s a two-eyed cat leaving!"
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
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From: "William Ro
Quite the contrary. I have no firm idea of what this stuff is worth. If
for example the SF1n is *really* worth $100, and I *think* it's worth $150,
then I would be ripping her off if I give her a deal of $115. I also don't
want to give it away for $75 if it is really worth $200. I cannot form
Shel wrote:
>Hi ...
>
>Yesterday was the day! I was feeling refreshed, didn't have much
>regular work, and the photo gods were with me. ...
Great! I love that feeling. I just wish it happened more often (to me).
Along with "you can never have too much film with you" is "never leave just
the en
I have two Suntar Auto screw-mount lenses.* When I used
them on my Spotmatic F, I had trouble unscrewing them to
remove them. (They worked fine on the Chinon camera they
were bought for, but the Chinon is long gone.)
It seems as though the little diaphragm actuator pin (on the
back of the lens)
Ayash,
I don't know right off about such a site, but
"ring-blur" simply refers to the tiny soft
donut-shaped highlight areas which are out of focus,
ie. beyond the plane of focus. I personally find them
attractive, and not distracting with most subjects.
regards,
Bob
--- Ayash Kanto Mukherjee
Can it involve cats?
Ed Dombek wrote:
>I can see an interesting PUG Gallery topic if you buy it!
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Hi!
Thanks for letting me know the correct spelling and the history behind
their origin.
With regards,
Ayash Kanto.
On Sun, 27 May 2001, William Robb wrote:
> Corect spelling is Alsatian, and is is the correct term for the
> common German Shepherd. The root word is Alsace, which was part
>
Dan Scott wrote:
> Along with "you can never have too much film with you" is "never leave just
> the end of a roll in your camera" if something important happens, you don't
> want to miss a great opportunity because you had to stop, rewind, reload,
> and then recompose. :-(
That's a good point,
Hi Frank!
Now we have a very precise explaination for Alsatians. Last time I
committed a mistake with the spelling. So let me precise with spelling.
Thanks for sharing.
With regards,
Ayash Kanto.
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Frank Theriault wrote:
>
> Hi, Ayesh,
>
> I don't know much about dogs, my
I guess you would have to go back to dead reckoning after a fashion.
First off b&w film does suffer from reciprocity failure. According to
Kodak tri-x requires
a 3 stop increase in exposure at an indicated exposure time of 100s and
plus an increase
in development time. You can find data she
Hi James,
Essentially, you set the Takumar lenses on "Manual",
then set whatever f-stop you need to, based on your
meter reading/film speed/ shutter speedthen you
"shoot"! As you know, with the Spots on
"automatic" the lens automatically "stops down" to the
aperature that the meter is call
What you have was probably a either a Grey market import or an
overseas purchase. It isn't unheard of to find cameras of that era
that were bought into the US by returning servicemen after being
bought in the far east or Germany. I have in fact a Kodak Retina
which was meant to be sold in German
Hi!
Very recently, I got a mail from James Adams. He has shoot a photograph of
long eared owl with mirror telephoto lens 500mm f/8. By looking at the
photograph I got some idea of ring blur and now after reading your
explaination that idea has concretized.
He has put all his photographs in the f
Same breed different name.
At 11:36 PM 5/27/2001 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi annsan!
>Thanks for educating me about German shephards but here in India we call
>them Alshesians. May be German shephards have a look alike with
>alshesians.
>
>Yes, of course, it is very humourous picture. I enjoy it every
That's just silly. There is an accepted breed of, I guess you
could call them house, cats that regularly grow to that size. If I can
find the web site devoted to them I will forward the URL to the list.
A co-worker of mine wanted to get one of these big kitties after her
dog died. I thought it
I think the cat's would object. It does bring to mind an amusing or
horrifying image depending how you look at it.
At 06:12 PM 5/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Can it involve cats?
>
>
>Ed Dombek wrote:
> >I can see an interesting PUG Gallery topic if you buy it!
>
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Feel very sorry for the cat.
At 03:07 PM 5/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>And, when they break and go for the cat, what do you do?
>
>Len
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> > William Robb
> > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 3:02 P
Till now I have used the LowePro Orion bag, a hip pack. I am very pleased
with the build quality, and also by the idea of a hip pack, however it
becomes a bit too small. Since I don't see anything bigger with LowePro, I
looked at Tamrac and found the 706 and 709 that would suit me, specifically
th
Stopped by Yodobashi Camera here in Tokyo last night before closing and saw
the MZ-S on the display stand. Won't bother to repeat other user impressions
other than the fact that the build quality left a bit to be desired (dials
were stiffer than I thought to be necessary and the select dial was a
on 5/27/01 8:01 PM, Jeff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> select dial was a bit
> 'loose' when stationery); could have been the demo unit I saw but I'm not so
> sure.
Hi Jeff,
Thank you for the report.
I was told by a friend who purchased the MZ-S that Pentax seem to have fixed
this dial stiffness
Himilayans, aren't they? One of my brothers-in-law has one, and it's huge.
It's VERY aggressive. It's also a foul-tempered beast who can really hurt
you if you get too near those enormous paws and claws.
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I don't know -- I don't think my cat would like being polled. Sounds
painful.
> We have a camera poll, lens poll, and film poll-isn't it time for a cat
> poll? :-)
>
> Dan Scott
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Especially if you use that Mystery Pentax Thingy.
At 07:48 PM 5/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't know -- I don't think my cat would like being polled. Sounds
>painful.
>
>
>
>
> > We have a camera poll, lens poll, and film poll-isn't it time for a cat
> > poll? :-)
> >
> > Dan Scott
> > [EMAIL
From some of our experience.if that cat has as much attitude as it is
displaying, the first dog to break ranks it would probably whoop it's butt
and teach it a lesson.
Especially if it is armed with claws. At that point in time, the other dogs
would either "sit up and take notice" or the c
Most cattle don't like removing their horns...polling!
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From: "Peter Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: More cat pictures
Especially if you use that Mystery Pentax Thingy.
At 07:48 PM 5/27/2001 -0500,
I don't think that the Breed is Himalayan. Himalayans are a cross between
Persians and Siamese
which are both relatively small breeds. I have to get in touch with my
co-worker and get
her to give me that URL.
At 07:45 PM 5/27/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Himilayans, aren't they? One of my brothers
nooo, not those Himilayans are sweet and small long haired sweeties
annsan
Treena Harp wrote:
> Himilayans, aren't they? One of my brothers-in-law has one, and it's huge.
> It's VERY aggressive. It's also a foul-tempered beast who can really hurt
> you if you get too near those enormous paws an
Hi,
Bags are such a personal item, and one's choice is dependent not
only on the gear one carries, but why you're carrying it and what
you're shooting style is. Since you've not mentioned either your
gear or your style, it would be hard to offer a recommendation.
However, I can share some experi
For more information on Domke bags go here:
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Shel Belinkoff
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"... there is no point in pressing the shutter
unless you are making some caustic comment
on the incongruities of life" - Phillip Jones Griffiths
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Greetings all
Well it's official. I'm now a proud owner of a LX. I was lucky enough to get a very
clean LX
with a A50/2 lens and grip B at a BIN of $500.00 from a Bob Poe auction. (He even
threw in a
strap, velet bag, and manual) I now know what all the fuss is about. It is a
beautiful
cam
Starting from the bottom.
The dial on the ES is a Film reminder Sun = daylight (color), Bulb =
Tungsten (color),
the black and white square = B&W and emp. = empty.
The SMC Takumar lenses have an interlock to keep you from setting the auto
manual
diaphragm switch on the lens to manual which cou
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