Re: Replacement for Agfa Ultra 50

2001-07-01 Thread tom
Isaac Crawford wrote: > > Paul Jones wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I never did any really large enlargements with Ultra 50, but found it quit > > fine grained. > > > > I'll give those two you mentioned a try. > > > > I loved colour saturation of Ultra 50, i think the main thing i'm after is > > the

Re: Another image search engine

2001-07-01 Thread David S.
Mark Roberts wrote: > "David S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Could you explain about the "robots.txt"? > > It's a plain text file kept in the root directory of your web site which tells > search engine spiders and other robots which directorys to avoid. > > Mine looks like this: > User-ag

Re: Special SMC zoom?

2001-07-01 Thread William Kane
kinda reminds me of an imac, except not transparent. Bill Matt Johnson wrote: > I'm not sure if anyone has asked yet or not, but I noticed a SMC-A 70-210mm > on ebay. The thing I found odd was that it was blue. It also has one low bid > on it, whats the story on this lens? > > http://cgi.ebay.c

Re: Replacement for Agfa Ultra 50

2001-07-01 Thread Isaac Crawford
Paul Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > I never did any really large enlargements with Ultra 50, but found it quit > fine grained. > > I'll give those two you mentioned a try. > > I loved colour saturation of Ultra 50, i think the main thing i'm after is > the punchy colours. > > its a shame they disc

Northern Italy trip

2001-07-01 Thread IronWorks
I am hoping to travel to northern Italy in late July or August, to the "picturesque lake area" north of Milan. What is especially good to photograph there, both landscape and architecture (though from what I've read so far everything there is photogenic)? And BTW where would a decently inexpensi

Re: MZ-S in Toronto

2001-07-01 Thread Aaron Reynolds
> Pat White wrote: > Anyway, back to the MZ-S. The price at Just Cameras is a pretty steep > $1699.95 Cdn! On looking around, everything in that shop seemed pricy > relative to downtown Toronto prices, so when the downtown shops get > their delivery (they haven't seen the camera yet, and don'

Re: Build quality of 3rd party lenses

2001-07-01 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
whether or not you know who its father was? Mark Roberts wrote: > > "Len Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The terms "third party" and "third world country" conform to > >current usage, which doesn't validate the terms themselves. > >Hell, the American English dictionary is chock full of

Re: Feel free to comment on my pug entry

2001-07-01 Thread Gary L. Murphy
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:29:42 +1000, Paul Jones wrote: >I think the new system was to nominate if you wished to have your photo >commented on. > >I'd like comments :) Me too! :-) Later, Gary - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and

Re: pentax-discuss-digest V1 #910

2001-07-01 Thread Pentxuser
In a message dated 7/1/01 2:15:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Finally, the real satisfaction is that, as an LX owner, > you will be a Real Photographer, secure in the > knowledge that B&W photography and manual focusing is > the wave of the future, and for sure you'

Re: pentax-discuss-digest V1 #910

2001-07-01 Thread Pentxuser
i just picked up a 28 F3.5 K lens - the one that gets very high ratings - I have not tested it much but got back a group shot I took with it and a flash the other night and boy does it look good. I'm amazed with how large and heavy the lens is. I asked the camera store guy to show it to me. As

Special SMC zoom?

2001-07-01 Thread Matt Johnson
I'm not sure if anyone has asked yet or not, but I noticed a SMC-A 70-210mm on ebay. The thing I found odd was that it was blue. It also has one low bid on it, whats the story on this lens? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1250902036 ___

Re: Portra 160 NC

2001-07-01 Thread Kelvin Ang
Tom, I suppose I'm experiencing what you experienced previously. NC 160 seems a little washed out, so I tried out VC 160 (I'm new to all these Portra thing). Haven't got the results back though. I suppose NC having that washed-out look is ok if you shoot portraits (that's what it's meant for, rig

Re: Old vs new...

2001-07-01 Thread Artur Ledóchowski
- Original Message - From: "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Old vs new... | This is not a typical FA lens. Something like one of the 50's or the 35 | would be more typical, and while not quite on par with the star lenses, | are nevertheless put together a bit more nicely then that

Re: OT: LumiQuest

2001-07-01 Thread Artur Ledóchowski
- Original Message - From: "Ken Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: LumiQuest | LumiQuest is made in New Braunfels, Texas, about 30 miles from where I | live. Sure wish that made it cheaper to buyer, but it doesn't. Their | products are mounted on a flash by using velcro. T

Re: OT "real" words was - Build quality of 3rd party lenses

2001-07-01 Thread Gianfranco Irlanda
Len Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The terms "third party" and "third world country" conform to > current usage, which doesn't validate the terms themselves. > Hell, the American English dictionary is chock full of > illegitimate words, which have been added because of popular > usage. The t

Re: Feel free to comment on my pug entry

2001-07-01 Thread Bruce Dayton
I think I prefer that we go back to the system where anyone commented on anything they wanted. Bruce Dayton Sacramento, CA - Original Message - From: "Paul Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 5:29 PM Subject: Feel free to comment on my pug entr

Re: Replacement for Agfa Ultra 50

2001-07-01 Thread Paul Jones
Hi, I never did any really large enlargements with Ultra 50, but found it quit fine grained. I'll give those two you mentioned a try. I loved colour saturation of Ultra 50, i think the main thing i'm after is the punchy colours. its a shame they discontinued it. - Original Message - F

My 5 PUG picks

2001-07-01 Thread Paul Jones
Heres the images i like the most for this month, each month the pug shows how much better my shots could be and what i should work towards. They are in no particular order. " Summer Heat " by Greg Henke, USA Picture Postcard Perfect :) " Ice Flower " by Ken Waller, USA Love those blues and co

Feel free to comment on my pug entry

2001-07-01 Thread Paul Jones
I think the new system was to nominate if you wished to have your photo commented on. I'd like comments :) Cheers, Paul Jones PS: The pug is getting talked about much less now we have this system. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net an

Re: Replacement for Agfa Ultra 50

2001-07-01 Thread Bruce Dayton
I shot quite a bit of Ultra 50 and never noticed it to be that fine grained. Where it was great was in diffused light where most films would look drab. It also had fairly narrow exposure lattitude for a print film. Once it was gone I, too, have looked for a replacement. I have yet to find one.

RE: Computer Security

2001-07-01 Thread ramadoss
Please keep us updated with any important security info. Thanks. mkr At 03:59 PM 7/1/01 -0500, Len Paris wrote: >And, if you don't want someone else to gain control of your >computer, protection from Trojan horse Remote Access Terminal >Server (RATS) software is also needed. BOClean is the best

Re: OT "real" words was - Build quality of 3rd party lenses

2001-07-01 Thread Mark Roberts
Ann Sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No language is static. Words are deleted from standard collegiate >dictionaries because they are >seldom used as often as words are added because they are heavily used. > >annsan Thanks Annsan, that's what I was trying to get at ;-) - This message is fr

Replacement for Agfa Ultra 50

2001-07-01 Thread Paul Jones
Hi, I used to shoot some agfa ultra 50 and it has since been discontinued. Could any one reccomend a print with a similar fine grain and colour saturation? Thanks, Paul Jones - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the direction

Re: Build quality of 3rd party lenses

2001-07-01 Thread Bob Blakely
From: "Len Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hell, the American English dictionary is chock full of > illegitimate words, which have been added because of popular > usage. Bastard words!? Regards, Bob... -- "Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have

Re: OT: LumiQuest

2001-07-01 Thread Ken Archer
LumiQuest is made in New Braunfels, Texas, about 30 miles from where I live. Sure wish that made it cheaper to buyer, but it doesn't. Their products are mounted on a flash by using velcro. That makes it easy to install and remove for storage. You should not have any trouble fitting it to y

New Lens ???

2001-07-01 Thread Pentax Clover
Hello Does anybody heard something about a 17-35mm f/:2.8 FA ??? And about stabilisation or silent wave ??? And do you think it is going to be released a new 80-200mm f/:2.8, cheaper, without power zoom ??? Last: How can we write to Japanese Pentax engineers ? I hope to ask them to release

Re: Old vs new...

2001-07-01 Thread Pentax Clover
From: "Artur Ledóchowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Old vs new... > Hi, > Being on the used equipment market I had the chance to see a lot of older > Pentax (and non-Pentax) lenses: Takumars, M's and A's. Most of them are of > course primes, although some zooms appeared too. I bought two in t

Re: Old vs new...

2001-07-01 Thread tom
"Artur Ledóchowski" wrote: > I don't especially like the construction of the FA lenses - > my 80-200/f4,7-5,6, although optically very good, seems so fragile, that I > have constant, subconscious fear of breaking it... This is not a typical FA lens. Something like one of the 50's or the 35 would

Re[2]: Build quality of 3rd party lenses

2001-07-01 Thread Peter Alling
Your assumption is wrong, it's cold war terminology. First World Western European/North American( US Canada )/Asian (Japan Korea Taiwan) block allied against... Second World (Industrialized Communist Countries) Soviet Union, Peoples Republic of China, Most Eastern European C

Re: OT "real" words was - Build quality of 3rd party lenses

2001-07-01 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Mark Robbers wrote that ... > "Len Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The terms "third party" and "third world country" conform to > >current usage, which doesn't validate the terms themselves. > >Hell, the American English dictionary is chock full of > >illegitimate words, which have been a

RE: pentax-discuss-digest V1 #910

2001-07-01 Thread Frits J. Wüthrich
> > << I have seen it also many times, a seller who doesn't want to > ship outside > of > the USA. What you need to do is to use the option: ask the seller a > question, and ask him if he really doesn't want to ship outside the USA. > Make sure that you can offer him Paypal or so, and that you

Old vs new...

2001-07-01 Thread Artur Ledóchowski
Hi, Being on the used equipment market I had the chance to see a lot of older Pentax (and non-Pentax) lenses: Takumars, M's and A's. Most of them are of course primes, although some zooms appeared too. I bought two in the last two months: SMC M 50mm/f2 and SMC A 28mm/f2,8. Gee, what a different "t

OT: LumiQuest

2001-07-01 Thread Artur Ledóchowski
Hi, My friend is going to the USA next weekend and I want him to get there some LumiQuest stuff for me, like 80/20 and Pocket Bouncer. Since there's no LumiQuest equipment available in Poland, I haven't had any experience with it so far. I have the Sunpack MZ440AF flash and I'd like to know if tha