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From: Cory or Brenda Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Well I, for one, can lay my hands on CDs I purchased more
than ten years ago
in a few seconds whereas, I couldn't find my negatives from
that timeframe
in a week. The CDs work no problem but the
I have, and one day I might actually get one. BUT, I would only use it for snaps
to email, etc. I only shoot color now just for snapshots, the real joy in
photography to me is Plus-X in my 6x7 followed up with a darkroom experience. I
really enjoy the craft side of the art. So, yes, I might buy
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From: Robert Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
What's not interesting about naked college girls? ;^)
They are so young, so lacking in experience. They become much more
interesting a few year later -- naked or clothed.
Bob
good point
Christian Skofteland
Wow Juan, is it really random?
That's the solution for my boring slides!! Any idea of
how can I do that with my HP Photosmart S20? :-)
Maybe the conclusion is that there is an interesting
picture hidden in each frame... scary enough since I
don't have enough time to discover it !
Jaume
The
The big chain store in the Toronto area usually has them
for about $250-275 Canadaian(about 1.25 US)I believe most
do not come with glass either.
Dave(who loves his K1000)Brooks
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Redoubtable William Robb wrote:
I love my 90mm LS...The 90mm LS is also a great lens.
How does that lens work? Is there any special extra step you have to take in
operating it on the P67?
--Mike
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Does anybody have an answer?
I don't understand why having an automatic aperture influences this.
Frank
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That is about what I paid for one of mine in excellent condition. I
think you will like it.
On Thursday 06 September 2001 00:19, you wrote:
Thanks for your opinions.
I'll go today to check out this Vivitar lens, it costs $118, which I
think is OK if the lens is in good condition.
There are
And Aaron enables well :) BTW Aaron I love that lens
:) it is fixed permanantly to my Z-20. You need to
move that store closer to me tho, I need 10 more rolls
of film ;)
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Hi,
I read that the new AF 360fgz flash gives high speed flash possibilities on
the new MZ-S.
Would this also work on the other MZ bodies?
Frank
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Humm. Does the term neoluddite come to mind. Yepper, it surely does.
You think things are going too fast? When I feel that way I think of my dad. When he
was born
automobiles (you could hardly call them cars) were a curiosity, the first airplane had
not yet
flown. Before he knew it the
Hi,
I have just updated my web page with a more serious looking
gallery, as well as new coat. Although there are now just several BW
landscapes and such, the major template work is done, so more will
follow quickly.
Comments on both pictures and web are not only welcome but required
I have the MF (ATX SD 80-200/2.8) version. I like it, and most of the people on the
list who have
one like it too. I have never used the AF version, so have no opinion about it. If the
one you are
looking at is an A mount, it is probably the same as the one I have. I use it more
than any other
As I understand it, the matrix metering algorithm on the MZ cameras requires
the absolute light values measured by the cameras metering segments. An MZ
body with and A, F, or FA series lenses mounted to it knows the value of the
wide open aperture and can therefore calculate the actual scene
Mike Johnston wrote:
by 2012 the river would be twelve feet long
In January the temperature was 2 degrees C. In August it was 25 degrees C.
If the temperature continues to rise at this rate then I would give the
polar ice caps no more than 5 months. We're all doomed, doomed I say!
Regards
Jim
Reminds me of a guy I met in business about 12 years ago. His specialty was twilight
industries, those
dying out. He ended up buying all the machines to press vinyl (albums) that he could,
he was at that
time the only company doing it in the US and cornered the (then small) market. Now he
is
Mike Johnston wrote:
Redoubtable William Robb wrote:
I love my 90mm LS...The 90mm LS is also a great lens.
How does that lens work? Is there any special extra step you have to take in
operating it on the P67?
I have not used one, but from reading the manual, I believe that you
have to
Doug Brewer wrote:
Now that MIME has been dealt a death blow...
Hi Doug,
You da Man!! This is great news, especially for the digest readers. I've
got another question on this topic. How will DEMIME handle the occasional
HTML post that is perhaps inadvertently sent by a list member? For
A scroll of mail from Aaron Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 6 Sep
2001 11:29:19 -0400
Read it? y
Hey, guys, you just talked me out of the metering prism, I think.
Sounds like way way way too much cut off at the side. Bah. Maybe I'll
have to go find one and try it out. I'd like to have a
I don't understand why having an automatic aperture influences this.
As was already said, matrix metering does not require automatic apreture,
but electric contacts that inform body about minimum aperture of the lens.
There is not any chip in A lenses, contacts are made of metal
bayonet and
Is it possible to number the topics, then number the entries? Sort of an
index like the Nikon Users Group uses.
This facilitates finding a given topic, from a NUMBERED LIST, and reading it.
THANK YOU
Burt Yust
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If you want to check to see whether a particular
Quantaray lens was made by Sigma, you can do the
following:
1) Find a picture of the lens at
http://www.ritzcamera.com
2) Find a picture of a lens with the same
focal length at http://www.sigmaphoto.com
For many lenses, it is obvious that
When you get one of those HTML messages, just change it to ASCII text before
you reply to it. It's an easy thing to do. Then, your reply will be in
plain ASCII text too.
Len
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William Robb wrote:
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I want to discourage what I see as creeping horseshit from gaining a
foothold in the PUG.
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Me too, I hate the stuff.
Tom C.
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From: Cory or Brenda Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Well I, for one, can lay my hands on CDs I purchased more
than ten years ago
in a few seconds whereas, I couldn't find my negatives from
that timeframe
in a week. The CDs work no
Well I missed out on all the fun about what constitutes Pentax equipment.
Unfortunately I was on a trip to Banff Jasper in Alberta, Canada. ;-)
BTW, Pentax equipment seems to be ubiquitous in the great land of the north.
I took note of other cameras I saw in peoples hands and around their necks
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
Wow Juan, is it really random?
It is, since the subwindow was selected already and there was no
correlation between it and the frames scanned. It's the same subwindow
for all images, of course.
That's the solution for my boring slides!! Any idea of
Hey, maybe we could arrange a PDML international Summit in London
some time?
That would be cool. :-)
jostein
Hey Jostein,
If you feel organizing something - I'm game. I can be in the centre in 90
mins. It wouldn't exactly be Grandfather Mountain - but how about Regents
Park Zoo as a poor
Especially to Mike Johnson and Bob Harris and ... and...
(sorry I ffergit)
As I've mentioned before, the other list I'm on is CGP
(Crossword game pros which = Scrabble) - just after reading
the Emerson quote on PDML I read a post to that other list
where there is an interminable debate on which
There is an old photographic adage that says, If your pictures aren't
interesting, you aren't close enough. So maybe you have come to the correct
conclusion. :)
Len
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Or maybe the conclusion is that I have to get closer :-(
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Hi Len,
The problem is not that I'm getting HTML messages from the list. In fact,
virtually all the ones I get from the list are plain ASCII text. The
problem is that when I hit the reply button in my particular version of MS
Craplook '97 (Aarrgh!! @#*^%@#), Bill Gates' little gremlins force
You guys think I'm an enabler...
One of my regular customers just brought his fifteen-minute old MZ-S
(one of the two from Henry's in Oakville) to taunt me with, since I had
told him that morning as he picked up film that I had decided not to buy
one yet (and pick up lenses for my 67 instead).
I have left the little cubby hole of Panama City, Florida for the
month on a business trip with personal enjoyment overtones. I have already
sent out messages to PDMLers in the Maryland/Virginia and New York City
areas since this is where I will be. I am so looking forward to getting
I was just talking to Ian from Downtown/Broadway Camera, and he says
that a local pro just traded in FOUR (count 'em) late model 67s and
bought four 67IIs, so Downtown/Broadway have four nice 67s on the shelf.
Just in case anyone (Brendan) wants to buy one. :)
-Aaron
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Annsan wrote, regarding the Scrabble mailing list:
Anyway - one of the WOrld champs signed off his post on the
subject like this:
G.I. Joelgernaut (aka Joel Sherman, Royal High Intimidator,
stumping for (someone's) favorite cause, stability, in lieu of
confusion;even tho I *do* believe that
Well I have another concert to photograph and after
the last time and the battery eating AF330t and
Achiever flash went thru 12 batteries in one night I
found these niffty rayovac nimh batteries at radio
shack, if all goes well I think I may have bought my
last set of batteries :). ( opps except
Dave wrote:
If you know of something suitable let me know :)
Dave,
Check out:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/e10.html
That's not exactly it, but it's a pretty nice camera. BTW it's smaller than
it looks in pictures, and it's almost affordable.
--Mike
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OH there is nothing like the feel of several hundred
dollars worth of ergonomic magnesium alloy in your
hands. Ok so I just managed to touch a MZ-S at henry's
downtown before it went out the door but it felt great.
Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
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I'm a thorough newbie when it comes to flash units (and for that matter, many
other things).
i have a zx-m and a newly acquired pz-1p. i know the zx-m doesn't support
ttl flash while the pz-1p does.
my flash experience is limited to flashing lights on p/s cameras. in other
words,
Hi,
the Spotmatic 500 was a budget Spotmatic with 1/500 as fastest shutter speed
and without self-timer.
Are there any other drawbacks like lower mechanical quality or anything else,
compared to other Spotmatic models?
Best regards
Anders Werholt
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Paris, Leonard wrote:
There is an old photographic adage that says, If your pictures aren't
interesting, you aren't close enough. So maybe you have come to the correct
conclusion. :)
I think it was Robert Capa who said that.
j
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OK, Bill,
There is a way to set up Outlook to only send in plain text, regardless. On
the screen where you can see all of your message subject lines, pull down
the Tools menu, select options, and then select the tab that says Mail
Format. The top entry there will let you select plain text as
You'll still have to carry several sets with you, unless you have a way to
recharge them on locatiom. if so, you may get by with only two sets.
Rechargeables do solve the problem of having to buy a lot of new batteries
but they don't solve the problem of having to change batteries during the
The e-10 works great, too. I traded four bodies and three lenses for the
one I have. None of the stuff I traded was Pentax, though, so I didn't lose
anything critical.
Len
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From: Mike Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:24 PM
Thanks. I like these old names that tell me much how lens was constructed
(i.e. Planar).
Kryt
Am 2001-09-05, 23:36:36, wrote canislupus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: CZJ
80/1,8 with K mount?:
I second that, the CZJ 80/1.8 is superb lens. It's similar design
(maybe even same?) to Pentax K 85/1.8
Hey, maybe we could arrange a PDML international
Summit in London some time?
That would be cool. :-)
jostein
Hey Jostein,
If you feel organizing something - I'm game.
I can be in the centre in 90 mins. It wouldn't
exactly be Grandfather Mountain - but how about
Regents Park Zoo as a
I have an SP500, along with two SP bodies, and the SP500 is by far the
smoothest operator of the three. Meter never sticks, and the film
advance is like butter. Mind you, all were bought used in the past 3 or
4 years, and I have no idea of their histories, so take that for what
it's worth.
Ok, I've been working for a managed data hosting provider for a year now
and finally got my website going today! Give me a break, I work on customer
servers all day long and have no desire to deal with mine.
So here it is: http://www.skofteland.net/christian.htm
David wrote:
Dave O'Brien writes:
Pentax could easily make an F5 killer from the Z-1p if they gave up on
small size. Just upgrade the AF and the fps, and add the interval
timer back.
I'm not sure that Pentax would want to go down that path. BTW that body
would have to be an
Doug,
I owe you big time! Thanks very much. I am a bit sensitive for this, I had
to fight several times with the Dutch tax authorities about my umlaut. An
ASCII compliant name would have been easier:-)
Frits Wüthrich
Frits,
We've adjusted a variable in DEMIME to try to stop some of the
Yikes! -20 to +30 all in one day? Stouffeville is only a couple of miles
from where I live in downtown Toronto, and we don't see those extremes!
:-) BTW, for our American friends, that's celsius. Farenheit would be
about 0 to 90 degrees, or thereabouts - suffice to say, freaking cold to
Hi everybody,
A few days ago I've placed an order for a brand new 90/2.8 for
my 6x7 but some recent post made me doubt about my choice... I
have no true reason to prefer the wider angle of the 90 to the
105/2.4 (which is available in the shop, while I have to wait
for the 90), apart from the
Frits J. Wüthrich wrote:
I had
to fight several times with the Dutch tax authorities about my umlaut.
Did you politely decline to pay any income tax that wasn't personally
addressed to you? :)
-Aaron
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Gianfranco Irlanda wrote:
Hi everybody,
Somebody claimed a better resolution wide open for the 105,
which can be useful...
When I was buying, both a happy 67 owner and a Pentax rep told me that
the 105 was superior wide open and the 90 was superior stopped down.
Since then, I've seen
I'll second that, evey PDMLer I have personally met has been a wonderful person.
--graywolf
Matamoros, Cesar A. wrote:
No real reason for this post (sorry), just thought people might be
interested. So far I have only met two people from the list and I had a
great time with both.
Tom Rittenhouse wrote:
I'll second that, evey PDMLer I have personally met has been a wonderful person.
Thirded. You all rock, kids.
-Aaron
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Unfortunatly Quantum only makes adapters for the AF280T and the 500FTZ.
Nick
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From: Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: NIMH batteries for AF330
Date: Thu, Sep 6, 2001, 3:13 PM
It comes with a 1 hr car charger so I plan on getting
8 batteries to start, as
Hey Christian, don't start this one again - we had a long series on this just
recently!
However, I might just remind you that the English language originated in
England (not the Americas), and that part of it's vocabulary comes from the
French. Therefore, French 'couleur' = English 'colour',
I have a Vivitar Zoom Thyristor 2500 that I use with my K1000.
It has a 4-position bounce head, but no swivel. It also zooms
to telephoto, normal and wide angle modes. I got mine used at
Adorama for $40, but I checked online and you might be able
to get one used for as little as $15.
--Amita
What's striking distance?
BA has a $451 fare for Chicago to London.
Regards, Bob S.
Bob, I think this more or less guarantees Jostein's original idea of a
London Summit! I feel the stirrings of the beginnings of the initial
commencement of the start of something here...
Hmmm, the end of
Thanks Aaron.
I hope I'll have the chance to change my mind when the lens
arrives. I'll probably be able to do a head to head comparison
to see if I like one more than the other. The man at the shop
said he had to order another lens for the 67II he has in the
shop anyway, so I should have the
Gianfranco Irlanda wrote:
The 65cm of minimum focusing
distance still make me prefer the 90mm, though.
That was the only difference that really made me think about which lens
I'd take. At its minimum focus distance, the 105mm gets you a little
closer than a head-and-shoulders portrait. You
Hmmm...
That's really not much.
I've just found a question like mine in the Pentax 67 SLR
question and answer forum
(http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Pentax%2067%20SLR)
and many of the comments seem leaning to a little superiority of
the 90mm.
We'll see...
Gianfranco
Aaron
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:03:36 -0500, Paris, Leonard wrote:
[...] If your pictures aren't
interesting, you aren't close enough. [...]
I've seen that quotation attributed to Robert Capa.
TTYL, DougF
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 20:24:38 +0100, Frits J. Wthrich wrote:
Please keep me informed.
Hey, maybe we could arrange a PDML international Summit in London
some time?
Me, too. I usually change planes in London on my way to the
Continent and could easily expand that to be a day or two layover
On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 17:02:27 -0400, Frank Theriault wrote:
with tongue firmly planted in cheek,
CHtongueEEK
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And who would know better. He is my all-time greatest war
photographer. Unfortunately, he got too close to a land mine.
On Thursday 06 September 2001 19:12, you wrote:
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:03:36 -0500, Paris, Leonard wrote:
[...] If your pictures aren't
interesting, you aren't close
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Subject: Re: 67 equipment, request for enablement
Redoubtable William Robb wrote:
I love my 90mm LS...The 90mm LS is also a great lens.
How does that lens work? Is there any special extra step you
have to take in
operating it on the P67?
As a matter of fact, my K 24/2.8 can be used in multi-segment
metering with my Z-1p and (I think but I haven't done any test)
with the MZ-5n. I know it because the 1p shows the metering
pattern in the finder. I use almost exclusively spot metering,
though.
Gianfranco
Ivan Prenosil [EMAIL
Summer Storm by Gianfranco Irlanda
I fell in love with the mood that this photo evokes right away. A sudden
storm on a summer day. Water washing over hot pavement and hot people.
It is something we all have experienced, and it evokes both memories and
sensations. Gianfranco's shot is, as he has
Suggest you compare specific lenses for such things as number and
configuration of elements, weight, maximum aperture, filter size, etc.
Such things tipped us off that Pentax's 28-105 of a year or so ago was
actually made by Tamron.
Joe
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Ken Archer wrote:
And who would know better. He is my all-time greatest war
photographer. Unfortunately, he got too close to a land mine.
Yep. He's also one of my all-time favorite photographers.
j
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First page anyway. Comments, rants, raves and orders graciously accepted.
http://homepage.mac.com/hood1616/PhotoAlbum.html
New domain name to follow.
All shot with Pentax gear, mainly the 24mm f=2 FA*, and the 28-70mm f=2.8
FA*.
Cameron Hood
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I got in some A-class auto extension tubes today.
On my ZX-M the display of SS aperture is consistent
with just a lens mounted. But with my son's ZX-10
the aperture is never displayed.
Any clues to the mystery?
Collin
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Could well be. I don't remember where I read it.
Len
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On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:03:36 -0500, Paris, Leonard wrote:
[...] If your pictures aren't
interesting, you aren't close enough. [...]
I've seen that quotation attributed to Robert Capa.
TTYL, DougF
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Hi Paul,
Thank you for your more than nice comments! Now I can go to
sleep with a smile on my face...
:)
I'm really happy you enjoyed that shot.
I was not sure to submit a shot made with a non-Pentax camera,
even in a open gallery... Guess how I felt when all the messages
about the changes in the
I quess i forgot to say from winter to summer.Oh well i think you
got my drift(snow reference).Here it is early Sept and i'm driving around looking for
winter
picture spots(I just listen to the voices from the spottie and respond)
Dave
Subject: Re: The PUG Guy yips - I missed the fun!
Yikes!
After drooling over that 70-200 Sigma 2.8, I checked BH for prices. Wow! May
have to rethink that. How would you rate the Pentax 80-320/4.5-5.6 FA?
There's probably no comparison, but is it just a *little* good?
Phyllis T
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That's really not all that much, given that you'd be discovering a whole new
way of making images and starting to learn about the most revolutionary
development in photography since Godowsky and Mannes invented Kodachrome in
1936. Let's face it, this
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