On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 01:47 PM, Levente -Levi- Littvay
wrote:
I am sure if you look hard enough you might find a little sticker on the
machine that says no animals or babys...
Thank you, that was hysterical. :)
As to lead aprons vs. lead-lined bags: I have never seen a
Back in the 70's I was dismayed that Pentax was moving from screw mount to
bayonet mount. But they made an adapter that allowed use of these older
lenses to work on K mount cameras. I still have my screw mount cameras, an
LX and an PZ1-p. All the M-42 screw mount lenses can still be used
So your saying Stick with early K-mount and leave screwmount alone?
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From: Shel Belinkoff [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Screw mount!
I don't know how expensive or hard to find it is,
#1. The only real sources acceptable for proof or disproof are source data
(by you or me).
#2. Your biased sources are no better than my biased sources.
#3. Political sources are most often more biased than lobby groups (either
way).
#4. a. The issue is not homicide using firearms, it's
No, not at all. Although I like the K-mount lenses, I also like the
screw-mount lenses. They are a great value and allow one to get good
optics at a good price, and to fill out a lens collection very
inexpensively. Please see my earlier post in response to your
question. You must have missed
Hi,
I had a K 28/2 before everything was nicked. It's a really very good lens.
It's very quick to focus, sharp, perhaps a little too contrasty, small and
easy to handle. A real pleasure to use. I would certainly recommend it if
one ever comes your way. As a matter of fact, if for some reason I
On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Jerome Daryl Coombs-Reyes
wrote:
Here's a silly question: Does anyone
have any opinions/ comments / suggestions/ experiences along these lines
that may help me remedy this sharpness problem? Thanks a million.
If you drop the 50mm lens on to
The following link shows some sledding pictures I sent to Idaho Magazine. I
would have done things differently now as opposed to yesterday, specifically
only including one of the center three on the top row.
These are basically just all snapshots taken with a PZ-1p or ZX-10. Most
are rough
Jerome Daryl Coombs-Reyes wrote:
It's just pretty funny / ironic to me that I traded in a not-so-sharp lens
(35-80mm) to get a much sharper one, and then have to buy filters and such
to tone it down and make the images softer (like the original lens). Well,
I'll surely be photographing some
This gets long.
There must be some reason X-Ray techs wear lead aprons in hospitals.
Perhaps because they protect vital parts from X-Rays? If the X-Rays from
airport scanners are strong enough to pass easily through these lead bags,
there's a good chance that they are also hazardous to
On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 02:38 PM, Levente -Levi- Littvay
wrote:
That is pretty much what I have. 24mm 2.8, M50mm 1.4, 135mm 2.5 (though
this is a Takumar, oh well... :))
For the longest time, my regular kit was an M 28mm f2.8, an M 50mm f1.4
and an A* 200mm f2.8. I later
Is it a good zood?
I see they're teaching spelling in Nebraska, again!
G
Collin (really a Husker fan anyway)
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I also have a 50-250 Tokina ATX zood. If I even need zood, it's there, so
the 135 is really NOT doing me much good.
L
Levente -Levi- Littvay
Perhaps if you get into the bag and seal it up tightly about three hours
before they dump you on the X-Ray machine conveyor belt, you won't be harmed
by the X-Rays. BSEG
Len
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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:39 PM
Levente -Levi- Littvay wrote:
And do not expecta ny cooperation. Back in August when I came to Lincoln
I told then that I will have a guitar with me that might not fit through
the X-ray. A guitar is NOT something you'd want to check. [...]
So they told me to get a soft case and come out
Only a few quick hints. If you were using flash, you need to bounce and/or
diffuse it. If you aren't using flash, open the lens up to its widest
aperture and adjust your shutter speed up to compensate. You could also use
a longer lens wide open (FA*85mm). Yes, a softening filter, or a piece of
Tom wrote:
I was under the impression the rays just bounced off the plane at the
angle they came in at (angle of incidence?). The bounce doesn't spread
them out any more, though I guess a stucco style ceiling might do a
little of that.
The light *is* more spread out because it's traveling
It certainly does show fun in the snow. Very nice, captured the moment.
Malcolm
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Sent: 13 December 2001 20:42
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Subject: Fun in the Snow
The following link shows some sledding
Can anyone recommend a good wedding photographer in the Sedona, AZ area.
Thanks
Evan
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Hi Levente
The MX is almost ideal for infra red shooting.
I prefer the real thing: Kodak Highspeed Infrared.
This film has to be stored below 13 Celcius. In winter time this is
fulfilled by storing the camera + film in my garage (with heating off) or in
my car. In summertime I keep it in the
On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 03:59 PM, Paris, Leonard wrote:
Perhaps if you get into the bag and seal it up tightly about three hours
before they dump you on the X-Ray machine conveyor belt, you won't be
harmed
by the X-Rays. BSEG
LOL
-Aaron
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The NY Times has an interesting photojournalistic review of what is
happening on the ground in Afghanistan at its web site. Photos by staff
photographer James Hill, accompanied by his audio narrative. It is at:
Jos from Holland wrote:
Not fully right Tom, your statement is only correct for a shiny surface, in
that case every part of the reflector (the ceiling) is directing the light
in the same way. But a perfect non-shiny (I do not know the right word in
english: difuse?)surface will reflect
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From: Jerome Daryl Coombs-Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: 50mm lens TOO sharp?
This is my first posting to PDML after reading damn near every posting for
the past 2 months I figured it was finally
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From: Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Re: Australians
Liberty is not about what you like not being curtailed or banned. Liberty
is
about ...
SNIP
Blah Blah Blah. Please take
My profound apologies to list members who are sick and tired of this OT
debate. My country was disparaged on the list so I ~insist~ upon
defending it's honour on the list. If the NRA flunkies had made this a
private debate or had preferably chosen to SHUT THE F*** UP about their
right to bear
Oh how I wish I had never unintentionally started this thread!
My profound apologies to list members who are sick and tired of this OT
debate. My country was disparaged on the list so I ~insist~ upon
defending it's honour on the list. If the NRA flunkies had made this a
private debate or
Its great entertainment. Have at it
Otiose Right
Anthony Far wrote:
My profound apologies to list members who are sick and tired of this OT
debate. My country was disparaged on the list so I ~insist~ upon
defending it's honour on the list. If the NRA flunkies had made this a
Hmm, I'd like to see a comparison of your Minolta with the Nikon
Coolscan IV ED, which is the same price but does include Digital
ICE. Anybody seen both of these in action?
Len
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From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December
Cotty, Glen and everyone,
I hear what you both say, but the lottery element, will it or won't it
arrive, do I pay duties or not(?) is just not good business.
Glen: I understand your situation rather better as my wife is a talented
viola musician, I can insure my camera and if it was lost I
Am I going to have to resurrect the what's your favorite liquor thread
again?
Tonite I was enjoying a nice Australian Cabernet Sauvignon with my wife's
lasagna.
Very tasty indeed.
Then, I took a picture of the remnants of lasagna with my LX and the m
series 50mm f4 macro before I let my dog
On 13 Dec 2001 at 23:24, Frantisek Vlcek wrote:
Hi,
anybody knows what this technique is? I heard E-20 digicam uses
darkframe substitution to reduce noise, any pointers on it in
photoshop? I wanted to postprocess my digital files, removing noise
already with LAB mode or quantum
Got any comparative images to show us ??
I'm just getting into the Photography gig and I got myself a Scan Dual II in
nov. At the moment 2820 dpi seems a bit for me. Would be very interested to
see how it compares to the Kodak.
Thanks.
Chris
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From: Mark Roberts
I was looking @ one at a good price
today @ lunch. ($50) BUT, I put
batteries in it, put it on a
super program (no lens attached, no film)
but it won't fire. Won't do anything
off-camera either. Switch on side alternated
between red and green positions.
What else should I check?
If it won't
BTW when Bob wrote,
I've tried to stay out of this OT thread, but the level of ignorance
and of
and paucity of rational thought is seriously getting to me.
you didn't pounce on him. Wassamatta, is he of the same opinion as you,
thus excusing him from observing the same courtesies?
Regards,
Not your fault, Paul. You entertained us with the story of the Croc
Hunter's endorsement of Pentax. The gun-lovers saw the word Australia
and it was a hot button for them to hijack the thread and weigh in with
their own brand of we're better-off than you and you're worse-off than
us TRASH. I
On 13 Dec 2001 at 23:50, Frantisek Vlcek wrote:
Tom wrote:
TR About the best meter for hot lights and incident metering is the Sekonic TR
Studio Deluxe meter in its various guises. The current one is the L-398 I
I can only recommend the Studio Deluxe. It's maybe _the best_ selen
meter
If there's one thing I've learned it's that there are degrees of
hopelessly and horrible, and as many definitions of them as there are
sets of eyes in the world. In fact, I've seen pictures from hopelessly
soft
lenses with horrible bokeh hanging on gallery walls. It's enough to make
me
wonder
Glen: I understand your situation rather better as my wife is a talented
viola musician, I can insure my camera and if it was lost I could buy
another. Like for like with instruments not possible - money is
not the only
issue.
Before anyone says my camera is irreplaceable, I know of people
Thanks Mike, I did look at Stan's site, but unfortunately there wasn't
anything much on that particular lens there. Tom has since convinced me to
buy it though :)
He needs to be promoted to Senior Enabler. The Lens Purchase Enablement
Committee will take it under advisement.
--Mike
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This
I'm just a amateur with a LX wishing I had more lens like you all. I see
lots
of Screwmount lens on Ebay going cheap. The question is, Buying these
screwmount is it going Backwards? Or should I just save up and stay with
the times , Like the Limited lens. Thanks . Bob.
I actually really
No, you just need an unlimited mind.
On Thursday 13 December 2001 20:12, Mike Johnston wrote:
I actually really love the M lenses. They're nicely built, generally
all solid performers, and not expensive. They're perfect on the LX.
You don't need a limited lens to take beautiful pictures.
I'm new to this list as of this week and have a question for the members. I
just decided to convert to Pentax after using Olympus for the last 12 years.
This decision was brought about by the fact that Olympus is no longer
catering to the advanced amateur/professional SLR users, and is heading
That is truly amazing. I wonder what is up with Kodak?
1. Do they want to unload the scanners that bad?
2. Are they having problems selling the scanners?
3. Do they want to get rid of the film that bad?
100 X $6.00 a roll. That's 2/3 the price of the scanner itself. Makes one
wonder... if
Thank you. I have 5 M lenses and have always liked them.
Tom C.
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From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 7:12 PM
Subject: M lens testimonial
I'm just a amateur with a LX wishing I had more lens like you all.
Hi ...
Welcome to the list, and welcome to Pentax.
Perhaps you should pick up a nice manual focus 50mm lens to use with
your manual focus cameras. The various iterations of the 50/1.4 or
5/1.7 aren't too spendy, and then, when you do get an auto focus body,
grab a complimentary 50mm AF lens.
Welcome,
My question is, what is the opinion of the FA 50mm f1.4? I was thinking
of
getting this lens new, and was wondering how friendly it is for manual
focus. I'd thought about getting an older manual 50mm, but I'd like the
auto-focus because I'm planning to get an AF body sometime in
Welcome James.
I can't help you much about the various 50mm lenses since the only one I
have is an F50/1.7 and I don't use it as often as I should.
Interesting that you came over from the Oly list. My first SLR was an OM-10
and I recently waxed nostalgic and picked one up on ebay with the
That was for BW, color, or both?
How does the SMC Tak compare to the various k, m, a, fa 50/1.4 lenses?
Dan Scott
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A huge, flaming argument about this was what made me leave the LUG. I
claimed that a Super-Multi-Coated Takumar was the equal of the Leica
Summicron-M. The Leica
I just got a ZX-5n to replace/supplement my old SuperProgram. Looking
through the manual, on page 57 it states that in aperture priority mode
multi-segment metering can only be used with F and FA lenses. Is this a
mistake in the manual? Some experimenting with my A lenses seems to
indicate
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From: Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: SUPER Super-Takumar
That was for BW, color, or both?
How does the SMC Tak compare to the various k, m, a, fa 50/1.4 lenses?
Dan Scott
[EMAIL
Bob's a pretty nice guy when he's talking about photography. But I choose
not to subject myself to this sort of crap.
I'll see you all in about a month, at which time I'll hope there will be
many harmless and friendly OT threads, and none of them about instruments of
destruction. In Bob's honor,
Hello
I use an 50mm 1.4 M lens. I cannot say a bad thing about it. But it is
manual focus and manual apeture. My approcah to the problem is that I buy
Manual lenses becase I can. I could not but AF lenses. I am not to found
of the Auto apeture cameras (P series, Programme, super programme,
Hi Team,
I am trying to find out the lengths of the Heliopan metal hoods, specifically
the 52mm Long and Short models which I would like to fit to a Pentax 50mm lens?
TIA,
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
UTC(GMT) +10 Hours
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Hi Jerome,
Welcome to the list. Not sharp pictures are fairly easy, I've gotten to
where I can do them just about every time.
First, you need to drink more (or more potent) coffee and studiously
practice bad technique (any of the following may help):
shoot from too far away;
jab at the shutter
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:23:42 -0600, Mike Johnston wrote:
and none of them about instruments of destruction.
Shall you never get hit up-side your head with a K1000 else we'll have to revert back
to using cardboard
pinhole cameras!
Mike, simply put ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING can be used as
At 22:54 13-12-2001 -0500, Shel wrote:
However, for a real treat, you might
consider saving your pennies, nickels, and dimes, and hold out for the
43mm Ltd instead of a 50mm. That's a lens that works very well in both
manual focus and auto focus modes.
And it looks a treat on the ZX-M !
Wendy
At 4:18 PM +1000 12/14/01, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 13 Dec 2001 at 23:28, Steve Sharpe wrote:
At 7:24 AM -0600 12/12/01, John Mustarde wrote:
Here's one of those I wish I took that photos:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
Look at all that light
Okay, one last post--
I'm sorry to blame my departure on Bob B. It's not his fault and he didn't
mean any ill will towards me I'm sure. There's no reason why he can't post
OT messages along with the rest of us. Sorry to pick on you, Bob.
I just really dislike gun culture, is all. I have some
No fight just rumour rather than fact, many people who
disparage the 50f1.2
lenses don't own one or have never owned one.
Hello
I knew I'll start a fight :))
OK, I don't knwo what I am talking about. I just read reviews.
http://www.concentric.net/~smhalpin/BriefComments.html
I like this
Please go shoot some pictures now you all!
Happy Holidays,
Antti-Pekka
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I also have a 50-250 Tokina ATX zood. If I even need zood, it's there
For great justice, you must take off every zig!
;)
chris
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Chris Niesmertelny wrote:
Am I going to have to resurrect the what's your favorite liquor
thread again? Tonite I was enjoying a nice Australian Cabernet
Sauvignon with my wife's lasagna.
Sounds yummy (except for the wine... I hate wine). :) Had a rum and coke
and six
At 00:55 14.12.2001 -0500, you wrote:
Look at Oz :-)
Nice and dark there! :^)
--
Look at the Antarctic!
Antti-Pekka
No, I am not from there you silly ;-)
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Stan - I'm with you on this, with the one exception that I don't have any
problem reaching the focus selection button - but then I do have long fingers.
I spent about a month with the camera and manual together, not trying to make
masterpieces but just trying all of the features as I found a
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