The word computer used to describe a person, one who computed. Mostly creating
endless tables of numbers for various uses so that others didn't have to do the
time consuming work, well for lots of reasons. It sounds like mindless soul
destroying drudgery to me. But then so much of life used to
Isn't zero simply one point in a series of values where values one side of
it are arbitrarily ascribed 'minus' values, and those the other side 'plus'
values? And is it not the case that until mathematicians were able to
conceive of and use zero as a valid value, that most maths didn't work?
Pi
Obviously, you have never had to deal with imaginary numbers.
Bob
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From: Brad Dobo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think the most universal and mathematical number is '0'. Why that is, I
don't know, but why should a number that supposedly has quantitative value
represent
We don't laugh at Newton in spite of Einstein later work. Newtonian physics
more than adequately describes the world we live in day to day, you can bet
your life on it.
At 06:57 PM 12/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
We could go back even further - was it Francis Bacon or Rene Descartes that
was the
It works pretty much the way ttl metering works without flash. Segmented
metering will do some kind of magic based on a proprietary algorithm to
properly
expose what it thinks is important. Cameras like the LX with only center
weighted
metering simply quench the flash when they average 18%
Hi,
Saturday, December 28, 2002, 10:59:48 PM, you wrote:
I'm talking about square images, not the role of the square in composition...
Square images are rare.
not as rare as you make out. I've already stated that over 57% of the
Christmas cards I've received this year are square images. I
All dogs have four legs. All cows have four legs,. Therefore for all dogs
are
cows. Or tables, or chairs, or giraffes. Is a dog with three legs a dog?
---
Mr Blakely,
How can you connect (1) below, with (2)? By what logic?
(1) All mathematics is counting
Well stated! Also, the eye is trained or brainwashed from an early
age. Some of us have been trained to read from left to right, for others,
the opposite is true.
In the case of a portrait, do our eyes prefer the subject looking to our
right? Which side of the photograph should the
To know about numbers is mathematics.
In an earlier post you wrote about languages (with reference to Hayakawa).
Try to think mathematics as a language - a system of description. Objects exist
whether there are Bobs to describe them - and have attributes.
Your beloved snowflake is there (or is
You are in good company: what you are saying about concept is what Aristotle said 2000
years ago - but those years have passed and current thinking is different.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä:
Nonsense - yes, but on whose side? You are constantly saying that numbers are found in
nature. So what number do you find in nature instead of pi?
You are mixing things up: at first you talked about numbers, now you talk about
constants. Nobody here is doubting the existence of constants.
All
I do not know who you are but it is obvious that you do not know very much about the
philosophy of science.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL
Think of it like this. Your flash has only one brightness level, not like a
three way lamp in your house. It always puts out light at the same rate.
TTL simply controls how long the lamp stays on. If the object is close by,
the lamp is shut off quickly thru the marvels of electronics. The
Paul.
http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/
There is a link for shops in the USA and Canada
Dave
Pentax User
Stouffville Ontario Canada
Art needs to be in a frame.That way we know when the art
stops and the wall begins--Frank Zappa
http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj/
Knock Knock.Who's there
Land Shark :)
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Sent: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:45:57 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: An old lampoon
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From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Har!!
A culturally
Zero is not a number, it is a place holder. Funny thing is that without it
mathematics is very difficult.
Ciao,
Graywolf
http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto
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From: Brad Dobo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 11:58 PM
Subject:
Hi all.
Still stymied on this a bit.
I now have the Super Program and AF280T flash combo .Prior to buying
this equipment when i did winners pictures at a horse show,the rider
and horse either faced the sun and squinted or i turned them a bit
and the face is a bit dark.
If i but the flash in any
Humm.
Thanks Cotty.I think you may have answered part of my fill flash
question i just asked on the list.(not all but partG)
BTW is that picture from the D60?
Dave
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From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The only thing I would add to Bob's explanation is that some flash
In some parts of the world, we have recently been told, the act of taking a
photograph of a person (with a Pentax camera?) removes a part of his or her
'soul'. One must assume, using the same logic, that this 'part' is somehow
incorporated into the photographic image. Ah! Now I realise why I have
Math and numbers are a precise language used to describe nature and ideas.
It is no accident that those trained in the biological sciences are arguing
here with those trained in modern physics (most of engineering). The
biological sciences are not worked out far enough to be precisely
Hi,
Not sure if it has already been posted to the PDML (sorry if it has), but I
really like it:))
Taken from the pl.rec.foto.
**
TERMS
Antique.older than the dealer
Old...as old as the dealer
Early.younger than
Anton Browne wrote:
I have recently acquired some LX winders for a good price that I may keep
or sell on. I have never used winders before and I'm in two minds, they are
lovely gadgets for sure and a convenience on some occasions. They make the
LX
look a tad SERIOUS however and draw
It's a ping because I've received nothing from the list for over 24
hours. I see from the archive that the list is up, so I can see from
the (non-)appearance of this message if I'm still subscribed.
It's a fit of mild pique because I see from the list that the usual
herd of yahoos has decided to
Cotty,
Good addition. I think this is how anybody doing Matrix Metered TTL flash
must operate. What is amazing is the time scales here. 1/10,000's of a
second look like minutes to the electronics. So they light the scene, take a
meter reading, evaluate it, and then set the appropriate power
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Think of it like this. Your flash has only one brightness level, not like a
three way lamp in your house. It always puts out light at the same rate.
TTL simply controls how long the lamp stays on. If the object is close by,
the lamp is shut off quickly thru the
Lawrence Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Herb Chong wrote:
So what I'm wondering is, how does TTL flash work without the flash
having any information about the distance to the objects being
illuminated?
it does on an AF body. the camera knows how far away it focused on
Subject: FS Pentax 645nII AF Outfit
Date: 30 Dec 2002 04:02:35 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tims8256)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace
Pentax 645n II mint condition, includes 120 and 220 insert, 75mm 2.8N AF lens
and 150N 2.8 AF lens with hood. All in mint condition with boxes, caps,
Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another brand of camera who shall remain nameless puts 2 flashes
together, one after the other in rapid succession.
Here's what happens: the shutter button is pressed, the mirror swings up,
flash one fires, a TTL reading is taken of the scene
So a TTL reading
I'm not wishy-washy, Ken. I have a 6X7, and would never switch. I just
recognize that others might have different tastes and say fine, let them go
their own way instead of bidding up the prices on 6X7 lenses even more!
Ken Archer wrote:
And to quote Charlie Brown, I'll fight for my right to
Now those are fighting words
Mike Johnston wrote:
Dan, you liberal!
Once I rented 1984 and The Killing Fields for a depressing evening.
It worked fine. Thank God I had lots of beer ;-)
Steven Desjardins
Department of Chemistry
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8873
FAX: (540) 458-8878
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Brad Dobo wrote:
Actually leeches are still used in medicine. The most well-known
applications are in plastic surgury.
I guess I'm a phenomenologist.
Good a guess as any other...
keith
Check out this link (for fun):
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1947152026category=15247
Unforunatly, the images are gone.. what WERE they?
--
http://www.infotainment.org - more fun than a poke in your eye.
http://www.eighteenpercent.com-
Except if it reads OTF - which I find more probable. MZ-S has black shutter curtains
which is not good for any light measurement.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The MZ-S manual is a bit unclear about this but the sensors are all facing the film -
TTL flash is difficult to realise without OTF.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
Correct.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Päivä: 30. joulukuuta 2002 15:23
Aihe: Re: Numbers and the Golden Section
That was just the point some people are trying to make: numbers exist in nature.
Nobody has doubted that numbers and fomulas are extremely useful in describing natural
phenomena.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:14:16 -0500, Mark Roberts wrote:
David Hume to the white courtesy telephone, please!
David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
but Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just a sloshed as Schlegel.
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
On Monday 30 December 2002 09:34, gfen wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, tom wrote:
(do you think this is what happens when furries get married?)
(what's a furry? you ask? don't find out, I respond)
Is it furries or plushies? I always get confused over that
Christian
TERMS
[snipped]
LOL. Thanks Artur, I haven't seen those before.
Cotty
Oh, swipe me! He paints with light!
http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/
Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at
http://www.macads.co.uk/
I readed the manual in the pentax site, but it's not
very clear. I want to know the following:
With the camera in aperture priority mode, if I use
the rtf flash, it will calculate the amount of flash
automatically (it's TTL flash) or TTL flash just work
in program mode?
I saw one here really cheap
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Mark Roberts wrote:
So what kind of pills *are* you supposed to be on?
Hey, I resemble that remark! ;)
(and can you get some for me?)
That'd be one way to fund additional lenses!
--
http://www.infotainment.org - more fun than a poke in your eye.
Hume is famous for a reason. (My own view, however, is probably more in
line with Kant's reply to Hume.) But this also fits well with the
modern scientific approach to human understanding. By this I mean
that what we think is a product of the brain which is a physical object
that works by some
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Christian Skofteland wrote:
Is it furries or plushies? I always get confused over that
Furries dress up as animals and pretend they are, plushies just do
unmentionable acts with stuffed animals.
And, now that its a family list, I'll stop giving ideas to the
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From: Christian Skofteland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Monday 30 December 2002 09:34, gfen wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, tom wrote:
(do you think this is what happens when furries get married?)
(what's a furry? you ask? don't find out, I respond)
Is
I sent this before, and it didn't seem to make it, so I'm going to try
again (I _think_ I've noticed new posts of mine not showing up before, but
I'm unsure)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=30075item=1947153933rd=1
Well, its either an A150/3.5 or an A120/4 macro or
Seems to me that you know what you are talking about.
The Pythagoreans did not think it irrelevant whether or not numbers exist in nature -
but that is not now considered scientific - now it is called magic.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Rick Diaz wrote:
Maybe this will help diagnose some of your USB problems. I suggest
going to a site http://www.usbman.com and check out if her machine
falls under one of the so needed USB driver BIOS update. I am aware
I'll check into it, thanks fo rthe tip. I started to
You know, it would be interesting if we could give everyone on this
list who
wishes to participate a short assignment I used to give my photo
students:
find a photograph (yours or someone else's) you think is wholly
admirable or
successful or good or however you wish to phrase it, and write a
What is amazing is the time scales here. 1/10,000's of a
second look like minutes to the electronics. So they light the scene, take a
meter reading, evaluate it, and then set the appropriate power output. All
in the twinkle of an eye.
Hi Bob. Yah. It's serious stuff, isn't it! Aside from
So a TTL reading is taken while the mirror is up? I assume then that we're
talking about a camera that does off-the-film metering. I'm concerned with
how TTL flash metering works in my PZ-1p and MZ-S, neither of which do OTF
metering or a pre-shutter-firing test flash (I believe this is P-TTL with
If you want to try your hand at rangefinder photography, here is my trusty Canonet G
III for sale:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=30027item=1948267251rd=1
The kit comes with all necessary accessories.
Bought myself a Voigtländer Bessa-R - need space.
All the best!
Raimo
The high-speed flashes actually give a series of flash pulses that cover the shutter
travel time.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vastaanottaja: Pentax List [EMAIL
Well, ok, but since thoughts of a possible ET arose in the mind of man
mathematics has been described by scientists and science fiction writers
alike as the only universal language with which we might begin
communication. The contact plate placed aboard the voyager spacecraft
attests to this. Now,
My suspicion is that how things are done is dependent on the specifics
of where one works and the type of client. This is due in large part to
the apprentice system in getting into professional photography. The NYC
studio school may well be different than where you are. The shoots I
have been
Update. Manfrotto 190 PRO black (89GBP) and 308RC pro ball head (44.95)
ordered from a very pleasant chap at Camerworld, Oxford St, London. SRS
was cheapest at 85 but no stock. My local shop had no stock and wanted 95
and 49, respectively. In this day and age, having the stock is
everything.
The shooters we use are freelancers contracted by the agency. But you're
correct in that equipment varies depending on the type of client. The
shoots I'm speaking of are all automotive where a horizontal format is
desirable. I've found that equipment doesn't really vary much by locale,
since most
Hi Albano.
I did a roll of 12 last year of a new born foal using the rtf flash
only.If i remember correctly,it works as TTL in any of the program
modes.
(Is ugly isn't it)
Dave
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From: Albano Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:29:56 -0800 (PST)
To:
Thanks Bob.
1:1 might be to much.I have just been surfing the net on this and i
read that you can change the ASA setting on the back of the flash to
fool it.So if i wanted to cut the flash down a bit(as the 280t does
not have a thyristor)with ASA 100 in the camera,set flash at 200 or
400 and
Okay, Gang, I need you to step up here--I need a favor--
My column in the March issue of the English _Black White Photography_
magazine is about 6x7, and the editor wants a nice picture taken with a
Pentax 6x7 to go with William Robb's picture of the camera.
Any proposals? I need an interesting
Raimo,
Love to hear how you like the Voigtlander - I've waffled on it for the past
2 years - what lenses did you/are you thinking of getting ?
Cheers,
Dave
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From: Raimo Korhonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:51:59 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dr E D F Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[nonsense skipped]
---
Mr Blakely,
How can you connect (1) below, with (2)? By what logic?
(1) All mathematics is counting - (2) things exist or they do not.
Binary mathematics.
These two statements are not
Well said Bob. I can`t think of any other universal language that Homo
Sapien and/or alien could speak. Math is it.
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
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From: Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 8:07 AM
Subject: Re:
Interesting zoom range for a compact camera:
http://www.pentax.com/news/news_display.cfm?pressid=137
Regards, Heiko
From: Raimo Korhonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do not know who you are but it is obvious that you do not know very much
about the philosophy of science.
I'm Robert C Blakely, BSM, BSE, MSE
Actually, it's clear that you do not recognize the classical philosophies of
math and physics. These same
It was Einstein. He continued, I do not know if mathematics is the language
of the universe. He was referring to classical thought regarding
mathematics as essentially the language of God in which the Universe was
written.
Regards,
Bob
Don,
Then your arguement is a philosophical one, like If a tree falls in the forest does
it make any noise? Nature does have rules and order and symetry, but mathematics is
irrelevant until we try to explain this to others?
(And if I still remember correctly, Maxwell's equations don't have
SMC-K 24mm with hard case - $200. exceptionally excellent
SMC-F 24-50mm with box - $165. excellent
SMC-FA 28mm with box - $75. sluggish getting to f-22. Who needs f22 at 28mm, anyway?
$75!! Nutty, huh?
The answer here isn't a matter of right or wrong. This difference of
opinion merely reflects two different ways of looking at the world.
Mathematics is only a language that describes the universe. But it was
the nature of the universe that gave birth to the language. The language
and the universe
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From: Dr E D F Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: Numbers and the Golden Section
Nope. Its absolutely clear what I mean. There is nothing philosophical
about
it. I hold that Mathematics is an
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From: Heiko Hamann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Pentax releases Espio with 24-105mm lens
Interesting zoom range for a compact camera:
http://www.pentax.com/news/news_display.cfm?pressid=137
Hi Heiko,
Raimo, I like your response, I was a little agitated and shot off, my
apologies. You have demonstrated your qualities.
As for all this talk. I'm getting tired of it. Anyone else? We all hold
our views, many of which cannot be proved or disproved. I'm looking forward
to a return to boing old
Goodday y'all,
Currently I try to convert some of my girlfriend's paintings and drawings to useable
35mm negatives, and as a test I put about 10 different pictures of her (size A1) on
the wall with gum, using the following setup:
A Mecablitz Z-2 on a tripod, linked to my camera through a
Steve Rasmussen, who is a regular contributor on PhotoNet's Pentax 67
discussion group, thinks that Pentax may soon be offering a 35-60mm
rectilinear zoom for the 67. His conjecture is based on the fact that 67
lens offerings have seemed to follow the pattern of the 645 releases. He
thinks the
Brad wrote:
Thanks Pal! Too bad you are not in possession of the facts.
Ho ho. I don't want to bother the list with boring and irrelevant facts.
You ignore a
lack of evidence, and you don't know the first thing about the geophsyics
involved.
Huh? Bad luck with that one. I have PhD in
Mike wrote:
What I said is that mathematics is a human invention.
Of course it is. But does it matter as long as it describe real things? Graphic
relationships in an image can easily be described by mathematics.
Pål
FWIW:
I've seen (well, read) about using a polarizer on your lens and a
polarizer on your lights to cross polarize the lighting.. Supposedly this
takes care of any glare..
I, however, have no clue beyond that.
--
http://www.infotainment.org - more fun than a poke in your eye.
Mike wrote:
There is not even one single definable compositional rule that either a)
always results in a successful photograph or b) cannot be directly violated
in a successful photograph. Not _one_. Furthermore, there is almost no case
in which one successful photograph cannot closely
Paul wrote:
Steve Rasmussen, who is a regular contributor on PhotoNet's Pentax 67
discussion group, thinks that Pentax may soon be offering a 35-60mm
rectilinear zoom for the 67. His conjecture is based on the fact that 67
lens offerings have seemed to follow the pattern of the 645 releases.
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From: Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: 6x6 - Waste of Space? (WAS: Re: Medium Format-Which one is
best?)
I argued that the square format has no advantage when it comes
to cropping than, say, the
Andre wrote:
You probably mix this lens with the A28/2.8. The M or A 35/2.8
lenses are both superb.
Well, mine certainly isn't. It is prettey pedestrian; about what should be expected
from a zoom these days.
Pål
John wrote:
I doubt it. 6x6cm will remain the medium format of choice for the
foreseeable future
for those who shoot film for a living, and 6x4.5cm will remain the first
choice of 35mm
amateur users trading up. 6x7cm will remain the preserve of those of either
persuasion
who wish to
John wrote:
But one thing is clear. Only an amateur would obsess about wasting a
centimetre!
Whether one should worry about it not is another discussion. It is still a waste. The
day you waste similar % of space on an expensive commodity like a digital sensor, then
such excess will be
Hi,
Monday, December 30, 2002, 7:46:30 PM, you wrote:
Mike wrote:
There is not even one single definable compositional rule that either a)
always results in a successful photograph or b) cannot be directly violated
in a successful photograph. Not _one_. Furthermore, there is almost no case
Bt. Sorry.. no washer dryer for you Pal ;-)
Many on the Blad list (HUG) feel that the 6x4.5 is a good idea but far
from what Hasselblad is aiming for with respect to film formats. It adds
autofocus to a smaller rectangular format and is aimed mainly at Wedding
photographers - those who use
A good suggestion.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: Brad Dobo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Päivä: 30. joulukuuta 2002 20:26
Aihe: Re: Numbers and the Golden
It was a long time ago I had to reproduce a painting but then I used my LX and 4/100
macro and light from windows facing north - no flash - and a polariser and I remember
having to cover some windows and try different positions of the polariser to avoid
reflections. Exposures were quite long,
Here we go again - another Pythagorean.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Päivä: 30. joulukuuta 2002 20:22
Aihe: Re:
Bob wrote:
Rules of composition
are rules of thumb, that's all. Knowledge of them, whether you follow
them or not, will improve your chances of making a successful photograph,
other things being equal. The divine proportion is at least as useful
as 'fill the frame' in this respect.
This is
Raimo Korhonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here we go again - another Pythagorean.
Hmm, I would have said Platonist.
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Päivä: 30. joulukuuta 2002 20:22
Aihe: Re: Numbers and
The 24x36 format usually wastes at least 11% of the area.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Päivä: 30. joulukuuta 2002
David wrote:
Many on the Blad list (HUG) feel that the 6x4.5 is a good idea but far
from what Hasselblad is aiming for with respect to film formats. It adds
autofocus to a smaller rectangular format and is aimed mainly at Wedding
photographers - those who use 6x4.5 the most. Not all
I wrote:
If thats all thats behind it, I'll say he is on thin ice.
Theres always the possibility that this is a way to give confidential information in
the form of speculation. On the other hand, I believe Pentax is more likely to kill
the 67 format or let it die a quiet death.
Pål
Andre wrote:
You probably mix this lens with the A28/2.8. The M or A 35/2.8
lenses are both superb.
Well, mine certainly isn't. It is prettey pedestrian; about what
should be expected from a zoom these days.
Pål
Pal, as you are the first one, to my knowledge, to have a so-so
35/2.8
Since I never take portraits, except for
the occasional one at 400-600mm...
--
John Mustarde
www.photolin.com
You mean the Pentax Mirror Zoom 400-600mm? Portraits of donuts?
Andre
--
A 'format' wastes nothing at all. It's the photographer that either
uses the space efficiently, filling it up to the borders, or he
composes something that has to be trimmed and cropped.
It's hardly wasted, any more than all the others of the 'wasted'
mentality propose...
It's all a specious
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From: Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:29:19 +0100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 6x6 - Waste of Space? (WAS: Re: Medium Format-Which one is
best?)
That has really not much to do with it. The new Hasselblad is not a 6X6
camera
I agree with Bruce's recommendation, but would suggest more or less flash
depending on the ambient light. That is, 1:1 or so in bright sunshine,
but -1 or -1.5 stops in overcast conditions. That way, the flash will be
just fill, not primary light source. Keep in mind that in very sunny
Pål Jensen wrote:
Theres always the possibility that this is a way to give
confidential information in the form of speculation. On the other
hand, I believe Pentax is more likely to kill the 67 format or
let it die a quiet death.
Pentax, as a commercial company, will be producing equipment
For even illumination with elimination of shadows and glare
use a white tent for diffusion. You'll want several lights outside
the tent so to get enough light.
A tent can be cheap -- just use a big white sheet.
Build a frame from something like yardsticks or long dowels.
Put a suitable
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