FWIW,
With winder # 1321682 if the winder is ON, pressing the winder
trigger will turn the metering on (and shoot a frame if you press hard
enough) regardless of whether or not the camera is turned on. I tried
this on five different MXs and they all worked the same way.
The MX
Hi folks,
I played around today with various lenses and thought I'd report
back the results.
F50/1.4, FA24/2, 77/1.8, Sigma 28-200 3.8-5.6 (AF), Tokina AT-X 80-200
2.8 (MF)
As expected all lenses gave correct exposure. With the Sigma lens the
focal length was recorded but not the lens
That's correct. A Powershot A60 requires to install some software from the
CD that came with the camera, before the computer recognizes the camera.
Regards, hans B.
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Verzonden: zaterdag 4 oktober
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Cameron Hood wrote:
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1002/pana204.jpg
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1002/pana202.jpg
I knew it could be done.
C.
just one thing wrong with that - I'm left eyed :)
Yikes, me too.
Cheers,
Cotty
Hi!
Thanks Paul, you just added one more item to my knowledge base grin.
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:32:52 -0700
Paul Ewins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I played around today with various lenses and thought I'd report
back the results.
Note: If you take an A/F/FA lens off the A setting
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I would think that there would be no quality loss in this situation. You
are not opening and resaving the file, simply transferring from one place to
another. My understanding is that you only start losing quality when you
open, edit, then resave the
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From: Anders Hultman
Subject: RE: OT:No camera=first Concord siting
Is this some kind of steerable hot air ballon?
No such thing. They go where the wind takes them. Some of the manufacturers
are putting steering vents on, but their sole function is to allow the
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I thought I'd try my hand at one. This is from some stuff I shot last
weekend.
http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7d302915a.jpg
You're a cool dude Mark. I like a bit a porn ;-)
Wow. That one went right past me.
Ahem. LOVELY
Hi!
AF Aperture is indeed transmitted digitally to the camera by the F/FA
AF lenses, so use of aperture set on the lens would have been perfectly
AF possible with the *istd. But P deliberately invalidated this
AF functionality through software, as it is forcing its users to abandon
AF
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From: Andre Langevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S.: A chinese aunction? Undisclosed price is, for example, $287.
You bid $3, next one $5 or anything else, etc. The one who gets to
$287, even taking out only $1 from his pocket, gets the... bucket of
water in this
Just wondering if Bill Robb or anyone else with the *istD
has tried:
-shooting and printing a shot ISO 800 or above.
-trying TTL - P-TTL flash with an AF280T or above.
-is there a BW setting and if so anyone try it.
More to come.
Copying does not change the file. Openning it and saving it again does.
So anytime you try to edit the file you lose data. In other words if you
are never going to edit (that includes resizing) the file jpegs are
fine. The only problem with that is if you are not going to edit your
photos, why
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From: Stan Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What I have gleaned so far:
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Canada
England
U.S.
Add Norway. Only 3 cameras yet, that went straight to its new owners within
hours.
They expect another batch Tuesday.
Jostein
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: My first *istD question(s)
Just wondering if Bill Robb or anyone else with the *istD
has tried:
-shooting and printing a shot ISO 800 or above.
Yes. At 800 it is very good, at 1600 it is slightly noisy, at 3200 it is
Hello
My wife is planning to buy a MZ-6/ZX-L and I probably will by a *istD
later on. Can the new FAJ lenses cause any problems with the MZ-6/ZX-L?
It would be nice if we could exchange lenses without any problems.
/Peter
Well my winder works like Lon said. Serial No. 129. Like the cameras
themselves I think the newer winders have a lower serial number range
than the earlier one.
Peter Alling wrote:
I have three of MX's all early versions with the metal film reminder
frame. There
must a difference in the
Well, with the Optio S, that offers only jpeg, I download the original file
to either my hard drive or CD. If I want a print, I do any sizing,
cropping, or any other manipulation I decide I want. I then print the
manipulated file, then close it without saving. If I think I might want an
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From: Peter Hillerström
Subject: MZ-6/ZX-L with FAJ lenses?
Hello
My wife is planning to buy a MZ-6/ZX-L and I probably will by a *istD
later on. Can the new FAJ lenses cause any problems with the MZ-6/ZX-L?
It would be nice if we could exchange lenses without
If she plans to use them in shutter preferred AE, or program AE there would
be no problem. If she
wants to set here own aperture then there is a big problem.
At 06:31 PM 10/5/03 +0200, you wrote:
Hello
My wife is planning to buy a MZ-6/ZX-L and I probably will by a *istD
later on. Can the new
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Halpin) wrote:
What I have gleaned so far:
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Canada
Toronto?
England
London
Sunny Brighton
U.S. ?
Seattle?
New York?
Add Cambridge, England. I ordered one from the usually-best dealership in
The manual, which I've downloaded, uses examples in Av and M modes where
the aperture is set from the body. So I suppose the FaJ lenses will work.
Thanks
Peter
William Robb wrote:
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From: Peter Hillerström
Subject: MZ-6/ZX-L with FAJ lenses?
Hello
My wife is
Peter Alling wrote:
It's possible that USB is disabled in the setup for your computer. If you
know
how to get into the setup utility you will find this either under advanced
or hard
ware options, (or something similar). If USB is disabled when you enable
it and
reboot you computer WinME
They cannot work in Av mode. There's no aperture ring on the lens.
Bill
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From: Peter Hillerström [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: MZ-6/ZX-L with FAJ lenses?
The manual, which I've downloaded, uses
My winder has a sticker on the left side (opposite the grip)
on the surface that mates with the camera. It says:
Asahi
Pentax
Winder MX
1332568 Japan
I'm glad GreyWolf corroborated my experience. Newer winder, or older one?
-Lon
Peter Alling wrote:
I have three of MX's all early versions
I have been to-ing and fro-ing for some time about whether a ring flash
is the answer to my macro lighting problems. Being uncertain, I haven't
wanted to invest in Pentax's expensive model. So recently I got a used
Vivitar 6000 AF Macro Flash (Pentax TTL model, of course). Putting it on
my
Boris wrote:
BL This is most unusual. My ZX-L for instance, shows aperture value in
BL the viewfinder if a lens that has A position is set to some other
BL aperture. I thought that it came through electronics, this displayed
BL value. Why it is not supported in this case?
Aperture
That's correct. A Powershot A60 requires to install some software from the
CD that came with the camera, before the computer recognizes the camera.
Regards, hans B.
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Thanks. Did that, been there.
Marnie aka Doe FYI, just so you know.
My (second) Tokina AT-X AF Pro 28-80 f2.8 is a superbly sharp lens. It's
only problem is that, because of its bulk, I have lost the use of my
pop-up flash when this lens is on.
Tamron has come out with a new 28-75 f2.8 that has been quite well
reviewed. It, too, is apparently very sharp. It is
If it works the same as the ZX-7, you can leave the aperture ring in the A
position (or in the case of the FAJ, it's always in A), set the mode to Av
and select the aperture using left-right movement of the switch co-located
with the shutter button.
Paul
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From: Bill
A nice PDMLer has volunteered to email/zip me the missing ME dlls.
I will report back if everything works. Actually, I'll report back when I get
the pics up on a web page.
Gotta love this list.
Marnie aka Doe :-)
Aperture is indeed transmitted digitally to the camera by the F/FA
lenses, so use of aperture set on the lens would have been perfectly
possible with the *istd. But P deliberately invalidated this
functionality through software, as it is forcing its users to abandon
the
You may need a powered hub. Often that is the case when there is more
than one USB device per controller.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Alling wrote:
It's possible that USB is disabled in the setup for your computer. If you
know
how to get into the setup utility you will find this either
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Hot air balloon, that's more my cup of tea. We use a Squirrel for filming
big fires, major road accidents etc which means sitting in the cold with
the door off. I don't mind that but I avoid anything else where I can.
Is this some kind of steerable hot
Resending cuz something weird happened to the subject line before
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I'm not yet an accomplished Photoshop person, and looking in my
Photoshop 5 manual, I don't see optimizing.
What it is, please?
I know of file name optimizing. Is that it?
Or, more
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-is there a BW setting and if so anyone try it.
No BW setting. Thats what desturation is for in Photoshop
I've tried all the different ways of printing mono from digital files,
and you know what? I've settled on converting to greyscale and printing
as
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What I have gleaned so far:
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Canada
Toronto?
England
London
Sunny Brighton
U.S. ?
Seattle?
New York?
Add Cambridge, England. I ordered one from the usually-best dealership in
town, and they got it in
Cotty:
LOL. My bad juxtaposition of sentences I'm afraid. That first paragraph
should read:
Hot air balloon, that's more my cup of tea.
For filming big fires, major road accidents etc we use a Squirrel
(helicopter) which means sitting in the cold with the door off. I don't
mind that but I avoid
You are right Cotty, if I must have one within 3-4 days, I could probably
get one. I have bought from Sweden (thanks Lasse), England (thanks Peter),
Japan, Hong Kong, from KEH and BH and Adorama, from Oregon and Arizona...
The problem is that I asked my local dealer to order one for me, I bugged
Marnie,
If windows is mounting either of the 2 devices correctly, you should
see an additional disk drive when you look at my computer. I imagine
if it's reading them as removable drive mediums, that you're just not
looking for it there . . .
IL Bill
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 12:17
I've had a lot of luck using photoshop's quadtone setting and then
printing in color. Not exactly black and white, but monotone, and I
find they look pretty good.
There's an article detailing the procedure at the Luminous Landscape,
here's the link:
Cotty you ned to try a print on a 2200 with the 2
black inks :-)
Also there are a fewphotoshop BW filters and actions
that do a very good job converting the images.
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disgorged:
-is there a BW setting and if so anyone try it.
Stan,
I don't know where they would be getting one in Chicago.
I was downtown at the headquarters of Helix, our major multi-outlet camera
store.
They had a close-out sign over the Pentax 35mm camera section.
Clerk said they weren't going to carry them any more.
This takes a 5-8 store
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Cotty) wrote:
Add Cambridge, England. I ordered one from the usually-best dealership
in town, and they got it in quite fast. They haven't had the battery
grip or the remote control yet, but I can live without them for a
while.
That's
I'll trade ya a Pentax-A 50mm/1.7 and raise you a
35-80 for the 43mm :-)
--- Collin R Brendemuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got this from Mark L. just a few weeks ago,
right before being offered a 43/1.9.
VGC, with caps.
I don't need it. It can be yours for what I paid:
$75 shipped in
Might be coming from a slightly different perspective being a hack, such as
I am. I've had my camera for about 48 hours now many of which I've spent
sleeping, driving, and working so I am by no means proficient with the
thing.
So, in no particular order:
Hyper-program is COOL!
The battery door
I guess I've used the DOF preview button on my other two bodies more than I
knew, miss it here. Camera could very well do this but I don't know how
yet.
Isn't it the same as the MZ-S? Push the On-Off switch beyond the On position.
What sort of uniqueness do you see with this one, vs. any other on
market right now?
Manual focus ring on the barrel (hopefully - a_realy_manual_focus ring),
aperture ring, shutter dial on the top plate, classic (familiar) design
(not the most important feature, but still :-)
Regards,
Lukasz
Just read that actually... This ALSO turns on the light for the display
panel.
Cory Waters
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From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Very first impressions Ist D
I guess I've used the DOF
On 5 Oct 2003 at 19:36, John Francis wrote:
I'm still waiting for someone to explain why it makes sense for
Pentax to add to the cost of every single piece of equipment they
make just to satisfy the preferences of a minority, no matter how
vociferous.
So estimate the difference in software
I guess I've used the DOF preview button on my other two bodies more than
I
knew, miss it here. Camera could very well do this but I don't know how
yet.
If you're using a A lens, look through the viewfinder and push the on/off
switch away from the camera. Works the same way as the MZ-S
Bill
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White balance, something else to worry about...
One of the very best functions of digital cameras. Don't be lulled into
thinking that CC filters aren't still useful though.
the little screen in the back isn't great for making evaluations
There are two parts of the equation making K mount lenses less
useful. Hardware
and software, the hardware part is indisputable, the aperture simulator
isn't there.
This might save Pentax as much as $20.00 in manufacturing costs.
I might agree with you based on that, except that making the K
Damn, a voice of reason, and I was just getting ready for a good ol' flame war.
At 07:45 PM 10/5/03 -0400, you wrote:
Relax John, don't take it personally.
Can't we all just get along ;)
HAR!
Cory
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From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
strange looking cloud. how did it happen, i wonder?
Herb...
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From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 10:13 AM
Subject: Since panoramas are all the rage these days...
I thought I'd try my hand at one. This is from
Many thanks for the positive messages! I was away from the computer all
weekend, and was glad to read the thread upon returning home tonight.
I take my share or duds, goofs, and mis-directed shots; so I just feel
lucky to have managed to get a couple of decent shots in the right place at
the
did you have to install any software? the card reader should have worked
without installing any software.
Herb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Problems with Flash Card Reading
The problem
i don't like the way Desaturate works and prefer to use Channel Mixer
instead. i have a standard mix i use that gives me the sky and foliage tones
i like.
Herb
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From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 3:57 PM
I was shooting with my 6x7 yesterday, and on the seventh roll of film
the battery gradually died. It seemed that at very low voltage I got the
same shutter speed no matter where I set the dial. It sounded like 1/30
or thereabouts. Is this normal? Does anyone know for sure what speed the
shutter
Hi All,
I didn't read my email over the weekend as I was out updating my portfolio
of local prostitutes, but I see that the whole survey question has spun off
to several threads. Even though I think it's a fun idea, I'm not going to
pursue it for the following reasons;
1. Technical
As I have
I don't really have an answer to this. I do know that if I bought a lens
that was so cloudy that I wouldn't think of making a comparison to a one I
already had, I would try to get my money back. I am in no position to offer
a comparison between these two lenses except third hand, which is that
That and getting some angry pimp huntin' you down!
CRB
At 22:06 2003.10.05 -0400, you wrote:
From: Simon King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All,
I didn't read my email over the weekend as I was out updating my portfolio
of local prostitutes, but I see that the whole survey question has spun off
to
I'll pitch in...
Many years ago in primary school we were all asked to tell the class what
our father's did.
My father worked for a publishing company, and I didn't know how to describe
what he did, so I said he was a Bookie. I had no idea what the word meant.
He received a call from the
Well, as you can imagine, they're going nuts about it over at LUG. I
haven't really been following the thread, but it seems that they don't know
much more about it than the links that we've seen. Besides, I've been away
all weekend, and I'm just catching up on a couple of days of e-mail
HOW 'BOUT THEM CUBBIES!!!
see above
annsan,
Chicago born,
saw them cubbies in 1945
Ann...
You were a South Sider. Shame on you :-)
Paul
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
see above
annsan,
Chicago born,
saw them cubbies in 1945
I think you're missing the point of inclusive language, Bob.
I don't think that it's censorship. No one is saying that I can't say
policeman. Least of all the government, or anyone else who has any
authority over me.
What proponents of inclusive language (or PC, although I don't like that
Define old!
No K mount lens is more than 28 years old and the last M
series are only 21 years old.
The istD's lack of full support of the K and M lenses is deplorable
considering the cost of the camera and ANY K or M lens is not
OLD IMHO. They were well made SMC optics and should last many
Fantastic shot.
Details? Format/Lens/Exposure?
-Original Message-
From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 5 October 2003 10:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Since panoramas are all the rage these days...
I thought I'd try my hand at one. This is from some stuff
Secondly, isnt the whole point of buying a PENTAX
DSLR the ability to use a large quantity of PENTAX
lenses one already owns? If not, why buy pentax DSLR???
I would rather go with Canon which is cheaper and
has a much better selection of AF lenses on both the new
and used market to select
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1category=11717item=2953917449
ah, large negatives...
- Original Message -
From: J. C. O'Connell
Subject: RE: Old lenses and *ist D
Secondly, isnt the whole point of buying a PENTAX
DSLR the ability to use a large quantity of PENTAX
lenses one already owns? If not, why buy pentax DSLR???
I would rather go with Canon which is cheaper
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From: Mat Maessen
Subject: OT: joining the uber-brotherhood
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1category=11717item=2953917449
You'll have fun with that, though start eating your wheaties now.
William Robb
I always thought my circa 1941 Graflex Anniversary Model 4X5 Speed Graphic
was a pretty camera. Now I am absolutely sure! While the BJ
may be a good buy and will take great pix, it sure isnt going
to win any classic design beauty contests...
Im not refering to the cheapie Canon Rebel digital,
the D60 is also less expensive than
the Pentax and is a highly rated camera.
I am a pentax fan for sure but I am not unaware that
Canon makes some of the most highly regarded
lenses made by anyone for 35mm. I dont think
Pentax makes nearly as
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Ann...
You were a South Sider. Shame on you :-)
Paul
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
No, only for a couple of years. I lived MOSTLY on
the north side... a little north of
Wrigley field, just a couple of EL stops :)
so there. :)
ann
see above
annsan,
Chicago born,
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