Re: PAW and introduction

2004-02-26 Thread Eactivist
P.S. Meant I have the Tamron 90. Ooops, Marnie aka Doe What a waste of bandwidth!

Re: PAW and introduction

2004-02-26 Thread Rob Studdert
On 27 Feb 2004 at 17:09, David Nelson wrote: > G'day fellow Pentaxians, > Here's a photo I took just then for my first PAW - it's a beetle with > some pretty spectacular pectinate antennae (possibly a > /Peisarthrius /species). > http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/beetle.jpg The last beasty like yo

Re: PAW and introduction

2004-02-26 Thread Rob Studdert
On 27 Feb 2004 at 17:09, David Nelson wrote: > G'day fellow Pentaxians, > Here's a photo I took just then for my first PAW - it's a beetle with > some pretty spectacular pectinate antennae (possibly a > /Peisarthrius /species). > http://davidavid.whatsbeef.net/beetle.jpg G'day David, Welcome a

RE: SUN 24/2.5 lens

2004-02-26 Thread Andy Chang
Peter, Thank you ever so much Time for reading now Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Peter J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SUN 24/2.5 lens You can find a great deal of data on 3rd party manufacture le

Re: The Local Pentax SLR Conundrum

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Dalal
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > One of the stores in San Antonio will no longer be carrying anything by > > Pentax. The only other stores has minimal stock. > > > > Mark > > > > Which is which, Mark (like I can't guess?) Camera Exchange told me they are no longer going to be carrying Pentax. Period

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Sheesh, David ... that's easy. Ferrari David Mann wrote: > > Hi all, > > I think my first PAW was Saturday so this one's a few days early. > > The recent car discussions reminded me of some slides I shot a few > years ago. This week's photo is a mystery - try and guess which model > car it is

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Steve Jolly
David Mann wrote: The recent car discussions reminded me of some slides I shot a few years ago. This week's photo is a mystery - try and guess which model car it is. I'll reveal the answer in a few days, or sooner if someone guesses it. http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/paw/2004-2-26.html It's a

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Rob Studdert
On 26 Feb 2004 at 4:40, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Sheesh, David ... that's easy. Ferrari 328? Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998

Re: The Local Pentax SLR Conundrum

2004-02-26 Thread ernreed2
Mark said: > > > One of the stores in San Antonio will no longer be carrying anything by > > > Pentax. The only other stores has minimal stock. Then I said: > > Which is which, Mark (like I can't guess?) Mark replied: > Camera Exchange told me they are no longer going to be carrying Pentax. > Pe

Re: *istD - I got one, and it's great!

2004-02-26 Thread Steve Desjardins
The mode dial is very important when you have a lens w/o an aperature ring, like th FAJ or DA series. In a simaler way, you need to set it to manual or it won't let you change the Tv and Av separately using the dials. (I also like the MZ-S layout, but I'm getting hooked on those Tv and Av dials.)

Re: *istD - I got one, and it's great!

2004-02-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Michel Carrère-Gée" Subject: Re: *istD - I got one, and it's great! > > > Have you noticed the image size in LCD screen ?? > 24x36 mm > *istD ist a 35mm body !! > Try as I might, I haven't been able to put film into mine. William Robb

RE: OT: The new product range from Apple...

2004-02-26 Thread Rob Brigham
Oh dear! Wasn't Steve Jobs was it? > -Original Message- > From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I sent that link on to a few pwople. > One Mac user was rather ummm, at a loss for humour. > > William Robb > > >

RE: in da streets

2004-02-26 Thread Albano Garcia
Que son las más lindas del mundo. ;-) Albano --- Cesar Matamoros II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With apologies to the list... > > Digame Albano. Que dicen de las mujeres Argentinas? > > En realidad pensando una visita, > > Cesar > Panama City, Florida > > -Original Message- > Fro

RE: in da streets

2004-02-26 Thread Doug Franklin
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:59:52 CST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > C‚sar posted: > > Digame Albano. Que dicen de las mujeres Argentinas? > > Wonder of wonders, I actually understood that. > > ERN > 20+ years past high school Spanish class So did I, and I've never had a Spanish class. But I know C‚s

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Albano Garcia
Il cavalino rampante! Sorry, no idea what model is it. Testarrosa? F50? Regards Albano --- David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think my first PAW was Saturday so this one's a > few days early. > > The recent car discussions reminded me of some > slides I shot a few > years

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Doug Franklin
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:02:51 +1300, David Mann wrote: > - try and guess which model car it is. > > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/paw/2004-2-26.html Ferrari 308? TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ

Re: OT: The new product range from Apple...

2004-02-26 Thread Albano Garcia
--- Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/2/04, PIBE EL ASAHI DE PICTARIO AMAZINIO > disgorged: Mega-Big-LOL!!! What language is it? Spanese? Portuguish? ;-) Anyway I understood. THANKS. Albano = Albano Garcia "El Pibe Asahi" __ Do you Yahoo!? Get bet

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
on 26.02.04 14:58, Albano Garcia at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Il cavalino rampante! > Sorry, no idea what model is it. > Testarrosa? F50? > Regards No, it is rather 456 called "Maranello" or so :-) -- Best Regards Sylwek

Re: Soft focus (was Re: PAW - My first)

2004-02-26 Thread Bruce Dayton
Thanks for the tip. I'll try that out. It still is a totally different effect than soft focus. Soft focus is not meant to smooth wrinkles per se, but it actually causes highlights to expand and blur a bit - more like a halo. That is why a standard diffusion filter doesn't do the trick. Bruce

Re: The Local Pentax SLR Conundrum

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Gonzalez
Ft. Worth is about 5 hours or so from San Antonio. That's quite a "visit". LOL. rg Cesar Matamoros II wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:47 PM From: "Collin Brendemuehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cord tells me th

Re: Too Much PAW

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Gonzalez
Hmm.. that adds up to 100.1%. That doesn't leave much room for the rest of us. LOL! rg graywolf wrote: 99 and 44/100ths talk. The other 0.66% are scared. And the rest of us are too old. (grin) Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: OMG - no wonder my poor hubby worries about me and "that bloody pho

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Gonzalez
Definitely the 308, cant tell if its the GTS or GTB though. David Mann wrote: Hi all, I think my first PAW was Saturday so this one's a few days early. The recent car discussions reminded me of some slides I shot a few years ago. This week's photo is a mystery - try and guess which model car i

Re: OT - Photoshop question

2004-02-26 Thread brooksdj
> Any suggestions as to how I can print a 'contact-sheet' page of pics > straight from the File Browser in Photoshop - without using Contact Sheet > II ?? > > TIA > > > > > Cheers, > Cotty Cotty. This was a topic on the PS list a while back i think.I

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Stoddart
David Mann wrote: > The recent car discussions reminded me of some slides I shot a few years > ago. This week's photo is a mystery - try and guess which model car it > is. I'll reveal the answer in a few days, or sooner if someone guesses it. > > http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/paw/2004-2-26.htm

LX: Long exposures on auto

2004-02-26 Thread Stephen Moore
A question for the LXers: What's the longest (ballpark figure) successful exposure you've made using the LX's automatic, direct-metering mode? Although I've grown to trust the AE mode in conventional photo situations, around New Year's I tried out its low- light capabilities for the first time. I

Re: Hitachi MicroDive 4Go for less than 250USD ?

2004-02-26 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello guys, > It seems that the new (next to come for Frenchies) Apple Ipod Mini has a > big secret inside : > It contents a real Hitachi Micro Drive 4Go... > > Need free space for your *ist D ??? I've been following a thread about these on dpreview.

Re: Long exposures on auto

2004-02-26 Thread Christian
Before I sold my LX I made several 4 or 5 minute exposures on Auto at dusk with Velveta and had, what looked to me, like perfectly exposed slides. I was always impressed with it's low-light performance and never experienced reciprocity failure Christian - Original Message - From: "S

Re: *istD - I got one, and it's great!

2004-02-26 Thread Michel Carrère-Gée
William Robb a écrit : - Original Message - From: "Michel Carrère-Gée" Subject: Re: *istD - I got one, and it's great! Have you noticed the image size in LCD screen ?? 24x36 mm *istD ist a 35mm body !! Try as I might, I haven't been able to put film into mine. When I recei

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread ernreed2
Shel asked: > Does this happen when a particular shutter speed is > selected, or when the camera is used on automatic? Used on automatic. > Or with > a particular speed when used on automatic? Does it happen > when a particular aperture is used, or with any aperture? This one's tougher, but, c

Re: Digicam Slide Duplicator / Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread Michel Carrère-Gée
Shel Belinkoff a écrit : There has been some discussion here about finding a slide duplicator for the istd. Well, I was looking at some slides on the light box earlier, and decided to try out the little Sony's macro setup to copy a slide. I did a few, and seem to have gotten a little better at i

Re: PAW: Gray Day

2004-02-26 Thread jaalmanza
The use of an 18% grey card to adjust the apeture/shutter speed with the available light conditions will usually fix that. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers, Alejandro > Try boosting saturation and see if any green pops on those trees. A > touch of color would spark the picture a bit -

RE: The Local Pentax SLR Conundrum

2004-02-26 Thread Lewis Matthew
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:47 PM > From: "Collin Brendemuehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cord tells me that the reason they're not stocking the istD > > (or any other Pentax SLR) is because Pentax is not able to > > deliver the quantities they need for building volume sales > > and the large

Re: PAW: Gray Day

2004-02-26 Thread Eactivist
>In a message dated 2/26/2004 8:12:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hello Steve, >Try boosting saturation and see if any green pops on those trees. A touch of color would spark the picture a bit - me thinks. -- >Best regards, Bruce Thursday, February 26, 2004, 7:40:09

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/26/2004 6:28:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >ERN >pretending to be a stereotypical girl Don't think you carry that it off that well, sowwy. Marnie aka Doe ;-) Hehehehe.

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/26/2004 8:29:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Mann wrote: > The recent car discussions reminded me of some slides I shot a few years > ago. This week's photo is a mystery - try and guess which model car it > is. I'll reveal the answer in a few da

Re: Mark "Snowflake" Cassino has some competition! :)

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Cassino
At 12:23 PM 2/25/2004 +, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: In http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photo2/photo2.htm he says: "One suspects Bentley would have really appreciated PhotoShop." I wonder... I wondered about that too - though Wilson Bentley used to actually carve the emuls

Re: Mark "Snowflake" Cassino has some competition! :)

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Cassino
At 05:23 AM 2/26/2004 -0500, you wrote: I believe I read somewhere that using polarizers can cause colors when shooting crystals. I don't know if the polarizers go on the light sources, on the camera, or both. I tried a polarizer on the lens, but it really did nothing. I know that there are colo

Re: PAW - Happy Daze (just for Wendy)

2004-02-26 Thread Eactivist
>In a message dated 2/25/2004 6:28:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >http://home.kc.rr.com/smhalpin/HappyDaze.jpg >This is absolutely untouched except for resizing and compressing. No sharpening, no color or levels work, no nothing. >*ist-D with FA* 80-200/2.8 @ 200mm, han

Re: in da streets

2004-02-26 Thread mike wilson
Hi, Cesar Matamoros II wrote: > Though it would be fun to shoot them working the pedals... I used to bike > quite a bit, I volunteer to pedal for a while to send messages to the PDML. > > Need to get in training for that one, Are you suggesting that Tanya posts a lot? Perish the thought m

AW: Long exposures on auto

2004-02-26 Thread keller.schaefer
I have also used the LX for long time AE night shots, up to probably 4 or 5 minutes and I have also wondered whether Pentax has built in some compensation for the reciprocity error that no doubt exists for such long exposures. As the Impresa is a print film and from your description of the 'milky

Re: Hitachi MicroDive 4Go for less than 250USD ?

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Gonzalez
I heard that the same drive, taken from Creative's MuVo2, works with cameras, this on dpreview also. rg alex wetmore wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, It seems that the new (next to come for Frenchies) Apple Ipod Mini has a big secret inside : It contents a real Hi

Re: Not exactly PAW: Sunny California

2004-02-26 Thread Norm Baugher
I do not miss the trafficwheew. Norm Shel Belinkoff wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~digisnaps/rainview.html Taken from my bedroom window this morning ...

Re: Long exposures on auto

2004-02-26 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
** Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:42:44 -0500 ** From: "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** ** ... ** dusk with Velveta and had, what looked to me, like perfectly exposed ** ... ** ** Christian ** Can't call them cheesy shots 'cause

Re: Hitachi MicroDive 4Go for less than 250USD ?

2004-02-26 Thread Andre Langevin
I heard that the same drive, taken from Creative's MuVo2, works with cameras, this on dpreview also. rg Isn't the 4 Gb iPod itself a good and cheap device to stock photos ? Andre

Re: OT: The new product range from Apple...

2004-02-26 Thread Peter J. Alling
In my experience it's just the opposite. PC's are appliances, and we all hate the OS, or at least the OS's vendor. Mac's are a cult. Cotty wrote: Amazing, isn't it? If a Mac user had posted a link to something in a similar vein about PCs, there'd be flames. As it is, I think what's even more am

RE: OT - F4 planes was RE: WAY OT - English Sport Cars

2004-02-26 Thread Butch Black
Hi Cesar I worked on them 30+ years ago. This post is the first that I had heard about them being used as drones. I suppose all things must come to an end. However, given the fact that until fairly recently they were in active duty as Wild Weasels (anti radar/ missile site planes) is a testament t

Final word on Art & Photography

2004-02-26 Thread graywolf
The post was on rec.photo.equipment.large-format. I though it was worth forwarding to the list. --graywolf Original Message "Willhelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote David Wallis wrote: > I am an artist Honey, we're all artists. Do you mean that you're a PAINTER? But painters a

Re: PAW and introduction

2004-02-26 Thread Eactivist
>In a message dated 2/26/2004 10:10:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >G'day fellow Pentaxians, Here's a photo I took just then for my first PAW - it's a beetle with some pretty spectacular pectinate antennae (possibly a /Peisarthrius /species). http://davidavid.whatsbeef.ne

Re: The Local Pentax SLR Conundrum

2004-02-26 Thread Peter J. Alling
Milford photo, (in milford Connecticut), used to only carry the low end in pentax ZX-M, ZX-60 etc. Since the introduction of the *ist-d they started carrying them. They seem to be selling a fair number of them as well. Mark Dalal wrote: From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One of the stores in San A

Re: 24-50s

2004-02-26 Thread Fred
>> The A 35-70/4 is surprisingly good optically, but I do have to admit >> that it's the most "plasticky" lens I own. > Really? Plastickly? For such a heavy lens? Granted, the exterior > rings are all hard black plastic, but the barrel and all internals > are metal. Maybe it's the glass that makes

Re: Hitachi MicroDive 4Go for less than 250USD ?

2004-02-26 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Robert Gonzalez wrote: > alex wetmore wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Hello guys, > >>It seems that the new (next to come for Frenchies) Apple Ipod Mini has a > >>big secret inside : > >>It contents a real Hitachi Micro Drive 4Go... > >> > >>Need

Re: Zooms, was Re: 24-50s

2004-02-26 Thread Fred
> For me, constant 2.8 is important. I find that many receptions are > quite dim, and focusing is a bit tougher. True. Once in a while, I wish my A 28-135/4 were a bit faster. The f/4 spec is fine outside most of the time, and inside, when I'm often using flash with it (set at f/8 usually), it's

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread Peter J. Alling
What speed film are you using? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have an idea as to why my LX should produce the occasional, severely underexposed frame (like no more than once per roll of film)? It does this in quite unchallenging light conditions, with perfect exposures to either side of the

Re: 24-50s and A35-70f4

2004-02-26 Thread Fred
> My sample of the A35-70, purchased used and showing obvious signs > of use, has more slop in focusing than most of my primes, but is > tighter than any of my other zooms. This is one lens I regard as > more than adequate in build quality, despite the plastic bits. Yes, I'd say that the build of

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Peter ... How might film speed affect the problem? "Peter J. Alling" wrote: > > What speed film are you using? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Anybody have an idea as to why my LX should produce the occasional, severely > >underexposed frame

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread mike wilson
It _could_ be the ISO resistor. m Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > Hi Peter ... > > How might film speed affect the problem? > > "Peter J. Alling" wrote: > > > > What speed film are you using? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >Anybody have an idea as to why my LX should produce the occasional

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Ahhh, that's the thing I was trying to remember. Darn all these technical thingies and terms. ;-)) mike wilson wrote: > > It _could_ be the ISO resistor. > > m > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > > Hi Peter ... > > > > How might film speed affect the problem?

PAW - Lake

2004-02-26 Thread Katrin
Hi! What do you think? http://www.desertrose.de/fotopage/paw_bw_bergsee.jpg It's from one of my few attempts in the darkroom... the print looks much better and is sharper... my scanner isn't very good... -_- bye Katrin

TtT (tangential to topic): Blue Sky

2004-02-26 Thread D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
Uh, a few days ago, when I said the bluest skies I've ever gotten in a photo have been on Konica film? I just found something bluer. Velvia, slightly underexposed in a box camera. Shot last October, just got it developed this week. The patches of sky behind the trees ... wow, is that blue!

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread mike wilson
M. Beastly, beastly things. Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > Ahhh, that's the thing I was trying to remember. Darn all > these technical thingies and terms. ;-)) > > mike wilson wrote: > > > > It _could_ be the ISO resistor. > > > > m > > > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > > > > Hi Peter ... > > > >

Re: PAW: Gray Day

2004-02-26 Thread Steve Desjardins
There is surprisingly little color and the sky gets noisy quickly. If I really push the saturation, I get something "artistic". If there was a little more detail, like a fence of something, this would make a good silhouette. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee Universit

Re: GFM

2004-02-26 Thread Jostein
- Original Message - From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It is going to cost me around au$4k to come, and I could have my entire > office and front verandah gutted and renovated for that amount, so convince > me guys, how can I truly justify the expense? And don't jus

*ist D & Formula 1 tests

2004-02-26 Thread Dario Bonazza
Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm Dario Bonazza

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread Bob W
Hi, this was one of the symptoms of sticky mirror that I experienced before the syndrome became really severe. -- Cheers, Bob Thursday, February 26, 2004, 2:31:37 PM, ernreed2 wrote: > Anybody have an idea as to why my LX should produce the occasional, severely > underexposed frame (like no

Re: PAW - Lake

2004-02-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: "Katrin " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi! > What do you think? > http://www.desertrose.de/fotopage/paw_bw_bergsee.jpg > > It's from one of my few attempts in the darkroom... the print looks > much better and is sharper... my scanner isn't very good... -_- I think it is a fascinating picture. A

RE: in da streets

2004-02-26 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
LOL! Good "pick up" Mike, I totally missed that one! Well, you can all breath easy for a few days as I am off to Brisbane again in a couple of hours, probably won't post again till Sunday, BUT will get to meet up with Ryan Lee and John Coyle in the meantime, so I'll have some pics to post! tan.

Re: *ist D & Formula 1 tests

2004-02-26 Thread Dario Bonazza
I forgot to write that many pictures were taken at higher ISO settings (800), with very good color rendition and no visible noise. However, the Exif will tell you the whole tech stuff. Dario (Glad to be there when Schumacher scored the new record of Imola circuit) - Original Message - Fro

RE: *ist D & Formula 1 tests

2004-02-26 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
GREAT shots Dario, not too sure about the music though! Kinda gave me a headache after a while, although are you trying to tease us by saying "Wish you were here"? tan. -Original Message- From: Dario Bonazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 February 2004 7:11 AM To: [EMAIL PR

RE: GFM

2004-02-26 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
Jostein, it took me a few moments to work out what you meant with this, but I think what you are proposing is a SENSATIONAL idea!! Now I just gotta find someone to "back" me (and then do some work on my skills with the English language! lol). I'm onto it and I'll let you know what I "achieve", t

DA 16-45/4 is finally available

2004-02-26 Thread alex wetmore
I'm going to pick one up from my local dealer today. B&H also lists them as in stock. alex

Re: Long exposures on auto

2004-02-26 Thread Jostein
Hi, Stephen The longest successful exposure I have timed with my LX is 12 minutes. I can't comment on the film you used, but in my experience, there are big differences between films in reciprosity properties. I have only worked with slide films. From my experience, it kicks in at around 1 minu

RE: PAW - Lake

2004-02-26 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
Katrin... I am no landscape photographer but... Despite the initial impact of the image and the fact that I do like it overall, I really think it lacks "something" due to the blown out sky and reflections on the water. Pardon the pun, but there is really no "depth" to the water. There are no ri

Re: *istD - I got one, and it's great!

2004-02-26 Thread Nick Clark
The seller was fromthemensroom. He had several *istDs at various times over the past few weks but they had all gone for a bit higher. I notice there have been a few more on eBay from other sellers, some with the 18-35 lens and offering a $200 rebate in a years time. One went for £770 the other d

Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Recently shot a roll of Provia and, yesterday, when examining the frames, I found this problem: http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/provia.jpg Any ideas on what it could be, what may have caused it?

no need for speed

2004-02-26 Thread edwin
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > are not so good stopped down past f/5.6 or so. Of course shooting > > a 200/2.0 at f/8 is madness! > > Why? > > Kostas (genuine question) 1) The Nikkor 200/2.0 EDIF at least is optimized for performance at or near f/2.0. According to those

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread ernreed2
Peter asked: > What speed film are you using? Seen it happen with both 400 and 800.

Re: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread mike wilson
No physical damage? Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > Recently shot a roll of Provia and, yesterday, when > examining the frames, I found this problem: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/provia.jpg > > Any ideas on what it could be, what may have caused it?

distorted ultrawides?

2004-02-26 Thread edwin
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 04:53:11 -0500 > From: Lon Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > As I understand it, distortion is _inevitable_ in a lens > as wide as 24mm, which is why, for example, a 35mm is better > for group portraits. I'm not sure this is true. Certainly retrofocus design does not he

Re: OT: The new product range from Apple...

2004-02-26 Thread Cotty
On 26/2/04, PETER A disgorged: >In my experience it's just the opposite. PC's are appliances, and we >all hate the OS, or at least the OS's vendor. >Mac's are a cult. Come on over to the dark side :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| http

Re: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Nope, none that I can see ... mike wilson wrote: > > No physical damage? > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > > Recently shot a roll of Provia and, yesterday, when > > examining the frames, I found this problem: > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/provia.jpg > > > > Any ideas on what it c

Re: Final word on Art & Photography

2004-02-26 Thread Keith Whaley
Cleveland? Just like Detroit without the glitter, right? keith graywolf wrote: > > The post was on rec.photo.equipment.large-format. I though it was worth > forwarding to the list. > > --graywolf > > Original Message > "Willhelm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > David Wallis w

Re: PAW (early this week)

2004-02-26 Thread David Mann
Gee, that was pretty quick. The car in question is the Ferrari 308 GTB. It's the real deal - certainly not a kit car. http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/paw/2004-2-26-answer.html BTW yes, that cloudy stuff is smoke, from the exhaust. Actually its mostly steam. I remember that it was pretty cold

Re: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread mike wilson
I had a similar shape mark, once. It was due to the film being loaded in the d&d tank the wrong way round, so that the emulsion side was resting on the holder and kept away from the soup. It was slide film but the mark was orange. Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > Nope, none that I can see ... > > mik

RE: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread Rob Brigham
Looks like they used some tongs when it was still wet to me... > -Original Message- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 February 2004 21:54 > To: PDML > Subject: Provia Processing Problem? > > > Recently shot a roll of Provia and, yesterday, when > examining the

Re: PAW: Gray Day

2004-02-26 Thread frank theriault
Yeah, Even though it was my suggestion to crop out that evergreen on the right, now that I see the crop, I think I like it better in. And, my other suggestion about cropping out all that snow and twigs on the bottom kind of doesn't work either - I like the first one better, now that I see both

Re: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread mike wilson
It certainly _looks_ like something physical happened but Shel says no damage. Not watermark shaped, wrong colour for light leak or processing botch. Maybe you got a defective film? Rob Brigham wrote: > > Looks like they used some tongs when it was still wet to me... > > > -Original Messag

Re: Digicam Slide Duplicator / Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Michel Carrère-Gée" Subject: Re: Digicam Slide Duplicator / Scanner > > > > I have tried: > *istD + M42/K adaptor + Pentax Auto-Bellow (screw) + SMC Takunar 1.4/50 > (and 1.8/55, screw, normal or reverse) + Pentax Slide-Copier > Its good ! Are you able to ge

Re: Long exposures on auto

2004-02-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Stephen Moore" Subject: LX: Long exposures on auto > A question for the LXers: > > What's the longest (ballpark figure) successful exposure > you've made using the LX's automatic, direct-metering mode? The longest I have managed succesfully was around 10 min

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Intermittent LX metering error > Anybody have an idea as to why my LX should produce the occasional, severely > underexposed frame (like no more than once per roll of film)? It does this in > quite unchallenging light conditions,

RE: PAW: Southern Comfort

2004-02-26 Thread frank theriault
That shrimp looks Hot'n Spicy! I like the angle of the rectangular serving dishes, I like the hand and spoon in there - an action shot! Looks like it was a fun party. cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppen

Re: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Tongs? You're velcome Rob Brigham wrote: > > Looks like they used some tongs when it was still wet to me... > > Recently shot a roll of Provia and, yesterday, when > > examining the frames, I found this problem: > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/provia.jpg > > > > Any ideas on wha

Re: PAW - Lake

2004-02-26 Thread Eactivist
>In a message dated 2/26/2004 12:54:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi! >What do you think? >http://www.desertrose.de/fotopage/paw_bw_bergsee.jpg >It's from one of my few attempts in the darkroom... the print looks much better and is sharper... my scanner isn't very good.

Re: 24-50s and A35-70f4

2004-02-26 Thread Joe Wilensky
I thought all Pentax zooms of the A series and later felt like the A 35-70, until I got a KEH bargain condition A 24-50. What a difference! Quite heavy and solid, with a beautiful focusing and zoom feel. Definitely more metal and/or glass. Do the well regarded Pentax A zooms, like the 35-105 or

Re: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Someone suggested a light leak, however I tend to doubt that as it probably would have shown up in more than just that one spot on the roll. mike wilson wrote: > > I had a similar shape mark, once. It was due to the film being loaded > in the d&d tank the wrong way round, so that the emulsion si

Re: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Well, I'm gonna take a closer look at the area ... take it out of the sleeve and see if there is any physical damage. But it doesn't look like there is mike wilson wrote: > > It certainly _looks_ like something physical happened but Shel says no > damage. Not watermark shaped, wrong colour for

Re: Provia Processing Problem?

2004-02-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: Provia Processing Problem? > Recently shot a roll of Provia and, yesterday, when > examining the frames, I found this problem: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/provia.jpg > > Any ideas on what it could be, what may have caus

Re: *ist D & Formula 1 tests

2004-02-26 Thread Mat Maessen
Dario Bonazza wrote: Here is a selection of *ist D pictures I took yesterday: http://www.dariobonazza.com/f1_04e.htm *DROL* Beautiul pictures, and my first good look at the new Ferrari aero package for this year. Wonder if I can get up to Montreal in June... -

Re: Intermittent LX metering error

2004-02-26 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "William Robb" Subject: Re: Intermittent LX metering error > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Intermittent LX metering error > > > > Anybody have an idea as to why my LX should produce the occasional, > severely > > und

Re: OT: The new product range from Apple...

2004-02-26 Thread Mark Roberts
Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 26/2/04, PETER A disgorged: > >>In my experience it's just the opposite. PC's are appliances, and we >>all hate the OS, or at least the OS's vendor. >>Mac's are a cult. > >Come on over to the dark side :-) Drink the Kool-Aid! -- Mark Roberts Photography an

Re: Lake Michigan wetlands

2004-02-26 Thread frank theriault
I agree with pretty much everything Mr. Robb said, and he said it better than I could have. I like it, though, for it's strong composition. Quite the spectacular sky - it would have made a good PUG from Clouds month (if you had the shot then). cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the bes

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