Re: A Quick Snap: Road Runner Burrito

2004-02-27 Thread Butch Black
What did you order? Norm I understand that their daily special is the ACME coyote pancake. Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)

Re: warming polarizer and print film?

2004-02-27 Thread Herb Chong
i think they are mostly pointless for print film unless you are talking tungsten vs daylight exposures, and even then, a decent lab should be able to correct away most of the difference. if all you are talking about are 81 filters, there isn't any point. maybe if you used 85 filters all the time, b

Re: PAW: tasteful nudity

2004-02-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
I kind of like the tan lines. In any case, there wasn't much I could do about them. Tan lines in December in Michigan. That takes some work :-) I think the hand is overlit, but I like it's placement. I tried some shots where I moved the candles to achieve different lighting, but the overall eff

Re: PAW Arizona Landscape

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Dalal
Larry, Simply gorgeous. Great light and composition. Mark

Re: PAW: Shel-inspired

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Dalal
From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Mark Dalal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >One more for the week. This one was inspired by Shel. He sent me a similar > >shot and decided to try it also. This shot was taken while driving (with > >both hands on the wheel). > > I'm not even going to *ask

Re: PAW Arizona Landscape

2004-02-27 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Some picture. Just great great. Lasse. From: "Larry Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 8:59 PM Subject: PAW Arizona Landscape > Here's one I shot last summer. Again this was done with a Nikon Coolpix 5700 > before I had my *istD. Going back in t

Re: PAW

2004-02-27 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "frank theriault" Subject: RE: PAW > I think it's pretty freaking cool! > > I think it might look even cooler in b&w. But, still, it's pretty cool > right now. Thanks Frank. Next week, the bannister.. The wall colour was my wife's choice, btw. Sometimes

PAW: more BA streets and old cars...

2004-02-27 Thread Albano Garcia
This one was taken at around 12 pm close to my home. The exposure was about ten seconds, I pushed the camera against the wall to serve as support. It was taken with a camera my father gave me (it was his camera when he was young. It's a Kinax Cadet from 1950. It's 6x9 and used 620 film. The lens i

Re: PAW Arizona Landscape

2004-02-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
A stunning photograph. Beautiful light, gorgeous color, great composition. It made my day. Thanks for posting it. Paul

Re: PAW: tasteful nudity

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Cassino
Nicely done, Paul. The only distraction to my eye is the bright reflection of the candle on the far left - sort of breaks up a the nice repetition of the others. But that's pretty minor... - MCC At 07:10 PM 2/27/2004 -0500, you wrote: I'm quite pleased with this shot. It was done by candle lig

Re: PAW

2004-02-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Feb 27, 2004, at 8:39 PM, William Robb wrote: I found this intriguing. It's an interesting combination of ordinary elements that causes one to stop and think. The unexpected is always interesting. Paul

Re: PAW: tasteful nudity

2004-02-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Feb 27, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Mark Cassino wrote: Nicely done, Paul. The only distraction to my eye is the bright reflection of the candle on the far left - sort of breaks up a the nice repetition of the others. But that's pretty minor... Yeah, I couldn't get them to burn even. That one on the

Re: warming polarizer and print film?

2004-02-27 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Mark Erickson" Subject: warming polarizer and print film? > I don't know much about how print film > responds, particularly to warming filters. > > Can anyone comment on what kind of differences I might expect compared to, > say, Velvia or E100VS? Film is fi

Re: PAW

2004-02-27 Thread William Robb
I didn't write any of that. William Robb - Original Message - From: "Paul Stenquist" Subject: Re: PAW > > On Feb 27, 2004, at 8:39 PM, William Robb wrote: > > > I found this intriguing. It's an interesting combination of ordinary > > elements that causes one to stop and think. The unex

Re: PAW Arizona Landscape

2004-02-27 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Larry Hodgson" Subject: PAW Arizona Landscape > Here's one I shot last summer. Again this was done with a Nikon Coolpix 5700 > before I had my *istD. Going back in the spring to shoot this area again > with the "D". > > Comments welcome. Buy a view camera. Y

PAW: Mall at night

2004-02-27 Thread John Francis
OK - here's an image straight from the *ist-D. I'm still trying to work out what to do to it (other than try to fix the perspective distortion; I had to tilt the lens up a bit). (The lens I used was the PZ 28-105). Exposure set, manually, to 1/20 @ full aperture (f4.5); ISO set to 800, and imag

RE: PAW Arizona Landscape

2004-02-27 Thread J. C. O'Connell
I agree, I would love to have been there with my 8x10 camera and some ektachrome as well as Tmax B&W. JCO J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com -

Re: PAW: Mall at night

2004-02-27 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi John ... The technical data is awsome! Great description, well formated. Just one thing, though, I'd suggest you crop the info and include the pic Seriously, no pic, no URL showed up in my email. shel John Francis wrote: > OK - here's an image straight from the *ist-D. > > I'm still tryi

Re: PAW: Mall at night

2004-02-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
You forgot to include the URL On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:41 PM, John Francis wrote: OK - here's an image straight from the *ist-D. I'm still trying to work out what to do to it (other than try to fix the perspective distortion; I had to tilt the lens up a bit). (The lens I used was the PZ 28-105). E

Re: PAW

2004-02-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
No, I did. But I kind of messed up the order of things. Anyway, it's all true. paul On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:30 PM, William Robb wrote: I didn't write any of that. William Robb - Original Message - From: "Paul Stenquist" Subject: Re: PAW On Feb 27, 2004, at 8:39 PM, William Robb wrote: I

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

2004-02-27 Thread Derby Chang
Hello Derby, The samples that Butch showed me, looked nice, but did not look like a soft focus lens. Do you have any samples of this technique that I could examine? Thanks, Bruce No worries, Bruce. Here is a jpeg and it's original file for comparison. I think this works best when the backg

Re: PAW : WR's

2004-02-27 Thread Eactivist
>In a message dated 2/27/2004 7:42:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Something a little different today. >http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/paw/mirror1.html >And quite boring, I am sure. Rip it apart folks. >William Robb Nothing to rip; nothing wrong with it. But, yes,

Re: Bonnie's Piano (Homage to Mark

2004-02-27 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Probably will ... lots of the digi photos are often just "sketches" for later film pics. Mark Dalal wrote: > > From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~digisnaps/pianostrings.html > Nice Shel! I hope you are planning on reshooting that with film.

Re: PAW and introduction

2004-02-27 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/26/2004 10:36:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >http://members.ozemail.com.au/~audiob/temp/_IGP0899m.jpg >Rob Studdert Whoa, that second one is really close-up. Kewl. Nice shot. But I think you bug guys are sort of, er, ...weird. ;-) Marnie aka Doe

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

2004-02-27 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
It was interesting to hear from those who worked with the F-4s when they began using them as drones. Many felt bad that they were no longer in the inventory. When I first got here they were using F-106s as drones. I do not recall when the last one was used up... Cesar Panama City, Florida P.S.

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

2004-02-27 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
I always enjoy hearing them say that the F-4 shows that with enough thrust, even a brick can fly :-) An excellent workhorse nonetheless. Cesar Panama City, Florida P.S. The F-15, a flying tennis court. I was quite surprised the first time I was able to stand between the tails of one. Talk abo

RE: in da streets

2004-02-27 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Now, now. I meant that knowing us we would be up to the wee hours chatting away. And as such I wanted to include the PDML and would be willing to peddle to make that a possibility... Cesar Panama City, Florida -Original Message- From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

Re: PAW: London Eye

2004-02-27 Thread Steve Jolly
Thanks :-) You're right about the lack of sharpness - I have a horrible feeling that the photo was taken with a Chinon 28-50 zoom that I valued greatly for its lack of size at the time, but later realised was more than a little lacking in the sharpness department too... I'm tempted to rescan

Re: PAW - sunset

2004-02-27 Thread Eactivist
>In a message dated 2/27/2004 9:42:19 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >http://boris.isra-shop.com/photos/basic-zoom/sunset.htm >My site is back up so I am posting the proper link... >All comments are most welcome. >Thanks in advance (even if you'd beat me to dust ). >Boris

Friends: QuikSnap® for an Ongoing Project

2004-02-27 Thread Shel Belinkoff
There's a long term project that I'm working on which, in part, involves photographing "found" or public art ... murals, sculpture, paintings, etc. I usually carry the Sony with me for quick shots and light hearted photo work. I also use it to document subjects that I want to return to for later

Re: PAW -- Elton and Friend

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
Sometimes you have to make due with the background you get. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than the drain pipe in the background,i like it Dave(cat person:-))Brooks > Ok I figured I'd contribute to this and I would like feedback however there are a few things I don't want to he

RE: PAW: Southern Comfort

2004-02-27 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Robert, The shot reminded me of an assignment I was on a while ago. Once everything was integrated on the ship we had a party before departing the shipyard the next day for Florida. The shipyard was close to New Orleans. Anyhow, as we approached it the sight was amazing. I cannot recall how ma

Re: PAW

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
Maybe it's the minimumilist in me but I like it. William Robb wrote: Something a little different today. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/paw/mirror1.html And quite boring, I am sure. Rip it apart folks. William Robb

Re: PAW

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
AARRRGG... Kenneth Waller wrote: So I guess this is your (-- tah dah --) mirror image. -Original Message- From: William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PAW Something a little different today. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/paw/mirror1.html And quite boring, I am sur

Re: Which wide Pentax primes show the least distortion?

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
I thought not but just to be sure I checked Boz's site. No. Mark Cassino wrote: At 09:05 PM 2/27/2004 +0100, you wrote: I agree that the A20 f/2.8 is quite good, and the 28 f/2.0 too. I had an M 24 2.8 that had too much for my taste. DagT Is there an M 24 f 2.8? - MCC - Mark Cassino

Re: PAW - sunset

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
It is nice. Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! I know sunsets are cliche and so on. But this one I think is a little different. http://boris.isra-shop.com/photos/basic-zoom/sunset.htm My site is back up so I am posting the proper link... All comments are most welcome. Thanks in advance (even if you'd

Re: Ebay LX

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
It does include a lot of stuff. If it is really like new his expectations might not be too high if he sold each piece independently. Norm Baugher wrote: I think he'll be hanging on to this one just a bit longer http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3800614403&category=15240

Re: PAW: tasteful nudity

2004-02-27 Thread Pat White
What an elegant image! It's nude, but non-carnal, showing pleasing lines and form. The tan line's a little distracting, but overall, it's a nice shot. Pat White

Re: 6x7

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
Doesn't seem to be much of secret to me. Norm Baugher wrote: That's right, I guess we should welcome Mark into the brotherhood. Welcome Mark [secret shutter shake]! Norm frank theriault wrote: I guess you're now in the Brotherhood, eh Mark?

Re: PAW: tasteful nudity

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
Lovely tones and you were right it was very tasteful. Damn and I was hoping... Paul Stenquist wrote: I'm quite pleased with this shot. It was done by candle light with the Pentax 6x7 and 105/2.4 lens. It displays full rear nudity, but I doubt that any adults would consider it offensive. I've

Re: 6x7

2004-02-27 Thread Pat White
Welcome to the Brotherhood, Mark! You may find the non-TTL finder just fine, since the TTL meter is full-area averaging, and not as accurate as a hand-held meter, in my experience, at least. As for image quality, it's all there, but you may find all your errors are more obvious as well. The shal

Re: Cheapest DSLRs in Europe?

2004-02-27 Thread mapson
> >If so, what would be the best place to either buy or order a DSLR > >from? Germany? Which store/online store? I know only Technikdirekt, > >but I think there are cheapier. What about places like Andorra or San Marino - they are tax (duty) free? (*)o(*) Robert [EMA

Re: PAW: London Eye

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
Very dramatic, and a little scary, looks like it might just fall over and roll away. Steve Jolly wrote: http://www.elvum.net/gallery/paw/33_london_eye My second PAW is one of several photos I like that were taken on a twilight wander along the South Bank in London. Comments of any descriptio

Re: PAW Arizona Landscape

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
This is simply incredible. Wonderful colors great sky. Larry Hodgson wrote: Here's one I shot last summer. Again this was done with a Nikon Coolpix 5700 before I had my *istD. Going back in the spring to shoot this area again with the "D". Comments welcome. http://tripodman.smugmug.com/gallery

Re: PAW: Bonnie's Piano (Homage to Mark

2004-02-27 Thread Peter J. Alling
You certainly have an eye, Shel. Your snap shots make most planned shots look bad. Shel Belinkoff wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~digisnaps/pianostrings.html Saw some nice patterns in the piano strings. This is one of the QuikSnaps® I took while hanging around Bonnie's place. It's not as sh

Re: Cheapest DSLRs in Europe?

2004-02-27 Thread Michel Carrère-Gée
What about places like Andorra or San Marino - they are tax (duty) free? In Andorra, there are few taxes and the prices are much lower than in France. But Andorra is not in the European Union and the imports are subjected to customs duties. The rincipale customers are the French and Spanish trav

PAW-Happy Daze (follow-up)

2004-02-27 Thread Stan Halpin
I put up a small page as a follow-up to my Happy Daze shot. For me, the only two 'keepers' in the bunch are the original Happy Daze shot (here shown as Chan2) and the picture of Chan's owner (that is Spectator 2 Boris.) However, the gull shot will go into my slowly building folder of wallpaper

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