Re: Pentax Fish-eye Takumar 17/4.0 and Kiron 28/2.0 (K)

2004-03-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Kostas Kavoussanakis Subject: Pentax Fish-eye Takumar 17/4.0 and Kiron 28/2.0 (K) Hi, One of each of these is coming my way. What are your opinions on them? The 17/f4 is a fun little lens. Be careful that the rotating filter collar is actually on a

RE: clever virus attack

2004-03-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/3/04,MALCOLM disgorged: There seem to be no end of these viruses now. I can see me partitioning the hard disc and running Linux on one part for e-mail. My laptop is really on it's last legs now and I would like a Mac to replace it. The only niggle is the lack of floppy disc drive - and many

Re: GFM Sold Out

2004-03-04 Thread Bill Owens
On 4/3/04, THE GRIM REAPER ;-) disgorged: I don't know whether or not the message I sent yesterday, before Roadrunner decided to block the PDML server, made it through or not. Anyhow, this year's Grandfather Mountain Nature Photo Weekend is sold out and no more registrations will be

RE: LX-D

2004-03-04 Thread Cotty
Leica + purchase = poverty. LOL. Pentax + purchase = nostalgia Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads http://www.macads.co.uk

Re: PAW: fresh out of scanner

2004-03-04 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:39 PM Subject: PAW: fresh out of scanner Hi! This 85 soft is one versatile lens. Took it for a walk to a local reserve that is being re-built. Crawled on the sand and here are two samples:

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Christian
His first statement: Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so easily altered these days that they can no longer be seen as factual or true. is crap! I've said it before and I'll continue to say it: ALL PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MANIPULATED. It happens before the shutter is tripped

Re: Shopping for a DSLR at GFM

2004-03-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/3/04, MARNIE THE FONDLER disgorged: 10D's, etc. D's, Nikon 70D (or whatever)? And not to mention all the digital PS. Are most people cool about letting you hold and fondle their cameras? S'okay with me, as long as I get furtive grope as well... Yeah no problem at all Marn... Cheers,

Re: Yo, Cotty ...

2004-03-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/3/04, SHEL disgorged: I'd like to take another look at the Setright pic you posted a week or two back. Can you provide a URL? Tks! Sure. Er, what it a Setright pic? Sorry, I'm being dumb here. Remind me Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche

Re: PDML directories (Re: Links to 'My PAW' sites)

2004-03-04 Thread Paul
Anyone can feel free to send me a URL to their website and i will update the list. The list has beem updated a number of times, last time roughly 6 months ago. Regards, Paul graywolf wrote: Pretty much out of date, I think. That seems to be the problem with most of the lists relating to this

Re: clever virus attack

2004-03-04 Thread Peter J. Alling
So called macro viruses will if you have vba on your system. Cotty wrote: On 4/3/04, GRAYWOLF disgorged: Probably wouldn't make a difference if you were using Windows on a Power PC. Actually I have heard tell that a PC virus will infect the Windows environment on a Mac running a PC

Re: Dave's pictures (Was: PAW: fresh out of scanner)

2004-03-04 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Dave, In what way don't your pictures look good? Sharpness.Boris's soft lens photo looks better than my regular lenses,when scanning 35mm film. What is lacking do you mean? Nice colour,sharp images.Closenes to the original proof.I'm sure its how i do

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread graywolf
Nifty, Dag. Very nifty. Dag T wrote: I agree, totally. At the danger of boring everybody I can refer to my unmanipulated portfolio on Photo.net: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=366144 None of them are manipulated according to photo.net rules:

Re: OT: GUI ugliness (no longer about 4gb microdrives)

2004-03-04 Thread Keith WHALEY
Cotty wrote: On a Mac G4 running OS 10.2.6, the Dock's icon animation can be turned off? How? keith whaley Dock Preferences Keith. Cheers, Cotty Sorry, Cot, ol' man. . .not so. Not on MY computer! In Dock Preferences, I have, in order: Dock size -Small to Large

RE: clever virus attack

2004-03-04 Thread Malcolm Smith
Cotty wrote: Malc, external USB floppy disk drives can be purchased and will work on a Mac as well as a PC. May I make a suggestion? If you have a computer, I would hope that you would be backing up at the very least all the user data you create? Oh yes! Having learnt the hard way, once a

Re: Yo, Cotty ...

2004-03-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/3/04, SHEL disgorged: The guy with the beard at the auto show - wasn't that LJK Setright, the automotive journalist? Sorry if I was a bit cryptic ... anyway, that's the one I'd like to take another peek at. With you now. I forgot that was his name.

Re: clever virus attack

2004-03-04 Thread graywolf
Some of us have more time than money, Cotty. Sneaker net is still the cheapest WAN. Interesting, I have a LAN, but nothing to plug into it any more. Of course there is the school of thought that if they are not on the internet they are too primative to worry about anyway (g). -- Cotty wrote:

Re: clever virus attack

2004-03-04 Thread graywolf
inline Cotty wrote: On 4/3/04, GRAYWOLF disgorged: Probably wouldn't make a difference if you were using Windows on a Power PC. Actually I have heard tell that a PC virus will infect the Windows environment on a Mac running a PC emulator software. I have no idea how true that is. HAR. Yes,

Re: PAW: Shattuck Avenue

2004-03-04 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/4/2004 11:51:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Umm, how can you see the fellow's neck? It's covered with a scarf. There's more to see in the pic than the person in the foreground. Glad you like it, though ;-)) I have a good imagination. :-) I think a

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-04 Thread Geoff Moes
Should be fun, what's the transport plan? How many people are riding with you? Should we plan on a DC-PDML Convoy? Geoff -Original Message- From: tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-04 Thread tom
-Original Message- From: Geoff Moes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Should be fun, what's the transport plan? IIRC, leave Friday around 10:30 a.m. (we're bringing Ledo's Pizza), return Sunday night. Is that right Cotty? Or were we coming back Monday? I forget. Cotty's plane tix

Re: Windows eye candy

2004-03-04 Thread Brian Dipert
Since this seems to be such a popular topic, I humbly offer up the following self-authored how-to guide for your perusal and implementation: www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA330074 Based on a Fujitsu Lifebook-P2040 running Windows XP Professional, but most of the techniques discussed

PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2183396 I know, the bikes in the background really distract from the hand in the trap (it's a plastic hand, for you squeamish ones out there g). They (the bikes) ~really~ pissed me off, after I noticed them. They're Bike Cop bikes, BTW, which was

Re: Pentax Fish-eye Takumar 17/4.0 and Kiron 28/2.0 (K)

2004-03-04 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, William Robb wrote: The 17/f4 is a fun little lens. Be careful that the rotating filter collar is actually on a filter, Thanks for this (and all the other comments; it seems noone has the Kiron). Is what you are referring to above the same business as in the K18/3.5?

RE: Concert pix

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
I'll try that next time, Jens. Thanks for the tip. I'm trying something new here (doing concerts, that is), so any help is appreciated. cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Jens Bladt

20s

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I found that on the ST 20/4,5 and the three examples of the K20/4.0 that I had (still have one) the sharpness at the edges diminishes substantially, to the point of a soft blur in some cases. I've made a lot of pics with those lenses, and when

Re: clever virus attack

2004-03-04 Thread John Mustarde
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 21:38:02 -, you wrote: I was not impressed to be told I couldn't have a 5.5 inch drive. I have stacks of those, including a copy of Windows v2.0, in those dark days before the launch of 3.1 which made it famous. I collect and enjoy using old software. Someone has too ;-)

Re: PAW Arizona Landscape

2004-03-04 Thread Larry Hodgson
Marnie aka Doe wrote: Beautiful. Makes me want to go to the Southwest again. (But with a camera this time). Almost looks medium format with the breadth and depth that it has. Very nice shot. Marnie aka Doe (Envious.) Thanks a lot Marnie. Keith Whaley wrote: How is it in Prescott, Larry?

Re: Shopping for a DSLR at GFM

2004-03-04 Thread Mark Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am likely to see everything digital at GFM, right? *istD's, Canon 60D's, 10D's, etc. D's, Nikon 70D (or whatever)? And not to mention all the digital PS. Are most people cool about letting you hold and fondle their cameras? Marnie aka Doe It could be the perfect

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3532483.stm What a pathetic load of twaddle. (I'm being polite here.) First quotation is an outright falsehood: ...it won't be made the way Cartier-Bresson made his. We know he didn't crop them. Then he goes on with

PAW #3 - Day's End.

2004-03-04 Thread Fred Widall
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2147727size=lg Back in 2000 we spent our vacation exploring the Canadian Maritimes. One of the places we stopped at was the fishing village of Cheticamp, on the north west coast of Cape Breton Island. This shot is of one the local crab fishing boats

old-fashioned digital

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody has yet released an LX-D kind of camera. At the rate things are going, the first company to make anything like that (old-fashion look and feel, digital guts) is going to be Cosina. Unless you specifically meant an SLR, I hear Leica

Re: fuzzy pictures

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
Sorry, DJE, I forgot you haven't been with us for that long. There's a pic of me floating around out there somewhere (I thought I had bookmarked it, but apparently not). In said, photo, I sport a lovely pair of rabbit ears. It seems to have become a conversation piece over the years. So,

Re: Dave's pictures (Was: PAW: fresh out of scanner)

2004-03-04 Thread Larry Hodgson
You pick one of your pictures (one that you typically had difficulties in gettng right), fresh out of the scanner - send it in a reasonable size to a number of volunteers on the list (I'll be one of them) who will do their finishing and adjustments according to their taste (no competition). The

Re: pentax-discuss-d Digest V04 #469

2004-03-04 Thread Rob Studdert
On 4 Mar 2004 at 9:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The LX was, unfortunately, unique for Pentax. It was pretty much unique entirely with that electro-mechanical shutter and moronic strap/grip system. I suspect the LX's moronic grip/strap system to which you refer was modelled upon that found on

17 and kiron

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pentax Fish-eye Takumar 17/4.0 and Kiron 28/2.0 (K) One of each of these is coming my way. What are your opinions on them? Just making conversation, Kostas I've got a 17/4.0 super-tak (I'd really like the SMC if I could find and

RE: old-fashioned digital

2004-03-04 Thread tom
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leica-camera.com/digitalekameras/digilux2/index_e.html I was thinking an SLR, but this thing is a SIGNIFICANT improvement over the first Leica/Panasonic digital thingie from what I can see. I

primes are still smaller and faster

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
Of course you can make a big prime or a small zoom. If your Pentax 24-90 were an f/1.8, and of equal optical quality to the Sigma 24/1.8, and still smaller, THEN I'd be amazed. There are plenty of 28-xx zooms smaller than my 28/1.4 Nikkor. I think there are CARS smaller than my 28/1.4 Nikkor.

Re: Links to 'My PAW' sites

2004-03-04 Thread Rob Studdert
On 4 Mar 2004 at 11:55, keller.schaefer wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if there was a web page with a compilation of links to all the sites where list members store their PAWs (something like an extra column to the PUG list of member's sites)? I then could bookmark only this page and browse from

OSX underpinnings

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: clever virus attack Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Probably wouldn't make a difference if you were using Windows on a Power PC. Most of

Re: PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-04 Thread Gonz
I love it. I really like the dangling hand, it looks like part of the bike in the background, at first I thought it was some wierd bike stand. rg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2183396 I know, the bikes in the background really distract from the hand in

Re: split screen on spotties

2004-03-04 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
Hi DJE, I have installed myself a K1000 splitscreen in my SP1000 spottie. The screen is definitely much brighter (I have gotten is as a part from local pentax repair shop), and actually makes focusing spotties in dim light feasible. I would compare it in ease of focus to an ME Super. In my

Re: PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-04 Thread Rob Studdert
On 4 Mar 2004 at 17:49, frank theriault wrote: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2183396 Gotta love the sheep skin boots(?) on one protester :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PDML Members Website list

2004-03-04 Thread Paul
Hi, I have updated the PDML Members website list, any links that were dead have been culled and a few more entries have been added. If you'd like your page added then please email the URL off list. http://www.nrg666.com/pdml Regards, Paul

Re: PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
Gonz (or rg), That's the damn problem! Were it not for the bikes, one would be better able to tell it's a dangling hand in a leg-hold trap. I didn't even notice the bikes on the contacts, but once it were blowed up, there they were. Still, I kind of like her expression. They were all quite

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Mark Roberts Subject: Re: Hockney on photography To quote a noted PDML'er: Why is photography the only art form for which some neurotics demand something called truth? - Bob Blakely (The answer: Because they're neurotic, elitist and more than a little

OT: Re: OSX underpinnings

2004-03-04 Thread Steve Jolly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, do you know why they chose BSD rather than Linux for the basis of OS X? I'd suggest that it has to do with Nextstep, which was the previous attempt to put Mac over unix. Apparently there are a lot of extensions to Unix underneath OSX prefaced with ns. Linux is

Re: PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-04 Thread cbwaters
- Original Message - From: Rob Studdert http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2183396 Gotta love the sheep skin boots(?) on one protester :-) I was thinking that the coat she's wearing is of the suede leather and fur variety...must be fake though huh? I hope... Cory wants to

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
It's far easier to significantly alter a photograph today than it was in days past. That's all he's saying. It's not crap. It's fact. On Mar 4, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Christian wrote: His first statement: Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so easily altered these days that

Re: Pentax Fish-eye Takumar 17/4.0 and Kiron 28/2.0 (K)

2004-03-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Kostas Kavoussanakis Subject: Re: Pentax Fish-eye Takumar 17/4.0 and Kiron 28/2.0 (K) Be careful that the rotating filter collar is actually on a filter, Thanks for this (and all the other comments; it seems noone has the Kiron). Is what you are

any feedback on M20/4.0?

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
OK, somebody here might have given me a line on an M20/4.0, but if it pans out I need to know if I really want to buy it. Looking at Boz's site it is really small and cute, ideal for travel IF it is a decent performer. Shel has already suggested that the K20/4 is weak at the edges as was its

FS Friday

2004-03-04 Thread Carlos Royo
I have the following cameras and lenses for sale: Pentax Z-1 AF SLR + Fdp Gripstrap + F electronic cable release + instruction manual, in Spanish (I will also include 2 unused 2CR5 lithium batteries, each one lasts about twenty-five 36-exposure films). The camera is in excellent condition, both

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Christian Subject: Re: Hockney on photography His first statement: Hockney told the Guardian newspaper that photographs can be so easily altered these days that they can no longer be seen as factual or true. is crap! I've said it before and I'll

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-04 Thread Rob Studdert
On 4 Mar 2004 at 18:50, William Robb wrote: What is happening though, is that one can no longer trust a photograph to be a reflection of reality, no matter the motive of the photographer. As that moron boy at the LA times proved, it is just too easy to alter reality to suit ones own agenda.

Re: Dave's pictures (Was: PAW: fresh out of scanner)

2004-03-04 Thread Butch Black
You pick one of your pictures (one that you typically had difficulties in getting right), fresh out of the scanner - send it in a reasonable size to a number of volunteers on the list (I'll be one of them) who will do their finishing and adjustments according to their taste (no competition). The

Re: clever virus attack (Att. Dalal)

2004-03-04 Thread Herb Chong
i don't remember MS allowing the end user to configure what constituted Level 1. a lot of angry users called up to ask what happened to their attachments for several months. Herb - Original Message - From: David Miers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04,

RE: LX joy

2004-03-04 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Don't get me started on the LX. Why else could you explain my having five of them? No infatuation at all, Cesar Panama City, Florida -Original Message- From: Andy Chang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:44 AM I only recently got hold a LX, I don't think I'll

RE: Treating digital as film was RE: Concert pix

2004-03-04 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
-Original Message- From: Christian Skofteland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:34 AM - Original Message - From: Stan Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:30 AM Oh Cesar Cesar Cesar. ¡Que lastima que no tienes camera moderna! But

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-04 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Geoff, If nothing else I can sit with her and hear of your travels south. You know you can trust me, Cesar Panama City, Florida -Original Message- From: Geoff Moes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:18 AM After contemplating it and seeing some of the

RE: PAW: ChampCars at Brands Hatch 2003

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
I like the shot because Tracy's Canadian, and he won the championship. I don't really care if it were close or not. g Nice shot, but just to niggle a bit, I wish it had more motion in it. The track's sharp, the cars are sharp - the only slight indication of movement is the blur of the white

Re: PAW: Shattuck Avenue

2004-03-04 Thread P Kong
At 10:43 AM 3/4/2004, Shel wrote: Just a little experiment on a couple of levels ... http://home.earthlink.net/~digisnaps/shattuck1.html comments, as always, welcome ... Let me guess... Shattuck Allston? A block or so either side of Center Street? Both the guy and the photo lab across the

RE: PAW: This ain't cute, it's ART, dammit, ART

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
Wow!! Look at those eyes! Great grab, John! cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: John Mustarde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PAW: This ain't

RE: PAW:Fridge Flowers

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
Don't kid yourself, Dave, I think it's a great shot. Really like the reflection at the top - can't quite figure out what it is, but it makes you look! vbg Lovely colours - I like the way the whole scene is saturated with orange. A different flower pic - I like it! cheers, frank The optimist

RE: pentax-discuss-d Digest V04 #468

2004-03-04 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:23 AM From: Cesar Matamoros II [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay Frank, Which one would you take? I just had to do this... Spotmatic SP SV S1a S1a A3 K1000 MX MV ME Super ME F Super

RE: Shopping for a DSLR at GFM

2004-03-04 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Marnie, I know that the PDMLers are... I try to bring most of my gear so that those who wish can try what they may want... I can think of a couple of PDMLers who will have non-Pentax DSLRs there, Cesar Panama City, Florida -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: GFM Sold Out

2004-03-04 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
-Original Message- From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 3:20 PM On 4/3/04, THE GRIM REAPER ;-) disgorged: I don't know whether or not the message I sent yesterday, before Roadrunner decided to block the PDML server, made it through or not. Anyhow, this

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-04 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Geoff, You understand if I, as honorary DCPDMLer, do not make the convoy? Traveling from the south, Cesar Panama City, Florida -Original Message- From: Geoff Moes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 5:14 PM Should be fun, what's the transport plan? How many people

RE: PAW: Shattuck Avenue

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
As a pure composition (I don't know how better to put it), it's interesting. The shape of his dark jacket against the brighter background, heavy at the bottom of the frame, lighter at the top. As a human photograph, I'm not so sure. I'm guessing he's sleeping, due to the way he's slumped

Re: PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-04 Thread graywolf
Most of the folks I have met from Vega IV have been somewhat weird. -- frank theriault wrote: Rob, Cory, Yeah, they both said they were vegans, and only wore clothing from non-animal derived sources. I believed them; they seemed to be quite genuine. cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is

RE: Sometimes you just run into a strange scene

2004-03-04 Thread frank theriault
See? LOL! The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sometimes you just run into a strange scene Date: Mon, 01

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-04 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
-Original Message- From: tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 5:27 PM -Original Message- From: Geoff Moes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Should be fun, what's the transport plan? IIRC, leave Friday around 10:30 a.m. (we're bringing Ledo's Pizza), return

FS-various pentax gear

2004-03-04 Thread Nenad Djurdjevic
Pentax (P)Z1 Camera: with dateback and operating manual, exc cond. Pentax (P)Z-1(P) gripstrap, boxed, exc cond. Pentax FA28-70 f4, boxed, as new, with Hoya Pro-1 52mm filter (12 layer coating) Tokina 19-35 f3.5-4.5, boxed, as new, with optional accessory flower shaped hood and 67mm filter Pentax

Re: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-04 Thread Ann Sanfedele
tom wrote: -Original Message- From: Geoff Moes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just out of curiosity, how many other's have SO's coming who are not planning to attend the presentations? #7 is waffling tv You mean 7 doesn't want to be 7 of 9 ??? ;) ann

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-04 Thread tom
-Original Message- From: Cesar Matamoros II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tv, Tsk, tsk, tsk. You know that I would take care of her for you... Just keep her out of the bear pen. She might think they're ponies and try to ride them. tv

Re:Rolleiflex Knowledge

2004-03-04 Thread Chris
Does someone on the list have any info/knowledge about Rolleiflex TLR cameras?Dear friend's deceased partner's hidden('til now)locker has revealed a Rollei in excellent (to my eye)condition black with a brown case with dual lens cover and nicely functioning hood/focussing/knobs/functions etc

RE: FS-various pentax gear

2004-03-04 Thread Andy Chang
Hi Nenad, I'm interested in the AF280T flash and the AF1.7X teleconverter. How much are you asking for them? I'm in Taiwan Thanks a lot Andy -Original Message- From: Nenad Djurdjevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: FS-various pentax gear

2004-03-04 Thread Andy Chang
Oops, sorry, it should have been off list DOH! Andy

Re: PAW: fresh out of scanner

2004-03-04 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! LK (Sorry Boris for stealing your thread in a previous message LK of mine to Dave without changing the subject line. (Tried to make LK it right in another message.) ) Apology accepted. Indulgence (something from Inquisition era, right?!) granted g. LK If I have to pick one of the pictures,

Re: PAW: fresh out of scanner

2004-03-04 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! Dave, I always scan negatives. I also like one with the flower more, but the more abstract one is still very fascinating. Thanks! Boris

RE: clever virus attack

2004-03-04 Thread David Madsen
I received the exact same e-mail but knew it had to be false so I forwarded it to my e-mail server and asked for confirmation. David Madsen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.davidmadsen.com -Original Message- From: Stan Halpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004

bunny-eared crab

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, DJE, I forgot you haven't been with us for that long. There's a pic of me floating around out there somewhere (I thought I had bookmarked it, but apparently not). In said, photo, I sport a lovely pair of rabbit ears. It seems to have become a

LX strap

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4 Mar 2004 at 9:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The LX was, unfortunately, unique for Pentax. It was pretty much unique entirely with that electro-mechanical shutter and moronic strap/grip system. I suspect the LX's moronic grip/strap system to which you

Re: OSX underpinnings

2004-03-04 Thread David Mann
On Mar 5, 2004, at 12:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, do you know why they chose BSD rather than Linux for the basis of OS X? I'd suggest that it has to do with Nextstep, which was the previous attempt to put Mac over unix. Apparently there are a lot of extensions to Unix underneath OSX

Re: My PAW site

2004-03-04 Thread David Mann
On Mar 5, 2004, at 05:21, graywolf wrote: I glanced at the source code. Your scripting software seems to produce very clean code. What are you using? Long story... I couple of years ago I wanted to build a photo database, and I also wanted to learn about cgi-bin programming. So I married the

linux, or linus

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, do you know why they chose BSD rather than Linux for the basis of OS X? I'd suggest that it has to do with Nextstep, which was the previous attempt to put Mac over unix. Apparently there are a lot of extensions to Unix underneath OSX prefaced with ns. Linux is

Re: clever virus attack

2004-03-04 Thread Peter J. Alling
Windows 2.0 came with two kernals an 8086/8088 version and the 286 version. It would recognize which processor and how much memory you had available at load time and loaded the proper version. Herb Chong wrote: i'm pretty sure Windows 1 never shipped standalone. i still have the disks to a

RE: Concert pix

2004-03-04 Thread Jens Bladt
Godd luck - it's a lot of fun. If you shoot black and white and even color negs, you can reduce contrast by undereksposing (minus correktion) in combination with over development. As an example exposing a 200 iso film like it is 400 iso, then developing it like 500-600 ASA. You might want to do

photography as art

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Had to think about that for a bit. But then it came to me that the guys who make catalog sketches and such are considered artists. So why not photographers? Maybe because of the perception that anybody can do it? But then that is not true. Anybody can

Re: PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-04 Thread Peter J. Alling
You're right about the bikes Frank, but over all not bad for newspaper work. Hell real good for newspaper work. frank theriault wrote: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2183396 I know, the bikes in the background really distract from the hand in the trap (it's a plastic hand, for

Re: PAW #3 - Day's End.

2004-03-04 Thread Peter J. Alling
I like the wash of color, you captured the end of day colors perfectly. Fred Widall wrote: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2147727size=lg Back in 2000 we spent our vacation exploring the Canadian Maritimes. One of the places we stopped at was the fishing village of Cheticamp, on the

Re: OT: GUI ugliness (no longer about 4gb microdrives)

2004-03-04 Thread David Mann
On Mar 5, 2004, at 01:47, Keith WHALEY wrote: FACT: Just like the new XP interface, the Dock animation can be turned off. On a Mac G4 running OS 10.2.6, the Dock's icon animation can be turned off? How? Hmm, I wonder if turning it off is a new feature of Panther as I didn't keep 10.2.7 for long

RE: clever virus attack (Att. Dalal)

2004-03-04 Thread David Miers
I don't think you can configure the level one file extensions. What they have eliminated though I don't consider a bad thing. Anytime you need to send someone something though whether it be on a network or email a compressed zip or rar file is always a better choice. A lot less chance of a file

Re: pentax-discuss-d Digest V04 #479

2004-03-04 Thread edwin
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree with Dan. No luck involved at all. You had equipment with you. You were observant enough to see the bird. You had the skill to take the photo. Where's the luck? Being there at the right time for the bird, of course. None of the

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