Re: PAW: Shattuck Avenue

2004-03-05 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/4/2004 8:15:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: PAW Second Week -- The Sequal

2004-03-05 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/4/2004 7:37:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it's interesting, but I find it a bit overwhelming, for some reason. I keep expecting the water to flow out either side. Weird. cheers, frank That was why I wondered if the fish eye could have been

Re: PAW #3 - Day's End.

2004-03-05 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/4/2004 3:26:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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: Shopping for a DSLR at GFM

2004-03-05 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/4/2004 12:32:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/3/04, MARNIE THE FONDLER disgorged: LOL!! 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?

Re: PAW #3 - Day's End.

2004-03-05 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Reminds me of a lovely evening after being out on a small lobster boat at Tanner's Cove, in Nova Scotia. Lobster season was officially over, and we went out to bring in the few remaining traps. We also brought up three or four lobster. Dinner that night was wonderful smile Fond memories. shel

Re: PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-05 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Frank ... As a document for the protest, it doesn't work for me. Too many distracting elements, a weak composition, and a lack of point of view. I see at least two better photos in the scene. However, from the POV of an interesting photo, it works for me. It's abstract enough to almost be

Re: linux, or linus

2004-03-05 Thread John Forbes
Trademark and copyright are different things. John On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:39:34 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [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

Confused with history of lenses.

2004-03-05 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! On the time line first we M42 lenses, then K lenses, then M lenses, then A lenses, then F lenses, then FA lenses. So far so good g... There is something that confuses me. Let us take for example 50/1.7 lens. As far as I understand the optical formula is precisely the same through M, A, F, FA

Re: March PUG, row 2

2004-03-05 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! ft You're right, Boris, I did. Phew! g My memory still holds... So seems to be the power sources... ft She's a beautiful child, and you took a lovely photo of her. ft I was just pulling your leg (slang for joking with you) is all. I realized that. I wonder what is slang for opposite

old-new member

2004-03-05 Thread Sas Gabor
Dear PDMLers, I subscribed again, and this time hopefully not for only a few months... I'm Gabor Sas from Hungary, with lots of Pentax 35mm SLR stuff in my bag and some let's say good slides made with them. You'll see... I also use lots of non-Pentax gear, the most important one being a

Re: Vuescan

2004-03-05 Thread Alin Flaider
Pat, Are there people on this list still scanning!? I thought film dried out in the digiland... ;o) I wouldn't know about HP, but certainly the Minolta scanner software is a joke when it comes to scanning negatives. Apparently it heavily cuts the tones from both ends of the

Re: Confused with history of lenses.

2004-03-05 Thread John Forbes
Boz's site is a good starting point for research, but be warned that some people on this group think that although two lenses may appear to be optically indentical (apart from coating) in fact they may be different. This is certainly possible, especially if the dimensions differ considerably.

Re: Rolleiflex Knowledge

2004-03-05 Thread Keith WHALEY
Can you locate a serial number? Looking a my copy of McKeown, that seems to be a more positive way of sorting them out, without a lot of back and forth questions. There are so many models/variations! keith whaley Chris wrote: Does someone on the list have any info/knowledge about Rolleiflex

Re: Rolleiflex Knowledge

2004-03-05 Thread keller.schaefer
That would really depend on the model also (DB8/9 does not indicate the model ... and Rollei made various TLRs with 2.8 Planars from the early fifties to the mid seventies). Could you quote the camera serial number? Sven Zitat von Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wouldn't call this real

Re: PAW

2004-03-05 Thread Sas Gabor
Hi, What's a PAW actually? Thanks, Gabor

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

2004-03-05 Thread Keith WHALEY
David Mann wrote: 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

Re: PAW

2004-03-05 Thread John Forbes
It's a Picture A Week. Submitted to the list for consideration, delight, whatever, and criticism if requested. John On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:21:11 +0100, Sas Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What's a PAW actually? Thanks, Gabor -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client:

Re: those 150s

2004-03-05 Thread Arnold Stark
Hi, I do not know whether it has been mentioned before, but in one of those Pentax lens booklets from the 70s, Pentax claims that the K150/f4 was one of the best medium telephotos on the market. Arnold

Re: 17 and kiron

2004-03-05 Thread Sas Gabor
Hi, I've got a 17/4.0 super-tak (I'd really like the SMC if I could find and afford it) which is small, light, and fun to play with but I'm not yet convinced it is all that sharp. The A16/2.8 is sharper, and a little better designed in some ways. Not to forget that russian Zenitar 2.8/16

Re: 17 and kiron

2004-03-05 Thread Keith WHALEY
Just an interesting aside, a filler, on Kiron lenses: With the purchase of one of my M42 bodies and a couple of other lens/body items a little while ago, the seller just threw-in a Vivitar 85-205mm f/3.8 Tele-Zoom Auto. . . It must be brand new - it looks like it's never been used! A little

Re: clever virus attack (Att. Dalal)

2004-03-05 Thread Herb Chong
the attachments in this case were JPG and GIF files. since MS normally configured these to open with IE, they were deemed unsafe and would not open and could not be detached either, so you could never access them, but they were still there. Herb - Original Message - From: David Miers

RE: old-fashioned digital

2004-03-05 Thread Cotty
On 4/3/04, VARIOUS PDML PILLARS OF SOCIETY disgorged: 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 considered buying the first version, but the manual functions were too hard to access and the AF

Re:Rolleiflex Knowledge

2004-03-05 Thread Chris
Thanks very Much John,Now I know the trail to follow. With Appreciation Chris Kennedy

Re: FS-various pentax gear

2004-03-05 Thread Hal Sandra Davis
What is your address? - Original Message - From: Nenad Djurdjevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:32 PM Subject: FS-various pentax gear Pentax (P)Z1 Camera: with dateback and operating manual, exc cond. Pentax (P)Z-1(P) gripstrap, boxed, exc

Re: PAW: a lucky shot

2004-03-05 Thread John Mustarde
http://users.bestweb.net/~hchong/temp/ Very good shot, especially considering the distance and limited time and equipment you had. It's easy to get motion blur in those conditions, but your shot appears as sharp as the lens would allow. CAUTION, GORY PARAGRAPH: Did you notice the little

Re:Rolleiflex Knowledge

2004-03-05 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:56:53 +1100 From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:Rolleiflex Knowledge Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does someone on the list have any info/knowledge about Rolleiflex TLR cameras?Dear friend's deceased partner's hidden('til now)locker has

Re: PAW: ChampCars at Brands Hatch 2003

2004-03-05 Thread John Mustarde
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:06:40 -0500 (EST), you wrote: You're absolutely right, frank - that's my main objection to the shot, too. I was set up there to get shots of cars coming round the turn. Normally cars are running at around 100+mph through that turn, so I was set up for that. Then

FS: 2 Sunpak 611 packages

2004-03-05 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
2 working units with brackets 3 (maybe 4, I don't recall for certain) nicad packs 2 chargers 2 household slaves 2 shoe sensors with PC cords 8 C-cell NiMH cells several sync cords The nicad packs need the sub-c cells replaced. But these are not only cheap, but I've seen sub-C NiMH cells @

Re: photography as art

2004-03-05 Thread Frits Wüthrich
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always thought that the problem it is pretty hard to make a photograph of something that did not PHYSICALLY exist at the moment you triggered the shutter. You can imagine an elephant with 5 legs and paint it, but to photograph such

Re: any feedback on M20/4.0?

2004-03-05 Thread John Mustarde
I like the M20/4. Mine was inexpensive, and I like its small size, so it has a built-in cost/convenience/value factor for me. This weekend I plan to post some evaluation shots of the M20/4 using the *istD, which won't help film users much because of the crop factor. -- John Mustarde

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: 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 determine when we come and go... Yessir, arriving DC Thursday PM, be around to you

Re:(2) Dave's pictures (Was: PAW: fresh out of scanner)

2004-03-05 Thread brooksdj
Lasse penned Does this mean that you are now satisfied with what you get? Anyway, I had this idea (which actually originates from a feeling similar to your some time back, when I could get my pictures look like I wanted them to look): You pick one

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-05 Thread Geoff Moes
Tom, Joining your van-pool sounds good, we will have camping photo gear and a big cooler. Also tell #7 that she should come, Wendy will be riding down as well. Geoff

FS: Off-brand!

2004-03-05 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
Yes, another brand. This is for an unemployed friend (with whom I can sympathize well). Minolta X-700 body, MD 50/1.7 lens, Tokina 70-210/4.5 zoom manual, and case. It's the original X700, not the later 'n'. Looks like very modest use. It's all in excellent, very clean condition. Works well.

RE: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-05 Thread Geoff Moes
Cesar, That is completely unacceptable; in order to maintain your honorary DCPDML status you must fly up here and ride down with us. ;-) Geoff -Original Message- From: Cesar Matamoros II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: LX joy

2004-03-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Malcolm Smith Subject: RE: LX joy Cesar Matamoros II wrote: Don't get me started on the LX. Why else could you explain my having five of them? I thought having three was bad! Three seems about right. William Robb

Re: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-05 Thread Mark Roberts
tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, how many other's have SO's coming who are not planning to attend the presentations? #7 is waffling Unfortunately, Lisa is going to be away that weekend. It's kind of a shame because I think she'd enjoy meeting some of you lot. Also, it's

Re: any feedback on M20/4.0?

2004-03-05 Thread wendy beard
At 10:29 PM 04/03/2004, you wrote: Anybody want to speak up in favor of this lens from an optical standpoint? I will! I have an M20/4 and I like it very much. I'm not the sort of person who takes lots of photos of brick walls and analyzes them for distortion. I use cameras and lenses for the

OT: Re: OSX underpinnings

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Jolly
David Mann wrote: Safari is basically a tarted-up Mozilla Konqueror, not Mozilla :-) S

Re: Confused with history of lenses.

2004-03-05 Thread Rfsindg
Boris, Pentax has a long history with lenses back into the '50's. Designs have been changed over time, often gradually. Some of the evolution can be seen in the old screwmounts. They had manual diaphrams, cocking diaphrams, semi-auto, and full auto. The underlying optical designs changed as well,

Re: Vuescan

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Jolly
FWIW, my one attempt to try Vuescan ended when it caused an instant reboot of my computer. :-) S P Kong wrote: Thanks to discussion on the list, I'm trying the Vuescan demo. I'm quite surprised at the differences produced by Vuescan and the scanner's own software. I am using an HP Photosmart

Re: PAW #3: The Anti-Fur Protest

2004-03-05 Thread Albano Garcia
Hi, Frank I like the photo, specially the relation between human and plastic hands, a sort of visual ying yang. Maybe you can burn the bikes a bit to darken them. It's nice to see you are using a real lens, it's a shame it isn't from a real brand ;-) Regards Albano --- frank theriault [EMAIL

Re: PAW: ChampCars at Brands Hatch 2003

2004-03-05 Thread Doug Franklin
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:35:32 -0800, John Mustarde wrote: Just curious - what shutter speed catches just the right amount of motion blur when the subject is traveling 100 mph? I generally use 1/125 for cars below about 80 mph and 1/250 for anything faster. Of course, it also depends on which

Re: LX joy

2004-03-05 Thread Bob Blakely
Having too many LXen is like suffering from too much sex. Regards, Bob... They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. - Anonymous, presumed dead. From: Malcolm Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cesar Matamoros II wrote:

RE: LX joy

2004-03-05 Thread Andy Chang
I disagree Bob!!! How can you have too much sex??? I couldn't have enough!!! vbg I want more Lol Andy -Original Message- From: Bob Blakely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LX joy Having too many LXen is like

Re: Shopping for a DSLR at GFM

2004-03-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/3/04, BATHROOM BABE disgorged: Cotty Cotty, remember you promised to meet up with me in the ladies room. Marnie aka Doe ;-) Think I'll hold you to it. S. We don't want it too crowded in there Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|

Pentax IR Remote database for Palm

2004-03-05 Thread Boros Attila
Hello PDMLers, I just found an interesting webpage for Palm users, which features a Pentax IR Remote database for Palm among other things (look at the bottom of the page). http://www.vex.net/~lawrence/download.html It is a database for NoviiRemote containing the Pentax Remote Controls D and F.

Re: those 150s

2004-03-05 Thread Andre Langevin
Hi, I do not know whether it has been mentioned before, but in one of those Pentax lens booklets from the 70s, Pentax claims that the K150/f4 was one of the best medium telephotos on the market. Arnold In an older Asahi booklet, the Super-Takumar 150mm, probably version 1, was described as

RE: any feedback on M20/4.0?

2004-03-05 Thread Andy Chang
So what are they then? -Original Message- From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 12:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: any feedback on M20/4.0? BTW, I have only had a couple of individual Pentax lenses that were not acceptable. They both clearly

FS: Pentax MX winder with remote modification, EX+

2004-03-05 Thread Joe Wilensky
Last chance! For sale: Pentax MX winder with original box, manual, receipts. This winder wasn't mine originally, but the original owner sent it in to Pentax in 1980 for the remote modification that was mentioned recently on the list and kept all the paperwork. The socket (the standard

RE: clever virus attack (Att. Dalal)

2004-03-05 Thread David Miers
There is no problem in viewing either jpeg or gif files on my system at this point in Outlook. Possibly in Microsoft's ongoing wisdom(meant to be sarcastic!)(to Microsoft, not you Herb) they changed this around at some point. -Original Message- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Photo-criticism (was: Re: PAW - seated @ 1/4)

2004-03-05 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! When Cotty is not kidding and/or joking he appears to be quite wise g... My comments interspersed. C I think that there is plenty of room for criticism in art, and Marnie is C right that any photograph can be criticised. However, it is whether or C not the criticism is heard, or even

Re: Confused with history of lenses.

2004-03-05 Thread graywolf
Well, there are 3 reasons that Pentax or anyone else would change optically formulas. 1. Price, redesigning the lens to be more economically manufactured with automated machinery. 2. Size, as with the M lenses, the whole thing could be made more compact. BTW, AFAIK no M lens is the same

Re: photography as art

2004-03-05 Thread Dag T
På 5. mar. 2004 kl. 06.48 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

unique LX

2004-03-05 Thread edwin
From: Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also not all the unique. The K2 is almost exactly the same size and shape. The ES and ESII both have mechanical shutter speeds from X to 1000 and electronic speeds from x to ~30 seconds, (Replacing the slow speed mechanical timer with

Re: Hockney on photography

2004-03-05 Thread Dag T
I see it this way: A photograph, video, newspaper story, book or story is a statement made by human beings. The statements are no more reliable than the person that made them. I agree with you in that digital is a good thing, because it makes the manipulative aspects of a photograph more

FS-various pentax gear

2004-03-05 Thread Jens Bladt
Hi all HI still got some nice Pentax items for sale: Bodies: Pentax K1000, excellent condition Pentax P50 (P5), excellent condition Pentax P30n (P3n),excellent condition Lenses: SMC M 1.7/50mm, very good condition SMC A 1.4/50mm, very good condition SMC A 4-5.6/35-80mm (Standard lens for MZ-M),

why new optics

2004-03-05 Thread edwin
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, I'd like to know how many of modern Pentax lenses are original! optical design? It would seem that some lenses are carry over from previous generations. I think a lot of the older M/A/F designs have been replaced by zooms and newer aspherical designs.

K150/4

2004-03-05 Thread edwin
From: Arnold Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not know whether it has been mentioned before, but in one of those Pentax lens booklets from the 70s, Pentax claims that the K150/f4 was one of the best medium telephotos on the market. If they don't say so themselves... I'm pretty sure it was the

Re: any feedback on M20/4.0?

2004-03-05 Thread graywolf
One was an M50/1.4 and the other was a M28/3.5 though what good that information is without the serial numbers (which I no longer have) is I have no idea. 3 other M50/1.4's that I have had were fine, as was the one other M28/3.5. -- Andy Chang wrote: So what are they then? -Original

NG Item

2004-03-05 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
http://www.news2web.com/cgi-bin/dnewsweb.exe?cmd=articlegroup=rec.photo.marketplace.medium-formatitem=11082utag= Subject: FS: Lowepro Zoom pouch for Pentax 6x7 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:44:07 -0800 From: Lunaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace.medium-format I just

Re: PAW: ChampCars at Brands Hatch 2003

2004-03-05 Thread johnf
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:35:32 -0800, John Mustarde wrote: Just curious - what shutter speed catches just the right amount of motion blur when the subject is traveling 100 mph? I generally use 1/125 for cars below about 80 mph and 1/250 for anything faster. Of course, it also depends

RE: PAW #3 - Day's End.

2004-03-05 Thread Fred Widall
Thanks for the comments. Frank - You really should take the time to visit Cape Breton, the Cabot Trail is absolutely stunning, with wonderful vistas around every bend. No-one commented on my portrait - I think its a good likeness (and remember I'm the one on the left !).

Re: old-new member

2004-03-05 Thread Jostein
Welcome back, Gabor. cheers, Jostein - Original Message - From: Sas Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:06 AM Subject: old-new member Dear PDMLers, I subscribed again, and this time hopefully not for only a few months... I'm Gabor

Re: Sold Out - GFM, Just made it

2004-03-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/3/04, ROBERTS THE RUNNER disgorged: Oh man, she's always looking for an opportunity to use her surgical skills on me. I'd appreciate anyone who could provide a diversion :) I've filmed open heart surgery with Stephen Westaby, an operation to correct a squint, reconstructive surgery on a

WOW (Was: Dave's pictures)

2004-03-05 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

OT Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA (Was: Just wanted to say...

2004-03-05 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Keith WHALEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kylie has a very nice face, but Agnetha is reeking class all the way. . . That reminded me to put on an ABBA recording. . . g Btw. Agnetha has recorded a new album, or do you call them CD:s, for the first time in 17 years, planned to be released this

RE: Rolleiflex Knowledge

2004-03-05 Thread Jens Bladt
Thanks Shel These are brilliant photographs (http://www.edkrebs.com/) - what is the English expression? In Denmark we would say life confirming photographs - they are so full of the joy of life. Great work. Interesting to see how little the IT-age have contributed to the photographic art - really!

Re: WOW (Was: Dave's pictures)

2004-03-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For this first round on Dave's picture we've so far got Larry from Prescott Butch Black Paul Stenquist and me as volunteers. But there is room for more. Sounds fun. I'll have a go. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com

Re: any feedback on M20/4.0?

2004-03-05 Thread Rolf Brenner
I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I have two of them one heavily used and one like new. From the optical point of view: I never shot Testtargets but i was always satisfied with the results and at least at k=8 its very sharp IMO. Flare was never a

Re: WOW (Was: Dave's pictures)

2004-03-05 Thread Jostein
- Original Message - From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] What d'ya all think? Shall we give it a try as an ongoing project? I'm in. Jostein

Are Canon owners really this stupid?

2004-03-05 Thread William Robb
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3800946535 William Robb

Re: Rolleiflex Knowledge

2004-03-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Jens Bladt Subject: RE: Rolleiflex Knowledge Thanks Shel These are brilliant photographs (http://www.edkrebs.com/) - I liked the complaint department and the thought for the day the best. William Robb

RE: Are Canon owners really this stupid?

2004-03-05 Thread Amita Guha
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3800946535 Maybe some people really need the manuals?

Re: Oh no...

2004-03-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
Most independent repair shops can service lenses. You have to find one in your area. In Michigan, I use Oakland Photographic Repair. Shel has a list of recommended repair facilities on his website. Paul On Mar 5, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Stephen Moore wrote: O List -- Earlier this week I visited the

PAW - The Gull

2004-03-05 Thread Boros Attila
Hello, Last weekend I was out shooting gulls. I shot almost 2 rolls of film, so maybe I will post more, or put them on a site. Don't know if this works for you, I just love birds. Let me know what you think. Disclaimer: No animal was hurt during the shooting:-) Attila

Re: PAW - The Gull

2004-03-05 Thread Boros Attila
Silly me, forgot to include the URL... Here it is: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2186032 Attila

Re[2]: PAW: Shattuck Avenue (OFF LIST)

2004-03-05 Thread Boros Attila
Hello Shel, Friday, March 5, 2004, 6:51:56 PM, you wrote: SB I wanted to see what, if any, reactions there'd be to such a SB photo, how much, if anything, people would put into it ... SB maybe the experiment failed as there have been few comments, SB or maybe it succeeded ... don't know.

Re: PAW - The Gull

2004-03-05 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Boros Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:40 PM Subject: PAW - The Gull Hello, Last weekend I was out shooting gulls. I shot almost 2 rolls of film, so maybe I will post more, or put them on a site. Please do. Don't know if this works

Re: PAW - The Gull

2004-03-05 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Boros Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Boros Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:41 PM Subject: Re: PAW - The Gull Silly me, forgot to include the URL... Here it is: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2186032 Attila That's neat. I like it. There are some

Re: Are Canon owners really this stupid?

2004-03-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3800946535 Maybe some people really need the manuals? The people bidding on this need a manual to tell them how to drink a glass of water without drowning. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing

lens testing

2004-03-05 Thread edwin
I find throwing a lens against a brick wall is a quick way to check it out. Upon first reading, I found myself wondering how many lenses showed excellent optical quality after this particular test! G Of course I only have two ratings for lenses: professionally acceptable, and unacceptable. If

First shots from my 77mm Ltd

2004-03-05 Thread Derby Chang
I've taken a few rolls with the FA77mm and I love it. Haven't had time to scan everything, but a selection of the ones I like are on my website (link below, under the heading Tina). Aside from the lovely results, it is just a pleasure to hold (and even manual focus). Creamy silky bokeh, and

20s and lens quality

2004-03-05 Thread edwin
William Robb said: I was quite surprised when I came onto this list and discovered that some of my favourite lenses are considered to be crap. I like the M28mm f/2.8, and I have the really bad one with the chrome trim ring, not the less awful one. Not that I like the 28mm focal length that

Re: WOW (Was: Dave's pictures)

2004-03-05 Thread Frits Wüthrich
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 21:08, Lasse Karlsson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: PAW: Shattuck Avenue

2004-03-05 Thread Shel Belinkoff
LOL You got the location right ... ;-)) P Kong wrote: 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

Are Canon owners really this stupid?

2004-03-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/3/04, WW disgorged: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3800946535 William Robb Yes. PS - interesting - I have not come across a feedback of 3454 @ 100% beforeunless you know better? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|

Re: Are Canon owners really this stupid?

2004-03-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/3/04, MARK ROBERTS FOR IT IS HE disgorged: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3800946535 Maybe some people really need the manuals? The people bidding on this need a manual to tell them how to drink a glass of water without drowning. Oh come on Mark, for heaven's sake! You

OT: Quinquepedalian loxodonts ( was Re: photography as art

2004-03-05 Thread Bob W
Hi, I have made a photograph of an elephant in Kenia, and according to our local guide the male elephant had 5 legs. For Tanyas sake I won't go into details. I have some photos I took in India of an African elephant (yes!) putting his 5th leg to good use. I swear that thing had a mind and

Re: PAW - The Gull

2004-03-05 Thread Rob Studdert
On 5 Mar 2004 at 23:41, Boros Attila wrote: Silly me, forgot to include the URL... Here it is: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2186032 Great shot, amazing symmetry, surreal shape of the watery reflection including the hint of a beak. I'm not a gull lover, they are great pests in

PAW: Feeding the beast.

2004-03-05 Thread Jostein
This is my PAW#1 All comments most welcome. Tech detail: *istD, FA*400/5.6 @ f/8, 1/3200 sec. ISO 400, auto wb. -

Re: Are Canon owners really this stupid?

2004-03-05 Thread frank theriault
Now, if Canon could invent a glass with the equivalent of that image stabilization thing they have on their lenses, it would be of great assistance to me at 2am, trying to down that last Beamish, before I go staggering out the doors of the bar... No more spilled beer! What a concept! vbg

Re: Lobsters-was: PAW #3 - Day's End.

2004-03-05 Thread frank theriault
Shel, I was in the Magdellan Islands (in the Gulf of St. Lawrence) about 18 months ago. It's my paternal family's ancestral homeland, as it were. One day, my cousin, who summers there regularly, stopped in on a distant relative of ours, to introduce us. She (the relative) told us to come

Re: Feeding the beast.

2004-03-05 Thread Jostein
and the link... http://home.online.no/~jooksne/paw/paw1.html I mumbled: This is my PAW#1 All comments most welcome. Tech detail: *istD, FA*400/5.6 @ f/8, 1/3200 sec. ISO 400, auto wb. Cheers, Jostein

Re: March PUG

2004-03-05 Thread Kevin Thornsberry
Lon and Francis, Thank you. Pretty in Pink by Kevin Thornsberry Wonderful photo. Almost 3-D like. Kevin Thornsberry Pretty in Pink, the hands and the cap's angle make the shot. The pink doesn't hurt either. Nice grab. Kevin

RE: PAW #3 - Day's End.

2004-03-05 Thread frank theriault
Hey, Fred, I know, I know. Everyone tells me that about Cape Breton, and the Cabot Trail in particular. Funny thing is, I have distant relatives there. My maternal grandmother is from Janvin Island, which I think is up around Cape Breton somewhere. My existing family all live either in

Re: Feeding the beast.

2004-03-05 Thread frank theriault
AACCCKKK!!! It's a Canada Goose! You guys have those over in Europe too? I thought they were a North American thing. I hate Canada Geese. I'm glad you called it a beast, Jostein. Other than the goose thing, it's a lovely shot. And, the non-fowl mammal is quite lovely,

Re: Treating digital as film was RE: Concert pix

2004-03-05 Thread Christian Skofteland
- Original Message - From: Cesar Matamoros II [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Christian Skofteland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:34 AM He has a D... and yet I've still seen him cart around his defiled LXen... Christian Defiled!

Not PAW: QuikSnap from Yesterday

2004-03-05 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Yesterday I was meeting a friend at a nearby BART station. BART is our local subway, underground, metro ... While waiting for her to arrive, this little scene caught my attention: http://home.earthlink.net/~digisnaps/bart1.html The colors are the result of mixed light - incandescent below and

Re: PAW: a lucky shot

2004-03-05 Thread Herb Chong
yeah, it's as good as the lens allows. if i didn't have the 80-320, i wouldn't have had a shot at all, just a speck in the distance. there is a slight bit of motion blur, but i was able to shoot at 1/1000 and that helped. of the 24 shots i took, 5 are good and distinct enough to be usable for

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