Re: Rumors

on 01.07.04 8:42, Stan Halpin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought it was the 20-35/4. The newest FA lens is FA 28-90/3.5-5.6 released as a part of MZ-6 kit in 2001 or eventually FA 28-105/3.2-4.5 which apeeared in the same year. -- Best Regards Sylwek

Re: Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander

Jens Bladt a écrit : Merci Michel. Intersting to see a photograph of this ancient one! Perhaps I have got it all wrong? I was refering to the camrea - Pentax Spotmatic, which I believe was announced to have an on-board spot meterering facility - like most modern SLRs. I believe the prototype Spotma

Re: Af speed of the *ist D

Hi, > Before you can make your own decisions you have to know what you want. That is > asking a lot from some people. oh, I don't know. My boss makes an awful lot of decisions without having the faintest idea what he wants. -- Cheers, Bob

RE:Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander

Very true. However, it has much to do with lens technologies I believe. In fact, Canon is way ahead of everyone else at the moment. Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan Perhaps so. But it seems to me Pentax can't really compete in the enthuisast segment either. Canon 10D vs. Pentax *ist D. Same

Re: Rumors

I thought it was the 20-35/4. stan On Jun 30, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Herb Chong wrote: i thought it was the FA* 200/4 ED Macro in 2001 or 2002. Herb - Original Message - From: "Shaun Canning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:21 AM Subject: Re: Rum

RE: PAW: at long last

Hi a very, very "sweet" shoot Wendy! What program did you use for the frames? thanks for sharing it... Markus > http://www.pbase.com/image/29213363 > > Wendy ;-)

RE:Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander

Perhaps so. But it seems to me Pentax can't really compete in the enthuisast segment either. Canon 10D vs. Pentax *ist D. Same price range, same kind of buyers. Canon winns this segment as well and has faster AF speed and better image quality, doesn't it? Regards Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Re:Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander

I think you misinterpreted my message. As technologies have evolved, even cheap consumer products can be sophisticated, just built cheaply (cut corners you can say). No doubt Pentax shows no sign of being able to compete with the very top end sector like 1v/1D etc. However, Pentax still have the

RE: Re:Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander

I hear that what Pål and Alan Chan are saying is that Pentax is not likely to be able to compete/survive in making high-end camera bodies/pro-bodies. highThat is bodies above middle of the road performance. This could very well mean Pentax will not survive as a camera maker. Why? Because today goo

Re: First smc-DA14/2.8 impressions

Also, I would like tp point out the AF Nikkor 105/2.8 was released roughly 2 years later than the FA100/2.8, which itself is a copy of F100/2.8 optically. If Nikon did come up with its own design which looks so similar to the Pentax. they must deal with the patent first. Alan Chan http://www.pb

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

On 30 Jun 2004 at 23:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not seeing many of any of these items in the places I look for used > equipment. I may have to admit that back in the day of M42, nobody made > a good 20mm lens and the SMC-T is as good as I'm going to get. I may > have to eventually bre

Re: The public and Pentax

Maybe Pentax have been trying to avoid the same fate as Minolta did (they kept pumping out new lenses & cameras like crazy and was eventually accuqired by Konica). Btw, am I the only one who think the "Konica Minolta" name look ridiculious on their products? Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlach

Re: e-bay

On 30 Jun 2004 at 22:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, OK, it's not "e-bay" itself that I trust (it is, as you say, just > the medium) but the general idea of buying something sight unseen from an > individual who is hard to hold accountable. I prefer to either buy stuff > that I can touch,

Re: The public and Pentax

Just call me Alan. :-) Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan There are times when I disagree with Mr Chan's opinion. This is NOT one of them!! He is so right. _ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU

Re: The public and Pentax

Oh I know what you mean, I was living in Melbourne for yrs. :-( Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan Their current predicament is a function of a lack of direction regarding marketing and advertising which ties back to the lack of communication and unpredictable line development. And all this is

Re: First smc-DA14/2.8 impressions

By comparing the diagrams of similar optics from different manufacturers, it is not difficult to see that they are very different (even those popular 50mm). I would be very surprised when 2 designers came up with the the exact same lens arrangement (both diagrams are identical in this case) when

RE: FA 135 f2.8

I could see a use for this lens on the *ist D. So herewith I ask my usual questions of those who own it: I owned it for a short while. How is it at wider apertures? Not sharp, worse than M135/3.5. Can one get decent enlargements (8-1/2 x 11 inch or A4) at f2.8? How does it perform on the *ist D? N

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

>> Earlier in this thread, I mentioned the Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 >> I bought this lens brand new from B&H a few years ago. It's still >>listed on >> their website. They're asking a little over $100 for it. >Unfortunately I don't think DJE would be too impressed with the optical >performance of thi

Re: The public and Pentax

- Original Message - From: "Tom C" Subject: Re: The public and Pentax > Put another away, Pentax is not taken seriously, because they don't act > seriously (maybe aside from Medium format offerings). The 6x7 documentation is pretty scatter brained. William Robb

Re: Something big

- Original Message - From: "Tim Sherburne" Subject: Re: Something big > > It looks like he tossed the whole kit! A footnote at the end of the article > states that the rig was just too awkward for wildlife photography. > I think he is right about that. Or, perhaps a more leisurely appr

e-bay

> From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 20mm lenses pop up pretty regularly on eBay. I don't understand your distrust > for eBay, it's only a advertising forum it can only claim to represent what is > posted on it truthfully. The transaction is with the seller ultimately and > generally

Re: What % AF? (was Af speed of the *ist D)

I only use AF with my 24-90, which is my walking around lens. But even with that lens, if I have the luxury of a leisurely composition, I'll use MF. All other lenses I use MF, even if they have AF ability. So probably around 5-10% AF, 90-95% MF. rg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Jun 2004 at

Re: Something big

You're right! I guess I was thinking of the 400/2.8 ED. t On 6/30/04 17:21, John Francis wrote: > > That's not how I read it - he got rid of the 600 lens, but bought a 400. > > >> It looks like he tossed the whole kit! A footnote at the end of the article >> states that the rig was just too

Re: OT: Space Ship One

Peter J. Alling wrote: The Bell X-1 was based on the shape of a supersonic bullet. It was used because it was simple and the engineers knew it would travel faster than sound. Sometimes a technology can't be improved upon. Except on this list where all things can be improved upon for an excel

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

On 30 Jun 2004 at 20:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't remember him saying he wanted great optical performance. Since he was > looking for off-brand, I assumed he wasn't overly concerned with it. Right you are, I just assumed this would be the case given his prior record on the matter of op

testing

I'm gonna try yahoo's e-mail for a bit, see how it goes. I'm gonna use it just for PDML for now. I'll be keeping my Hotmail (for the time being at least) for non-PDML stuff, so no need to change your address books. -frank __ P

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

> On 30 Jun 2004 at 18:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Earlier in this thread, I mentioned the Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 > > I bought this lens brand new from B&H a few years ago. It's still listed on > > their website. They're asking a little over $100 for it. Rob said: > Unfortunately I don't thin

Re: Something big

my Pentax A* 400/2.8 is about the same weight, although it has "only" a 145mm front filter thread. Mark Cassino has one too. there are things you can easily do with it that are just so much more difficult with a 400/5.6. when it comes to publication quality small bird photography, size (focal lengt

RE: OT: Off list for a few days

See ya! "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Off list for a few days Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:45:32 -0400 I

Also FS

Tamron 28-80/3.5-4.2, w/ Adaptall 2 K/M mount. Filter ring dent. Good glass & mechanics. $32 shipped in US Pallas Magenta 35/2.8, some cleaning marks but perfectly useful $40 shipped in the US Pentax-M 75-150, just some minor edge marks, good glass & mechanics, comes in a hard (Nikon) case

Re: PAW - Man Getting a Shoe Shine

Thanks for the tip, Anders. I'll have to check that out! Maybe I'll just use it for the list for starters, see how it goes... cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Anders Hultman <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: The public and Pentax

of the two companies that Pentax seems to be closely associated in the camera industry, Casio and Nikon are the biggest. inside most Pentax digital P&S cameras are Casio components, except of course for the lens. Casio is too different from Pentax otherwise to be a serious contender, i think. Nikon

Re: Re:Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander

which means that both Nikon and Pentax are fully at the mercy of some 3rd party vendor's ability to develop a good sensor. Canon isn't. it takes deep pockets to play in the DSLR game, as Leica is finding out, and for a company that is on as thin a financial base as Leica, it may break the company i

Re: The public and Pentax

1) that was then and this is now. 2) they have been unable to meet sales targets for the *istD and haven't had any significant impact on their total quarterly digital camera sales. 3) no-one among analysts believes that they will make the 2.3M digital camera 2004 sales target, which would have put

Re: Rumors

i thought it was the FA* 200/4 ED Macro in 2001 or 2002. Herb - Original Message - From: "Shaun Canning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:21 AM Subject: Re: Rumors > Now your just teasing us all Pål > > 5 DA lenses, and new FA lenses as w

RE: Af speed of the *ist D

Multi point AF is better in low light. I have experienced the same, if you use center point you will get poor results in low light. -That GUy -Original Message- From: Joseph Tainter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:31 PM To: pdml Subject: RE: Af speed of the *is

Re: OT: Space Ship One

The Bell X-1 was based on the shape of a supersonic bullet. It was used because it was simple and the engineers knew it would travel faster than sound. Sometimes a technology can't be improved upon. frank theriault wrote: Yeah, I thought the same thing, Dario. Mind you, the nostalgia thing is

Re: Af speed of the *ist D

> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:04:29 -0700 > From: Tim Sherburne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Pentax Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Af speed of the *ist D > > Just out of curiosity, does the *istD have a matte focusing screen? Yes. > Has anyone tried to add the ZX-M split screen to

What % AF? (was Af speed of the *ist D)

On 30 Jun 2004 at 18:30, Joseph Tainter wrote: > Low light autofocus on the *ist D sucks. It just sucks. For me, this is > perhaps its most disappointing quality. I say this based on extensive > use of the supposedly "antiquated" autofocus on the PZ-1p, which is far > superior in low light. Wit

Re:Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1nkit,Voigtlander

Anyone who can and would buy a 1Ds SHOULD switch to Canon. Pentax will never compete with that level of camera at that price ever again. I really don' think that this is a very big market, relatively speaking. OTOH, a 10D replacement with the 8Mp 1.3 crop sensor is competition. It will be curiou

RE: Pentax fish-eye

On 30 Jun 2004 at 9:53, Barry Rice wrote: > Hey William, > > Regarding the use of the Pentax 17/4.0 fisheye, you said not to stop down > any more than necessary. Why is this? Does diffraction set in early? I'm > quite curious! It's just not necessary to stop down very far to obtain extraordinary

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:04:05 -0400 > From: "Collin Brendemuehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Wider than 28mm there's the 24/2.8 from (Kiron?) Vi

RE: Leaving the list

Wow!! Sounds like the adventure of a lifetime. It would be for me, anyway!! Looking forward to your return. Have a safe trip, Andre. cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Andre Langevin <[EMA

Re: Af speed of the *ist D

- Original Message - From: "Tom C" Subject: RE: Af speed of the *ist D > In general, how easy is it for any camera to focus in low light? The fact > that it makes a couple of attempts and then zeros in on the correct focus > can be viewed as good, not bad. How easy is it to focus manua

Re: Something big

- Original Message - From: "Tim Sherburne" Subject: Re: Something big > > One of the many interesting articles at Luminous Landscape addresses the > practical obstacles when using this combination: > > > I have the same tripod

Re: Re:Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander

(something that Nikon and Canon arguably hasn't); We love Pentax, but where did that come from? eg. good quality lenses and medium format. Since Canon & Nikon do not produce 120, it is a pointless arguement. We can only compare what they produced. Besides, Nikon have large format lenses, where is

RE: OT: Space Ship One

Yeah, I thought the same thing, Dario. Mind you, the nostalgia thing is rampant in automobile styling and marketing these days, isn't it? The new Mini, the VW Beetle, the Ford Thunderbird, the Chrysler PT Cruiser, etc, etc. Why not spaceships? I thought its fuselage looked like the Bell X 1 (t

Re: Rumors

2001, the 24-90mm On Wednesday 30 June 2004 16:21, Shaun Canning wrote: FJW> Now your just teasing us all Pål FJW> FJW> 5 DA lenses, and new FA lenses as well...if only! FJW> FJW> Incidentally, when was the last FA lens introduced (other than the FJW> 'Limited' range). FJW> FJW> Cheers FJW

RE: Af speed of the *ist D

Well said. I have a feeling, though that the dpreview "tests" are biased. And not comparable - different test methods/-terms from brand to brand. An unbiased test site would have redone the test, when the camera couldn't focus the first time. Any camera can experience difficulties. As you said, To

Re: First smc-DA14/2.8 impressions

You can't tell from the diagrams. They are very simplified, do not show precise curvature, do not show the type of glasses used, do not show exact spacing... They might fine tune them differently, but when the diagrams look identical, I'd say they are copying each other. Besides, the CAPA 2003 len

Re: PAW: Julian Holding Fritz

Thanks, Boris, Sometimes when I post, I'm not sure how I feel about a photo, and I'm interested to see what others think. Other times, I really like something, so while feedback is nice, it won't change how I feel about a photo. This is one of those that I quite like, no matter what the rest of

RE: Rumors

1) Pentax is likely to implement in body image stabilization in a DSLR. Like hinted by Herbert Keppler. Reminds me the strongly rumored Olympus OM-5. :-) 2) There will be at least five DA lenses. 3) There will be new FA lenses that will include the DA lenses MF/AF clutch mechanism. These lenses

Re: My website has moved...

Ah, ¡justo ayer estaba mirando un Rollieflex 2.8F en eBay! No se si optar por ese o el Rollei 6008 con lentes intercambiables pero desde luego me encanta el formato cuadrado. Es una forma que siempre me ha gustado, y ahora mas. Saludos, Antonio On 30 Jun 2004, at 23:34, Albano Garcia wrote:

RE: First smc-DA14/2.8 impressions

So when a lens is rebadged, is it that Nikon manufactures the lens using Tamrons specs, or that Nikon gets a bunch of blanks and writes Nikon on them?? -That Guy -Original Message- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 7:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: OT - test

On 30/6/04, John Forbes, discombobulated, offered: >Steve, > >Congratulations on landing the Beeb job. I seem to recall you were >interviewing them around the time of the London PDML event. > >John I'll bet he *was* interviewing them as well ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | P

RE: Something big

Yeah this is it.. A monster, really. There was an old Tamron adaptall2 300mm 2.8 next to it. Man, the Tamron looked like it was a lens for mobile phone :D Thibouille -Message d'origine- De : Tim Sherburne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 30 juin 2004 23:10 À : Pentax Discussio

RE: Something big

I don't remember, really a couple "0" before the "€" but except that... I promise I'll write it down if I see it again :) Thibouille -Message d'origine- De : Kevin Waterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 30 juin 2004 22:56 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: Something big Th

Re: OT - test

Steve, Congratulations on landing the Beeb job. I seem to recall you were interviewing them around the time of the London PDML event. John On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:58:21 +0100 (BST), Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Cotty wrote: I kid you not: the VJ is the first to

Re: My website has moved...

Hola Antonio, gracias por los elogios. La sección diseño está en construcción (estará disponible pronto). Las fotos de la casa de mi tía abulea Dominga (94 años), las saqué con una Rolleiflex 3.5 E2, una joyita de cámara, por lejos mi favorita. Saludos Albano --- Antonio Aparicio <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Af speed of the *ist D

In general, how easy is it for any camera to focus in low light? The fact that it makes a couple of attempts and then zeros in on the correct focus can be viewed as good, not bad. How easy is it to focus manually in low light? Pretty damn hard. What I find about most reviews, is that it's la

RE: Something big

Reminds me of the 800mm f4.0 for the 6x7 that Bob Sullivan and I saw in Chicago a couple of years ago. WheeeHoo! What a monster. What's the aperture on that puppy? Shel > [Original Message] > From: Thibs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 6/30/2004 1:29:25 PM > Subject:

Re: The public and Pentax

Hi, Bob W wrote: Pentax appears several times on the Independent's list of the 50 best cameras: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/photography/story.jsp?story=431522 I like "Canon Ixus III or similar". That brand not really important, then; just make sure it's got one of those groovy alloy bodys

Re: Something big

One of the many interesting articles at Luminous Landscape addresses the practical obstacles when using this combination: t On 6/30/04 13:27, Thibs wrote: > Today I saw at a 2nd hand shop something I never saw. > > A 6x7 600mm lens.

Re: Af speed of the *ist D

Just out of curiosity, does the *istD have a matte focusing screen? Has anyone tried to add the ZX-M split screen to it? t On 6/30/04 13:52, Jens Bladt wrote: > www.dpreview.com states as qouted below, that the AF is rather slow, you > must push down the biult-in flash maunally (AF assist) bef

Re: Something big

This one time, at band camp, "Thibs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today I saw at a 2nd hand shop something I never saw. > > A 6x7 600mm lens. Ouch. What a monster. Didn't have my camera to take a > picture of this lens (I know, seems stupid) but I'm still shocked. > > Thibouille > > > did it

Af speed of the *ist D

www.dpreview.com states as qouted below, that the AF is rather slow, you must push down the biult-in flash maunally (AF assist) before takeing the picture, if yoy don't want ti use flash light, and that the AF assist light may require more than one attempt before focus lock is achieved. Is this rea

Re: PAW: A boy and his dog.

Thanks Boris! I wish I could try again. The dog is long gone, and the boy is 31. At the age show in the photo, it was rare to get one to slow down long enough to get a photo, let alone both. They were sitting down looking very nice, but when I grabbed the camera, they both gave me the "deer i

Re: My website has moved...

Hola Albano, no creo que hemos hablado antes. Me gustan mucho tus fotos y tu pagina web. Tienes buen ojo y buen gusto. A proposito, el boton de "design" no hace nada, o al menos asi era mi experiencia cuando visite la pagina. Las fotos de la señora mayor y su casa son especialment buenas. Que u

Something big

Today I saw at a 2nd hand shop something I never saw. A 6x7 600mm lens. Ouch. What a monster. Didn't have my camera to take a picture of this lens (I know, seems stupid) but I'm still shocked. Thibouille

My website has moved...

Hi gang, I'm still here, but my job (quitting soon), university and girlfriend leaves few space for pdml. Just wanted to let you know that my website has moved to a new domain: http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar There are some new pics. The design section will be ready soon. By the way, if somebody

Re: Paw - Only Reeds

KW> Reeds in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan KW> http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html KW> Comments - likes/dislikes - what would you have done differently Oh, I know, it points to the citation from Frank Zappa ... Just kidding. Boris ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Paw - Only Reeds

Hi! KW> Reeds in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan KW> http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html KW> Comments - likes/dislikes - what would you have done differently KW> Thanks in advance for looking /commenting Ken, really, what is hiding behind the right most part of the frame

Re: PAW - Something Light (Man Bus Berkeley)

Hi! SB> http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/paw/manbus2.html The positions of drawn and real arms are very fitting. I can almost feel that it is you who is drawn on the bus in a caricaturistic (speller does not like word, duh!) kind of way. You know - here is humorous self-portrait of an autho

Re: OT: Space Ship One

Dario Bonazza wrote: Don't you find the SpaceShipOne to resemble SciFi movies and book covers of the Fifties or older? That spindle shape, all those portholes, not to speak of the blue starlets here and there... To me, it looks like a naive design, very different from what I expected from current

Re: The public and Pentax

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Jim Apilado wrote: > Konica and Minolta merged. Could Pentax merge with another company that has > more name recognition, like Nikon? That might improve the stature of both > companies. Konica's SLR line has been dead for years or decades. If that happened I expect that Pen

Re: PAW: Julian Holding Fritz

Hi! ft> Just a guy holding a dog. Not even his dog (Fritz belongs to Helene). If ft> you knew Julian, you'd know this is actually "him" (hard to explain): ft> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2471920 As such (just a guy holding a dog) it is a little too out of focus, Frank. It loose

Re: PAW: at long last

That's a great shot. It's humorous, well composed, offers a point of view, and has great potential in many venues I can see it as a wonderful Easter card, a calendar shot, and perhaps even an Anti-TS Elliot comment (April is the cruelest month ...). The photos I've seen you post are definitely no

Re: PAW: The River

I like it. You seem to have captured the "feel" of a misty morning very nicely. Brian Walters wrote: G'day all OK - I've put this off long enough. I've been hanging around here for a couple of months so it's about time I let you have a go at an image or two. This one was taken a few years ago (w

Re: Analog vs digital by Herbert Keppler

76% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Mark Roberts wrote: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Only 75% of them actually use their cameras? 89% of all statistics are meaningless. John Forbes wrote: Interesting to speculate on how the 54% do digital photography when only 40

Re: The public and Pentax

It's a comfort to know that Bob classes us all amongst "the better sort of person". :-) regards, Anthony Farr - Original Message - From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Pentax appears several times on the Independent's list of the 50 best > cameras: > http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/

Re: The public and Pentax

Hi, >> I think that would be more and more likely to be Canon, Nokia >> and Sony. >>Not necessarily in that order. > Quite likely. Shame Pentax isn't in the top three. Pentax appears several times on the Independent's list of the 50 best cameras: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/photogra

Re: wouldn't it be nice

- Original Message - From: "Peter J. Alling" Subject: Re: wouldn't it be nice > My dc260 doesn't shoot sparks, but it does have the vertical/horizontal > auto rotation. (And it's nearly 6 years old, ancient for a digital photo > product). If it doesn't frick, then what good is it? Wil

Re: M80-200 vs F70-210 ?

That would only be true if you were using a hand held meter. The big problem is with flash, if you don't have a TTL flash for the LX. It's not useless, it just requires a bit more care. That said I'd go with the non variable f-stop and better manual focusing on the M if I weren't carrying an

Re: Space Ship One

First rate photography, equal to and often better than the press offerings and the official Space Ship One site. Richards website is mighty impressive too. regards, Anthony Farr - Original Message - From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Here's an interesting shot that someon

Re: OT - Heads up for long magazine users

- Original Message - From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (snip) > > Either don't mention the auction at all (especially if you recognise > any familiar names in the bidding), or if you consider the item falls > into the 'rare & unusual' exception category go ahead and post the URL. >

RE: The public and Pentax

mike wilson wrote: > I think that would be more and more likely to be Canon, Nokia > and Sony. >Not necessarily in that order. Quite likely. Shame Pentax isn't in the top three. Malcolm

Re: PAW: at long last

> From: "Shel Belinkoff" > > A lot of people (here and in other venues) produce mediocre pap which is > very appealing to many people. Their work makes few, if any, demands on > the viewer, offers little to think about, teaches nothing, and is appealing > only in its inoffensiveness and neutrali

Re: OT - Heads up for long magazine users

Which just proves that you can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. And some peple you can never please anytime. If anyone finds the item I referred to, without the direct link, it will be becaus

Re: Pentax fish-eye

I can't claim great expertise on other brands of fish-eye lenses but the Pentax 17mm f4 is quite small and light next to most other fish-eyes that I've handled. The results it produces are more than respectable and you can usually find them for quite reasonable prices, especially if you're not t

Re: Looking for 2nd hand pentax

> > > No of the SF cameras were quiet... OTOH, they are nice (if bit ugly) > cameras with very good build quality compared to more recent models. > The internal chassis is metal, they have good viewfinder. > But they > lack features like aperture display i

RE: Pentax fish-eye

Hey William, Regarding the use of the Pentax 17/4.0 fisheye, you said not to stop down any more than necessary. Why is this? Does diffraction set in early? I'm quite curious! > > I do macro work so always focus manually. What matters to me is the > quality > > of the optics. I like an extremely d

Re: The public and Pentax

Hi, Malcolm Smith wrote: And who are they going to sell them too? If you took a random street poll of the British public (I can't say for the US and elsewhere) my guess the top three camera names people would give you would be Nikon, Canon and Olympus. I think that would be more and more likely to

Re: OT: Space Ship One

I've seen Richard Seaman's site before, but this time was the first I've actually noticed his section on WarBirds. I had the privilege of flying in an F7F Tigercat in 1952. One of the few still flying at the time. Lovely aircraft! A memory to last a lifetime. keith whaley Daniel J. Matyola wrote

Re: PAW - Man Getting a Shoe Shine

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, frank theriault wrote: > I hate Hotmail. I guess ya gets what ya pays for, eh? I can recommend Gmail, Google's new web mail service. Makes mailing lists very easy to follow, too. anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/ med dagens bild och allt!

Re: OT - Heads up for long magazine users

> > A famous internet auction site has listed a developing tank (sometime called > a rewind tank) for cine film from 8mm to 35mm, closing in 2 days. Users of > 250 shot magazines might find such an item useful. > > In view of the embargo that most PDMLers choose to honour, I won't reveal > the U

Re: wouldn't it be nice

My dc260 doesn't shoot sparks, but it does have the vertical/horizontal auto rotation. (And it's nearly 6 years old, ancient for a digital photo product). William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Norm Baugher" Subject: Re: wouldn't it be nice My frickin' Kodak Easy Share has

Re: The public and Pentax

We all know that Pentax marketing has their head up their collective a** when it comes to advertising. Why should their marketing estimates be any better. Herb Chong wrote: 20,000/month is the same target sales figure they had for the *istD. Herb - Original Message - From: "Pål Jens

Re: Selling Pentax 35mm gear (WAS RE: Beautiful SF1n kit, Voigtlander

Merci Michel. Intersting to see a photograph of this ancient one! Perhaps I have got it all wrong? I was refering to the camrea - Pentax Spotmatic, which I believe was announced to have an on-board spot meterering facility - like most modern SLRs. I believe the prototype Spotmatic at Photokina (or

RE: OT: Space Ship One

Thanks for sharing... definitely some nice shots there. Rutan's designs do remind me of Gerry Anderson and the Thunderbirds. Tom C. From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Space Ship One Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:42:47 -040

RE: PAW: The River

Nice shot Brian. I like the monochrome effect the fog/light give. Tom C. From: Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PAW: The River Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:10:33 -0600 (MDT) G'day all OK - I've put this off long enough. I've been hanging

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