Re: Leaving the list

2004-06-30 Thread Bob W
Hi, Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 5:08:59 AM, Andre wrote: Goodbye dear PDMLers. I will be back in august. I'll be busy taping music and sounds in Mongolia for an independant movie but will for sure find time to photograph the surroundings and their people. And once back, show my paws. I'm

RE: Adjusting the infinity focus stop on a K 200mm F2.5

2004-06-30 Thread Alan Chan
Since I don't have this lens, I cannot give precise procedure. For fixed focal length lens, the focus setting screws (usually 3) can be accessed from the front (might need to remove some barrels first), or underneath the rubber depends on the design. It has nothing to do with the lens mount.

RE: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
This is very intersting Herb. Thanks for sharing this info! All the best Jens Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 30. juni 2004 01:49 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: The public and

Re: First smc-DA14/2.8 impressions

2004-06-30 Thread Alan Chan
I checked their optical diagrams and they look identical. Interestingly, the AF Nikkor 105/2.8 macro also has the same optical diagram as the Pentax F/FA100/2.8 macro. Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan That 14/2.8 Nikkor is actually a rebadged Tamron. Hmmm. Based on the specs it COULD

RE: Adjusting the infinity focus stop on a K 200mm F2.5

2004-06-30 Thread Verge Scott
Well I've taken the front group out and there is 3 screws in there, but I thought it just held the front barrel to the rear section, there is also 3 around the body of the focus section when you remove the rubber brip part. Why would there be three? Would I just loosen them all and adjust and

RE: Z1-p repair and looking for parts or a parts camera.

2004-06-30 Thread Alan Chan
If you are certain you can fix it yourself, you might just strip it down and order the parts from Pentax Canada. It will be much cheaper this way. Or search for a broken Z-1p for parts. Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan I have a Z1-p and its great except the flash doesn't work and it

Re: Sigma 16mm f/2.8 fisheye c1980's

2004-06-30 Thread John Whittingham
Thanks Kostas John John Whittingham Technician -- Original Message --- From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:11:19 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Sigma 16mm f/2.8 fisheye c1980's On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, John Whittingham wrote:

RE: Z1-p repair and looking for parts or a parts camera.

2004-06-30 Thread Verge Scott
Yeah I've striped it down and throughly cleaned the corroded board, it didn't help though. The board that I think it might be would be 50 Canadian plus taxes and shipping and take up to 6 weeks to come in from Japan, and for all I know it might not even work. So thats why I'm asking you guys

Re: Helmut Newton Musem in Berlin

2004-06-30 Thread Shaun Canning
There's only one real Alice Springs :-) Cheers Shaun Markus Maurer wrote: Source: Tages Anzeiger Zurich The Helmut Newton Foundation (Helmut Newton and June Newton a.k.a Alice Springs) opened the museum for photography in Berlin near Bahnhof Zoo. It is located in the house of former

RE: Z1-p repair and looking for parts or a parts camera.

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
If you are not a repair guy - sell it for parts and get annother used one in good working order. You might get one for 100-125 USD. It's really a brilliant camera. My P-Z1 have worked fine since September 1992 (two repairs only, self-inflicted - because of dropping it and by damaging the shutter

Re: Leaving the list

2004-06-30 Thread Keith Whaley
That's a pretty big place! All over Mongolia? Do take care, and we look forward to your safe retutn... keith whaley Andre Langevin wrote: Goodbye dear PDMLers. I will be back in august. I'll be busy taping music and sounds in Mongolia for an independant movie but will for sure find time to

Re: M80-200 vs F70-210 ?

2004-06-30 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
The F is a variable aperture zoom, that means it is _useless_ on both MX and LX in manual mode. Presto. Take the M - it is a very good zoom. With the F, you will get _wrong_ exposure during zooming unless in auto mode. Fra

Re: M80-200 vs F70-210 ?

2004-06-30 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
AL M is easier to use with manual focus because it has only one ring and AL a good grip, but if F is substancially better optically, I'll go for I do not think that the F is substantially better. I once tried out the 80-200 (or which it was - there were several from K to M) and it was pretty

Re: Looking for 2nd hand pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 11:41:58 PM, Fred wrote: I'm looking for a second hand AF Pentax body. [snip] Would an SFX or Z70/PZ70 do the trick? Other than the freight train sound my SF-1 makes when the shutter is tripped,and the film advances,'m pretty satisfied with that one. F ...and the

Re: PAW: at long last

2004-06-30 Thread Keith Whaley
frank theriault wrote: Unfortunately, Boris, The old man and his dog are little specks on my monitor. They really aren't part of the photo in any meaningful sense, at least not for me. It's actually a pretty cool shot of the city through the trees. But the two figures on the grass neither

Re: First smc-DA14/2.8 impressions

2004-06-30 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 9:06:39 AM, Alan wrote: AC I checked their optical diagrams and they look identical. Interestingly, the AC AF Nikkor 105/2.8 macro also has the same optical diagram as the Pentax AC F/FA100/2.8 macro. You can't tell from the diagrams. They are very simplified, do not

Re: PAW: at long last

2004-06-30 Thread Keith Whaley
Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! BD My screen resolution is 1400 X 1050 on a 16 LCD. The reason I state BD that is because when I look at the pic I see One dot, another dot, BD and the city - I really can't make out the man or his dog other than BD two small blobs. Maybe a bigger image would help. Oh!

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
Wider than 28mm there's the 24/2.8 from (Kiron?) Vivitar and the 24/2.5 from Tamron. But not much else. Pentax has a strange history of focal lengths. 15mm 20mm 30mm 40mm 50mm 85mm 120mm 150mm 200mm and the rest of the odd-ball lengths to fill in the gaps. :) Collin

Re: New Epson flatbed scanners

2004-06-30 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Brian Dipert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4800 dpi for $249 USD.. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-880-4-4-194435-78649-1 == Brian Dipert Technical Editor: Mass Storage, Memory, Multimedia, PC Core Logic and Peripherals, and

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread John Whittingham
Don'r forget the Sigma 24mm/2.8 MF a fine lens IMHO. John John Whittingham Technician -- Original Message --- From: Collin Brendemuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:04:05 -0400 Subject: Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make Wider than 28mm

Re: Beautiful SF1n kit w/lens choice and Voigtlander Perkeo 120 folder

2004-06-30 Thread Hal Sandra Davis
We mage an offer and asked for an address. Please advise if we have a deal and where to send payment(SFXn entire kit). - Original Message - From: Joe Wilensky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:30 PM Subject: FS: Beautiful SF1n kit w/lens choice and

Re: Analog vs digital by Herbert Keppler

2004-06-30 Thread Mark Roberts
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% own a digital camera. John On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:47:05 -0400, Mark

Re: Frank's Hotmail

2004-06-30 Thread Mark Roberts
frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's overly aggressive anti-spam filtering or something. Whatever, quite a few friends have complained that it sometimes takes several tries to get through to me. Maybe time to change to Yahoo. If you switch to yahoo you'll soon be longing for

Re: PAW: at long last

2004-06-30 Thread Lon Williamson
I think the picture might be a lot better if the dots were closer to the trees. If you had moved up, you would have lost the trees framing the dog and man, or at least pushed them to the frame edges. Getting closer probably would not have helped. Shel Belinkoff wrote: Hello Boris ... This is a

Re: First smc-DA14/2.8 impressions

2004-06-30 Thread Mark Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a $500 used Sigma 14/3.5 because I couldn't scrape together $1300 for a new Nikkor 14/2.8. That 14/2.8 Nikkor is actually a rebadged Tamron. Hmmm. Based on the specs it COULD be Actually,

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Pål Jensen
Herb wrote: 20,000/month is the same target sales figure they had for the *istD. REPLY: Not so. The *ist D target was 5000/month. Pål

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Pål Jensen
Herb wrote: however, because of the necessity to keep the prestige of the Pentax brand name (which they feel is necessary for maintaining opto-component sales to other digital camera companies without the ability to design high quality lenses), they will do what is necessary to hold their camera

PAW: The River

2004-06-30 Thread Brian Walters
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 (when I was a bit keener about getting up early on foggy winter's mornings). It was taken not far from

RE: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
Like the K2.8/105mm, if that's an odd ball :-). Not to mention 31mm, 35mm, 43mm, 77mm, 300mm, 400mm, 500mm, 600mm, 1000mm 1200mm of course. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Collin Brendemuehl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt:

Re: Analog vs digital by Herbert Keppler

2004-06-30 Thread Steve Desjardins
What's confusing about this comparison is that film was essentially an SLR or PS choice. With digital, you have this whole class of EVF cameras like the Nikon 5700 or K-M A2 or the new 8 mp ones that appeal to serious amateurs. I also have no doubt that any GFM digital photo contest will have a

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread ernreed2
DJE said, among many other things: Wide angles wider than 28mm are rare. 20mm was either too expensive to build, too hard to design, or too extreme to sell in sufficient volume because almost nobody but the manufacturers made them. Only Sigma makes one, and that is recent. ... A Vivitar

Re: Digital camera and slave flashes (Was: Lighting for ebay sales?)

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
Very intersting, Thibouille. Nice for people without any old gear. But I allready own four classic slave flashes (Osram and Phoenix). I kind of solved my problem using af third party flash (Pentax AF280T or a Metz 32 Z-2) in the camera hotshoe. It works exacly like with a film camera - just one

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread ernreed2
DJE said, among many other things: Wide angles wider than 28mm are rare. 20mm was either too expensive to build, too hard to design, or too extreme to sell in sufficient volume because almost nobody but the manufacturers made them. Only Sigma makes one, and that is recent. ... A Vivitar

Re: wouldn't it be nice

2004-06-30 Thread Steve Desjardins
Ooh! A truly iconic representation of human society being reduced to the microcosm of circuitry. The looping wires representing the convoluted path. to the ancient biological interfaces, roughly scribbled words on plywood like the modern echo of primitive cave drawings. So moving. . . . Nice

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Steve Desjardins
I seem to remember that at least part of Pentax USA was being renamed Pentax Imaging. Has anyone else heard this?

OT - Heads up for long magazine users

2004-06-30 Thread Anthony Farr
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 URL openly.

Re: Rumors

2004-06-30 Thread Shaun Canning
Now your just teasing us all Pål 5 DA lenses, and new FA lenses as well...if only! Incidentally, when was the last FA lens introduced (other than the 'Limited' range). Cheers Shaun Pål Jensen wrote: Heres a few old rumors (from around christmas time): 1) Pentax is likely to implement in body

Re: M80-200 vs F70-210 ?

2004-06-30 Thread Joe Wilensky
Well, I haven't used variable-aperture zooms on manual cameras very often -- they are far more useful and there is less inconvenience with cameras with at least some auto exposure, because the camera would then at least adjust for the changing aperture value when zooming. But my point was that

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread graywolf
28,135, and 200 were the standard optional lenses for amateurs. The sold by the millions. Other focal lengths only sold by the thousands. It is simply where the market was in the 60's and 70's. Interestingly 85/90 tended to be European focal lengths, and 100/105 tended to be Japanese. I never

RE: Lighting for ebay sales?

2004-06-30 Thread Butch Black
Sorry I'm late to this thread. Work's been crazy and I'm a day or so behind on the digests. I concur that I wouldn't go with hot lights. The one thing I haven't seen in the threads (up to where I've read so far) is what your friend is shooting. If it's primarily small items like jewelry or

Re: OT: Space Ship One

2004-06-30 Thread Stephen Moore
IIRC, Richard Seaman was a PDML'er as recently as the Duxford airshow in July, 2003: http://www.macads.co.uk/pdml/ But alas, he's another who has gone over to The Dark Side: http://www.richard-seaman.com/Photography/index.html Regards, Stephen Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

RE: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
That makes sense. I think 135mm is often too long (in door) for candid portraits. The 105mm is more convenient to use. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 30. juni 2004 16:29 Til: [EMAIL

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread graywolf
At one time it was normal to rate the focal length to standards even though the design came out differently. For instance, the lens on my Graphic is 133mm but it is labled 135. It maybe that in their special lenses Pentax desided to simply spec them at their true focal length rather than their

Re: PAW: at long last

2004-06-30 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Steve ... That's their problem, not yours. Regardless of what approach you take, what subject(s) you present, there will be people who don't get it, don't like it, don't appreciate it, or who love what you're doing. You must work from the premise that you can't please everyone all the time,

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread graywolf
Now we are actually getting into advertising claims. The tests I have seen show the Vivitar 19mm as actually being 21mm. In fact, many lenes are only within (10% or so) to their nominal focal lengths. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJE said, among many other things: Wide angles wider than 28mm are

Re: OT: Space Ship One

2004-06-30 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Sorry to hear that! Stephen Moore wrote: IIRC, Richard Seaman was a PDML'er as recently as the Duxford airshow in July, 2003: http://www.macads.co.uk/pdml/ But alas, he's another who has gone over to The Dark Side: http://www.richard-seaman.com/Photography/index.html

RE: PAW: The River

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
Beautiful. Cropping issued can always be discussed. I bit off the buttom perhaps. But it's still very nice as it is. I'm glad I'm not the only one using (at least owning) a P50. It's brilliant, apart from the missing option to adjust ASA setting. And extremly pretty too. I like the Leica-like

Re: PAW: The River

2004-06-30 Thread Gonz
I like it. I like the mood, cliche or not. You should have put this in the PUG cliche month! I don't think the scanner did that bad of a job. It might have been interesting if you had gone a little wider, 24mm or even 20mm maybe, and move your perspective closer to the water. rg Brian

RE: Space Ship One

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
I have not followed this thread until now. The aircraft in the pictures are aircrafts from a different planet! Great stuff! Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Daniel J. Matyola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 30. juni 2004

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Leica, on many of their lenses, notes their exact focal length. Can't say for sure if it's still being done, or if it's done on all focal lengths, but if you observe the markings on the lenses, and understand their meaning, you'll see that, for example, a nominal 50mm lens may actually be a

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

2004-06-30 Thread Pål Jensen
William wrote: The 1Ds is not Pentax's traditional target market. They have never really competed there, and only had a camera in it for a short time. Pentax has always been more about very good lenses attached to middle of the raod performance bodies. REPLY: True enough but the market has

Re: Leaving the list

2004-06-30 Thread Andre Langevin
Don't miss the Pentax Digital Camera Showcase at Ulan Bator while you're in the neighborhood! Bill Any taxi driver will know where it is, hopefully... Golly, some of the folk here on the list have interesting jobs. graywolf They pay my plane, my food, etc. It's a small independant

Re: Lighting for ebay sales?

2004-06-30 Thread Gonz
Yes, she is shooting many small items. But she also sells clothing, which she puts on a mannequin. Its the larger items that are going to require a different lighting setup. I found this non-hot lighting setup, which you can buy on BH for about $150: http://tinyurl.com/2urz2 She only has a

Re: PAW: The River

2004-06-30 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Great shot, Brian. Maybe it's trite, maybe not, but, like you, I'm a sucker for those misty morning, foggy afternoon shots. There's something warm and encompassing about them. I like walking in fog and mist, the ambiance created by fog and mist, and almost any good photo that exploits the fog

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread Keith Whaley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJE said, among many other things: Wide angles wider than 28mm are rare. 20mm was either too expensive to build, too hard to design, or too extreme to sell in sufficient volume because almost nobody but the manufacturers made them. Only Sigma makes one, and that is

My website has moved...

2004-06-30 Thread Albano Garcia
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

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread graywolf
My understanding from the Pentax Rep is that has already happened. In fact, IIRC, what he said was Pentax USA (photographic stuff), Pentax Medical (edoscopes,etc), and Pentax Digital(?)(printers, etc.) have been combined into Pentax Imaging Corporation. So all the Pentax subsideraries in the US

Re: off-brand lenses they didn't make

2004-06-30 Thread Michel Carrère-Gée
Jens Bladt a écrit : Like the K2.8/105mm, if that's an odd ball :-). Not to mention 31mm, 35mm, 43mm, 77mm, 300mm, 400mm, 500mm, 600mm, 1000mm 1200mm of course. And 17mm (Super Takumar and K 4/17mm fish eye)

Re: PAW: at long last

2004-06-30 Thread graywolf
Tell that to the judge. What do you want to do? Put all the expert witnesses out of business? Yer Onner, dis photo shows de difinit's dog bitting de planif. Grin. -- Cotty wrote: On 30/6/04, graywolf, discombobulated, offered: In the past couple of weeks we have seen several photos which had

Re: PAW: at long last

2004-06-30 Thread graywolf
Translation: You need to work on it a bit. -- Steve Jolly wrote: I tried that with my last PAW - I got two confused replies from people saying they couldn't work out what the subject was, and not a single comment on the photo! :-) S On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, graywolf wrote: This brings up something

RE: PAW: The River

2004-06-30 Thread Tom C
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

RE: OT: Space Ship One

2004-06-30 Thread Tom C
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 -0400

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

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
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

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Peter J. Alling
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

Re: wouldn't it be nice

2004-06-30 Thread Peter J. Alling
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: OT - Heads up for long magazine users

2004-06-30 Thread John Francis
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 URL

Re: PAW - Man Getting a Shoe Shine

2004-06-30 Thread Anders Hultman
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: Space Ship One

2004-06-30 Thread Keith Whaley
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

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread mike wilson
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: Pentax fish-eye

2004-06-30 Thread Barry Rice
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 deep

Re: Looking for 2nd hand pentax

2004-06-30 Thread brooksdj
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 in

Re: Pentax fish-eye

2004-06-30 Thread Peter J. Alling
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

Re: OT - Heads up for long magazine users

2004-06-30 Thread Anthony Farr
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

Re: PAW: at long last

2004-06-30 Thread wendy
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 neutrality. If

RE: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Malcolm Smith
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: OT - Heads up for long magazine users

2004-06-30 Thread Anthony Farr
- 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. Or, if

Re: Space Ship One

2004-06-30 Thread Anthony Farr
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 someone

Re: M80-200 vs F70-210 ?

2004-06-30 Thread Peter J. Alling
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: wouldn't it be nice

2004-06-30 Thread William Robb
- 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? William

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Bob W
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:

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread Anthony Farr
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:

Re: Analog vs digital by Herbert Keppler

2004-06-30 Thread Peter J. Alling
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: PAW: The River

2004-06-30 Thread Peter J. Alling
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

Re: PAW: at long last

2004-06-30 Thread Shel Belinkoff
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 ...LOL). The photos I've seen you post are

Re: PAW: Julian Holding Fritz

2004-06-30 Thread Boris Liberman
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 looses

Re: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread alex wetmore
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

Re: OT: Space Ship One

2004-06-30 Thread Keith Whaley
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

Re: PAW - Something Light (Man Bus Berkeley)

2004-06-30 Thread Boris Liberman
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

Re: Paw - Only Reeds

2004-06-30 Thread Boris Liberman
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 - Only Reeds

2004-06-30 Thread Boris Liberman
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 g... Just kidding. Boris ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

My website has moved...

2004-06-30 Thread Albano Garcia
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

Something big

2004-06-30 Thread Thibs
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

Re: My website has moved...

2004-06-30 Thread Antonio Aparicio
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

Re: PAW: A boy and his dog.

2004-06-30 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
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

Af speed of the *ist D

2004-06-30 Thread Jens Bladt
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

Re: Something big

2004-06-30 Thread Kevin Waterson
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 have a price

Re: Af speed of the *ist D

2004-06-30 Thread Tim Sherburne
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)

Re: Something big

2004-06-30 Thread Tim Sherburne
One of the many interesting articles at Luminous Landscape addresses the practical obstacles when using this combination: http://luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/600mm.shtml 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: The public and Pentax

2004-06-30 Thread mike wilson
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

2004-06-30 Thread Shel Belinkoff
LOL 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:

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