Re: OT:The PDML is Dying

2004-07-16 Thread b_rubenstein
My knowledge of German is limited to subtitles in old war movies, but it only looks like what you wrote means something like "Nikon rules all". I don't think that putting that in German makes it offensive; although I do understand the inference. So no offense taken, no apologies needed. It mig

Re: New Pentax body from Cosina

2004-07-16 Thread Antonio Aparicio
Well used LXs seem to go for about that all the time on ebay, not to mention many many other film bodies. The real money of course is in the lenses, like it always has been. A. On 16 Jul 2004, at 14:52, Mark Roberts wrote: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16/7/04, John Mustarde, discombobulat

Re: Pentax is Dying?

2004-07-16 Thread Tom Reese
Joseph Tainter checked his mailbox everyday for four months for lenses that never came then wrote: "I am frustrated beyond description about being unable to buy the lenses I want. I need them soon. Why is Pentax doing this?" "I am puzzled that few on the list seem to think this is something worth

Re: SMC-FA* 200mm macro

2004-07-16 Thread Dr. Shaun Canning
Yeah, I 'm thinking about that too... Cheers Shaun John Mustarde wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:30:53 -0500, you wrote: Very happy. Can't wait to get out into the field in the next few days and really test it out. Haven't got a 67mm UV filter on it yet, so it's not going near the great outdoors y

Re: Olympus P400 Printer

2004-07-16 Thread Lon Williamson
You don't need an action. Convert one photo to B&W that has a lot of tonal range, make one curve, fiddling and printing til you reach as neutral as you think you can get, save that curve, and use it thereafter on every other photo. Making the curve may require quite a few test prints, so do a bunc

OT: photoshop question

2004-07-16 Thread Tom Reese
My SO is having a problem with Photoshop CS that she can't solve. I poked around in there a little to try to solve it but after 20 yrs of dealing with lousy software, hardware and bugs my frustration tolerance with computers is so low that I had to quit. Her problem is that after she makes her adj

RE: New Pentax body from Cosina

2004-07-16 Thread ernreed2
Kim Sherman posted: > > Apologies if the list has seen this info already. > > I just saw it on the LUG (Leica Users Group) and wanted to pass it along. > > No financial interest in Rich Pinto's business, ya da ya da > > --- > > > > Kobayashi goes "K" with the VSL43: revive those Pentax K lense

Re: New Pentax body from Cosina

2004-07-16 Thread Mark Roberts
Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 16/7/04, John Mustarde, discombobulated, offered: > >>Actually, the best bargain in a film camera would be a used PZ1p for >>around $300 - 400. > >Crikey, are people still spending this much on a film camera? I'm now working part-time at a camera store and I c

Re: PAM - Yabbi2

2004-07-16 Thread Lon Williamson
The 50's style works for me. Nice shot. On 16/7/04, Simon King, discombobulated, offered: Hi All, Our second son Josh, just learning the head control to track and smile at his 2 1/2 year old brother... http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~sking/josh/pages/bedsession01.htm I was going for a 50's style

RE: Bellows and *ist D

2004-07-16 Thread Jens Bladt
Thanks, Leon 1 mm crop. That's actually very good and mostly acceptable, isn't it. Would you say it's easier/faster than scanning the slide? >You need to remove >the K mount ring from the bellows, mount that on the camera then place >the camera and ring on the bellows. You have to do this with th

Re: OT: Smoking Mustang WAS:Smokin' E-10

2004-07-16 Thread Keith Whaley
cbwaters wrote: Yeah, sounds dumb now but I was 16, broke, and on the way to my girlfriends' house (her parents were seldom home)... kinda puts a little thing like a smoke filled car in perspective doesn't it? [smile...] Yup. keith

Re: SMC-FA* 200mm macro

2004-07-16 Thread John Mustarde
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:30:53 -0500, you wrote: >Very happy. Can't wait to get out into the field in the next few days >and really test it out. Haven't got a 67mm UV filter on it yet, so it's >not going near the great outdoors yet. Don't tempt fate I always believe! > Do yourself a favor - buy som

Re: Olympus P400 Printer

2004-07-16 Thread William Robb
Thanks Lon. Thats probably as good an answer as I am going to get. I was thinking along the same lines. Did you make an action out of it? Bill - Original Message - From: "Lon Williamson" Subject: Re: > Here's an unsophisticated approach that I use to tame one of > my printers using thi

Re: New Pentax body from Cosina

2004-07-16 Thread Keith Whaley
An excellent deal! Yes, you can get a used Pentax body for about the same price, but this is new! Folks complain when they now have another choice for fitting those K-mount lenses to? Seems to me it's nothing but a good thing... Whoever did the adv. copy did have a little problem figuring out th

optimal lens performance with extension

2004-07-16 Thread Tom Reese
I've been trying to figure out the meaning of the somewhat cryptic instructions contained in the various Pentax bellows units and extension tubes. Some of the instructions give me the impression that the focusing rings of all lenses should be set at infinity when used with extension tubes (includin

Re: New Pentax body from Cosina

2004-07-16 Thread Cotty
On 16/7/04, John Mustarde, discombobulated, offered: >Actually, the best bargain in a film camera would be a used PZ1p for >around $300 - 400. Crikey, are people still spending this much on a film camera? Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.maca

Re: New Pentax body from Cosina

2004-07-16 Thread John Mustarde
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 06:24:05 -0500, you wrote: >Kinda ugly, but plastic! >$225 buys a VERY nice ME Super, complete with CLA. >Or almost a CLA'd Super A, yeah, yeah, thats the ticket! > >Don > Yeah, but you don't get that incredible rubberized 35-70/3.5-4.8 Macro zoom, ya know... Actually

Re:

2004-07-16 Thread Lon Williamson
Here's an unsophisticated approach that I use to tame one of my printers using third party inks: I simply converted a photo to B&W, then used a curves layer to get the thing to print as neutral as possible. I saved the curve, and load it in on any picture associated with that printer and those inks

RE: Bellows and *ist D

2004-07-16 Thread Leon Altoff
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:38:22 +0200, Jens Bladt wrote: >Thanks a lot Nick and Leon. >I don't quite understand it all, mainly because I just ordered the *ist D, >but haven't got it yet. Isn't it possible to use normal TTL metering, i.e. >with a FA280T flash or a Pentax dedicated Metz flash? > >There

Re: OT - thought i might bid...

2004-07-16 Thread Cotty
On 16/7/04, Anthony Farr, discombobulated, offered: >Cotty, > >Did you happen to look at iagarengio's other auctions? Review his feedback? >Consider how long he's been an eBay member? > >With over 32,000 quids worth of gear (as of now) all closing tomorrow, I >wonder where he will be after tomorr

Re: Unspecified

2004-07-16 Thread brooksdj
> The fountain of knowledge has failed me miserably. > I have just been given an Olympus P400 dye sub printer, and have a > few questions > The colour coming off it is not quite right (no surprise), but the > profiling available in the driver seems rathe

Re: OT:The PDML is Dying

2004-07-16 Thread Anthony Farr
A couple of hours ago I wrote, > Bruce R. still lurks here as you've discovered, but we don't hear so much > Nikon uber alles as we once did. > Since, and without checking my mail to see if anyone actually has taken offence, I realised that I had unintentionally alluded to a repugnant ideology.

RE: Bellows and *ist D

2004-07-16 Thread Leon Altoff
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:35:09 +0100, Nick Clark wrote: >Works fine so long as you want to copy a section of the original. I haven't yet >worked out a lens combination to give a full 35mm frame on the APS sized sensor >(magnification 0.67). > >You also need to attach the adaptor ring to the camer

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