RE: anybody still shoot film?

2005-09-25 Thread Trevor Bailey
G'day All. I have stayed with film for the time being. The PZ-1p is super reliable even if it's hard on batteries. From the traffic on this forum about *ist D body malfunctions, I am holding off of investing in Pentax Digital SLR. I don't have the Dollars to throw at a Digital or the patience for

RE: PESO: Moon over Mer de Glace

2005-09-25 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Gasha a wonderful photo, I would love to try some MF gear one day after seeing this, I never had the opportunity ;-) greetings Markus --- Gasha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://gasha.pie-dabas.net/peso/alpi-06-moon-over-mer-de-glace.jpg Pentax 645, 55mm lens, with tripod of course Velvia

RE: PAW - Kristi

2005-09-25 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Mark I tried right now to see the photos but the links are dead Is that Cosina different from the Pentax A/M200 or the same lens under another name? greetings Markus greetings Markus -Original Message- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 24,

Pentax Wide Scope glasses

2005-09-25 Thread Markus Maurer
I just saw today an auction here in Switzerland for Pentax Wide Scope glasses. I see and hope that nobody from this international list bids on it ;-) Anybody knows that item? http://www.ricardo.ch/preview.html?url=http://img3.ricardo.ch/2005/09/28fil e=389709968count=jj___cur=1 greetings

OT: 3D Center

2005-09-25 Thread Jim Apilado
Someone asked about my post regarding the 3D Center of Art and Photography. Here's the website: http://www.3Dcenter.us/ Use to have a member of the Cascade Stereo Club who used Pentax film cameras on his specially designed bracket to take stereo slides. He was really good. Jim A.

Re: PESO - Blonde

2005-09-25 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Thanks, David ... I remember that pic from a couple of weeks ago ... :-)) Shel [Original Message] From: David Savage Here you go Shel (and anyone else), http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/0110_amber_042.htm Originally posted by Bruce Dayton on the 8th Sept.

RE: PAW - Kristi

2005-09-25 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Mark now it works :-) I specially liked plant 50 trees and vacation cabin, thanks for showing them. It's so much more enjoyable **for me** to see some pictures than reading only the stories about that digital body/K/M lens combinations. greetings Markus Oops. Here's the fix:

RE: PESO:Clown Ron Dideldum

2005-09-25 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Marnie thanks for looking and commenting. As others have mentioned too it could be an Alice Cooper double ;-) greetings Markus message dated 9/22/2005 2:05:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3748969size=lg (164KB)

WTB-Pentax F 1.7x Converter

2005-09-25 Thread Jay Taylor
If anyone in the PDML has an extra F 1.7x Converter or one (or know of a source) not being used I would like to buy it from you. Thanks, JayT

Re: Illustrator CS vs Painter IX

2005-09-25 Thread François Colou
Illustrator uses tablet pressure for paint variations. It is not as sophisticated as Painter or Photoshop's use of the tablet. Anyway i have a friend who draws for his work with Illustrator. His style is close to the ligne claire from Hergé. No pencil texture or paper texture here. I

Re: PESO: Moon over Mer de Glace

2005-09-25 Thread Gasha
Thanks all, If you have seen Forrest Gump The world will never be the same once you seen it through viewfinder of MF camera :) Gasha Markus Maurer wrote: Hi Gasha a wonderful photo, I would love to try some MF gear one day after seeing this, I never had the opportunity ;-) greetings

Re: DS Noise

2005-09-25 Thread Rob Studdert
On 24 Sep 2005 at 20:00, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Are you saying that this is normal noise, or that the pix don't look noisy to you? If this is normal, then I must admit to some disappointment. Yes pretty normal for default settings in a 1:1 crop, it's easy enough to eliminate noise completely

Re: PAW: People Portraits 2005 #38 - GDG

2005-09-25 Thread Cotty
On 25/9/05, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: I am sorry, I am late... The amount of list traffic past week has been enormous ;-). No its NOT this is NONESENSE. No, if you don't like my posts for personal reasons then just delete them please. I am not going to stop posting or post

Re: PESO - Corporate America

2005-09-25 Thread Cotty
On 24/9/05, Tom C, discombobulated, unleashed: I give you: Corporate America. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3753935 All criticisms welcome. :) Hey *nice* technique ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: Peso: Pictures from a Vacation IV

2005-09-25 Thread Cotty
On 24/9/05, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: Another snapshot, this is a rock in Wilson Creek that reminded me of a hippopotamus http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/peso/vacation/IMGP9216.html I would have said elephant, Indian (bonier head ;-) Like it. Cheers, Cotty

Re: Published

2005-09-25 Thread Jens Bladt
Well done, Dario, It's nice with the visible spotlights, the smoke/steam and the silhuette figures. Congrats Jens Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Dario Bonazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 24. september 2005 14:19 Til:

Re: GESO: San Francisco Love Parade

2005-09-25 Thread Cotty
On 24/9/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: Mike Levy's in town so we got together for brunch this morning. Turns out the SF Love Parade was starting off two blocks from his apartment. Here's a contact sheet: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/SFLP20050924/ Nearly all taken

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread DagT
If that´t the game you want to play I´d like to see you remake any of Cartier-Bressons pictures with your auto-photography cameras, or Capa, or Ernst Haas, or Mapplethorpe, or Sally Mann, or +++. OK, so you have found your niche were your technology can help you sell some pictures, but do

Re: OT: Survived Katrina, Survived Rita

2005-09-25 Thread Cotty
On 24/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed: Hey Gang, We had a long backroads trip out of Lake Charles before the storm, but we all made it out. I have not been able to return yet; it might even be Monday before Lake Charles will let anyone back in. Great to hear it Sid. Hope

Re: Temporarily enabled with 2.8/70-200mm

2005-09-25 Thread Jostein
Why not count the last 50 years! And why not just limit the math to K-mount and compatible lenses? 95% or more will have an aperturering. (Counting all point and shoots, video lenses, security cameras etc. is ridiculous in the present context) Very true. However, the Canon EOS lenses does

Re: Temporarily enabled with 2.8/70-200mm

2005-09-25 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! Very true. However, the Canon EOS lenses does not have an aperture ring, and neither does many nikon lenses. I don't know exactly why C and N have eliminated them, but it could be a sign in time for the future of the K-mount. Personally, I don't miss the aperture ring much. My first

Re: Goofy Flashing Flash Arrow in DS

2005-09-25 Thread David Mann
On Sep 24, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Cotty wrote: PS I have to say, I find flashing lights annoying as well. Shame the pentaprism can't be removed, you could access the annoyance immediately Anything can be removed... it's putting it back together that's difficult. - Dave

Re: GESO - ITV @ 50

2005-09-25 Thread David Mann
On Sep 24, 2005, at 7:40 PM, Cotty wrote: You haven't seen the half of it. It's become a tradition over the past 16 years that people send him ties - there are literally hundreds in his dressing room. Little old ladies and that sort of thing I might try sending some new clothes to our

Re: OT: Illustrator CS vs Painter IX

2005-09-25 Thread David Mann
On Sep 25, 2005, at 3:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a Wacom Intous3 9x12 Tablet. You lucky devil. I have that same model and it's fantastic. I didn't think I'd use the buttons and touch strips but they're actually very useful once they've been set up with some of your

Re: *ist-D raw files compressed: results

2005-09-25 Thread David Mann
On Sep 25, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: There's no question in my mind: all original files get archived unless it's truly junk - OOF, blurry, [...] Frank, are you listening? ;) - Dave (sorry, couldn't resist)

Re: 540FGZ announcement

2005-09-25 Thread David Mann
On Sep 25, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Gautam Sarup wrote: I've had plastics break several times (on cameras and other things.) You go and buy something worth several hundred dollars and it's working is compromised by a flimsy plastic part. For want of a nail the battle was lost. To be honest I'd

Re: anybody still shoot film?

2005-09-25 Thread David Mann
On Sep 24, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Peter Jordan wrote: Call me a luddite if you will, but every time I see a bright, sharp set of Velvia trannys from my LX or 645 I am convinced that as far as image quality goes, film still rules. I know how you feel (except the Velvia thing). Nothing beats

Re: anybody still shoot film?

2005-09-25 Thread David Mann
On Sep 25, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: I am choking at the possibility of scanning once. You are planning to scan twice? I'm on my third round of some stuff. My first film scanner was an Agfa Arcus 1200 which goes up to 1200ppi. I wanted something affordable that could

Re: PESO: Moon over Mer de Glace

2005-09-25 Thread David Mann
That is very nice. I really like the little splashes of red in several places - I'm a sucker for little details like that. The slide must be absolutely jaw-dropping. Measure your biggest wall and print it to fit. BTW have you see Galen Rowell's work? - Dave On Sep 25, 2005, at 12:38 AM,

Re: PESO - Blonde

2005-09-25 Thread Paul Stenquist
That's the version I like. My comments about excessive contrast and burned highlights were in reference to someone's remake of this image. Love this one. Paul On Sep 25, 2005, at 1:35 AM, David Savage wrote: Here you go Shel (and anyone else),

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread John Forbes
What was that old saying about a bad workman? John On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:50:02 +0100, DagT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that´t the game you want to play I´d like to see you remake any of Cartier-Bressons pictures with your auto-photography cameras, or Capa, or Ernst Haas, or Mapplethorpe,

Re: Sensors That Shift?

2005-09-25 Thread John Forbes
Do please take a leaf out of your own book and read other people's posts before commenting on them. I said supply is irrelevant IF there is no demand. This is a general observation. I did not say that there was no demand whatsoever for this particular type of lens; the point was that

GESO - Great North Run

2005-09-25 Thread mike wilson
This year's GNR half marathon was the 25th and had 50,000 entrants. As a member of the British Red Cross, I am part of the team organising first aid cover. This year, I was also asked to do some photography. Mostly, it was mug shots of the various teams but I had some time to cover the work

Re: Goofy Flashing Flash Arrow in DS

2005-09-25 Thread mike wilson
Mark Roberts wrote: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Savage wrote: Wouldn't it be more a matter of disconnecting the particular connection to the LCD in the viewfinder? It's likely to be a surface mount item these days. And the display will consist of a single unit LED

Re: Temporarily enabled with 2.8/70-200mm

2005-09-25 Thread John Forbes
If you say most camera lenses on earth, you must assume that that is what people will think you mean. Going back 50 years we have cameras like the Brownie and the Instamatic. Not an aperture ring in sight. Going back further, the numbers are so tiny as to be irrelevant. Over any period

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread DagT
He blames his tools .-) At least, that´s what we say in Norway. DagT Den 25. sep. 2005 kl. 13.55 skrev John Forbes: What was that old saying about a bad workman? John On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:50:02 +0100, DagT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that´t the game you want to play I´d like to see you

Re: Peso: Pictures from a Vacation IV

2005-09-25 Thread John Forbes
I think you do these water pictures rather well, Bill. Fast enough to freeze much of the action, but slow enough for some of the fast-moving water to be blurred. It's a fine line you tread. John On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:17:40 +0100, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original

Re: Goofy Flashing Flash Arrow in DS

2005-09-25 Thread mike wilson
David Savage wrote: Thanks Mike Mark. Electronics really isn't my thing. I know just enough to be dangerous :-) Dave I would be very careful about crediting me with any more capability than yourself.. 8-)) On 9/24/05, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike wilson [EMAIL

Re: anybody still shoot film?

2005-09-25 Thread John Forbes
Trevor, The majority of people on this list would now appear to be shooting digital, so most reports of camera malfunctions will concern digitals. Furthermore, digital malfunctions are newsworthy, whilst film camera malfunctions are not. I bet we've heard from every DSLR-owner whose

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread John Forbes
Actually, I think we are being a bit hard on Herb, here. There's no merit in choosing the wrong tools for a job, and most good workmen take pride in having a set of good tools. Herb needs IS, better AF, and a big buffer. He knows this, and we know this. Although Pentax may come out with

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Rob Studdert
On 25 Sep 2005 at 12:55, John Forbes wrote: What was that old saying about a bad workman? ...ALWAYS blames his tools. However it would be foolish not to appreciate that good tools in the hands of a skilled workman generally lead to higher productivity and quality of output. IOW No one can do

Re: printers

2005-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I've said before, ultimate archival quality isn't necessarily my topmost priority. BW rendering to print is. Have you tried the Harrington quad-tone RIP for Epson printers? It's got an excellent reputation for great BW (and is only $50.00). I just

Re: GESO - Great North Run

2005-09-25 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, mike wilson wrote: Three pictures, nothing gruesome. Except for the photography 8-) http://home.fotocommunity.de/mike.a.wilson/index.php?id=529253g=150496 Nice pictures, but so much grain! Kostas

Re: SV: PAW - Kristi

2005-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice stuff. I love 043, 046, and 099. Beautiful. Thanks! I think I'm going to try a BW conversion on 099 On Sep 24, 2005, at 3:37 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/pages/loire001.htm

Re: PAW - Kristi

2005-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark now it works :-) I specially liked plant 50 trees and vacation cabin, thanks for showing them. It's so much more enjoyable **for me** to see some pictures than reading only the stories about that digital body/K/M lens combinations. Glad you liked

RE: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Don Sanderson
Hi Rob, welcome back! I no longer own crappy tools, I feel they pretty much guarantee a crappy job. However, that mortise job can be done as well with a good, sharp $10.00 chisel or a $1000.00 mortise router setup. For me the chisel makes more sense, it takes too long to learn and setup the

Re: anybody still shoot film?

2005-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There comes a point in resolution when scanning film that all you're doing is resolving more emulsion defects too. At 2820ppi, I can see the grain clearly in ASA 100 film. Most of the benefit from 3000 ppi upwards is in grain imaging, rather than

PESO: Some from the last horse show Saturday

2005-09-25 Thread brooksdj
Hi gang. Warning, no horses in this folder.LOL The raptor bird demo people were back at the Tournamet of Champions yesterday and i took a few more action shots. They were set up in a different spot from last year, and it was bad for angles/sun, but i managed a few, what i think, are good ones.

RE: anybody still shoot film?

2005-09-25 Thread Malcolm Smith
John Forbes wrote: The majority of people on this list would now appear to be shooting digital, so most reports of camera malfunctions will concern digitals. To be honest, I've been stunned at how quickly this list went from predominantly film users to digital. Despite happily waiting for

Re: 3D Center

2005-09-25 Thread Tom Reese
Jim Apilado wrote: Someone asked about my post regarding the 3D Center of Art and Photography. Here's the website: http://www.3Dcenter.us/ Use to have a member of the Cascade Stereo Club who used Pentax film cameras on his specially designed bracket to take stereo slides. He was really

PAW: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread frank theriault
I figured I should try to get some Pentax content in my PAWs: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3755687size=lg Comments are always welcome. Thanks! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Tom Reese
DagT wrote: If that´t the game you want to play I´d like to see you remake any of Cartier-Bressons pictures with your auto-photography cameras, or Capa, or Ernst Haas, or Mapplethorpe, or Sally Mann, or +++. OK, so you have found your niche were your technology can help you sell some

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25 Sep 2005 at 12:55, John Forbes wrote: What was that old saying about a bad workman? ...ALWAYS blames his tools. However it would be foolish not to appreciate that good tools in the hands of a skilled workman generally lead to higher productivity

Re: Goofy Flashing Flash Arrow in DS

2005-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Roberts wrote: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Savage wrote: Wouldn't it be more a matter of disconnecting the particular connection to the LCD in the viewfinder? It's likely to be a surface mount item these days. And the display will

Re: PAW: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread Mark Roberts
frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured I should try to get some Pentax content in my PAWs: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3755687size=lg Frank, you're a friggin' ARTIST! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com

RE: Irrelevant Poll: What do you WANT in a digital camera?

2005-09-25 Thread Tim Øsleby
My dream Pentax DSLR? - Inbody IS, or better useable ISO. - Weather proof body. - Faster/better AF. - Customable Fn buttons. - Upgradeable buffer. - Better resolution, with same/better noise. FF or APS or a new format. The ergonomics of the Ds, with two wheels. AA batteries. My main concern

RE: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread Don Sanderson
Nice one Frank, dark enough on my monitor to be more an abstract than a portrait. That would make a very nice, though a little eerie, wall print. That's one skinny dancer! ;-) Don -Original Message- From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 8:27

Re: DS Noise

2005-09-25 Thread Cory Papenfuss
There seems to be a fair amount of noise in the pix generated by my DS. Here are two examples - each 100% crops - taken directly from unmanipulated PEF files. I've noticed this since the very first pix I took. http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/bmw_noise.jpg

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Rob Studdert
On 25 Sep 2005 at 9:42, Mark Roberts wrote: One of the reasons I like doing the occasional motorsports shoot is to prove (to myself as much as anyone else) what can be done with my gear. I'm sure I'd have a blast with a 1D-II and 600/4 but I got plenty of publishable photos with my ist-D,

Re: GESO: San Francisco Love Parade

2005-09-25 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sep 25, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Cotty wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/SFLP20050924/ What is a Love Parade, Godders? I have a good idea, but curious as to the history. I haven't a clue, first time I ever heard of it. However, there were lots of attractive boys and girls of all

Re: Temporarily enabled with 2.8/70-200mm

2005-09-25 Thread Tom Reese
Jostein wrote: ...the Canon EOS lenses does not have an aperture ring, and neither does many nikon lenses. I don't know exactly why C and N have eliminated them, but it could be a sign in time for the future of the K-mount. I don't know why either (for sure) but I suspect that it was a cost

Re: 540FGZ announcement

2005-09-25 Thread Tom Reese
David Mann wrote: To be honest I'd rather the flash broke than the shoe on the camera. It should be a deliberate weak point in the design, but I'd also want the flash to be cheap to repair in that situation. I agree. I replaced the shoe on an old Vivitar 285 flash and it was a 15 minute job.

WTB: rangefinder ?

2005-09-25 Thread Michael Spivak
I'm looking to get some Canonet 17QL GII to play with Does anybody have one to sell ? Looking for one in a good estetc condition with working and accurate light meter and clean lens. Thanks in advance PS: can someone advice any other good,small,sharp, F/1.7 rangefinder LIKE the canonet WITH a

Re: Illustrator CS vs Painter IX

2005-09-25 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/24/2005 4:32:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have 3 or 4 versions of each. for ordinary photographic image manipulation that most people do here, Painter is well behind what Photoshop can do, while painterly manipulation is what Painter is all

Re: printers

2005-09-25 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sep 25, 2005, at 6:13 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: As I've said before, ultimate archival quality isn't necessarily my topmost priority. BW rendering to print is. Have you tried the Harrington quad-tone RIP for Epson printers? It's got an excellent reputation for great BW (and is only

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Tom Reese
Don Sanderson wrote: I no longer own crappy tools, I feel they pretty much guarantee a crappy job. However, that mortise job can be done as well with a good, sharp $10.00 chisel or a $1000.00 mortise router setup. For me the chisel makes more sense, it takes too long to learn and setup the

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/25/2005 5:58:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Herb needs IS, better AF, and a big buffer. He knows this, and we know this. Although Pentax may come out with a camera that includes all three, it may not be for a while, and it is unlikely to be

Re: GESO - Great North Run

2005-09-25 Thread mike wilson
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, mike wilson wrote: Three pictures, nothing gruesome. Except for the photography 8-) http://home.fotocommunity.de/mike.a.wilson/index.php?id=529253g=150496 Nice pictures, but so much grain! Partly due to the film (800ASA although I could

Re: DS Noise

2005-09-25 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sep 25, 2005, at 6:43 AM, Cory Papenfuss wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/bmw_noise.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/pic_noise.jpg My experience has been that the -DS tends to underexpose by about to 1 stop in typical compositions if left to its own decision.

Re: Peso: Pictures from a Vacation IV

2005-09-25 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/24/2005 6:09:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another snapshot, this is a rock in Wilson Creek that reminded me of a hippopotamus http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/peso/vacation/IMGP9216.html William Robb == That's nice. Good water

Re: WTB: rangefinder ?

2005-09-25 Thread Scott Loveless
These turn up on EBay frequently. The 1.7 models usually fetch a price I think is way too high. You might also consider a Yashica Electro 35 GSN. On 9/25/05, Michael Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to get some Canonet 17QL GII to play with Does anybody have one to sell ?

RE: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Don Sanderson
Actually it does, I'm mortising Oak and you Elm. You need a Helluva lot better chisel! ;-) Actually you're right, and I agree. I haven't been following the 100s of posts going around lately, no time. I was simply making the point that sometimes the best isn't always the right choice for me. And

Re: GESO: San Francisco Love Parade

2005-09-25 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/25/2005 6:53:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sep 25, 2005, at 1:46 AM, Cotty wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/SFLP20050924/ What is a Love Parade, Godders? I have a good idea, but curious as to the history. I haven't a clue, first

GESO: CNE Airshow 2005

2005-09-25 Thread frank theriault
Right now there are only 3 in the gallery; I might scan a few more later today, but these were the best. The Snowbirds are Canada's military aerobatic team. They fly 40 year old CL44 trainers, which have a nasty habit of plummetting from the sky without notice, but mostly that only seems to

RE: rangefinder ?

2005-09-25 Thread Don Sanderson
Michael, I'm a bit of a collector of these, and comparable models from Olympus, Minolta, Yashica and Canon. I have several, including some rather top end models. If interested contact me off list with some details on what exactly you're looking for. Don -Original Message- From: Michael

Re: GESO: San Francisco Love Parade

2005-09-25 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sep 25, 2005, at 7:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/SFLP20050924/ Quite possibly it's a revival of a parade from the 60's. Sounds right. Thanks Marnie, Hadn't thought of that at all. Whoa, lots of pics. Too many to absorb. Off-hand, 29, 50, 55 look

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/25/2005 7:26:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This analogy doesn't work. The wood is always available to the carpenter and it doesn't move. Nature photographers might have to wait three hours for an opportunity to get the shot. When it finally

Re: GESO - Great North Run

2005-09-25 Thread Cotty
On 25/9/05, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: This year's GNR half marathon was the 25th and had 50,000 entrants. As a member of the British Red Cross, I am part of the team organising first aid cover. This year, I was also asked to do some photography. Mostly, it was mug shots of the

Re: PAW: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread frank theriault
On 9/25/05, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank, you're a friggin' ARTIST! BAH!! LOL Well, thanks, Mark, as I'm sure you intended that as a compliment. g But, seriously, I've been doing some thinking about that very subject recently (I think it was after the discussion of my latest

Re: GESO - Great North Run

2005-09-25 Thread frank theriault
On 9/25/05, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well done Mike. Number 3 does it for me :-) Indeed, number three's the best of a very good gallery. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson

RE: Gear transportation

2005-09-25 Thread Manuel Magalhães
Thanks Keith for the humorous point of view, :-) Manuel -Mensagem original- De: keith_w [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: sábado, 24 de Setembro de 2005 19:01 Para: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Assunto: Re: Gear transportation Manuel Magalhães wrote: When I go out to take some pictures,

Re: PAW: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/25/2005 6:28:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I figured I should try to get some Pentax content in my PAWs: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3755687size=lg Comments are always welcome. Thanks! cheers, frank Sure, frank, you don't

RE: Gear transportation

2005-09-25 Thread Manuel Magalhães
Thanks Dave, I am going to seek a way to get a Crumpler here in Portugal. Manuel -Mensagem original- De: David Savage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: sábado, 24 de Setembro de 2005 19:07 Para: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Assunto: Re: Gear transportation The bag I use when I want to

Re: GESO: San Francisco Love Parade

2005-09-25 Thread frank theriault
On 9/24/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Levy's in town so we got together for brunch this morning. Turns out the SF Love Parade was starting off two blocks from his apartment. Here's a contact sheet: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/SFLP20050924/ Nearly all taken with

RE: Gear transportation

2005-09-25 Thread Manuel Magalhães
Thanks Paul. BTW, What's the reference f your Lowepro soft bag? Manuel -Mensagem original- De: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: sábado, 24 de Setembro de 2005 23:48 Para: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Assunto: Re: Gear transportation My main case is a Pelican 1550. It holds

RE: Gear transportation

2005-09-25 Thread Manuel Magalhães
Thanks Godfrey, I'll have to wait till Chrismas for the Billingham, till there... Manuel -Mensagem original- De: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: domingo, 25 de Setembro de 2005 6:15 Para: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Assunto: Re: Gear transportation I have more bags

Re: PAW: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread Cotty
On 25/9/05, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: I figured I should try to get some Pentax content in my PAWs: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3755687size=lg Comments are always welcome. Thanks! Haunting, ethereal, slightly spooky. Interesting. Cheers, Cotty

Re: GESO - Great North Run

2005-09-25 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/25/2005 5:18:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This year's GNR half marathon was the 25th and had 50,000 entrants. As a member of the British Red Cross, I am part of the team organising first aid cover. This year, I was also asked to do some

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread DagT
Den 25. sep. 2005 kl. 16.31 skrev Tom Reese: Don Sanderson wrote: I no longer own crappy tools, I feel they pretty much guarantee a crappy job. However, that mortise job can be done as well with a good, sharp $10.00 chisel or a $1000.00 mortise router setup. For me the chisel makes more

Re: DS Noise

2005-09-25 Thread Shel Belinkoff
A something worth noting. Very glad you mentioned this. Shel [Original Message] From: Godfrey DiGiorgi http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/bmw_noise.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/pic_noise.jpg The DS exposure calibrations are set for the in-camera JPEG

Re: Peso: Pictures from a Vacation IV

2005-09-25 Thread frank theriault
On 9/24/05, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another snapshot, this is a rock in Wilson Creek that reminded me of a hippopotamus http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/peso/vacation/IMGP9216.html Cool shot. It does rather have a hippo-like feel to it, doesn't it? As John said, the

Re: DS Noise

2005-09-25 Thread Juan Buhler
Shel, you might want to try noise ninja or some PS filter of that sort (google to get an url) They do an excellent job of getting rid of noise in digital images. j -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog at http://photoblog.jbuhler.com

RE: PAW: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Not bad, Frank ;-)) Shel [Original Message] From: frank theriault http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3755687size=lg

Re: anybody still shoot film?

2005-09-25 Thread frank theriault
On 9/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still shootin' film, and nothing but. Oh I beg to differ Knarf, I personally saw you burn some pixels @ GFM. Oh yeah... Forgot about that. Well, that was with a borrowed camera, so it doesn't count, does it? vbg I suppose, to be

Re: anybody still shoot film?

2005-09-25 Thread frank theriault
On 9/24/05, Tom Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you were female I'd marry you. If you were a female, I'd run real fast in the other direction. -frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson

Re: PAW: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread Paul Stenquist
Fascinating. Interesting light, nicely composed. Good work. Paul On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured I should try to get some Pentax content in my PAWs: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3755687size=lg Frank, you're

Re: How Pentax Could Survive

2005-09-25 Thread Tom Reese
The good photographer needs to know his subject, as well as his tool, and the former is the most important. That´s why I don´t like indications that a good tool is all you need. A good photographer may get better pictures with less equipment, because he knows how to use the limitations

Re: PAW: A Dancer's Arms

2005-09-25 Thread Michael Spivak
WOW ! it loks very expressive ! Michael On 9/25/05, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fascinating. Interesting light, nicely composed. Good work. Paul On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figured I should try to get some

Re: PAW - Kristi

2005-09-25 Thread P. J. Alling
The M lens was made in the days before massive re-badging. I expect that it's a different lens. Markus Maurer wrote: Hi Mark I tried right now to see the photos but the links are dead Is that Cosina different from the Pentax A/M200 or the same lens under another name? greetings Markus

Re: DS Noise

2005-09-25 Thread Paul Stenquist
I believe Shel uses PSCS, which shows the histogram before, during, and after conversion modifications. The BMW shot wasn't underexposed overall. In fact the wheels were close to maximum highlight. But this crop comes from the shadowed rear panel. Paul On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Cory

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