Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b/? action=viewcurrent=Hailey_BW.jpg I know nothing about these things, but the conversion looks okay to me. Maybe it could use a bit more punch... I think i submitted the colour version last

Lunch!

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Taken this Monday on one of my shoots for the Nature Guides: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/images/fall2_22.jpg ist-D, F100/2.8 Macro, ISO 100 -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com

Re: Norcal PDML meet - SF

2005-10-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
We might take a page from the workshop book... - Each of us define to some degree what we're considering as our day's subject idea... yes, actually write it down. - Shoot 50-100 exposures. - Put them together as thumbnails without editing in a proof sheet and study them together

Re: Lunch!

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taken this Monday on one of my shoots for the Nature Guides: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/images/fall2_22.jpg ist-D, F100/2.8 Macro, ISO 100 erm, make that ISO 400... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com

Re: Setting Up a Web Site

2005-10-05 Thread Mark Roberts
Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have 250 Mb for my site. There's no webshop, but there are sometimes over a 100 PUG shots waiting for publication at komkon, and a database to hold the information about each image. I'm using over 100 Mb at the moment, but I have a lot on line besides

Re: Chilly PESO

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
That is a lovely view... may be heading to the area this winter!!! Tom C. From: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Chilly PESO Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 21:04:08 -0400 i don't have a picture of Tangle Falls that i really

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
So they didn't want to, unfortunately. Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: P. J. Alling wrote on 05.10.05 9:43: Pentax could do that, if they wanted to. They did. At least in patent filed a few years ago. I have even made a PDF from that patent, we called it KAF3 mount. It used current

Re: Chilly PESO

2005-10-05 Thread Herb Chong
it was a bit sad to be there that day. they were holding a memorial service for a guy that had fallen in about a week earlier. he apparently wanted to get a better view and went over the fence and didn't stop. they hadn't found the body yet. i don't know if they ever did. several dozen people

Re: PESO Unintentional photos from my recent trip

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Interesting photos, I'm not sure what I think of them, maybe when I sleep on it. (Though it seems you're leaning to the right these days.) Rob Studdert wrote: It's been a long time between PESOs for me but here are three pics from my recent trip:

RE: pentax manuals scans

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
Sort of on-topic... I was surprised recently when I went to the Nikon site hoping to download a .pdf for an LS-9000 so I could read about it. They seem to charge for all their manuals and want to mail a paper one... or maybe I just couldn't find it... If they don't let people or potential

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Must be your batteries, I find that 2500mAh AA NiMH cells equalize the weight quite nicely. mike wilson wrote: From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/05 Wed AM 04:59:16 GMT To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax... On 5 Oct 2005 at 6:48,

RE: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread Gautam Sarup
frank theriault wrote: Olympus, Minolta had too many syllables. What's left? Most PJ's still used Nikon, as Canon really hadn't made it's big impact yet, and Pentax wasn't considered a pro camera, so of those two syllable manufacturers, Nikon won. What about Leica, Frank? G GS

Re: Chilly PESO

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
When we were there we walked down below the falls and there was a huge display of inukshuks that had been built... must have covered 30 - 40 square yards. Very eerrie as we didn't know what they were at the time... Tom C. From: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: OT - Konolta to cease digi sales in Canada

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Well I was speaking Photographically, (their Heiland division), the rest of the company was doing quite well actually... David Mann wrote: On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:05 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Actually the Honeywell deal, was the other way around. Pentax wanted to get control of their own

Re: Setting Up a Web Site

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
Thanks... O.K I'll let my wife know... :) Tom C. From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Setting Up a Web Site Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Tom, you're one of those who gets it. Jack --- Tom C [EMAIL

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
It's like the * in *ist, it can mean anything you want it to, as long as it begins with P... Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: Krisjanis Linkevics wrote on 05.10.05 12:08: I've got really long fingers plus really large feet and no it doesn't :) I wish it would, though :), although my SO says

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Mishka Subject: Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax... Really? They had interchagable prisms and screens? pentax had interchangeble finders in their very first asahiflex. so had russian zenit. apparently f100 and f6 don't. so? The comparison I

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
P*ist? Tom C. From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax... Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:41:22 -0400 It's like the * in *ist, it can mean anything you want it to, as long as it begins

Re: OT - Konolta to cease digi sales in Canada

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
There's no problem in human relations that can't be solved by the proper application of high explosives. Tom Reese wrote: William Robb wrote: You can solve a lot of problems with a chainsaw. I suppose so but I think dynamite is a more elegant solution. Tom Reese -- When

Re: PESO: Pictures from a Vacation VIII

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Must be tough on your lap... William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling Subject: Re: PESO: Pictures from a Vacation VIII You can't really get the scale of the Dog from this, looks like my Cocker with a much smaller stick... (He only Thinks he's a Rottweiler ).

Re: Setting Up a Web Site

2005-10-05 Thread Jack Davis
No problem. Enjoy! LOL Jack --- Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks... O.K I'll let my wife know... :) Tom C. From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Setting Up a Web Site Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005

Re: OT: Chilly PESO

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
frank theriault wrote: On 10/5/05, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Taken around the Athabasca Falls area of Jasper National Park in Alberta. As a young bloke who had only ever seen ice from the freezer, this spun me right out. (Truth be told, it still spins me out :-).

Re: Chilly PESO

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
Tom C. Herb, I'll tell ya. I was at Mt. Rainier NP last week... I was on a rock/stone bridge at a waterfall. The shot necessitated that I get up on the side of the bridge so I could shoot down. So I hoisted the Bogen tripod-mounted *ist D up on to the side of it and stepped up about 2

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread Christian
- Original Message - From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] The comparison I was making was between the top end Pentax body and the top end Nikon body, snip 1773, or thereabouts. Camera obscura? Christian

Re: Chilly PESO

2005-10-05 Thread Herb Chong
there is a place above Kaaterskill Falls that is about 180ft above the rock. about one person a year dies falling over the edge. i have taken a few pictures from just a few feet back of the ledge. there isn't any kind of rail. the best view, luckily, is from well off to the side, but it's still

Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds

2005-10-05 Thread Christian
- Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/10/05, Christian, discombobulated, unleashed: http://photography.skofteland.net/displayimage.php?album=2pos=0 Never seen that before ;-) Come on mate, where's The Cormorant Times ? There's prolly a few who haven't seen it

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Christian Subject: Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax... Camera obscura? pardon my typo. William Robb

Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds

2005-10-05 Thread Christian
- Original Message - From: Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Christian pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 6:23 PM Subject: Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds All three shots are well done. The first is most interesting to me as the bird seems to be going

Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds

2005-10-05 Thread Christian
- Original Message - From: Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:18 PM Subject: Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds Some more really good shots Christian. Good subjects, light, exposures. Thanks, Ken! Just wondering -

Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds

2005-10-05 Thread Christian
- Original Message - From: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:46 PM Subject: Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds Art Morris is the first well known photographer i know of who did this. he may have started all of this. it's

Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds

2005-10-05 Thread Christian
- Original Message - From: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:48 PM Subject: Re: Cape May report and 3 more birds Christian learned that equipment matters. the lens needs support just so that you can take more than a couple

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Pentax was the choice of newspaper sports photographers. Small, light, reliable, recommended to me by my first photo editor as being a lot easier to drag around with a couple of lenses than a Nikon F. frank theriault wrote: On 10/5/05, Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... Makes me

Re: GESO: Fall in the Adirondacks

2005-10-05 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! last weekend in the Adirondacks was a little early for the fall colors this year, and what there was seemed much duller than usual. from a distance, it all looks summer green mixed in with lots of brown. only when you get closer are the other colors easily distinguishable. the birches,

Re: 50 years of photojournalism

2005-10-05 Thread David Mann
I'm having trouble working out why I prefer PJ photos in black white. Does anyone else have this preference? - Dave On Oct 6, 2005, at 12:46 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/ in_pictures_50_years_of_photojournalism/html/1.stm -- Mark Roberts

Re: cultural image perception

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
I've seen it claimed that the Chinese actually invented the fork, just never adopted it as a table implement. Chopsticks worked well enough. Tom C wrote: It may explain why they invented chopsticks... lack of focus... whereas the western world has a no-nonsense fork, knife, and spoon... stab

Re: cultural image perception

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
I know the popular story regarding chopsticks being an extension of the fingers... Really though, I just can't understand why a culture that used shovels to move dirt efficiently couldn't relate that to the human anatomy... I mean, if you want to dig a hole, do you go get two poles and

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
The early to mid '70's were the heyday of the M bodies, which lead the the plethora of M lenses we still see floating around on the used market. By the late '70's early '80's Pentax had a lot of cameras that didn't measure up to their competition or Pentax glass. William Robb wrote: -

Re: Pentax Future? What's next for Pentax...

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Damn off by about a decade. I've got to read these things before I post them. P. J. Alling wrote: The early to mid '70's were the heyday of the M bodies, which lead the the plethora of M lenses we still see floating around on the used market. By the late '70's early '80's Pentax had a lot

Re: OT: Lighting Advice Needed

2005-10-05 Thread Bob Sullivan
David, No practical experience here as the window light in Chicago has been fine for me with the occasional reflector. Still, here are some thoughts... 1) I don't know why 500 watts vs 250 should make a difference. Buy her some faster film. 2) Dimmers will come with a wattage rating. I can't

Re: Fall in the Adirondacks

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
At a price well above the *ist-D... Herb Chong wrote: it's in another class well above the *istD. instant reaction to anything i tell it. fast in every respect when needed. exposure was perfect for just about every shot without any manual intervention. focus didn't wander nearly as much as

Re: OT: Chilly PESO

2005-10-05 Thread David Mann
On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:13 AM, frank theriault wrote: But, they wouldn't let me take it on with me, as I could use it as a bludgeon. I said that a pen could be a weapon, too, but that didn't sway them (and indeed, it ~was~ a fallacious argument on my part g). Pretty soon we'll all be

Re: Setting Up a Web Site

2005-10-05 Thread David Mann
On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Cotty wrote: or put a jpeg with the email address on, or a clickable link that opens an email app? That's what I do. Works well. Easy to harvest from the mailto: URL in the page source. I tend to slightly obfuscate email links by using #064; instead of @ - I

Re: Setting Up a Web Site

2005-10-05 Thread David Mann
On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: First, about how much space are you using, or do you think you'd need, to continue posting pix and doing a little e-commerce? I'm using just short of 6Mb, 5Mb of which is the photo gallery which I need to fill out a bit more. There are

Re: cultural image perception

2005-10-05 Thread P. J. Alling
They did use the spoon... Tom C wrote: I know the popular story regarding chopsticks being an extension of the fingers... Really though, I just can't understand why a culture that used shovels to move dirt efficiently couldn't relate that to the human anatomy... I mean, if you want to dig a

Re: Setting Up a Web Site

2005-10-05 Thread Juan Buhler
Hi Shel, Coincidentally, I spent some time today setting up a shopping cart and payment method through Paypal for pictures in my photoblog: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com (check the buy link below the image--hopefully it is not too crass to have that there.) My web host (webstrikesolutions.com)

PESO - Rainy Day on Polychrome Pass

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
Taken this summer in Denali NP, Alaska. *ist D and Zenitar 16 f/2.8, RAW Not exactly sure why I like it, maybe perspective or muted tones... but putting it up for... http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3647626 Thanks for comments and critiques. Tom C.

Re: cultural image perception

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
Even more perplexing then... :) Tom C. From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: cultural image perception Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:29:01 -0400 They did use the spoon... Tom C wrote: I know the popular story regarding

Re: Lunch!

2005-10-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Oct 5, 2005, at 6:59 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Taken this Monday on one of my shoots for the Nature Guides: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/images/fall2_22.jpg ist-D, F100/2.8 Macro, ISO 400 Um, er, nice? ;-) Great picture. Nasty lady. Godfrey

RE: PAW: The Love of my Life

2005-10-05 Thread Tom C
I'm moved. :) Nice one. Tom C. From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: PDML pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: PAW: The Love of my Life Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:55:32 -0400 Okay, I guess I love my kids more...

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