Re: Big Print (24x36 inches)

2005-12-05 Thread Rob Studdert
On 6 Dec 2005 at 18:23, David Mann wrote: > If you have the appropriate profile installed, and have colour > management set up in Photoshop, you can activate the Gamut Warning > which will highlight areas that will be clipped. How accurate that > is, I don't know. This method would give a

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread Cotty
>>>Some prints will fade in dark storage. A densitometer is really the only >>>way to measure with accuracy. >> >> >> Sorry Powell, we live on different planets ;-) On 5/12/05, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: > >Cotty's planet is through the looking glass. >Dark storage fading is real

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread mike wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/5/2005 1:38:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simple, really. John === But it took a lot of time and effort to put that explanation together. And all they did was laugh at one misspelled word. Pleebians. Marnie aka Doe

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread mike wilson
Mark Roberts wrote: mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bob W" Have you ever had a volcanic erudtion? When I was a teenager, I was plagued with skin erudtions for a couple of years. The acne of your pulchritude, no doubt.

Re: GESO: East Africa

2005-12-05 Thread David Mann
On Dec 6, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Jon Paul Schelter wrote: http://forksandhope.com/Africa.html I don't have the time to read the text or look at all of the bigger photos, but there are some nice photos in there. The kitty pics are fine art by definition. The others I really like are (in no pa

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Bob Shell wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2005, at 10:20 AM, graywolf wrote: > > > I think a pattern is beginning to appear (not addressed to you > > specifically, Adam, but in general). Most of the folks who think > > digital prints look better than optical, actually do not like > > photographic prints. No

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I like the look of premium glossy, but I'm printing both sides of the paper on this thing I'm working on so the double-sided matte is what I'm using. interesting that "BEST photo isn't a graywolf wrote: > > Ann, I found the same thing with my 820, and the R200 that replaced it. > Except I use

comments on using an iPod to store photos

2005-12-05 Thread Jon Paul Schelter
As I just mentioned, I went to Kenya and Tanzania for a month... The gear that I brought with me was: Pentax *ist DS 2 1G SD cards Many AA rechargeables, 2 sets of disposable CRV3s A-50 f1.4 Tamron 70-300 18-55 30G iPod video The iPod worked well enough, but it has 2 fatal flaws 1 - the battery

RE: SV: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread Jens Bladt
You are probably right, Rob. >From the PDML postings I got the impression, that some lenses are prone to consistantly causing the camera to (auto)focus behind the centre subject. I seem to have got that wrong. Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Rob Stu

RE: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread Jens Bladt
Graywolf, You eyes are probably fine. I just find it unsatisfying, if the focus is off even when I receive very clear focus confirmation in the viewfinder. You are right about the differences in the lighting situation - the first and the next two shot are almost two weeks apart! Lens testing is di

GESO: East Africa

2005-12-05 Thread Jon Paul Schelter
Hi everyone, I've returned from my trip to East africa, I managed to do just about everything I wanted to - safaris, climbing Kilimanjaro, diving in Zanzibar. I'm trying to put together a bit of a web site, my hope is to use the GPS track overlaid on top of a Google maps page, and linked to

RE: GESO: Harpist

2005-12-05 Thread Tom C
Hi Rick, I like the first two... both are very nice and I would hope that the musician would ask you for prints of them. Well done! The third composition, pardon me for saying, makes her look a little like a caged animal... it feels like she's about to pick up that harp and jam it down my t

RE: PAW: Zion Canyon from Angels Landing

2005-12-05 Thread Tom C
Lovely composition Peter. Like Bruce, I'd wish it to be a little more sharp. Did you do any unsharp masking at all? Tom C. From: Peter Lacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: PAW: Zion Canyon from Angels Landing Date: Mon, 05 Dec 20

Re: Yet another enablement.

2005-12-05 Thread Cesar
William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Fred" Subject: Re: Yet another enablement. I blame this one on Cotty, Bob S, Fred Wasti and Rob Studdert. You are evil men, the lot of you. And you're not exactly an innocent babe in the woods, either, Bill (even if you are indeed

Re: Big Print (24x36 inches)

2005-12-05 Thread David Mann
On Dec 6, 2005, at 5:48 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: FWIW, the files that I bring to the printer are usually a lot larger than 6.5 mb. The last one was 59mb, and most are in that general range. Bob's file was a jpeg - 5000x3000 pixels (as he mentioned) is a pretty decent-sized file. That'd

Re: Sewious Enablement

2005-12-05 Thread David Mann
On Dec 6, 2005, at 6:25 AM, William Robb wrote: Just ordered my Merry Christmas to Me gift. Santa will have an extra heavy bag this year, what with trying to slip an Epson 4800 printer under the tree for me. Now I just have to learn how to take pictures I hate you. Can I order 100 prin

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread David Mann
On Dec 6, 2005, at 5:42 AM, Bob Shell wrote: However, dpi is very commonly used to mean either. Especially by the marketing departments of printer manufacturers. - Dave

Re: PAW: The Dave Young Quartet, Take 2

2005-12-05 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! I expect nothing but honesty from you, Boris. I don't think you were brutal at all. You simply said what you thought about the photo - I can ask for no more, or less. Now if you had said, "that's a bad photo, and I don't like you", I might be upset... Frank, if, purely hypothetically,

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread David Mann
On Dec 6, 2005, at 4:42 AM, William Robb wrote: If printing from a scanned 6x7 original, the chicken has to be facing Pentax HQ in Japan. With which end? For 6x7 it'd be the head. For a digital source, use the other end. - Dave

Re: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread graywolf
In that first photo the bricks in the driveway give a pretty good idea of the DOF which looks to be about 4 bricks to either side of the rear bumper of the truck.in the first shot. Looks to me like your focus is just about right in that shot. The other 80mm 2.8 shots seem to be focused closer t

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Tom C" Subject: Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched Purple Haze, what province is that in? Mind pollution. It's universal, not provincial. b..

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Rob Studdert" Subject: Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched http://www.kenduncan.com/echristmas I want to hear the Pogues version. William Robb

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom? But it took a lot of time and effort to put that explanation together. And all they did was laugh at one misspelled word. Pleebians. I pleeinsanity William Robb

Re: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Fred" Subject: Re: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8 An intersting, though mostly useless exercise is to take a picture of a ruler that is at an angle to the camera, and see where the focus is in relation to the chosen focus point. Why "mostly useless", Bill?

Re: Yet another enablement.

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Fred" Subject: Re: Yet another enablement. I blame this one on Cotty, Bob S, Fred Wasti and Rob Studdert. You are evil men, the lot of you. And you're not exactly an innocent babe in the woods, either, Bill (even if you are indeed "out in the boonies")

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/5/2005 1:38:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simple, really. John === But it took a lot of time and effort to put that explanation together. And all they did was laugh at one misspelled word. Pleebians. Marnie aka Doe

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-05 Thread Tom C
I agree most of those scenes are grossly oversaturated. I wonder though if they are neutral renditions from the film or if they haven't been enhanced with filters or further manipulated digitally. Tom C. From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax

Peso:Norm and Audrey's 50th

2005-12-05 Thread Dave Brooks
Went to a good friends 50th anniversay party last night. The piper is the son and the couple is, well, Norm and Audrey. Raw files converted by PSCS ACR2.4. Using the ibook screen so they may be not 100%. Just friend photos, but comments welcome Dave http://photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-05 Thread P. J. Alling
If you have to ask you can't get there... Tom C wrote: Velvia always reminds me of the way things looked on Purple Haze trips. It's a form of reality I quite enjoyed. William Robb Purple Haze, what province is that in? Tom C. -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (sc

Re: Yet another enablement.

2005-12-05 Thread Fred
> I blame this one on Cotty, Bob S, Fred Wasti and Rob Studdert. > You are evil men, the lot of you. And you're not exactly an innocent babe in the woods, either, Bill (even if you are indeed "out in the boonies"). Fred

Re: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread Fred
> An intersting, though mostly useless exercise is to take a picture of a > ruler that is at an angle to the camera, and see where the focus is in > relation to the chosen focus point. Why "mostly useless", Bill? Fred

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-05 Thread Rob Studdert
On 5 Dec 2005 at 18:19, Tom C wrote: > For once I agree with Pal... > > It's always been my contention that Velvia looks closer to the way I > remember the scene than other films (I'm talking about nature/landscape). > It's > not a good skin-tone film from what I've experienced. People seem t

Re: PAW: People & Portraits 2005 #47 - GDG

2005-12-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Thanks Shel! Had a lot of fun working with the LX1... The image stabilization makes long exposures like this a bit easier. :-) Godfrey On Dec 5, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: This is a good one from that genre. I like it quite a bit. Good work! Coincidentally, Marnie aka Doe and

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Roberts
mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >William Robb wrote: > >> - Original Message - From: "Bob W" >> >>> Have you ever had a volcanic erudtion? >> >> When I was a teenager, I was plagued with skin erudtions for a couple of >> years. > >The acne of your pulchritude, no doubt. What zit

OT again: Too busy for the PDML

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Roberts
I've been working furiously on the movie I'm producing for my digital video class, so I haven't posted anything of significance lately (so what else is new?) But I still read most of what's going on, so don't get any funny ideas! ...or at least not anything weirder than usual. Anyway, for your ent

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED / Norwegian characters

2005-12-05 Thread Jostein
- Original Message - From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> He flew back to Norway tonight. Took us hours to find a rubber band big enough for his propeller. The worst part was to wind up the helmet with it, really. Jostein (still dizzy)

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-05 Thread Tom C
Velvia always reminds me of the way things looked on Purple Haze trips. It's a form of reality I quite enjoyed. William Robb Purple Haze, what province is that in? Tom C.

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Tom C" Subject: Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched For once I agree with Pal... It's always been my contention that Velvia looks closer to the way I remember the scene than other films (I'm talking about nature/landscape). It's not a good skin-tone film fro

RE: PAW: People & Portraits 2005 #47 - GDG

2005-12-05 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi, This is a good one from that genre. I like it quite a bit. Good work! Coincidentally, Marnie aka Doe and I were recently discussing how to make such photographs ... Shel "You meet the nicest people with a Pentax" > [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi >http://homepage.mac.

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-05 Thread Tom C
For once I agree with Pal... It's always been my contention that Velvia looks closer to the way I remember the scene than other films (I'm talking about nature/landscape). It's not a good skin-tone film from what I've experienced. People seem to universally comment 'but the picture doesn't d

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Mark Roberts wrote: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cotty wrote: On 5/12/05, Powell Hargrave, discombobulated, unleashed: Some prints will fade in dark storage. A densitometer is really the only way to measure with accuracy. Sorry Powell, we live on diff

PAW: People & Portraits 2005 #47 - GDG

2005-12-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Back from NY and processing about 250 or so pictures made with the LX1 as well as Pentax DS ... takes time! Some of these photos are proving to be a lot of fun. Hope you like this one... http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/47.htm Comments, critique, flames all appreciated. enjoy G

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Roberts
"P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cotty wrote: > >>On 5/12/05, Powell Hargrave, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>>Some prints will fade in dark storage. A densitometer is really the only >>>way to measure with accuracy. >> >>Sorry Powell, we live on different planets ;-) > >Mark! Sorry,

Re: Emailing PUG entries

2005-12-05 Thread Shel Belinkoff
So far I've counted six of these messages, all time-stamped the same. Shel "You meet the nicest people with a Pentax" > [Original Message] > From: Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Date: 12/5/2005 3:59:13 PM > Subject: Re: Emailing PUG entries > > Hey, > You beat me to it, Adelheid. :-) > >

Re: PESO PAW - Blue in my Lap

2005-12-05 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Thanks Frank ... Blue was on my lap at such an angle that I couldn't see well to focus and compose. I had to sort of twist around and get into pretzel-mode to catch this one. It was as much luck as anything else. I never expected as many comments, especially positive comments, as has been gener

Re: Emailing PUG entries

2005-12-05 Thread Jostein
Hey, You beat me to it, Adelheid. :-) Thanks. Jostein - Original Message - From: "Adelheid v. K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 5:01 PM Subject: RE: Emailing PUG entries Themes are in, you can start submitting. Cheers Adelheid PS: please do so : --

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread mike wilson
William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bob W" Subject: RE: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom? Have you ever had a volcanic erudtion? When I was a teenager, I was plagued with skin erudtions for a couple of years. William Robb The acne of your pulchritude

Yet another enablement.

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
This list is very bad. You are all bad people. Anyway, based on comments I have read, the A* 85/1.4 is a pretty decent lens. I managed to snag what appears to be a nice one off eBay. I had thought, right up until the last moment that I would get it for a nice price too, but it was not to be.

Re: PESO: Self portrait about family matters

2005-12-05 Thread E.R.N. Reed
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:20 PM, E.R.N. Reed wrote: http://mishka.site.co.il/gallery/albums/25November2005/ Canonet_TriX400_14.jpg Leica? Canonet, surely? Whatever. "Rangefinder camera" does just as well. That it would.

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread Tom C
When I was a teenager, I was plagued with skin erudtions for a couple of years. William Robb Most persons' erudition is surpassed by their ignorance. Myself included. Tom C.

Re: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Bruce Dayton" Subject: Re: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8 Hello Jens, My personal feeling is that the sensor area is larger than we would like to think. Achieving AF within the sensor bounderies (not visible to us) is all the system is going to do. An inters

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Bob W" Subject: RE: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom? Have you ever had a volcanic erudtion? When I was a teenager, I was plagued with skin erudtions for a couple of years. William Robb

Re: Glad I have an *istD

2005-12-05 Thread Bob Sullivan
You're right Bill, an effective 600mm with ISO 1600 will be a nice addition. I hope he is nearby. Regards, Bob S. On 12/5/05, Bill Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears our son my have a job as a high school band director for next > school. This makes the *istD a good camera to have. Be

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Cotty" Subject: Re: 360 dpi On 5/12/05, Powell Hargrave, discombobulated, unleashed: Some prints will fade in dark storage. A densitometer is really the only way to measure with accuracy. Sorry Powell, we live on different planets ;-) Cotty's plane

Re: On-site printing

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis" Subject: Re: On-site printing They need to run an alignment service on it. This is a technical service call. What has happened is the scanner lens is slightly off axis, and you are seeing a chromatic aberration. Are you using black

Re: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello Jens, My personal feeling is that the sensor area is larger than we would like to think. Achieving AF within the sensor bounderies (not visible to us) is all the system is going to do. Classic problem is when the sensor area covers something like eyes, nose and ear. One of them will be in

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/12/05, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >Have you ever had a volcanic erudtion? No but I did have some sismic activity when I was 14 :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

Re: GESO: B+W is so much fun

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/4/05, Derby Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/index5/05_12_bw/index.htm Great stuff! The second one (with the "white" tree) has an IR look to it. Is it some sort of "digital IR" thing? It's very cool. -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."

RE: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread Bob W
Have you ever had a volcanic erudtion? -- Cheers, Bob > -Original Message- > From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 December 2005 22:54 > To: pentax list > Subject: Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom? > > On 5/12/05, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >E

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread Powell Hargrave
At 02:48 PM 05/12/2005 , Cotty wrote: >Sorry Powell, we live on different planets ;-) Well at least different sides of the same one. :) Powell

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/5/05, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must say I really like this one, frank. I like the slightly OOF bike seat > and the angle the bike is resting. A general thanks to everyone who liked this one and made nice comments. To those who suggested a crop, I kind of like the bike off-c

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/12/05, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >Erudtion? I once eruded. Oh how we larfed! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Cotty wrote: On 5/12/05, Powell Hargrave, discombobulated, unleashed: Some prints will fade in dark storage. A densitometer is really the only way to measure with accuracy. Sorry Powell, we live on different planets ;-) Mark! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | Peopl

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/4/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good shot, although the title had me expecting something different. > That's not necessarily a negative. But that (apparently empty?) > styrofoam cup doesn't really say cappuccino to me. The shot stands on > it's own however. I like it. Thank

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/4/05, Ann Sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > love this one, Frank :) > > looks dangerous! > Thanks, Ann. He doesn't ride like that. He was just using his basket to hold his stuff for a few moments while he was chatting with friends... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois conce

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/4/05, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice, Frank--nice bit of whimsy and incongruity. > > Cropping out the right 1/4 would improve it, methinks. > Thanks for the nice words, Rick. But, surely you mean the left 1/4? I wouldn't want to crop out any of the bike. cheers, frank -- "S

Re: SV: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread Rob Studdert
On 5 Dec 2005 at 23:31, Jens Bladt wrote: > Paul > >"Back focus" is a term used to describe autofocus that misses the mark > and locks in behind the subject. I think that it's most often the > result of operator error. Or at least a product of using autofocus in a > situation where one should b

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-05 Thread Cotty
On 5/12/05, Powell Hargrave, discombobulated, unleashed: >Some prints will fade in dark storage. A densitometer is really the only >way to measure with accuracy. Sorry Powell, we live on different planets ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|htt

RE: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread Bob W
Erudtion? -- Cheers, Bob > -Original Message- > From: John Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 December 2005 21:37 > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom? > > Coming late to this, but as Bob W's normal erudtion seems to > h

RE: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread Jens Bladt
Jostein wrote: a function of how "contrasty" a lens is at open aperture. I second that. I have notuiced, that if a quite contrasty part of the image is located near but not "in" the fucusing point - the camera (*ist D) tends to focus at the contrasty part in stead of a rather dull object in the ex

Re: PESO: Self portrait about family matters

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/5/05, Michael Spivak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank, it's my wife that getting a haircut LOL and i'm the one with > the camera standing :) Uh-oh - I'm in deep doo-doo now! Sorry, Michael. With her hair all matted down with hairdressing stuff like that, who can tell? Now that I look cl

SV: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread Jens Bladt
Paul >"Back focus" is a term used to describe autofocus that misses the mark and locks in behind the subject. I think that it's most often the result of operator error. Or at least a product of using autofocus in a situation where one should be focusing manually. This is exactly my perception/

RE: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-05 Thread Jens Bladt
Small? 2104 x 1468 can easily fill you screen! And yoyu're right - it's probably not the lens (although I had great problems getting sharpness at all at F 2.8 - F3.5: It may very well be the AF system. Yes, I use the term when the lens/camera is focusing further away than it should - that is behin

Re: Which Optio?

2005-12-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I'll be interested to see what you get from it, Juan. I bought a Panasonic LX1 and took it to NY over the Thanksgiving holidays, along with the Pentax DS kit. I made a lot of photographs with the LX1 and find it quite a handy, pocket sized camera. I like that it has full manual controllabil

Re: GESO: Harpist

2005-12-05 Thread Rick Womer
Frank, Thanks for your comments! Yes, it was Tmax P3200. The scan from Neopan looks so nice that I'll have to give it a try. Rick --- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/5/05, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last year, I posted a photo of a harpist friend > along > > w

Re: Which Optio?

2005-12-05 Thread Juan Buhler
Thanks for the answers (not too many though--I guess people here have SLRs, plus the 60 and S60 are quite new) I ordered an Optio 60 yesterday from buydig.com. The only sample images I saw from the S60 seemed like they were from a defective camera. The quality from the 60 seemed quite good for a $

RE: Back Focus

2005-12-05 Thread Jens Bladt
>sometimes, AF is not the right answer to focusing operations. True - I'm beginning to realise that - after having used autofocus since my first PZ-1 days (1992) :-) Better late than never! Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[

Re: PESO: Self portrait about family matters

2005-12-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:20 PM, E.R.N. Reed wrote: http://mishka.site.co.il/gallery/albums/25November2005/ Canonet_TriX400_14.jpg Leica? Canonet, surely? Whatever. "Rangefinder camera" does just as well. Godfrey

Re: Nikon LS2000?

2005-12-05 Thread Rob Studdert
On 5 Dec 2005 at 15:28, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: > LS2000 is very fine scanner for colour slides (E-6). But it is not so good > for b&w material though - no matter if C-41 or classic. Especially in case > of classic, silver based b&w materials there's a problem with LED's light, > which is direct

Re: PESO: Self portrait about family matters

2005-12-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Someone's in trouble now... (I'm not sure if it's Frank or not...), oh well, he'll probably never meet Michael's wife. Michael Spivak wrote: Frank, it's my wife that getting a haircut LOL and i'm the one with the camera standing :) she didn't like the fact i'm taking the shot and that explain

Re: PESO - Two from the Concert

2005-12-05 Thread Tom C
Thanks Frank. 'Twas just an experiment. Now if Canon or someone could produce some IS digital binoculars. Tom C. From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO - Two from the Concert Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:01:4

Re: PESO: Self portrait about family matters

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Spivak
Frank, it's my wife that getting a haircut LOL and i'm the one with the camera standing :) she didn't like the fact i'm taking the shot and that explains the look in her face :) On 12/5/05, Albano Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree, it's some sort of "David Lynch Moment". I > like it to

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/5/05, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coming late to this, but as Bob W's normal erudtion seems to have taken a > holiday: Bob may take vacations, but his erudition never does. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson

Re: PESO: Self portrait about family matters

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Spivak
Thanks much people :) Yes, it's a Canonet 17 :-) On 12/5/05, E.R.N. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > > > On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:09 AM, Michael Spivak wrote: > > > >> http://mishka.site.co.il/gallery/albums/25November2005/ > >> Canonet_TriX400_14.jpg > > > > > > It's a

RE: Probably shouldn't have but...

2005-12-05 Thread Tom C
Not sure which one you purchased Bill. The Tamron 28-300 AF used by my wife, and myself when I can sneak it off her camera, gives generally very good results. It's a nicer lens than my Pentax 28-200. Tom C. From: "Bill Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net To: S

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with several corrections

2005-12-05 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, the footprints on the carpet are apparently a problem. I fixed them, straightened out the bedspread, cloned the light out of the mirror and corrected the barrel distortion. Thanks to all who have helped with this. It's important to me that I get

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with several corrections

2005-12-05 Thread pnstenquist
thanks for the feedback. Trust me, it would not have been easier to reshoot :-). It might have been difficult to make the carpet look right under any circumstances. it's one of those deep pile carpet that shows light in different ways depending on its crush. Cloning was undoubtedly the best choi

Re: Language - Britian, England, or United Kingdom?

2005-12-05 Thread John Forbes
Coming late to this, but as Bob W's normal erudtion seems to have taken a holiday: British Isles (n) - a small archipelago off the North West coast of Europe. Great Britain (GB) (n) - an island, the largest (hence the word "great") of the British Isles. It contains the nations of England, S

Re: Sony's at it again.

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Roberts
"William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At least this time, they may have a point. >http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=16139935 The point being that they're too cheap to put in overvoltage protection. Seriously, these days with chip-size switching regulators it's tri

Re: On-site printing

2005-12-05 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, William Robb wrote: They need to run an alignment service on it. This is a technical service call. What has happened is the scanner lens is slightly off axis, and you are seeing a chromatic aberration. Are you using black and white film or monochromatic film? Tri-X @ +1

Re: GESO: Harpist

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/5/05, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last year, I posted a photo of a harpist friend along > with some other shots from a musical soiree. This > year I tried a few more, with a bit more light on the > subject. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=549685 > > PZ-1p, FA 24

Re: On-site printing

2005-12-05 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis" Subject: Re: On-site printing Well, the lab I send my B&W to has a Noritsu (must learn the model number) that I don't like. Although it does very dense blacks, which I really like, on high contrast edges (eg white hanging line aga

Re: Raw Shooter Premium

2005-12-05 Thread petergly
Don spoke: > Raw Shooter can do a hell of a lot. But can it rotate an image further than 45 degrees? If it can, would someone mind enlightening me as to how? It even seems to ingore any in-camera rotation. Ciao, Peter in Sydney

Re: PESO: Self portrait about family matters

2005-12-05 Thread E.R.N. Reed
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:09 AM, Michael Spivak wrote: http://mishka.site.co.il/gallery/albums/25November2005/ Canonet_TriX400_14.jpg It's a photo with a number of strange incongruities in it. The expressions, the fact that the person taking picture is there with a L

Re: On-site printing

2005-12-05 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: "Kevin Waterson" Subject: On-site printing I have looked at a few printers from Fuji for on-site printing but none have really grabbed me. Has anybody had any experience with printers able to print 5x7 and 8x12 that a

Probably shouldn't have but...

2005-12-05 Thread Bill Owens
Just ordered a Tamron 28-300 for total of 133.50 US. Looking forward to going out with only 1 lens, and I'm willing to accept a small loss in quality. Bill

Re: PESO - Two from the Concert

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/1/05, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here Today > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3920286 Kinda cool. Looks eerie, almost spectral... I like it. > and > > For Frank > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3920324 I have no idea what you're talking about. I

Glad I have an *istD

2005-12-05 Thread Bill Owens
It appears our son my have a job as a high school band director for next school. This makes the *istD a good camera to have. Between the 1600-3200 ISO and the lens magnification factor I should get some good results. I well remember when he was in high school and how 400mm wasn't quite enough

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with several corrections

2005-12-05 Thread Gonz
Thats alot of work Paul, but the pic looks better. It might be easier to retake the shot though, rake the carpet first. ;) rg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, the footprints on the carpet are apparently a problem. I fixed them, straightened out the bedspread, cloned the light out of the mirro

Re: Sewious Enablement

2005-12-05 Thread frank theriault
On 12/5/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just ordered my Merry Christmas to Me gift. > Santa will have an extra heavy bag this year, what with trying to slip an > Epson 4800 printer under the tree for me. > Now I just have to learn how to take pictures > > William Robb Woo-hoo! I

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