The poor quality ones are only the older ones that pentax had to scan.
The newer ones are just converted to PDF electronically and posted.
Quuality is as good or better than the printed mauals.
-Adam
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi,
Have you seen the PDF manuals on the Pentax site. All that
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Charles Robinson wrote:
On Jan 31, 2006, at 14:02, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
Called up the camera shop. It was a Minolta X-700.
I haven't done a direct comparison, but it seems no less bright than
the stock -DS screen. It could even be brighter (and would explain
Thanks for that Paul - I have on occasion (as reported here last year) stood
my ground when challenged taking photos in public. I am well aware of the
legal situation, but the fact is that the current hysteria about
paedophiles, digital cameras and camera-phones is of such intensity that
William Robb wrote:
I was going to comment on this earlier today, but was short of time
this morning.
I believe soft focus lenses are using uncorrected spherical abberation
to create the effects that they produce.
If you want to emulate the old portraiture style, then short depth of
field
- Original Message -
From: Adam Maas
Subject: Re: PESO - Soft
William,
Why not get an old uncoated M42 Tessar off eBay and use it on your
digital? Should have quite the 'old-fashioned' look to it. Real Carl
Zeiss Tessars are available in M42 mount pretty regularly on the Bay.
Just tried Porta, which was recomended in the recent
Web Page thread.
Simple, effective and VERY, VERY fast!
It's here:
http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/
While you're there check out his other stuff, like Barnack:
http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/barnack/
Pretty cool, and all free. ;-)
Don
Ahh, yes - that was a specific reference to Java and assorted other such
plug-ins.
Thanks for clarifying that.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: mike wilson
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Who said it was junk? Who said it is inappropriate to offer it as a
PESO?
If you're implying that I said
Great, that's good to know. I've only downloaded manuals for older
cameras.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Adam Maas
The poor quality ones are only the older ones that pentax had to scan.
The newer ones are just converted to PDF electronically and posted.
Quuality is as good or
Hi Don,
Have you - or has anyone - put up a few pages made with Porta? Got a link?
Although I've not tried this program yet, I'm sometimes amazed at how good
some of the free programs are. Spybot and Irfanview come immediately to
mind, but there are a few others that I use as well.
Shel
Here Shel, I just grabbed a folder full of .jpgs and ran it through Porta.
Didn't bother to edit, rotate, etc.
Took about 1 minute.
Check out the LightBox and Show all features to the left of the
thumbnails.
The right and left arrows navigate.
Took about an hour to make 12 galleries and check out
OMG this is the most useful program ever!! I have a website, and I'm
running the coppermine gallery php template and it is s slow. I
can't believe this is free. I love it! I love PDML!
Thanks Keith, it validates the diagnostic tool. Regards, Bob S.
On 1/31/06, Keith McGuinness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But perhaps read these first...
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/stroke.asp
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52795
Keith McG
Bob Sullivan
Howdy!
I'm considering enabling myself with a new zoom lens or two. While I
don't really use zooms that much for my personal photography, I've
been offered a handful of wedding jobs and am looking at some faster
(f2.8) lenses. Pentax lenses would normally be my choice, but they
seem to be
No question. Tamron SP 28-75 f2.8 XR Di. Small, light, sharp as a tack,
gorgeous colour, good bokeh. The Sigma's 4mm wider and 5mm shorter
FL-wise, but noticably wider and softer wide open (The Sigma's good, but
the Tamron's merely superb). I've no info on the Tokina.
I sold my 28/2.8 after
Gee, Scott, even though it's a fair amount of money,
the FA 24-90 is one honey of a lens. I doubt you
would find its equal in anything but a set of primes,
or maybe the 28-70/2.8 (mucho money!).
Rick
--- Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy!
I'm considering enabling myself with a
This one time, at band camp, Paul Ewins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we have no bill
of rights so we have no inalienable rights, and specifically no right of
privacy. Putting it another way, our rights as photographers stem from other
people's lack of rights to prevent us taking photos.
My
Thanks, Don ... I've DL'd the program and will take it for a test drive in
a day or so. I'm not thrilled with the appearance as it is, either in your
sample or of the skins shown on the web site, but maybe it can be
customized.
The other thing that's important for me is being able to simply add
I second Adam's recommendation. I've had my Tamron 28-75 for about a
year now, and it's everything he says - excellent color, nice and
sharp. Nate liked it so much that I got him one, and he usually
prefers primes as well. Here's a sample shot I took with the Tam (not
full size, but I can send you
You haven't said whether you are using digital or not - might have
some bearing. I shoot weddings fairly often. I used to use a Tamron
28-75/2.8, which was quite nice. It took a few spills and is out of
alignment and the focus gearing is crunched.
Since then I picked up an A 35-105/3.5. I
Don,
Thank you for introducing this program. With practically no imaging
experience, I found this program very easy to use with respect to re-sizing,
caption placement, and assembly. I took image files straight off the card ran
them through the program and voila! A gallery was born.
I shot both Digital (*istD) and film (MX) with my Tamron. Sold it with
the D and am missing it, I'll probably get another one in Canon mount,
and maybe another one for the MX (that combination works really well)
-Adam
Bruce Dayton wrote:
You haven't said whether you are using digital or not
On Feb 1, 2006, at 5:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used a Pentax K2 to try and take star trails. The silver oxide
batteries allowed me just 30 minutes before shutting off.
I didn't think the K2 used the battery in B. Maybe it does, but
it'll still work OK without the battery.
On Feb 1, 2006, at 5:55 AM, Jens Bladt wrote:
Anything photographic is rarely cheap in Britain. Probably one of
the most
expensive European countries for photographic equipment - next to
Skandinaiva, naturally.
I still remember selling my RB67 kit in London for slightly more
money than
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, 12:51:48, pnstenquist wrote:
A fat guy squinting in the sun???
He's my financial advisor; I thought I'd put him to some honest work
for a change! I'd just received the lens and wanted a subject for my
tests of proper operation. A little softening did him a world of
- Original Message -
From: Shel Belinkoff
Subject: RE: Porta Web Gallery Creator
The other thing that's important for me is being able to simply add a
photo
or two without having to redo the whole process. And it would be nice if
the photo could be placed anywhere in the queue.
Actually its really easy to add more photos and edit other setting in
your existing album.
neat! it would get me dizzy if I left it running for too long, but i
like it.
Godfrey
On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:18 PM, Jens Bladt wrote:
It's winter in Denmark:
http://www.jensbladt.dk/pano/newfile6.html
Regards
Jens Bladt
http://www.jensbladt.dk
BTW:
There's a big difference between javascript (a pseudo-universal
scripting language that is quasi-supported in most modern browsers,
modeled on Java language syntax) and Java (an object oriented
language with C-language-derivative syntax that loads virtual image
applets onto an
Thats right - I almmost forgot.
Nike - and others - can get Java here:
http://www.sun.com/
For those who believe Java is just for fun or annoyance,
I can tell you, that here Java is required for those who want internet
banking.
Regards
Jens Bladt
http://www.jensbladt.dk
-Oprindelig
William Robb wrote:
- Original Message - From: Jens Bladt
Subject: OT: Chinese Manfrotto copies?
Take a look at these cheap tripod heads.
Aren't they Manfrotto copies?
At very low prices!
I wonder if this is legal?
http://tinyurl.com/7d93q
Connection refused when trying to
Dear All,
I have just been reading Bryan Peterson's recent book Understanding Digital
Photography. It is an excellent read and I would highly recommend it. In
one part of his book he recommends setting the white balance on the camera
to cloudy +3 . His reasoning for this is it gives his
William Robb wrote:
- Original Message - From: Bruce Dayton
Subject: Re: PESO - Soft
Not bad. The effect is pretty good, but not exactly like a soft focus
lens. I have seen many attempts with PS to duplicate and have yet to
see the same thing. I suspect one issue is that when
On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:52 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
As to the aesthetics of viewing panoramas ... in general, I find
most presentations for anything with a more oblong proportion than
about 4:1 very difficult to view on any flat screen in a still-
image representation.
3:1 is about my
Jack,
This sculpture is in a shop in the San Francisco Chinatown
so there's not much scope for taking time to set up a shot.
So far what I've understood is to:
1. Isolate some part (center figures.)
2. Increase the DOF.
3. Increase the exposure to get the figures closer to white.
I'll probably
I've recently taken a lot of photos in cloudy conditions,
particularly in early morning light, and had a fair amount of
trouble getting a realistic colour balance. That may be more to
do with the morning light than the cloudy conditions but I tend
to think that it is a bit of both.
I didn't
I'll try to isolate some part of it and see if that works.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Gautam
On 1/30/06, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gautam Sarup wrote:
Ken is it totally off or do you think something could be
done to give it some appeal?
Thanks,
Gautam
Ken has touched on the reeason
On 1/31/06, Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All,
I have just been reading Bryan Peterson's recent book Understanding Digital
Photography. It is an excellent read and I would highly recommend it. In
one part of his book he recommends setting the white balance on the camera
to
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