Re: PESO Two Dogs, 1987 pano

2010-02-09 Thread Toine
When I carry my pano gear I always wondered why people are looking. Maybe I should get a larger tripod bag :) Toine 2010/2/9 Margus Männik : > BTW, you boys and girls should find out what a word "pano" means in finnish > (informal) language :) > Hint 1: those dogs... > Hint 2: http://en.wiktionar

Re: Boris 2010 PESO #03

2010-02-09 Thread Boris Liberman
Thanks everyone who replied and/or viewed the picture. I must say that it is a bit of a tough call for me. I'm undecided. Because if one crops out the tower, it will be just the wires and the red ball. Either this way or the way I made it seems somewhat ho hum like Ken said. I was trying to go

Re: Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread Thibouille
Those pages are "bet" from magazine, their take on what will happen (maybe based on actual facts). 10-16/4 is BS. If there's one it will be /2.8. K-m2 is BS as well, certainly with a fake body base on k20d and about 20/28mm both lens are same size and suspiciously compact one at that. Smell the B

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Ken Waller wrote: >>> Is there any advantage to using sRGB over RGB or vice versa for printing, >>> either at home or at a Costco type process? >> >> What do you mean by "RGB"? (Just about everything you work on in >> Photoshop is in RGB.) If you mean "a non-color-m

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/02/2010, ann sanfedele wrote: > Often I forget about the magic of right clicking.. Eureka again! -- I > also see that I could take the entire 40 second file and apply the > brightening > repeatedly - I did it 3 times and got the desired exposure... > I took the whole 40 seconds and made

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread Bruce Dayton
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it - probably worth doing. It was a good machine. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 7:51:19 PM, you wrote: CR> On Feb 9, 2010, at 18:17, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> My previous laptop Fujitsu N5010 lasted for 6 years - backlight >> finally died.

Re: PESO - Leona

2010-02-09 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Derby Chang wrote: > > Looking through some old files to see if I have a candidate for the Head On > portrait comp > > http://headon.com.au/ > > I hadn't thought about this one for a while, but even though I quite like > it, it wouldn't qualify. The comp rules state

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints Ken Waller wrote: Is there any advantage to using sRGB over RGB or vice versa for printing, either at home or at a Costco type process?

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread ann sanfedele
Rob Studdert wrote: On 10/02/2010, ann sanfedele wrote: Rob, Tan, Cotty thanks! Eureka! I found Movie maker... (I DO have XP)Looked like fun ... thought I was getting it.. but couldnt find any controls for things like brighten or color changes etc.. and I did look at the help

Re: PESO - Not snow!

2010-02-09 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > It is snowing hard, again, with 12-18 inches forecast for Philly. > > Escape was necessary.  So, here is the door of the village church in > Stow-on-the-Wold, England: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10660976 That's beautiful! chee

Re: PESO - Disembarkation

2010-02-09 Thread frank theriault
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:43 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > Bleak, cold dreary city life. > > Nice, but were is the sleeping TTC driver.:-) > > Local joke folks. No, it's fare collectors who sleep. Drivers take coffee breaks and make bank machine withdrawls en route while making passengers wait on b

Re: PESO - Keeping Our Dumpsters Safe

2010-02-09 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > Nicely spotted and well composed; and also amusing. Thanks, Rick! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 9, 2010, at 18:17, Bruce Dayton wrote: > My previous laptop Fujitsu N5010 lasted for 6 years - backlight > finally died. Otherwise it still works. My Sony laptop before that > lasted about 4 years. I must be bucking the stats a bit. > Last time I had a backlight go out on a generic lap

Re: PESO - Keeping Our Dumpsters Safe

2010-02-09 Thread Rick Womer
Nicely spotted and well composed; and also amusing. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sun, 2/7/10, frank theriault wrote: > From: frank theriault > Subject: PESO - Keeping Our Dumpsters Safe > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 10:28 PM > Toronto's fine

Re: PESO - Not snow!

2010-02-09 Thread Bob Sullivan
Rick, Lovely! Wondeful colors and textures to the doorway. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > It is snowing hard, again, with 12-18 inches forecast for Philly. > > Escape was necessary.  So, here is the door of the village church in > Stow-on-the-Wold, England:

Re: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned

2010-02-09 Thread mike wilson
Bob W wrote: I ordered some leather kits from cameraleather.com way way back in November. Didn't hear from Morgan for months. Then suddenly they arrive, with a short apology note for the delay. All is good http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_02/10_02_me_m3/index.htm D Remind me neve

Re: PESO - Not snow!

2010-02-09 Thread Bruce Dayton
You nailed the exposure - I really like it. I do wish the top of the doorway was visible. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 6:50:51 PM, you wrote: RW> It is snowing hard, again, with 12-18 inches forecast for Philly. RW> Escape was necessary. So, here is the door of the vill

RE: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned

2010-02-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: "Chris Mitchell" From: Bob W > Subject: RE: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned > > > > > That's nice but pretty full on, I'm not sure I could live > > with it but the Slate Blue Kid Skin looks toned down enough > > for me. Was your Vulcanite pretty trashed? My old chrome M4 > > has a few chips in

Re: PESO - Not snow!

2010-02-09 Thread paul stenquist
I like it. Light and shadow are working well here. Nicely done. Snowing here in Michigan as well, but we're expecting a mere 8 inches or so, with more down towards the Ohio border.\ Paul On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > It is snowing hard, again, with 12-18 inches forecast for P

Re: over exposing to reduce noise??

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 08/02/2010, Tanya Love wrote: > Hey Rob! :) > > I am fighting with my ftp server to get some up to show you (and my clients > web gallery too!), and as soon as I win the fight, I'll link them here. But > no, this monitor (on a HP Pavilion dv6500 laptop) is uncallibrated as I had > never intend

PESO - Not snow!

2010-02-09 Thread Rick Womer
It is snowing hard, again, with 12-18 inches forecast for Philly. Escape was necessary. So, here is the door of the village church in Stow-on-the-Wold, England: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10660976 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 400, f/4 @ 1/10) Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mai

Re: OT: Model car shots

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 07/02/2010, Chris Mitchell wrote: > Thought you'd like to see these. Cleverly done and pretty realistic > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24796...@n05/sets/72157604247242338/with/234600 > 8881/ Great find, unbelievable detail and attention to perspective, complementary dioramas and supporting n

Re: GESO - 25

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/02/2010, Doug Brewer wrote: > Thanks for your nice words, Bob, and thanks also to everyone else who had a > look and/or commented. I appreciate it. Late to the party but a really interesting set of image Doug, the mix of composition and saturation/colour treatments ties together and otherwi

Re: Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/02/2010, jtainter wrote: > Can anyone calculate how large (diameter) the front element of the DA* 20 F2 > will be? This lens will have to be larger than the FA 20 F2.8. Sigma's 20 > F1.8 takes, IIRC, an 82 mm filter. So this will probably take a 77 mm. filter. I don't think that the fron

Re: PESO - Leona

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/02/2010, Derby Chang wrote: > > Looking through some old files to see if I have a candidate for the Head On > portrait comp > > http://headon.com.au/ > > I hadn't thought about this one for a while, but even though I quite like > it, it wouldn't qualify. The comp rules state a 8Mpx minimum (

Re: PESO Two Dogs, 1987 pano

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/02/2010, Margus Männik wrote: > BTW, you boys and girls should find out what a word "pano" means in finnish > (informal) language :) > Hint 1: those dogs... > Hint 2: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pano LOL, I learn something of significance every day via this list! Thanks ;-) -- Rob Studd

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/02/2010, ann sanfedele wrote: > Rob, Tan, Cotty thanks! > > Eureka! I found Movie maker... (I DO have XP)Looked like fun ... thought > I was getting it.. but couldnt find > any controls for things like brighten or color changes etc.. and I did > look at the help menu. Any clues

Re: Lightroom 2...

2010-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Tanya Love wrote: > Yeah, see that is what I expected too, but it doesn't let you apply the > "paste" to more than one shot at a time.  I've been pointed in the right > direction now though - all hail the sync button!  Woohoo! Actually, Tanya, in the Library module

How To Report The News

2010-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
This is slick ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4 -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:45:58PM -0700, steve harley scripsit: > On 2010-02-09 16:33 , John Francis wrote: >>> Laptops have a half life around 1 year (a bit less, around 11 >>> months, last time I looked at stats.) > > my previous MacBook Pro (3 years, 1 month old) has just taken over > from an

RE: Lightroom 2...

2010-02-09 Thread Tanya Love
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RE: Lightroom 2...

2010-02-09 Thread Tanya Love
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RE: Lightroom 2...

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Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread John Mullan
Personal computers are refreshed three times a year, January, June in time for back-to-school and September for the holiday season. jm -- From: "Graydon" Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:40 PM To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Subject: Re: laptop

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread paul stenquist
My daughter had an IBook G3 that she used in college for a couple of years. I used it for three or four years after that. She dropped it a few times, and it had some physical damage. The screen connection finally broke, but it had a good, long life. Paul On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Bruce Dayto

Re: PAW5 - Dolls

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
You're welcome, but not quite good enough that I have to hate you. On 2/9/2010 5:21 PM, DagT wrote: Wow, thanks all of you! DagT Den 9. feb. 2010 kl. 18.29 skrev P. J. Alling: This is very cool. On 2/7/2010 5:07 PM, DagT wrote: Another shot from Munich just before Christmas http:

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread Bruce Dayton
My previous laptop Fujitsu N5010 lasted for 6 years - backlight finally died. Otherwise it still works. My Sony laptop before that lasted about 4 years. I must be bucking the stats a bit. -- Bruce Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 3:45:58 PM, you wrote: sh> On 2010-02-09 16:33 , John Francis wrote

Re: Blurb quality issues

2010-02-09 Thread Dario Bonazza
David Savage wrote: A friend of mine had a book to accompany an exhibition of his work published through Blurb. Like you the sample book was perfect, so he placed a large order. It too almost 12 months and multiple reprints for him to resolve the printing QC issues he had. IIRC an update of t

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread steve harley
On 2010-02-09 16:45 , they whom i call myself wrote: On 2010-02-09 16:33 , John Francis wrote: oopsie - that bit i quoted was actually from Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread steve harley
On 2010-02-09 16:33 , John Francis wrote: Laptops have a half life around 1 year (a bit less, around 11 months, last time I looked at stats.) my previous MacBook Pro (3 years, 1 month old) has just taken over from an iMac G5 as our home server for backups, iTunes and document scanning; my old

Re: Blurb quality issues

2010-02-09 Thread David Savage
A friend of mine had a book to accompany an exhibition of his work published through Blurb. Like you the sample book was perfect, so he placed a large order. It too almost 12 months and multiple reprints for him to resolve the printing QC issues he had. IIRC an update of the RIP in the printing m

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread ann sanfedele
Cotty wrote: On 9/2/10, ann sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed: I can view it on my machine it is just terribly underexposed. Even in Final Cut, you can't rescue what's not there - we could bring it up a bit but don't expect much! - Cheers, Cotty ___/\ ah I see... Well it i

Re: Blurb quality issues

2010-02-09 Thread Dario Bonazza
Hi Ken, Yes, I remember that story of yours and that's another reason (after I bought the PDML Annual) because I was confident going Blurb. Dario - Original Message - From: "Ken Waller" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Blurb qual

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:40:19PM -0500, Graydon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:13:00AM +1000, Tanya Love scripsit: > > The reason I want such a high spec'd system is because it will be a long > > time before I can afford to upgrade again and I really need this to be able > > to work well for

Re: Blurb quality issues

2010-02-09 Thread Dario Bonazza
Thanks Jostein for the info. Today I've received the last two books I've ordered (there are small variations I keep private) and they are a bit better than the bad ones. Not fully OK, but not as bad as the previous ones. At the end, I've decided to give Blurb another big chance, by reprinting a

Re: PESO Two Dogs, 1987 pano

2010-02-09 Thread David Savage
2010/2/10 Margus Männik : > BTW, you boys and girls should find out what a word "pano" means in finnish > (informal) language :) > Hint 1: those dogs... > Hint 2: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pano Doesn't relate to anything I do (with or without a camera). > BR, Margus > > > Toine wrote: >> >> 1

Re: OT- Another freaking Winter Storm Warning....

2010-02-09 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:47:21AM -0500, frank theriault scripsit: > Not that I want to get into YAGWFW (yet another global warming flame > war), it's all about global averages, isn't it? Local weather may be > colder or more snowy than usual, but Virginia's snowstorms may be > balanced out by th

Re: Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread jtainter
Mark wrote: "The PMA show begins on Feb 21st. I expect we'll know details then. "What will be interesting is seeing if there are Tokina equivalents or if Pentax is back to designing their own glass again." Pentax has been designing all along. Of the joint lenses, only the 12-24 was designed by

Re: PESO - Leona

2010-02-09 Thread David Savage
Lovely. I'm thinking about entering some shots myself. DS On 10 February 2010 05:20, Derby Chang wrote: > > Looking through some old files to see if I have a candidate for the Head On > portrait comp > > http://headon.com.au/ > > I hadn't thought about this one for a while, but even though I qu

Re: PAW5 - Dolls

2010-02-09 Thread DagT
Wow, thanks all of you! DagT Den 9. feb. 2010 kl. 18.29 skrev P. J. Alling: > This is very cool. > > On 2/7/2010 5:07 PM, DagT wrote: >> Another shot from Munich just before Christmas >> http://www.thrane.name/page3/page7/files/page7-1000-full.html >> K20D, DA*55, 1/60s, f/4.0, ISO200. >> >> D

Re: Paris Match fakes win prize

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Roberts
frank theriault wrote: >On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> I recall reading a lot of discussion about it a few months ago. >> perhaps not on PDML, but somewhere. >> >> It really just goes to show how difficult real photojournalism is. >> These students who faked their entry

Re: Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Roberts
AlunFoto wrote: >2010/2/9 Mark Roberts : >> I might be interested in the 10-16 if it's got a better (closer) >> minimum focusing distance than the 12-24. > >Me too. Could be a perfect compliment to the 16-50 or 16-45 too. :-) The PMA show begins on Feb 21st. I expect we'll know details then. Wha

Re: Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread AlunFoto
2010/2/9 Mark Roberts : > I might be interested in the 10-16 if it's got a better (closer) > minimum focusing distance than the 12-24. Me too. Could be a perfect compliment to the 16-50 or 16-45 too. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Di

Re: Where else...

2010-02-09 Thread AlunFoto
hehe. That's cool. Wouldn't happen here, for sure. Jostein 2010/2/9 Margus Männik : > ...in the world you get your prints from the largest retailer in the paper > bag like this? > Even if you are a C*n*n shooter... > > http://home.uninet.ee/~margus02/peso/ > > BR, Margus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Dis

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:13:00AM +1000, Tanya Love scripsit: > The reason I want such a high spec'd system is because it will be a long > time before I can afford to upgrade again and I really need this to be able > to work well for at least the next 3-4 years without the risk of becoming > outda

Re: Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Roberts
John Celio wrote: >> 645D >> K-m2 >> DA*10-16 f/4 >> DA*20 f/2 >> DA*28 f/2 >> >> http://www.dchome.net/viewthread.php?tid=827626&extra=page%3D1 > >Someone get me a bib, those lenses are making me drool uncontrollably. I might be interested in the 10-16 if it's got a better (closer) minimum focu

Re: peso - pair

2010-02-09 Thread Bruce Dayton
Ditto Ken's remarks. Just what I was thinking. -- Bruce Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 8:53:50 AM, you wrote: KW> Too bad there isn't more separation in the colors of the coats and the black KW> background. KW> Kenneth Waller KW> http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f KW> - Original Message - K

PESO - Leona

2010-02-09 Thread Derby Chang
Looking through some old files to see if I have a candidate for the Head On portrait comp http://headon.com.au/ I hadn't thought about this one for a while, but even though I quite like it, it wouldn't qualify. The comp rules state a 8Mpx minimum (or film)! Oh well http://members.iinet.ne

RE: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned

2010-02-09 Thread John Celio
>> In the Pentax family photo, what is skinned on the MZ-5? It's too >> dark to tell for sure. > > I had some alligator imprint leather lying around one rainy weekend, so Well then, I might have to put a fun color of leather on my ZX-5n some day when I've got a little extra cash. It might ma

Re: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned

2010-02-09 Thread Derby Chang
Rob Studdert wrote: On 09/02/2010, Derby Chang wrote: I ordered some leather kits from cameraleather.com way way back in November. Didn't hear from Morgan for months. Then suddenly they arrive, with a short apology note for the delay. All is good That's nice but pretty full on, I'm no

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Roberts
Ken Waller wrote: >Is there any advantage to using sRGB over RGB or vice versa for printing, >either at home or at a Costco type process? What do you mean by "RGB"? (Just about everything you work on in Photoshop is in RGB.) If you mean "a non-color-managed image" (in RGB but without any color p

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "Mark Roberts" Subject: Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints Ken Waller wrote: I thought sRGB was mainly used for web viewing. Shouldn't you be using RGB for printing? sRGB *is* a flavor of RGB.

RE: Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread John Celio
> 645D > K-m2 > DA*10-16 f/4 > DA*20 f/2 > DA*28 f/2 > > http://www.dchome.net/viewthread.php?tid=827626&extra=page%3D1 Someone get me a bib, those lenses are making me drool uncontrollably. John (it could just be the burritos I've got warming in the microwave, but I'm pretty sure it's those len

Re: Blurb quality issues

2010-02-09 Thread Ken Waller
Dario FWIW, last fall I ordered a PDML annual for a friend in another city. Never got to see it and the friend had no issues with the quality. A few weeks later Blurb contacted me and advised as they had a recent run of books that were found to have some defects (undefined in the email) and th

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 8, 2010, at 21:34, William Robb wrote: > > Send a full res file. The printer will handle resampling at least as well as > Photoshop, and probably better. > Colour controls allow you to control the colour. Any icc profile that the > printer undeerstands will be fine. Dry Creek Photo is pre

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 8, 2010, at 19:44, P. J. Alling wrote: > On 2/8/2010 8:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I am going to try getting some shots printed at the local costco at 12x18. >> I've learned just enough to think I'd want to tune Lightroom's export to >> their printer, but don't know what that would be. >

RE: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Mitchell
> From: Bob W > Subject: RE: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned > > > > > That's nice but pretty full on, I'm not sure I could live > > with it but the Slate Blue Kid Skin looks toned down enough > > for me. Was your Vulcanite pretty trashed? My old chrome M4 > > has a few chips in the cover but its got a

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Roberts
Ken Waller wrote: >I thought sRGB was mainly used for web viewing. > >Shouldn't you be using RGB for printing? sRGB *is* a flavor of RGB. To be specific, it's an RGB gamut defined exactly within specified limits. It was designed for CRT viewing originally, but is still very good for the vast majo

RE: Paris Match fakes win prize

2010-02-09 Thread Bob W
> > > > Along similar lines, a number of years ago a friend of mine > and I were discussing that "International Poetry Contest" > that is pretty much something to be avoided... and is still > around , I think. ... this was pre internet... . As a lark, > he entered a poem "he" wrote... and en

RE: PESO - M3 and ME reskinned

2010-02-09 Thread Bob W
> > That's nice but pretty full on, I'm not sure I could live > with it but the Slate Blue Kid Skin looks toned down enough > for me. Was your Vulcanite pretty trashed? My old chrome M4 > has a few chips in the cover but its got a fair bit of paint > missing too, not sure if I would be better

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread Cotty
On 9/2/10, ann sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed: >I can view it on my machine it is just terribly underexposed. Even in Final Cut, you can't rescue what's not there - we could bring it up a bit but don't expect much! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche --

Re: Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
The Km2 looks like a cross between a K-7 and a K10/20d well sort of anyway. Looks fishy to me. Then again it seems to be an advertisement based on rumors. On 2/9/2010 12:56 PM, jtainter wrote: > From Dpreview: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=34485521 645D K-m2

Re: Lightroom 2...

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/9/2010 9:29 AM, Tanya Love wrote: Ok, so I am very new to Lightroom, and it is confusing the CRAPOLA out of me! I was so used to using the Adobe Raw Converter in PS, and simply highlighting all of the shots that I wanted to apply settings to and hitting "synchronise". But with Lightroom, u

Re: GFM-NPW in 2011

2010-02-09 Thread David J Brooks
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Cotty wrote: > On 9/2/10, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>It has just occurred to me, and this hinges on getting hired by the >>carrier that has won all of our school routes, that since they do not >>offer incentive bonuses for not missing any work,

Re: peso - pair

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/9/2010 10:28 AM, frank theriault wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Sasha Sobol wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/4342024309/ Comments and critique are welcome! Well, I told you guys yesterday that I wouldn't be online today, but clearly I lied. I only mention this

Re: peso - pair

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
I like the repetition of the two figures with the two suits, it's very clever. On 2/9/2010 3:17 AM, Sasha Sobol wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/4342024309/ Comments and critique are welcome! --Sasha -- {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Cou

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/9/2010 12:11 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: ann sanfedele Rob, Tan, Cotty thanks! Eureka! I found Movie maker... (I DO have XP)Looked like fun ... thought I was getting it.. but couldnt find any controls for things like brighten or color changes etc.. and I did look at the hel

Reports of New Gear

2010-02-09 Thread jtainter
>From Dpreview: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=34485521 645D K-m2 DA*10-16 f/4 DA*20 f/2 DA*28 f/2 Maybe more than the usual rumor. There seem to be photos of the gear: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=34485615 which points to: http:

Re: OT- Another freaking Winter Storm Warning....

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/9/2010 10:36 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Christian On 2/8/2010 4:50 PM, frank theriault wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Christian wrote: >> This is crazy. >> >> From the national weather service (which has been freakily accurate with >> snow totals these past couple of mont

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread ann sanfedele
I'm running out the door in a min - but just to say all I care about is doing little clips of Ashley for Youtube or the like. You'd think if I could shoot AVI things there would be a way of converting it to some other for where I could adjust brightness and such. feh. I have quick-time _pl

Re: PESO: Sometimes

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
I was in the Holliday Inn Beachside in Melbourne Florida, a few miles down.the coast from Canaveral, room facing north, a few years ago, at the time of a launch. It was supposed to be a wonderful place to view a Shuttle Launce from, if it weren't socked in... On 2/9/2010 9:22 AM, Cotty wrote:

Re: OT - Snowmageddon Counterpoint

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/9/2010 6:33 AM, David Savage wrote: On 9 February 2010 10:54, Mark Roberts wrote: paul stenquist wrote: HAR! The same list has been used to describe Arizona, USA, where summer daytime temps frequently exceed 50* C. One of my friends in Rochester, NY told me how his br

Re: OT - Snowmageddon Counterpoint

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/9/2010 3:26 AM, David Mann wrote: On Feb 9, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: One of my friends in Rochester, NY told me how his brother was trying to persuade him to move to Phoenix, Arizona. My friend said "No point - the weather is exactly the same there." His brother was baffle

Re: PESO Two Dogs, 1987 pano

2010-02-09 Thread Margus Männik
BTW, you boys and girls should find out what a word "pano" means in finnish (informal) language :) Hint 1: those dogs... Hint 2: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pano BR, Margus Toine wrote: 1987? Did you shoot with a pano in mind? I remember seeing panoramas in those years and allways wondered

Re: PAW5 - Dolls

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
This is very cool. On 2/7/2010 5:07 PM, DagT wrote: Another shot from Munich just before Christmas http://www.thrane.name/page3/page7/files/page7-1000-full.html K20D, DA*55, 1/60s, f/4.0, ISO200. DagT http://www.thrane.name -- {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fn

Re: OT- Another freaking Winter Storm Warning....

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
That's just an old wive's tail, and a damned disappointment to boot On 2/9/2010 9:26 AM, Tom C wrote: Don't St. Bernards carry a barrel of brandy around their necks for medicinal purposes. Definitely don't forget the St. Bernards. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bob W wrote: [...]

Re: OT- Another freaking Winter Storm Warning....

2010-02-09 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/9/2010 10:10 AM, frank theriault wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:38 PM, David J Brooks wrote: When life gives you snow, go sit in it, have a beer and relax http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5643143 I say winter is to be enjoyed and embraced. Nice Canadian shot, Dave! c

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: ann sanfedele Rob, Tan, Cotty thanks! Eureka! I found Movie maker... (I DO have XP)Looked like fun ... thought I was getting it.. but couldnt find any controls for things like brighten or color changes etc.. and I did look at the help menu. Any clues about that? If I "make"

Re: On CD media longevity

2010-02-09 Thread Margus Männik
Hi Boris, It's actually a very good result for those non-archival CD-blanks. I burned my first CDs at 1994 and all of 'em are in very good shape. It seems that we had the very first CD-burner here in Estonia - an external 1x speed Pinnacle SCSI device. That time there was no "blue" media, the

Re: Blurb quality issues

2010-02-09 Thread AlunFoto
2010/2/9 AlunFoto : > I recently received a small book produced by the Swedish tour operator > on the Antarctica trip which also was quite decent. It was produced by > a Swedish small-scale prublisher. Will look up the name and website > when I get home tonight. The site is at www.photohome.se but

Re: OT- Another freaking Winter Storm Warning....

2010-02-09 Thread John Sessoms
From: frank theriault On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > The way I understand it, global warming causes greater variability in > weather patterns ... you get the same kinds of weather you always got, but > going more towards the extremes. > > We got worse drought in the sout

Re: Somewhat OT : So who knows how to do this? I.e. "help"

2010-02-09 Thread Cotty
On 9/2/10, ann sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed: >Now what I hope someone will say is that I can make a clip, save it and >the file extension will be one that >is compatible with Adobe Elements 5.0 ... or my darkside file editor >that I never use. See if you can 'save as' a Windows Media f

Re: PESO: Sometimes

2010-02-09 Thread Cotty
On 9/2/10, Bob Sullivan, discombobulated, unleashed: >That's an admirable shot. I wish I was there. I guess I missed the >last chance. Nh. Four moor shots mate - just wear v dark shades to get that day- for-night effect ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pas

Re: GESO - Hirshhorn Juncture

2010-02-09 Thread Ken Waller
I especially like Juncture I - due to the inclusion of the curve with the straight lines. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "Boris Liberman" Subject: Re: GESO - Hirshhorn Juncture Tom, this is very Eschersque... The first one is clear winner.

Re: GFM-NPW in 2011

2010-02-09 Thread Cotty
On 9/2/10, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >It has just occurred to me, and this hinges on getting hired by the >carrier that has won all of our school routes, that since they do not >offer incentive bonuses for not missing any work, and going accident >free for the yerar, there is no

Re: peso - pair

2010-02-09 Thread Ken Waller
Too bad there isn't more separation in the colors of the coats and the black background. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "Sasha Sobol" Subject: peso - pair http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/4342024309/ Comments and critique are welcome! -

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Ken Waller
I thought sRGB was mainly used for web viewing. Shouldn't you be using RGB for printing? Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: "Chris Mitchell" Subject: RE: lightroom configuration for costco prints From: William Robb To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Where else...

2010-02-09 Thread Margus Männik
...in the world you get your prints from the largest retailer in the paper bag like this? Even if you are a C*n*n shooter... http://home.uninet.ee/~margus02/peso/ BR, Margus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the P

Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints

2010-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > I am going to try getting some shots printed at the local costco at 12x18. > I've learned just enough to think I'd want to tune Lightroom's export to > their printer, but don't know what that would be. > > What settings should I tell lightroom o

Re: GESO - 25

2010-02-09 Thread Doug Brewer
Bob W wrote: 2009 in 25 Photographs http://www.alphoto.com/images/25/ enjoy How have I managed to miss so many of these? You didn't miss them; Many of them were shown for the first time. That's a superb sequence of photos. It's like an American version of the stuff that Luka posts, and

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