On 29/03/2012 11:00 PM, David Mann wrote:
Found this linked from a BBC News article. Hours of fun.
http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html
Hours of boredom perhaps Erosion is faster than this.
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On 29/03/2012 12:40 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Models often complain about the "Guy With a Camera". He'll pretend to know (or
likely actually thinks he does) photography, and will hire models not so much as an
opportunity to get photos, but to see naked pretty women. When the models do the work
T
> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
> David Mann
>
> On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
>
> > So everybody: start squirreling away images now so they can be
> > discovered after your death and make somebody wealthy from book and
> > exhibition d
Found this linked from a BBC News article. Hours of fun.
http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html
Cheers,
Dave
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On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
> So everybody: start squirreling away images now so they can be
> discovered after your death and make somebody wealthy from book and
> exhibition deals.
I prefer the plan of discovering some dead person's photos. That way I get to
be the rich o
steve harley wrote:
> on 2012-03-29 18:01 knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote
> > I suppose the problem I have with that advice is that in fact it's
> not advice as much as marketing. I wonder who photo.net's biggest
> advertisers are if not Nikon or Canon?
>
> i think it's more a case of Phil Greens
You can count on it, Bob!
He's out there at 8:30 every morning -- perfect light and all.
(There are also wild turkeys and white tail deer that like to hang out
in the abutting wheat field early in the morning.)
-- Walt
On 3/29/2012 10:20 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Walt,
You've got to get some
I can see where it might be a smidge vexing to see all the photos of
greenery while you're going through that.
Here's hoping you'll get settled into warm-weather pattern soon. :-)
-- Walt
On 3/29/2012 10:17 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
It's been an extremely mild early spring here, too
Walt,
You've got to get some shots of the horses in training around the track.
Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to post a few shots I got with my K-x today -- the final day
> (hopefully) before my K20D arrives.
>
> A couple of shots m
It's been an extremely mild early spring here, too. Temps into the mid-twenties
(low seventies fahrenheit) last week; I wore shorts and short-sleeved jerseys!
Since then a real rollercoaster. A couple warm days, a couple cold days. And
tomorrow a chance of snow flurries. :-(
Still a mild winte
Thank you, Frank!
It's been the most beautiful early spring I can recall in my entire
life. You should see the spring wheat fields -- they're so green they
almost hurt your eyes on a sunny day.
It was just a beautiful day to get out -- even if I hadn't got a single
keeper all day, I'd have e
Wow, those are beautiful, Walt!
Sure is green down there. I'm surprised there's so much foliage this early in
the spring.
Cheers,
frank
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." --
Christopher Hitchens
--- Original Message ---
From: Walt Gilbert
Sent: March 29, 20
Hi all,
Just wanted to post a few shots I got with my K-x today -- the final day
(hopefully) before my K20D arrives.
A couple of shots may look familiar as they're slightly different takes
on shots that I've taken before and sought to improve upon.
Serendipitously enough, I ran into the gent
Thanks, Bipin and JC
Dan Matyola
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
> Dan, I have the Tamron 75-300 LD and it is rather soft at the 200 to
> 300mm end. I intend selling it off. Try and get the Sigma APO 70-300 $
> 160 used at KEH
on 2012-03-29 18:01 knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote
I suppose the problem I have with that advice is that in fact it's not advice
as much as marketing. I wonder who photo.net's biggest advertisers are if not
Nikon or Canon?
i think it's more a case of Phil Greenspun not really attending to his
On 3/29/2012 5:15 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
That indeed a very cool photo. Imaginative and well-executed.
Thank you Frank, and everyone else who looked and commented.
Larry
Cheers,
frank
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." --
Christopher Hi
Problem is, Larry, there's too much truth in that statement for one not to take
it seriously.
That's not to say that it's not witty and humorous; it is. But it comes across
as much more than a joke to me.
I'd say it's more of a wry commentary.
:-)
cheers,
frank
"What can be asserted without
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Tom C wrote:
>> That's fairly common advice. In reality, it's probably not bad.
>>
>> On the one hand, if a person is going to buy a camera without doing
>> much research, steering them towards the brands with the largest
>> market share isn't a horrible idea. If
That's really lovely.
Cheers,
frank
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Cool.
She looks like she could be a handful, but still kinda fun...
:-)
cheers,
frank
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Sent: March 29, 2012 3/29/12
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That indeed a very cool photo. Imaginative and well-executed.
Cheers,
frank
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Sent: March 29, 2012 3/29/12
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"
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So everybody: start squirreling away images now so they can be
discovered after your death and make somebody wealthy from book and
exhibition deals.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
>
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/03/29/149607939/found-in-a-closet-a-photo-trove
Wow.
That is incredible.
Thanks so much for sharing that with us, Darren
Cheers,
frank
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." --
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Thank you, Bulent, Walt and everyone else who commented or looked.
I have to admit, I considered a rude caption or title myself but resisted the
temptation.
;-)
Cheers,
frank
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I suppose the problem I have with that advice is that in fact it's not advice
as much as marketing. I wonder who photo.net's biggest advertisers are if not
Nikon or Canon?
People think they are getting unbiased advice but in fact photo.net are
appeasing their patrons. They give that advice not
Yes thank you for sharing this story.
Photo Captures by Jeffery
http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com
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Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:24 PM
To: Pentax-D
Very cool. Thanks, Darren!
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
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>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/03/29/149607939/found-in-a-closet-a-photo-trove-of-60s-icons
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Quoting kwal...@peoplepc.com:
My son is about to publish an architecture book on Blurb and I was
wondering in anyone on the list has a Blurb discount code they're
willing to let him use?
Thanks in advance.
He could try these, but they expire on 31/3.
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/blur
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:29 PM, wrote:
> My son is about to publish an architecture book on Blurb and I was wondering
> in anyone on the list has a Blurb discount code they're willing to let him
> use?
If he's buying in bulk, and soon:
This is just a quick reminder that your Blurb savings exp
Wow, thanks everyone! Bruce, Brian, Rick, knarf, Ken, Dan, Dave, Don, Larry and
Darren :-)
DagT
Den 26. mars 2012 kl. 22:16 skrev Darren Addy:
> "Nice" is far too inadequate to describe this image. I'd have to go
> with "Superb"!
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote:
>
> On 3/29/2012 2:13 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
>>
>> We've chatted about this before, and I opined that perhaps your K20D
>> was out of spec. It's also possible that my K20D is magical.:-) I
>> doubt it though, although I think Walt believes it.
>Either it's true love or he's showing her a splinter.
Well... It reminds me "something else".
Am I normal?
(Lovely moment perfectly captured, by the way).
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> Apple tells you what is *supported* according to their testing. The
> physical capabilities might be greater but they're not actually
> supported insofar as Apple's testing, service and repair is concerned.
> Engineering often builds in m
On 3/29/2012 2:13 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
We've chatted about this before, and I opined that perhaps your K20D
was out of spec. It's also possible that my K20D is magical.:-) I
doubt it though, although I think Walt believes it.;-)
All I know is that the Pentax Faerie only appears to those who b
on 2012-03-29 12:41 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote
i have a lot of experience correlating performance with RAM upgrades, and i
join a lot of others in advising that RAM is usually the best
price/performance upgrade you can do
Whole system performance is much more important than just RAM size.
the per
On 3/29/2012 12:13 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Interesting, I found the noise characteristic of my K20 horrible. At least
in color. Lots of blue speckles. In black and white it just looke
On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:46 AM, steve harley wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> that's exactly what's weird about it; they support 16 GB but for some reason
>>> Apple doesn't tell you; that's one
on 2012-03-29 12:54 Larry Colen wrote
*Apple officially supports 4 GB of RAM, but third-parties have been able to
upgrade the system to 6 GB of RAM using one 2 GB and one 4 GB memory module.
Mine currently has 3GB of RAM, and I thought it was maxed out. It has
definitely been running into per
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
>>
>> There are two important factors to this noise being lower than you expected.
>
> Bruce, I'm going to have to steal these hints for my notes on low light
> photography.:
>
>>
>> The first
On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:46 AM, steve harley wrote:
>>
>
>> that's exactly what's weird about it; they support 16 GB but for some reason
>> Apple doesn't tell you; that's one reason i use everymac.com to check specs
>> on Macs
>
> Appl
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:46 AM, steve harley wrote:
> not sure what you mean by "green" — user CPU%? free RAM?
free RAM
>> I wouldn't worry too much about memory, really. The MBA13" does just
>> fine with Lr4 and 4G RAM.
>
> because that machine can't be upgraded, you'll never know what it mig
Models often complain about the "Guy With a Camera". He'll pretend to know (or
likely actually thinks he does) photography, and will hire models not so much
as an opportunity to get photos, but to see naked pretty women. When the
models do the work TFF/TFP, what they get is so bad it's not usab
on 2012-03-29 24:37 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote
I arrived home this evening and fired up my MBP 13", dropped a DVD in
to rip (want to watch it on the iPad, so I rip them into an MP4 file)
with WinX Ripper for Mac and started the ripping process. I did my
accounting, started Lightroom 4 and imported a
If you can live with manual focus, the tokina at-x 100-300/4
lens is outstanding and there is an "A" version of it. FF too.
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From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Bipin
Dan, I have the Tamron 75-300 LD and it is rather soft at the 200 to
300mm end. I intend selling it off. Try and get the Sigma APO 70-300 $
160 used at KEH EX+ grade, which is better. I have taken test shots
from my neighbor's lens and it is far better than the Tamron. The
Pentax SMC DAL 50-200 is
> That's fairly common advice. In reality, it's probably not bad.
>
> On the one hand, if a person is going to buy a camera without doing
> much research, steering them towards the brands with the largest
> market share isn't a horrible idea. If later, they go looking for
> books, articles or acc
That’s weird... if I did the same things (ripping while running that
assortment of software) I’d be seeing a lot of big pauses and the
occasional pinwheel. Hm, I usually also have Eclipse running and 3
browsers with a total of 100 or so tabs... -T
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Godfrey DiGiorg
Very cute!
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>
> A friend came over to do a photo shoot today, this was one of the more fun
> ones:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7025340751/in/set-72157629326535382/
>
> C&C always welcome.
>
> --
> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent fro
That is an excellent image, with pleasing colors and effective composition.
You must have an expensive camera to go with that great lens.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> I've been enjoying the Nokton 50mm
That's fairly common advice. In reality, it's probably not bad.
On the one hand, if a person is going to buy a camera without doing
much research, steering them towards the brands with the largest
market share isn't a horrible idea. If later, they go looking for
books, articles or accessories, t
Very imaginative
Dave
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
> A friend came over to do a photo shoot today, this was one of the more fun
> ones:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7025340751/in/set-72157629326535382/
>
> C&C always welcome.
>
> --
> Larry Colen l...@red4est.c
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Doug Franklin wrote:
> I'd love to, but it's always on a bad date for me, so I won't make it this
> year, once again. However, those of you who do make it will appreciate my
> absence. My brother tells me my snoring sounds scarily like an alien
> autopsy.
Every
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
> I called and told him you would like his mailing address and all I got back
> was a dial tone.(?)
Thats all i need for tracking. One ring or two.:-)
Dave
>
> Jack.
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: David J Brooks
> To: Pentax-Disc
I've been enjoying the Nokton 50mm lens so much the past week, I've been
neglecting my 40mm lens. I just love this focal length on an APS-C format
camera!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/6880587266/lightbox
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/6880587266/
There are a few others in
For better or worse (until I can save up for a K-5, which will be a
while), I've decided that my standard camera "kit" will be the K-r
with the SMC PENTAX-DA 1:3.5-5.6 18-135mm ED AL [IF] DC WR lens. Any
comments on the limitations of that combination will be appreciated.
I do, however, need a l
http://themetapicture.com/best-wedding-picture-ever/
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Oh, if you're running a VM like that, you need a MacBook Pro with 8G
for sure. The VMs are huge RAM and cpu hogs.
Never know. Maybe the next gen MBAs will have 8G.
G
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:24 AM, David Mann wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
>> I don't know why th
On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> I don't know why that would be so taxing. I often have both FireFox
> and Safari running side by side ...
I should come clean, I do run more than just two browsers. I tend to run in
one of two modes. "Working" involves the two browsers plu
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:02 AM, David Mann wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
>> It's right there in Processor and Memory. All current MBPs support up to 8G.
>
> I am a bit curious about that. Mine is getting fairly old and happily
> supports 4 which I think was it
On Mar 29, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> It's right there in Processor and Memory. All current MBPs support up to 8G.
I am a bit curious about that. Mine is getting fairly old and happily supports
4 which I think was its maximum specified. I'd have thought that the latest
ones s
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