A fine full frame

2013-02-08 Thread Larry Colen
This has been rattling around in my brain all day, and now you have the benefit of sharing my earworm: Fine Full Frame Oh, she's got a fine full frame I wonder what could be her name She looks good to me, and all I can see Is her fine full frame How long has it been here Sister when did you

Re: OT: Pentax Has New Firmware

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
Maybe he meant it was on topic. On 2/6/2013 9:03 PM, Darren Addy wrote: How is this OT? :) -- Buy a Leica to get the full “Leica Experience”, (a quick reduction of funds in the bank account). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Why would you buy a Pentax FF camera?

2013-02-08 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 7/2/13, Tom C, discombobulated, unleashed: Buying the newest Corvette Stingray wouldn't make Paul Stenquist any more desirable to women, but if he had the money and that's what he desired, I wouldn't begrudge him the pleasure. I would!!! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast,

Re: Why would you buy a Pentax FF camera?

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
I think I'd actually be more inclined to buy a Pentax FF DSLR if it were 24mp than 36mp. Especially if Pentax worked the same magic with that sensor that they have with the 16mp sensor in the K-5. A 300 dpi, image would be 13 1/3 x 20 in size if you printed the full frame. Assuming a high

Re: Why would you buy a Pentax FF camera?

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
That probably depends upon the woman, but in general, no... unfortunately. On 2/7/2013 6:37 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: But would a full frame camera make me more desirable? Paul via phone On Feb 7, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: John Sessoms wrote: I think the thing that

Re: Why would you buy a Pentax FF camera?

2013-02-08 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:43 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/7/2013 6:37 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: But would a full frame camera make me more desirable? That probably depends upon the woman, but in general, no... unfortunately. I've found that a larger camera helps by

Re: Mono printing

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/7/2013 1:24 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Hi de ho Does anyone know of anybody out there who makes a sort of mono printing conversion for inkjet printers? I have an old i865 which takes the popular BCI6 carts - I wonder if anyone has a method to turn it into a decent black and white printer

Re: Mono printing

2013-02-08 Thread Zos Xavius
The canon and epson both have monochrome modes that will not color cast. P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/7/2013 1:24 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Hi de ho Does anyone know of anybody out there who makes a sort of mono printing conversion for inkjet printers? I have an old

Re: One of the advantages of optical viewfinders

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
I noticed that a lower tier Nikon as well, don't remember the model, but without power the viewfinder was unusable for focusing. On 8/3/2012 11:32 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: The first time I took a D800 at my eye I was puzzled because when the camera is off you can barely see through the

Peso On such a winters day

2013-02-08 Thread Don Guthrie
Looks like a slow Friday. Here's a dreary winter scene from last weekend to darken your day. CC always taken in the spirit it is given. http://donspix.posterous.com/sometime-the-winter-in-the-midwest-without-sn#!/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: One of the advantages of optical viewfinders

2013-02-08 Thread George Sinos
I must have come into the middle of a discussion. Are you saying that you focus with the camera turned off, then turn it on and hit the shutter button? That sounds like an unusual method of work. I'm a little confused here. gs George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com

Re: Peso On such a winters day

2013-02-08 Thread Bob Sullivan
Don, Nice picture. Not as nice as LeeAnne, but still quite good. I wish the sky had something going on in it, and that you had all the tree branches to the right. It may be dreary, but that's winter. The barn, the tree, and the flat, wide open fields are what a midwest winter is about. Regards,

Re: One of the advantages of optical viewfinders

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
No, I'm saying that the focusing screen was unusable for manual focusing when the camera was not powered up. No matter how you turned the focusing ring the viewfinder seemed dark and unfocused. Once power was turned on the viewfinder brightened and manual focus was possible... Well mostly,

PESO -- Major Snow Event®

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
When did it become de rigueur to complicate the language with pseudo technical jargon® like Major Snow Event® when plain English such as Snowstorm, or Major Snowstorm or even Blizzard express the situation perfectly well? Well anyway New England and the rest of the Northeast US are undergoing

Re: Why would you buy a Pentax FF camera?

2013-02-08 Thread Tom C
Why? The steering wheel's on the wrong side. What good would it do you? :) Tom C From: Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv On 7/2/13, Tom C, discombobulated, unleashed: Buying the newest Corvette Stingray wouldn't make Paul Stenquist any more desirable to women, but if he had the money and

Re: For Cotty: Amateur version of GoPro

2013-02-08 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 7/2/13, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: http://solsticevisuals.com/post/41297830142/the-opposite-of-go-pro Like the duct tape. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Producion --www.seeingeye.tv _

Re: PESO -- Major Snow Event®

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
I forgot in case anyone is interested the BW conversion was accomplished with Fotomatic's free BW conversion program applied after all other adjustments using their pseudo Yellow Filter. On 2/8/2013 6:45 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: When did it become de rigueur to complicate the language with

Re: Why would you buy a Pentax FF camera?

2013-02-08 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 8/2/13, Tom C, discombobulated, unleashed: Why? The steering wheel's on the wrong side. What good would it do you? :) Humour arf arf -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Producion --www.seeingeye.tv _ --

Re: If they never made anything new...

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
I was perfectly happy with manual focus Pentax LX and MX cameras for most of my photographic career. I had stopped working for newspapers long before auto focus cameras were de regueur, and my results with digital are better than I had with film about 90% of the time, so yes I could easily get

Re: PESO -- Major Snow Event(R)

2013-02-08 Thread Christine Nielsen
... and I'd like to know when it became common practice to name these storms... Nemo is apparently how we are supposed to call this bit of weather we're having? Oh well, the wind is picking up, snow is flying... it hasn't accumulated too much here, south of Boston, a few inches, maybe... but

Re: PESO -- Major Snow Event(R)

2013-02-08 Thread Bob Sullivan
Imagine this. A long time Chicago News anchor (Bill Curtis), announced today that he had a special story on the Eastern storm and pictures of SNOW!!! Yes, we have SNOW here every year and 2 or 3 inches on the ground now. SNOW, like we've never seen it before. He CBS Chicago know better!

Re: PESO -- Major Snow Event(R)

2013-02-08 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Christine Nielsen ch...@inielsen.net wrote: ... and I'd like to know when it became common practice to name these storms... Nemo is apparently how we are supposed to call this bit of weather we're having? It's a marketing tactic started by the Weather Channel

Re: Why I have no hair left to pull out

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/7/2013 10:23 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Joseph McAllister On Feb 3, 2013, at 08:14 , John Sessoms wrote: From: Bob W [...] To be fair to the crony, this sort of thing happens even to experienced competent photographers who, for example, might mistake their K-7 for a K-5, leading

Re: totally OT but fun …

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
iRobot... On 2/7/2013 4:07 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: This arrived in the mail today: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25268645/Robot_Star_II-0242.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25268645/Robot_Star_II-0243.jpg 1938-40-ish Robot Star II with Zeiss Jena Biotar 40mm f/2 lens. Everything works, although

Re: totally OT but fun ...

2013-02-08 Thread P. J. Alling
On 2/7/2013 6:29 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 7/2/13, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25268645/Robot_Star_II-0243.jpg That's a HUGE knob there. But does it follow the three laws of Phototics? -- Buy a Leica to get the full “Leica Experience”, (a

Re: PESO -- Major Snow Event(R)

2013-02-08 Thread Paul Sorenson
Seven inches from yesterday's storm here in Milwaukee. This is what my back yard looked like this morning... http://studio1941.com/FebSnow/index.html -p On 2/8/2013 7:45 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Imagine this. A long time Chicago News anchor (Bill Curtis), announced today that he had a

Re: PESO -- Major Snow Event(R)

2013-02-08 Thread Mark Roberts
Christine Nielsen wrote: Oh well, the wind is picking up, snow is flying... it hasn't accumulated too much here, south of Boston, a few inches, maybe... but maybe by tomorrow we'll have huge piles... I walked the dog this morning, which will have to do... he doesn't seem to have any interest in

Re: PAW Week 5-2013

2013-02-08 Thread Boris Liberman
You're quite Walkden... On 2/4/2013 1:09 AM, Bob W wrote: you get awesomer every week, Christine. By week 52 you should have burst the awesomeness barrier and achieved almost total Ralph. B -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Christine Aguila

Re: At least they didn't shoot me

2013-02-08 Thread Boris Liberman
On 2/5/2013 9:14 AM, Larry Colen wrote: I posted this story elsewhere, but since it actually has a little to HR offers to let me have the day off, and they'll square it with my boss, who knows nothing about this, but I decline. A little later someone from HR shows up in my cube with a $25