Re: FA35mm video review

2021-04-11 Thread Juan Buhler
Thanks all! Cotty--my new challenge now will be to build a lens with a Coke bottle and test that theory :D j -- Juan Buhler - http://www.juanbuhler.com On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 3:08 AM Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 10/4/21, Juan Buhler, discombobulated, unleashed: > >

Re: GESO: DAFFODIL VARIETIES

2021-04-11 Thread Rick Womer
That’s nice. I like the backdrop. It looks as though the yellow-and-white flower might be a bit blown out in the highlights. Rick > On Apr 9, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Bob Pdml wrote: > > Some I saw this morning. The picture doesn’t really do the scene justice, but > quite nice all the same. > >

Re: PESO - Red Maple

2021-04-11 Thread ann sanfedele
always glad to do it.. and happy that suggestion is useful. ann On 4/11/2021 6:11 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Yes, I do! Thank you for the constructive suggestion! Rick On Apr 11, 2021, at 6:06 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: Yup - exactly :-) Do you agree? ann On 4/11/2021 6:01 PM, Rick Womer

Re: PESOs (4) - Heinz Refuge

2021-04-11 Thread ann sanfedele
Despite your distance from them I like the first coot shot.. they need other stuff going around and for them to be inaction mode to be interesting :-) and the yellow flowered blanket shot makes me long to be there. Don't know much about turtles - Except I'm old enough to have had more than

Re: PESO - Red Maple

2021-04-11 Thread Rick Womer
Yes, I do! Thank you for the constructive suggestion! Rick > On Apr 11, 2021, at 6:06 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > > Yup - exactly :-) Do you agree? > > ann > > > On 4/11/2021 6:01 PM, Rick Womer wrote: >> Thanks, Ann! >> >> Is this what you have in mind? >> >>

Re: PESO - Red Maple

2021-04-11 Thread ann sanfedele
Yup - exactly :-)  Do you agree? ann On 4/11/2021 6:01 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Thanks, Ann! Is this what you have in mind? https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2021/April-2021/April-Flowers/i-g2jMQpP/A Rick On Apr 11, 2021, at 10:19 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: That's gotta be one of your best ever

Re: PESO - Red Maple

2021-04-11 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks, Ann! Is this what you have in mind? https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2021/April-2021/April-Flowers/i-g2jMQpP/A Rick > On Apr 11, 2021, at 10:19 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: > > That's gotta be one of your best ever flower photos.. wild applause. just > the right amount of sharp feature

PESOs (4) - Heinz Refuge

2021-04-11 Thread Rick Womer
We had not visited the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge until Easter weekend, even though it is a 20-minute drive from our house. It is noted for the variety of waterfowl and other birds that stop over during migration season. We started down one of the trails and came upon two glum-looking

PESO - A couple more spring flowers

2021-04-11 Thread Paul Sorenson
K-3, DA 55-300, 1.4TC A cluster of daffies... http://www.studio1941.com/pdml-peso/index.html#img=PESO-IMGP4506v1.jpg Hyacinths... http://www.studio1941.com/pdml-peso/index.html#img=PESO-IMGP4510v1.jpg Last year's bee balm...

Re: PESO Wren

2021-04-11 Thread Toine
Haha, I was thinking about a pinhole camera to save weight. The camera is anything but crappy. They excelled at creating a gem of a lens and SR inside a very ugly and plastic case. Post corona I'll try this hubble telescope for street photography. On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 20:17, Larry Colen

Re: PESO Wren

2021-04-11 Thread Larry Colen
> On Apr 11, 2021, at 9:19 AM, Toine wrote: > > The Eurasian version: > https://www.repiuk.nl/albums/new/#=1=006-108-dscn0196 > > The sensor of the P950 is noisy and a joke compared to the sensor of > the KP. Shooting this at 1/125 @2000mm handheld is simply amazing, and > very addictive.

Re: PESO Wren

2021-04-11 Thread Toine
And a little post processing with Denoise AI also helps https://www.repiuk.nl/albums/new/#=1=006-111-dscn0196-edit On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 20:03, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > WOW! Excellent detail. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery >

Re: PESO Wren

2021-04-11 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
WOW! Excellent detail. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 12:19 PM Toine wrote: > The Eurasian version: > https://www.repiuk.nl/albums/new/#=1=006-108-dscn0196 > > The sensor of the P950 is noisy and a joke

Re: OT: Interesting sunrise shot -- followed by a bizare debate.

2021-04-11 Thread Stanley Halpin
The app Bob mentions is one I first heard of in the context of where/when one needed to be in order to capture the full moon framed by one of the arches in Arches National Park. I use The Photographer’s Ephemeris when travel planning. If I plan to be on a ship off the coast of Norway in early

Re: PESO Wren

2021-04-11 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 11.04.21 um 18:19 schrieb Toine: The sensor of the P950 is noisy and a joke compared to the sensor of the KP. It's what you do with it... ;-) Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio :

PESO Wren

2021-04-11 Thread Toine
The Eurasian version: https://www.repiuk.nl/albums/new/#=1=006-108-dscn0196 The sensor of the P950 is noisy and a joke compared to the sensor of the KP. Shooting this at 1/125 @2000mm handheld is simply amazing, and very addictive. This totally compensates for the cheap and flimsy plastic

Re: Geso: first flowers

2021-04-11 Thread ann sanfedele
Pretty good geometry given what you describe as how you shot them..  Like 2 and 3 best ann On 4/9/2021 1:44 PM, John wrote: That's where the articulated display on the K-1 comes in handy. On 4/8/2021 15:04:34, David J Brooks wrote: my few daffies are now in bloom. Because they are low to the

Re: PESO: the first frog of spring

2021-04-11 Thread ann sanfedele
Love it. He looks like he is working out with the bit of grass or branch his "hands" are resting on. and it's noce to see a frog shot in other than the typical sitting-on-a-lily-pad. Ribbit, ribbit. ann On 4/9/2021 11:40 AM, Toine wrote: I didn't see or hear them until today:

Re: PESO - Red Maple

2021-04-11 Thread ann sanfedele
That's gotta be one of your best ever flower photos.. wild applause.  just the right amount of sharp feature flowers and bokeh in beautiful light. But you know me and my preference for proportions that lean away from square.. I think it would be even more super if you trimmed the bottom just a

Re: OT: Interesting sunrise shot -- followed by a bizare debate.

2021-04-11 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
We saw the sunset version some years ago. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 7:34 AM ann sanfedele wrote: > Looks like the SF version of what we New Yorker's call MANHATTAN HENGE.. > > where there are specific

Re: OT: Interesting sunrise shot -- followed by a bizare debate.

2021-04-11 Thread ann sanfedele
Looks like the SF version of what we New Yorker's call MANHATTAN HENGE.. where there are specific streets where the sun lines up between the buildings at those times..it occurs twice a year for sunrises and twice a year for sunsets   interested folk can google more about it.. ann On

Re: FA35mm video review

2021-04-11 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 10/4/21, Juan Buhler, discombobulated, unleashed: >https://youtu.be/bdbVcA5cTIs You could get brilliance using a Coke bottle mate. I am humbled! Seriously, I watch your videos for the snaps mate ;-) -- Cheers Cotty -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To

Re: OT: Interesting sunrise shot -- followed by a bizare debate.

2021-04-11 Thread Bob Pdml
No, but it told me where to stand in the sun > On 11 Apr 2021, at 10:08, Alan C wrote: > > Did it forecast the cold snap? > > Alan C > >> On 11-Apr-21 09:26 AM, Bob Pdml wrote: >> Nice surf-shaped cloud in the photo. >> >> I have an app called The Photographer’s Ephemeris which shows you

Re: FA35mm video review

2021-04-11 Thread Henk Terhell
Juan, a nice video review! The FA 35/2 has always been one of my most favoured lenses. I bought it based on Yoshihiko's lens resolution tests: http://www.takinami.com/yoshihiko/photo/index.html I do like the hood which is very convenient. The only cosmetic weakness is the door on the hood for

Re: OT: Interesting sunrise shot -- followed by a bizare debate.

2021-04-11 Thread Alan C
Did it forecast the cold snap? Alan C On 11-Apr-21 09:26 AM, Bob Pdml wrote: Nice surf-shaped cloud in the photo. I have an app called The Photographer’s Ephemeris which shows you the path of the sun, the moon and the Milky Way at any date, time and place so you can work out when to get the

Re: OT: Interesting sunrise shot -- followed by a bizare debate.

2021-04-11 Thread Bob Pdml
Nice surf-shaped cloud in the photo. I have an app called The Photographer’s Ephemeris which shows you the path of the sun, the moon and the Milky Way at any date, time and place so you can work out when to get the best light etc. It could probably settle that discussion.