Re: OT - Twitter

2014-05-22 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
On 5/22/2014 2:05 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: On 5/22/2014 1:47 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: P.J. Alling wrote: See, this is what passes for discourse on twitter, and I believe that you've both proved my point, so thank you for your support. That's like saying books are stupid: You can prove the

Re: The Saga Continues

2014-05-10 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
Blue Moon should read Pale Moon their logo is blue and I just had a brain fart. On 5/10/2014 11:10 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: Speaking of bookmarks, the latest upgrade of Firefox seems to have lost a bunch of mine in it's latest upgrade on my small laptop. I've been a fan of Firefox, well since

Re: Image size when publishing to Flickr from LR

2014-04-30 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
That should be 800 horizontal, no wonder no one ever likes my photos. On 4/30/2014 12:07 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: Hum, I'm still doing 000 horizontal, 700 vertical max, perhaps everyone has gotten large monitors and I can up my image sizes. On 4/30/2014 11:52 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:

Re: PESO -- Big Glass.

2014-04-23 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
On 4/23/2014 10:07 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: It's about 1/2 of the image out of the lower middle of a K-5II frame, so about 8mp of data. As I said, I could probably make a decent 8x10 print from it, maybe even bigger. The lens can produce some pretty weird bokah, from the donuts, to a doubling

Re: More on K200/4

2014-03-23 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
My writing style is suffering from something, that's for sure. First off the image quality seems to be pretty nice. Now my comment: All the Pentax manual focus f4.0 200mm lenses are supposed to be very good. Though going against the usual pattern, the M version seems to be sharper with

Re: I just received the Adorama announcement of the K-3

2013-10-08 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
So I got the email from BH Photo so it's really, really, real. (Currently channeling my inner 12yo Girl). On 10/7/2013 8:24 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: I already saw that, but they didn't e-mail me about it yet. On 10/7/2013 8:21 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:

Re: September PUG - 'Long Exposure' - is up

2013-09-04 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
That should be you are work, it should be your work. Dammed spell checker traditiona On 9/4/2013 9:42 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: No reflection on you Brian, you're work is highly appreciated, but perhaps you should re-institute the open gallery portion of the PUG. I didn't really have a long

Re: KEH has an A* 135mm f1.8

2013-07-23 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
electrolytic??? That should be electronic! I should really really proof read these before I post them. On 7/22/2013 11:20 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: Timex's old mechanical design was an escapement mechanism which wasn't the most accurate, a good copy would give +/- 5 minutes a day, a bad copy

Re: Geso A gallery from the plow demo

2013-07-21 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
So after I posted this, I got to thinking, the tractor in question looked a lot earlier than mid 20th century. In fact more like from the teens or twenties. There were a lot of web sites that postulated that it and it's type were prediesel designs but both diesel and gasoline tractors had

Re: Feast your eyes on this!

2013-07-08 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
So now the worst part, since I visited this page, every Google ad that my flash blocker doesn't stop is showing me this same K110D on Amazon. On 7/8/2013 3:55 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: The K110D still available for $829.99 only one left in stock! http://tinyurl.com/mqrqfo4 -- PDML

Re: PESO -- Blue

2013-06-28 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
And in case anyone cares there is no K20R I just can't type. On 6/28/2013 8:05 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: I've been in a bit of a photographic funk lately, but for some reason I kind of like this. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20%20blue.html Equipment: Pentax K20R

Adorama offers free photo book.

2013-06-11 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
Just what it says. You have to subscribe to their deals e-news letter, but they give you a personal code to create a 8x8 14 page photo book. I guess I'll try it out, it doesn't look like it will tax my computer or photographic skills particularly. Now all I have to do is see if I can come

Re: WTB: SMC Pentax 70-210mm F Zoom

2013-06-02 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
Dammit, disassemble, should be disassembly On 6/2/2013 4:21 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: They're getting to be hard to find in good working condition, the first I owned I think I paid ~$60-70. It died with the symptoms of a loose screw from the zooming mechanism, having dropped into the focusing

Re: Adobe acknowledges cool reception

2013-06-01 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
That should be entrepreneur, not entrapment. Damned spell checker... On 6/1/2013 12:30 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: It's one thing to create a better product and let customers decide to buy it, if it better suits their needs they will, and modify your old product to lock existing customers into

PESO -- The Three Amigos

2013-03-12 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
I thought this was pretty good until I noticed the unfortunate sconce growing out of the top of the guy on the rights head, oh well. Sometimes content trumps composition... https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20%20threeamigos.html Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax FA 20-35mm

Re: PESO -- The Three Amigos

2013-03-12 Thread aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com
You shoot with the equipment you've got with ya'. On 3/12/2013 6:12 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: I'd have been more concerned about the unfortunately harsh on-axis light and shadows. ;-) On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM, aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com aggrivatedathotm...@gmail.com wrote: I thought