Re: OT: Obama just won Nobel Peace Prize.

2009-10-10 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/10 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Oppenheimer.  The atomic bomb kept the peace for 50+ years, at least there were no major shooting wars for 50 years because no one wanted to risk a conventional war getting out of hand.  Probably the first time that a weapon was actually too

Re: OPT: Samsung GX30

2009-10-10 Thread AlunFoto
Jens, I think this may have been discussed before, but did you try to use a separate logger and combine the images and GPS logs at the computer afterwards? Jostein 2009/10/10 Jens p...@planfoto.dk: Hello All This is supposed to be a Pentax K7, but faster (6 fps) and a built in GPS. I need

Re: Raynox 250 on AF160FC on F100macro

2009-10-10 Thread AlunFoto
Cool shots, Toine! They look like winged aphids. For my snow crystal shots I usually do between 2x and 4x, but still hesitate to call it microscope... :-) Jostein 2009/10/10 Toine to...@repiuk.nl: I noticed the AF160FC ringflash has a filter thread inside the ring which sparked an idea.

Re: OT: Obama just won Nobel Peace Prize.

2009-10-09 Thread AlunFoto
Personally I too am disappointed with their pick this year, I think they had other strong candidates who'd deserve the acknowledgement more than do mr. Obama. That's not a critique of his work, though. I would have thought him a natural candidate in the years to come if he continues as he's

Re: OT: Obama just won Nobel Peace Prize.

2009-10-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/9 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: At the time of the nomination dead line Obama had been a world leader all of two weeks give or take, before that his most recent important position was a part time lobbyest for Chicago's Daley Machine masquerading as the Jr. Senator from

Re: OT: Obama just won Nobel Peace Prize.

2009-10-09 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/9 Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com: You obviousky haven't seen the powers of the list yet. PDML is pure hell for spellcheckers. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Coming to Chicago for PDML Exhibit

2009-10-08 Thread AlunFoto
I seriously consider coming. :-) Jostein 2009/10/8 Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net: Hi Everyone: Work has me so busy I haven't been able to keep up with PDML, but I've got a bit of a free window here to pose some possibilities, so here goes: 1)  I know it might be too early for a

Re: What did I use to take that shot?

2009-10-08 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/8 John Coyle jco...@powerup.com.au: Hi Brian - if you create a shortcut to the program file on your desktop, then drag-and-drop from Windows Explorer, it works as John suggested it would.  You do have to then click on Open With and confirm the run as it comes from an Unknown publisher!

Re: What did I use to take that shot?

2009-10-08 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/8 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: David Mann wrote: I get the Hit any key to close window message appearing in a DOS box. Yep, I get the same thing no matter what I try. You guys beat me. I've never localised the any key. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

Re: OT: Nobel prize to inventor of CCD

2009-10-07 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/7 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: I am not sure why you singled out one of the two CCD inventors. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/index.html Heard the news on the radio, and from the way the sentences were strung together I got the impression that only one name

Re: Using netbook as a photo-storage

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
Thanks for the report, Igor! On a similar line, I have tried for a while to sell my Jobo GIGAvu Pro Evolution (40 Gb), but got no offers. So I ended up playing with it instead. I replaced the disk with a 320 Gb equivalent, and it works like a breeze. A 320 Gb disk sold in bulk doesn't cost much

Re: K-7, shadow compensation and raw file conversion

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/5 John Francis jo...@panix.com: I'm pretty sure I saw differences in the histograms on the chimping screen. Don't forget those histograms are built from the preview JPEG, not RAW data. Bingo! Thanks John. Didn't think of that... However I still suspect some processing instructions

Re: keywords in LightRoom

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/5 Graydon o...@uniserve.com: That tree is really an acyclic directed graph, I'm sorry, I think we belong to different tribes... :-) and because of the one-and-only-one-path property of those graphs (there is only one way to get to any node in the graph from the root of the tree), if

Re: pentax photo gallery

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
Mark and Doug, I think you're both right. It's great to have one's photos evaluated by others sometimes. The problem is always that you don't know who the others are. At PPG, the taste of the voting flock is bound to drift depending on who's doing it at the time. There are some who do regular

Re: Using netbook as a photo-storage

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
%+ discounts. I have no idea if that is cheap relative to the bay etc. but just FYI Cheers Ecke 2009/10/6 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: Thanks for the report, Igor! On a similar line, I have tried for a while to sell my Jobo GIGAvu Pro Evolution (40 Gb), but got no offers. So I ended up playing

OT: Nobel prize to inventor of CCD

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Smith A photographic congratulations is in place, I feel. :-) Cheers, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: pentax photo gallery

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/6 Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com: Oh, that part, I definitely agree with.  I just don't feel like the PPG is a good way to do that, due to the dynamic nature of the jury and the lack of a theme or focus, or, really, any direction at all to the jury.  Between a changing jury

Re: keywords in LightRoom

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
Graydon, 2009/10/6 Graydon o...@uniserve.com: Which is what I thought I was talking about. Then I must apologise for my cheekiness. I have also looked up what an acyclic directed graph is. :-) Curiously, I have always thought of it in terms of it being like a food web, from my long gone

Re: Using netbook as a photo-storage

2009-10-06 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/6 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: Isn't there a converter cable from SATA? Hmm... Haven't seen one... Or is it the other way round? That's quite common. Is there space anyway? It's rather cramped inside the unit. Why am I not in bed, asleep? No idea. I'm one hour ahead of

Re: DPR review of K-7

2009-10-05 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/5 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: Do you use the battery grip to shoot with your left hand? RESISTANCE is useless. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: keywords in LightRoom

2009-10-05 Thread AlunFoto
Boris, It's inside the catalog. What you ought to do is to export the keywords. THen you get a structured text file which you can edit in a standard editor, and then import back into LR afterwards. There's one important thing you need to know, though, which I didn't know myself when I wrote the

Re: keywords in LightRoom

2009-10-05 Thread AlunFoto
Heh. Just looke through the thread in the archive, and apparently I'm just repeating myself. :-( Sorry about the wasted bandwidth. Jostein 2009/10/5 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: Boris, It's inside the catalog. What you ought to do is to export the keywords. THen you get a structured text file

K-7, shadow compensation and raw file conversion

2009-10-05 Thread AlunFoto
gang, I played with the shadow compensation feature in the K-7 this week-end, to see how much it actually compressed the histogram. It looked good on the camera screen, and the amount of detail lifted out of the mirk was quite significant, using the Pentax/Silkypix software. With LightRoom there

Re: K-7, shadow compensation and raw file conversion

2009-10-05 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/5 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I think it only works on jpegs, and it's just an in-camera processing gimick. I'm pretty sure I saw differences in the histograms on the chimping screen. But it could still be a processing gimmick, if the details of the processing are just

Re: GESO - Rust and Waves

2009-10-05 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/5 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: Your friend is a sea Kjell? Har. You part of a digestive system? :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OT: Quote of the day

2009-10-03 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/3 Scott Loveless sdlovel...@gmail.com:  Apples makes things rot around themselves because of all the nasty  gases they emit.  To air things out you need to open windows. Until the windows crash and break and let the weather in - then you put  on a mac ;-) Penguins do quite well in

Re: OT: Quote of the day

2009-10-03 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/3 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: What's a Cubit?     --Noah An archetype scale of measurment? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: DPR review of K-7

2009-10-03 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/3 Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com: On the other hand, it would appear that if if you've got a K20, the K-7 gets you the exact same image quality, plus video, in a nicer package.  Which is a tough sell for $1000+. I agree. As long as we only measure the two cameras on image quality and

Re: DPR review of K-7

2009-10-03 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/3 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I had a K20D and a K10D. The K20D was my every day camera, and the K10D was a backup. When the K7 was introduced I bought one and sold the K10. Believe me, the K7D is a big step up from the K20. Exposure is much better, the faster write speed

Re: DPR review of K-7

2009-10-03 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/3 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: That should read When the K20D came out... When the K20D I was a bit surprised by how all the forums blabbed about it being a minor upgrade from K10D, despite the facts. They are two very, very different beasts. The K10D was probably as good as any APS

Re: OT: Quote of the day

2009-10-03 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/3 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: What's a Cubit? Similar to a piefor. Not too far removed from a henlay. What's the speed measure again... Was it furlongs per fortnight? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: My first blog (GESO)

2009-10-02 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/2 Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ Every now and then I may post some PDML stuff here to. Time will tell. You mean Tim will tell. :-) Looks all cool to me. Even the surfers look cool. Escpecially this one, of course:

Re: My first blog (GESO)

2009-10-02 Thread AlunFoto
One fantastic feature of our insignificant little language up here is the ease with which we can create new words by just combining others. Google Translate doesn't stand a chance. :-) Jostein who really enjoys the værtetting in Pentax cameras 2009/10/2 Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com:

Re: Pentax World Global Shoot Day Oct 10

2009-10-02 Thread AlunFoto
It's a great thing for the people over at PentaxForums. Personally I strongly dislike the forum interface so I stay away from there. Reminds me of a tradition we had with the PUG, to do equinox photos. The time window was plus/minus a couple of hours, IIRC. Depending somewhat on when the

Re: PESO #033 (Boris)

2009-10-02 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/2 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2009/10/peso-2009-033.html Be brutal and honest. I see the connection between the grafitti and the signs in the background, but I think they are separated by too much space. Just my two agorot. :-) Jostein --

Re: how many (US) national parks have you been to?

2009-10-02 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/2 ann sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com: And relative to that, how many National Parks have you been to? Possibly some from the other side of the Pond have more on their list than some of  us who live here... I had to look up the list:

Re: OT: Quote of the day

2009-10-02 Thread AlunFoto
Apples makes things rot around themselves because of all the nasty gases they emit. To air things out you need to open windows. Jostein 2009/10/2 Bob W p...@web-options.com: Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway

Re: 645D news

2009-10-01 Thread AlunFoto
At a convent in Tokyo last May, I think 10. June 2010 was mentioned as target date for the 645D. Jostein 2009/10/1 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: As announced minutes ago in the UK pub. Pentax User. It may have already appeared here, but I missed it. Pentax are hoping to release the

Re: K-x color envy is ripe

2009-10-01 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/1 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: I want a dayglo pink and lime 645D. Rotfl! Maaark! Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: 645D news

2009-10-01 Thread AlunFoto
2009/10/1 Christian christ...@skofteland.net: At a convent in Tokyo last May, I think 10. June 2010 was mentioned as target date for the 645D. Slow workers, those nuns. But very thorough. I bet they can fit many more pixels on the sensor than your average assembly worker, too. They're very

Re: Dave Brooks' day

2009-09-30 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/30 John Francis jo...@panix.com: Our maths teacher sprung this one on us in the 5th form (ob.us - around 11th grade).  He asked us to estimate the probability that two people in our class of around 30 shared the same birthday.  He chose a few people to guess, before he revealed the

Re: Dave Brooks' day

2009-09-30 Thread AlunFoto
if that helps. From: Boris Liberman Hmmm... Greetings and salutations indeed. Anyone born on Sept 16th here?  ;-) Boris AlunFoto wrote: Hope I've got the date right: Happy birthday Dave! Cheers, Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: My own Pentax blog.

2009-09-30 Thread AlunFoto
Pascal, I read your blog before I asked. :-) What I would like to know is how you judge the exposures. If you apply sharpening to the exposures before counting line pairs, for example. Which raw file converter you use is also important, as they seem to vary in their ability to extract detail. And

Re: K-x color envy is ripe

2009-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
I've been thinking about this colour thing for a bit too. Pink isn't my favourite either... :-) But today there's already a well-established aftermarket for skinning both cameras and lenses. Most oldtimers on the list will remember the snake-skin leatherette varieties applied to the LX (César,

Re: PESO - Burn Notice

2009-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
Torched forest and fire in the sky. The way the trees are aligned towards the horizon amplifies it for me. Like it a lot. Jostein 2009/9/28 eactiv...@aol.com: One more PESO before I go to a GESO of my trip  (since most were pretty ordinary shots -- I am out of practice not having done  

Re: Dave Brooks' day

2009-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
Paradoxically, I was under the impression that Cakalic himself had friends on this list. If memory serves me right, he has even presented the list with photos of meetings with them. Tom, if it it bothers you so that other people have friends which they wish greetings to on their birthdays, then I

Re: OT: What I have been doing the last year

2009-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
Congratulations on your achievement, Walter. Will order. :-) Jostein 2009/9/29 Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/?action=viewcurrent=AstrologArticle.jpg This is my latest creation, a novel that has been floating around in my head for 10 or

Re: My own Pentax blog.

2009-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
Hi Pascal, Appreciate your effort! Both with the language and the lenses. Would you mind making a post in your blog about your methods of measurement? Best, Jostein 2009/9/27 Pascal De Pauw pascal.de.p...@telenet.be: Hé, I've started my onw Pentax blog, to publish the testnote's of my own

Re: Dave Brooks' day

2009-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
Uh, that came out unreasonably rash. Apologies, Tom. Jostein 2009/9/29 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: Paradoxically, I was under the impression that Cakalic himself had friends on this list. If memory serves me right, he has even presented the list with photos of meetings with them. Tom

Re: Dave Brooks' day

2009-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/29 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: Uh, that came out unreasonably rash. Apologies, Tom. Jostein Typo. rash - harsh. However including both is probably the most accurate. again, sorry. It was uncalled for. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML

Re: Dave Brooks' day

2009-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
)   :-) By the way, did any of you, as did I, have to try out a couple of Pentax pens at the K-7 tour meetings to find one that worked?  Hoya QC? On Sep 29, 2009, at 01:13 , AlunFoto wrote: Paradoxically, I was under the impression that Cakalic himself had friends on this list. If memory serves me right

Re: Happy Birthday Marnie!

2009-09-28 Thread AlunFoto
Happy birdthay tomorrow, Marnie! Jostein 2009/9/28 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: One of the lovely ladies of the list is having a birthday today. Congratulations! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

Dave Brooks' day

2009-09-27 Thread AlunFoto
Hope I've got the date right: Happy birthday Dave! Cheers, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.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

Re: The Ethics of Photo-Cropping

2009-09-26 Thread AlunFoto
The principle of this is much more than just semantics. The photographer was present where the photo was made. What to include is the photographer's informed decision based on first hand accounts. An editorial crop will always be second-guessing the photographer's observation, and maybe put their

Re: PESO - getting back on rtack

2009-09-25 Thread AlunFoto
nice shot and autumn colours. I should have had a quote from Trainspotting, of course. :-( Jostein 2009/9/25 Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com: http://www.drivingtheflies.com/2009/09/23/getting-back-on-track/ enjoy -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Along the river

2009-09-24 Thread AlunFoto
Thanks for looking and commenting, all of you! I heard the occasional gunfire, but no banjos. :-) Guess the locals took out their tensions on the reindeer population. I suspect the most common bird of prey in the area is the Great Grey Owl. I saw one from a distance about half an hour after

Re: PESO - Along the river

2009-09-24 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/24 ann sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com: did you paddle your own? Indeed! :-) Solo canoeing is one of the nature experiences I treasure most. beautiful shot! Thanks Ann. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: OT: Images of some interesting and unusual trees

2009-09-23 Thread AlunFoto
Dan, Could it be a link to a Google Doc that is shared instead of published? Jostein 2009/9/23 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com:

PESO - Along the river

2009-09-23 Thread AlunFoto
http://alunfoto.blogspot.com/2009/09/along-river.html From a canoe trip last week-end. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: London PDML again

2009-09-17 Thread AlunFoto
A fabulous set, Stig. Jostein 2009/9/16 SV Hovland p...@heime.org: Bob, Chris and Jostein has already shown their wonderful pictures. Her are some of the pictures I took. http://download.heime.org/foto/London_PDML/index.html It was a nice and relaxing weekend and I hope I can do it again

Re: New Pentax stuff

2009-09-17 Thread AlunFoto
lol Order it in these colours, and you'd have to be careful about dropping it in the grass... http://www.camera-pentax.jp/k-x/#/simulator/040101 2009/9/17 Pasvorn Boonmark pasv...@boonmark.net: Wow, on the Pentax K-x site in Japan, they show 20 body colors + 5 grip colors.  

Re: You may want to check Pentax news Thursday (no, no FF, no 645)

2009-09-16 Thread AlunFoto
Link or vapor! :-) Jostein 2009/9/15 Thibouille pentaxl...@gmail.com: ...but interesting still. So quickly after K-7... Pentax are you mad? xD -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille -- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing:

Re: PESO - yellow

2009-09-16 Thread AlunFoto
Kinda eerie. But I still enjoyed. Good shot. Jostein 2009/9/15 Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com: http://www.drivingtheflies.com/2009/09/15/yellow/ enjoy -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: K-7 review on T.O.P.

2009-09-16 Thread AlunFoto
I've tried to follow Gordon Lewis' own blog for a while. I have found it uphill work, but mostly because I don't click with his writing style, I think. He's got strong opinions on most matters he cares to cover... Jostein 2009/9/16 Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au:

Re: You may want to check Pentax news Thursday (no, no FF, no 645)

2009-09-16 Thread AlunFoto
K9. I've heard it's a real bow-wow. K360 is in a real spin. K180: big, heavy, ugly, hard to grip, FF. K100 - feels like a million dollars :-) K666 --- a devil of a camera Then there's the K-KK, which comes only in the white-body version. Maybe there should be a K-ThxBi, to give

Re: PESO

2009-09-16 Thread AlunFoto
I like it. Some expression on that man's face... Jostein 2009/9/15 Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com: Somehow I like this: http://decluttr.com/3918857190 What do think? Thanks, --Sasha -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Environmental photographer of the year

2009-09-14 Thread AlunFoto
Thanks for posting, Bob. #5 is a great shot. Re. #1 I've never heard of parachuting ants before... :-) Jostein 2009/9/12 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I especially like number 5: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/sci_nat__environmental_phot ographer_of_the_year/html/1.stm Bob

Re: spam thread

2009-09-14 Thread AlunFoto
lol... That _is_ funny. Jostein 2009/9/11 Madame RD romd...@orange.fr: HelP ! my mailclient can't stand  the word spam ... so had to retrieve your posts from the bin ... rotfl ... dominique from paris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Environmental photographer of the year

2009-09-14 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/14 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: bumming rides seems to be common practice in nature if you think of all the parasites and symbioses... =) True, but this has more resemblance to tool-utilising. Which is not that common... :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

Re: Making slideshows with Lightroom

2009-09-14 Thread AlunFoto
If you want to create non-hackable .exe file slide shows, there's very little that can beat Wings Platinum v2 from www.avstumpfl.com Version 2 is a _previous_ version, so make sure you download the right one. It supports a separate soundtrack, and can crossfade tracks. It requires registration,

Re: Environmental photographer of the year

2009-09-14 Thread AlunFoto
haven't had enough sleep once again ]=) Cheers Ecke 2009/9/14 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: 2009/9/14 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: bumming rides seems to be common practice in nature if you think of all the parasites and symbioses... =) True, but this has more resemblance to tool-utilising

Re: Making slideshows with Lightroom

2009-09-14 Thread AlunFoto
Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com: How common are hardware accelerators? The reason for asking is because we plan to sell the product. -- MaritimTim 2009/9/14 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: If you want to create non-hackable .exe file slide shows, there's very little that can beat Wings

Re: London PDML

2009-09-14 Thread AlunFoto
Lots of nice shots, Chris! Except those of that terrible monster, of course. Something you dragged out of the river? :-) Jostein 2009/9/13 Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: Hi all. It was a fantastic day in Greenwich and it was really good to meet Jostein, Stig and John for the first

GESO - PDML Gathering Mean Time

2009-09-14 Thread AlunFoto
http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/PDMLmeanTime/index.html First time I've used LR to create a gallery. I notice the colour space coversions have boosted the reds a bit more than expected, but heck. :-) Cheers, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML

Re: PESO Bee killers

2009-09-13 Thread AlunFoto
Very interesting pic, Toine. After 20 minutes of goofing around with google, I also vote against Varroa, based on general body shape. The mites (i'm pretty sure they're mites anyway) are longer than they are broad. The Varroa isn't, except for some very early development stages. Could it be that

Re: PESO Bee killers

2009-09-13 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/13 Toine to...@repiuk.nl: All the googled pics of Varroa indicate this isn't Varroa. Got on of the mites in close-up: http://tinyurl.com/m6fmrr Maybe they are only hitchhiking... Duh... What I get for not reading the whole thread before responding. :-) Hope the links could be

Re: , http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20090905/US.Annie.Leibovitz/

2009-09-12 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: From: AlunFoto She's even worse than me...  :-) Probably not. She's just had more of it to mismanage. You don't happen to know my wife, do you? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: keywords in LightRoom

2009-09-12 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I don't think this is necessarily a mistake in principle, and I don't think your example is a mistake at all. The problem lies in the way people (mis)use or misunderstand hierarchies. I recommend David Lorge Parnas's essay On a 'buzzword': hierarchical

Re: OT: Organic

2009-09-12 Thread AlunFoto
Hope your boys came through allright, Bob. That's exactly the kind of situation I was thinking about for increased risk of getting MRSA infections. I believe some investigations have shown that misunderstandings about how to prevent infection among nurses and other healthcare personel must carry

Re: keywords in LightRoom

2009-09-12 Thread AlunFoto
I've always thought that parasites was the reason. Pigs and humans can be infected by the same tapeworms... Jostein 2009/9/12 Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com: I've heard that the taboo on pork has some basis in fact. In resource poor geographies, pigs compete with men for food sources. It

Re: Pentax K-7 review, part 3 - the final.

2009-09-12 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/12 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Well, I think something interesting's coming down the pike. 645D? A straight response?  Get with the Program. Don't put me on the Spot like that. You're MXing your camera series again. 6 out of 7 agree. *ist hat so? Jostein --

Re: OT: keywords in LightRoom

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/10 Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:00 AM, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently looking into switching to Lightroom as my primary archiving tool, and am fascinated by the ease of applying keywords. However, I also realise that I'd like to stick

Re: keywords in LightRoom

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/10 Bob W p...@web-options.com: Who, what, where, why to begin with. No need for when because it's already in the metadata. THat's the basic idea, yes. :-) LR 1 had a very useful way of setting up keyword taxonomies, but I think that got dropped somewhere along the line. It was useful

Re: OT: Organic

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/8 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: What exactly *IS* organic? How does a product qualify to have that label? It's like things labeled natural. It doesn't mean anything. What I do know is that unless you _are_ a vegetable, there's no such thing as inorganic food. :-) What defined as

Re: OT: Organic

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
substances in the environment to easily offset the benefits of organic food as it is... Cheers Ecke 2009/9/11 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: 2009/9/8 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: What exactly *IS* organic? How does a product qualify to have that label? It's like things labeled natural

Re: Pentax K-7 review, part 3 - the final.

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: Well, I think something interesting's coming down the pike. Having just bought the K-7, I'll stick to my perch for a while. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Pentax K-7 review, part 3 - the final.

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: On 11/9/09, AlunFoto, discombobulated, unleashed: Having just bought the K-7, I'll stick to my perch for a while. Lovely plumage mate. Norwegian innit? Ain't got the blues yet. Wasn't really fishing for compliments, though. Jostein -- http

Re: Pentax K-7 review, part 3 - the final.

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com: Oh my!  I watched Gordon Ramsey catch and eat Puffin yesterday. He didn't much care for perching on the cliffs with a long pole and a net. Regards,  Bob S. That's traditional for Iceland. And possibly the Faroe islands. Not much meat on those

Re: OT: Organic

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: I guess I am oversensitive though because I have the feeling that most people around me just don't give a flying fuck about these things with the sorry excuse that nothing they can do will change or save a thing. I believe we think quite similarly about

Re: OT: Organic

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com: Again be careful.  MRSA deaths are an old people nursing home problem, after significant hospital stays and treatment. I expect germs and antibotic are each 100X the typical occurence. Regards,  Bob S. Fortunately, it's still mostly true that the

Re: Pentax K-7 review, part 3 - the final.

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: Well, I think something interesting's coming down the pike. If it's red, it's a herring. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Pentax K-7 review, part 3 - the final.

2009-09-11 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/11 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: Well, I think something interesting's coming down the pike. If it's red, it's a herring. I cannot reveal any more until everything is in plaice. Singing to the embargo tuna. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com

Re: K10 problem

2009-09-10 Thread AlunFoto
REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri. Cheers Ecke 2009/9/9 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: I think all (focal plane) shutters in SLRs are moving vertically these days. Jostein 2009/9/9 Graydon o

Re: SMCP-A 100/4 Dental Macro - Mint - Price suggestion

2009-09-10 Thread AlunFoto
Q: What is the PDML? A: A misspelt acronym for Amalgamated Union of Punsters. Jostein 2009/9/10 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: On Sep 9, 2009, at 9:15 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: Mark Roberts wrote: Scott Loveless wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Doug Brewer

Re: SMCP-A 100/4 Dental Macro - Mint - Price suggestion

2009-09-10 Thread AlunFoto
Ketil, Bob's suggestion of doing a search in eBay's transaction database is a good starting point. If you're advertising inside Norway (eg. foto.no), I suggest you raise the price about 20-25% from the average price you find on eBay. That's what the prospective Norwegian buyers would have to add

OT: keywords in LightRoom

2009-09-10 Thread AlunFoto
Guys 'n' Gals, I'm currently looking into switching to Lightroom as my primary archiving tool, and am fascinated by the ease of applying keywords. However, I also realise that I'd like to stick to a *limited* list of keywords, and that the list better be correct and updated. So I would like to

Re: K10 problem

2009-09-09 Thread AlunFoto
I think all (focal plane) shutters in SLRs are moving vertically these days. Jostein 2009/9/9 Graydon o...@uniserve.com: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:05:21AM +1000, MikeM scripsit: I found there is still a series of 3 bad shots on the card. The first is  completely dark, the next has a sliver

Re: http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20090905/US.Annie.Leibovitz/

2009-09-09 Thread AlunFoto
Leibovitz' financial quagmire was mentioned over at The Online Photographer a while ago too. There's a link there somewhere about a NY Times article that digs very deep. From that article, it seems the good Annie doesn't really have any grip on money management. She's even worse than me... :-)

Re: K10 problem

2009-09-08 Thread AlunFoto
Hmm... if it's just one lens, it could be that the camera misinterprets the info conveyed by the lens. I agree with Bob that it might be dirty contacts on the bayonet, or maybe even a loose screw or two on the lens side of the bayonet. Jostein 2009/9/8 MikeM mmo45...@bigpond.net.au: I think I

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2009-2010 PDML Photo Annual... and exhibit

2009-09-07 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/7 Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com: Jostein, The exhibit from May to mid-June would mean GFM on of those weekends. Maybe we could arrange a 2-for-1 meet, traveling from one event to the next. Regards,  Bob S. Traditionally, a vernissage takes place on the day before the opening of an

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