Re: Grace the moviemaker

Fantastic! > On 7 Feb 2014, at 20:40, "Paul Stenquist" wrote: > > Doh. She uses an iPod and MADE one where the animals moved without being > touched. >> On Feb 7, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> Grace collects Littlest Pet Shop animals, which are diminutive plastic >> caricatu

Re: ingp

Thanks. Actually everything is fine. I've just moved the mail hosting from the previous provider to outlook, using my web-options domain, and was just testing that the transfer worked ok. At one point I thought I'd lost my main mail address, but that turned out to be ok, just my stupidity. The

Re: What do you think?

Hi, Wednesday, December 24, 2003, 1:01:36 PM, you wrote: > More importantly to serious photography enthusiasts like ourselves is > the matter of *what* film remains available. As high-end photography > goes almost exclusively digital, I'd expect the film emulsions that > remain in production to

Re: What do you think?

Hi, no serious business is going to hang large parts of their future income on that kind of fragile dependency or by sheltering under some other company's umbrella. It would be impossible to plan for longer than the very shortest term if they had to keep looking up to see if Kodak & Fuji were stil

Re: What do you think?

Hi, that would not be a very clever argument. It would imply that the camera makers such as Pentax also had to be film makers. Or that kitchen equipment makers also had to be food retailers; printer manufacturers would have to be paper makers. Law-makers would have to be Fagins. Cup makers would h

Re: Slightly Dodgy looking Auction

Hi, > Bulgaria??? Do me a favour! there are some honest Bulgarians, Cotty. I know some; in fact, I don't know any dishonest Bulgarians. Can't say that about all nationalities. Cheers, Bob

Re: more questions from fairygirl....

Hi, you could make life a whole lot easier for yourself by selling the flashes you currently have and buying a Metz system. This uses interface modules to make the flash heads interchangeable between different camera systems. It's very good. http://www.metz.de/1_metz_2000/m_pages_english/main_inde

Laid back

Hi, Compliments of the season to everybody. I expect you all to follow the example of this woman: http://www.web-options.com/Zanzibar.jpg When all the work's behind you, take it easy, put your feet up and relax! -- Cheers, Bob

Re: I like Mike's column this morning ;-))

Hi, with reference to Picasso's 'Tete de Taureau' that he shows, I spent a few hours earlier this year in the Musee de Picasso, and one of the things I really wanted to see was this sculpture. The entire museum is superb and well worth a visit for anybody going to Paris. Not just for the contents,

Re: Very Scary Stuff

Hi, on wearing antlers: > Plus, the receptionists love it (that's mostly why I > do it ). all sounds very Darwinian. If another courier turns up with bigger antlers do they all start following him? Do you feel an urge to lower your head, and charge? -- Cheers, Monarch of the Glen (no, not th

Re: Stieglitz: O'Keefe

Hi, ah, what the ff... -- Cheers, Bob "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies" Marx (G.) Saturday, December 20, 2003, 11:52:38 PM, you wrote: >> >> http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/collections/photograph

Stieglitz: O'Keefe

Hi, there is an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, called "Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keefe" until 19 March which sounds very well worth seeing. To quote The Independent "This is a tiny show, but classy and memorable. When you have finished you can stroll through a sele

Re: OT- But who cares, it's Christmas!

Hi, This sort of rationalism can only lead to trouble. Look what happened last year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2562109.stm But never mind. Santa says it's all mince pie in the sky: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2565041.stm -- Ho, ho, ho, Bob Saturday, December 20, 2003, 10:16:30 PM,

Re: Digital SLR in the Amazon basin

Hi, let's hope for his sake there were no candiru fish in that part of the river. -- Cheers, Bob "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies" Marx (G.) Saturday, December 20, 2003, 6:21:10 PM, you wrote: > Th

Re: Triples all round!

Hi, > Couple of nice scratches on that, Bob. indeed. That's another lab that won't be seeing any more of my business. Technical details: switch on flash; point; focus; shoot. Probably about f8. -- Cheers, Bob Saturday, December 20, 2003, 12:24:02 PM, you wrote: > Couple of nice scratches on

Re: OT - Decerebrate Turnip

Hi, why not email him and ask about the postage costs? -- Cheers, Bob Saturday, December 20, 2003, 12:03:36 PM, you wrote: > Cotty wrote: >> >> For fans of comedy and motorcycles, this eBay auction is a must read: >> >> > T

Re: there's one born every minute

Hi, some minutes it's rather more than one, apparently. -- Cheers, Bob Friday, December 19, 2003, 7:32:18 PM, you wrote: > P. T. Barnum was right. > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2973510727&category=48539 > William Robb

OT: Triples all round!

Hi, people often say that the PDML is like a bar that a group of friends drop into regularly to chat about photography and other things. Here is that bar: www.web-options.com/PUG.jpg It's in Chiswick, London. (For a clue as to the correct explanation of the bar's name see this self-portrait of

Re: A 70-210/4 - Focus Ring Looseness

Hi, could be - I can't remember what was on mine. I have neither of them now, but I seem to remember them both being 70-210. Kilpatrick's book describes a Takumar A 70-210/4, which is not what I had, as well as the SMC A 70-210/4. In the description of the SMC lens he writes 'A previous Pentax-A

Re[2]: A 70-210/4 - Focus Ring Looseness

Hi, there are 2 versions of this lens. One is an SMC version, and the other is not SMC. This is marked on the lens, and the rubber grips on the focus/zoom ring are different - the non-SMC version has longer gnurls (or are they knurls?). The non-SMC version has an enormous amount of slip in it - i

Unsubscribing for a few days

Hi, I am trying to change my web- and email-host at the moment. The domain name transfer may take up to 72 hours, apparently, so I am unsubscribing for the duration because I'm not sure what the effect on my email will be or when the change will actually happen. If anybody desperately needs to co

Re: James Nachtway

Hi, Thursday, December 11, 2003, 11:47:10 PM, you wrote: > Did anyone else see the Press Release that Photographer James Nachtway was > injured by a hand grenade in Iraq today? He and a reporter were both hurt, > one seriously, but the article I read did not indicate which one that was. > Let's

Re: consensus on how to store? (was: Keeping poor shots, was: Luddite posting)

Hi, I think it depends on the type of sleeves you use. If you get archival sleeves you shouldn't have a problem. Even non-archival, but good quality, sleeves should be ok for a few years. Bob Thursday, December 11, 2003, 7:34:00 AM, you wrote: > I have a question. I just recently found a decent

Re: OT:Weird place names-was: GFM Attendees (updated)

Hi, Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 11:36:51 PM, you wrote: > Oooo, Oooo, Oo: > So now we're on to revolting place names, are we? > On a different type of revolting, there's a place in Northern Ontario called > Swastika. It's had it's name for something like a hundred years, and > they've ref

Re: Who else?

Hi, Sunday, December 7, 2003, 8:56:01 PM, you wrote: > It says so on my passport! :-P > erm, Stan, no WAY would I be driving over there - my town has about 1500 > people and exactly 4 (yes FOUR!) stop signs! The largest place i have > driven is Brisbane and THAT scares the heck outta me.. > An

Re: OT-Totally OT but... (how OT can you go.. how OT can you go..)

Hi, Sunday, December 7, 2003, 2:21:31 AM, you wrote: > The one that I last remember > encountering was Sylvia Plath writing about her experience in Benidorm, > Spain and was something like "what is an aubergine? thought it was one of the people who was in Australia before the English got there.

Re: Faces to names...

Hi, Friday, December 5, 2003, 8:12:31 PM, you wrote: > Be careful! > Germans are eating people! ...but still they can't resist frying a sausage first... -- Cheers, Bobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDML Meet in Southern Germany?

Hi, Friday, December 5, 2003, 8:40:53 AM, you wrote: > BTW, what about arranging Europen PDML meeting? That would be something > really special (althought difficult to choose one place that would suit all > ;-) Paris in the springtime? Meet at the Fondation Cartier-Bresson, or the Maison Europee

Re: Recomendations re: Incident Meters

Hi, Friday, December 5, 2003, 2:36:31 AM, you wrote: > I'm getting ready to email Santa with this year's wish list, which has at > the top, a new Incident Meter. My historic Sekonic L-28, while reliable, > simple to use, and as solid as an Abrams Tank, is also heavy, clumsy and as > old as Paul

Re: Faces to names...

Hi, perhaps it's short for pizzle. -- Cheers, Bobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, December 4, 2003, 8:22:56 PM, you wrote: > Pizz? Should that be "phiz"? Short for physiognomy" >>There are too many pics of my ugly pizz on my webpages for anyone who wants >>t

Re: Faces to names...

Hi, Thursday, December 4, 2003, 9:49:07 AM, you wrote: > On 4/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >>http://www.bigdayphoto.com/tom/images/ohyeah.jpg > Thanks mate - I needed that. > ROTFL! A good portrait is a window on the sole... -- Cheers, Bobmailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: Who else?

Hi, > Mark Roberts - Charlton Heston > And if my mom had a say > Tom Van Veen - Donny Osmond I lived up North many years ago when I was thin and fit, and I used to go over to play Scrabble once a week with my mother. It was on the night when the Bruce Willis TV programme 'Moonlighting' was

Martin Parr on the box (UK)

Hi, there is a documentary at 10:35 on BBC 1 tonight about the controversial British photographer Martin Parr. http://www.ephotozine.co.uk/news/fullnews.cfm?NewsID=1433 -- Cheers, Bob

Re: Was: A turning point?, now: taking street pictures.

Hi, Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 5:40:28 PM, you wrote: > I'll try that, but I am going to have a go at something else first. A few > miles from me is one of the worlds longest markets (Walthamstow High Street) > and an absolute delight for the street photographer. What I have noticed is > that peo

Re: Some of my November PDML recordings.

Hi, Tuesday, December 2, 2003, 12:04:10 AM, you wrote: > Who's John Holmes? (he asks innocently) Sherlock Holmes's longer brother... -- Cheers, Bobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Whines (was: Re: How many musicians?)

Hi, Monday, December 1, 2003, 9:52:47 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > Cotty wrote: >> However, the most undrinkable concoction by several lengths of chalk is >> the utterly murderous Crimean Red. > Tried it; don't agree. Not a nice drink at all but Ukranian wine beats > it by a long head. Chinese wi

Re: ...they're good for your heart... (was Re: OT: PayPal alternative

Hi, Monday, December 1, 2003, 8:43:57 PM, you wrote: > Rumsfield speak deleted, because Rumsfield doesn't understand it either. Oh, no! the Rumsfeld speak has come back again - must be something wrong with my computer. As a matter of fact, I understand it (I think), and I'm sure he does. I imag

OT: ...they're good for your heart... (was Re: OT: PayPal alternative

Hi, Monday, December 1, 2003, 6:32:51 PM, you wrote: > Have you ever bought a supermarket's own brand baked beans? > The supermarket is making a profit on both the sale and manufacture of the > beans, whereas if you buy a brand name, the profits are split between the > two companies. > But does

Re: where are you ? and digital vs film

Hi, Sunday, November 30, 2003, 10:07:06 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > Bob Walkden wrote: >> > Bob, you're so'analogue' ! >> >> I know. I'm a bit worried in case I turn into Shel. Or worse: Mike >> Wilson :o) > Do you mean physicall

Re: How many musicians? was Re: where are you ? and digital vs

Hi, Sunday, November 30, 2003, 9:46:17 PM, you wrote: >>I am not a musician by any stretch of imagination, but I do play the >>Appalachian Dulcimer. One or both of my instruments will accompany me to GFM >>where I will pay for my travel by accepting bribes to not play... > You're coming to GFM w

Re: where are you ? and digital vs film

Hi, Sunday, November 30, 2003, 9:22:10 PM, you wrote: > On 30/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >>> Actually I have this nifty little desk top app that shows me where it is >>> night and where it is day across the world, so I know which good little >>> boys and girls are in bed, and which bad

Re: where are you ? and digital vs film

Hi, Sunday, November 30, 2003, 1:50:05 PM, you wrote: > Actually I have this nifty little desk top app that shows me where it is > night and where it is day across the world, so I know which good little > boys and girls are in bed, and which bad ones are still up at 4 am here! > You know who you

Re: Advice re home studio

Hi, Friday, November 28, 2003, 6:38:41 PM, you wrote: > On 28/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >>Good advice, Tanya. >> >>Before flash, before photofloods, there was northlight. That is big >>windows on >>the north side of the room. Many still consider northlight to still be >>the best >>po

OT: on the subject of privacy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3246718.stm Bob

Re: Hello PDML

Hi, Friday, November 28, 2003, 12:00:59 PM, you wrote: > Ha, ha, ha! > Over here (USA) "Spar" is a tough marine varnish! > Tell me you don't go THAT far! I wonder how those tough marines feel about being varnished. Bob

Re: OT: Somewhere to hang your Paraboots, photo vest and Leicas when in London

Hi, Thursday, November 27, 2003, 3:52:35 AM, you wrote: > "Haven't been there for a while?" > My good man, I've ~never~ been there! Well, when you do eventually get here we'd be delighted to offer you a tour of the highlights of British eating. It will take a lot longer than many people think!

Re: OT: Somewhere to hang your Paraboots, photo vest and Leicas when in London

Hi, Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 11:26:35 PM, you wrote: > "Good British...food"? > Isn't that a contradiction in terms? > I guess you haven't been here for a while, Frank. Why only today I had lunch in a small eel & pie shop nearby that's been in the same family for 5 generations. Jellied e

Re: OT Beer and Whiskey-was: Have I done something to upset you.

Hi, Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 11:01:49 PM, you wrote: > I can confirm the fact that the Egyptians were the first to brew a type of > beer. I don't know that it would have tasted like what we now call beer, > and I don't know that it was made from the 4 traditional ingrediants that we > bre

Re: Somewhere to hang your Paraboots, photo vest and Leicas when in London

Hi, Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 5:21:41 PM, you wrote: > Sounds cool. > Not that I fulfill the member criteria, but it looks like some place to hang > out when I'm in London. One of the cheap hotels at Norfolk Square is where I > usually stay anyway. :-) You could hang around outside and take

OT: Somewhere to hang your Paraboots, photo vest and Leicas when in London

Hi, http://www.thefrontlineclub.com/ -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Optio better than iPod, say UK dweebs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3232570.stm

Re: Have I done something to upset you.

Hi, Maybe, but you forget about those Neanderthals. Boy, are they inferior - have you seen the state of their handaxes?!?! Sheesh! And have you ever seen one trying to thread a fish-hook? Laugh? I nearly went extinct. Cheers, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 10:56:02 PM, you wrote:

Re: OT: Home processing

Hi, Monday, November 24, 2003, 8:07:32 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > Anyone (preferably in the UK) know where I can get hold of a set of Jobo > roller block extension arms, to use 1500 series tanks in a CPE > processor? Have you tried Silverprint? http://www.silverprint.co.uk/indexA.html -- Cheers,

OT: Worlds apart ( was Re: The morality of taking a photograph

Hi, Monday, November 24, 2003, 8:04:19 AM, you wrote: >>a great problem in today's first world societies. >>or Life in the First World > Now two persons have said this... > but isn't the US considered the second world? the Americas are the New World -- Cheers, Bob

Re: The morality of taking a photograph

Hi, Sunday, November 23, 2003, 5:29:05 PM, you wrote: > I see this all the time at work: poor, deluded students taking Alevel > photography, producing (very low quality, technically) work that is > obviously meant to be photojournalism but is nothing more than a cracked > mirror held up to their

Re: The morality of taking a photograph

Hi, Sunday, November 23, 2003, 4:19:29 PM, you wrote: >> http://www.zonezero.com/magazine/indexen.html > Try http://zonezero.com/magazine/articles/jacobson/magnum1.html >> The essay is by Colin Jacobson, who is one of the UK's leading photo editors. >> He discusses Martin Parr's work used for v

Re: Politics on the PDML.

Hi, Sunday, November 23, 2003, 3:47:49 PM, you wrote: > She's a politically conservative commentator given to hyperbole with an > occasional comic twist. > http://www.talkingpresidents.com/products-af-coulter.shtml or Yan to Michael Moore's Ying. Or is it Yin and Yang, or Chang and Eng, or Chi

On topic or off topic (was Re: The morality of taking a photograph

Hi, Saturday, November 22, 2003, 10:25:56 PM, you wrote: > This too, will pass, and we'll gravitate back to the regular topics. > Should we even be discussing this shot? Was it taken with Pentax equipment? I don't see a problem about discussing it. The ethical aspects of photography are seldom

Re: OT - Rugby World Cup

Hi, Saturday, November 22, 2003, 7:33:15 PM, you wrote: > Exactly how many countries participate in the Rugby World Cup? Twenty. Ireland, Romania, Argentina, Namibia, Australia USA, Scotland, France, Fiji, Japan England, Georgia, Samoa, Uruguay, S. Africa Canada, Wales, Italy, Tonga, New Zealan

Re: vinyl Was: RE: Digital/Film body pricing (was: A conversation with Noritsu.)

Hi, Friday, November 21, 2003, 4:41:29 AM, you wrote: [...] > A friend of mine is a Dr of Music. > According to him, anyone over the age of 50 who figures they can still > appreciate the joys of an expensive sound system are fooling themselves. We > lose much ability to discern subtle tonal varia

Re: Digital/Film body pricing (was: A conversation with Noritsu.)

Hi, Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 10:46:30 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I still have quite a few, including the Beatles. The hard thing was finding a >> turn table about ten years ago when I bought an all-in-one stereo system >> (turn table, mini-tape deck, radio). It's

Re: way OT: CD/LP was A conversation with Noritsu.

Hi, > This is surely a moot point. It is well nigh impossible to buy new LP > records and the equipment needed to play them. The reason is because the > marketplace has spoken, and the LP is out. > At the moment, the marketplace is talking about film vs. digital. As soon as > film loses, it's gone

Re: Digital/Film body pricing (was: A conversation with Noritsu.)

Hi, Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 5:52:15 PM, you wrote: >> I knew I would get at least one person who still > loves their vinyl. >> Vic > I still have quite a few, including the Beatles. The hard thing was finding a > turn table about ten years ago when I bought an all-in-one stereo system

Re: OT - My Letter in AP

Hi, Monday, November 17, 2003, 10:37:12 PM, you wrote: >> >> Spider web, fragile? It was used to produce excellent bullet-proof vests >> and body armor. > By whom? When? Where? there was a turf war in Pixieland recently, fighting for control of the mushroom supply. The redcaps wrapped themsel

Re: Defining "previously Published" for a photo contest

Hi, Sunday, November 16, 2003, 10:51:52 PM, you wrote: > If it's publicly visible then it's published, like a written note about a > missing dog taped to a telegraph pole. or pigeon: http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/platformforart/images/shrigley/5.jpg -- Cheers, Bob

Re: It's Here!

Hi, > There was a Brit called Bob, > Nice bloke, he was no slob, > But things turned hard, > Started quoting the Bard, > And that is no easy job! They say that the secret of great writing is rewriting. So having improved on Shalespeare's paltry effort I have even (mirabile dictu!) improved on min

Re: I feel like Mike Johnston

Hi, Saturday, November 15, 2003, 10:24:40 PM, you wrote: > It's all this digital messaging that's to blame. If we'd stuck with > the old pen-and-ink methods this would never have happened. yes - we could have Abyssinian runners carrying our messages around the world in cleft sticks! That would

Re: It's Here!

Hi, Saturday, November 15, 2003, 8:22:23 PM, you wrote: > Did you compare it to the D100, as you suggested you might. If so, > any comparison comments you care to share? Shall I compare thee to a Nikon D? Thou art more cheapskate and more plasticky. Rough winds do shake the tripod legs in

Re: Slide projectors

Hi, Saturday, November 15, 2003, 10:48:11 PM, you wrote: [...] > Now, I can't remember the last time a salesman brought slides. It has to > be at least ten years since I've seen one. Presentations have been > composed in Microsoft's Powerpoint and projected from laptop computers for > many y

Re: Subject Lines (was ME-F vs ME Super)

Hi, Saturday, November 15, 2003, 7:28:07 PM, I wrote: >> 3.You are cretans and don't know how to change the subject line? > People from Crete have this problem? Jeez, no wonder the Minoans are all > dead... of course, I remembered immediately after I sent this that all Cretans are liars, so

Re: Rainbows

Hi, Saturday, November 15, 2003, 8:16:51 PM, you wrote: > Hi All, > Its summer right now and it rains every second day or so. Today I saw the > most perfect rainbow, didn't have my camera with me as I was driving, and it > was gone in a few minutes anyway. But it will come again. > Any tips for

Re: Nikon to stop selling film cameras in Japan...

Hi, Friday, November 14, 2003, 10:13:47 PM, you wrote: > "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Here's a report in english: >> >>http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2003/11/10/daily44.html >> >>I guess you *can* make a few bucks with digital. > As a side note, I learned something interes

Re: OT:Publishing and photo credits

Hi, I was going to suggest you join Magnum, and let them look after this sort of thing . But then I remembered that they have similar problems. Philip Jones Griffiths told a story about it at a talk I went to once. After Francis Ford Coppola had eventually finished 'Apocalypse Now!' it was clear

Re: new website

Hi, I think the first page should show a picture from each category. This should persuade us that it's worth the effort to click on the links and look at the next page. "Content, now" should be your motto. The pictures on the index pages look quite nice, but the thumbnails are far too big. People

Re: Pentax enthusiast (long)

Hi, Thursday, November 13, 2003, 6:00:35 PM, you wrote: > P.S. As a Ziess Ikon and Rolleicord owner, I will concede to your comment > about the finer German optics. You'll notice that I said 'dollar for > dollar'. I wish I could get Leica gear for the cost of my Pentax. over the years I've me

Re: Lunar eclipse tonight

Hi, Sunday, November 9, 2003, 9:11:34 PM, you wrote: > With full frame 35mm, even a 1000mm lens wont fill the frame so > 300mm is definately too short for lunar photography. > JCO here is a table from the Cambridge Eclipse Photography Guide which gives the size of the sun's or moon's disk in mil

Re: Lunar eclipse tonight

Hi, Sunday, November 9, 2003, 12:20:33 AM, you wrote: > So who else is shooting the eclipse tonight? It's going on right now. I > just tried some shots from my balcony. I can see it from my house - it's quite a clear night in London. I'm not shooting it because a 300/4 with 2X converter is not r

Re: MX Shutter Release Problem

Hi, Saturday, November 8, 2003, 2:25:25 PM, you wrote: > But, who else but Leica could command the sort of price it does for the MP? Nikon resurrected their old rangefinder a few years ago and it commanded similar prices if I remember correctly. > And who else but Leica Buyers would pay that pr

Re: Spotmatic? II or F?

Hi, Saturday, November 8, 2003, 11:33:00 AM, you wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Stenquist) wrote: >> Go with the Spotmatic F. It will give you open aperture metering with >> Super Multi Coated lenses. I have a gaggle of them and love them all. >> Some will

The Vietnam look (was Re: Let's talk MV for a bit...

Hi, Friday, November 7, 2003, 11:34:56 PM, you wrote: > Problem with plastic is that it doesn't brass. First thing I do with a > black camera is judiicously apply a bit o' sandpaper to the edges for that > "been to Vietnam and back" look (I guess we should say, "been to the Gulf > and back lo

Re: Bored at work, so....

Hi, Thursday, November 6, 2003, 11:10:00 PM, you wrote: >> I'd imagine a hood for the M 85/2 would do the job. Try Jessops >> Classic - you never know. > Surely it's going to intrude at the corners? Not necessarily. These things are 'generously cut', as tailors say. >> http://www.schneideropt

Re: Colour fidelity & low-light AF of *ist-D

Hi, Thursday, November 6, 2003, 9:42:35 PM, you wrote: >>I don't think it's empirically testable. If two people attach the same >>label to the same experience then that is all we can know, or need to >>know. (...) >>Bob > Among some amazonian groups, there is a single word for both green or > b

Re: Total Lunar Eclipse Nov. 8-9 (cross-posted)

Hi, Thursday, November 6, 2003, 3:18:52 PM, you wrote: > "Weather permitting, on the night of November 8 in the U.S. and very early > in the morning on November 9 in other parts of the world, there will a lunar > eclipse that is visible over most of North America, Europe and Africa. In > the U.S

Re: Colour fidelity & low-light AF of *ist-D

Hi, Thursday, November 6, 2003, 2:24:49 PM, you wrote: > It's an interesting thought, but what I perceive to be blue might actually > what you perceive to be green. Imagine people around you who go thru life > seeing 'blue' vegetables (though it seems perfectly normal to them *because* > that's w

Re: The great Optical Spider pass around (was: The great 18-35 lens pass around)

Hi, Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 10:18:04 PM, you wrote: > Yeah, that's the jobbie. Its not that it is amazingly expensive, just expensive for > something that you only use once in a while. Also, I have an LCD at home and want > the version which works with > that, plus I want to calibrate th

Re: perfect exposure

Hi, Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 1:28:13 PM, you wrote: > As I recall, the comment provoking much of that was that HCB could eyeball > perfect exposure, and then someone said with b&w film experienced photographers > could get close enough to make printable images. > I'm nowhere near the age, e

Re: Bored at work, so....

Hi, Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 3:30:58 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > Thinking (dreaming, more like) about how to become fabulously wealthy, I > wondered if there is a potential market for new lens hoods for DSLRs. > I assume that the original, 35mm coverage, lenshoods could now be > significantly exte

Re: New digital cameras

Hi, Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 9:55:06 AM, you wrote: > Yes, I order from Peter is Sunny Brighton, he told me he can't get hold > of the *ist D. So I ordered from TechnikDirekt in Germany, it would take > two weeks. That was 15 days ago, yesterday I received an email from > TechnikDirekt that the

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

Hi, Monday, November 3, 2003, 7:18:39 AM, you wrote: > Had a look at your gallery David. Did you know Big Ben has a crack? To start > with someone (interfering with the design) increased the weight of the > hammer and that cracked the bell quite soon. A lighter hammer was installed > and the bell

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

Hi, Friday, October 31, 2003, 7:18:44 PM, you wrote: > Paraphrased (plagiarized) from another source... > Rare plural forms like oxen are left over from that period, with -en used > for a very few words that fought off the encroachment of -s. The only other > common plural in -en that survives i

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

Hi, Friday, October 31, 2003, 5:50:23 PM, you wrote: > I'm sadder than you. I am intrigued to find fedex in that list. Only > comes out as a company name on Google. I saw that too. It's ok because people use fedex as a verb ("Fedex it over to me for tomorrow") just as people use hoover (and go

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

Hi, Two nations divided by a common language, I think. I'm certainly aware of the use of the apostrophe to indicate contractions. What we are taught is that there are 2 main uses for the apostrophe: to indicate possession, and to replace missing letters in contractions. There are one or 2 excepti

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

Hi, Friday, October 31, 2003, 12:35:59 AM, you wrote: > I think I am the one who started using MXen as the plural for MX, based on > German usage, in response to all the English grammer critics on rec.phot.* who > claimed that it was improper to use MX's. I have since discovered they are full

Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See

Hi, Thursday, October 30, 2003, 7:15:21 PM, you wrote: >>TV remains the standard that the public compares images to. How many >>times have >>you been in someones house where the TV showed green faces and purple >>grass and >>it did not bother the viewer at all? > That's NTSC for you ;-) Naah.

Re: LXist

Hi, Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 7:06:44 PM, you wrote: > Will Robb wrote: > 'Plural of LX is LXs. > As in, "I have three LXs".' > So, Wheatfield, do you have: > A flock of LXs? > A herd of LXs? > A gaggle of LXs? > An exaltation of LXs? > Grammarians on the list, please help. 3 of them must

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

Hi, Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 1:32:29 PM, you wrote: > Roman numerals are not abbreviations. V is not "short" for anything in > Latin. You must have missed the following sentence from my post: "I think of LX as an abbreviation, not as a word, even though it is really the Latin numeral for 60.

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

Hi, Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 2:37:52 PM, you wrote: > This is archived somewhere. We actually had a fairly lengthy thread on > what name we wanted to use for plural LX. > We just liked the way LXen sounded. > Cesar, do you remember this? shouldn't that be Hoc meminis, Caesar? -- Cheers

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

Hi, Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 4:40:11 AM, you wrote: > Ok I finally have to ask why everyone here uses the term LXen when referring > to their LX in plural. I must be slow but I can't for the life of me figure it > out. LXes yes, it sounds right but LXen throws me every time. > vic I've al

Re: The Bat

Hi, Sunday, October 26, 2003, 9:07:25 PM, you wrote: > Could one of the users of the Bat very kindly tell me how to > pre-process my mail on the server? what do you mean by 'pre-process'? What do you actually want to do? -- Cheers, Bobmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See

Hi, Sunday, October 26, 2003, 3:47:49 PM, you wrote: > For me, the > _major_ drawback to digital is the dependence on batteries, as I > sometimes find myself in situations where a purely mechanical device is > a better option. Can't see that one being solved. well, what with recent breakth

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