Re[2]: Delivery

Hi, I think that would be "Bye it now", Fred. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, April 26, 2002, 2:50:56 PM, you wrote: >> I'll take one of those "toodle pips" you're always listing. I >> know I don't have one, and I'm sure I'll need it;-) > Hmmm... I wonder, though, Peter,

Re: Why you should always have a camerea.

Hi, well, since you're living on the flight path you should be able to get it again next time. A couple of years ago I was working close to Heathrow. From my railway platform in the evenings as I waited to go home I often used to watch a very similar scene play itself out once every minute as th

OT: Ei8ht and War Photographer

Hi, just received vol.1 no. 1 of the new quarterly photojournalism magazine called 'ei8ht'. It's pretty good. There are 9 photo essays in it, covering a personal perspective on NY Sept. 11, some photos from a Soviet soldier who served in Afghanistan, a story about the re-Latinising of LA, Haiti,

Streets lined with Pentax

Hi, I did the 'sad middle-aged bloke staring into camera shop windows' thing today. Central London is awash with quality used Pentax equipment at the moment. I haven't made notes or anything (I'm not that sad), but a walk around the usual suspects revealed the following: at least 3 good looking,

Re[2]: How Much Film Do You Carry

Hi, > For example, two or three identical cameras > with different focal lengths loaded with identical film is an ideal > method for me, as when I'm photographing I may burn an entire roll or > more on just one subject, and what I need is not more film choices, but > more focal lengths, perspecti

Re: OT: Sunny Brighton...

Hi, that's a pity because my prior engagement has been postponed, so I may go to Photographica instead (unless Force Majeure decides otherwise) and I was hoping to bump into you. :o( What time does it start? --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, April 29, 2002, 4:28:21 PM, you wrote:

Blood & Champagne

Hi, a new biography of Bob Capa has recently been published with this title. I've bought it and started reading it today. So far so good. There's a BBC radio piece here about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/frontrow_20020425.shtml with archive recordings of Henri Cartier-Bresson, C

Re: Cut and sleeved slides and scanning film strips (was: saving slides with water drops on them)

Hi, for those Europeans who may be considering getting their Kodachromes cut & sleeved, please be aware that whereas the lab in Wimbledon, London, used to cut them into 6-frame strips, the lab in Switzerland cuts them into 4-frame strips. I've asked if they can do 6-frame strips on request, and t

Let's all go to Biarritz

Hi, the UK 'Independent' newspaper has been printing some photos from the travel photography festival "Terre d'Images" to be held in Biarritz later this month. Here's a website which includes some of them: http://www.terredimages.com/ Well worth the trip. Cheers, Bob - This message is from th

Re[2]: Semi-OT Mainly for the UK PDMLers

Hi, Running parallel to Portland Place is Great Portland Street. The office where I do my slaving is off Gt. Portland St. and there is a hotel there called "The Fitzrovia" which I suppose could be a candidate for the former Portland Hotel. There are a great many hospitals in that area, on Gt. Po

Re[4]: Semi-OT Mainly for the UK PDMLers

Hi Lasse, > I don't have any money to pay you. there would be no question of payment. I intend to shoot some film this weekend to check a lens I exchanged yesterday, and such film has no value to me once I've evaluated the results and I would normally throw it away. The only thing I wouldn't wan

Re[2]: Semi-OT Mainly for the UK PDMLers

Hi, I can probably get off on a technicality, Mike. I don't think Greenwich was in London in those days. I remember t'days when all this were fields... I've found several references to literary types who sent letters in the 1920s on notepaper from the Portland Hotel, London, W. But none of them

Re[2]: how much 1 stop worth?

Hi, > But what are situations where 50/1.2 is absolutely > needed over 50/1.4? If you say "available light", I have hard time > believing that the gain of speed, say 1/50 vs 1/40 makes difference > between a shot taken and a shot missed. Does it, really? sometimes, yes. The 1 stop shutter speed

Re[4]: how much 1 stop worth?

Hi, there's a long article on this subject here: http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/fast.html It includes an actual table of costs! Bob - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax User

OT: Gerrard 600

Hi, continuing the off-topic search for the Portland Hotel which may be of interest to some people other than me and Lasse, today I had a look in the London telephone directory for 1920. In fact, there are 2 directories for that year, issued in April and October, which I suppose reflects the rate

Re: Jacob Riis

Hi, "How the other half lives" is available in Penguin Classics: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140436790/qid=1020468116/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-2586244-0875358 --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, May 03, 2002, 2:31:11 PM, you wrote: > From "The Writer's Almanac," by MPR: > I

OT: Mayday

Hi, by a strange coincidence a friend sent me this photo, of an Italian restaurant in Great Portland Street, London (the subject of another thread at the moment): www.web-options.com/mayday.bmp It's rather slow I'm afraid. Cheers, Bob - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To u

Re: FC-1 action eyepiece for LX.

Hi, the classic explanation is that you use them when wearing ski gogggles or similar. The long eye relief means you can still see the full frame. I found mine most useful when I was shooting wildlife in South Africa with long lenses on a tripod. It was very convenient to twist the finder upright

Re[2]: A Book Recommendation

an obversation I entirely endorse. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, May 11, 2002, 4:26:52 AM, you wrote: > What would the other two be? Is OBAP one of them? > Bob Walkden wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I can entirely endorse Shel's recommendation.

Re: Processing OLD film -question

Hi, why not do a clip test and decide from that? --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, May 11, 2002, 9:29:23 AM, you wrote: > Outrageously old rolls of exposed film pop up in our household > occasionally - found in a drawer or at the bottom of a closet. I have two > rolls found lik

What the papers say...

>From the techie section in today's Independent 'Review', by Charles Arthur: "The digital camera revolution is very much upon us. Digital cameras overtook standard film cameras some time last year in terms of volumes sold. Where once you were proud to show off your new Pentax SLR with its removab

Re[2]: PUG - Definition of Portrait?

Hi, I'm afraid it leaves out all of the materialists and monists among us too, Jostein. Ain't got no soul. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 7:47:33 PM, you wrote: > The Norwegian Museum of Photography opened a portraits exhibition on > May 5th. Featuring 25 Arnold

Re[4]: PUG - Definition of Portrait?

Hi, > um... Which side of the camera were you thinking of...:-) no souls either side of it! --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 9:41:04 PM, you wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Bob Walkden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>

World Press Photo winning story on reportage.org

Hi, this year's winner of the World Press Photo award is online with the full story at www.reportage.org. There is an interesting editorial about it, and links to related stories, at http://www.reportage.org/2002/JalozaiRefner/PagesJalozai/afterthought.html Bob - This message is from the Pentax-

Re[3]: new additions to the camera bag

Hi Mike, damn - why can't one of my ideas be brilliantly original and make me a millionaire? Searching the web I found that Adorama do one too that is specifically marketed as 18% grey (8x8"). What size is your Pentax one, and are they readily available in the UK - I've never seen one? --- Bob

Re: MZ5n in rough environments?

Hi, I've spent some time, probably about 4 months in total with 2 months being the longest single period, photographing in Africa (Morocco, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zanzibar and South Africa). I've seen tourists using cameras similar to the MZ5n and they seemed to be ok. The only problems they had tha

Re[2]: rigid threaded hoods: Which protect the lens best in a fall?

Hi, in a church in Transylvania I dropped an expensive Contax 80-200/4 zoom from chest height onto the stone floor. The metal B+W hood took the impact and buckled. The lens suffered no damage at all. I once dropped an SMC A 70-210 zoom onto a concrete pavement. It made a parabolic arc in slo-mo

Re[2]: two cameras on one neck

Hi, this is exactly my approach, and I always put a wide on my left shoulder, normal round my neck and long on the right shoulder so I don't have to think about it. Putting 2 camera round the neck, or over the same shoulder, just results in twisted straps and confusion. The best straps, btw, are

Re: Any NY\NJ Pugsters: Get Together?

Hi, > Offers also expanded to visitors from the UK (Cotty \ Bob's) who would like > to come and visit (I'll speak to the wife about putting you up :). that's a great idea, and I'd love to take you up on it. Right now I don't think I can afford any time off work (I'm freelance, so no work = no pa

Re: OT World Cup Offer

Hi, >(that's soccer, you guys) Magnum have a new book out, published by Phaidon called "Magnum Football" (that's "Magnum Soccer" in the USA). It's in the same format as "Magnum Landscape". Some people might describe it as a cynical plundering of their archives to throw together a few 2nd rate p

Re[2]: Spot the Pentax

Hi, > street photography is incomplete without at least one in your arsenal! ...and they're such a snug fit! --- Bob 'Papillon' Walkden mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, May 28, 2002, 6:24:36 PM, you wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> Hmmm ... could the 110 be the ulti

Re: OT: Sekonic L-298

Hi, I assume you mean the L-398M. http://www.sekonic.com/Products/L-398M.html I have one of these. Yes, it can do reflected light. You need a 'Lumigrid', which replaces the Lumidome to do it. The meter cannot display the fullest brightness range on its scale, so when you're measuring bright lig

Re: Contact Sheets of Great Photographers (WAS: OT World Cup Offer)

ul. There are some contact sheet sequences in a couple of WES > books, which are also very useful and revealing. > Bob Walkden wrote: >> >> There are also some, notably by HC-B, which are from the same >> contact sheet as his classics, which show more context, or give an

Re[2]: Changing lenses in the dark....

Hi, > Thumbs are what separates us from the lower animals. actually, it's bars. You'll find the animals can eat their way through thumbs without much difficulty. > Learn how to use them. the animals? --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, June 01, 2002, 6:42:43 PM, you wrote: > ---

Re[2]: My introduction to digital photography.

Hi, if people don't want to learn, they won't learn. If people want to learn, they'll learn. The medium has nothing to do with it. Just because they can't delete a neg so easily doesn't mean they they're ever going to look at the print more than once. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monda

Re[2]: Zone System for Color?

Hi, that must rank as one of the worst designed, most badly written, most off-putting sites on the entire web. How that person expects anybody to read his book when he can't even design a readable advert is entirely beyond me. I'd expect somebody involved with photography to have at least a modi

How not to lose films (was My unofficial May PUG entry :-)

Hi, annsan wrote: > I don't think I've gone on a trip without either actually losing a roll of exposed > film or thinking I had > when I got home and looked at the results. to avoid this you should number your films in advance, and keep a notebook where you write down the film number as you put

Re[2]: How not to lose films (was My unofficial May PUG entry :-)

sorganised people I've ever met have been professional photographers. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, June 06, 2002, 6:59:28 PM, you wrote: > Bob Walkden wrote: >> Hi, >> >> annsan wrote: >> > I don't think I've gone on a trip without e

Re: Help! What would you charge for this?

Hi Jostein, it would be a good idea to contact the professional photographers' organisations in your country and ask for their advice and help in a matter like this. Congratulations, and good luck. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, June 06, 2002, 8:27:00 PM, you wrote: > Hi, gan

Re[2]: B&W Film in the BRIGHT sunshine :)

Hi, in most parts of the world the sun is never absolutely directly overhead, and there is usually the option of shooting into the sun, so that the subject is rim-lit. This can be very effective for portraits, and the absence of shadows on the face can be flattering for the subject. --- Bob

Re: More great stuff from Luminous Landscape

Hi, Somebody's done that already... Myth 6: http://www.phototechmag.com/previous-articles/apr-myths.htm --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, June 10, 2002, 6:16:35 PM, you wrote: > I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't have luminous-landscape.com bookmarked > by now, but just in case..

Re[2]: Eclipse Photo

Hi, I read up on this stuff before the total eclipse of 1999 in Pasachoff's book, and although I didn't get any decent photos of my own I did learn a few things. The book includes examples similar to this one. The moon and the sun move at reasonably constant speeds relative to the earth, so we kn

Re: Last day in the UK

Hi, > I've enjoyed being over here and have had lots of fun getting out & about > at the weekends. The English weather generally lived up to its reputation: > I don't think I ever saw the sun in London. Or in "sunny" Brighton. I expect our summer will start as soon as you're out of our airspac

Re[2]: Pentax lenses vs. the world?

Hi, it's not just noticeable to art directors etc. I've posted on this matter several times over the last couple of years. When I was shooting exclusively Pentax gear my lenses were all Pentax, but from different series: K, M, A and A*, and looking at my slides on the lightbox, as well as project

Re: I'm back...

Hi Dave, > Got some nice photos of Cotty and Bob W but they won't be made public without > permission :) you have my permission to publish the photos of Cotty. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net

Re[2]: Book: Examples... by Ansel

Hi, > His work differs from that of most others in that it can't be judged > from a print in a book. You have to see the silver prints. Surely this just makes him a good printer rather than a good photographer. In my opinion a good photographer's work doesn't depend on the quality of the printi

Re[2]: The horror! The horror! (was Dave Mann and Cotty - some pics

Hi, >> >> not wishing to be outdone... >> http://www.web-options.com/damann/bob-1.jpg >> http://www.web-options.com/damann/bob-2.jpg >> >> Photos courtesy and copyright of David Mann. > No crack shots? wow, that's a question that's open to interpretation... --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re[2]: The horror! The horror! (was Dave Mann and Cotty - some pics

Hi, > Anyone have the link handy? oh, I see now. That would be Cartman, here: http://www.web-options.com/valentin/valentin.htm Just in case Mike Johnston is looking in, I should quickly point out that I am categorically *not* taking pictures of flowers. That's a 21mm lens, so the flowers were s

Re: Help with terminology regarding B&W print wanted

Hi, Nice card. Are you thinking of solarization? --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, June 18, 2002, 6:10:31 PM, you wrote: > This is a postcard I'm going to put up on ebay. When held at a slant > the black stuff on the > boats and the online of the boat with the sail turns silver.

OT: How to keep Jehovah's Witnesses from knocking on your door

Hi, a friend forwarded this to me: http://www.web-options.com/big_knocker.jpg --- Regards, Bob - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

Re[2]: Lens Sharpness?

Hi, > Sure, that checks for how well the lens works for photographing > newspapers at 15 feet. > Unfortunately, it doesn't say much for how well the lens works > for what you photograph (unless you photograph newspapers). some of my best friends are newspaper photographers . --- Bob mailto

Thought for the day

Hi, "Photography involves as much contemplation as action and, at its best, yields insights which transcend surface description". Steve McCurry "South Southeast" Phaidon, 2000. --- Bob - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow th

Re: Kodachrome 200 pushed....

Hi, 2 stops is generally considered to be too much. I've shot it at 500 and like the results, which are quite grainy. I don't think anybody recommends rating it higher than 500, and the Kodachrome labs I've used won't process it at EIs above that. I've never (deliberately) underexposed K200, alt

Re[2]: ebay: nikon s2 closed for $12,656

Hi, > I remember once seeing a Leica or Contax (Zeiss) 50mm/1.1 lens at a big > photo store, used but in full condition. I don't remember the amount, > but my impression of the was price was either less than $1000 or > something like $2000, no where near $12K. $1,000- would be a low price for a

Re: Definition of 'portrait' (was: Re: Cotty's June PUG review PART 2)

Hi, > Yet, when I see a picture of a dog or a cat or a bird or an elephant, I > have a real hard time calling it a portrait. I think 'portrait' generally implies a degree of cooperation between the sitter and the portraitist. > I recognise that there are basically two types of life form on plan

OT: Toscana Photo Workshops

Hi, I've just found a very interesting web-site which I thought I'd pass on: http://www.tpw.it/. It's a workshop in Tuscany, Italy. The 2 particularly interesting aspects of it are the extraordinarily high quality of the teachers, including several full and associate members of Magnum, and the w

Photo (was: OT: Konica QD21 Plus digital minilab

Hi, I thought this might be of interest to somebody, so I decided to post one of the scans from this machine onto my website: http://www.web-options.com/india/onion_trader.jpg For some reason my website is going very, very slowly at the moment, so apologies for the delay - the file is less than

Re[2]: Photo (was: OT: Konica QD21 Plus digital minilab

Hi Wendy, thanks for your reply. There's an explanation of gamma here: http://www.bberger.net/gamma.html In short, it's one of the methods used to try and get images produced on one system to look the same on a different system. Looking at the scans on my PC without changing the gamma makes them

Re: First Ever Photo in the World!

Hi, surely the first photo was Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait, which is now doing the rounds as the Shroud of Turin . In some ways photography has been around since at least the Middle Ages. There's a fascinating book by Philip Steadman called "Vermeer's Camera" in which the author argues tha

Re[2]: First Ever Photo in the World!

9:28:52 PM, you wrote: > I don't think there is any doubt that the camera obscura predates Neipce's >heliograph. Neipce just developed the first photochemical process. > Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > surely the first photo was Leonardo da Vinci's s

Re: vermeers camera ( was first-ever Photo in the world)

Hi, Philip Steadman speculates in the book about a possible connection between Fabritius and Vermeer. Vermeer owned some of Fabritius's paintings, as well as work by van Hoogstraten, another painter who was at the very least familiar with the camera obscura. Apparently in Delft Vermeer was descri

Re[2]: Advantage of small f/number!

Hi, > Suppose I have a 300 > mm f/5.6 lens. What film speed should I use in order to stop the action as > well as attaining good depth of focus (say, 4 m) in an artificially > illuminated stadium? If your subject is 2m in height then to fill the frame using a 300mm lens you must be 17m away. T

Re: Eliot Porter's "In Wildness..." ebay listing (mine)

Hi, www.abebooks.com has over 250 of them, ranging in price from $1.50 to $200, although the $200- is definitely an outlier. The higher prices are of course for good 1st editions. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 1:03:30 AM, you wrote: > With 5 hours to go, I do

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

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