Re: OT: negative archiving

Hi, this is what I am (very, very slowly because it's extremely boring) doing: 1. using archival clear negative / slide pages, file one film per page. Give it a unique number written on the page or on a label stuck to the page. 2. Write a caption sheet for each film. The sheet has the

Re[2]: Is there a Pentax Future?

Hi, Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 10:06:41 PM, you wrote: Of course the nice thing about a student buying a K1000 as a starter slr is that his/her lenses will fit and be usable on every other Pentax 35mm body that they may upgrade to in the future, should they decide to stay with Pentax. That

Re: St Petersburg Photofair 2002

Hi, You can post in English if you have any comments. No! Make it more fun. If you have any comments you must post in Old Church Slavonic! g --- Bob Monday, November 18, 2002, 8:51:40 AM, you wrote: Hi, Links to some pictures of this event.

Re: foto backpack

Hi, it certainly looks pretty good, but you'd have to check it in person before you can be sure. I use this one: http://www.lowepro.com/pages/series/street/rovlight.htm which I can recommend highly. --- Bob Monday, November 18, 2002, 11:58:50 AM, you wrote: Hi! well, I'm searching for a

Re[3]: foto backpack

the hipbelt without the backback attached to it... I haven't seen this on any other bag yet... But I guess I will try to find a store that can order it, so that I can have a look at it before buying... the cameras stores here aren't very good when it comes to camera backpacks -_- Bob Walkden

Re: please comment

Hi, It's a nice photo, but I agree about the lower 3rd of the photo. The girl is on the half and I think this would have benefitted if she'd been on a 3rd. Compositionally she is a point on a neutral area, and therefore dominates the image. The eye scans the area and tries to establish the

Re[2]: Grandfather Mountain (was: Re[2]: we're back)

Hi, I flew into Charlotte once and had the following conversation with a customs official: Official: Have you imported any vegetables? Carrots, beans, potatoes, cabbages, peas, ...? Me: No. Official: Thankyou for supporting American agriculture. --- Bob Monday, November 18, 2002,

Re[2]: Lowepro SF Reporter 100? (Was Re: OT: Domke Bags)

Hi, Nope, Doug, can't say I've had that pleasure. Along that same philosophy, I'd like to get my hands on a sample of SF accessories for Lowepro. the SF attachments work very well and it's worthwhile to get them. I have an SF Rover Lite backpack, and a narrow SF belt, which take 2 water

Re[2]: SMCP FA 20-35mm f/4 AL or the FA* 24mm f/2 AL WAS -- Re:Wideangle Dilemmas

Hi, Its not that cheap in the UK! The 24 is £539 and the 20-35 is £439! Here in the US the 24 is £222 and the 20-35 is £300 (at today's exchange rates). Heck of a markup for Pentax UK? Heck of a mark-up for the government... --- Bob

Re[2]: Wideangle Dilemmas

Hi, Mount it on tripod, compose, set the distance range and aperture, measure the exposure and just shoot. Don't know how to do it if the scale is not there. :( Use a spreadsheet to calculate the scale, print it on small paper, encapsulate it in plastic, stick it in your camera bag, refer

Re[2]: Larry Burrows Vietnam

Hi, The book refers to a site called www.larryburrows.com, which is currently under construction, so that should be worth checking periodically. I have looked through the book a couple of times now, and concentrated on a couple of the essays, and I further endorse my own recommendation! In

Re[2]: Disaster strikes!

Hi, Very bad luck to Pål - what a horrible thing to happen. If it had fallen into a crater of lava, or been swallowed by a duck, but this! Much of my stuff is covered by my house insurance, but I keep thinking about getting proper specialist insurance. It may not be necessary - you should

Re[4]: Disaster strikes!

Hi, I had to deal with a photo equipment supplier nominated by my insurance company. The supplier provided me with a list of items that he thought were equivalent to my stolen items (which were LXs and A, A*, M and K manual focus lenses). This established an approximate figure for the replacement

OT: Einbausicherung! (was Re[4]: Disaster strikes!

Hi, surely forsikring must be insurance, so it is about his innbo. as in 'vorsicherung' or whatever the Dutch word is - sounds plausible. 'Sicher' being related to security and safety and, I suppose '-sikring'. Perhaps 'innbo' is related to 'einbau', which means 'installation', 'bau' being to

Larry Burrows Vietnam

Hi, Larry Burrows was a British photographer who was killed in Vietnam. I don't think he is very well known outside photographic circles (wherein he is a legend). His work has not been very widely published in recent years, so some people on the list may not be very familiar with it, except for a

Re[2]: Filter/Hood question about 100mm macro

Hi, I sort of miss Mafud, but Kirkland Ramsey is another story. Much more belligerent I'd say. I'm still not sure they were one and the same, although some evidence seemed to suggest that. we could put some of their emails through a stylistic analyzer - the type of thing they use to decide

Re[2]: Have we ever done people's pets on PUG?

Hi, like this, you mean? http://www.peterfetterman.com/artists/hopkins/hopkins_pic02.html --- Bob Monday, November 11, 2002, 11:14:28 PM, you wrote: We have allowed everyone to interpret the theme for themselves in the past. If one truely doesn't have a pet, a little imagination might

Re: Photography Tour -- Ever Gone?

Hi, it's not something I've done personally, and I probably never would because I'd prefer to spend the money on a trip where I learn things myself. However, a number of people from the Leica list have had workshops and done tours with people such as David Alan Harvey, and Mary Ellen Mark, and

Re[2]: Is BOKEH real?!?! Was -- Re: If You had to pick one lens . . .

Hi, Try the RGPL, look under the various spellings (it's a recently imported term, there is no standard English word for it), the Pentax brochures of yore use the phrase 'pleasing out-of-focus highlights'. I'm sure the degree of difference between various lenses is quantifiable in some way

Re[2]: OT: Is BOKEH real?!?! Was -- Re: If You had to pick one lens . . .

Hi, you seem to be mixing up several separate issues. First of all, the word clearly exists, since we're all using it. The different spellings are not important since they all clearly refer to the same thing and can't be confused with something else (except perhaps a bunch of flowers, but

Re: OT: 50mm lens hood problem

Hi, the thread is about Nikon hoods to be used on Pentax lenses, which is why the discussion is about dimensions (most Nikon hoods don't fit most Pentax lenses). Besides, the general understanding at least as long as I've been on this list, which is too long, is that discussions which are

Re[2]: How much film do you need?

Hi, I don't know how you can deal with so many different types of film. When I'm on a trip I take one type of film only, usually Kodachrome, in 2 speeds. Keeping it simple hugely reduces the scope for confusion and thinking I have the wrong film. Similar things apply to the 'what if...'

Re: Carrying a tripod

Hi, I either carry it over my shoulder, AK47-style, or I hire somebody to carry it for me, depending on the local cost of labour. --- Bob Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 7:04:09 PM, you wrote: How do you carry around a tripod when you are out of the car? Do you have a kind of bag or some

Re: What do you carry with you

Hi, Minimum = nothing. Next to minimum = Leica M3+50/2 + meter + 2-3 rolls of Tri-X, or 1 Contax SLR + 28-80 lens + a few rolls of colour print film, possibly + flash, or 1 MX + 40/2.8 + Tri-X. Then 2 Leicas + 3 lenses + meter + 10 rolls of film or 2 Contax SLRs + 35mm and 85mm primes + meter +

Re: Bag problems

Hi, I have a Domke F2, a Domke F1-X, a LowePro SF Rover Lite, a LowePro belt and a few pouches, a Pelican 1550 and I'm thinking about another smaller LowePro. These are all useful at different times, perhaps woth the exception of the F1-X which is too heavy to carry if it's full, and no use

Re[2]: Heliopan Hood Distributors

Hi Fred, the ones shown in the catalogue are the only ones I've ever heard of from Heliopan. I'd say that on balance the answer is probably 'yes'. --- Bob Saturday, November 2, 2002, 8:13:43 PM, you wrote: I guess you probably mean on that side of the pond, but in case not Speedgraphic

Re: Eclipse

Hi, yes you can. The important thing is to use a mylar filter and not burn a hole straight through the back of your head. There is a very good book on the subject with all the information you need here http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521456517/104-0805867-8597503 and some information

Re[2]: ALIENS! Re: Brad's Pentax Gripe Gets Nasty ;-)

Hi, I believe the Russian Navy once sailed round the world so that they could attack Japan from the blind side. Perhaps Pentax was trying to supply Canada by surprise! --- Bob Friday, November 1, 2002, 1:48:19 PM, you wrote: none of this addresses what a ship from Japan to Canada was

Re[2]: A*135/f1.8 that was on Ebay

Hi Fred, I don't think they have 'models' as such. Mine was just a plain 77mm tele hood, which I got from Teamwork - www.teamworkphoto.com - in London. I can't find hoods on the website, although they used to be there. Several people from the US have bought from Teamwork without mishap, and their

Re: Heliopan Hood Distributors

Hi Fred, I guess you probably mean on that side of the pond, but in case not Speedgraphic (in the UK) do them: http://www.speedgraphic.co.uk/pdfiles/p12-13.pdf --- Bob Thursday, October 31, 2002, 8:24:07 PM, you wrote: Hello out there in PentaxLand. Does anyone know a good solid source

Re[2]: A*135/f1.8 that was on Ebay

Hi, I used to use a Heliopan when I had one of these lenses. I never had one of the 'correct' Pentax hoods for it, and when I first bought the lens I was given a Mamiya heavy-duty collapsible rubber one (which I still have somewhere). Somebody else, possibly Shel, used to stack Heliopans to get

Re[2]: Brad's Pentax Gripe Gets Nasty ;-)

Hi, Good grief, a boat from Japan to Canada sank in the Atlantic Ocean? That would take some serious doing. it was a Pentax boat. The captain didn't see the enormous digital iceberg heading towards him... Bob

Re: OT: Re: Metaphors (Was Re: A funny problem with digital)

Hi, perhaps they threw him into part of the creek where stuff accumulates. The Thames close to my house usually flows quite quickly but there are parts where all the crap that people throw in upstream, often including pairs of short planks, gathers sometimes for days at a time. There are a couple

Re: Focus screen preferences?

Hi Rob, I like split-image microprism screens for focal lengths up to about 100mm. This probbly partly because that was the supplied screen with the MX, and what I got used to. I like to have several options for checking the focus, but I use the ground glass a lot. From 100mm upwards I like

Re[4]: Film to check a lens

Hi, earlier this year I bought an extremely very excellent (as one of my former colleagues would say) little device called an Emoscop to supplement my 4x and 8x lupes for looking at slides. You can read all about it here: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002zAl It's a

Re[2]: Travel Kit

, but don't call it pretentious. --- Bob Friday, October 25, 2002, 9:26:30 PM, you wrote: In reference to a travel kit that includes: 28mm f/3.5 50mm f/1.4 105mm f/2.8 macro 200mm f/4 Bob Walkden wrote: The primes other than the 50 are too slow, although the focal lengths aregood

Re[2]: Travel Kit

Hi, Vic wrote, about my preference for fast lenses: Total agreement. Pretentious as all heck. It's not about the lenses. It's about what you do with them. Vic then wrote: Fast lenses are prized for the brightness of the viewfinder when using them and the ease of focusing when using manual

Re[2]: Travel Kit

. Like most of us, he probably can't afford the ultra fast glass. Those are the lenses he owns. His choice was correct. They are not too slow to produce great pictures. Bob Walkden wrote: Hi, The primes other than the 50 are too slow, although the focal lengths are good

Re: Travel Kit

Hi, speaking for myself, I would not bother with the zoom. The primes other than the 50 are too slow, although the focal lengths are good. I would also have a non-macro 100mm or 85mm as well as, or instead of, the macro because macro lenses take a long time to turn through the full focus range.

Re[2]: law and image

Hi, I have some personal experience similar to this from a civilian's standpoint. In my other life as an IT person I was at one time in charge of the financial systems at a company I worked for here in England. One of the employees was prosecuted for stealing large amounts of cash. Computer-based

OT: Mrs. Malaprop - an etymologist speaks (was : How many bodies?

Hi, I resemble that remark about bodies!!! ;-) I hope this won't be taken the wrong way, although it is possibly a little pedantic. I've seen a lot of people on this list use the word 'resemble' in this sort of context, and I've assumed they mean 'resent' (which happens to be next to it in my

Re[2]: How many bodies? - a good investment?

Hi, I'm not sure about prices outside London (UK), but for about £500- you can get a decent used Leica rangefinder which will cerainly hold its value if you don't trash it. It should also provide many years of photographical fun for all the family. Well, perhaps not all... --- Bob Saturday,

Re[2]: OT: Mrs. Malaprop - an etymologist speaks (was : How many bodies?

Hi, thanks for clearing that up. I don't like the Marx Bros. and have never been able to sit through an entire film of their's, so I guess I would never have heard the joke. --- Bob Saturday, October 19, 2002, 4:54:16 PM, you wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Bob Walkden wrote

Re[5]: how many bodies do you own

Dan, now that I'm officially allowed to tell you what you're talking about, I will. The Zeiss/Contax lenses are excellent - I like them very much. They seem to be well built although I did have a tough time with a couple of mine in Romania 2 or 3 years ago. On the other hand, I did drop one of

Re[3]: Paal Comes Through Again

Hi, Thursday, October 17, 2002, 3:38:39 PM, you wrote: With all due respect to you, Bob, it appears that this particular duck caught some of Paal's lead. By the way, is your middle name Bruce or The Who ? we all have the right to be as skeptical or as credulous as we please, and to make

Re[2]: Paal Comes Through Again

Hi, that's nice to know Fred. I developed a theory about the Who, and it recurs from time to time. I think he and several others of our acquaintance may be Turing Tests. Some postgraduate somewhere is doing research into artificial intelligence and trying it out by subscribing it to discussion

Re[2]: Pentax annonces digital SLR

Hi, (anyone interested in such a giant jump-into-digital from manual? ;-) after a brief but meaningful rummage with Cotty's Cannon on Saturday I could be persuaded. I can easily imagine a set-up consisting of Leica Ms for film photography, and an all-mod-cons digital camera for

Re: Paal Comes Through Again

Hi, it's still only vapourware. --- Bob Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 9:18:06 PM, you wrote: Way to go Paal, keep your ear to the ground and continue getting the real information to us! Some where Bruce should be getting out the salt and pepper for some kind of crow eating dinner.

Re[2]: Paal Comes Through Again

Hi, well, with all due respect to Paal, his predictions are rather like horoscope. There's an awful lot of them, usually couched in vague and ambiguous terms, and 99.999% of the time they're wrong. People only remember when they're right because it happens so rarely and because, like that

Re[2]: PDML UK Camden Lock - pictures up

Hi, to be absolutely accurate, it's an M3 (1959) single-stroke. The lens is a 1982 90/2.8 Tele-Elmarit M, the thin one, with an early model hood. --- Bob Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 3:40:39 PM, you wrote: Hi Keith, Thanks. The Leica was a III I believe, with a 90mm aboard. Bob

Re: OT: Depth of Field

Hi, f/8 or be square! --- Bob Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 4:27:52 PM, you wrote: This is a techniques/opinions/experiences thread . . . I was always a big fan of telephotos, it has been a real change to use my new Pentax 20-35 zoom. In particular, I'm learning whole new ways to think

Re[2]: PDML UK Camden Lock - pictures up

Hi, I noticed Bob moved in pretty quickly though ;-) I've always been a sucker for the line it's all part of the post-colonial experience. I keep thinking about the guy with the rings in his face. I may go back again in the next couple of weeks with a 100mm macro lens and pocket full of £s

Re[2]: Photokina and Pentax - the future?

Hi, With a last name like fenstermacher, you'd think I'd have this German thing down... it's pretty easy really: -ei- is like ice, lice, rice, nice, dice, mice, spice, Zeiss... -ie- is like wiener, as in schnitzel. alles in ordnung! --- Bob Thursday, October 10, 2002, 3:24:00 PM, you

Re[2]: Pentax at Photokina

Hi, Thursday, October 3, 2002, 4:55:53 AM, you wrote: Digital makes EVERYTHING better! I am native I know. But digital does not make things better. Just look at the unemployment rate all over the world due to computing automation. As far as I can see, computers are here to take over our

Wildlife photographer

Hi, an interview here with one of the entrants in this year's BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2276648.stm Bob

The Big Yellow Papa speaks...

Hi, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2278678.stm Quite frankly people do not want films or digital cameras they just want pictures --- Cheers, Bob

Re[2]: The big yellow papa speaks

Hi Valentin, nice to hear the sound of digital speleology again g. There's a flaw in your argument, unfortunately. We only get to see the cave paintings that have survived. Maybe, 60,000 years ago, there were as many cave paintings as there are now photographs, but they only lasted a few years.

Re[2]: Is Pentax dying?

Verily, yclepst thou: Go to the chat room on http://www.pentax-digitalworld.de/ and you will notice: here take place regelmabig live chats approximately around the digital photography. To professional photographer the Thomas' haltner betrayal tipps cheat, tricks and small secrets, as

UK pdmlers - better learn how to set your VCRs...

Hi, I've just learned that Channel 4 will be showing Christian Frei's highly-regarded documentary about James Nachtwey 'War Photographer' at 7pm on Saturday 28th September. http://www.war-photographer.com/ Cheers, Bob

Re[2]: SMC Pentax F* Zoom 5,6/250-600

Hi, Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 3:23:19 PM, you wrote: Leicas suck, at a glance you can't tell if it's 30 years old or 3 months old, where's the pose value in that :-( It's all about the secret thrill you get when you're sucking a Wall's Magnum ice cream, mate, and think 'This is what

Re[3]: another round - OT

Hi, Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 7:03:02 PM, you wrote: asking nicely goes a long way. this summer, passing heathrow (afaik notorious for refusing this), all my film was hand inspected. For those of you who may not have English as their first language, the correct way to ask for this is:

Re: OT: Hasselblad and bokeh

Hi Albano, I have a Pentax Lenses and Accessories brochure, 06771, from the time bridging the K and M lenses. In the blurb about the K 200/2.5 it says ...ever mindful of the needs of the professional photographer [...] its 6-element, 6-group optical design ensures high contrast and definition,

Re[4]: UK trip in October, maybe

Hi Stan, Monday, September 23, 2002, 12:36:05 AM, you wrote: Saturday sounds good to me. I've been walking around muttering to myself: 35mm or 645? Or both? One body? Two bodies? One each? Two each? What lens kit? I did a quick inventory this afternoon and found that I have a much larger

Re: [OT] need help from Domke F-2 users

Hi, Monday, September 23, 2002, 11:16:41 PM, you wrote: I'm considering buying this bag, and as usual I'd like to know your opinion. 1. What are you experiences with the F-2 (if any of course :) ? 2. Canvas or ballistic? 3. And the most important - how much gear do you fit in, and how

Re[2]: UK trip in October, maybe

Hi, Sunday, September 22, 2002, 9:44:53 AM, you wrote: I'm free that weekend. How about a meet up in town? Bob W, you up for that? Rob? Anyone? How about a boat trip up and down the Thames and then some lunch? Or Regent's Park Zoo? Or? I can probably do the Saturday, but I'm unlikely

OT: High noon in the home of Time (was: JCO - What time is it

Hi, here's what Old Father Time himself has to say about it, and he should know: http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/museum/faq.htm Scroll down to the section entitled Is noon 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.? --- Bob (in Greenwich) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, September 21, 2002, 5:36:21 AM, you wrote:

Re[2]: Dry firing roundup

Hi, Saturday, September 21, 2002, 5:34:45 PM, you wrote: And you would be wrong. Every time they make em more foolproof, someone invents a whole new way to be a fool, and everyone so inclined jumps on the bandwagon. We see 3-12 blanks per day, depending on the phase of the moon.

Re[2]: more Photkina information

Hi, Thursday, September 19, 2002, 1:22:23 PM, you wrote: Hi, Keith wrote: ?? 'Chamboulé' is not in my Larousse Français-Anglais Dictionnaire! g I don't know what it means either but it does _sound_ like a good verb for describing the digital SLR market mike (whacking great

Re[7]: Orgin Myths -- The Finale? :)

Hi, Friday, September 13, 2002, 12:59:10 AM, you wrote: Russia-Schmussia... that was an office park on I-95 interstate, this summer. I mean, Boston, MA. And I didn't really mean, bureaucracy. Make an experiment: go to any store and snap a couple shots with a PS. I bet no one would even

Re[2]: NEW PENTAX PATENTS!!!: The gobbledegook and my humbletranslations...More...

Hi, I did a project once using a thing called a mains modem. The company I was working for was looking for a cheap way of networking some PCs together so with one of the engineers I got to write some rs232 comms. stuff in assembler and Modula-2 and run around the site with the engineer pushing a

Re: New Pentax speculation

Hi, Heretically, more interested in improving his technique than adding to his complement of equipment, Jeez, Mike, what sort of photographer are you? You should know by now that the only way to get better is to BUY MORE STUFF! Don't you ever read adverts? They're trying to help you. ---

Re[2]: Rectangular filter systems

Hi, The hitech ones are much better and are generally regarded as the best value/quality buy. I have an unused Hitech filter holder with 2 filter slots, a circular holder for polarisers and a 77mm attachment thing. Also an unused Hitech graduated neutral gray filter. If anybody's interested

Re[2]: Some random thoughts

Hi, the circumstances of taking the photo may have prevented any real sharpness being achieved (eg. Robert Capa's D-Day landing shots), but this does not detract from the impact. to be a bit pedantic, the circumstances in which Capa took the photos did not cause their unsharpness (although

Eve's Spottie

Hi, people desperate to know that some professional photographers use(d) Pentax equipment may be able to chalk up another one (must be getting into double figures now). I recently bought Eve Arnold's 'Film Journal'. The cover, seen here in a poor scan

Re[4]: Let's get real, folks.

Hi, What would be an entry-level price, and what do you think you'd get for the money? Would you also expect entry-level lenses? If so, same questions apply. My oldest Leica is a 1959 M3, i.e. it's 43 years old and is set fair for a lot more years. But let's be pessimistic and say it dies on

Re[2]: Next Pentax Flagship Camera?

Hi, I would have assumed that the pro end of a manufacturers line would be similar to the motorsport divisions of car companies - costs hell of a lot but brings in the prestige. And of course with the prestige comes all the thousands of wannabes and the 'but it's a Canon, I must be a

Re[2]: Pentax and the joyful absence of exposure modes

Hi, London has been full of cows recently. A few weeks ago they had the Cow Parade and it seems like the cowherd got drunk, or carried away (by a cowboy?) or both, and has left them all over the place. The whole West End looks like downtown Puri, or a scene from the Magic Roundabout (Menage

Re[6]: Let's get real, folks.

Hi, you can buy 1937 Leicas for this sort of price too - perhaps a little more, but not a huge amount - and like the Rolleiflexes you can also buy much more expensive ones. Of course, part of the price of a Leica is in the name, and that's a great pity, but they really are very, very good

Re[2]: Let's get real, folks.

Hi, until Leica comes up with an entry level rangefinder (i.e. never), the M2 was their entry-level rangefinder, back in 1957. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't

Re[2]: Lenses in the field

Rob Studdert wrote: On 14 Aug 2002 at 7:51, Bob Walkden wrote: I have 2 35/1.4s - one by Leica, the other by Carl Zeiss and it's a lesson in the differences between RF and SLR lenses to put them side by side. The Leica is tiny, the CZ is enormous. And just to illustrate Bob's point (as I

Re: Exposing slides (and prints too)

Hi, Do I need to over/under-exposure slides as some sort of general rule? this is a matter of personal preference. I suggest you bracket at least 1/3 of a stop each way and make your mind up based on your results. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the

Re: Lenses in the field

Hi, as it 'appens, guys gals, I have a book called Visual Anthropology by John Collier, who worked for the FSA in the 1940s and has taught and published widely on this very subject. The book was first published in 1967 but mine is a 1992 edition, so it's not particularly out of date. He likes

Re[4]: Subject: LX repair update

Hi, when my LXs were stolen the insurance company first offered me 3 F3s with MD-4s as replacements because they thought they were the nearest current equivalent to the LX. I went to a camera shop to see how they compared. Lifted one F3+MD4 and decided there and then, based on the weight size

Re[3]: Subject: LX repair update

Hi, well, to even up the score a bit I've had 3 LXs, 4 or 5 MXs and a Super A (Super Program), and they all had problems at some time in their careers. I bought my first LX specifically to replace an MX I had problems with. (Frying pan - fire). For Bill's benefit, I haven't had any problems

Re[2]: OT: Writings on The Wall

Hi, Wednesday, July 31, 2002, 5:50:30 AM, you wrote: [...] Sorry if I didn't make myself a little clearer- as far as I knew, there was only ONE wall; wrong generation I guess :)) [...] you might like to remind yourself that not everybody on the list is from the USA. There was another wall

Re[2]: MZ-S gripe and Oly pics from the weekend

Hi, It's almost incredible that so many people don't understand the MZ-S interface. I don't know anything about the MZ-S interface, but I do know something about user interfaces in general because it's part of my job. Yours is a strange sentence to write in defence of an interface, because if

Re[2]: OT: Walls Was RE: OT: Writings on The Wall

Hi, 1. there's the wall at Eton College where the play the Wall Game... (don't ask - probably involves petroleum jelly and something to bite on). 2. there's a piece of bone between your mastoid cavity and middle ear (I know all about those). 3. there's the thing marathon runners hit (why don't

Re[2]: MZ-S gripe and Oly pics from the weekend

Hi, It replaces the stupid corkscrew sounds to me like you've got your priorities all wrong... g --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, July 29, 2002, 1:23:24 PM, you wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Brad Dobo wrote: Heh...interesting, I have like 8 different Swiss Army knives and

Re[2]: MZ-S gripe and Oly pics from the weekend

Hi, They do not have a photographers knife, like they do for camping, angling, trailmaster, electrican, etc, etc. It's because they can't stand the thought of all those fecking thruds entitled Which is sharper: Victorinox or Leatherman? --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, July

Re[2]: FA 100mm f=2.8 Macro and macro ring light: Questions

Hi, re: rings in models eyes isnt caused by ringlights, probably due to flashhead centered in an umbrella causing a donut shaped large light. that rather depends. The ring-lights they use for fashion shoots and cover-girl make-up shots, which are often shadow-less and show ring highlights,

Re[2]: OT:What other brand camera could make you change systems, or you would li...

Hi, Elliott Erwitt uses rangefinders and dogs are always jumping around him! He says the trick is to bark at them. Apparently they're not expecting that. Even less so when you bark in their own language. I've heard him do it, and it nearly made me jump. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: OT:What other brand camera could make you change systems, or you would li...

Hi, You can do street photography perfectly well with an SLR. I did it for 21 years before I bought my 1st RF camera. The RF camera hasn't improved my street photography. To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it's the eye, stupid!. It's always better to spend money on film and on being there than on

Re: SemiOT: European help

Hi Bill, I've found an invasive number of websites about this stuff and apparently it's quite common on the freshwater stretches of the Thames here in London (I live in Greenwich where it's estuarine salt marsh). I'm not a botanist and I've never noticed the stuff, but I may be able to have a

Re[2]: SemiOT: European help

Hi, oops - that was meant to be private - sorry everybody. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 7:28:17 PM, I wrote: Hi Bill, I've found an invasive number of websites about this stuff and [...] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To

Re[2]: SemiOT: European help

Hi Cotty, here's some: http://infoweb.magi.com/~ehaber/factpurp.html http://www.invasiveplants.net/plants/purpleloosestrife.htm I only live 5 minutes walk from the Thames too - we must be neighbours! --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 10:52:23 PM, you wrote: I've

Re[2]: What good is . . .

Hi, Monday, July 22, 2002, 1:44:17 AM, you wrote: I think it's a great idea to take the glass out of a lens. You don't want to start wearing it out by mounting it on a camera now do you? It reminds me of the Yes Minister episode where they had the most efficient hospital in England because

Re[6]: AP UK on why digital is no good.

Hi, Sunday, July 21, 2002, 10:17:21 PM, you wrote: I won't pursue my line of argument much further except to say my analogy of film/TV was simply to show how different a function two seemingly similar form of communication can be. And, while TV has become a metaphor for triviality (I

Digital video for stills

Hi, the other day I posted a link about the photojournalist David Turnley, who uses a Sony DV camera to make documentary films, and has posted some frames from them as stills in their own right. Here is the link again: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0203/dt01.htm. I dug around a bit and

OT: Thought for the day

From the Herald Tribune: Making the London rounds is the anecdote of a bemused Tony Blair hearing George W. Bush's simple explanation for France's economic decline. In this account of an aside at a recent summit, Bush told Blair that the French trouble is that they don't have a word for

Re[2]: Digital video for stills

you could kill 2 birds with one stone - I'm quite interesting in trying video sometime. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, July 22, 2002, 10:49:10 AM, you wrote: On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Bob Walkden wrote: I can see a lot of advantages to shooting a burst of video rather than a few

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