Street photography

Coincident to the recent discussion about this subject, the London Independent is running a series of photos from the street photography website www.in-public.com. Some good photos there, but some very bad and pretentious writing. Bob - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To

Re[3]: Digital video for stills

Hi, I don't think it was a satellite phone, but I suppose it may have been. It was better quality than for example the footage John Simpson shot in Afghanistan before he liberated Kabul. I'm currently thinking about Aug 10th (a Sat.) for the Ansel Adams, and talking to another pdmler (from near

Re: A 400/5.6 opinions?

Hi, The A 400/5.6 and the M* and A* 300/4s are not interchangeable by ny means. I've had an A 400/5.6 and an A* 300/4. The 400 is extremely well made and very sharp. I used to shoot it with an LX and winder and I shot quite a lot of wildlife in South Africa, although I've never shot motor

Re[4]: Ansel Adams and Snoopy

- Original Message - From: Bob Walkden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Frits J. Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:01 PM Subject: Re[2]: Ansel Adams and Snoopy Hi, it's at the Hayward Gallery in London until September the somethingth. The Hayward Gallery is in the South Bank

Re[2]: Pentax - New Directions (now getting longer)

Hi, PS: If your camera allowed you to set the aperture through the camera or the aperture ring, don't be surprised if the chosen shutter speed differs a bit. This is due to the rather loose manufacturing tolerance. aren't you assuming the very point that's at question here? In other words,

Ansel Adams and Snoopy

Hi, the exhibition Ansel Adams at 100 opens here in London soon, tomorrow I think, and of course I intend to see it. There has been a flurry of Ansel-related reviews in the press here, of course. In the review section of today's Independent newspaper is this article, in which the author says a

Re[2]: Ansel Adams and Snoopy

, you wrote: Bob, Do you know where the exhibition is, and for howlong? Or do you have a weblink to it? On Wednesday 10 July 2002 20:03, Bob Walkden wrote: Hi, the exhibition Ansel Adams at 100 opens here in London soon, tomorrow I think, and of course I intend to see it. There has been

'World Illustrated' and 'Hotshoe International'

Hi, the other day I picked up the 1st issue of a new magazine which may be of interest to some people. World Illustrated, subtitled Our world in photographs covers the broad spectrum of photojournalism and refers back to Picture Post and Life. It's quite small - slightly smaller than National

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

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. To

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

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 g. 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

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

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 self-portrait, which is now doing the rounds

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

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

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

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,

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[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 g. --- Bob

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 the

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 PROTECTED] - This

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

Re: Help with terminology regarding BW 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: 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. g --- 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

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

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 airspace.

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

Re: More great stuff from Luminous Landscape

Hi, Somebody's done that already...g 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

Re[2]: BW 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

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 it

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

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 either actually losing a roll of exposed film or thinking I had when I got

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,

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

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]

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: 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

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 photos

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

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

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

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[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. g --- 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] I'm afraid it leaves out all of the materialists

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

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

Re[2]: A Book Recommendation

: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. I've had the 3rd edition for a few years; there is now a 4th edition, at least. It would certainly be in my top 3 'how to' photography books. I

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 like

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

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

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: It's

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

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

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. g 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

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 gain

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

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

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 the

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.

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, perspectives,

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,

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

Re[2]: Delivery

Hi, It's an Eye-ism; be very glad that I do not wish to have a serious overlong conversation in Ugandan with you. Now there's an odd expression -- mother tongue. Wonder what sort of image THAT invokes [...] Or Ugandan This is a very British in-joke. I really don't think you want to

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 VBG ;-) 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

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,

Re[2]: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Hi, I think those shots, all from the early 1950s, were made with a pre-production, experimental Leica M3. It has long been Leica's habit to have Magnum photographers test them, and recently Klaus Bjorn Larsen tested the M7 for them. Some of Elliott Erwitt's contacts from the time show the same

Re[2]: London

Hi, the opening scenes of the film 'Patriot Games', where the IRA people try to kill or kidnap someone, were shot in the grounds of the Royal Naval College, a couple of hundred yeards up the river from where I live. http://www.greenwichfoundation.org.uk/ My house is a bit smaller. I can't add

Re[2]: SMC vs C-n-n Coatings (from C-n-n FAQ)

Hi, Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 2:21:16 PM, you wrote: Still, Zeiss 80mm on a 'blad vs. Pentax SMC 105mm on a 67...the 105mm is a lot cheaper and definitely harder to flare. You'd think that Zeiss would know what they were doing with internal baffling etc. Now, I'm not saying that the Zeiss

Re[2]: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Hi, this question came up a few weeks ago and I sent a list of books with some of my own thoughts about them. I no longer have the post, so I'd be grateful if anybody who's saved it could repost it. ALso, isn't the decisive moment at the heart of good photojournalism? People have read too

Re[2]: Viewfinder Information

of A and B... NOW! On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:31:15 +0059, Bob Walkden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I like it to say That's a great photo, Bob. Press the shutter...NOW!. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget

Re: hood depth?

Hi, the Contax hood is very good and very well made. On its own it is 63mm deep, but you will also need a 67/86 step-up ring, which adds another 10mm or so to the depth. It's specifically designed for the CZ 300mm lens, and this is precisely what I use it for. The Contax hoods all have an 86mm

Re: Viewfinder Information

Hi, I like it to say That's a great photo, Bob. Press the shutter...NOW!. Apart from that I'm becoming more of a minimalist (or should that be 'less of a minimalist'? Is that a paradox? Perhaps 'less of a maximalist' is best). Whatever. I've always appreciated the efficient simplicity of the

Re: Best travel SMC-A zoom Lens?

Hi, The SMC A 28-80/3.5-4.5 is very good, although a bit slow and rare. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunday, April 21, 2002, 3:01:48 AM, you wrote: I'm going on a trip soon might want to buy a good zoom (I know that might be an oxymoron for some people). However, for the sake of

Re[2]: Film Travel

Hi, I'd forgotten about that. How could I? I ordered 70 rolls of Kodachrome from 7dayshop a few months ago. They arrived in 70 separate envelopes. The postman let me keep the sack... --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, April 20, 2002, 7:13:19 AM, you wrote: 7dayshop take about a

Tokyo Lucky Homie (was 67 Hat For the Homies

Hi, I picked up a copy of the April French 'Photo' today (in Paris g). There's a long article about Nobuyoshi Araki, with many photos. In 2 of the photos his 6x7 is showing. He's not wearing a propeller beanie; he's wearing an airline captain's hat, and in another picture some devil's horns. The

Re[2]: Malcolm's Plums

Hi Mike, it's just occurred to me that you could try the newspaper library at Colindale. They're part of the British Library, so you might be able to search using their website, or at least ask someone for help. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 1:07:56 PM, you

Re[2]: Your minimal kit (was Re: Your desert-island kit? )

Hi, because the M3 has framelines for 50mm, 90mm and 135mm lenses, so using a 35mm lens is inconvenient with an M3. The M4-2 (and all others from the M2 onwards until just recently) have framelines for at least a 35mm, 50mm, 90mm lens. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, April 16,

Re: I made it to the UK

Hi, nice to have you among us. To paraphrase Bill Bryson: Welcome to Bognor Regis. This is what it feels like to be dead. Guess it must be pretty bad if someone from New Zealand thinks it's dull. g once I figure out the trains. They're the big metal things on rails that never go anywhere.

Re: Your desert-island kit?

Hi, I'd either take a big wooden camera and turn it into a raft, or a Nikonos V and 20mm lens. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, April 15, 2002, 5:09:53 PM, you wrote: Ok, here's a new question for you on this bright and happy Monday. Say you have to pare your camera gear down

Re: Photo visit to Umea, Sweden

Hi, I saw a documentary on TV a few years ago in which a photographer was doing an essay on the Swedish midsummer festival (he was using a Pentax 6x7 and AF400T). As far as I could tell it was one almighty shagfest - everybody getting their kit off round a bonfire at midnight and doing the wild

Re: Management brilliance (was: PENTAX need to move soon)

Hi, Sunday, April 14, 2002, 5:00:49 PM, you wrote: Heard two stories over the weekend regarding the Pentax organization in Europe: 1. Pentax France has fired something like 10 - 12 people (including _all_ the Directors). Quite a deep cut since this was supposed to have been a fairly

Re: pleasantly surprised by my xr-m

Hi, On the Contax RX you have a PF option which lets you choose whether to rewind fully into the cassette, or leave the leader out. I used to make it rewind fully, but that caused problems when I wanted to mid-roll rewind, so changed to leader out. One good feature of the camera is that when

OT: eppur si muove (was Re: Anxious to see this one

Hi, It's like the Bumble Bee, aerodynamically it should never fly, but is still does. 2nd time this has come up in recent days. Here's what Mama Nature says: http://www.nature.com/nsu/000914/000914-3.html --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Whats your most used Camera?

Hi, I've probably shot most film with my MX, but I've had it for over 20 years. When I started buying LXs they became my first choice body. Nowadays my first choice is probably evenly shared between a Leica M3 or M4-2 and a Contax RX. I still take my MX out for a bit of exercise from time to

Re: Incident Meter

Hi, the best that I know of for your purposes might be the Gossen Luna Pro, although they're not cheap even on the used market. There are several variants, so you'd need to do a bit of research before making your final decision. The meter I used for years before getting the all-whistling

Re: Electronic shutters versus mechanical shutters

Hi, I'm not an engineer or electrician or in any way mechanical (or electric), BUT, the electronic bits of an electronic shutter still have to move the actual shutter mechanism itself, I'd have thought, and they are presumably subject to wear and tear. I guess that the electronic parts of the

Re[3]: 1 quart

Hi, 0.55 Kilo's,if my cal's are correct. I don't think they are. You can work it out from any jam jar: 1lb = 454grams. Therefore 1/4lb = 113.5g. 0.55 kilos is over 1lb 3oz. Imperial, that is. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, April 11, 2002, 3:24:04 PM, you wrote: A stick

Re[2]: pro or hobby

this comment? For my part I thought it was fun?! Am I wrong? Bernd Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:08:35 +0100 From: Bob Walkden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: pro or hobby Hi, I'm doing it as a penance... - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net

Re[2]: STOP OT Posts

Hi, Thursday, April 11, 2002, 7:11:37 AM, you wrote: The Queen Mum thread was far more interesting than the butter thread. there's a 'Last Tango' joke lurking in there somewhere... --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go

Re: Gear to take to an airshow (was: Re: UK PDML 2002 UPDATE)

Hi, For an airshow though, I would have thought it's mostly telephoto work? I suppose a wide angle would be useful on some of the static displays. And After his motor-biking adventures with the LX strapped to his head I expect Mike will be tying himself to the propeller blades for 360-degree

Re: New to group - Looking for advice : )

Hi, I would like to pursue portraiture more seriously in the future (kind of starting now) and I'm torn on how to upgrade. You may not need to upgrade. No doubt plenty of people will advise you to spent a ton of money on lights and lenses, but it might be wiser to resist, at least for the

Re: pro or hobby

Hi, I'm doing it as a penance... --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 1:19:03 PM, you wrote: I was wondering how many people on this list are doing photography for a living and how many are doing it as a hobby. I'm doing it as a hobby regards, Rogier

Re: Holding a camrea

Hi, I think we'll all be reading about this one in next year's Darwin Awards. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, April 08, 2002, 1:59:06 PM, you wrote: Hi, I plan to try to take some pictures from a moving motorcyclist's persepective. The plan will be to use a wideangle lens

Re[2]: Cow Tools

Hi Mike, is this strange preference of yours a weird variation of the old Middle Eastern saying Women for babies, boys for pleasure, but a melon for ecstacy? --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, April 04, 2002, 8:45:53 AM, you wrote: Hi, William Robb wrote: That is, in fact, 2

Re[2]: woo hoo

Hi, [snip] This thread is getting dangerous - I pass g Yes, time to cut it short... 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 .

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