Hi,
Why not combine spot and matrix with OTF? Should be possible.
a spot meter would require an exposure lock, which is incompatible
with real-time metering.
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Bob
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Tuesday, July 31, 2001, 2:46:57 PM, you wrote:
Nenad wrot:
I am suggesting a minimalist
Hi,
actually this is not what I meant. What I mean is that having an
exposure lock is incompatible with IDM, and, Paal's experience
notwithstanding, an exposure lock is essential for a camera with a
built-in spot-meter.
Now, I can't find the back-up for my claim about AEL and IDM, so I may
be
Hi,
yea, you're right. I think it was posted in a fit of pique by
Kirkland Ramsey III, Presbyterian.
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Bob
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Monday, July 30, 2001, 8:44:40 PM, you wrote:
Well, go look again. I just posted a message from a fictitious email
account. I posted as [EMAIL
Hi,
It's professional. If you want it to do anything you have to pay it.
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Bob
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Monday, July 30, 2001, 11:25:46 PM, you wrote:
Can this thread die now? Please?
Todd
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Hi,
my experience was quite the opposite. When I bought my first LX one of
the things that immediately struck me was how quiet it was compared to
my MXs, of which I had 2 at the time, and my Super A. I later had 3
LXs, all equally quiet compared to the MX. The type of noise they make
is also
Hi,
Admirers of Phillip Jones Griffiths will be pleased to learn that his
legendary and almost mythical book 'Vietnam, Inc' is to be republished
for the 1st time later this year. First published in 1971 and an
instant sell-out this book was a huge condemnation of the US
involvement in Vietnam.
Hi,
had my day trip to Brussles yesterday, and thanks to everybody who
made suggestions about things to do.
I went straight from the railway station to the Botanique for the
Salgado exhibition, where I spent 2 hours looking at the photos. I
think I've worn out my eyeballs.
From there I walked
Hi,
bit light on film there, Shel. To go round the world, travelling at
ground level, you're going to have to budget 2 years and at least,
absolute minimum 2,000 rolls of film.
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Bob
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Sunday, July 29, 2001, 8:55:09 PM, you wrote:
... a late-model Leica M2 with
Hi,
more fun: http://www.comebackalive.com/df/index.htm
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Bob
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Sunday, July 29, 2001, 9:02:09 PM, you wrote:
Yeah ... it's much like Disney World. The Take 'em Out Back and
Shoot 'em ride is very popular, as is the Self Immolating Peasant
Village
Bob
Hi,
From the list you've supplied I'd suggest an MX, although they are a
little bit loud even for my deaf ears. You may be able to find a way
to muffle it.
If you extend the choice, but not to the extent of a Leica, the LX has
all the benefits of the MX, but is significantly quieter. However,
Hi,
I quite like the idea Bill (I think) floated of having a cliche PUG.
This gives us the opportunity to shoot an unashamedly cliched photo,
if we want ('string of puppies'), or to do something ironic and postmodern
(Jeff Koons' version of 'string of puppies'), or to take a cliche and show
it
Hi,
I was taking photos in Ethiopia once with 3 LXs. A German woman came up
to me and asked if I was working for National Geographic, then asked if
I had any spare batteries. She said they'd be bound to fit her camera
because it was the same brand as mine, but she'd run out. She had an
MZ-
was a real photographer.
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Bob ('I've got a well-worn Domke camera bag') Walkden
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Friday, July 27, 2001, 8:19:35 PM, you wrote:
Bob Walkden wrote:
Anyway, the only things that matter are
good photographer/bad photographer.
And as far as cameras are concerned
Hi,
how about this for dumb then:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1456000/1456831.stm
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Bob
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Friday, July 27, 2001, 9:29:19 PM, you wrote:
The single silliest thing I saw was at Long Beach. This is a
temporary street circuit, so a
Hi,
Just curious, you were advocating the thread to be stopped immediately and
at next glance, you were contributing on it. What gives?
P.E.
sometimes it's impossible to resist. In fact I drafted several long
responses to some of the stuff, but somehow found the discipline not
to post them,
2 chaps were kicking it about how many have died in the 20th century.
Oh the HORROR NOT.
We need to lose another 100 million just to break even.
No more AIDs cure research... instead, make it lethal after 3 days. End of problem.
No more kids being saved in neo-natal Wonder
the normal way of asking people to take a subject off-list is to ask
something along the lines of 'please take this subject off-list'. In
general this is quite a mature list in which people recognise the error
of their ways, and shut up when asked to.
Instead you posted a highly provocative
Hi,
can we please, please cull this stupid thread. It's just a display
of ignorance, prejudice and woolly thinking (if there's any thinking at
all).
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Bob
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Tuesday, July 24, 2001, 11:23:30 PM, you wrote:
advocates a massive war to thin out the population. A
Hi,
no - they take everybody who gets in the way. You should know that,
Shel, living where you do. Just wait until The Big One...
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Bob
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Tuesday, July 24, 2001, 11:56:53 PM, you wrote:
Kevin Waterson wrote:
Floods, natuaral distasters, famines,
plagues etc
Hi,
I'm taking a day-trip to Brussels (Bruxelles) on Saturday to see the
Salgado exhibition at le Botanique before it closes and moves somewhere
a bit more difficult for me to get to.
I should have about 10 hours in Brussels and I won't be spending all
that time in the exhibition, so I'll be
Hi,
The rather quaint notion that you buy something once and never buy a
similar device for the rest of you life arose out of 19th century and
prior technology where things just plain didn't change fast enough to
warrant being replaced in one lifetime. That logic was obsolete in the
Hi,
60th anniversary of Pentax in the 1980s, 50th anniversary of the
Asahiflex in 2002.
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Bob
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Sunday, July 22, 2001, 11:06:06 PM, you wrote:
Yah, that's what everyone on this list seems to think. What I
want to know is how it marks the 60th anniversary, and
Hi,
Romans, Mayans, Incas, Egyptians, [...]. The economies of those societies were
fueled by forceably stealing resources from neighboring peoples, enslaving
them, and forcing the majority to attend to every whim of the
minority.
Same thing applies here and now.
They operated at a
Hi,
When I travel for long periods of time I put my equipment in a Pelican
1550 case and padlock it. I have a chain that I can use to attach it
to something solid, or to the roofrack of a bus or whatever.
When I'm using the equipment I try to minimise the amount I carry,
especially if I'm going
Hi,
This gives quite an interesting insight into people - bit like 'What
would you do if won the lottery jackpot?'.
LX with winder, M 35/2 or K 28/2, A* 85/1.4.
Travel with nomadic people in Africa, or the Caucasus, or Turkey/Kurdistan/Iraq,
or the Himalayas or China/Mongolia/Central Asia.
Hi,
I had one of these, and it may well be some of my comments that you
saw quoted. It seems to be quite a rare lens which probably explains
the dearth of mentions. However, it is certainly one of the best zooms
P ever made. The size is excellent, the quality and handling are 1st
class. I was
Hi,
If people are going to go to the trouble of using a tripod all the
time they might as well use large format cameras.
35mm is for hand-holding.
Ever since good old Oskar hammered a piece of old pipe into a lozenge
shape and stuck a lens on the front 35mm photographers have done ok
without
Hi,
reminds me of a story I once read about 2 of the original Magnum guys,
probably Capa and Chim, standing around somewhere each with one Leica
round their neck. Another photographer enters the scene, body draped
with 5 slrs, flashguns, tripod, bag, you name it. Chim turns to Capa
and says
Hi,
I don't think this is quite correct. Although it would make the
coc smaller than we can resolve, it is not futile because an increasing
number of otherwise progressively more out-of-focus points approach the
size of the coc and are therefore acceptably sharp, so the depth of field
is
Hi,
Here's what David Douglas Duncan used to cover the Korean war:-
2 x Leica IIIc
50mm and 135mm lenses (Nikkor)
Backpack: rolls of film, toothbrush, soap, insect repellent, single blanket, extra
socks waterproof poncho
Webbing belt: 2 canteens.
Wrist compass.
Spoon.
Sometimes the most
Hi,
What always amazed me is that even AFTER the Japanese translator finished
putting it into English, they wouldn't even run the translation past an
English-speaking editor to clean up the rough edges. That's really
hubristic.
I think it's rather sporting of them, actually. Life would be
Hi,
http://www.royalmail.com/dda/stamps/2001_collection/stamps_for_2001/feb_2001.htm
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Bob
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Tuesday, July 17, 2001, 6:14:24 AM, you wrote:
Annsan teased:
I thought it might be nice to discuss flower photography, Mike g
Or cats. Don't forget cats. The
Hi,
here are the sizes of the prints in Salgado's Migrations exhibition,
currently doing the rounds. All shot on 35mm, probably all shot
without a tripod:
Contents: To include 210 20 x 24 photographs framed to 22 x 28, 90 24 x 34
photographs framed to 32 x 44
and 20 mural-size prints: 15 at
Hi,
well, you got to the 'reply' button before me on this one, Shel, and
you're so much more polite. I was going to start my reply What utter
balls!, but now my indignation is wasted...:o)
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Bob
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to
Hi,
in case you don't get a reply from the list - yes it's working. No
problems.
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Bob
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen
Monday, July 16, 2001, 6:12:14 PM, you wrote:
Not recieved
Hi,
it's my understanding that you need a property release, similar to a
model release, before you can publish photos of private property. I think
there may be some difference depending on whether you are on the property
when you take the photo, or whether you take it from somewhere off the
Hi,
sell it and buy something from this lot: http://www.seaandsea.com/
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Bob
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Monday, July 16, 2001, 11:56:16 PM, you wrote:
I just got a Pentax IQZoom 105 WR (Point 'n' Shoot)for my upcoming trip to
the Arctic. I got it because it's weatherproof and I don't
Hi,
you won't get one shade that's good for both of them.
You don't say whether you're looking for a plastic or a metal shade
(or wood or glass or whatever...), or for clip-on or screw-on. My
personal preference is for metal screw-on shades because they afford a
high degree of protection to the
Hi,
Try Photography by Barbara London and John Upton. It seems to be the
standard for colleges. I have a copy and it's very good.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321011082/qid=995010194/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/104-2609650-5152733
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Bob
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Friday, July 13, 2001,
Hi,
studio portrait lighting, at least as a beginner, is pretty simple. You
should be able to pick up the basics in a couple of hours at most. After
that you're probably better off spending time in the studio doing your own
experiments.
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Bob
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Friday, July 13,
Hi,
this assumes that most camera users are white, which is a highly
dubious assumption given that most people are not white. It would be
commercial suicide to base meter calibration on any particular skin
colour. If it's true that white skin is about 13% then I'd suggest
it's probably
Hi,
that's ok - I'm colourblind anyway.
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Bob
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Friday, July 13, 2001, 8:22:29 PM, you wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Bob Walkden wrote:
I've just metered by own skin - typically N. European with a slight
suntan - and compared it against an 18% grey card
Hi,
hmm. Too many dog / Holmes coincidences in my life at the moment.
Yesterday I had to go to Baker Street, London to see a man about a
dog. As I strolled down the street I naturally enough started thinking
about Holmes. I bought a newspaper to read with my lunch, opened it
and the main
Hi,
that's like getting a personal phone call from Pablo Escobar to tell
you how this year's harvest is doing...
You know you're in trouble. :o)
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Bob
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Wednesday, July 11, 2001, 9:37:53 PM, you wrote:
My local retailer just got an MZ-S in, and they went to the
Hi,
you should have no difficulty finding any of those while you're over
here from professional labs. In London these are mainly located in and
around Soho.
Try Joe's Basement on Wardour Street. They have a fast turnover of
everything, so it should always be fresh.
Hi,
I had an LX repaired once and the guy who did the repair scratched the
prism a little bit. Of course I complained, so he took into the back
of the shop, came out and it looked like nothing like new, but at
least it was black again. Ensuing conversation:
Me: What did you use?
Him: That's
Hi,
all). Maybe the idea is to cut down on the frivolous entries.
ah, but where does that leave the non-frivolous struggling artists,
students etc. who may have genius but no money? If the idea of paying
to enter a serious competition became a widespread practice then it would
close off an
enough entries to have a
decent contest.
I'm not entering one way or the other, so it's all moot to me. But I don't think
economics enters into this one, imho.
regards,
frank
Bob Walkden wrote:
Hi,
all). Maybe the idea is to cut down on the frivolous entries.
ah, but where does
Hi,
it might be worth mentioning, for anybody who hasn't used a Leica,
that, unlike an slr, the image size in the viewfinder doesn't change
when you change the framelines. So whatever lens you have on the camera
the view through the finder is the same. The framelines are there
simply for framing
Hi,
there's nothing very complex or difficult about the depth-of-field
calculations. It's a very simple matter to type a few formulas into a
spreadsheet, even one on a PDA. I put some into a spreadsheet and put
it on my website some time ago:
www.web-options.com/bob/files/optical.xls.
You're
Hi,
this happens with my Contax RXs too. The ping seems to depend on which
lens is on the body. For instance, the 35/1.4 pings like a u-boat, but
the 50/1.4 doesn't. The ping tone varies from body to body aswell.
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Bob
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Tuesday, June 19, 2001, 2:57:50 PM, you
Hi,
The Contax RX does something similar to what you want with their
digital focus indicator:
The DFI (Digital Focus Indicator) system graphically portrays focus point and
provides depth of focus information in the viewfinder.
It displays along the bottom of the viewfinder. It doesn't tell you
Hi,
can anybody tell me if museum-quality archival pre-cut mattes are
available in 35mm proportions, please? And if so, perhaps the names of
some suppliers, preferably in the UK, but the product name at least
should help me find UK suppliers.
Ideally these mattes would be on board with the same
Hi,
it's a very common word in Britain.
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Bob
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Friday, June 15, 2001, 4:10:38 PM, you wrote:
Wiiliam Robb wrote:
snip wonky snip
You are the only person in the world besides my wife that I have known to
use this word.
Tom C.
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Hi Mike,
glad to hear the MX is ok. I hope it goes on to have a long and
glorious career in the ample bosom of Mother Russia :o)
You didn't tell us the outcome on the LX of the dunking. Perhaps it
goes without saying that it survived.
I like the sound of your experiences with Pentar. It
Hi Rob,
I have the LowePro SF Rover Lite. Although we don't have bush over
here to quite the extent that you guys do it is useful for short
trips. It has a big brother version which is waterproof. They both
have excellent tripod provision.
It's more of a photo day pack than anything else. You
Hi,
this is what I use:
http://www.sekonic.com/Products/L-398M.html
it's called a studio meter, but I've never used it in a studio.
---
Bob
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Tuesday, June 05, 2001, 12:56:03 PM, you wrote:
I'm about to begin the process of evaluating/purchasing an incident
Hi,
I wrote the following earlier today to be a reply to Shel's post. Some
of it has been superceded by other people's replies, but I thought I'd
send it anyway.
The type of photography that I most enjoy looking at, and trying to
emulate, is exemplified by the Magnum agency. In many, perhaps
Hi,
last time I saw one was last year here in London, going for about
GBP350-, iirc.
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Bob
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Thursday, May 31, 2001, 9:46:46 PM, you wrote:
Hi Pentaxers,
Can anyone give me an idea of what a decent condition SMC 18mm f3.5 lens
should go for these days, any
Hi,
before you go negotiate with your companion for free time for each of
you so you get a day taking photos and s/he gets a day doing whatever
s/he wants to do that doesn't involve you. 1 day in 3 or 4 should be
easy enough to arrange, I'd have thought.
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Bob
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Hi,
Frits writ:
However I am stuck with those local shops here in the UK.
next time you're in London on a weekday you could visit KJP/Calumet in
Drummond Street. They usually have an excellent range of bags, including
most of the Domkes.
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Bob
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Hi,
I thought you had B+W filters for the lenses already. In that case you
could just take the glass out of them and replace it with cut down
Pentax glass, so there'd be no additional buying and selling other
than the SMC filters. Still expensive, of course, and I wouldn't do
it, but it's a
Hi,
By the way, I have observed a
burning yellow light coming out of the eye of a tiger (I was enjoying a
feature in Animal Planet in TV)
the cameraman should get in touch with William Blake. They're the most difficult
kind of tiger to photograph. Framing is extremely difficult because of
Hi,
Thursday, May 24, 2001, 8:42:20 AM, you wrote:
[...]
I was quite impressed with the LX and the winder. It runs about
as fast as my MZ-5, and about as quietly. I doubt very much if
the noise would anger an elephant.
Any elephant with sense would be soothed by it and roll on its back to
Hi,
she shouldn't have been so stupid as to get out of the car.
I would think the quietest would be the LX, which is a lot quieter
than the MX. The winder is also reasonably quiet. I used my LXs in a
game park in S. Africa. I even photographed elephants with it, and not
one of them trampled me
Hi,
I'm no doctor (trust me), but isn't it the case that mammalian blood is
not red but blue when it's in the veins? It only turns red when it
oxidises (eg when it comes out of your veins). This would suggest that
red-eye is not a reflection off blood vessels, but off the retina
itself, which is
Hi,
Battery Cord LX
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Bob
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Tuesday, May 22, 2001, 10:13:33 PM, you wrote:
Hey gang,
One more question about the Winder LX . . . Does anyone know the name
of the specific part that connects between the Winder LX and the Remote
Battery Pack? I know what
Hi,
'abseil' is the word used in British English, even by gritty,
unpretentious mountaineering types. We also recognise 'rappel',
which is also from French so probably no more and no less pretentious.
On the one occasion when I foolishly volunteered for this activity I
abseiled down the side of
Hi,
Bob, you are forgetting about air conditioners, which suck up a
tremendous amount of electricity. I suppose in cold and damp
England, you wouldn't have much call for them.
yes that's true.
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Bob
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Art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously - Plato
Hi,
it won't be very impressive in Northern latitudes.
(and it's midsummer, not the 1st day of summer)
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Bob
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Art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously - Plato
Friday, May 18, 2001, 5:05:37 PM, you wrote:
I like it. The people who are most likely to
Hi,
Are you saying that June 21st is midsummer in the northern latitudes or in general?
June 21st
is definately the 1st day of Summer where I come from.
I mention the northern latitudes because of White Nights and the
Midnight Sun. Since few people will have their lights on the protests
Hi,
the Iris prints on watercolour paper that I've seen have been
excellent, and unless I'd been told I wouldn't have known they were
not conventional photoprints - perhaps except for the particular
quality of the paper itself, which is very nice. So I will certainly
evaluate the final output as
Hi,
Very informative, if you read it, about some rather disturbing trends; and
the Kodak packing is only a minor manifestation
interesting enough article, but I think the Kodak packaging probably
fits under the 'internationalisation' category that the article mentions.
There are occasions
Hi,
I've used Ektachrome P1600 at 3200 inside the churches of Lalibela in
Ethiopia. These are dark places, usually lit only by an open doorway
or by a small window high up in the chamber. The churches are usually
full of brocade and silk, with gold and silver crosses and staffs,
bright colourful
Hi,
I'm working towards a small exhibition later this year. I'm shooting
the photos on Scala, which I plan to have scanned and printed
digitally. I've been advised to have Iris prints made on watercolour
paper. At an exhibition this weekend I noted that Catherine Opie's
prints are made this way,
Hi,
Interesting sounding exhibition on at the Museum of Modern Art in
Oxford (UK):
http://www.moma.org.uk/exhibition.htm
it will also be touring - dates on the web-page.
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Bob
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Hi,
Wednesday, May 09, 2001, 3:06:21 PM, you wrote:
[...]
general, as well as numerous off-topic subjects. There are
different styles of posting, some serious, some humorous, but
eventually you'll find the answers to all your questions.
great! so, what's the meaning of life? And just
Hi,
well, if you want to be digital you can count up to 1,048,575 before
you run out of fingers and toes, assuming the normal mammalian complement.
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Bob
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In my vocabulary 'art' is a dirty word - Helmut Newton
Wednesday, May 09, 2001, 3:48:26 PM, you wrote:
Hi,
jeepgirl wrote:
I a journal to write in an ink pen to write with. A sharpie to date the
roll of film, and possible describe the location, then I write that on the
bag when I have the film developed.
It's easier to write a serial number on the film can before you go
out. As you're
Hi,
Dorothy Parker was once challenged to think of a memorable sentence
involving the word 'horticulture'. She came up with you can lead a
horticulture but you can't make her think :o)
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Bob
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In my vocabulary 'art' is a dirty word - Helmut Newton
Wednesday, May
Hi,
Both based on the premise that the typical computer user is a complete
idiot.
that seems like a reasonable assumption when you consider that one of
the best-selling series of books is called The complete idiot's guide
to...
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Bob
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In my vocabulary 'art' is
Hi,
Tell me more, please.
I don't really think there is much more.
If I'm going away for a few weeks I print a whole lot of individually
numbered labels and stick them on the film cans.
Whenever I load a new roll of film into the camera I write the film number
on a new page of my notebook.
Hi,
as well as the technical issues that other people have mentioned, it's
always useful to consider who you have to please when you're taking a
portrait. Are you trying to please the sitter, her mother, her
boyfriend, yourself, the passport authority...
Usually you can't please all the people
Hi,
I have a Tupperware box which fits in the end pockets of a Domke bag.
The contents are enough for most situations and are geared not around
a day's shooting (when I may well leave the bag and box at home), but
around travelling for long-ish periods. It contains:-
Spare batteries :o(
Long
Hi,
thanks Tom. It seems that I didn't know about this because I've been
shooting slides and using an incident meter for so long.
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Bob
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Monday, May 07, 2001, 12:21:21 AM, you wrote:
Hi Bob:
The Sunny-16 rule came about long and long ago, before the
Hi Norm,
if they did then they were wrong (or at least, nobody's told me about
the change). I can't imagine how film emulsions on their own would
affect this. You'd also have to recalibrate all meters. It may be that
you're getting confused with the fact that meters are calibrated on
18% grey
Hi,
this is not helpful advice. If this is understood to be what's
happening then anybody whose submission is greeted with thunderous
silence is left with the impression that nobody likes their picture,
and nobody will tell him/her what's wrong with it! How useful is that?
Offering only praise
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Friday, May 04, 2001, 4:41:43 AM, you wrote:
Too much work.
Paul
Bob Walkden wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to make a suggestion.
When the reviewers have been assigned their photos to review they should mail
'their' photographers privately and ask them what, if anything
Hi,
That's pretty much exactly how I feel.
I still find it a bit hard to understand how someone could submit
an image to the PUG, but not want it to be discussed.
I submitted the 2 I did (years ago) on the 'show me your photos'
principle. Since I was allowing myself the luxury of mouthing
Hi,
I'd like to make a suggestion.
When the reviewers have been assigned their photos to review they should mail
'their' photographers privately and ask them what, if anything, they want
get out of the review. This should help the reviewers to pitch their comments
at the appropriate level. If
Hi,
I'd like to congratulate Dan on seeing that shot. I've walked past it
a thousand times and stupidly never seen it - a case of familiarity
breeding blindness, perhaps.
As for the perspective, well you'd need a much longer lens to bring
the clock tower further forward, you'd also need to be a
Hi,
From: Tanya Russell Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Amongst other things, Tom wrote the following:
Post a photo you feel good about and let me tell you it was amateurish,
something just barely worthy of a beginner photographer, and of little or
no
significance. Then tell me what it felt like
Hi,
comments embedded.
Tuesday, May 01, 2001, 5:01:10 PM, you wrote:
You know these are the kind of comments that will drive people away from
contributing. I don't think we were asked as much to critique the
submissions, as we were simply to comment on them.
what's the difference?
Hi,
It is curious to what some people will eat. It seems to me that some people
think that if you can keep it down for longer than 2 seconds, and it
doesn't kill you, it is edible. Furthermore, some culture, somewhere, will
have it as a delicacy.
Ronald McDonald springs to mind.
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Hi,
there are 2 problems which seem quite common with MXs:
1) the frame counter stops working. I've had this happen on 2 of mine.
It's fairly cheap to have it repaired, provided the repairer can get
the parts.
2) the shutter release lock sometimes doesn't do the job 100%, so that
there is
Hi,
so it's immoral not because it's exploitation, but because the
exploitation is blatant?
I've pursued this about as far as I want to now. If anybody's interested,
when I saw the pictures (and I'd never heard of Dale Earnhardt before he
died) I thought it was in rather poor taste, but I
Hi,
they make whisky in Dallas? That would be from genuine Scottish
grapes, I suppose :o)
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Bob
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Friday, April 27, 2001, 2:45:53 PM, you wrote:
Several years ago I was lucky enough to be able to tour the old Dallas Dhu
distillery. They were no longer producing
Hi,
I'd also like to suggest that if possible we should write a few words
with the submission about the LX that took the picture, or our own
experience of however many of them we own(ed).
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Bob
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Friday, April 27, 2001, 6:30:53 PM, you wrote:
Hi John ...
It's
Hi,
Friday, April 27, 2001, 10:15:31 PM, you wrote:
[...]
And are you getting ready to snap some photos
of London during the May Day riots?
Regards, Bob S.
not this year. It'll all be happening on Tuesday, so I'll be at work
all day. The theme this year is 'Monopoly', and the people who
Hi,
in fact, a lot of people do think unhappy news photos are sick - we've
had several discussions on this very list about the ethics of
photojournalism. Strangely enough the people who seem to oppose
photographs of tragedy don't seem to oppose video or film footage of
the same subjects, or
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