OT: I have Apple Store discount coupons

2006-12-22 Thread Juey Chong Ong
to do. First come first served. Juey Chong Ong Apple Authorized Business Agent Store: http://agents.apple.com/store (enter Agent ID: AA071383 at checkout) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT: Taking Candy from a baby.

2006-09-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Sep 7, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Bob Shell wrote: What bothers me most is that these kids will have negative feelings about photographers for the rest of their lives. Do grown-ups have negative feelings about doctors for the rest of their lives? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Another PDML Win

2006-08-18 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Paul, Congratulations!!! On Aug 16, 2006, at 11:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I won the Detroit News Photo Contest for week 8 in the landmarks category. This is the same contest that Ken Waller won a few weeks ago. I learned of the contest through Ken's post. My winning entry is the

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2006-08-18 Thread Juey Chong Ong
I've gone through several Epson printers over the years and here are some observations: - The pro models tend to clog less than the consumer models --- it could just mean that the pigment-based inks clog less than the dye- based ink. My 2200 *might* clog if I leave it turned off for a month.

Re: Another Blow Against Photography

2006-08-10 Thread Juey Chong Ong
This message on the TSA web site says laptop computers, cell phones and other electronic items are still permitted. Taking them with you on the flight back could be a problem though: http://tsa-7.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/tsa.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?

Re: hack for aperture and iphoto

2006-08-01 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Aperture supports the *ist-D but I performed the same hack to import ORF images from the Olympus C-5050Z. Do you know where I can find out more about the parameters defined in the Raw.plist file? --jc On Jul 27, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Mac OS X users with Pentax *ist D

Re: Aperture

2006-07-24 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Aperture is Universal Binary as of version 1.1.2. The MacBook Pro and Intel-based iMacs are now officially supported. --jc On Jul 23, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Adam Maas wrote: The only officially unsuported systems Aperture is usable on are the MacBook's and Intel Core Duo Mini's. These do not

Re: OT: Heard from ERNR

2006-06-23 Thread Juey Chong Ong
I've taken to reading PDML like an old stack of magazines. I keep one mail window minimized, pointing to my PDML mail folder. Whenever I have some free time (rare nowadays) I bring it up and read a few threads. Right now, it says I've got 63,747 messages in it, 45,426 unread. Depending on

Re: Aperture

2006-05-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Apr 27, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Derby Chang wrote: I'm not terribly interested in mac software, since I don't use it. But I am interested in design processes and quality controls as a part of my day job. I think someone at Apple took their eye off the ball with Aperture. You can learn a

Re: OT: Prayer for my Daughter

2006-02-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Hi Jan: I hope Nicole gets well soon. --jc On Feb 4, 2006, at 3:23 AM, Jay Taylor wrote: She remains in the hospital this evening. They have run the gamut of tests since yesterday. EKG, blood work, spleen, thyroid, chest x- ray and CAT scan this afternoon all showing nothing abnormal.

Re: OT GESO: Horizon panos

2006-02-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
They're great! The swing lens panos are really fun. I rented a Widelux a few years ago just to try out at a ballooning festival. I had so much fun there I didn't realize that I had hit the end of the roll of film so my final exposure was a multiple exposure collage of what I had seen

Re: question about chromes

2006-02-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Ann, it's relatively inexpensive to rent an old Hasselblad to do larger images but I think your impression is correct. It probably involves people at the gallery gathering around a 35mm projector to review the slides. In which case, color accuracy might not matter that much either,

Re: Very long adorama order

2006-01-19 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Hi Derby: Place an order next time and I'll walk into the store and buy the same thing. If they put yours on backorder and delay shipment, you know what happened. :-) --jc On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Perry Pellechia wrote: Derby, While my experience was not as long and drawn out as

Re: OT: Published!

2006-01-02 Thread Juey Chong Ong
That seems like poor due diligence on the paper's part. It happens sometimes but congrats and do save it as a tearsheet. --jc On Dec 31, 2005, at 10:07 PM, Ryan Lee wrote: Thanks everyone! Yes, unfortunately there weren't any credits. I can understand there not being a credit for the shot,

Re: Epson papers

2005-12-25 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Ditto for me. Once the printer is recognized to have MK or PK ink in it, it remains recognized even if I turn it off and back on again. As for whether to keep the printer off or on when not in use, that is a point of debate. Epson recommends that the printer be turned off (via the power

Re: PSD - portable storage devices?

2005-09-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
The SmartDisk FlashTrax supports viewing Pentax PEF files: http://smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartdiskus/www/staticpages/flashtrax.asp

Re: Scary photoshopping

2005-09-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Meaning the photog just blew a few hundred dollars (or passed it on to the client) to make up for poor lighting. For that price he/she could have bought better lights. And still charged a few more dollars. :-) --jc On Aug 30, 2005, at 12:38 PM, John Francis wrote: That was my first

Re: OT:Apple advise

2005-08-14 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Aug 11, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: BTW, if you are going to be using an external monitor, keyboard and mouse on your desktop anyway, you might consider the PowerBook 12 instead of the 15 as it is much smaller and easier for mobility. Besides the smaller, non-widescreen

Re: Photo paper magic wrinkle cream ??

2005-08-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
How about using a mounting press? --jc On Aug 3, 2005, at 6:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than doing the obvious with the catGis there a fix or trick to smooth out the dent.

Re: Time For a New Monitor

2005-08-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
If you order/go to an Apple Store, you'll be paying full list price unless you can exercise their price-matching conditions. Of course you also get full service. :-) You might want to check with other Apple retailers. My favorite is http://www.smalldog.com The Eizo is said to be very

OT: HP to stop selling digicams in Asia

2005-08-02 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Printers sell better than cameras... -- HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. said it will stop selling digital cameras in Asia as it pursues business areas with greater potential in the region. HP is leaving the digital camera business in Asia to focus its investment around home photo printing, which is

Re: Excessive Photoshopping?

2005-08-02 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Beauty? I thought it was about winning prizes. On Aug 2, 2005, at 5:25 AM, Steve Jolly wrote: Having said that, I criticise the parents of the children for teaching them that unrealistic artificial beauty is a goal worthy of pursuit, and I criticise the photographer for helping to perpetuate

Re: shooting bands in the dark

2005-08-01 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Yes it still does, but my digital shooting has increasingly become a matter of the scene looking reasonably good in the LCD, don't blow the histogram and shoot RAW where practical. For that matter, if the band is playing in the dark, maybe they don't want to be seen. :-) Amita: how about

Re: contrast control flash question

2005-07-28 Thread Juey Chong Ong
I thought the main thing in contrast control flash is that the RTF is told to fire at reduced power. On Jul 27, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Frank Wajer wrote: simple question: how does the body (specifically MZ-5n) know that you want contrast control flash and therefore use a flash speed of 1/60

FS Friday: Hama Film-Safe X Boxes

2005-07-22 Thread Juey Chong Ong
I have two Hama Film-Safe X film hard case protection boxes for sale. They're new and still shrink-wrapped. I hardly use film anymore so I don't think I'll ever get to use them. Yes, I know their effectiveness at airport X-ray machines is questionable in this day and age, but they could

Re: *istD creation dates on a Mac

2005-07-10 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Mine's slightly bit different... I transfer images from my *ist-D to my Mac (Tiger 10.4.1) by popping the CF card into a USB reader and dragging the files from one Finder window to another. The Creation Date in Finder list view is and not the epoch date. The JPEG files seem to have

Re: OT: Epson 890 in Mac OS 10.4-- Print Center/ Dialog box can't be found...

2005-07-10 Thread Juey Chong Ong
for the confusion I caused. --jc On Jul 4, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Juey Chong Ong wrote: As Paul noted, the utility formerly known as Print Center is not (no longer?) in System Preferences but in Applications - Utilities - Printer Setup Utility. ...

Re: OT: Epson 890 in Mac OS 10.4-- Print Center/ Dialog box can't be found...

2005-07-04 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Jul 3, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Sid Barras wrote: I no longer seem to have access to the printer during printing. I recall that in earlier versions of OS X, that in system preferences there was a control panel called print center that functioned like the epson print monitor of OS 9. I needed

Re: Any free online course/tutorials about Photoshop (and co.) ?

2005-07-02 Thread Juey Chong Ong
A few are free, the others are low-cost: http://www.varis.com/Navigation/Steps.html

Re: OT: NYC Will Never Be the Same

2005-07-02 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Jul 1, 2005, at 11:31 AM, frank theriault wrote: ... Having a great time chatting with Ann, whose hospitality is (as one would expect) first rate. More later (if I survive this city LOL). With Ann as your guide, you'll be fine. Welcome to NYC! from the other side of the Hudson, --jc

Re: Accidental art

2005-06-28 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Mark, It reminds me of photos in the book: By Nature's Design Text by Pat Murphy, Photographs by William Neill, Foreword by Diane Ackerman Chronicle Books, 1993 There are some fern photographs in there done with a Pentax Spotmatic (most of the other photos are made with Nikon 35mm and

Re: Best place to post pictures

2005-06-14 Thread Juey Chong Ong
If you shoot airplanes, http://www.airliners.net On Jun 13, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Joaquim Carvalho wrote: Which do you think is the best site to post some pictures?

Re: ist*D and iPod?

2005-02-14 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Feb 13, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Bill Owens wrote: Can an iPod with its USB 2.0 interface be used to download from the ist*D's USB 1.1 interface? You can use this to hook up directly to camera: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?

Re: Archiving PEFs

2005-02-11 Thread Juey Chong Ong
My archiving system is crude. Each day that I dump out my memory cards, I create a directory called 'dump MMDD'. If I've burned that directory to removable media, I add a 'burned' to the directory name. I keep the directories on my hard drive because I've lost more files on removable media

Re: Photo lab recommendation / NYC / Medium format ?

2005-02-11 Thread Juey Chong Ong
I use Duggal at 29 W 23rd St between 5th and 6th ave. http://www.duggal.com/01photo.htm They (and any custom lab in NYC) will make your prints the way you want them. You can specify the paper type, surface, framing, cropping, color balance, printing by machine or by hand, etc. If you want to be

Re: Digital image storage and viewers

2005-01-31 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Leon, I think you're thinking of the SmartDisk FlashTrax: http://smartdisk.com/Products/DigitalMultimedia/FlashTrax.asp On Jan 31, 2005, at 4:54 AM, Leon Altoff wrote: What I would like is a device that can download images from the CF cards and that I can use to view the raw .PEF files either on a

Re: Tsunami

2005-01-02 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Jan 2, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Wow - not even a tremor? Yup...not a single vibe. We didn't know anything about it until we heard it on the news. Relatives in Bangkok did feel the building sway a bit and some of the towers were evacuated as a precaution. (snip) Ann replies:

Re: Tsunami

2005-01-01 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Dec 30, 2004, at 12:46 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: My ex husband, Bob Sanfedele and his wife are in Chaingmai, Thailand - a long way north of Phukit - got email from them that they were safe, but feilt the quake. Was much relieved. I was also in Thailand when it hit. The only thing I can say

Re: database software

2004-12-01 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Try PhotoMesa: http://www.windsorinterfaces.com/photomesa.shtml It's not really a database, it's still somewhat buggy and it'll only read GIF, JPEG and PNG files. But it's great to see every single one of your photos (in those formats) on your display and zoom in for a closer look. --jc

Re: Epson Printer (Sylus Photo)

2004-12-01 Thread Juey Chong Ong
I used to have an Epson Stylus Photo EX, which was the wide-carriage version of the Stylus Photo. I never had any problems pulling an ink cartridge out of it and putting it back, especially since it used the dumb cartridges (the ones without a chip). I eventually sent it back to Epson

Re: PESO: 'Twas the day after Thanksgiving....

2004-12-01 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Cotty, Would it work if you cover the windows with sheets of warming filters? --jc On Nov 27, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Cotty wrote: Interesting. You have come across a classic mixed lighting situation and balanced the picture entirely for tungsten. I daily shoot pics for the news in such scenarios

Re: fill flash problems on the *istD

2004-11-07 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Nov 7, 2004, at 5:46 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Jens Bladt wrote: And - BTW - don't use F3.5 for portraits. Use F5.6 or better. I had not heard of this before. I thought you shoot portraits as open as possible. That depends on the kind of portrait you're going for. At

Re: OT: Brochure paper for Epson???

2004-11-06 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Nov 6, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have an 820 -- want to print double sided brochure paper -- It seems not to be made by Epson. Ann, you might be looking for the double-sided matte paper (S041568): http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/ProductMediaSpec.jsp?

Re: PhotoPlus Expo in NYC

2004-10-23 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Oct 22, 2004, at 6:08 PM, Amita Guha wrote: I went to the Nikon booth to check out the Coolwalker, their image tank. ...I really liked it, but of course it can't read RAW thumbnails from anything besides Nikons, which is a shame. Also, it was a little big, which I could have lived with under

Re: PDF Slide Show

2004-10-23 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Oct 9, 2004, at 2:20 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: After creating to PDF file in PS CS and saving it to disk, I am able to click on the file name and the slide show starts running automatically. However, it comes up as a full screen presentation in Acrobat 6.0. By using the Ctrl and - keys, the

Re: PESO: contests, covers, and prizes

2004-09-20 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Congratulations, Herb! I wish I had a wall-sized monitor --jc On Sep 19, 2004, at 9:18 PM, Herb Chong wrote: i have been writing articles to go with my photographs for a little while. i also submit photos to some local contests. this is the announcement letter for my winning the Grand Prize

Re: All is well.

2004-09-15 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Sep 15, 2004, at 9:20 AM, Ryan Lee wrote: Don't forget to keep a loaded camera round your neck so just in case you get swept up, you can take pictures of flying cattle! Flying alligators could be more interesting. Take care, Cesar! --jc

Re: Any Epson 2200 users out there?

2004-08-25 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Aug 24, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: Now I'm trying to get it set up so I can make good prints. I've installed the latest drivers and paper profiles but I'm still closing in on the ideal setup. I'll probably go through a lot of ink and paper before I get there. I know I did with the

Re: Delkin Burnaway

2004-08-22 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Aug 21, 2004, at 7:10 PM, Caveman wrote: http://www.delkin.com/delkin_products_burnaway.html Anyone using such device I briefly looked at one and decided that for travel purposes, an MP3 jukebox met my needs much better. My purpose for the device was to provide temporary storage in case I

Re: Another 7 MP camera

2004-08-20 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Aug 19, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Caveman wrote: Contrary to all those prophets who said that increasing pixels on same chip size does nothing but increase noise. Might it be that this time they also managed to address the noise problem in 1/1.8 sensors ? I'm just speculating: it could be due to

Re: Corporate portraits

2004-08-17 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Aug 16, 2004, at 11:41 PM, Amita Guha wrote: Ack. There's a special meter just for flashes?? It's a meter that has a means to trigger the flash and/or measure the exposure resulting from the flash firing. They usually have a socket to accept a flash sync cord so that you can use the meter to

Re: So What's So Great About HCB?

2004-08-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:13 AM, frank theriault wrote: I think he, in his later life, claimed that he never cropped, but that's simply not true. The obituary in the NYTimes said He insisted that his works not be cropped It's an interesting read:

Re: OT: My New Photography Class

2004-04-18 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Saturday, Apr 17, 2004, at 04:43 America/New_York, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am taking a short-term new photography class. New to me, that is. Studio portrait lighting with a good local photographer. Not adult ed in this case. A local rental darkroom place that also offers classes with

OT: NYC Brooklyn baseball photo op on Saturday April 17

2004-04-16 Thread Juey Chong Ong
I know this is really short notice, but some of you in the NYC area might be interested in coming to see the opening day parade of the Inner City Sports Youth baseball league on Saturday April 17 at around 11am. I'll be part of the group from the New York Choral Society singing The

Re: Bit selection for Pentax RAW file?

2004-04-16 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Friday, Apr 16, 2004, at 21:13 America/New_York, Ramesh Kumar wrote: I am using Adobe7 to convert PEF files into TIFF. During this conversion, I think, I should select 16bit. Am I right? You should select 16 bits if you want the best quality. However the TIFF files will also be large,

Re: Color-cast viewing *ISTD RAW images in BreezeBrowser

2004-03-01 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Monday, Mar 1, 2004, at 05:31 America/New_York, Rob Brigham wrote: CS comes with a 2 machine license as standard apparently. Check your docs - totally legal. I've not seen the CS licensing scheme, but the traditional Photoshop license allows you to install a licensed copy on two machines as

Re: how to reduce *ist-D shutter noise?

2004-02-22 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Friday, Feb 20, 2004, at 14:48 America/New_York, Paul Stenquist wrote: Buy a Leica. Lol!!! I did thinking about asking whether I should buy a Leica, but I didn't want to add OT to the Subject: line. :-) --jc

Re: how to reduce *ist-D shutter noise?

2004-02-22 Thread Juey Chong Ong
Andre, Thanks for the suggestions. I might look into the materials you mentioned. Maybe a few layers of it will do the trick. --jc On Friday, Feb 20, 2004, at 14:09 America/New_York, Andre Langevin wrote: A solution is to make your own case, with some dampering material and duct tape.I

how to reduce *ist-D shutter noise?

2004-02-20 Thread Juey Chong Ong
I need some suggestions/solutions to reduce the shutter noise of the *ist-D. I shot the Cleveland Orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall last week. I used a blimp supplied by our handler. It's a heavy padded cloth draped over the camera to reduce noise. I put my Polartec jacket over the camera

Re: *ist D pricing

2004-02-04 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Wednesday, Feb 4, 2004, at 08:54 America/New_York, Rothman, Aric wrote: The price at Adorama is now $1229! Good 'ole capitalism. Do they have it in stock? --jc

Re: the date on my 'puter....

2004-02-02 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Monday, Feb 2, 2004, at 17:02 America/New_York, Brian Dipert wrote: you probably have it set up to auto-adjust the time and date periodically via 'ping' to a time server, and you've got the wrong time zone configured. Brian, it might be a bit more complicated. Tanya sent a message on Feb 1

Re: Archival Digital Prints (was:I Sold One!!)

2004-02-01 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Sunday, Feb 1, 2004, at 07:19 America/New_York, Nick Clark wrote: What printer/inks/paper would you suggest for archival printing. That's always been my concern about selling inkjet prints - that they'd fade in a relatively short time. I have an Epson 1290 at present. Wilhelm Imaging

Re: The decline and fall of (Kodak) film

2004-01-23 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Jan 22, 2004, at 13:16 America/New_York, tom wrote: I use Kodak lens wipes. They come in 135 and 220 sizes?! :-) -Original Message- From: Tom Reese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Shel Belinkoff asked: BUT ... I was wondering how many here still use Kodak as their primary source

Re: OT ideas, Gianfranco Irlanda

2004-01-15 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Jan 15, 2004, at 11:00 America/New_York, graywolf wrote: Yes, I guess someone somewhere is making a WiFi Satellite Phone that you could send the stuff out directly with. But in today's world you may be looking a smart bomb down your neck if you did that. But I would guess that the

Re: Singapore? (Very long: A reasonably detailed walkthrough..)

2004-01-11 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Friday, Jan 9, 2004, at 10:51 America/New_York, Ryan Lee wrote: I understand it was probably meant as friendly concern, but given the way it was slipped in, I thought you made it sound like it was a problem specific to Singapore when it's not, really. Ryan, it was never meant to sound like a

Re: Singapore? (Very long: A reasonably detailed walkthrough..)

2004-01-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Wednesday, Jan 7, 2004, at 17:08 America/New_York, Stan Halpin wrote: Ryan - thanks for the detailed reply! Rob, Bob, thanks also. All good information which I hope to have a chance to put to use. I am going (probably) for a three-day meeting, may get one day on front end, one day after the

Re: Blue skies...

2004-01-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Wednesday, Jan 7, 2004, at 20:10 America/New_York, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: I will be completing the shoot (not the wedding, but the one where the client has requested the blue skies etc) digitally, so I would also love to know if anyone else has had any success achieving this result

Re: Singapore? (Very long: A reasonably detailed walkthrough..)

2004-01-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
About humidity and heat... Expect day time temperatures in the eighties or nineties Fahrenheit. Humidity is around the 70% to 90% range. Frequently, there'll be a mid-afternoon thunderstorm to cool off the evening. Umbrellas are pretty much useless ... be prepared to protect your gear. In the

Re: Monitor latitude

2004-01-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 18:35 America/New_York, mapson wrote: calibrating all monitors in the world is a project beyond my wildest dreams. Sir Tony Hoare should have listed that as one of his Grand Challenges. --jc

Re: Singapore? (Very long: A reasonably detailed walkthrough..)

2004-01-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 21:06 America/New_York, Stan Halpin wrote: I am disappointed to hear that I have to look out for pickpockets (which also influences how much camera gear I carry and how I carry it.) I had thought Singapore was, if anything, too law abiding. The locals will tell you

Re: Epson 1640 SUP scanner prob ?

2004-01-04 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Sunday, Jan 4, 2004, at 01:27 Asia/Singapore, Ann Sanfedele wrote: scanning color Kodak 100 gold negs - arrrggh! I have a 1640SU Photo also, and I find that you need to do massive color correction when scanning color negatives. I think that's the norm with primitive equipment. When I use my

Re: a small feather in my cap - yes, I used a Pentax

2003-12-30 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Monday, Dec 29, 2003, at 23:43 Asia/Singapore, Ann Sanfedele wrote: After coming home from a miserable showing at a weekend long Scrabble tournament, (yeah, yeah, I had fun anyway:) ) ... I got an email from documentary film maker Eric Chaikin that 5 of my stills of Scrabble champs will be

Re: Pentax starts to develop their own CMOS...

2003-12-26 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Saturday, Dec 27, 2003, at 07:55 Asia/Singapore, Alan Chan wrote: Get translated here: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/ Interesting translation! ...A pen tack also aims at competitive power strengthening, and plunges into the technical research of CMOS. --jc

Re: Fuji Frontier Lab (was Lousy Printing)

2003-12-20 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Saturday, Dec 20, 2003, at 13:57 America/New_York, John Francis wrote: The printers have little LCD screens so you can scroll through the images on the card (or in the camera) and pick which one (or ones) to print. You can even do some level of cropping and resizing. I also like the new HP

Re: Need photo printer recommendation

2003-12-20 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Dec 18, 2003, at 20:47 America/New_York, Kenneth Waller wrote: I've heard read about the metamerism issue. ... My recent experience with the 2000P indicates this may not be as big an issue as noted. I have a 2000P also and I agree with Kenneth that with the right printer driver,

Re: OT:Inkjet printer recommendations

2003-12-18 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Dec 18, 2003, at 00:44 America/New_York, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I thought I tried that once and couldnt get it to clean. hmmm. When you put in an ink cartridge, it has to prime the cartridge by doing something similar to a head cleaning. That's why it makes the same groaning

Re: Cameron this will tickle you

2003-12-17 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 13:15 America/New_York, John Francis wrote: Exactly my feelings when I saw the original posting. You know what they say about who blames the tools ... I don't see anything in the article that blamed the tools. They blamed it on an over-reliance of PowerPoint

Re: Color correction software

2003-12-17 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 16:46 America/New_York, Andre Langevin wrote: Are there any Photoshop plug-ins to correct color balance due to a difference between color temperatures of film lighting. For example 2700 oK (bulbs) to 5500 oK (film). I read that PhotoShop CS comes with this

Re: *istD cheaper again

2003-12-11 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Dec 11, 2003, at 15:54 America/New_York, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: Now only 1299$ at buydig.com - very reputable seller. Who bets 1199$ just before Christmas? ;-) Could be Pentax's strategy of competing in the under-$1000 DSLR market. Instead of coming out with a cheaper model,

Re: Coming to terms with *ist D lens mag factor?

2003-12-10 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Dec 11, 2003, at 00:02 America/New_York, Mark Cassino wrote: The stock agency I work with wants 35 meg files minimum, so I anticipate that I will shoot film in tandem with the *ist D, just to keep them happy. You're almost there. A TIFF file converted from an *ist-D RAW file is

Re: WEBSITE freak out - HELP!!!!!

2003-12-09 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Tuesday, Dec 9, 2003, at 00:28 America/New_York, Doug Franklin wrote: The browser will usually collapse multiple white space characters in a sequence down to a single one when it renders the page. That's true. I forgot about that. I was so busy looking at the source code (where I noticed the

Re: Coming to terms with *ist D lens mag factor?

2003-12-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Monday, Dec 8, 2003, at 02:09 America/New_York, Rob Studdert wrote: So how are *ist D users coping with the lens mag factors and are some lenses now less useful than they were on film bodies? More or less transparently. I don't even think about the mag factor at all when I shoot. Over time,

Re: WEBSITE freak out - HELP!!!!!

2003-12-08 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Monday, Dec 8, 2003, at 21:00 America/New_York, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: Omg, sorry guys i know that this is totally OT, BUT I was just chatting with #7 via AIM, and we were looking at my website, when I realised that all of my text has shrivelled up! No kidding! Usually, it is

Re: card storage in the field

2003-12-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Dec 4, 2003, at 06:41 America/New_York, Herb Chong wrote: there have been a few articles out now that basically say that digital cameras, once you keep good battery warming habits, are better for very cold weather shooting than film cameras because you don't have to worry about

Re: card storage in the field

2003-12-05 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Dec 4, 2003, at 06:42 America/New_York, Herb Chong wrote: i have one too. it doesn't hold enough cards and is larger than a soft case. I use a small Hakuba holder with a clamshell design. Each half of the clamshell holds a CF card (or other media depending on model) and there's a

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

2003-12-03 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Saturday, Nov 29, 2003, at 07:23 America/New_York, Bill Owens wrote: This brings a question to my feeble mind. How many musicians do we have here on the list? Baritone. http://www.nychoral.org The keyboard skills are rusty. So's the piano. :-) --jc

Re: B on *ist-D

2003-11-25 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Sunday, Nov 23, 2003, at 15:56 America/New_York, Herb Chong wrote: if it doesn't show up after NR is engaged then i don't have to do anything. so what i care about is what shows up after NR is enabled. those are the one i have to do something about in PS. That's true. It depends if you're

Re: Smithsonian contest (was: Defining previously Published for a photo contest)

2003-11-23 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Saturday, Nov 22, 2003, at 16:01 America/New_York, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Ryan, nice to know they are letting you in... I'm wondering if they will be seeing tons of Pentaxes in this contest! That's up to all of us, Ann! --jc

Re: B on *ist-D

2003-11-23 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Saturday, Nov 22, 2003, at 18:37 America/New_York, Herb Chong wrote: i tried a 30 second exposure of the inside of a lens cap and i can see only one obvious hot pixel. i haven't looked all that hard yet though, and i do have the noise reduction turned on. If you're looking for hot pixels,

Re: TTL Slave Flash, corded and on bracket?

2003-11-23 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Sunday, Nov 23, 2003, at 05:28 America/New_York, Greg Lovern wrote: I'd like to mount a second flash on a simple bracket, link the two flashes with a short cord, and have the second flash both fire and stop when the primary flash (either in TTL mode, or in one of its auto modes) fires and

Re: *ist-D image transfer speeds

2003-11-21 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Friday, Nov 21, 2003, at 03:10 America/New_York, David Mann wrote: I seem to recall that one of the slower USB versions was renamed to USB 2.0 or something like that to make it more marketable when the higher speed USB 2 came out. I think one is called fast USB2 and the other high-speed USB2.

Re: Software for ist D Camera

2003-11-18 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 10:18 America/New_York, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: Not only OS X, but it also works under Mac OS 9.x too - that's nice ;-) Whoops! Sorry, I mis-typed. The box specs says you need Mac OS X 10.1.3 and up, or Mac OS 9.0 and up with CarbonLib 1.5 or later installed.

Re: FaJ 18-35mm on film

2003-11-18 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 10:33 America/New_York, Joe Wilensky wrote: Very light, but not as loose feeling as some FA zooms like the 28-70mm f/4. Agree. The focus ring also has a good feel. Not too loose like the earlier FA zooms. --jc

Re: Breezbrowser

2003-11-18 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 13:36 America/New_York, Cotty wrote: I looked at the Breezebrowser site: http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/index.htm and was somewhat surprised that I could find no information of what platforms this software runs on. I presume that it is PC only? It looks like

Re: Hot pixels

2003-11-10 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Monday, Nov 10, 2003, at 13:44 America/New_York, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, what are hot pixels? Defects in the sensor? Hot pixels are sensor elements that got more excited than they should have. They usually show up as excessive noise during long exposures. The key to knowing whether

Re: My Evening With Lexar

2003-11-07 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Thursday, Nov 6, 2003, at 11:35 America/New_York, Joseph Tainter wrote: Along with the starkistdee I bought a Lexar 1 GB 40X compact card, which comes with its own USB reader. Therein lies a tale. I wanted to know how much speed-up I would get from using a WA-enabled Lexar card in the

Re: Digital Back for 645Nii?

2003-11-06 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Wednesday, Nov 5, 2003, at 17:21 America/New_York, Mark Erickson wrote: All, Check out this posting over at photo.net: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=006R06 I think even at US$6,000 it would be considered a steal if it is comparable with something like a PhaseOne H20.

Re: Photo plus show

2003-10-31 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Friday, Oct 31, 2003, at 21:34 America/New_York, tom wrote: -Original Message- From: Butch Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The person I spoke to listed a half dozen other cameras that would get it first, and doubted that Pentax would have enough market share to make it worthwhile for

Re: *istD output?

2003-10-26 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 14:05 America/New_York, George Sinos wrote: Has anyone, sent an email to the makers of Capture One http://www.phaseone.com, encouraging them to add the *istD to supported cameras for their raw conversion software? They've said they are watching the market to

Re: *istD output?

2003-10-26 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Sunday, Oct 26, 2003, at 14:05 America/New_York, George Sinos wrote: What's your opinion on the Pentax Photo Browser and Photo Laboratory software? Photo Browser is adequate, but that's not my primary browser software. Photo Lab could be much better. They should look at Capture One as an

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