On 3/8/07, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/digital-cameras/pma-07-breaking-sony-alpha-flagsh
> ip-first-pics-242663.php
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yoag7u
It does appear to have a larger pentaprism, which means?
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Yet another statistics :-)
Top 5 selling DSLRs in the U.S. In Jan. 2007
http://www.popphoto.com/cameras/3904/top-5-digital-slrs-for-january.html
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On 3/2/07, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>http://www.robertstech.com/pages/gfm_14.htm
> The lens itself was large enough
> to block the flash from the lower part of the picture. I solved this
> problem by holding the camera upside-down :)
Wait a minute. Am I seeing a big dark shado
On 2/26/07, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Watch tonight's Larry king Live where Cameron is the guest. He'd better
> > have
> > some answers!
>
> Oops, not tonight. Tonight is someone who is irreverent to my life.
> Sorry for misleading info. CNN was saying Cameron is the guest
On 2/19/07, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, it is rumoured that Canon are considering to make this a standard
> feature.
> Well, they need it. Their Service depots are said to be inundated by focus
> adjustment :-).
The newly announced EOS-1D Mark III aparently has this function.
On 2/21/07, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They just announced the 1D mk III. It's got a few interesting bits.
So far, people are not impressed by sample images as they say they are soft.
http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/eos1dm3/eos1dm3_sample-e.html
OTOH, Sigma SD14 hasbetter receptions.
h
On 2/12/07, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Driving down the dirt road this morning, I rounded a corner and came on this
> view.
>
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5588182&size=lg
Very nice. Excelent shot!
Now back to my foul mood.
How come you are living in this picturesque/photo
On 2/5/07, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - it's very difficult to see the specs on the sensor so I wound up just
> stabbing at it randomly.
Thanks Mark,
Ah, that's true. I did not think of it.
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On 2/5/07, David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'v not heard of this in my area Ken.
>
> I send in my cameras to the manufacture for this, i'm to chicken.
>
> BUT i have tor add this. I have always been able to use a simple
> blower on my Pentax, i have to send in my Nikons for cleaning.
>
On 2/5/07, J and K Messervy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our four year old (I'm nearly five Dad!) had her very first day of school
> yesterday.
>
> This was captured in an unguarded moment with the M50mm f1.7 wide open. I
> have also softened it a bit in photoshop.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2leo5e
T
On 1/17/07, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Information originating in Norway, England, Canada, the U.S. -- and even
> Japan -- often turns out to be wrong."
Oh com'n Tim, when PDML gets bored, rumour milling starts as a
favourite pastime.
And this usually happens more often in winter ;-)
On 1/15/07, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cotty, you will regret this. But as long as you save enough money for a
> free ticket to Japan for me, I have no complaint.
> Oh, and don't forget a sturdy shaver.
and :-))
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On 1/14/07, Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, Ken. I am hoping that Pentax will bring out a K10D version of
> the LL-60, which gives Golden Section composition guides.
>
> For the K10D there is the LL-80, which gives guidance for what? The rule
> of fourths? I haven't yet figured
On 1/14/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > From:
> > "K.Takeshita"
> > For anyone who wish to venture changing finder screen for K10D.
> >
> > Here is a step by step photo instruction in someone's blog. It's a no big
> > deal but might be helpful for those who never tried it befor
On 1/14/07, Ken Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/14/07, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I was not really following this thread as I experienced absolutely no
> > problem with any of my SD cards.
> > Then, by accident, I encountered
On 1/14/07, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was not really following this thread as I experienced absolutely no
> problem with any of my SD cards.
> Then, by accident, I encountered the following Japanese site that is talking
> about the fake ExtreamIII and ultraII, how the fake looks a
On 1/3/07, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> K.Takeshita wrote:
>
> >Yesterday it worked
> >Today it is working
> >Tomorrow it will be working
> >Windows is not like that
> >But Mac is
>
> Man, I have Mac-user clients who would disagree with that!
Hope my usual Mac worshipping provocations
On 1/2/07, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Marine draughtsman in a naval architecture/marine consultancy firm
>
> Here's some shots of one of our latest projects:
Hi Dave,
You jogged my memories!
I majored in marine engineering before being thrown into "unclear' field.
I apprenticed fo
On 1/1/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> an often
> repeated topic where the specifics of the discussion have been
> repeated at least twelve times over within the past year
BTW, this thread has morphed into FF/APS-C stuff at some point from a
different subject as the thread title
On 1/1/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's sad to see this whole stupid "FF vs APS-C" horsepucky again be a
> bazillion message thread. Two misnomers make a religious battle it
> seems.
>
> I'll just take pictures and to hell with trying to discuss it.
1. This is a perfectly leg
On 12/21/06, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to the Wall Street Journal, it less of a merger and more of an
> acquisition.
It was a stock swap deal, only in that Hoya is much larger, hence
Pentax 1 vs. Hoya 0.15 something.
On plus side, pentax did not agree with this under duress and
On 12/18/06, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> =
> Paul Stenquists still writes to me in private emails:
> repeated plain requests to stop:
>
>
> For your own good, you should try to get help. Some counseling could go
> a long way t
On 12/13/06, Cory Papenfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Finally getting around to finishing up the mountain/glacier
> panorama I started working on in July.
>
> http://www.ee.vt.edu/~mythtv/PESO/4/
>
> Comments welcome.
Specutacular!
I see the glacier is ending into a lake or fjor
On 12/12/06, Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "GX-10 as produced in Korea has their own original GUI, that is
> different from K10D."
>
> I guess this means that the GX-10 is not assembled by Pentax in the
> Philippines.
Oops, sorry Joe, it says "sold" instead of "produced'. My bad.
On 11/3/06, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's no wonder they are so slow getting the thing to market, they are
> spending all their time in bars and at amusement parks.
Perhaps Koreans might be a bit more sophisticated? :-).
These are some Samsung stuff with high ISO (800/1600 includ
On 11/3/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is an ISO 800 sample (liquour bottles)
>
> http://form.allabout.co.jp/1/210637/1/product/210637_01.htm
>
> I know its too small to make any sort of intelligent judgment, but it looks
> OK to me.
> Generally, folks in Japan who actually saw
On 11/2/06, Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What a nitwit you are, Joe. You will always take the most negative
> interpretation. Perhaps he thought that a sensible audience would
> assume SSM would be faster as there would be no point in all that
> complexity just to reduce noise.
>
>
On 10/30/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/30/06 7:04 PM, "Tim Øsleby", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > When reading it, I tried to leave out the interpretations.
> > Ken, are you there?
>
> Yeah, I am here.
> Where was the link? I saw it, read it but lost it. Give it to me and
On 10/27/06, Sylwester Pietrzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looks good :-)
> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?
> forum=1036&thread=20633667
Thanks Sylwek,
This is a good detailed report by someone who was actually there. His
report coincides well with what I observed in various Ja
On 10/17/06, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Moire is the odd patterns you sometimes see in fine (high frequency)
> detail in digital shots or scans.
>
> -Adam
Actually, I just accidentally found the thread in Japan wherein folks
are talking about the moire, taking an examplke of Pnteax's r
On 10/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The web images you're looking at are too low-res to provide any real
> information in
> regard to noise levels. I'm surprised that you're wringing your hands over
> low-res
> web images produced with 0.2 firmware.
> Paul
I was wonderin
On 10/15/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. There were two samples in ISO 1000 and 1600. It said in the samples that
> those are not based on the latest firmware.
Firmware was said to be 0.2
Pentax explanation on the floor said they were not forcing the removal
of the nosie, colour
On 10/13/06, Perry Pellechia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's a little misleading. The "12" bit rendering is only using 4
> bits. The signal could certainly be preconditioned to use the
> digitizer better than that.
>
Maybe, but this is a good "illustration" of the magnitude of
difference bet
On 10/13/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Every time he visited there, the AF speed has been noticeably faster.
Opps, sorry, he was saying that the "AF accuracy (not the speed)" was
constantly improving.
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On 10/6/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is only true with transparency film and presupposes that you
> understand how the film and processing work. You have no control
> other than focus and exposure. The film and processing are a constant.
I of course undersstand all that
On 10/6/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I liked about those samples which I suppose were the same as the UK
> ones,
I noticed that UK samples were in jpeg.
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On 10/5/06, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I downloaded the sample files, and am printing 10x14 inch prints from
> them.
> The picture of the sheep has some veiling flare.
> Good one Pentax
> Otherwise, the pictures look fine, I must say.
The same but selected samples also shwon in
Some other snippets from japanese site. Note: these are all
uncofirmed reports, some are well known, some are probably
speculation.
1. Pentax have been developing in-house CMOS. This was in a press
release right safter the announcement of istD.
2. Tamro0n's SP Macro is on 2 months waiting, most
On 9/21/06, Douglas Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I just hope the prices on the three DA* lenses aren't
> TOO exorbitant... I really, really want a K10D and DA*
> 16-50mm!
Price of new DA*s.
I do not think it is "exhorbitant", not as expensive as some of the
competitors', but am holdin
On 9/18/06, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Via DP Review discussion board...
> http://nedbunnell.blogspot.com/2006/09/body-size-k10d-vs-k100d.html
Hmm, that's a fair size and heavy (710g), although still relatively
compact with comparable competitions (not by much). Some weight may
fee
On 9/17/06, Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 18/09/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hey, what's wrong with us being the last one to laugh after all :-)))
>
> Things can turn around quickly, lets wait and see how the distribution
> holds up before we claim the las
On 9/15/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use the pop-up flash quite often, mostly for the day-light fill-flash
> It's so handy. Unless I know in advance what I am going to shoot, I avoid
> lugging around a flash and a tripod (that's why I love the IS/AS/SR).
> I do carry a flash for
On 9/11/06, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Obviously someone thought enough was enough.
Did I hear the rumour that the rumour of 9/14 press release is also a
rumour? :-).
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On 8/30/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/30/06 10:00 AM, "graywolf", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Another point is that if you do not have the tools to manufacture what
> > you want to sell, you eventually produce the tooling to do it. Put
> > another way, if you can not now pro
On 8/30/06 7:38 AM, "Pål Jensen", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They don't have to be as big. The Pentax 645D is in fact smaller and will
> have twice the sensor. Canon make big camera because they sell better than
> small ones according to their marketing philosophy (big is expensive; small
> is c
My response in-line below.
On 8/30/06, Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > [Regardless of future technological developments, cameras with full-
> > frame sensors will always cost much more than [ ... ]
> > (Interestingly, the APS-H sensor of the EOS-1D MarkII N is the largest
> > size
On 8/29/06 9:08 PM, "Godfrey DiGiorgi", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll look at it again when they get to 36 Mpixel. That's double the
> resolution of the 10D, a worthwhile improvement. ;-)
I chuckle too, but look at their pixel density of a couple of models,
most notably 6D and 50D (50D partic
On 8/29/06 3:24 AM, "Jostein Øksne", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> AFAIK, many of the MedF digitals achieve larger sensors by combining
> more than one CCD. When doubling the area of a sensor means a tenfold
> increase in cost it makes me wonder what kind of potential there may
> be for cost reduct
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