Re: A request for a photo

2008-04-25 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Ann, maybe if you pointed us to some of the great pics of him on line that are perfect then we'd know what you're looking for and it would be a lot easier to say wait, I think I got one. Not that I have many motorbike shots, anyway. Just a thought. Marcus -- Am 25.04.2008 um 15:33

Re: smc DA* f2.8/50-135mm Bokeh (PESO/GESO)

2008-04-22 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Thanks, Bob. I like that picture a lot, too. Marcus -- Am 21.04.2008 um 17:44 schrieb Bob Sullivan: Marcus, I like the yellow flowers best. They show off the selected focus and bokeh. Generally a pleasing set of photos... Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Marcus

Re: smc DA* f2.8/50-135mm Bokeh (PESO/GESO)

2008-04-22 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus A. Hofmann Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:20 AM To: Pentax-Discuss List Mail Subject: smc DA* f2.8/50-135mm Bokeh (PESO/GESO) One of the reasons I like the new 50-135mm so much is its oh so pretty bokeh

smc DA* f2.8/50-135mm Bokeh (PESO/GESO)

2008-04-21 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
One of the reasons I like the new 50-135mm so much is its oh so pretty bokeh. It suffers a bit from CA at maximum aperture in bright sunlight, though, so I like to stop it down just a little. Then the results are really nice. I have put up some bokeh samples. I think these are some nice

Re: K20

2008-04-19 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
I am using a K200D, but as I understand it, the anti shake technology is basically the same as in the K20D. I have managed to get sharp pictures handheld at one second at night. I takes a little practise but it works great. Marcus -- Am 19.04.2008 um 14:33 schrieb Bob Sullivan: Still

Re: K10D is back, again

2008-04-16 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Just out of curiosity, is there some standard way to test this? I have not seen any focusing issues with my camera and lenses (because so many pictures are out of focus, which is of course user error), but I was wondering if there is a way to find out. Thanks. Marcus -- Am 16.04.2008 um

Re: PESO - Who can identify this?

2008-04-16 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
That's a bomb, isn't it? ;-) Marcus -- Am 16.04.2008 um 09:46 schrieb John Francis: So: who can tell me what this is? http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/PAW.php?name=PAW0816 Most of the time I was shooting RAW with the K10D. But at the end of the day I grabbed a few quick JPEGs with the *ist

Re: SDHC Bargain for UK Pentaxisti

2008-04-15 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
That card's listed as a Class 4 device. The SDCard.com web site indicates this means that the manufacturer guarantees at least 4 MB/ sec or higher write speed, which sounds pretty slow. How does that compare to the X speed notation, i.e., 150X, 133X, 60X, etc.? The speed notation is a

Re: SDHC Bargain for UK Pentaxisti

2008-04-15 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
= ~37,5 MB/s (250x) Marcus -- Am 15.04.2008 um 15:58 schrieb Marcus A. Hofmann: That card's listed as a Class 4 device. The SDCard.com web site indicates this means that the manufacturer guarantees at least 4 MB/ sec or higher write speed, which sounds pretty slow. How does that compare

Re: SDHC Bargain for UK Pentaxisti

2008-04-15 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Am 15.04.2008 um 16:44 schrieb Paul Stenquist: On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Marcus A. Hofmann wrote: I have yet so find or hear of someone who actually ever had problems with a Sandisk Extreme III. I've had two of Extreme III SD cards fail, although not in the storage media. The lock

Re: SDHC Bargain for UK Pentaxisti

2008-04-15 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Am 15.04.2008 um 18:32 schrieb John Francis: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:07:38PM +0200, Marcus A. Hofmann wrote: A quick google turned up this, which may be interesting for comparison: WLAN 802.11g: 54 Mbit/s = ~3,2 MB/s (21x) WLAN 802.11n: 540 Mbit/s = ~37,5 MB/s (250x) Hmm. 540 = 54 x

Re: Garbage pix K20D review pancake too

2008-04-14 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
I totally second that. That's exactly how I use the 40mm Limited. Marcus -- Am 14.04.2008 um 10:06 schrieb Tim Bray: If you're going to walk around all day with a camera on your wrist you don't want to be changing lenses, and you really don't want to be fiddling with the lens-cap when the

Re: PESO: What... why?!

2008-04-14 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Thanks for looking, everyone. It's appreciated. Marcus -- Am 13.04.2008 um 19:41 schrieb Rick Womer: LOL The US Mail mailbox next to a German address is intriguing, and the flag on the mailbox is (ahem) an added twist. Rick --- Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: Peso: A night in Hoorn

2008-04-14 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
the intensely amber cast detracts. Have you played with the white balance, or tried a BW conversion? Rick --- Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. OK, I was sure I had set up Apple Mail to only send plaintext messages, but as it turns out, I had not. So maybe this is going to work

PESO: What... why?!

2008-04-12 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Hi. This is nothing special or particularly valuable from a photographic point of veiw, but worth sharing nonetheless, I believe. I was looking for a wedding the other day at an address I didn't know, in a town I'd never been to before, it was raining, and I wasn't in a good mood at all,

Re: Can't post to the list, take 2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

2008-04-10 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
I am having the same strange problem. When I try to post a message to the list (starting a new thread) that contains image links, the message doesn't show up. If, however, I reply in a running thread, I can post links just fine. I haven't found the time to investigate this any further,

Peso: A night in Hoorn

2008-04-10 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Hi. OK, I was sure I had set up Apple Mail to only send plaintext messages, but as it turns out, I had not. So maybe this is going to work now. I'll give it a try. I've been experimenting a little with available light pictures at night without a tripod. Mainly because I don't have a tripod

Re: Can't post to the list, take 2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

2008-04-10 Thread Marcus A . Hofmann
, Marcus A. Hofmann wrote: I am having the same strange problem. When I try to post a message to the list (starting a new thread) that contains image links, the message doesn't show up. If, however, I reply in a running thread, I can post links just fine. I haven't found the time to investigate

Re: Peso: A night in Hoorn

2008-04-10 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
), is the way that digital cameras treat night skies. They always look like brownish smog to me. Correcting them to get something like neutral grays and blacks often kills the mood. Marcus A. Hofmann wrote: Hi. OK, I was sure I had set up Apple Mail to only send plaintext messages

Re: PESOs??

2008-04-08 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
I like the pics. Keep them coming. -- Am 08.04.2008 um 00:39 schrieb Rebekah: It seems that an increasing majority of the emails I receive from the list are PESOs. If I could do so delicately, I'd like to try and suggest that we as a list impose a limit of sorts on ourselves concerning

Re: K200D filenames

2008-04-06 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
to the 21mm Limited, because that package will be awesome to take hiking. I really think that it is quite impossible not to be satisfied with the 40mm. Marcus -- Am 06.04.2008 um 05:17 schrieb Christine Aguila: - Original Message - From: Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got the 18

Re: PESO -- Night Scene

2008-04-05 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
It is a very nice picture. I like it. Do you happen to have a daytime shot of that building? I am always amazed how different things can look at night. I've been experimenting a little with available light photography at night lately and sometimes, when I'm home reviewing pictures, I have a

K200D filenames

2008-04-05 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Hello. Is there a way to customize the filenames the K200D produces? At first I was irritated, because the first images I took (DNG) where named IMGP.DNG, and at some point the camera produced files named _IGP.DNG (where is the image number). After some experimenting I found

Re: K200D filenames

2008-04-05 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
all my files to YYMMDD-tag- format, where tag is an event or other mnemonic to identify what the file might be associated with, and is the numeric portion of the original filename. G On Apr 5, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Marcus A. Hofmann wrote: Hello. Is there a way to customize

Re: K200D filenames

2008-04-05 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
By the way - how do you like the K200D? I'm trying to decide if I need to go with the K20D or whether the K200D will be sufficient for my needs. I've had it for about four weeks now and I took roughly 1500 pictures with it. Overall, I am very satisfied. For my needs, at least, the

Re: PESO - Whiteout conditions

2008-03-30 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Really, I am in no way competent to say if this is a good picture or not, but what happened to me is that on my 15 screen, Safari not running full-screen, only the top-left three-quarters of the image showed up. I wondered why it wasn't loading. Then I thought I had some smears on my

Re: Chimps

2008-03-30 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
What exactly does chimping mean? I looked it up in several dictionaries, but it was not there. Please explain for a non-native speaker. ;-) Nice shot, btw. Thanks. Marcus -- Am 31.03.2008 um 06:15 schrieb Christine Aguila: Nice one, Paul. You know, people have views about chimping, but

Re: Chimps

2008-03-30 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Thanks, William. Marcus -- Am 31.03.2008 um 06:55 schrieb William Robb: - Original Message - From: Marcus A. Hofmann Subject: Re: Chimps What exactly does chimping mean? I looked it up in several dictionaries, but it was not there. Please explain for a non-native speaker

Re: Terms of Service

2008-03-28 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
with your work. I think that in Europe you cannot waive your moral rights (although you can choose not to enforce them). I am not a lawyer. That's correct. It is a result of the droit moral principle of the french law from the 19th century. Although the border between moral and economic

Re: PESO: Synchronize Your Cell Phones

2008-03-27 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
channel mixer capability. Perhaps someone else can tell us. Paul -- Original message -- From: Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul, I assume you're talking about Adobe Photoshop (which I am hesitating to buy, because I am not sure if I really need

Colors and Spaces and Browsers

2008-03-26 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
This may be slightly off-topic. But maybe someone here can help. Something I don't get at all is all that color space thing. I read a little about it and decided to just go with the Lightroom default of ProPhoto RGB, but I am now running into problems. The symptoms: sRGB, Adobe RGB and

Re: Colors and Spaces and Browsers

2008-03-26 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
/1459003391_e188a4bee1_o.jpg FF3alpha (~250kb) http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1331/1459005903_8e3c267108_o.jpg Your best bet is to assume everyone is using a non colour space aware browser just stick with sRGB for web images. Cheers, Dave On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL

Peso, Peow, Geso... ?

2008-03-25 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
I was wondering what PESO, PEOW, GESO etc. mean? -Marcus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: PESO: Optio W20 is a true all- weather camera

2008-03-25 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Ah, yes, beautiful. I just came back from a week of sailing on the Ijsselmeer and Waddenzee and I can still smell the crazy weather. I brought the new DA* 50-135mm and took some first pictures with it. All with a K200D.

Re: Peso, Peow, Geso... ?

2008-03-25 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. And thanks to the leg- pullers for the good laugh. :-) -Marcus -- Am 25.03.2008 um 10:52 schrieb Cotty: On 25/3/08, Marcus A. Hofmann, discombobulated, unleashed: I was wondering what PESO, PEOW, GESO etc. mean? Have a look at this page

Re: PESO: Synchronize Your Cell Phones

2008-03-25 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
called Constant as well. -- Original message -- From: Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul, that's a very nice shot. Reminds me of a new years eve party a while ago, where at 0:00 everyone was busy with their cellphones... Btw, how do you do your b/w

Re: PESO: Synchronize Your Cell Phones

2008-03-13 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Paul, that's a very nice shot. Reminds me of a new years eve party a while ago, where at 0:00 everyone was busy with their cellphones... Btw, how do you do your b/w conversions? Looks good. Marcus -- Am 13.03.2008 um 11:39 schrieb Paul Stenquist: Is everyone sleeping? I've been overpesoed

Re: PESO - girl on a bike

2008-03-12 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
I like it a lot, for the mood, I believe. -- Am 11.03.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Struan Donald: Hi, I figure the best way to start on this sort of list is with a photo: http://flickr.com/photos/mr_stru/2322023174/sizes/m/ ISO 200, f/10, 1/100 sec K100D, kit lens Rather a grabbed shot so

Re: Seeking lens advice

2008-03-12 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
speed of the DA* 16-50 is worth the extra cash, or if the DA 21 will be all right for me. My guess is that it will. Marcus -- Am 11.03.2008 um 17:17 schrieb Tim Bray: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the bundled 18-55mm/3.5-5.8 lens is kind

Re: Seeking lens advice

2008-03-12 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
a 35mm full-frame design, being an update of the SMC-M 40mm f2.8 Pancake (albeit a very thorouhg update, the original did not use Aspherical elements). -Adam On 3/11/08, Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your thoughts, j.c. I am just thinking that a full- frame 28mm

Seeking lens advice

2008-03-11 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Hello. I have recently bought a new K200D. I did photograph a lot until about 15 years ago, but have only used p+s cameras since then. So I figured the K200D would be more than sufficient to get back into photography. I am actually very satisfied with the camera. But the bundled

Re: Seeking lens advice

2008-03-11 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
recommend this lens. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Marcus A. Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss List Mail PDML@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:50 AM Subject: Seeking lens advice Hello. I have recently bought a new K200D. I did photograph a lot

Re: Seeking lens advice

2008-03-11 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
not quite as fast, and it doesn't have the motor-in-lens autofocus. The DA* 50-135 is also considered a fine lens. Your Minolta lenses can't be used on the Pentax. On Mar 11, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Marcus A. Hofmann wrote: Hello. I have recently bought a new K200D. I did photograph a lot until

Re: Seeking lens advice

2008-03-11 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Thanks, Godfrey. I was thinking along the same lines. I am really satisfied with the images the DA 40 produces, and if the DA 21 comes close, I'd rather save the extra cash on the DA* 16-50, since I already have the DA 40. Marcus -- Am 11.03.2008 um 16:14 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: Minolta

Re: Seeking lens advice

2008-03-11 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
prime is very useful/high quality on DSLR. jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus A. Hofmann Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:51 AM To: Pentax-Discuss List Mail Subject: Seeking lens advice Hello. I have recently bought a new

Re: PESO -- Opening

2008-03-09 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
I actually like the focus point slightly in the background and a bit off center... Marcus -- Am 09.03.2008 um 20:51 schrieb P. J. Alling: I haven't been particularly inspired lately, but last night I went to an opening. The work was interesting. I took along the *ist-Ds with the 85mm

K200D 1600 ISO shot

2008-03-06 Thread Marcus A. Hofmann
Hello. I just got my new K200D today. Didn't have much time to play with it yet, but I thought I'd share a quick shot. Maybe it is of interest to someone. ISO 1600 at f/22 with a 40 mm DA limited (pancake). http://www.ntony.net/temp/IMGP0020.jpg (full resolution jpeg straight from the