If they make it a 4 or 5MP SLR, they'll get my attention. And
having my lenses all get a little longer won't make me
hesitate a bit, either. :)
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Kent Gittings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:29 AM
Subject: RE:
Well, if they put them into full auto mode, the pictures should
be pretty sharp and well exposed. The days of photography
courses that insist on fully manual cameras for the students are
pretty much over. I've seen messages posted here that support
doing that because it frees the mind to
The word professional has changed in meaning over the past
several decades. At one time there weren't a lot of professions
because there had to be a clear path to a professorship in the
career field to be one. Now, all one has to do to be considered
a professional is to earn a living doing
Except, perhaps, for the Olympus E-10 and E-20n which SLRs with
manual zoom, and will zoom just as fast as you want. They're
priced a lot lower than Nikon and Canon SLR digitals. DPReview
is a good place to read about them.
Len
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- Original Message -
From: John Mustarde
To: [EMAIL
Either their budget is dwindling or nobody is giving them any
new lenses to test, then, right?
Of course, someone may have gotten sick of putting forth the
effort, with all of the criticism from people who say MTF tests
are not a true indicator of lens quality. Except, of course,
when their
Gee, I love the questions people ask in here! As if our members
were in a
position to give definitive, accurate answers.
Your guess is probably as good as mine, Andrew. If you find
out, for sure,
please share with the group.
Len (who is at home, sick, and probably being a curmudgeon)
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This lens has been discussed here in PDML on numerous occasions.
It is a spectacular
performer. The price is very good, go for it.
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Gianfranco Irlanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: Vivitar
I have one in Pentax K-mount. It's a very good lens, especially
considering the price. It's really a good performer, so don't
let the low price put you off. You could buy the Pentax
equivalent, of course, and have a better lens but you'd have to
use it a lot to justify spending that much
Oh, I dunno. If you shop around you could still find one with
lower
picture quality but why would you want to?
Len (G, D, and R)
It means there isn't much to pick from on the 3.1+ megapixel
cameras.
Everybody's picture quality should be very similar.
Regards, Bob S.
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You might try asking at the post office. They have money orders
for
most countries in the world.
Len
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I recently bought a camera from a PDML list member, but I'm
finding it a
little tricky to send the money from here in the USA to
France. Does anyone
have any experience on the cheapest
Disk Mangler is what Dell used to prepare and format the
drive. They didn't include the program in the deal. I guess
I'll have to contact the OnTrack folks and see what they say
about removal. I'm not sure how I got rid of it years ago.
Maybe FDISK / mbr can do the trick but I suspect I'll
I find that hard to believe. Digital cameras, mostly, are
autofocus. Shel wouldn't use one of those, would he? ;-)
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Jody [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:01 AM
Subject: RE: Looking for a GIF
NEWSFLASH
I think many of us just subscribe to the real time list, not
the digest. Let your mail client sort the PDML stuff into a
folder of its own and you'll always be up to date.
Len
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From: Knut Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November
Just remember, it'll be six days before he reads this stuff.
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Tom Rittenhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: www.pdml.net - mail archive lags by 6 days
You could volunteer to take over
The use of toolkits and other forms of reusable code has
brought us to a programming by committee approach and resulted
in a lot of program bloat. Not many folks still code in
assembler, which made very compact, fast executing programs.
Those programmers had to write code that would run in the
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From: Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lbparis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re[2]: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer
question...)
lbparis,
I would check into Partition Magic and see if that can
straighten
things out.
Bruce Dayton
Is there a Linux version of PhotoShop?
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Windows XP - Scary! (Was=3 A OT: A computer
question...)
I use Linux only. What is missing?
I guess that's because their lawyers have more experience than
their programmers, what with all the defending against the
Government they have to do.
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:48 PM
Partly a marketing strategy, I guess, but they do make a very
good zoom lens. The FA 24-90mm, which will fill in all the gaps
for us in one lens. According to the folks here that have it,
it's a fine performer, indeed.
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Knut Knut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I can't argue with that! You are very perceptive..
Len (finding no pebble in his hand)
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- Original Message -
From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: What your favourite photo?
Perhaps, if the question was,
Believe it or not, 100% viewfinders used to take a certain
amount of criticism too, years ago. Mainly from people that
used the full frame to compose their pictures and then found
that they couldn't print them on 8 X 10 paper without cropping.
Len
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From: Mike
I'm an old guy.
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Bob Walkden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lbparis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: Re[2]: Pentax AF viewfinders
Hi,
how on Earth did they try to justify such as stupid argument?
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Bob
mailto:[EMAIL
I looked through my Micro-Tools catalog and could not find any
flocking material or flocking paper but you may want to go to:
http://www.micro-tools.com
Then select the USA and look in the leftmost column for
restoration supplies. I saw various sizes of light baffle
material that may
: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: Applying Lipstick
Look again ...
lbparis wrote:
I can't see a nickel's worth of difference between the full
picture and the cropped picture.
--
Shel Belinkoff
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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to it.
Len
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From: Paul Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: Applying Lipstick
The sides are cropped on the cropped version.
- Original Message -
From: lbparis [EMAIL PROTECTED
to stifle competition. That is why Linux
is such a
thorn in its side. How do buy something they give away for
free?
On Thursday 25 October 2001 18:01, lbparis wrote:
Dave,
That's your guess, but Microsoft has been writing programs
and
operating systems for at least as long as any of the Linux
Absolutely. If we all agreed, that would suggest a problem in
itself. By the way, I didn't criticize the picture at all. All
I said was that, on first look, I didn't notice any cropping.
On closer inspection, I saw a bit of cropping on the left side,
not both sides.
I followed up with a crop
Subject: Re: Applying Lipstick
The sides are cropped on the cropped version.
- Original Message -
From: lbparis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: Applying Lipstick
I can't see a nickel's worth of difference between the full
do, the ol' boy's finger up his
nose would
make the photo vbg
lbparis wrote:
Well, I didn't download them both and do a side-by-side
comparison but maybe I will. What I did see didn't show
much,
if any, cropping, though. I expected that you would tighten
up
on the subject a lot more
When I looked at your picture, I thought it looked like she was
applying her makeup in front of a two-way mirror and that you
were invisible to her. Following this line, I thought that
tightening up the picture would emphasize, or enhance this
viewpoint. My imagination would not let me see the
Yeah, they used to read the list then. They kicked us out
because they were afraid that the things we were saying might be
mistaken as official Pentax views. They probably didn't want
to spend money in the courts, either, trying to defend the
indefensible.
Len
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No, I don't think so. It'll be at least a 4MP, and probably a
5MP camera.
It's really too late already for anything as small as 3MP.
Len
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Oh, this is very bad news. Pentax is again playing catch-up on
last
year's technology. They could have been ahead of the pack with
the
digital MZ-S.
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