Re: Final SMP

2005-09-13 Thread Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has everyone got their copy of The Empirical Photographer? Has *anyone* got their copy of TEP yet??? From the web site it appears he's finally shipping in batches but I have still not got mine (ordered, what was it, two years ago now) so I was

Re: Re: Final SMP

2005-09-13 Thread mike wilson
From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/13 Tue PM 12:58:53 GMT To: Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Final SMP Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has everyone got their copy of The Empirical Photographer? Has *anyone

Re: Re: Final SMP

2005-09-13 Thread Chris Stoddart
From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I ordered my copy about three months ago, and got it within a week. Same for Lenses and the Light-tight Box, which I ordered about a month after that. Both good -- warmly recommended. Ah, but did you order it from Mike himself or did you

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-13 Thread Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, but did you order it from Mike himself or did you order from the site he's using to publish it? I ordered on-line from Lulu. Us poor early adopters ordered from Mike before he had ANY of this [...] I guess we know where the slow link in the chain

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-12 Thread Chris Stoddart
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Scott Loveless wrote: Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles. Has everyone got their copy of The Empirical Photographer? Has *anyone* got their copy of TEP yet??? From the web site it appears he's finally shipping in batches but I have still not got

Re: Re: Final SMP

2005-09-12 Thread mike wilson
From: Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/12 Mon AM 08:50:09 GMT To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Final SMP On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Scott Loveless wrote: Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles. Has everyone got their copy of The Empirical

Re: Re: Final SMP

2005-09-12 Thread Boris Liberman
Gentlemen, Ladies, calm down. I've pretty well given up. AFAIK, I was one of the first orderers, within 24hours of it being announced. Still not here. Class action, anyone? I have written few e-mail to Mike and he supplied me with PDF version of the book. Along with that came promises of

Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread Scott Loveless
Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles. I've thoroughly enjoyed them for the last couple years. I think I may have learned a thing or two from them, I've certainly disagreed with some of them, and I think my enablement bug can be partially blamed on Mr. Johnston. It was one of

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread P. J. Alling
Not much of an ending... Scott Loveless wrote: Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles. I've thoroughly enjoyed them for the last couple years. I think I may have learned a thing or two from them, I've certainly disagreed with some of them, and I think my enablement bug can

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sep 11, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles. I've thoroughly enjoyed them for the last couple years. I think I may have learned a thing or two from them, I've certainly disagreed with some of them, and I think my enablement bug

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:30:25AM -0400, Scott Loveless wrote: Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles.. You won't be seeing anything from him on the dpreview site, either ..

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread Paul Stenquist
No reason given? Perhaps just too much work? On Sep 11, 2005, at 3:47 PM, John Francis wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:30:25AM -0400, Scott Loveless wrote: Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles.. You won't be seeing anything from him on the dpreview site, either ..

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 04:25:14PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: No reason given? Perhaps just too much work? On Sep 11, 2005, at 3:47 PM, John Francis wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:30:25AM -0400, Scott Loveless wrote: Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles.. You won't

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/11/2005 5:44:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No - he's banned. I didn't see the posts in question, but reportedly he was warned by Phil about some negative comments he made about the Canon 5D, and responded with some gratuitous flameage. ==

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Which might lend some credence to recent reports that Dpreview is somehow supported by Canon? Shel Am I paranoid or perceptive? [Original Message] From: John Francis Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles.. You won't be seeing anything from him on the dpreview site,

Re: Final SMP

2005-09-11 Thread John Francis
It's obvious dpreview is supported by Canon - they're one of the biggest advertisers, IIRC (and they always make sure that Phil gets the latest Canon models to test, as soon as possible). But apart from good marketing by Canon, I think most of the complaints are just sour grapes. Sure, Phil