Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-02-08 Thread Rob Studdert
On 4 February 2011 20:46, Leon Altoff leon.alt...@gmail.com wrote: Sam, Did you ever actually find an iPhone app?  I have an Android phone and after searching eh market for data collection found several apps that could be used for this with drop down lists and all sorts of features.  If you

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-02-04 Thread Leon Altoff
Sam, Did you ever actually find an iPhone app? I have an Android phone and after searching eh market for data collection found several apps that could be used for this with drop down lists and all sorts of features. If you found something good for the iPhone let us know which app you ended up

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Boris Liberman
On 1/31/2011 9:59 AM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jan 30, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Cotty, you gotta be badly discombobulated. I did not participate in this thread until I saw your message full of slashes and words written together without spaces between them... /shrugs/ Boris,

RE: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Bob W
- From: Cotty cotty...@mac.com Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:24:19 To: pentax listPDML@pdml.net Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos? On 30/1/11, Boris

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Cotty
On 31/1/11, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: . I did not participate in this thread until I saw your message sorry boris - you are quite correct. apologies (written with phone glued to ear waiting for an answer) wink my eye's better now ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Scott Loveless
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: On 31/1/11, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: . I did not participate in this thread until I saw your message sorry boris - you are quite correct. apologies (written with phone glued to ear waiting for an answer)

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Sam L samthegr...@gmail.com wrote: I like the digital pen suggestion and the list manager app suggestion. I'll probably stick with the plain old notepad app on the iphone.  I suppose this whole iphone thing _is_ terribly technologically overkill for the problem

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Boris Liberman
On 1/31/2011 12:38 PM, Cotty wrote: sorry boris - you are quite correct. apologies (written with phone glued to ear waiting for an answer) Sure thing. Thankfully I am the only Boris in the motley crew. If it were several of us - that might have been funnier still. Boris -- PDML

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Darren Addy
I think several responders lost sight of the fact that the original poster is shooting with film. I also think that most shooting logs (like Kenny-boy's three versions: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/exposure-log.htm ) leave off an important part of the equation (if learning is your goal). That

RE: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when, taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bob W Doesn't the iPhone have a simple voice memo app? Yes it does. That's an option. Of course, with DSLRs you can often record the voice memo directly onto the exposed frame - I could do this with the 1DmII. With, film the correct procedure would be to jot down the info onto a

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when, taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread John Sessoms
From: eckinator totally what bob said - always published aperture and speed in my posterous for those who care but never knew why cheers ecke That one's easy. I started the blog as a school assignment, and the instructor told us we had to include that information in the captions. - No

Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when, taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bruce Walker On 11-01-30 5:38 PM, Bob W wrote: And, while we're on the subject, looking for an app that does it strikes me as a classic example of techno overkill. Me too. Much easier to simply use a camera that records this info automatically, like any of Pentax' digital models,

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when, taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Darren Addy
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:31 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I have a vague recollection that one of Pentax's later film cameras could be made to imprint this information on the film, and the engineers were smart enough to put the data imprint in between the frames. I don't

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when, taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread P. J. Alling
..the engineers were smart enough to put the data imprint in between the frames. Where you could cut it in half and make it unreadable... On 1/31/2011 11:31 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker On 11-01-30 5:38 PM, Bob W wrote: And, while we're on the subject, looking for an app

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when, taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread John Sessoms
From: Larry Colen On Jan 30, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Cotty, you gotta be badly discombobulated. I did not participate in this thread until I saw your message full of slashes and words written together without spaces between them... /shrugs/ Boris, don't mind Cotty, he's just

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Jim King
John Sessoms wrote on Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:47:27 -0800 Seems like if you really wanted to get in the spirit of the thing, you'd just carry a little pocket notebook and a pen and write them down. Probably less of a distraction from photography than fiddling with the iPhone. ...or use a Pentax

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when, taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread John Sessoms
From: Boris Liberman On 1/31/2011 12:38 PM, Cotty wrote: sorry boris - you are quite correct. apologies (written with phone glued to ear waiting for an answer) Sure thing. Thankfully I am the only Boris in the motley crew. If it were several of us - that might have been funnier still.

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when, taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread John Sessoms
From: Darren Addy I think several responders lost sight of the fact that the original poster is shooting with film. I also think that most shooting logs (like Kenny-boy's three versions: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/exposure-log.htm ) leave off an important part of the equation (if learning

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when,, taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread John Sessoms
That's the age-old problem with trying to make things idiot proof. As soon as you manage it, the universe produces a better idiot. From: P. J. Alling ..the engineers were smart enough to put the data imprint in between the frames. Where you could cut it in half and make it unreadable... On

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Cotty
On 31/1/11, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: Stop saying wink. It's frightfully tinny sounding. Now yawn has a nice woody tone to it. Could you have your involuntary spasms do that, instead? Actually ///jerkjerk my knee's going now -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O)

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/31/2011 3:14 PM, Cotty wrote: On 31/1/11, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: Stop saying wink. It's frightfully tinny sounding. Now yawn has a nice woody tone to it. Could you have your involuntary spasms do that, instead? Actually ///jerkjerk my knee's going now

RE: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Bob W
Stop saying wink. It's frightfully tinny sounding. Now yawn has a nice woody tone to it. Could you have your involuntary spasms do that, instead? Actually ///jerkjerk my knee's going now Are you /sure/ it's your knee? he's excited by the phrase 'has a nice woody'.

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Scott Loveless
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Bob W, discom-BOB-W-lated, issued forth with: he's excited by the phrase 'has a nice woody'. /twink/ No, sorry. It's /gone/. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/     __o   _'\,_  (*)/  (*) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Igor Roshchin
With respect to the original question, - I wonder if one can just take a photo of the scene with iPhone and attach a note/voice memo to that. 2011/1/30 Bob W pdml at web-options.com: To be honest, I've never understand why people write this information down after the event, and especially

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Sam L
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote: You might also look for a database manager. I see a couple that look promising for this kind of stuff. I just downloaded General DB and will start experimenting with it. There's also FM Go from FileMaker that looks

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-31 Thread Sam L
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I think several responders lost sight of the fact that the original poster is shooting with film. I also think that most shooting logs (like Kenny-boy's three versions: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/exposure-log.htm

Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Sam
Hi all, I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure out if my camera is metering correctly (and also help me figure out how to

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Sam samthegr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure out if my

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Sam
Yeah, I was starting to expect as much. The main problem with that is the iMe component, which is likely to misplace the iPaper. -Sam On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:54 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Sam samthegr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread William Robb
On 30/01/2011 7:32 AM, Sam wrote: Hi all, I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure out if my camera is metering correctly (and also

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/30/2011 10:26 AM, William Robb wrote: On 30/01/2011 7:32 AM, Sam wrote: Hi all, I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure out

Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread John Sessoms
From: Sam Hi all, I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure out if my camera is metering correctly (and also help me figure out how to

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Cotty
On 30/1/11, John Sessoms, discombobulated, unleashed: Probably less of a distraction from photography than fiddling with the iPhone. You'd be surprised Boris - in some appa entering data is faster than doing it with pad and pen /winkwinkwink/ -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) |

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Boris Liberman
Beg pardon?! On 1/30/2011 5:59 PM, Cotty wrote: On 30/1/11, John Sessoms, discombobulated, unleashed: Probably less of a distraction from photography than fiddling with the iPhone. You'd be surprised Boris - in some appa entering data is faster than doing it with pad and pen

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Cotty
On 30/1/11, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: You'd be surprised Boris - in some appa entering data is faster than doing it with pad and pen /winkwinkwink/ Apologies///winkwinkwink should read: You'd be surprised Boris, in some instances entering data on an iPhone is

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Cotty
On 30/1/11, Sam, discombobulated, unleashed: I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure out if my camera is metering correctly (and also

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Sam samthegr...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I was starting to expect as much. The main problem with that is the iMe component, which is likely to misplace the iPaper. -Sam Sorry, i just could not resist. I kept my film records with pen and paper and prayed i

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Sam L
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:27 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Sam samthegr...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I was starting to expect as much. The main problem with that is the iMe component, which is likely to misplace the iPaper. -Sam Sorry, i

RE: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Bob W
http://www.anoto.com/the-pen-2.aspx Yeah, I was starting to expect as much. The main problem with that is the iMe component, which is likely to misplace the iPaper. -Sam On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:54 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Sam

RE: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Bob W
You'd be surprised Boris - in some appa entering data is faster than doing it with pad and pen /winkwinkwink/ Apologies///winkwinkwink should read: You'd be surprised Boris, in some instances entering data on an iPhone is faster than doing it with paper and pen...

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Cotty
On 30/1/11, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: do you mean your iLid? eBahgum! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:32:20AM -0500, Sam wrote: So: does anyone know of an app for the iPhone that does this? Doesn't the iPhone have a simple voice memo app? Of course you could always leave yourself a voice mail message. If you stick with using film, you might put an MX-S in your

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Eric Featherstone
On 30 January 2011 13:32, Sam samthegr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure out if my camera is

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Cotty
On 30/1/11, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: Doesn't the iPhone have a simple voice memo app? Yes it does. That's an option. Of course, with DSLRs you can often record the voice memo directly onto the exposed frame - I could do this with the 1DmII. With, film the correct procedure would

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Stan Halpin
And then there is a variation on the cinematographers approach: have an assistant with chalk board write down and display the relevant info, include that in the frame or in a follow-on image. stan On Jan 30, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Cotty wrote: On 30/1/11, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed:

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Look for a 'list manager' app. There are at least a dozen available. While a dedicated app might implement all of this for you, why bother with that? Any simple flat database or list app can be set up to do it so trivially it's not worth worrying about. Design a list that will allow you to create

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Larry Colen
On Jan 30, 2011, at 5:32 AM, Sam wrote: Hi all, I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure out if my camera is metering

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Larry Colen
On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Cotty wrote: On 30/1/11, Sam, discombobulated, unleashed: I am starting to take some film photos w my aunt's old sp1000 and I thought it would be a good time to be a little diligent about noting down the ap/shutter/iso for each photo. This will help me figure

RE: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Bob W
Doesn't the iPhone have a simple voice memo app? Yes it does. That's an option. Of course, with DSLRs you can often record the voice memo directly onto the exposed frame - I could do this with the 1DmII. With, film the correct procedure would be to jot down the info onto a notelet and

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread eckinator
totally what bob said - always published aperture and speed in my posterous for those who care but never knew why cheers ecke 2011/1/30 Bob W p...@web-options.com: Doesn't the iPhone have a simple voice memo app? Yes it does. That's an option. Of course, with DSLRs you can often record the

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Cotty
On 30/1/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: The iPhone doesn't have a simple text editor that you can just write that info down in? Of course. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-01-30 5:38 PM, Bob W wrote: To be honest, I've never understand why people write this information down after the event, and especially why they publish this information with their pictures. I can't see how anyone else can benefit - I've never looked at a photograph and wondered what

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos? On 11-01-30 5:38 PM, Bob W wrote: To be honest, I've never understand why people write this information down after the event, and especially why they publish this information with their pictures. I can't see how anyone else can benefit

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Stan Halpin
On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: I greatly appreciate seeing exposure details in order to learn. While examining shots I admire and want to learn from, I mentally reverse-engineer the shot; how might I have taken that? Where's the light? Was flash used? What lens would

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: ... To be honest, I've never understand why people write this information down after the event, and especially why they publish this information with their pictures. I can't see how anyone else can benefit - I've never looked at

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Larry Colen
On Jan 30, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Bob W wrote: To be honest, I've never understand why people write this information down after the event, and especially why they publish this information with their pictures. I can't see how anyone else can benefit - I've never looked at a photograph and

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread drd1135
16:24:19 To: pentax listPDML@pdml.net Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos? On 30/1/11, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: You'd be surprised Boris - in some appa entering data

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Sam L
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: ... To be honest, I've never understand why people write this information down after the event, and especially why they publish this information with

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Sam L
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:34 PM, drd1...@gmail.com wrote: I store info on my BlackBerry because I usually have my phone but can never find a pen on the fly. Pad and pen: two things. Phone: one thing. The pad and pen just have a higher entropy. Yes. My point exactly!

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Boris Liberman
Cotty, you gotta be badly discombobulated. I did not participate in this thread until I saw your message full of slashes and words written together without spaces between them... /shrugs/ Boris On 1/30/2011 6:24 PM, Cotty wrote: On 30/1/11, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed:

Re: Looking for app to help me log f-stop, shutter when taking, film photos?

2011-01-30 Thread Larry Colen
On Jan 30, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Cotty, you gotta be badly discombobulated. I did not participate in this thread until I saw your message full of slashes and words written together without spaces between them... /shrugs/ Boris, don't mind Cotty, he's just taking the