Re: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-28 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 27/7/19, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: >Attended the annual, but may be the last year for this, Lewis farm plowing >demo in Markham Ontario on Thursday > >http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2019-plow/album/index.html > >D7200, 70-200- K-5, Sigma 17-70 Good job Dave. The very first

Re: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-27 Thread Alan C
Magic stuff, Dave The Dray's are impressive. I haven't seen anything like that for what seems like a lifetime. They used to have some demos at ploughing competitions in Rhodesia & here in SA some years ago but with the changes of regime that has all fizzled out. All we see now is the odd

Re: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-27 Thread Rick Womer
Nice set, Dave! I particularly like the shot of the horses’ hooves (#4). Maybe next year they could turn the horses and equipment loose on some subdivision front lawns…. Rick > On Jul 27, 2019, at 9:44 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > > Attended the annual, but may be the last year for this,

Re: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-27 Thread David J Brooks
Thanks John. They did not use all of the pieces this year, about 80% though. Thye did run a single plough down for a row but i was to far away and they only did the one row. Dave On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 1:38 PM John Francis wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 09:44:02AM -0400, David J Brooks

Re: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-27 Thread Paul Sorenson
Fine set of images.  Love the old machinery and the work horses. Sorry to hear that this might be the last meeting.  Hard to choose a favorite - you could pick several and make a fine collage.  The Farmall Cub in 0431 reminded me of when I was a kid, being pulled up and down the field behind

Re: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-27 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 09:44:02AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: > Attended the annual, but may be the last year for this, Lewis farm plowing > demo in Markham Ontario on Thursday > > http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2019-plow/album/index.html I grew up in farm country, and I can say with some

Re: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-27 Thread Ken Waller
Very nice Dave. For the most part you've done a good job isolating the subject and simplifying the background. Maybe nicest set yet! -Original Message- >From: David J Brooks >Subject: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some. > >Attended the annual, but may be the last year for

Re: OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-27 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Very interesting set of fine images! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 9:45 AM David J Brooks wrote: > Attended the annual, but may be the last year for this, Lewis farm plowing > demo in Markham Ontario on Thursday > >

OT (sorta) GESO- NOSTALGIA for some.

2019-07-27 Thread David J Brooks
Attended the annual, but may be the last year for this, Lewis farm plowing demo in Markham Ontario on Thursday http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2019-plow/album/index.html D7200, 70-200- K-5, Sigma 17-70 -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com

Re: Peso: quiet trail - nostalgia

2014-09-16 Thread Mark C
Very inviting - really speaks of early summer mornings. Mark On 9/12/2014 10:27 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: found this while looking for something else - a forest trail at Grandfather Mt. June, 2005. Sorry, darkside camera but not fully OT since this was near PDML Central :-)

Re: Peso: quiet trail - nostalgia

2014-09-13 Thread Bob W-PDML
Lovely On 13 Sep 2014, at 03:24, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: found this while looking for something else - a forest trail at Grandfather Mt. June, 2005. Sorry, darkside camera but not fully OT since this was near PDML Central :-)

Re: Peso: quiet trail - nostalgia

2014-09-13 Thread Bill
On 13/09/2014 1:31 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote: Lovely On 13 Sep 2014, at 03:24, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: found this while looking for something else - a forest trail at Grandfather Mt. June, 2005. Sorry, darkside camera but not fully OT since this was near PDML Central :-)

Re: Peso: quiet trail - nostalgia

2014-09-13 Thread Christine Aguila
Pretty, Ann! I’ve been thinking about Grandfather Mt. lately. Maybe Darrel and I will head up there next time around. This time I’ll hit some of the trails. Didn’t do that last time. Not really confident about my hiking abilities, but with some practice . . . maybe . . . Cheers,

Peso: quiet trail - nostalgia

2014-09-12 Thread Ann Sanfedele
found this while looking for something else - a forest trail at Grandfather Mt. June, 2005. Sorry, darkside camera but not fully OT since this was near PDML Central :-) http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/Random-stuff/n-9xmXn/i-bdL8TFZ/A ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Peso: quiet trail - nostalgia

2014-09-12 Thread Jack Davis
Very inviting, ann. Can imagine the fresh feel and smell of the oxygen hint of fog. Jack - Original Message - From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 7:27:36 PM Subject: Peso: quiet trail - nostalgia found this while looking

Re: Family nostalgia - Abu

2010-08-22 Thread Boris Liberman
Very sweet memories indeed. Pass my regards to your not-so-little-now Abu ;-). It was a trip down memory lane when my family was young and I took many pictures of them. Just checked. I've slightly more than 5,600 pics in my collection marked as Family Album. This does not include probably

Re: Family nostalgia - Abu

2010-08-22 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bob Sullivan Paul, My wife has some old Super 8mm movies of her family and my sister has some 8mm stuff my dad shot. My stuff is all 35mm prints and slides, except for the videotape I shot. Wow, I better do something with that before nobody can read it. Way too much work to do this

Re: Family nostalgia - Abu

2010-08-21 Thread Bob Sullivan
Paul, My wife has some old Super 8mm movies of her family and my sister has some 8mm stuff my dad shot. My stuff is all 35mm prints and slides, except for the videotape I shot. Wow, I better do something with that before nobody can read it. Way too much work to do this winter! Regards, Bob S.

Family nostalgia - Abu

2010-08-20 Thread Bob Sullivan
No, I'm not from a family of monkeys, but my daughter wanted some old sapshots. The Disney movie Aladdin came out in 1992 and my daughter fell in love with Abu the monkey. We bought a wonderful likeness of Abu that we used as a doll and puppet. For Halloween 1993, my daughter dress as Abu for 3rd

Re: Family nostalgia - Abu

2010-08-20 Thread P. J. Alling
Sapshots On 8/20/2010 4:14 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: No, I'm not from a family of monkeys, but my daughter wanted some old sapshots. The Disney movie Aladdin came out in 1992 and my daughter fell in love with Abu the monkey. We bought a wonderful likeness of Abu that we used as a doll and

Re: Family nostalgia - Abu

2010-08-20 Thread Paul Sorenson
Isn't it great to spend some time looking over pix from the past. With the exception of the last 15 years, most of mine have disappeared over the course of many successive moves. I do have left about 2800 ft of family movies taken between 1955 and 1975 which I had scanned to DVD and gave

Re: Nostalgia as a Conversation Starter

2008-05-14 Thread Bong Manayon
In another forum, there was this thread on old cameras. I first posted a photo of my Canon AE-1 Program and got everyone's attention; then I posted the Minolta SRT-101 and got respect; when I posted the Pentax K2 there was ... crickets sound effects Soon after, a friend posted both his Nikon F3

Re: Nostalgia as a Conversation Starter

2008-05-14 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: The cameras I'm most likely to get comments on when I carry them are the K-series, all the more so when I do carry a K1000 and somebody notices the model number as well as the shape. It used to

Nostalgia as a Conversation Starter

2008-05-13 Thread D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
This afternoon I got a call from the lab where I dropped off the film from the wedding I shot recently, saying my proofs were ready. The trip to the lab and back took rather longer than I'd expected, because after one of the people there (uh, manager maybe? different last name than the owner)

Re: Nostalgia as a Conversation Starter

2008-05-13 Thread John Francis
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:03:32AM -0400, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: The cameras I'm most likely to get comments on when I carry them are the K-series, all the more so when I do carry a K1000 and somebody notices the model number as well as the shape. It used to be really uncommon to see

PDML nostalgia

2006-01-10 Thread Mark Roberts
I was just cleaning out detritus from my hard drive when I found this note from 2001. It prompted my first ever trip to the Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography Weekend. First Weekend After Memorial Day (June 1-3, 2001) The 16th Annual Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography Weekend Hear

Nostalgia, was 1st Day of Spring in Eastern Massachusetts

2005-03-24 Thread Jim Hemenway
miss California as well as Tennessee to some extent. I'm not going to go anywhere else, all this nostalgia is making me old! :-) Jim Ronald Arvidsson wrote: Hi Jim, Well that's exactly the weather we got where I am now, Uppsala , Sweden. Since I grew up in the far north, this time of the winter

Re: Digital nostalgia

2005-02-03 Thread Mark Roberts
Jim Apilado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall seeing a table at a swap meet, in the Seattle, Washington area, that had an old Sony Mavica digital and an ancient Apple digital camera. Everyone was more intent looking for film cameras and just glanced at this old digitals. A friend was interested

Re: Digital nostalgia

2005-02-03 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
--- Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was it the digital Mavica or the *original* Mavica? The original was electronic but not digital: It stored an analog image that was essentially a single frame of video. Actually, it was a single field, not a frame ... only half the vertical lines of

Digital nostalgia

2005-02-02 Thread Frantisek
Yes, even digital now has its dinosaur-cameras making you feel nostalgic. Rob Galbraith has written a very nice article on the first PJ digital SLR, the AP2000, here: http://robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6463-7191 Few years ago I was even contemplating buying

Re: Digital nostalgia

2005-02-02 Thread Jim Apilado
had one when the camera was state of the art. Jim A. From: Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 03:23:38 +0100 To: PDML pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Digital nostalgia Resent-From: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Resent-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:23:49

Pentax Sighting! Ad nostalgia..

2004-12-08 Thread Ryan Lee
Saw a National Geographic lying around my folks' place this morning, and seeing France on the cover I thought it might give me some useful tips for my little trip there end of the month. I picked it up, and the first thing I noticed on the page it flipped open to, a great big PENTAX blares out at

Re: Pentax Sighting! Ad nostalgia..

2004-12-08 Thread John Coyle
- Original Message - From: Ryan Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] SNIP John Coyle once showed me some original Pentax ads mined from his vast collection of photography literature- I can only imagine how wideeyed some of you were when you saw those ads hot off the press! Would anyone like to share

Re: Bronica RF (now drifting to nostalgia)

2003-02-16 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
I don't know early Asahi history but have never heard of a Pentax RF. At 08:51 AM 2/16/03 -0600, you wrote: I have fond memories of the Canon and recall an S-3 Konica of that era that had bitingly sharp optics that is also missed. While reminiscing, I once had Minolta Hi-Matic E's that were

Maybe nostalgia is a philosophy...

2003-01-31 Thread Keefer Photography
Even with the best new AF gear available to me, there's something unaccountably appealling about an all-metal body, the snick of the mechanical shutter, the heft of the manual lens, and a roll of Tri-X. That's why I kept my Pentax MF gear when I jumped ship to Canon for IS for much of my

Re: Maybe nostalgia is a philosophy...

2003-01-31 Thread Peter Alling
I was never in love with manual typewriters I found it extremely easy to adopt to digital in that respect. (I do have one kicking around here however). At 01:04 PM 1/31/2003 -0800, you wrote: Even with the best new AF gear available to me, there's something unaccountably appealling about an

Re: Maybe nostalgia is a philosophy...

2003-01-31 Thread frank theriault
Even if 35mm film is still available in 30 years, I wonder if many plastic lumps of auto-cameras from today will still be around and kicking, with all those little motors and all the electronics in them? Once the manufacturers stop making parts available, they're going to be a bear to fix. OTOH,

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-16 Thread Joseph Tainter
after nearly 35 years. Bill, KG4LOV [EMAIL PROTECTED] We middle-agers have got to get our nostalgia straight, Bill. Agfachrome was ASA 50 in those days. (I recall thinking Wow, Kodachrome is ASA 64 - shot a bunch of that, too.) Mine are still in good shape, too. I hadn't heard of it being pushed

RE: Nostalgia again - OT

2001-11-15 Thread Paul M. Provencher
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Owens Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nostalgia again - OT I received the OM-10 today and am somewhat puzzled. The manual states that AE is available from 2 sec to 1/1000. However, it appears that the lower limit

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-15 Thread RK
Bill Owens wrote: I'm anxiously awaiting the Big Brown Truck with the first component of my desire to wax nostalgic and have cameras I have owned and liked in the past. The first is an Olympus OM-10 with the GC manual adapter and 50/1.8 lens, which should arrive today or tomorrow. Is the

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-15 Thread Bill Owens
I may be wrong in this but I think the OM-10 has OTF metering only in the flash mode while the more professional single digit OM's (OM2/3/4) have OTF in both flash and ambient light metering. BTW, it's a lovely camera and part of a truly great system. RK If my understanding of the manual is

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-13 Thread frank theriault
Hi, Collin, Thanks for the advice! I'm going to get the A cleaned and running one way or the other, whether I get a Mat or not. Hopefully I'll eventually get both - can't have too many bodies, can one! regards, frank Collin Brendemuehl wrote: Frank: You'll never get a Mat as cheap as a

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-13 Thread frank theriault
Hi, Bill, Thanks for the advice. I've already unscrewed the lens, but I can't see (other than the shutter blades) any access to the shutter mechanism. I'd be worried that I'd screw things up worse by trying a self-help remedy. Do you remember if you applied the cleaner directly to the shutter

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-13 Thread frank theriault
Hi, Dave, Good luck on that one! :-) You're right, all this old equipment sitting around - so much of it is still in great shape, and so much of it capable of taking great pics! Sigh... regards, frank -frank David Brooks wrote: My Dad's getting on and cannot see very well so i'm just

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-13 Thread Bill D. Casselberry
Frank wrote: Do you remember if you applied the cleaner directly to the shutter blades? Unless I know it works, I'd be leery on doing that. And, is tuner cleaner the same as contact cleaner (which I have)? The stuff I have is QD Electronic Cleaner. It's a liquid that comes in an

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-13 Thread frank theriault
Hi, Bill, Thanks. With mine, the little lever that you cock the shutter with (the cocking lever?) is slow to return to rest, and the shutter seems to only fire at one speed (a fairly fast one) no matter what speed I set the dial to. No problem with the shutter blades being hung up. I have a

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-13 Thread frank theriault
Hi, Bill, Thanks. With mine, the little lever that you cock the shutter with (the cocking lever?) is slow to return to rest, and the shutter seems to only fire at one speed (a fairly fast one) no matter what speed I set the dial to. No problem with the shutter blades being hung up. I have a

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-12 Thread Tom Rittenhouse
. - Original Message - From: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Nostalgia Well, I got the Oly http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1293722119 Now if I can just find a reasonable Lynx 14. I carried a Yashica

Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-12 Thread Bill Owens
: Frank Theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:28 AM Subject: Re: Nostalgia Nice score! Bill Owens wrote: Well, I got the Oly http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1293722119 Now if I can just find a reasonable Lynx 14. I

Re: Re: Nostalgia

2001-11-12 Thread David Brooks
PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 08:27:27 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Nostalgia Hi, Dave, oo...  A Yashica Mat!  I'm looking for one of those as well.  I've got my late dad's Yashica A tlr, but the shutter seems to be stuck on one speed, so I'm hoping it just needs a cla

Yashica-Mat Film was: Nostalgia

2001-11-12 Thread David Brooks
I have horse shows on Nov 17/18 and Dec2 but nothing inbetween. Might be a good time to borrow Dad's camera and run a roll, especially if we get a dusting of the white stuff. Any film recommendations.I think i may have shot a roll or two with that camera in my early teens but its all a haze(as is

Re: Yashica-Mat Film was: Nostalgia

2001-11-12 Thread Stan Halpin
Depending on the model it will be 120 and maybe also 220. I recommend Portra 400VC or one of the psuedo-BW films. Stan From: David Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:19:23 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yashica-Mat Film was: Nostalgia I

Re: Yashica-Mat Film was: Nostalgia

2001-11-12 Thread JeffW.
on 11/12/01 7:19 PM, David Brooks at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have horse shows on Nov 17/18 and Dec2 but nothing inbetween. Might be a good time to borrow Dad's camera and run a roll, especially if we get a dusting of the white stuff. Any film recommendations.I think i may have shot a roll