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