Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-13 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Some camera obscura have lenses to permit larger apertures and therefore brighter images. The use of film (or digital media), therefore, may be a more reliable way to dsitinguish between a camera and a camera obscura. Better yet, I suggest, if one can walk into it, I would describe it as a camera

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-13 Thread steve harley
On 2011-05-12 13:30 , Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Well, it's BIG, but it doesn't look like a camera, and it is probably more of a camera obscura than a camera. it seems to be a camera -- there's a lens after all; and here's another which is even more true to the notions of aiming and focusing:

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-13 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Joseph. It was quite interesting -- and taller than I by quite a bit. Dan On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: > Nice! Even has the scuffs in the leather. But no clouding in the finder! > Might still have one of those somewhere. > > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@m

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
Nice! Even has the scuffs in the leather. But no clouding in the finder! Might still have one of those somewhere. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com The Big Bang was silent, and invisible in it's beginning moments. — from the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far. On May 11, 2011,

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, frank. Dan On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:00 PM, frank theriault wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Daniel J. Matyola > wrote: >> http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=djm1963&entry=84 >> >> Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are all welcome. > > Ha

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread frank theriault
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Cory Waters wrote: > Meh. > I've seen bigger: http://cameratruck.net/Site/About%201.html Meh: http://www.legacyphotoproject.com/ > (If I had a nickel for every time I've heard THAT"...) I never have. As if... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread frank theriault
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=djm1963&entry=84 > > Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are all welcome. Har! The high angle makes it - terrific shot! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeoi

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Well, it's BIG, but it doesn't look like a camera, and it is probably more of a camera obscura than a camera. Here is an image I took some time ago, in San Francisco, of a camera sigh above a camera store that is almost a story high, and wider than high: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=26

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread Cory Waters
Meh. I've seen bigger: http://cameratruck.net/Site/About%201.html Cory (If I had a nickel for every time I've heard THAT"...) On 5/12/2011 1:12 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=djm1963&entry=84 Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and A

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Bob. Dan On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Dan, > That worked well.  I would have thought it was just a close-up of an > old folder otherwise. > In fact, that is what I thought until the person filled in on the picture. > Regards,  Bob S. > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread Bob Sullivan
Dan, That worked well. I would have thought it was just a close-up of an old folder otherwise. In fact, that is what I thought until the person filled in on the picture. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Thanks, Chris. > > I got better images of the ca

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Chris. I got better images of the camera itself from the ground floor of the museum, but the fail to show the size of the sculpture. I could not get a good angle to include both the camera and a person, in order to show the scale, from the ground level, so I went to the upper level for t

Re: PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Mitchell
(Very) good. Like the angle. Chris On 12/05/2011, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=djm1963&entry=84 > > Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are all welcome. > -- > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > >

PESO: (Very) Large Format Camera

2011-05-11 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
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