Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread AlunFoto
Ralf, The image quality looks great from the full-size pic, but what has blogspot done to the size embedded in your blog? That looks scary... I remember I saw an old Pentacon lens in a pawn shop about 14 years ago. It was a 200mm, possibly f/3.5. Don't remember very many details about it, but was

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: The image quality looks great from the full-size pic, but what has blogspot done to the size embedded in your blog? That looks scary... I've been having this a few times, lately. No idea what might be causing it. But it certainly is quite annoying. Ralf --

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/5/2009 4:35:17 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, fotor...@gmx.de writes: http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com/2009/09/pentaxcon.html Built like the proverbial battleship and with a tripod collar that makes everything more recent look like toys, the optical performance isn't

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:31:47AM +0200, Ralf R. Radermacher scripsit: AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: The image quality looks great from the full-size pic, but what has blogspot done to the size embedded in your blog? That looks scary... I've been having this a few times, lately. No

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: Blogspot (as I've experienced it, anyway) flatly will not allow images larger than 1600 pixels in width, and resizes anything uploaded to conform to this. This doesn't seem to be the problem, since the large picture you get to see by clicking on the smaller

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread P. J. Alling
It's not the HTML per se that's the problem. They actually resize to a smaller dimension than the page will display and use the HTML to upres the picture. Nothing will give optimal results when you do that, though some applications are better than others. Browsers are very bad a it. Ralf

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 9/6/2009 8:58:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, fotor...@gmx.de writes: Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: Blogspot (as I've experienced it, anyway) flatly will not allow images larger than 1600 pixels in width, and resizes anything uploaded to conform to this. This doesn't

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/6 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: This doesn't seem to be the problem, since the large picture you get to see by clicking on the smaller picture on the blog page is displayed correctly. The trouble is only with the pictures embedded in the page. These are scaled by Blogger from

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: The only suggestion I can give is to try using the large option which is 400px wide and see if that improves things... Large option? Sounds exactly like what I've been looking for without ever finding it. Where is it? Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread AlunFoto
2009/9/6 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: Large option? Sounds exactly like what I've been looking for without ever finding it. Where is it? It's in the dialogue box you get when you upload the images. I have my account set for Norwegian, so the text is probably alien to you, but I hope

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/Untitled-1.jpg A classic case of a picture saying more than a thousand Norwegian words. :-) Thanks. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio :

Re: PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-06 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: It's in the dialogue box you get when you upload the images. Just tried it and looks a lot better now. Thanks. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio :

PESO: Pentaxcon

2009-09-05 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
It doesn't always have to be Limiteds. Here's a photo taken earlier this year with a 30-odd year old Pentacon 4/300 mm lens on my K10D. Yep, that's Pentacon, not Pentax! Meyer Görlitz for those old enough to remember. Commie stuff! Originally made for the Pentacon Six. Mounted on the K0D with an