Re: Snake oil, anyone?

2009-09-05 Thread P. J. Alling
Adam Maas wrote: 2009/8/31 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: http://www.oleg.bg.tf/ Ralf Hmm, The AF speedup is just making it fixed focus, the anti-dust just rattles the sensor, the JPEG 'improvments' just lower the quality setting. Snake Oil is a pretty good description.

Re: Snake oil, anyone?

2009-09-02 Thread Eckehard Wegner
I registered with a BS mailbox just for the hell of it and clicking the send button took me to Canon Bulgaria's homepage... Cheers Ecki 2009/8/31 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: http://www.oleg.bg.tf/ Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher  -  DL9KCG  -  Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog   :

Re: Snake oil, anyone?

2009-09-02 Thread Charles Robinson
On Aug 31, 2009, at 5:13, Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: http://www.oleg.bg.tf/ Oh my goodness. Speed up your camera by making it a fixed-focus? Huh? -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson

Re: Snake oil, anyone?

2009-09-02 Thread Eckehard Wegner
would only make sense if the hack was lens aware and set the lens to half hyperfocal distance but i think the man from ulaan bator has no such hack to offer in the first place - haven't received a mail on my registration yet cheers ecke 2009/9/2 Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com: On Aug 31,

Re: Snake oil, anyone?

2009-09-02 Thread Luiz Felipe
Going hyperfocal makes sense with wide lenses and apertures past 5.6 to 8 - assuming you have light and/ or ISO to get around that. I still do a lot of my event shooting in MF, faster than some and without annoying flash bursts and strong focus lights... even with Canon gear I lost too many

Re: Snake oil, anyone?

2009-09-02 Thread AlunFoto
Lol Good joke. Jostein 2009/8/31 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: http://www.oleg.bg.tf/ Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher  -  DL9KCG  -  Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog   : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web   : http://www.fotoralf.de

RE: Snake oil, anyone?

2009-08-31 Thread Bob W
http://www.oleg.bg.tf/ Ralf It must be good stuff, that guy is the most important DSLR retailer in Stara Zagora (central Bulgaria, district of Haskovo). That's almost like being The Man From Ulaan Bator. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Snake oil, anyone?

2009-08-31 Thread Adam Maas
2009/8/31 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: http://www.oleg.bg.tf/ Ralf Hmm, The AF speedup is just making it fixed focus, the anti-dust just rattles the sensor, the JPEG 'improvments' just lower the quality setting. Snake Oil is a pretty good description. Ironically he basically