Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-14 Thread Joseph McAllister
My complaint was that Apple just upgraded the OS from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 on the 5th of August, and no support for the K-7. The security update of course did not contain anything of use to Pentax. On Aug 13, 2009, at 03:13 , Thibouille wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Joseph McAllister

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-13 Thread Thibouille
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: > > Back to the negative. Aperture, iPhoto, Preview - none of the apps on my Mac > will let me view any images (PEF) off of the K-7. Aperture comes the > closest. It generated thumbnails. I sent email berating Apple and Pentax > last night.

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread gldnbearz
There isn't a NorCal PDML planned that I know of. The last one was in Sacramento in the spring. - Pat On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Sasha Sobol wrote: > When is the next NorthCal meeting? > The guy with "Sasha" tag was me indeed :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Sasha Sobol
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:29:26AM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: >> A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/ >> >> I tried different le

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Aug 12, 2009, at 12:40 , John Francis wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:52:58AM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote: Positive. I got to watch a Professional Photographer struggle to test out his 250-600 Pentax on a K-7. Couldn't find anything far enough away that the ?5.6 lens would focus on.

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:52:58AM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote: > > Positive. I got to watch a Professional Photographer struggle to test > out his 250-600 Pentax on a K-7. Couldn't find anything far enough away > that the ?5.6 lens would focus on. So he went out to where he could find > som

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:52 , Joseph McAllister wrote: I will now try something I have not before, and that is to us someone's software to convert the PEFs to DNGs of JPEGs s can see them bigger than a business card. Correction to things the spell checker did not flag, so it's a real senten

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 01:27:08PM -0400, Miserere wrote: > 2009/8/12 Larry Colen : > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:16:45PM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: > >> I was afraid you would sentence to writing your name 2,000 times. > >> Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere ... Oh well, >

RE: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Desjardins, Steve
I wasn't thinking "Mark!" so much as "depends on the gear" ;-) -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Hunt Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:48 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The K7 ro

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:31 , Larry Colen wrote: The topic of my pocket camera came up, and people marvelled at the lens cap on my DA 40. I forget who told me about it, but I'm certain that the sunshade had to have been designed with that in mind. Mark even took pictures of it. and someone at t

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > I realized that you just can't learn much about gear playing around > with it in a hotel room. Mark! > It is somewhat tempting to buy one at Fry's and return it after > spending a weekend putting it through its paces under real life > conditi

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
This is pretty much my first chance to sit down at a computer since Saturday. To make a long story short, I bartered taking photos at a dance workshop for a huge discount. I like the K-7, I *want* the K-7, right now I can't buy the K-7, I didn't win the K-7. Still not king. The K-7 is slightly l

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Miserere
2009/8/12 Larry Colen : > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:16:45PM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: >> I was afraid you would sentence to writing your name 2,000 times. >> Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere ... Oh well, Miz >> :) > > With the "s" in Miserere shouldn't that be Ms ? Actu

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:16:45PM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: > I was afraid you would sentence to writing your name 2,000 times. > Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere ... Oh well, Miz :) With the "s" in Miserere shouldn't that be Ms ? -- The first step is learning to take

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:29:26AM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: > A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/ > > I tried different lenses and I really liked 200mm, 300mm and 50-250mm. > > >

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-12 Thread Miserere
2009/8/11 Sasha Sobol : > Miserere, > that's a pity - I was going to take dancing and singing lessons from you :( > > --Sasha Yeah, it's sad. But hey, you can still take lessons from me, Sasha. Just not Photography lessons...I wouldn't want to ruin your pictures. --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-11 Thread Sasha Sobol
Miserere, that's a pity - I was going to take dancing and singing lessons from you :( --Sasha On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Miserere wrote: > 2009/8/11 Sasha Sobol : >> >> Btw, I heard you will be covering Paris Hilton, dancing instead of her >> - what's up with it? > > Sasha, > > You shouldn'

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-11 Thread Miserere
2009/8/11 Sasha Sobol : > > Btw, I heard you will be covering Paris Hilton, dancing instead of her > - what's up with it? Sasha, You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet...there are a lot of jokesters out there! ;-) --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- h

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-11 Thread Sasha Sobol
I was afraid you would sentence to writing your name 2,000 times. Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere, Miserere ... Oh well, Miz :) Btw, I heard you will be covering Paris Hilton, dancing instead of her - what's up with it? --Sasha On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Miserere wrote: >

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-11 Thread Miserere
2009/8/9 Sasha Sobol : > Oops, how did I dare to misspell your name? Indeed, how dare you. You're banned from spelling my name for a week, and...no soup for you! :-p --M. PS: Everybody seems to just end up writing "Miz" because my internet handle has too many R's and E's :-) -- -=-=-=-=

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-10 Thread gldnbearz
I was at the K7 tour at the San Francisco stop today where I ran into John Celio. Neither of us won the K7. It would be nice if a PDML member won one. I got to play with the K7 and found it to my liking with respect to size (smaller & lighter than Kx0D) and low shutter/mirror noise (John called it

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
Oops, how did I dare to misspell your name? On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Sasha Sobol wrote: > Miserer, It was our John btw. > Of course lenses :) > > --Sasha > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Miserere wrote: >> Sasha, >> >> "You can never have too many..." WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts wi

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
Miserer, It was our John btw. Of course lenses :) --Sasha On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Miserere wrote: > Sasha, > > "You can never have too many..." WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts with > silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? We need to know! > > Nice shot of Mark D. otherwise  :-) >

RE: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Bob W
> Sasha, > > "You can never have too many..." WHAT? Lenses, cameras, > T-shirts with silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? > We need to know! > ...cormorants nesting in your beard Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to U

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread David J Brooks
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:34 AM, John Francis wrote: >    http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow1.jpg > > > (The above shot, of course, is taken with the 10-17mm fisheye @17mm. > That's fairly obvious. Not quite so obvious, perhaps, is that it was > taken at ISO 3200 using one of the K-7s; I took along

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Miserere
Sasha, "You can never have too many..." WHAT? Lenses, cameras, T-shirts with silly phrases, off-topic PDML posts...? What? We need to know! Nice shot of Mark D. otherwise :-) Sorry to hear your bike got nicked :-( --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.Entici

Re: The K7 roadshow came to town today ...

2009-08-09 Thread Sasha Sobol
A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/ I tried different lenses and I really liked 200mm, 300mm and 50-250mm. No free camera for me, instead my bike was stolen. I love San Jose! --Sasha