Re: Old lenses and *ist D

> > > At 01:41 AM 10/14/03, you wrote: > > > > > >Given the above info, is there any way that the back of a K mount lens > > >could be modified to let the *ist D fire using stop down metering in > > >similar modes? > > > > > > >I suspect that more people would complain about the loss of full-

Re: *istD vs. Digital Rebel

> > John, have you got a web site? Fast cars fast cars fast cars fast cars *~* I get my track access from motorsport.com, so most of my stuff goes there. I've got a few older shots up at my home page , and I've recently been given some space on a system operated by a

Re: feature for digital camera

> > one feature i would like to see in a digital camera is a portrait mode that > would rotate the orientation of the sensor in the camera without rotating > the camera. Why? It's an extra mechanical thing that could go wrong, and one which affects the most critical element in the camera - the a

Re: Does exposed film travel?

> I am on holiday in Greece and have shot 2 Kodak T-MAX 400 (@800, if it > makes any difference). I would like to develop them in my favourite lab > (Ilfords in the UK) but I am worried about X-ray machines and > metal-detector arches etc. > > Do you see any problem? Would you fly with them back t

Re: correct exposure

> > -Original Message- > > From: J. C. O'Connell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > I stand by my reply. His post makes no sense. > > You cant really do studio strobes at weddings > > and receptions. His "teachers" must be the > > stupid jerks. > > Actually, a stupid jerk is someo

Hand-holding 300/2.8

I knew I had an example somewhere! This is a shot I took at Goodwood a couple of years ago. http://www.panix.com/~johnf/temp/airshow.jpg I was using an MZ-S with the A* 300/f2.8, quite probably with the AF 1.7 adapter. I started off trying to use a monopod, but soon gave that up. I believe

Gretag Macbeth colo(u)r checker

It's been a good day for finding things: I also found the scans I made to compare two film scanners. So if anyone has been wondering what a checker looks like: http://www.panix.com/~johnf/digital/chart.html (Now you can see why I switched to the LS30, can't you?) The colours of each square

Re: Has Pentax missed again?

> > Cotty wrote: > > C> Rob, I bet you are soo relieved you didn't cave in to the Sigma > C> DSLR a while back ;-) The *ist D is a little cutey. > > Yes, a nice box but still a box around the sensor. And the cutey thing > in Sigma is that Foveon sensor, something I wish to see in a P

Re: Old lenses, *istD, and the Pentax Mad Scientists

> > UPDATE: > > The basic mod is pretty simple -- changing M to A. > And you don't have to modify anyting. > > 1) set the lens to the minimum aperture. f22, etc. > 2) short the A pin to the body or lens. Use a piece of foil or 32 awg wire. > > Without the lens information pins you'll not ge

Re: *ist-D ad claimed to be sexistic

> > Anders posted: > > In last week's issue of "Resumé", the Swedish weekly magazine for the > > advertizing business, there is a full page article where a long list of > > female photographers accuse Pentax of being sexistic in their adverts for > > the new *ist-D. They make clear that because of

Re: *ist-D ad claimed to be sexistic

> > John Francis: > > >The complaint is just as bad as the original ad - possibly even worse. > >A long list of *female* photographers? Why is there this assumption > >that only females might find the advertisement offensive, or that only > >the opinion

Re: *ist-D compact flash benchmarks and recommendations

> > I'm shopping around for new compact flash memory cards for my *ist-D > and noticed that Rob Galbraith has now posted benchmarks for the *ist-D: > > http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-6432 > > Can anyone with an *ist-D using any of the cards verify the reported > numbe

Re: *ist D and BIG Glass

> > Wish I had that setup anyway! There's several folks on this list with the 600/f4; I don't know if any of them are getting an *ist-D. When mine gets here I'll be using it with a long lens, too. Not quite as wide, but the 250-600/f5.6 is still quite a nice lens. I also plan on trying the 1.

Re: New to the list

> > you are kidding, right? > i am almost envisioning a "large, mostly empty" highway from Boston to NYC > ( i guess that should count for "major towns", eh? ). The Atlantic corridor is not representative of the US as a whole. But the point is that since the Eisenhower administration created the

Re: We need a theme song!

> > > Electric Light Orchestra, by any chance? > Egad, am I dating myself! And no, I didn't look it up! > Doesn't matter, as I don't recall anything they did. Think that's dating yourself? I know what they were called before they changed their name to Electric Light Orchestra, and can name seve

Re: New to the list

> > Well, I'm sure I'll be corrected by someone in the Mother Country if I'm > wrong, but I think there are several express trains and a controlled access > highway between London and Glascow, so that the travel time, either by train > or car, is the same as it is between Montreal and Toronto.

Re: *ist 35mm

> > *"The Marvelous Toy" recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary ... amongst others, including Val Doonican & John Denver. And, of course, the guy who wrote it: Tom Paxton. For an on-topic reference, see my May 01 PUG entry:

Re: *ist D makes me cringe (was Pentax 6x7 in the rain)

> > if I had spent $1500 on a camera that will undoubtedly be obsolete in > less than a year. You reckon? What's going to obsolete it, then? And even if Pentax *do* come out with a new model (which I don't believe will happen) what's going to be wrong with the *ist-D?

Re: Vs: Old lenses, *istD, and the Pentax Mad Scientists

> > > > Raimo Korhonen wrote: > > > > Hi! > > MZ-S prints exposure data on the film between the sprocket holes - easy to > > retrieve. > > All the best! > > Raimo > > "[B]etween the sprocket holes?" I measure that width at about 2.8 mm. > How does one put ANY info in that small a space? In t

Re: *ist D makes me cringe (was Pentax 6x7 in the rain)

> > På mandag, 20. oktober 2003, kl. 18:40, skrev John Francis: > > > Nothing new here - it's just the normal semiconductor technology > > progression. > > > > Yep, that was what I was saying in the lines you omitted in you > response. We´ve been

Re: Still need help!

> > Thanks John, but that's the way it's set and still no thumbs or photos. Try emptying the Internet cache (Tools/Internet Options/General, then click on "Delete files..." in the Temporary Internet Files. If that doesn't work then toggle all the settings mentioned below, exit from IE, restart i

Re: SMC-A lens and *istD use

> > There is also a thing called hyper something or other. > The word hyper scared me off, and I still don't know > what hyper whatever does. Probably my favourite feature (also found on the PZ-1p). If you put the camera in HyperProgram mode then it starts off in full-program point-and-shoot mod

Re: SMC-A lens and *istD use

> > > On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 10:59 America/New_York, alex wetmore wrote: > > > The *ist D does Hypermanual too and it works exactly in this > > manner. > > Yup. Because parts of it operate so similarly to my PZ-1p, I can pretty > much use the *ist-D out-of-the-box without having to read

Re: SMC-A lens and *istD use

> > John, thank for the explanation. > What you are describing is what I call Program Shift > (I come from a simpler era). It is a form of program shift, although not the usual one. On the Canons, for example, using Program Shift will simply bias the camera away from the default program line so t

Re: Sell me your useless film cameras

> > well, i suppose, for printing uncropped images at 8x10, > 6M of RGB pixels is as goot as it gets. but i don't > now any digicam capable of that. yet. Not yet. The Foveon sensor in the Sigma XD-9 is only 3MP > 6MP digicam has exactly 2M of pixels of each color Not even that. It's usually

Re: Sell me your useless film cameras

> > What I meant is that it should be spec.ed at > the number of independent |full color| output > pixels I'm sorry, but you're several years too late with this argument. The "pixel" count on all digital cameras (with the exception of B&W cameras and one one other case mentioned below) is the

Re: Wildlife Photographer of the Year

> > The shot of the beetle drinking dew is, of course, much better on the > wall than on a screen. There's still no substitute for a real > exhibition! I assumed this to be the case. While I expect to disagree with the final placing quite often (I much prefer the jackrabbit to the pelican, as j

Re: NorCal PDML Meet Pictures

> > I finally have some pictures from the Northern California PDML Meet up. > > http://members.aol.com/doepage2/PDML/ > > Some people pixs, more scenery pixs, and a humorous (to me, anyway) > accompanying little story. Nothing fantastic photograph-wise, but some passable. A little better than

Re: *ist D shutter delay?

> One thing which make shutter lag bad on P&S cameras is that the CCD in > them is always live, updating the LCD. When it is time to take the > picture they need to turn off the CCD for a short amount of time to > let it clear it's registers and go completely black. I don't think this can be the

Re: Hypermanual

> > It looks like I have a lot of reading to do. I just > bought my friend's PZ-1P. From the initial inspection > it appears to be a robust, capable camera. It is. For many things it's the most capable automatic camera that Pentax offer. As a recent thread discussed the MZ-S can surpass it in

Re: *ist D shutter delay?

> > Thanks everyone that replied to this post so quickly! They were very > positive answers since I had heard that the earlier Canons also suffered > from shutter lag. Which "earlier Canons" would this be? I've never heard any complaints of shutter lag from Canon DSLR users, and I hang out with

Re: NorCal PDML Meet Pictures

> > The MZ/S really IS that good, huh, John? Maybe we need to arrange a mini-PDML meet. You're going to be up in Boulder Creek; Thomas is in Santa Cruz; I'm in south San Jose. You could try the MZ-S and/or the PZ-1p. Or even the *ist-D, if I'm prepared to take my hands off it ... I could probabl

Re: Fascinating - a must read!

> > The refresh rate is 60Hz. I don't know if that's high or low. That's low. Minimum specs for workplace monitors in some parts of the EU is 72hz. I have my home monitor set to 85Hz. 60Hz with a low-persistence phosphor will cause flicker. Even worse is if you are using the system in a workspa

Re: It's arrived!

> > > The microdrives aren't here yet, but I've got a 256M CF card > > stolen from my Canon P&S (it can live with 128M). > > Yeah - I'll bet that the Canon P&S won't be seeing a lot of use over > the next few days... ;-) You think? But it's got the 256MB card back, anyway; the microdrives turn

Re: *ist D shutter delay?

> > D30. Lotta guys said you couldn't shoot action with it. I will admit that most of the D30 users I know did switch to D60s as soon as the new model came out. But several people did manage to shoot action with the D30 quite succesfully. I assume the same sort of tricks that let me use a Powe

Re: Fascinating - a must read!

I'd disagree with a lot of the opinions expressed in this thread. But in this post I won't talk about digital in the pro market. Digital penetration of the mass market isn't because of agressive marketing; it's because digital is a better product, *when judged by the criteria that are important t

Re: Re[2]: A3 printer recommends please

> The latest round of HP's (6 color) are much better than people > give them credit for. I got a chance to see the latest HP photo printers this week; HP were partial underwriters of a Computer History Museum event, and sent along some HP 945 digital cameras, some of their 6x4 printers, and one 7

Re: What do the photo labs print with?

> > This one time, at band camp, "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Photo labs do every kind of printing. > > > > What are you talking about? > > What type of printing machines do they use? > dye sublimation or other? "Other", usually. They don't use printers - they use light-sensitive ph

Re: Digital issues

> > My (presently) biggest gripe with digital imaging is the cost. For a > process that is not significantly better, except in immediacy of > results, I am expected to pay a very significant premium? No, thank > you. I can do almost the same thing by buying a film scanner for about > 1/5th of t

Re: On how *istD handles.

> > I wish the Av wheel was on the front of the camera to be operated by the > index finger with the Tv wheel on the back, operated by the thumb. Hmm. So that would be at least eight different variations; Av or Tv on the front wheel, plus choice of direction for each of the two controls. I think

Re: pentax-discuss-d Digest V03 #1290

> > Mailwasher is my choice. Same sort of thing, but it lets you 'bounce' > spam - those sending spam messages think it never reached you. Not true, usually. The normal result of mailwasher (or other post- delivery anti-spam tools) is that the poor innocent third party whose mail identity is be

Re: *istD output?

> > OK, I've read through the last few digests and learned all about how the > *istD feels, who would like which knobs in different places and so. Don't > you guys take pictures with those things? Naah - why would we do that? Actually my other half has me fairly busy this weekend, so I can't

Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See

> > 1. It's good that those with some discretionary funds buy early, They > partially finance the better camera everyone else will buy in 3-5 years That already happened, of course. The original DSLRS (such as the Kodak) were horrendously expensive - I believe the high-end model was $25,000 Th

Re: A3 printer recommends please

After much to-and-froing, my own Canon/Epson/HP decision finally got resolved in favour of HP. It's only six-colour (not their latest eight-ink unit), but the biggest difference there would be if I did a lot of black-and-white printing. The single biggest factor was my fear of printheads cloggin

Re: Av Wheel Wanted....

> > All, > > I was doing some still-life and macro shooting with my MZ-S this morning > with a couple of big lenses. I wanted to do some aperture bracketing to > experiment with different depths of field, and I caught myself wishing that > my MZ-S had an aperture wheel! So perhaps hou should co

Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See

> > When I last posted that live preview caused an increase in shutter > lag I had a few people who doubted this. Here is the design book ... That just shows that some particular chip designs have this problem. It doesn't mean that it's an inherent problem if you use CCD sensors. As I pointed o

Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See

> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, John Francis wrote: > > > As I pointed out, CCD TV cameras work just fine, so it's obviously > > possible to have a live-preview CCD SLR which adds less than 1/60 of > > a second to the shutter lag - something you'd be hard put to d

Re: Cinema projection - WAS - Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See

> > > > You score 8½ for intellectual snobbery > > Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! Kenneth Williams (RIP), "Carry on Caesar", IIRC.

Re: AF Select (WAS Finally)

> > Well, when I was taking racing photos a couple weeks ago, I was able to > select a focus point for the shot I wanted and pan as the cars came through > the frame until it was where I wanted it and bam, trip the shutter. That's how I anticipate using mine, most of the time. One of the things

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

> > what do you ask for when you go into ComputerWorld to buy several > small handheld pointing devices equipped with 2 or 3 eyes and > connected to your computer by a thin grey tail? Mousen

Re: My *istD cost just went up!

> > *sigh* > > This camera is getting very expensive! I hear you. As I remarked to the other half as we wandered out of MicroCenter - "it's amazing how much money you have to spend so that you can save money on film and printing". Quite apart from the $350 on CF memory there was the new $400 p

More *ist-D images

> > I still haven't got the printer connected up, but dammitall > I'm going out to take some pictures with the *ist-D today!! And I did. WARNING: These are all large files (from 2 to 5+ MB each). They were shot in RAW mode, and converted to JPEG using Pentax Photo Laboratory. No corrections wer

Re: OT- Nikon announces new scanners

> > That's about what I thought. I suspect USB2 will be available on more > computers than Firewire. Going to USB2 will enable the scanner to work > on more computers. Not many more. Nowadays many of the chipsets used on motherboards offer native FireWire support as well as USB 2. I'd expect

Re: Scratches on film

> > If you're going to do the sacrificial film test, might as well send a fresh > unexposed film to the lab for processing then see if they blame your camera for > the scratches! I had a lab try and blame scratches on my camera once. They were, however, unable to explain how my camera had manage

Re: Scratches on film

> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, William Robb wrote: > > > If the dust specks on the prints are white, it's the lab. If they are black, > > the camera is at fault (dust in the camera getting onto the film). > > Can you scan the blotch and send me a jpeg? > > http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~kavousan/blotch.jpg

Re: What DSLR Improvements I'd Like To See

> > If they did that, it would not be a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) > now would it? It would have to use a partially-reflective mirror a la D1n, of course. But, realistically, you're right: there's no reason to do this. Though I bet if somebody made an interchangeable-lens body with an LC

Re: More *ist-D images

I've now put these up in a more user-friendly format. A gallery of thumbnails is at Clicking on the thumbnails takes you to a page for each image with a medium-resolution picture (720x481), the equipment and exposure details, and a link to the full-resolution imag

Re: More *ist-D images

I've now received a few comments about these images; thanks! I intentionally posted the images straight out of the camera, with just about everything on the fully-automatic or default settings. I've also played around with the images (sometimes in Photo Laboratory, but more often not: the extre

Re: More *ist-D images

> > > - Original Message - > From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > o Don't over-expose. > > With slide film (my medium of choice BD) I was > always taught to expose for the shadows; > especially with high-contrast film

Re: I have seen the istD...

> > I really liked the Canon G5, > which is the best camera in its class IMO. You're not alone in that O. I've never quite been able to justify replacing the G1, but I've viewed the subsequent models with some level of avarice.

Re: I have seen the istD...

> > How many Mpixel is the G1? 3.3? Maximum resolution is 2048 x 1536 pixels of imaging area. That's either 3 or 3.3 depending on how (and what) you count. Pro: It uses CF cards (and can accept microdrives) Con: It uses proprietary batteries (511/512). They're the same batteries most Ca

Re: slide exposure

> Question is, why is underexposure easier to handle? Presumably white is > represented by some number, say 255, and black by 0. You'd think exposure > would fall off either end just as easily. Does it have to do with an > exponential response curve of some sort like film has? Sort of Tri-X

Re: I have seen the istD...

> It [the G1] doesnt come with batteries and an external charger? Battery (one), yes. External charger, no - you charge the battery in-camera. I found that far too restrictive, so I purchased a second battery (around $60) and the external charger ($160, including car adapter). I suspect prices

Re: SAFOX VIII working range

> > on 30.10.03 21:30, Alexandru-Cristian Sarbu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I was curious - how good is the new SAFOX VIII (on *ist&*istD) in low light? > > In the Phil's review, it looks dissapointing; 0,1EV with a 1.4 lens, as > > opposed to -1EV for the 10D. > I made some dirt & quick te

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

> > An acronym is a word formed from the first (or first few) letters of > words in a set phrase - like FBI, FCC, NATO, etc. No, no, yes. Neither FBI nor FCC are words. NATO is the only true acronym in this list. The others are, technically, initialisms.

Re: Printer resolution (was: Re: posted *istD Samples)

> > In it, the author says that > > 'the optimum pixel resolution [of the printed image] should ideally be > the printer dpi divisible by a whole number. The following pixel > resolutions should be used [for a 1440/2880 printer] : 144, 160, 180, > 240, 288, 320, 360. The reason for this is fairl

Re: More *ist-D images

verride it. > Except in many situations you can't repeat the shot. My PUG entry this > month is a prime example. > > Bill > > - Original Message - > From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Satur

Re: Printer resolution (was: Re: posted *istD Samples)

> > if you are above then it just wastes processing. With the current generation of printers, it's getting pretty hard to have an image that's higher-resolution than the printer! My current HP is 600 dpi in normal mode, 1200 dpi in best quality. Even on 8.5x11 paper at 600 dpi that's 30+ megapix

Re: Printer resolution (was: Re: posted *istD Samples)

> > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:38:34 -0500 (EST), John Francis wrote: > > > My current HP is 600 dpi in normal mode, 1200 dpi in best quality. > > A printer dot (in dpi) is not equal to an image pixel (in ppi). A > printer dithers a pixel across many dots to get a good appr

Re: Printer resolution (was: Re: posted *istD Samples)

> > as i noted in my previous message, the printer driver works at a given > maximum resolution that is not the dpi resolution of the printer but a > submultiple. in the case of the Epson printer drivers, it is fixed at 360 > dpi. anymore more is wasted. the Canon and HP ones probably are 300 dpi,

Re: Printer resolution (was: Re: posted *istD Samples)

> > the HP documentation says the hardware is adressable to 1200x1200 but you > lose PhotoREt. you have to send no higher than 600dpi if you want the > hardware to do it. any higher and you have to do it yourself. unless you > write your own PCL3+ printer driver, you can't. That matches my interp

Anyone want a PhotoSmart printer?

I've just got myself a nice new A3+ photo printer, so I no longer really need my old HP PhotoSmart. It's the original C3804A unit; large (around 18" wide by 15" deep, plus another 6"+ needed when the printer is in use), and produces 300ppi 8x10 prints on 8.5x11 paper - it can't do borderless prin

Re: Printer resolution (was: Re: posted *istD Samples)

> > John, > > Have you ever used a recent HP at its highest mode? I've got > a 5500, but have not performed the test. Sharper 4x6, maybe? No. I print 8x10s (or larger, now) - I suspect I've got a pack of 6x4 paper somewhere, but I haven't used it in years. It's hard enough to come up with ev

Re: PUG themes 2004 are up

> > Hi *, > > I uploaded my pick of the suggested themes for 2004. What happened to December 2003?

Re: Cotty's November PUG Comments PART 1

> > I like what Michael Reichmann told me: "The camera manufacturer has no > right in the world to tell me what height to width ratio to make my > photographs!" Nowadays that decision seems to be delegated to printer manufacturers :-)

Re: Colour fidelity & low-light AF of *ist-D

> > > I've seen this sort of thing once before - slide shots of some > flowers in New Zealand exhibited a very similar alteration. > The cause is that film (and, I assume, the CCD sensor) is more > senstive to the low-UV than the human eye. Objects with a high > component of UV in their appearanc

Re: New digital cameras

> > It seems that quite a few cameras have appeared on the market in the > past year or so, and many offer some nice features. However, there > doesn't seem much in the way of image improvement. I'd gladly give up > some feature for great image quality. I'm sick of chromatic > aberration, d

Re: New digital cameras

> > head). Full aperture meaning the lowest setting, like 2 or 5.6 something? Wide > open? If the camera can't read the aperture, how can it know which f stop is > full open on the lens? "Full aperture" is wide open (using the full area of the lens, not just a part). The camera *doesn't* know w

Re: PZ-1 vs MZ-S

> > If I can buy an MZ-S for 450, a PZ-1P for 300 and a PZ-1 for 200 which > are typical s/h prices in the UK, what should I go for? That really *has* to be your decision. We don't know what's important to you. You've read the list of differences between the PZ-1 and the PZ-1p. Apart from that

Re: PZ-1 vs MZ-S

> > > - Original Message - > From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > It has one wheel for your right hand thumb to adjust shutter speed, and > one > > wheel for your index to adjust the aperture. > > Cheers, > > Jostein > > This makes logical sense to me, whereas the *ist-D's layout

Re: Digital Back for 645Nii?

Well, first of all I agree with the earlier poster who suggested that there was no way a booth puffer would be privy to future product plans. Then there's the fact that the original article is light on details; the 3k could be street price, wholesale price, manufacturing price, or even just the

Re: Plaxo

> > Plaxo is distributed by Verisign . . . > It's safe and secure. There are those who would feel that those two statements are mutually self-contradictory. Given the recent furore about their (mis-)management of top-level domain registries, giving Verisign any sort of handle to your address bo

Re: We have met the *istD and it is ours

> > I hadn't really realized how much legitimate (or maybe illegitimate) scamming > goes on. Especially on high ticket items like camera equipment. What you described is clearly illegitimate scamming. But yes, it is rife; just check out the feedback about the lowball advertisers in any photo ma

Re: Resistance is Futile

> > I still think it should be called, D'gang. Full-starr'd knights? (with apologies to Walt Whitman)

Re: GFM - looks like I will be there

> > On 6/11/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: > > >Nah, not Brad, but The Who. > > The what? I don't know

Re: Spotmatic? II or F?

> > Spotmatics also go fairly cheaply on ebay. > > But there are different versions. Right off the bat, I notice a II and a F. > > Which would be the best to get? Or is there another version that would be > even better? I'd go with the Spotmatic F - it's the successor to the Spotmatic II, and

Re: Re[2]: GFM - looks like I will be there

> > Not the What, THE WHO. If you were around then, you would never > forget him/it? Maybe his real name was Pat (SNL) :) Gregory, IIRC. Makes me real glad that I've always read PDML using software that supports bozo filters.

Re: The istD brotherhood needs a name!

> > Sorry, I'm more Pink Fairies generation 8-) In between Pink Floyd and Pink, then?

Re: Let's talk MV for a bit...

> > The MV has very limited viewfinder info, red for overexposure, green for > "ok" and amber for underexposure. It's ok for quick snaps with a 50mm lens That's pretty much my opinion. The ME was a good, solid, aperture-priority camera. If you want a camera that could be used in manual mode a

Re: Spotmatic? II or F?

> > Despite DJE's explanations, I am still a bit confused. Also after a brief > read of the web pages, and briefly looked at the Spotmatic F and II manuals. But > as far as I can figure out, the metering on screwmounts was not the same as > present day or the K-1000. Only the Taks could be read

Re: Let's talk MV for a bit...

> > > MV is great for relaxing shots. If one have enough knowledge about > light/shutter/aperture is easy to determine what speed the camera is > actually using. f16 rule and so on. Well, no. That's the whole point. It's easy enough to work out what speed the camera *should* be using, but no

Re: Let's talk MV for a bit... (off-topic question)

> > Oh yeah! > I agree on the Oban... > Of course, Dalwhinnie is right up there with the best, as well. Not bad, I guess. Tallisker isn't bad, either. Abelour or Highland Park for light tastes. George & J.G. Smith's 100 proof Glenlivet is definitely interestings, as are the various wood-aged va

Re: Let's talk MV for a bit...

ial in some compensation. > Today I shot a roll of Sensia 100F on my ME Super and a roll of Fuji > color negative film on the MV. I'm sure the print results will be ok. That's a pretty low standard - I try for a little better than just "OK". > EDUARDO AIGNER &g

Re: flash card removal

> > I was thinking about the much maligned flash card slot on the *D ... > > FWIW, my card seems to be sliding out easier now that I've had it out of > there a dozen or so times. FWIR, I had great difficulty getting my microdrive out of the camera yesterday, although I have had no problems on pr

Re: *ist D and Flash

that's irrelevant. We don't need to know the breakdown of the timing of the *ist-D. We're not trying to allocate the finest details of timing - just pointing out where the P&S spends it's time. > John Francis wrote: > >>Yes, I know we can measure the whole thing.

Re: *ist D and Flash

> > I'm not questioning anyone's measurements, as you pointed out, I get the > same thing. My original question was whether or not we had actual times > from some factual source or whether the times were being deduced, > hence "speculation". > > Here is an example of what I mean, taken from

Re: frame rates... again... (was: Re: my ist-D samples)

> > Since all I've shot is field sports, I'll yield to those of you with more > experience in motor sports. I recently shot a softball game with the *ist D > and was surprised how quickly I got my timing back after 40 years. It's very rare that you'll be in a position to run off multiple shots o

Re: Let's talk MV for a bit... (off-topic question)

> > I definitely have more bottles than camera gear. :( A quick survey of the shelf here shows: Glenmorangie 12 yr (Madeira), Tmnavulin, Glenkinchie, Glenmorangie 18, Abelour, Highland Park, Glen Lochy, Linkwood, Glen Moray, Mortlach, Glen Mhor, Glenturret, Lagavulin 16, Single-single, Caol Ila

Re: Let's talk MV for a bit... (off-topic question)

> > Dang. Where are you located? I'll take the Caol Ila and the Laphroig, > thank you. I can almost taste the briny sea air in the Caol Ila! I'm in sunny California (not that it's too sunny today), right in the heart of Silicon Valley - San Jose, to be precise. > How 'bout Armagnacs, ever tr

Re: Let's talk MV for a bit... (off-topic question)

> > > I'm in sunny California (not that it's too sunny today), right in > > the heart of Silicon Valley - San Jose, to be precise. > > Just an observation, your message header shows an East Coast time > (-0500). That's a bit odd... Not really. Note that I'm posting from a panix.com account. Pan

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