Re: Adobe to Buy Macromedia

John Celio mused: > > >>However, killing Flash might not be a bad thing... > > > > Ooh, don't get my hopes up! > > What's so bad about Flash? I've never used it, but I've seen a lot of Flash > animations, games, and other things that I doubt would have been possible > without Flash. Quite. F

Suggestion for a PUG theme

Stephen Moore mused: > > It's my main finder for racing . . . > > Christian wrote: > > > I used one when photographing sporting events including auto racing . . . Hmm. There's enough of us here shooting motorsports (and other sporting events) that I think a PUG theme of "racing" or "competing"

Re: [No longer] Re: A question for color film users

Alan P. Hayes mused: > > A Plan for the Improvement of English >Spelling > > by Mark Twain [. . .] You beat me to it!

Re: A question for color film users

frank theriault mused: > > I'm gonna work on this. I think I could have a winner here (I mean, a > "wnnr hr" ) ITYM "wnr hr". HTH. HAND.

Re: Where's Cotty?

frank theriault mused: > > On 4/19/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Weapons of mass destruction do not actually destroy mass. The best they can > > do is rearrange it. > > > > You sure? > > Don't nuke-u-lar weapons convert some mass into energy? So do chemical weapons

Re: PESO - Disapierance

Wasn't there a fire a few years ago? I don't know about the technical qualities, but as photo- journalism it works very well - I just showed it to my wife (a student at Brighton several decades ago). On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:55:12PM -0700, Keith Whaley wrote: > That used to be very famous didn

Re: OT: TIF problems

Dave Sprinkle mused: > > Hi, > > I've been trying to work with a TIF file~650K, that is a blueprint > of 1 floor of our Physics building. 1 computer I'm trying to use is > a 1G AMD Athalon, with 768 mb ram, running XP Pro. I've been trying > to open the file with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.

Re: OT: TIF problems

Dave Sprinkle mused: > > John Francis wrote: > > > Dave Sprinkle mused: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I've been trying to work with a TIF file~650K, that is a blueprint > >>of 1 floor of our Physics building. 1 computer I'm trying to

Re: OT: TIF problems

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: > > Quoting Dave Sprinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > resolution HxV 400 dpi x 400 dpi, Bit depth 1. . . . > You could quite likely convert to 1 bit with no loss of usefullness. It's already 1 bit ...

Re: Hurrah for Shel Disrobing the Emperor

Anthony Farr mused: > > The damage to Pontiac had already been inflicted by the front-drivers, which > muscle car purists apparently hated. Some GTOs ended up with rear wheel drive:

Re: Re: A question for color film users

Ah, but where does that "not" go? Before "always", or after "about" ? Shel Belinkoff mused: > > Yes, there is a missing "not" in there. Good catch ;-)) > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > For me it

Re: OT: Belgium

Daniel J. Matyola mused: > > I'm off for a week in Brussels and Brugge. Any tips on good > photographic subjects there? > > (Other than the infamous manneken pis) Just walk around. The entire area is amazingly photogenic. Try the market square at night, the parks, or any street. The manneki

Re: Hyper focal Distance

Godfrey DiGiorgi mused: > >. . . That means the 35mm lens > on the DS is set to f/3.5 and the 50mm lens on the MX is set to f/5, > roughly 1.5 stops different. Check your math(s) - that's a difference of 1 stop, not 1.5 stops. (Which is what you'd expect;

Re: PESO - Office helper

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:38:25PM -0400, Christian wrote: > Warning, spider closeup. > > Playing with my new toy today (details to follow soon) and I found this > little guy hanging out on my monitor. > > http://www.skofteland.net/displayimage.php?album=4&pos=12 Is this one of those colour cali

Re: PESO - Disapierance

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:34:03AM +0100, John Forbes wrote: > Please say more about the technical qualities! It was, incidentally, a > very dull day. I think you've captured the sad, forlorn look very well. I also agree with you that the muted colours are important; the picture just doesn't wo

Re: San Quentin Prison Pic

So who was that man in black who played there in 1969? (planned as a followup to the better-known Folsom gig) Shel Belinkoff mused: > > Johnny Cash didn't perform at Q ... he played at Folsom Prison. > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: mike wilson > > > Not the picture that come

Re: OT: Belgium

Stan Halpin mused: > > The main square at night. > The restaurant street which leads, more or less, into the square. (But > don't eat there. There are many good places to eat, but these places > are just for tour groups.) I have to partially disagree with that. I've eaten at a couple of the bi

Re: PESO - Fallen Monarch - again

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:59:26PM -0400, frank theriault wrote: > On 4/20/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hate when that happens! I think we've all experienced a time when we've > > returned to make a photo only to find the scene changed somehow. Every time I drove down to La

Re: OT: Spider (was: Where's Cotty?)

P. J. Alling mused: > > Which begs the question . . . This seems to be my nitpick of the day. To beg a question means to pretend the question doesn't arise, not to call for an answer to the question.

Re: Stupid Computer Week.

Godfrey DiGiorgi mused: > > On Apr 20, 2005, at 5:44 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > > I hate to tell you this, but the peripherals, especially drives and > > such like, are all the same, I'm running used "Apple" equipment in > > this PC even now. > > Sure. But none of mine have failed. There must

Re: Reappierance

I'm with Shel on this one. Shel Belinkoff mused: > > John. > > The color version is much better than the B&W, but I think you cropped the > pic way too much. My thought was to correct the perspective and just trim > the photo a bit to compemsate for the tilt. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my

Re: Cleaning Lens Elements

Andre Langevin mused: > > Acetone is the best glass cleaner you can find. Not quite - there's a couple of things I'd try if there were things acetone couldn't remove (MEK, Methyl Ethyl Ketone, would probably be the first). But acetone should get off just about any kind of oily residue, which is

Re: FS Friday - *ist D, 300mm and a lot more...

Christian mused: > > I have the following for sale (in US $): > > Sigma AF 300mm F4 APO Macro lens. Focuses as close as 1.2m at 1:3 - Hard > case and original caps included. You've all seen images shot with this lens. > It's awesome. Excellent $400 > > Sigma EX 1.4x TC soft case and original c

Re: is it a bubble?

Herb Chong mused: > > in 18 months, the market will be saturated. So the current Pentax approach - grab market share while you can, and worry about upgrades for that customer base later - seems sensible.

The lure of the dark side ...

I was out this evening at a sort of get-together for ex- (and a few remaining current) employees of a former place of work. At one point I was handed a Canon 20D (with the 17-85 IS lens), and told to grab a few shots. After a few initial problems (the owner had auto-focus uncoupled from the shut

OT: Calvin & Hobbes

I finally found the Calvin & Hobbes strip I'd been looking for. It's in Scientific Progress goes "Boink" (on page 23, for those Robert Rankin fans among us ...) Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have colour film back then? Dad: Sure th

Re: OT: Journey of Man

Boris Liberman mused: > > Hi! > > > On 23/4/05, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > I dunno about you guys (n gals) but I come from a comet :-) > > Where do you hide your second head, messier Startiblafast (spelling)? Slartibartfast only had one head. Zaphod Beeblebrox had two heads (a

Re: PESO Evening on the Thames - the link!

While I don't feel the contrail adds to the image, even if you clone it out you're still left with that square sign (probably parking limitations) stuck on the light standard, so it's always going to be a modern-day shot. I'd prefer it without either, but you take what you can get. On Sun, Apr

Re: OT: Take a course in philosophy, will ya.

Paul Stenquist mused: > > > > I don't know on what you base that comment, Paul. I don't know what > > they "considered" themselves, but they were neither communists nor > > Marxists. > > > I base that comment on the name that the Soviets gave to their party. > Perhaps it was a bad translation,

Re: OT: Take a course in philosophy, will ya.

frank theriault mused: > > But if England and Canada aren't democracies by > your definition (since their constitutions prevent the majority from > oppressing the minority), and they aren't republics (having a > non-elected monarch), then what are they? They're what is general

Re: OT: Take a course in philosophy, will ya.

Chris Stoddart mused: > > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, John Francis wrote: > > > frank theriault mused: > > > > > > But if England and Canada aren't democracies by > > > your definition (since their constitutions prevent the majo

Re: Concerned

Cotty mused: > > And as for being told that your gear is holding you > back! I would have wrapped that 70-200 around his neck!! I don't know - you could interpret it as saying thet you're a better photographer that your pictures show. That's nice. I know that the first time I shot with an A* 20

Re: Boris' workflow (was Concerned)

Shel Belinkoff mused: > > Yes, it can be, as is not using non-destructive layers, certain tools which > can't be used on layers, rotating an image (even in TIFF depending on > degree of rotation, as I understand it), certain filters, and so on. As > the Sergeant on Hill Street Blues used to say,

Re: Slow down, you're goin' too fast

Try it with an MX. The istD viewfinder is pretty close to a cropped MX viewfinder (with extra stuff below the image area). Shel Belinkoff mused: > > Can't do that as I don't have an istD or Ds. I know how things look > through my various other cameras, but their finders aren't the same as the

Re: OT - Film CAMERAS are dead.

Bill Owens mused: > > We probably sell more Kodak digitals than all others put together. > Joe Sixpack still thinks that Kodak is the best there is. > > Bill According to a report I saw earlier this week, that's probably Joan Sixpack. Men tend to go for Sony and the like - women are more likely

Re: OT - Film CAMERAS are dead.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:05:01PM +0200, Carlos Royo wrote: > P. J. Alling escribi?: > >Should be a relatively simple matter of taking the output from the > >turntable to and patching it to the aux. input on a sound card. > > It won't work. You need a phono pre-amp, or a sound card that has one.

Re: OT - Film CAMERAS are dead.

Funny you should mention that. There are a couple of retro Atari products on the store shelves. One looks like a slightly thicker Atari 2600 controller, and has ten of the early Ataru games built in. The other one has a pair of controllers very like the 7800 ones, and thirty built-in games. (Un

Re: OT - Film CAMERAS are dead.

once audio systems were less likely to provide a dedicated 'phono' input; a record deck that could be plugged directly into an 'aux' input could still be used. On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:25:08PM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote: > Yep, cheap one's with heavy tone arms. I

Re: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:36:33PM -0600, Tom C wrote: > > It's only a short hop, skip, and jump for diehard Pentax users to > start wondering whether Pentax is the future when Canon for instance, > releases what, 6 - 8 DLSR's to Pentax's two. Not to mention the IS > capability, the FF option

Re: OT - DNG question

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 02:56:52AM +1000, Anthony Farr wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the Adobe DNG converter is a stand-alone application, > or does it function only as a PSCS plug-in? The DNG converter is a stand-alone application, but it always seems to come packaged with a version of the Adob

Re: OT - DNG followup (was OT - DNG question)

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 01:19:58PM +1000, Anthony Farr wrote: > Well, I installed the Adobe DNG converter, and Pixmantec Rawshooter > essentials. As John warned, Rawshooter will have nothing to do with the DNG > files converted from my RAF files. Thanks for confirming this. I picked it up from a

Re: Apples and Oranges (was Re: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long)

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:49:22PM -0400, Scott Loveless wrote: > On 4/30/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not bogus. Its a comparison of what is accessible to most > > photographers working with a normal budget. > I'm going to slightly agree with Paul here. As am I. What i

Re: Apples and Oranges (was Re: Why and How I switched to Canon (for those who care) long)

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 06:46:44AM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "John Francis" > > > >What is bogus is to lay the blame for the lowering of photographic > >standards at the feet of digital. Even before digital

Re: OT HHGTTG

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:15:55PM +0100, mike wilson wrote: > Hi, > > Not to give too much away but: > > 1. the film bears only a passing resemblance to the radio series, books > TV or record. It's actually a more coherent whole... I'd say it bears about as much resemblance to the radio broad

Re: *istD Image Count Question

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:59:08AM -0700, Bruce Dayton wrote: > > So does anyone actually know how to get the shutter cycle count from > an *istD? It's in one of the Pentax private tags inside the MakerNote tag in the EXIF IFD in the image file. If you want to email me a (lowest-res, lowest-qual

Re: *istD Image Count Question

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:22:25PM -0700, Powell Hargrave wrote: > John can you tell as which tag and how to decipher it? > > Thanks > Powell > > At 03:24 PM 02/05/2005 , John Francis wrote: > > >It's in one of the Pentax private tags inside the MakerNote tag

Re: OT HHGTTG

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:43:20PM +0100, Cotty wrote: > On 3/5/05, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >> Gee, I hope it finds the way to a cinema near me soon! > >> Jostein > > > >You mean like one in London on Thursday/Friday night? > > Oh crikey. Attention London PDMLers, if you coul

Re: Moral Dilemma

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:03:13PM -0600, Joseph Tainter wrote: > Henri: > Take it anyway, give her the creditcard and tell her to go shopping. > > Godfrey: > Do what you want. > Deal with the consequences. > > Both experienced husbands, I expect. Tell her you'll leave the *ist-D at home if she

Re: trying to answer Mark Roberts email....

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:35:40PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: > > The Passive Spam Block List is unique in that you can remove your IP > address from the list yourself, no questions asked (I just did it for > you). But it will be added back as soon as it emits spam again, which > will be in a few

Re: posted two pictures from my digital camera.

No - it's not the lens. It's a near-horizontal thin object (perhaps a stalk of grass - perhaps a piece of wire) in the frame, considerably closer to the camera than the barbed wire which is the primary centre of attention. I see artifacts like this occasionally when I'm shooting cars through a c

Re: OT: Capa Doc

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:54:59PM -, Bob W wrote: > > > > On 1/23/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That movement is weird ;-)) but, in and of itself, doesn't make Tom > > > Cruise weird, unless, of course, he has an association with > > the movement. Does he? > > > > Li

Re: OT: Capa Doc

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:32:02PM -, Bob W wrote: > > > > > > > > Funny, but John Travolta is also a Scientologist, and > > while one does > > > > hear about that a bit, he doesn't seem to have attracted > > nearly the > > > > same amount of negative press as Tom. I wonder why? > > > >

Re: OT: Kodachrome 25

But that's not really enough to reproduce a film characteristic. As we all know, colour film (and the human eye, and digital sensors, and digital colour spaces) are tri-stimulus systems; any particular colour is reduced to three measured values. The real world, though, is not so discrete - it's

Re: Re: Kodachrome 25

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:22:02PM +, mike wilson wrote: > > > > > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2006/01/24 Tue PM 12:40:21 GMT > > To: > > Subject: Re: Kodachrome 25 > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Scott Loveless" > > Subject: OT: Kodachrome 25 >

Re: OT: Kodachrome 25

: > It sounds like the ideal place to do some type of film characteristic > mapping is through the RAW sensor data, before it has been combined > through the Bayer interpolation. I.e. modify the Bayer mechanism to > mimic a film type. > > rg > > > John

Re: OT: Kodachrome 25

sites, at least some aproximation to it. The RAW > helps you here, because if you know the mapping in terms of RGB, then > you can do this before you do the Bayer interpolation, kind of like the > way you can do white balance with the RGB data. > > rg > > > John

Re: Re: OT: Kodachrome 25

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:25:49AM +, mike wilson wrote: > > > > > From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > You could even argue that not reproducing the way that certain > > shades of orange tended to show up as purple on some films is > > a

Re: OT: Kodachrome 25

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:48:06AM -0600, Gonz wrote: > > > John Francis wrote: > > > > > >Anyway, just ignore the big words and consider the > >example I gave. If a colour patch illuminated by two > >different lights maps to the same tristimulus value &

Re: *ist DL2

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:54:43PM +0100, Jens Bladt wrote: > I'm sure Pentax will have something to say about the quality of sensors put > into cameras, that are somewhat connected to the Pentax name. Samsung is an > experienced camera maker (Rollei w. Schneider lenses) and maker of all kinds > of

Re: Amateur Photographer

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 08:54:25AM +, Mark Steele wrote: > It's from the 28th January and it's by Ivor Matanle. In it he states that > the M-series lenses had a mount that was slightly different from the > original K-series to make them fully compatible with the ME. I thought the > M-serie

Re: Pentax sighting

You watch movies starring Rebecca Romjin-Stamos (or Antonio Banderas) and you notice the *props*? On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:53:05PM +0100, Thibouille wrote: > LOL > > 2006/1/28, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Did you see him use the 645NII? And then plug it into his lap top, download > > t

Re: OT: Capa Doc

I think the lesson we could best learn here is that slavish belief in any given doctrine can be hazardous to your health ... What saved the colonists is that they gave up their preconceived ideas that they knew "the one true way", and actually listened to the advice they got from experts. Unfort

PUG (No longer Re: *istD2)

As others have observed, PUG submissions are significantly down as compared to previous years. While I'm sure that a lot of this is because of the upsurge in PAW/PESO/..., I really don't feel this is the time to make it harder to submit to the PUG. It's my belief that the restrictive rules (only

Re: PUG (No longer Re: *istD2)

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:04:32PM +, Cotty wrote: > On 29/1/06, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >It's my belief that the restrictive rules (only Pentax gear > >for the PUG, but anything goes for a PAW) > > When and where was this ever stipulated,

Re: PESO: (Panorama Ever So Often)

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:25:25AM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > I don't understand the point of what you're doing. It would be simpler to > have a panorama that one could scroll through, left to right. It seems like > an exercise in technology more than anything else. Speaking for myself, > the

Re: Chinese Manfrotto copies?

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:35:00AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:36 AM, William Robb wrote: > > >>Thats strange Bill. You have frequent problems with tinyurl? > >>I've never run into any. > >I can rarely get tinyurl to work for me. > > It's possibly being blocked by

Re: GFM Nature Photography Weekend registration is open

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I bought the bullet, #12. My wife is going to shoot me :-). > What the hell, you only live once. Gotta find a tent now. > Paul If you have problems, I've got a wide selection of camping gear available for loan; anything from a 4-

Re: Delivery Failure Messages

It's somebody subscribed to the list from an account that incorrectly reports delivery failures to the original submitter, not to the 'envelope from' address. This is a failure commonly found in poorly written mail systems.

Re: Re: Delivery Failure Messages

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:16:23AM +, mike wilson wrote: > > > > > From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2006/02/03 Fri AM 05:55:44 GMT > > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > > Subject: Re: Delivery Failure Messages > > > > >

Re: istD battery grip not working?

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 08:49:06PM +0100, Paulus Eriksson wrote: > I never used my battery grip for my istD and now when I tried it out I can > only get the shutter and DOF preview to work. The Av and TV wheels don't > work. Anyone who can give me a pointer? > > thanks > Paul Make sure the A

Re: OT Survey- Your Perspective On RAW Image Technology

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:57:54PM +1000, Rob Studdert wrote: > It's a bit long winded but it you haven't done this survey yet do consider as > it is "the first international survey of photographers and digital image > users > about their experiences, requirements, preferences and concerns regar

Re: Sad decline of PDML /WAS Re: GFM

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:04:37AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/5/2006 10:35:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Actually, I fail to see why dressing up as a woman is funny. > > It's a very british thing. They quite succesfully exported it to >

Re: OT Survey- Your Perspective On RAW Image Technology

ikon chemicals be used to develop any film exposed in Nikon bodies. > > j > > On 2/6/06, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > On Feb 5, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: > > > > > >> On 5 Feb 2006 at 21:47

Re: Sad decline of PDML /WAS Re: GFM

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:48:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Marnie aka Doe :-) Well, enuff said. It's basically sexist humor if you > can't figure that out. Well, no it isn't, necessarily. Much of the time the joke is aimed at the male - the butt of the humour isn't the character b

Re: Sad decline of PDML /WAS Re: GFM

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:10:43PM +0930, Keith McGuinness wrote: > John Francis wrote: > > >And even if it had been, using it as a launching pad for a racist > >dig at the British really wasn't the best way of making your point. > > Well, whatever sort of dig it

Re: Frustrated Again

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:11:36PM -0700, Joseph Tainter wrote: > I placed an order for the DA 10-17 three weeks ago with Adorama. > B&H has had it in stock for a couple of weeks. Once again, > Adorama can't get stock of a newly-released lens while others > can. This happened also with the DA 40

Re: Pentax Wants Your Digital Pix

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:58:18AM -0700, Tom C wrote: > > My perception (probably incorrectly) at the outset and I think others was, > that this was more or less Pentax Canada asking for these pictures. And that, I think, is where the root of the problem lies. I assumed that, as it *didn't* co

Re: OT: Helmut Newton

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:37:06PM -0500, Bob Shell wrote: > > On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Bob W wrote: > > >Define "artist". > > > An artist is anyone who says he is an artist. > > Bob Define "says"

Re: Re: OT The GUI grows up

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:59:28PM +, mike wilson wrote: > > > > > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2006/02/09 Thu PM 02:20:45 GMT > > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > > Subject: Re: OT The GUI grows up > > > > Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Bob (former Theramin

Re: Two high-end Pentax DSLR this year

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:26:24AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I wouldn't count on anything positive coming from this group, if > that's what you mean by "the brotherhood". Someone will whine and > moan no matter if Pentax released the Messiah from prison. > > I never really wanted an LX

Re: Two high-end Pentax DSLR this year

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:52:42PM +0100, P?l Jensen wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Note that the BJP article says the *645* digital is being introduced at > >Photokina. 35mm-class DSLR could certainly be sooner. > > > Not really. The ar

Re: OT The GUI grows up

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:16:18PM +, mike wilson wrote: > John Francis wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:59:28PM +, mike wilson wrote: > > > >>>From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>Date: 2006/02/09 Thu PM 02:20:45 GMT > >>>

Re: Pentax Wants Your Digital Pix

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:24:29PM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > On a somewhat different topic, with the exception of the 3 people on list > who actually earn a living doing photography, any issues revolving around > copyright is little more than arrogant bullshit . . . I'd have to take excep

Re: Pentax Wants Your Digital Pix

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:01:16PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Tom C" > >> > Just for the record, anytime I've had a photo published, with the > > > exception of the small newsletter that gets sent to around 250 homes > > > where > > > I live,

Re: OT: Helmut Newton

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:38:59PM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Holly Hegeman" > Subject: Re: OT: Helmut Newton > > > > > > > >As a cab driver said to me last year in Phoenix, "I'd rather have a > >president who lies about getting a blowjob in the Oval O

Re: Pentax K-mount bayonet wanted

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:57:44AM +0200, Krisjanis Linkevics wrote: > I have been out of luck trying to obtain a K-mount bayonet for my project > camera. Surprisingly Ebay prices are quite high even for old and broken > cameras. Keh offers a good selection of broken bodies but their shipping >

Re: Lenses for 645D?

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:16:44PM +0100, P?l Jensen wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >35mm lenses sharper than MF-lenses? No way. The DOF is greater due to the > >smaller format. That's all. > >The rest is a question of polishing glass. Of

Re: The Sacrifices

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:12:02PM -0500, Christian wrote: > Collin R Brendemuehl wrote: > >1. Which lens are you willing to get beat in a harsh environment > >when you don't want to take the nice lenses out to play. > > All of them. They are just tools and are meant to be used. I abuse my > ge

Re: Pentax Has Finally Admitted...

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:41:45AM -0700, Joseph Tainter wrote: > that it has discontinued all those lenses that we already knew > were discontinued: > > http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/ > > Joe Apparently the FA* 300/2.8 and 250-600/5.6 remain in production.

Re: The Sacrifices

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:52:38PM -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: > > Kinda like the first dent/chip on a new car's finish. I've always felt the > new vehicle should come with a chip/dent from the factory. Years ago that > usually was the case, nowadays ,in my experience, it isn't. Nowadays there

Re: Pentax Has Finally Admitted...

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:09:25PM -0600, Bob Sullivan wrote: > > I will say that the following are a bad match on the istDS,... way to > front heavy for a good ergronmic combination from my personal > experiences. > FA 28-105/4-5.6 My everyday lens on the *ist-D > FA*80-200/2.8 Well, this is

Re: OT: HCB with a Minolta CLE

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 12:36:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/12/2006 1:20:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For example: "The chief tenet of the Enlightenment is that the growth of > knowledge is the key to human emancipation. No true believer

Re: OT: HCB with a Minolta CLE

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:15:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/12/2006 10:09:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Well said. The path of globalization tends to lead downward to the lowest > > common denominator. And in some countries that is very

Re: Sigma and the Volkswagen effect

That's not really a good precedent - the tree is on private property, and you need to be on private property to take the photograph. Not only that - although they restrict commercial use, they explicitly allow photography for personal use. On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:55:09PM -0800, Shel Belinkof

Re: Re: OT: HCB with a Minolta CLE

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:32:37AM +, mike wilson wrote: > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I read a great science-fiction novel years, and years, and years ago, that > > I've been trying to find ever since. Well, well, well before NAFTA, well > > before > > this was even conceived o

Re: OT: HCB with a Minolta CLE

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 03:38:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I always find it amusing that while anti-semitism is strictly verboten . . . And it's not really anti-semitism, anyway - it's anti-Judaiic or anti-Israeli. Ooops - that was a different thread, wasn't it?

Seeking advice on photographing cyclists

The (cycling) tour of California is coming to San Jose next week, so I thought I might take the opportunity to pop out and try my hand at photographing something moving a little slower than the racecars I usually shoot. I'd appreciate suggestions from anyone (?Frank?) used to this kind of subject

Re: Katzeye optics - Review???

As somebody else already suggested, perhaps this is a combination of the screen affecting the reading in the central portion of the viewfinder (which is why users are warned not to use spot metering) and using the multi-segment metering mode. A slightly lower reading in the middle of the screen co

Re: OT: HCB with a Minolta CLE

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:08:32PM -0500, Bob Shell wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Mishka wrote: > > >frank, > >in usa, everything that's left of democrats is > >considered "far left". > >best, > >mishka > > > You mean it's possible to be left of a democrat? Will wonders never > cea

Re: Religoon, Christ vs. the Other Guy

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:24:08PM -0800, Gautam Sarup wrote: > On 2/15/06, Mishka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in fact, religious intolerance has always been limited to > > western christians and islami > > The Hindus too. All religious groups that manage to > get their paws on power behave th

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