On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:37:34AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/30/2007 1:02:25 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Georgette Heyer? I don't understand - she writes bodice-rippers (I
gather, never having read anything by her). Patricia Highsmith
About half an hour ago there was a magnitude 5.6 quake about
10 miles NE of San Jose (around 15 miles from our house).
It was enough to shake the house for three or four seconds,
but nothing more than that. The cats were a bit startled.
A quick check shows not even minor damage - nothing even
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:46:56AM -0400, Adam Maas wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Oct 31, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Adam Maas wrote:
There's now a 2GB SD card that also does WiFi transfers.
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/008022.html
So your lowly K110D can now have a capability once
That was my first question. And the fact that they don't
mention speed anywhere on their web pages (not even in the
Technical Specs) makes me more than a little suspicious.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:00:22AM -0700, Brendan MacRae wrote:
Well, without RAW transfer I wouldn't bother. Also
I really liked my AF500FTZ, especially on the PZ-1p.
Unfortunately it isn't a lot of use on the K10D (although it
works as well as anything else on the *ist D), so I got a 540.
I haven't used it much, partly because I was without it for a
couple of months; on one of the rare occasions I did use
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:45:27AM -0400, wendy beard wrote:
Now I see there are a few of you close to SJ, If any of you are free
one evening the week of 12th November maybe we could meet up and do
dinner.
I'm coming down for a training course at a company right by the
airport. My hotel is
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:34:27PM -0700, Rick Womer wrote:
Another from Munich in June 2006. A bit noisy, but so
it goes with nocturnal photography.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6564588size=lg
This took a lot of bracketing because of the bright
fountains and dark
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:53:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So: what do _you_ do when adding a copyright notice to a new scan
of an old photo? And, if you have the time: why?
-- Glenn
I include both dates; the date of original image capture,
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 11:38:26AM +1100, Derby Chang wrote:
Don't know if there is any Pentax content in here, but there are some
great pics. I like the bird with a swirl for a head.
http://sawse.com/2007/11/02/25-photographs-taken-at-the-exact-right-time/
Some good ones, Apparently,
You probably meant (or menat?) alpha - Alfa is part of the name
of either a car company or a manufacturer of farm equipment (such
as milking machines).
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 06:55:15AM -0500, David J Brooks wrote:
Errr I menat Alfa female.:-)
On 11/4/07, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:46:35AM -0500, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Which ones?
On 11/3/07, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 11:38:26AM +1100, Derby Chang wrote:
Don't know if there is any Pentax content in here, but there are some
great pics. I like
I was wondering ...
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:53:24AM -0500, Bill Owens wrote:
Should be 4-6-6-4.
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:19:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
allow must mean something will happen.
I am curious if there is a formula for when perspective distortion will not
occur, or some focal length at which it will not occur?
You get perspective distortion when the camera is
Several years ago people used to say the same thing about 10:1 zooms.
Then Canon managed to come out with the 35-350, which showed that it
was possible to come up with something quite usable. I'm sure that
14:1, especially for the reduced image circle sensor, will turn out
to be perfectly
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:02:09PM -0800, Bob Blakely wrote:
Reviewing the shot(s) on my digital camera is the same as shooting a
Polaroid, only more efficient!
Chimping. It sounds like a term a photo luddite would coin.
I believe it came from the exact opposite end of the spectrum -
a
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:56:16AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote:
Toralf Lund wrote:
I don't know. I've heard many people talk about how they miss their
family album now that they've switched to digital.
By talking about people who have *switched* to digital you've
automatically excluded
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:59:30PM -0300, Amita Guha wrote:
Here's the auction for my grip, in near-mint condition:
http://tinyurl.com/2udq5u
Amita
You might want to change the listing slightly - the grip
doesn't fit the DS, but your description says that it is
a grip for use with the D or
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:02:58PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote:
The Prologue Stage is often held outside France. That's what's being run
in England as part of Le Tour. All the other stages are in France.
-Adam
Not so. In fact the very first stage, run on Sunday July 8th, (the stage Bob
My 80-200 has developed a problem; when it is zoomed to the
wide end (80mm) it can't achieve infinity focus (or even
anything further away than maybe 20' from the camera).
Unfortunately I discovered this when I was reviewing the
photographs I took of the Tour de France as the peleton
passed by
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:33:48PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote:
From:
Tom C
From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I suspect many people just missed the reference because he's so often
billed as W.Eugene Smith. One of Life magazines most famous shooters
and responsible for some of its best
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:26:51PM -0400, John Francis wrote:
Pictures from the Prologue (on Saturday), and from the Ashford area
during Sunday's Stage One will be posted when I return to the USA.
As I mentioned in another post, I was having equipment troubles with
my 80-200, and only really
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:08:08PM -0700, Barry Rice wrote:
Hey Folks,
A trip to Australia approaches.
My K10D battery charger works for the 120V, 60 hz power here. Australia uses
(I believe) 240V, 50 hz. Does anyone have a recommended source for whatever
I need to use my USA charger
No there wasn't - read the description a little more carefully.
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:26:11PM -0500, Gonz wrote:
Have the rules changed? There was a gasp, Nikon, photo in there
On 8/1/07, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The August PUG is open. See it at
I've put together a small gallery of photographs from the
recent San Jose Grand Prix (a downtown race).
I was just about to leave for the track on Friday morning
when I got a very pleasant surprise in my email - a friend
who knows all the right people had managed to get me a
photo pass for the
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 02:44:16PM +0100, Peter Lacus wrote:
Hi John,
The gallery is here: http://www.jfwaf.com/SJGP/
interesting bokeh on http://www.jfwaf.com/SJGP/pages/SJGP37.html;.
Which lens was it shot with? ;-)
That's the 250-600 all the way out at 600mm, and just slightly
, and staying late
to get the shots edited down.
On Aug 4, 2007, at 9:29 PM, John Francis wrote:
I've put together a small gallery of photographs from the
recent San Jose Grand Prix (a downtown race).
I was just about to leave for the track on Friday morning
when I got a very pleasant surprise
I've just used my K10D for a weekend of motorsports photography.
This is the first time I've tried using the shake reduction while
panning, and I was interested to see how it would work.
The short answer is - very well. According to some technical
reports that I've seen the shake reduction is
Most of the serious panning was done hand-held.
I did leave SR enabled while using the 250-600 on a monopod,
and it certainly didn't make things any worse.
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:50:05PM -0700, Bruce Dayton wrote:
Hello John,
Were you panning fully handheld or were you using a monopod?
There's no such thing as a cheap FA 77
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:38:24AM +0100, Peter Fairweather wrote:
Should be some cheap FA 77's for sale soon!!
Peter
On 07/08/07, Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems to be excellent performer, in picture center almost as good
as
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:41:01AM -0600, William Robb wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
Subject: Re: Recommendations for digital grey card
White balance should be of no consequence, although it's possible
that changing the white balance somehow affects the
CrocodileDundee
That's not a cheese shop!
*This* is a cheese shop ...
http://www.panix.com/~johnf/temp/CheeseShop.jpg
/CrocodileDundee
An excellent cheesemongers in Galway. After we had ordered
our cheese (I picked up some Irish cheddar, while one of my
colleagues ordered a dozen or so
Indeed. I'd like to see the show, but real life intervenes ...
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:01:16AM -0700, Bruce Dayton wrote:
Hope it goes well, Paul. Sounds very cool.
--
Best regards,
Bruce
Saturday, August 11, 2007, 7:55:42 PM, you wrote:
PS My dream cruise gallery show opened
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:52:39PM -0400, frank theriault wrote:
A vintage '80's steed.
And, yeah, upgrading the brakes is a very good idea. Up to the 80's,
brakes pretty much sucked...
The had vacuum brakes in the 80s?
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:57:08AM -0700, keith_w wrote:
David J Brooks wrote:
Celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary today. Going to pick up the
gift and then have a drink.
Might be incoherent later tonight on the list.
Dave
Many congrats! You deserve it!
Even at MY age,
Indeed they do (as can be observed if you have an external flash
mounted that zooms as the lens focal length changes).
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:10:22PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I'm pretty sure the chipped lenses update the body regards the set
focal length dynamically as you move the
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:01:35AM -0400, Adam Maas wrote:
Charles Robinson wrote:
On Aug 15, 2007, at 3:30, John Whittingham wrote:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:03:57 +1000, Digital Image Studio wrote
The unfortunate thing is that it does auto select lens FL if the lens
FL can be read by
That would be my first guess, too.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:09:47PM -0400, graywolf wrote:
By the looks of the radiator, I would say it is a Bugatti.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf
Idiot Proof == Expert Proof
You should take a look at the Blastolene Brothers stuff:
http://www.blastolene.com/Blastolene_Cars.htm
Here's a shot of Sneaky Pete at Pacific Coast Dream Machines
http://www.panix.com/~johnf/temp/SneakyPete.jpg
and here's Big Bertha
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:06:24PM -0700, Juan Buhler wrote:
When I mount my A35-70/4 zoom on the K10D I get some strange
aperture-related behavior. The indicated apertures (lens in A, body in
P) go from f8.0 to f45. Same lens on a DS behaves correctly.
Moreover, if I set the aperture (via
I picked myself up a new set of wheels this week ...
http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/PAW.php?name=PAW0735
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:34:15AM -0400, Doug Brewer wrote:
John Francis wrote:
I picked myself up a new set of wheels this week ...
http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/PAW.php?name=PAW0735
caught a sale on cabling, I see.
Most of that black mess is the 6' of heavy-duty cable
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:04:50AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote:
John Francis wrote:
I picked myself up a new set of wheels this week ...
http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/PAW.php?name=PAW0735
With a Mini and an S2000, when would you ever get on the bike? :-)
That's not an S2000 - it's a Z4
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:09:00AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:53 AM, John Francis wrote:
I picked myself up a new set of wheels this week ...
http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/PAW.php?name=PAW0735
Ach! More PDML two wheelers! :-)
Enjoy it, and don't fall down
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:40:35PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote:
Actually, if you're shooting C-41 and not doing any push/pull stuff, any
of the mini-labs should be able to process the film adequately.
It's really all automated, and there's very little they can do to mess
it up . . .
That's
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:20:40PM +1200, David Mann wrote:
My main trail bike is relatively heavy so it's a bit harder to get
uphill... but it's so much fun on the trails that I don't mind the
extra pain.
Most of the weight I have to lug up hills doesn't come from the bike :-(
--
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:20:40PM +1200, David Mann wrote:
On Aug 22, 2007, at 5:16 AM, John Francis wrote:
All this, and 21 speeds, for only a little
more than I had to pay for a bike rack that fits on the Z4 :-(
Is that all? ;)
Even with suspension forks it still weighs less than
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 02:36:09PM -0400, frank theriault wrote:
On 8/22/07, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most of the weight I have to lug up hills doesn't come from the bike :-(
Bicycling magazine once said that for the vast majority of cyclists,
losing 5 or 10 pounds from
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:00:04AM +0200, Thibouille wrote:
I foune something I thought was stupid a couple days ago at the local
DIY shop: a couple piece plastic which lets you use a AAA cell in a AA
shape to replace it.
When I bought some larger rechargeable cells (C and D cell sizes) for
That's somewhat connected to the fact that it has large sensor
sites - they collect more photons per unit time.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:39:04AM -0700, Jack Davis wrote:
Was, also, my first reaction.
I'm a slow person.
Jack
--- Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Native ISO of 200 is a
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:43:03PM -0600, William Robb wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Glen Tortorella
Subject: Re: Just Bought a KX
I would like a Pentax A-Series (Super-A/Super Program) and a
screwmount, perhaps an SP500 or SP1000. As you may deduce, I prefer
older,
I'd agree with those recommendations.
I started out with a Spotmatic II, but would have much preferred
a Spotmatic F; open-aperture metering is a very nice feature.
I never had any of the earlier K mounts; I started with an MX
(which I still have). In the intervening years I've owned an ME
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 05:55:03PM -0600, Tom C wrote:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07082314pentaxz10s10.asp
Wow - a refractive lens system. What an innovation.
(I wonder what it really means?)
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:09:55PM -0500, Charles Robinson wrote:
On Aug 30, 2007, at 11:25, Mark Roberts wrote:
Charles Robinson wrote:
On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:30, Mark Roberts wrote:
(H2G2 is almost as bad as Monty Python for generating these
extended OT threads that few people
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:53:32PM -0700, Jim Apilado wrote:
I heard that you can get an adapter that will take SD cards and place
the adapter in a camera (*ist D) that only takes CF cards. If
true, does it affect the write speed to a SD card.
Yes. But most SD cards are considerably
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:07:44PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
P. J. Alling wrote:
The question should be; Will the judges even see the photo, if the
peers vote it out?
My understanding is that the peers can't actually vote it out. In
other words, the peer voting is used to give some
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:47:40AM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote:
There was some discussion of a lucky ebay find of an Autofocus 1.7X
Pentax converter. I found this very handy to use in combination with
the A200/4 lens. It was small and light for handheld shots in the
gallery below.
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:30:35AM -0400, Rebekah wrote:
I'm unable to open it with Explorer or Netscape. All I get is a
maroon page. Do I need a program to open it?
rg2
I (briefly) get a different page when I click on one of the links,
but it almost immediately goes back to the initial
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:49:00PM -0400, Glen Tortorella wrote:
Thanks, Bong. You are at least the second person who has conveyed
such to me.
This is what I had suspected. I wonder if the lil' flash on that
expensive MZ-S is the same...or has the same operational tendency? I
would
The folks operating those cameras have had years of practice, too.
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:59:21AM -0700, Bob Blakely wrote:
The movie folks seem to be able to do this with ease, but then they use a
movie head with a large pan handle and smth movements. I've never tried
it but it
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:31:26AM +0800, David Savage wrote:
On 9/8/07, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw a lens on Ebay for a 67 camera listed at almost $1000. Is that
for real? ouch.
rg2
You want to see ouch?:
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 12:07:42AM -0400, ann sanfedele wrote:
cbwaters wrote:
The Frank Doug shots are funny but I like the giant grave spider the best
:)
CW
What a great PUG!
Terrific stuff -- I'm too harried to pic faves -
Hope I can get something up for the next
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:18:46PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
David Savage wrote:
Actually the 80-200 could do with a service.
The zoom ring is a little loser than is normal for a PZ lens.
Same with mine. But it's been that way for 6 or so years and hasn't
gotten any worse. Yet.
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:39:35PM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Glen,
It's faster films that raised the top speed of camea bodies. Although
speeds of 1/2000 to 1/8000th are nice specs, you don't use them.
Or, at least, not very often. But here in sunny California those speeds
are nice to have.
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:35:59AM -0400, Adam Maas wrote:
Rebekah wrote:
The only way to do it would be to have a mount custom made. I saw just
such a lens on eBay a few weeks ago, I think it was a 20 or 24mm Pentax
with a Nikon mount, fully useable with open-aperture metering.
crazy
I agree. In fact of the three versions presented I like the sepia-
toned one the least; the head just doesn't stand out from the water
as well Iat first glance it looks soft, although closer examination
shows that this is not the case).
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:00:26PM -0700, Bruce Dayton
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:20:58AM -0700, Bruce Dayton wrote:
Shot just before the wall, so early evening light, just as the sun was
dropping below the horizon.
Pentax K10D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ 108mm
ISO 200, 1/125 sec @ f/5.6, Handheld
http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4962a.htm
OK - we
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:53:01PM +, mike wilson wrote:
From: Doug Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2007/09/11 Tue PM 12:30:41 GMT
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Subject: Re: The occasional 300mm
Hal Davis wrote:
What are thoughts on the Pentax A 300mm f2.8?
Just an updated kitty portrait for the cat rescue group site,
but it turned out rather better than I expected
http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/Petunia.jpg
Pentax *ist D, DA 18-55 @ 55mm, 1/15 @ f5.6, ISO 200
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:03:39AM -0400, ann sanfedele wrote:
John Francis wrote:
Just an updated kitty portrait for the cat rescue group site,
but it turned out rather better than I expected
http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/Petunia.jpg
Pentax *ist D, DA 18-55 @ 55mm, 1/15 @ f5.6, ISO
You can see Frank, though. And his bicycle (with frame).
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:35:03PM -0400, Kenneth Waller wrote:
Yeah but I don't see Art. ;=]
Kenneth Waller
http://tinyurl.com/272u2f
- Original Message -
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PESO -
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:37:51PM +1000, MikeM wrote:
Would the K10 be recommended as an all purpose travel camera?
Inasmamuch as any DSLR can be, yes. It's not an always-with-you
shirt pocket camera, but apart from that it serves very well.
One word of advice: make sure you have a spare
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:07:13AM -0400, ann sanfedele wrote:
John Francis wrote:
This is all five of them just after we rescued them:
http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/PAW.php?name=PAW0719
L to R: Carbon/Lintilla, Trillian, Petunia
Benji Frankie
aww
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:21:08PM -0400, John Francis wrote:
No. We don't keep any of them. All except Goldie Petunia have
already found homes, and in an hour those two (plus our other two
foster kitties - Maui and Trooper) go to this week's adoption fair.
Update: Trooper already has his
I don't think it's shutter speed; it looks more to me as though the
plane of sharpest focus is somewhat behind the principal subject in
most of the images, maybe because the wrong AF sensor is being used.
I know from experience, though, just how hard it is to photograph an
event like this - you
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:23:31PM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote:
Rebekah wrote:
By the way, does anyone have a picture scanned at 4000dpi
that I could look at?
I've got tons. It'll take me a couple of days to track them down.
I've got a Pro Photo CD lying around somewhere - that's
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 05:15:34AM +0100, Bob W wrote:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_lane/
An interesting read, even though I don't feel tempted by a Leica.
I was also intigued to note that it's currently the most read (or
viewed?) article in the online edition
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:39:05AM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
I have received my tax refund check(s).
I just missed out in the bidding on an A*300/2.8
And there's currently a $100.00 rebate on the 10-17 fisheye zoom, which
seems like a really fun lens...
I've got both of those. The fisheye
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:20:24AM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On May 2, 2007, at 9:22 AM, William Robb wrote:
Actually, firefox scaled it to fit when I opened it.
Yes, FireFox does the same here. But it's not my standard browser.
G
Internet Explorer scales to fit automatically,
The original poster is a guy who got thrown off dpreview twice.
He used to be a Canon shooter, but apparently switched to Pentax
(with cameras and lenses supplied free of charge by Pentax; a
pair of K10Ds, and a bagful of nice glass, if he can be believed).
He got thrown off the Canon forums for
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:09:58AM -0600, William Robb wrote:
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Judging Photos
True, but then the 80's came along and wrecked everything, music wise.
=
Sad, but true. MTV has a lot to answer for.
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:38:09AM +0100, Bob W wrote:
The traditional solution for the photographer on the go is the
aluminium case. Its 3 main purposes are - something to carry your
stuff in, something to protect your stuff, something to stand on.
--
Bob
As I mentioned a month or so
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:14:17AM -0400, Bob Shell wrote:
I keep a short stepladder in my car. Got it at Wal-Mart or some
other cheapo place. It's designed for use in the kitchen to get
things off high shelves. Has three steps and a curved metal piece
like an upside-down U for you to
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:38:36PM -0400, Scott Loveless wrote:
Looks like I'll be taking over the PUG sometime in the near future.
I've recently registered http://www.pdmlpug.org for hosting purposes and
thought I would toss a few ideas to the list in hopes of getting a bit
of feedback.
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:22:01PM +0200, Morten Dahl wrote:
I'm going to Portland, Oregon, this summer, escaping Norwegian prices
and VAT for a few days. I will be looking for a Pentax shop (or a shop
willing to order some lenses in advance). Any suggestions?
Not since CameraWorld became
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:29:09PM +0200, Jan van Wijk wrote:
One question on the appearance, the biggest difference
I noticed between CS2 and CS3 is that CS3 just has its
palletes and menu-bars on the screen (left, top, right)
and the rest is your own desktop showing underneath.
Images
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:19:19PM -0600, Tom C wrote:
Granted, everyone has their own taste and I can't, nor do I want to, change
that. However, I and several others tend to find the list is often too
self-congratulatory.
Almost every single photo shown here meets with praise. That
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:45:24PM -0700, Brendan MacRae wrote:
A full frame DSLR would sell in huge numbers vs. a MF
digicam anyday...even if it were a piece of crap.
That doesn't seem to be true. While the Canon 5D is selling
reasonably well, it's not selling in anything like the numbers
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:18:02PM -0400, Christian wrote:
Brendan MacRae wrote:
--- John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For most people, the (significant) extra cost of the
larger
sensor just isn't worth it.
For most people, yes. For most serious
photographers...that may
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:08:30PM -0700, Brendan MacRae wrote:
--- John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:18:02PM -0400, Christian
wrote:
Brendan MacRae wrote:
--- John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For most people, the (significant) extra
If that's what you want to do, go for it!
Way back in the dim and distant past I was working at a
little company called Apollo computer. Our marketing guy
(name of Bill Warner) had a real great idea for a neat
way to use computers to do video editing, and asked me
to put together a
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 05:24:34PM +0100, Cotty wrote:
On 11/5/07, Norm Baugher, discombobulated, unleashed:
I think an 8 man tent may be overkill...then
again, we could set up a call center inside.
We are NOT amused.
I've got a friend who is really into phone stuff. He
has a
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:42:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great story. I remember the first time I edited on an Avid . . .
Yep. That's my number one missed opportunity story.
But it's not my only brush with fame. I also wrote the
first ever computer program to play Life (and came
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:50:35PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
Of course, a quart a month could be a leak and you'd probably never
notice it, especially if it only happens when the engine's warmed up.
Oh yes you would! My old Mustang was using less than that - about
four quarts a year - but
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:26:18PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
Bob Shell wrote:
On May 11, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Tom C wrote:
In this world so full of quantum uncertainies, I'd like to know how
we're
sure there's oil in it to begin with. :-)
Maybe, it only looks low when he checks it.
Welcome to the wired (or Wired :-) world.
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:29:45PM -0400, graywolf wrote:
Well, I can remember a time when the people writing the articles were
expected to know more about the subject than the people reading them.
That does not seem to be the modern way of things.
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:49:05PM +0100, Steve Bullock wrote:
Transcend 150x cards in 2G capacity here are about $21@ at present.
Sandisk Extreme IIIs run about $36@ right now. They're giving them
away. I just bought six more of the Transcends ... the additional
speed between them and
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:07:55AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote:
Try lugging around a D2H and 70-200 VR F 2.8 all day. You'll begin to
LOVER the K10D.:-)
I still have my istD as well as the K10D. I find the K10D fits very
well in my hand, and the istD now feels to small.
I've kept my D, but
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:49:10PM -0400, graywolf wrote:
Actually that is a good way to pick a highly sophisticated DSLR too, buy
a brand you feel comfortable with, that you like the look and feel of.
Actually most cameras in a given price range perform very similarly.
And if you have no
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:58:55AM +0300, Boris Liberman wrote:
Well, yes, it helps, I cannot deny that.
It is just that I think SR contributes significantly to the size of
camera. I'd rather Pentax introduced more than on K10D-like models so
that a consumer (a.k.a. me) could make their
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:57:27AM -0600, William Robb wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Bob W
Subject: RE: GFM: I won't be going
My itinerary involves leaving next Tuesday (four more days), and
travelling through Idaho to visit Tom Cakalic, and then south
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