Re: PESO - What's Jostein doing?

2010-05-19 Thread eckinator
Is that a camera in his hand or was he just happy to see you? 2010/5/19 Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: (He's the one with his back to the camera) Another one taken by Karin on her Optio S50. http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/PDML/IMGP1260.jpg Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Squeaking silver Pantomim - iBot 001

2010-05-19 Thread eckinator
2010/5/19 Roman Melihhov ro...@blakout.net: http://roman.blakout.net/?blog=20100519231343 ^^^ comments appreciated Nice shot. There must be a school of these somewhere. Or a nest. They're all over. Thanks for sharing Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Why bother with a Leica M8 or M9...

2010-05-19 Thread eckinator
2010/5/19 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: In the US we often consider old Nazi memoribilia war trophies, we're not ashamed of them, after all we beat them.  It's better than taking scalps as some of my ancestors did. Point taken. Same item, different story. Makes sense looking at

Re: OT: Why bother with a Leica M8 or M9...

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
2010/5/20 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: I am freaking already. Serious. I guess you have every right. Another statement that goes to show us it is all about where one is coming from. I for one did freak just as well. Not as much as Boris, I am quite sure but nonetheless. Cheers Ecke --

Re: OT - Turn reply into a new thread using Gmail

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
Wouldn't it be enough to just click first reply and then edit subject? Cheers Ecke 2010/5/20 Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com: 1.   Click Reply. 2.   Copy the contents. 3.   Discard the message. You'll be returned to the thread. 4.   Hover the pointer over Pentax-Discuss at the top of any

TO - Turn thread into a new gmail using reply

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
ok let us try this and see what happens 2010/5/20 Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com: On 21 May 2010 05:23, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't it be enough to just click first reply and then edit subject? I don't believe so.  Gmail will add headers to any reply within a thread

Re: Leica M9

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
Disclaimer: the following is written mind in glasshouse, the author has made mistakes and wronged people and doesn't see himself above anyone but is trying to point out a standard that should be considered desirable by everyone imvho =) From what I'm reading here this seems to be a cultural issue

Re: TO - Turn thread into a new gmail using reply

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
2010/5/20 Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com: But which method did you use? just clicked edit subject and moved some words around -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and

Re: TO - Turn thread into a new gmail using reply

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
Well let us ask steve and mike what they use and if they can copy paste us some headers =) 2010/5/20 Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com: Well dammit, I checked again and a simpleEdit Subject procedure will indeed create a new thread as Ecki predicted, at least for readers using a Gmail

Re: OT - Test of Gmail threading

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
who is this anon person anyway? 2010/5/20 Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com: Just checking again. regards, Anthony    Of what use is lens and light    to those who lack in mind and sight                                               (Anon) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: OT - Test of Gmail threading

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
What makes you so sure? 2010/5/20 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Someone you don't know. On 5/20/2010 3:59 PM, eckinator wrote: who is this anon person anyway? 2010/5/20 Anthony Farrfarranth...@gmail.com: Just checking again. regards, Anthony    Of what use is lens

Re: Sigma OS available for Pentax! [Scanned]

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
Is use of them mutually exclusive? Cheers Ecke 2010/5/20 John Whittingham jo...@carmel.ac.uk: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1005/10051401sigma120mm400sonypentax.asp#press Could be of interest to all those finding SR useless on long lenses, the 150-500 APO HSM is already listed at Sigma UK.

Re: OT - Test of Gmail threading

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
2010/5/21 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: From: eckinator who is this anon person anyway? 2010/5/20 Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com: Just checking again. regards, Anthony ? ?Of what use is lens and light ? ?to those who lack in mind and sight

Re: PESO 2010 - Time Machine - GDG

2010-05-20 Thread eckinator
Goes to show you don't have a memory but instead your memory has you. Nice shot, nice comment, thanks for sharing Ecke 2010/5/20 Godfrey DiGiorgi ramar...@mac.com: A new photo blog post available for your pleasure.  http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com/the-time-machine-226 Comments always

Re: PESO Bokeh baby

2010-05-21 Thread eckinator
Tilt baby, tilt. Very nice indeed. Creamy, too =) Cheers Ecke 2010/5/20 Toine to...@repiuk.nl: Found a Lensbaby 3G for Pentax and used the last light for some quick macros: http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/blog-mainmenu-97/133-bokeh-baby I think I'm in love with my new baby :) Toine --

Re: Birding with the 18-250

2010-05-21 Thread eckinator
Nice =) Did you use a remote for the 16-50 shot? And is the DA* pigeon poo proof? Cheers Ecke 2010/5/21 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: The Tamron 18-250 is not an ideal lens for birding, but occasionally it's adequately sharp: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4626335024/

Re: Peso: Power Boat racing

2010-05-21 Thread eckinator
This is sports. It cannot have been taken with a Pentax let alone a K10D. Liar. I hate you =) Cheers Ecke 2010/5/21 p...@philnortheast.com: V8 powered racing boat making a turn during a race produces plenty of spray: http://philnortheast.com/aviewfinderdarkly/general/potw/outlawturn.htm

Re: Returning defective goods : was RE: Leica M9

2010-05-21 Thread eckinator
Bill can you explain this, please - I just don't seem to catch your reference? TIA Ecke How about the ones who buy two single device boxes, take the side plates off so as to make a two gang box and then bring the side plates back for a full refund? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: [freedoms_cry_litigators] Bloglines - Penn. activist facing 8 years in prison after videotaping officers outside courthouse

2010-05-21 Thread eckinator
Horrible story. Now if you could put the link to donate back into the message, perhaps a few people here might cough up a few bucks for his defense =) Ecke 2010/5/21 27...@comcast.net: Look what's happening now ... - Forwarded Message - From: dqu...@thegrid.net To: freedoms cry

Re: PESO: Killdeer

2010-05-21 Thread eckinator
Great capture Jack, delightful image =) Cheers Ecke 2010/5/19 Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com: Circled the local state managed wildlife area a couple days ago and shot this: http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=504 Comments immensely welcome. Jack K20, da55~...@300(what

Re: Returning defective goods : was RE: Leica M9

2010-05-21 Thread eckinator
OK now I get it - TY Bill The benefits of cheap labor, I guess... Cheers Ecke 2010/5/21 William Robb war...@gmail.com: - Original Message - From: eckinator Subject: Re: Returning defective goods : was RE: Leica M9 Bill can you explain this, please - I just don't seem to catch your

Re: Returning defective goods : was RE: Leica M9

2010-05-22 Thread eckinator
2010/5/22 Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com: The way people do business reflects their own perception of the way they are treated. If you think that companies will do anything they can to cheat you, they you will reply in kind.  This is especially true if they believe that big companies are

Re: OT pacman on google

2010-05-22 Thread eckinator
Crashed my IE8 several times, I gave up in the end 2010/5/22 William Robb war...@gmail.com: - Original Message - From: Larry Colen Subject: OT pacman on google go to http://www.google.com/ hit insert coin and then you can play the game by clicking your mouse on where you want

Re: VeryOT: no anti-bike bias here at all, oh no, absolutely,, not

2010-05-22 Thread eckinator
2010/5/22 Bob W p...@web-options.com: [...] I put on a helmet when it rains.  It keeps the hood of my rain jacket on my head. I have a reflective GoreTex helmet cover, keeps rain and wind out and surface friction is enough to hold a Petzl TacTikka XP LED headlamp which can be used as both a

Re: still VeryOT: helmets...

2010-05-22 Thread eckinator
Look nice but I think they kill you in the summer heat? 2010/5/22 Bertil Holmberg bertilholmb...@telia.com: I just purchesed a Nutcase helmet, the most fun ones that you can get - I think. http://www.nutcasehelmets.com/Pages/index.aspx I had to pay double the US price at

Re: Bird watcher Maritimtim

2010-05-22 Thread eckinator
Happy birthday, Tim! =) Cheers Ecke 2010/5/21 Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net: That's nice, Tim.  Hope you had a nice birthday!  Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Saturday, May 15,

Re: still VeryOT: helmets was no anti-bike bias here at all, oh no, absolutely, , not

2010-05-22 Thread eckinator
Haha ... you invoked Godwin on purpose - does that even count? 2010/5/22 Bob W p...@web-options.com: [...] So one should always be vigilant. How does a helmet hinder such vigilance? It's nice to have the helmet as a final layer of protection if more pro-active prevention isn't enough.  Not

Re: PESO More bokeh

2010-05-22 Thread eckinator
positively creamy. me likee =) 2010/5/22 Toine to...@repiuk.nl: Another shot with the Lensbaby: http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/blog-mainmenu-97/134-more-bokeh Toine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the

Re: Leica M9

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
2010/5/23 Tom C caka...@gmail.com: Do they have the right to know the full story? If a mfr. were to make, and a retailer to sell, a shoddy product, do they let me in on it?  Or do they hope people buy it and are then stuck with it, and too busy or too chicken shit to raise a stink? And even

Re: Birding with the 18-250

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
2010/5/22 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: Thanks, Jack and Ecke. The 18-250 was at 250.  We had gotten a stuffed churro on the pier, which really wasn't very good. I was sitting on the ground, holding little bits of it in one hand, shooting with the other. At least until one of the gulls saw

Re: Leica M9

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
2010/5/23 William Robb war...@gmail.com: I for one am not on one, I just happen to think two wrongs don't make a right. But two Wrights can make an airplane. And an airplane can make three lefts, some even four. Things inevitably come full circle. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: still VeryOT: helmets...

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
No she's got it right. She's got balls to ride a racing bike across what looks like a dance floor at high speed so she needs to protect them. 2010/5/23 Bob W p...@web-options.com: This woman's got it wrong then - she's wearing one of those on her head:

Re: Birding with the 18-250

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
2010/5/23 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I had a similar problem with my breaksfast and a troupe of colobus monkeys in Ethiopia once. Same in Northwestern Malaysia - don't go near them with a plastic carrier bag or worse, food in your hands... dunno what kind of monkeys they were though - I can

Re: the Quercy triangle (was Re: Night photography of NY and LV)

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
2010/5/22 Bob W p...@web-options.com: Well, not really France though... :o) But another place I would very much like to visit some day. Well worth the trip and absolutely do not miss out on the Osteria U Mulinu at Feliceto; best reached from Calvi. Reservation recommended, dinner starts at 8,

Re: Leica M9

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
2010/5/23 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: I for one am not on one, I just happen to think two wrongs don't make a right. But two Wrights can make an airplane. Can two rites make a ceremony? Dunno. Can two wrights make a play? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PDML 2010 Annual Reconciliation?

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
Mark, did you ask everyone directly? Cheers Ecke 2010/5/22 Tom C caka...@gmail.com: Mark, How's it looking regarding receipts for all the copies brought to the exhibit?  I know some one suggested the idea that if you end up short, that participants could voluntarily contribute so you don't

The book is here

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
First of all my profound thanks to all the team who put the book together, everyone who donated their autographed and Chris Mitchell who took upon himself to get the book signed and sent to me. I love you all =) I am still pretty much overwhelmed by the quality of many of the images, I'll sit down

Re: PESO -- Wait! Who's got my dignity?

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
It's a dog's life... ROFL brilliant catch... what were they thinking? Thanks for sharing Ecke 2010/5/23 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: It shouldn't happen to a dog. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20dignity.html Equipment:  Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax FA 28-200 f3.8~5.6

Re: Leica M9

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
2010/5/23 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Two Wongs can make a chop suey. And two fangs can take a bite. In Denmark they can buy Dong Energy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above

Re: Leica M9

2010-05-23 Thread eckinator
2010/5/23 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: 2010/5/23 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Two Wongs can make a chop suey. And two fangs can take a bite. In Denmark they can buy Dong Energy. I've been thinking... two bongs could fly my kite but it only takes two puns to make me write but the real question

Re: Leica M9

2010-05-24 Thread eckinator
2010/5/24 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: This list has too many/much pun_dits... Well, two punishments can fit one crime... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and

Re: PDML 2010 Annual Reconciliation?

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
2010/5/25 William Robb war...@gmail.com: So, I challenge the list to do the right thing and help out with this. Me too. I'll gladly cough up my 1/list-th any time I am called upon. Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Leica M9

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
2010/5/25 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: I for one am not on one, I just happen to think two wrongs don't make a right. But two Wrights can make an airplane. Can two rites make a ceremony? Dunno. Can two wrights make a play? Can three wrights make a left? If two lights make a

Re: PESO - Dad's Tunes

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
Way cool Frank, thanks for sharing =) 2010/5/25 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: Spotted yesterday waiting for a bus: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/05/dads-tunes.html Hope you enjoy.  Comments welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.  -Henri

Re: Tamron 300/2.8 - repairs

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
2010/5/25 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: I sent this off a while ago, but it seems to have gotten eaten by the email monster.  Anyways, I also found reference to a place called ICT: http://www.ictcamera.com/About/about.html Does anybody know them? No but it has Manfred vrom ze Motherland =)

Re: If I were a gambling man...

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
Could be an idea to use those for my lens bracelet etc project - do you have that losting for me please? Cheers Ecke 2010/5/25 Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com: There is a guy on our local Craigslist selling a whole MESS of lenses for $225, including this one:

Re: If I were a gambling man...

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
OK I am calling dibs on this one. Cheers Ecke 2010/5/25 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: You're right, that lens is worth a hell of a lot more, if it isn't trashed. On 5/25/2010 10:32 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: There is a guy on our local Craigslist selling a whole MESS of lenses

Re: If I were a gambling man...

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
Gone. Not just since now, too =( 2010/5/25 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: OK I am calling dibs on this one. Cheers Ecke 2010/5/25 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: You're right, that lens is worth a hell of a lot more, if it isn't trashed. On 5/25/2010 10:32 AM, Charles Robinson

Re: PESO - For all hoopy froods

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
Get yours here =) http://www.royal-plus.de/dna/shopE.html 2010/5/25 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: Today is International Towel day. http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?pos=-268 Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: PESO - For all hoopy froods

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
2010/5/25 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: The pic is of my towel. Got it for my 42nd birthday, even. :-) Don't even remind me. 40 is knocking on my front door real hard. Only 2 weeks to go and I am already starting to feel youth leaving my body... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - For all hoopy froods

2010-05-25 Thread eckinator
OK I hear you all... I'll make my damn best of it 2010/5/26 Bob W p...@web-options.com: Don't even remind me. 40 is knocking on my front door real hard. Only 2 weeks to go and I am already starting to feel youth leaving my body... it good be worse - you could be feeling Yootha leaving your

Re: PESO -- Cash or Credit

2010-05-26 Thread eckinator
Bless the Vikings! 2010/5/25 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: She's fully equipped http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20%20cashorcredit.html Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax FA 28-200mm f3.8~5.6 As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. --

Re: Returns discussion

2010-05-26 Thread eckinator
2010/5/26 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com: How ridiculous that these obviously abuse prone return policies appear to have spawned a counter-return industry. Really one of the issues of our time - for everything there is someone out there who is not above making money from it... -- PDML

Re: OT: So much for LBA

2010-05-26 Thread eckinator
same here, good luck larry! 2010/5/27 Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com: Best wishes Larry. --Sasha On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:36 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: ;-( Dave On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Short form:  The company didn't get

Re: PESO - After the Storm

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/13 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: Wow! I leica. 'Sony a wave. Rolleing onto shore. Scary, makes me want my mamiya. I canon take this any more You've had a nikon the head boy. What's your point, exa ctly? His contax are worth knowing. Sigma Freud would have a field

Re: PESO - After the Storm

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: Wow! I leica. 'Sony a wave. Rolleing onto shore. Scary, makes me want my mamiya. I canon take this any more You've had a nikon the head boy. What's your point, exa ctly? His contax are worth knowing. Sigma Freud would have a field

Re: OT: Ping

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 Bob W p...@web-options.com: another important contribution to the ongoing debate Ah, I see you have the machine that goes PING! Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the

Re: Nina Sings!

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
Impressive. You captured the concentration quite well indeed =) Thanks for sharing Ecke 2010/5/27 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: Nina Lorcini is a Canadian mezzosoprano currently based in New York. She attended the CD release of an opera composed by a friend of mine. I got a few

Re: What to charge to photograph a party?

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: If the clients are friends and you ask for that kind of money, they will cease to be friends. If they're really good friends, I shoot their party for grins. If they're somewhat distant friends, I charge them a few hundred bucks. If I have

Re: PESO Borrowed letters

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com: On 27/05/2010, Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com wrote: weird mantras you're teaching that kid Firebrigade om We're all different in our own special ways. ;-) Yes and I am happy to see some are more different than others =) -- PDML

Re: OT: Ping

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
has to be a white iSub - yellow is so 60s... 2010/5/27 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: 2010/5/27 Bob W p...@web-options.com: another important contribution to the ongoing debate Congrats on your new submarine, Bob. Which colour? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

Re: Didja miss me?

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/22 Tom C caka...@gmail.com: Yeah we missed you. Important things on the list: 1. Almost no one on the list will ever buy a Leica ever ever again, if not never. 2. One of our members is apparently a dishonest, deceptive, lying bastard because he returned a camera that had a drink

Re: What to charge to photograph a party?

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: Friends are friends. In general, it's best not to do business with them. If one must do so, it's best not to take profit.  But that's just my opinion, offered free of charge:-). Very much agreed. The only kind I do business with are those

Re: What to charge to photograph a party?

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
OK you didn't make that clear it seems. Start with a kidney, work your way down to an arm and a leg and settle for 10 grand plus post processing =) Show them your Fong Dong ]=) 2010/5/27 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: On May 27, 2010, at 7:53 AM, Paul Sorenson wrote: e)  Larry IS out of work

Re: OT: Eyeballing Fad

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
could cause blindness they tried that one on us before and it didn't do the trick either... does it grow hair on your palms, too? =) 2010/5/27 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: Those English kids are just crazy: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593570,00.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: 645D

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 Jens p...@planfoto.dk: Hello guys Have anyone actually seen reviews on the new Pentax 645D? I wnat to buy it, but it's a little steep for me at the moment - the price of a rather nice, used car, perhaps 5 yars old, where I live :-( Sounds like you can wait for the reviews while you

Re: OT: Ping

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 Bob W p...@web-options.com: 2010/5/27 Bob W p...@web-options.com: another important contribution to the ongoing debate Congrats on your new submarine, Bob. Which colour? stealth what is the pigment made from? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Completely OT Drivel

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
What Paul said. Plus the Cannelloni. On a grand scale the rest is noise. Ecke 2010/5/27 P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: Congratulations on the 26 years, A major achievement. Paul On May 27, 2010, at 3:49 PM, William Robb wrote: Damned Microsoft put put Lookout Express out to

Re: Completely OT Drivel

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: Congratulations on your 26th anniversary.  You must have a very patient and forgiving wife. On Saturday we will celebrate our 45th anniversary.  That fulfills the requirements for my wife to be canonized. At what anniversary did/will she get

Re: OT: Ping

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/27 Bob W p...@web-options.com: another important contribution to the ongoing debate Congrats on your new submarine, Bob. Which colour? stealth what is the pigment made from? it's a pigment of my imagination cheeky... better cover that up with a pig leaf... -- PDML

Re: Completely OT Drivel

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
oh ok so she's been canonized already =) 2010/5/27 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: Well, she had a nikon, but it crapped out, and now she has a Canon PS. Dan On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:27 PM, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/27 Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com

Re: What to charge to photograph a party?

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/28 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: OK you didn't make that clear it seems. Start with a kidney, work your way down to an arm and a leg and settle for 10 grand plus post processing =) Show them your Fong Dong ]=) Sounds fair to me, but I would advise against pulling out the Fong Dong

Re: Completely OT Drivel

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/28 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: Congratulations on your 26th anniversary. You must have a very patient and forgiving wife. On Saturday we will celebrate our 45th anniversary. That fulfills the requirements for my wife to be canonized. At what anniversary did/will she get

Re: Getting multiple emails from drd1...@gmail.com sent to our list

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
not moi 2010/5/28 Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com: about the eyeball drinking thing... anyone else? I got over 15  - ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above

Re: GESO: Lightning!

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
sweet =) I've yet to get one Cheers Ecke 2010/5/28 David Parsons parsons.da...@gmail.com: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alohadave/sets/72157624026093043/ Last night we had some pretty intense weather with the heat and very fast moving storms that passed through. I got my very first lightning

Re: What to charge to photograph a party?

2010-05-27 Thread eckinator
2010/5/28 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: OK you didn't make that clear it seems. Start with a kidney, work your way down to an arm and a leg and settle for 10 grand plus post processing =) Show them your Fong Dong ]=) Sounds fair to me, but I would advise against pulling out the Fong Dong

Re: What to charge to photograph a party?

2010-05-28 Thread eckinator
2010/5/28 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: OK you didn't make that clear it seems. Start with a kidney, work your way down to an arm and a leg and settle for 10 grand plus post processing =) Show them your Fong Dong ]=) Sounds fair to me, but I would advise against pulling out the Fong

MBOI Leica to Pentax lens adaptor on eBay

2010-05-28 Thread eckinator
see listing 200474228155 expiring tomorrow (not mine) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: MBOI Leica to Pentax lens adaptor on eBay

2010-05-28 Thread eckinator
Oh yeah, it is M39 to Pentax, not Leica-R Cheers Ecke 2010/5/28 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: see listing 200474228155 expiring tomorrow (not mine) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: MBOI Leica to Pentax lens adaptor on eBay

2010-05-28 Thread eckinator
I can handle bidding and shipment if anyone wants me to 2010/5/28 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Not available on Ebay US so I wouldn't really care anyway. On 5/28/2010 8:39 AM, eckinator wrote: Oh yeah, it is M39 to Pentax, not Leica-R Cheers Ecke 2010/5/28 eckinatoreckina

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-29 Thread eckinator
2010/5/29 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: It's a good article, but let's take a look at it.  Let's assume that we could develop a system that would prevent every one of these deaths, and that it could be implemented for $10 per car.  Now let's say that there are 30 million cars sold in the

Re: PESO and a problem

2010-05-29 Thread eckinator
2010/5/28 drd1...@gmail.com: Mark looks so learned, like one of those wizard dudes in LOTR. Positively an alpha male... Y'all will excuse me now while I go mail fifty more copies. Mark! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-29 Thread eckinator
2010/5/30 Luiz Felipe luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br: Good point, might be an alternative to factory-issued protective devices. I still think the absent minded may forget to keep d...@mnd batteries fresh, tho. Manage to build such with some kind of movement- charging device and it'll be almost

Re: You think you K10 is loud

2010-05-29 Thread eckinator
2010/5/30 Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com: But do they have breech locks? ;-) You mean the little open/close thingy for the SD card slot? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-30 Thread eckinator
uhm wouldn't the campaign to reach and penetrate them cost MORE? 2010/5/30 Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com: 5.5 to 6 million cars are sold in the US per quarter. Call it 23 million cars per year, 2010. At $10-$100 per new car, that's a extra $230,000,000 to $2,300,000,000 per year cost

Re: You think you K10 is loud

2010-05-30 Thread eckinator
2010/5/30 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Canon FD lenses, (pre EOS) used a breach lock system to mount their lenses, but it's not funny if you have to explain the joke. However it got even more bizarre when they modified the breach lock system to /look/ like a bayonet lens mount

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-30 Thread eckinator
Looks to me in some parts like a cultural issue again - some countries have higher thresholds for acceptable legislative interference, others believe in paternalism as part of a healthy society. Maybe it also depends on how much of a flying fuck the government gives about the voters' opinion once

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-30 Thread eckinator
2010/5/30 Bob W p...@web-options.com: surely in this day and age it's not beyond the wit of man to find some way of extending the human incubation period by a few months so children are that much older when they're born? Following birth they should be placed in hermetically sealed incubators

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-30 Thread eckinator
2010/5/30 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I don't believe buckling up should be mandatory, any more than wearing cycling helmets should be mandatory. I also think it should be legal for adults to use class A drugs if they want to. Adults are responsible for their own safety; parents and relatives

Re: GESO: Zombie Walk through Boston

2010-05-30 Thread eckinator
Great set, really enjoying it. First flip-through, this pic caught me thinking, Amy Winehouse stole a female officer's clothes and busted out of jail? http://www.flickr.com/photos/alohadave/4651978296/in/set-72157624039413171/ Thanks for sharing Ecke 2010/5/30 David Parsons

Re: DOF Preview on PZ-1p with an 'A' lens??

2010-05-30 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com: It stopped down to the aperture you selected with the thumbwheel. That is of course assuming you had your aperture simulator set to stun... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-31 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: I believe that hospitals call it triage. field hospitals, yes. the only war this issue is possibly facing is a flame war. doug, can you implement post/thread triage on the list? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-31 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 Bob W p...@web-options.com: come off it, Boris. If the parents don't make those decisions, who does? Are you seriously telling me that you would grant to someone else the right to take minute-by-minute decisions about your children? Who? Your local catholic priest? The mayor of your

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-31 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: Naturally, under these conditions the only thing that can happen if we continue this talk is more grinding and eventual halt at a dead end. Keep grinding guys but don't forget the bumping =) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-31 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: Wrong. The issue will face a war of words in Washington. In fact, it has already begun. Great =) ...easily said from my side of the pond... Doug doesn't censor the list. Members are free to ignore a thread if they so choose. I know. I was

Re: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-31 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 William Robb war...@gmail.com: If a person wants to commit infanticide on their spawn, that's all well and good. Mark! Even out of context, a point well made. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-31 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 William Robb war...@gmail.com: So, you say, injecting heroin (provided it is injected) is fine as long as it is done behind doors alone? Isn't it a bit shallow perspective? Actually Boris, if, as a society we said yes, it is OK, and then treated the fallout as a public health issue

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-31 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 Bob W p...@web-options.com: [...] I know. I was kidding. Triage suggested it. And the greater benefit for the greater number is a good guiding principle. But some applications of it are ugly. it's a terrible guiding principle - it inevitably leads to totalitarianism. Democracy

Re: OT: Kids are Dying in Cars

2010-05-31 Thread eckinator
2010/5/31 William Robb war...@gmail.com: I find it galling enough that as a non parent my tax dollars are being spent on subsidized day care or school taxes. Pondering whether to take a deep breath and shut my trap or let you have a piece of my mind here... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PUGs are up

2010-06-01 Thread eckinator
2010/6/1 Theodore Beilby tbei...@sbcglobal.net: still broke for me! I'm browsing and it won't come up! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

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