Re: you guys will like this
Amita Guha wrote: I also kind of like the idea of having a rugged, splashproof camera. Precisely the reason I acquired a WR-90 in the pre-digital era. There's no substitute for a rugged, splashproof camera. Either ya have one, or ya don't. Now I wouldn't mind having a digital one, but that's *very* low on my list of priorities.
RE: PESO playground
Scott, I like this picture. I wanted a little space between the bottom of the swing and the top of the mountain, I still like this picture. Regards, Gautam -Original Message- From: Scott Loveless [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 7:08 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: PESO playground This was taken at a public park near my home. I don't really care for the way the swing lines up with the mountain in the background, but the sky was just about perfect. I wanted a little space between the bottom of the swing and the top of the mountain, but the Pentax 750z has a bit of shutter lag for which I just couldn't comensate. I've been back with the MX and E100, but the weather hasn't been quite as cooperative. http://twosixteen.com/gallery/index.php?list=20 Thanks for looking. Any comments and critiques are much appreciated. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- You have to hold the button down -Arnold Newman
Re: My First PESO
Agreed. Great picture. Sell it to the town tourist board, if there is one. John On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:45:03 +0100, Mark Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nice. It almost has a toy like quality like it was part of an extravagant model railroad setup. Very Americana. This is different. The skylines of NY or LA have been all shot up. This is fresh. - Original Message - From: Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:06 PM Subject: PESO: My First PESO Hello, I just uploaded one of the images I shot with the *istDS. The picture was shot at twilight, with the camera resting on the handrail of a balcony. The image is of Huntington, West Virginia. I would have preferred the skyline of New York or LA, but this is all I had to work with. ;-) http://mclilith.audioshot.net/photos2005/pullman.html take care, Glen -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.6/69 - Release Date: 11/08/2005
A curiosity: SMC Pentax-D
Hi all, Never heard of it before: an SMC Pentax-D 1:2 12,5-63mm. See http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7536360195rd=1sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AITrd=1. It's Autofocus and Powerzoom with a 2/3 bayonet mount. Which seems to have a register distance of 48mm, so you can 'easily' make an adapter for your *ist-D. Might vignette a bit at the wide end, though :-) Does anyone know whether this is a one-off, or are there more SMC Pentax-D lenses? -- Regards, Lucas
At it again...
Hi All, Unsubscribing for a while to take delivery of number three. http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~sking/pages/withcelia04.htm (click on the image for more) When I joined the list I had one body, one lens and no children. Now I've got 2.95 kids, 5 bodies and 12 lenses. Is there a link? TTFN Simon
Re: Work Flow Question
Hey all, My apologies for taking so long to reply to my own thread, I've been working on term papers all week. Thanks to everyone who responded, especially those who suggested IrfanView. I haven't spent much time with it but I can already tell it's exactly the sort of program I've been looking for, and it runs blazingly fast compared to Adobe Bridge. I also updated Adobe Bridge tonight (thanks to whoever suggested it, although I've deleted your email on accident so I don't know who you are). It runs faster than it did before but it's still slower than IrfanView. I still like Adobe Bridge for handling raw files but for my mass image rotations. Finally I have a question for IrfanView users: I've been using the JPG Lossless Operations command to rotate my images. I tested it first to see if the file size changed or there were any visible image degradation and I didn't notice any changes. Is the process truly lossless? If it is, just out of curiosity, does anyone know how the process works? From what I understood about JPG's is that every time you resave the image it compresses a little more. Thanks again, David
Re: A curiosity: SMC Pentax-D
Lucas Rijnders wrote on 12.08.05 8:41: Does anyone know whether this is a one-off, or are there more SMC Pentax-D lenses? There are much more, but not neccessary with SMC-D name. They produce a lot (even more than K-lenses) of specialized industrial grade lenses like these: http://www.pentaximaging.com/products/security_system_division/cctv_details/ index.jsp -- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
Re: At it again...
On 12/8/05, Simon King, discombobulated, unleashed: Hi All, Unsubscribing for a while to take delivery of number three. http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~sking/pages/withcelia04.htm Nice shot. Good luck! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: A curiosity: SMC Pentax-D
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:22:29 +0200, Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucas Rijnders wrote on 12.08.05 8:41: Does anyone know whether this is a one-off, or are there more SMC Pentax-D lenses? There are much more, but not neccessary with SMC-D name. They produce a lot (even more than K-lenses) of specialized industrial grade lenses like these: http://www.pentaximaging.com/products/security_system_division/cctv_details/ index.jsp Sure, but this one has the 'look and feel', and follows the naming scheme, of a K-mount lens. All ohters I saw at the cctv-site don't do that. -- Regards, Lucas
Re: canon eos d5
Cotty wrote on 11.08.05 23:31: Last item at the bottom: http://www.janosphotovideo.com/cadislrca.html Interesting. It seems that we'll have to wait until 22.08 to see what's hot and what's not ;-) BTW - about the same date (23.08 from what I've know) Nikon is supposed to show (finally!) D100 successor. All I know from very good source is that it will have APS-C sensor with two digits megapixel count, sealed metal construction with optional battery pack a'la F100 and AF system from D2 series cameras (the best one on market so far). Supposed price is to be around 2000 USD. Now what will you say? Which one will sell better? $3500 FF Canon 5D with no weather sealed body, or APS-C based Nikon D200 with the same pixel count and weather sealed body, the best AF system but probably higher noise at higher ISO for $2000??? And the last question - is there any chance that Pentax will be able to catch? Tough question, as it depends on third party sensors, and so far there are no news about these. The one produced by Sony used in D2X is Nikon's construction and it is unlikely that it would be available to other camera manufacturers... -- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
Re: OT:Apple advise
On 11/8/05, E.R.N. Reed, discombobulated, unleashed: My husband will tell you -- what sold me on broadband was that I could be keeping up with the PDML and he could be playing online computer games *at the same time.* (Watch it with the stereotypes, chum ... watch it ... ) ;-) Har!!! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: you guys will like this
E.R.N. Reed wrote on 12.08.05 8:10: Precisely the reason I acquired a WR-90 in the pre-digital era. There's no substitute for a rugged, splashproof camera. Either ya have one, or ya don't. Now I wouldn't mind having a digital one, but that's *very* low on my list of priorities. Exactly that's why I bought Optio 33WR one year ago. Funny because it square shaped, but it takes very good photos and is not afraid of even the worst condition ;-) -- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
Re: A curiosity: SMC Pentax-D
Lucas Rijnders wrote on 12.08.05 9:27: Sure, but this one has the 'look and feel', and follows the naming scheme, of a K-mount lens. All ohters I saw at the cctv-site don't do that. Maybe it was short production run? Notice that it has motorized zoom and focus, so it won't be usable without power :-) -- Pozdrowienia Sylwek
Re: OT - Upping the anti
Herb Chong wrote: the Dalsa sensors for 22MP cameras were in excess of $5K in OEM quantities. That's certainly a lot. Still, the price doesn't necessarily say much about what Dalsa's cost per unit was, or (perhaps more interesting) what it cost them to make one extra once the production equipment was up-and-running. cost goes up faster than area. Yes. Everyone knows that. However, given the current cost of 1/2-inch sensors - which I'm not sure about either, but based on all those mini/credit card-size cameras that keep popping up, I'm assuming it's rather low by now - it can go up *a lot* faster, and still make relatively affordable large sensor. If you know what I mean... Herb - Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:58 AM Subject: Re: OT - Upping the anti I don't know prices of the sensor component, but they are expensive. Several hundred dollars at the OEM pricing level. Translate times 7-10 for retail after manufacture.
Re: to Optio or not to Optio?
On 11/8/05, Amita Guha, discombobulated, unleashed: In eight weeks, I'm going to replace my cell phone and PDA with a Palm Treo 650, which has a camera on it. This will be my first cameraphone. I am trying to figure out if I also need a carry-everywhere camera in addition to the cameraphone. Do any of you guys actually use your cameraphones, and if so, what do you use them for? Do you find yourself wanting/needing the quality of a decent snapshot camera in addition to the cameraphone? My Samsung SGH-i530 has a max resolution of 1152X864 which is not the worst in the world. I have it set to mono and grab faces and such with it. It's a Palm OS phone, a bit like the Kyocera 7135 and Samsung SPH- i500 in the USA. http://www.palmzone.net/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=255 I thought about the Treo but it uses a keypad (which was what I *didn't* want) instead of a stylus (which I did want). It's also a bit too big for my liking. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: At it again...
Simon King wrote: Hi All, Unsubscribing for a while to take delivery of number three. http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~sking/pages/withcelia04.htm (click on the image for more) When I joined the list I had one body, one lens and no children. Now I've got 2.95 kids, 5 bodies and 12 lenses. Is there a link? this list made you horny That's the scariest thing I ever heard. Tom Reese
Re: Lightseeker
Tom Reese wrote: Keith W. asked: You can find quite a few Pentax scope references if you go to Google.com then search GROUPS for Pentax Scope. Could you elaborate on that just a little, Tom? Seems that is a way to search group interest lists for messages by subject? Hmmm. Gotta look into that! There are a couple hundred thousand newgroups on Usenet. Most ISPs offer some type of newsgroup service to access them. You'll have to find out the nntp server name then configure your e-mail program to use them. Some that I subscribe to include rec.equipment.35mm and rec.photo.nature, rec.photo.marketplace.35mm. You can also subscribe to newsgroups through Google but it's a bit of a kludge. Google offers a way to search the newsgroup archives. Just go to the main google.com page. Across the top of the page is: Web, Images, Groups, News, Froogle, Local, More Web searches the internet, images searches for pictures, Groups searches the newsgroups, News searches for current news items and Froogle searches the internet but only places that offer the item for sale. Groups is a great resource. Froogle is a good way to narrow down the search for an item you might want to buy. Tom Reese Thank you, Tom! Up to now I have been so impressed at what Google will do with what I typed into their data entry line, I've paid scant attention to the other capabilities! But, I can see how that will help zero in on any given search. I'll be trying that very soon... my daughter has given me the task to do some searching on a legal matter; I've been asked to go looking for how many and what sort of lawsuits are being filed against LLC holders, how having an LLC protects them. Or if it even does! Gotta give this one a good think! I appreciate your help! keith whaley
A mirror image view camera?
Hi all, I've read that mounting your tripod head reversed can be useful with mirroir image view cameras. Does anybody know what above camera is and what is intended for? Thanks, Dario
Re: to Optio or not to Optio?
On 11/8/05, Amita Guha, discombobulated, unleashed: Never mind. I just ordered the Optio WP. Should be here in a couple of weeks. You women are so fickle!! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: you guys will like this
On 11/8/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: I did a LOT of photos with a Sony DSC-U60 last year, the fixed focal length, 2Mpixel, ruggedized and waterproof model. It is a tremendous amount of fun and takes a remarkably good picture. One of my favorites was a self portrait made from under the surface of a hot tub looking up at my boyfriend and I looking down ... If I can fish it up, I'll post a URL. Voyeur! ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: OT - Upping the anti
But will they now work on a Pentax camera? g Dave On 8/12/05, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/05, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: Unlike Cotty, I'm not willing to modify my lenses in such a way that they won't work normally. My Pentax lenses all work normally :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: you guys will like this
At 01:18 AM 8/12/2005, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I did a LOT of photos with a Sony DSC-U60 last year, the fixed focal length, 2Mpixel, ruggedized and waterproof model. It is a tremendous amount of fun and takes a remarkably good picture. One of my favorites was a self portrait made from under the surface of a hot tub looking up at my boyfriend and I looking down ... If I can fish it up, I'll post a URL. Can't do that with a DS... :-) You could buy a Ewa-marine housing for your *istDS. It would be good for depths a lot greater than any hot tub I have ever seen. ;-) Also, it can protect your camera from other potential dangers, such as blowing sand, spattering mud, rain, etc. take care, Glen
DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction
Hi all, This may be a known issue to istD owners but ... I was checking out my new D-FA 100mm macro today and noticed some unexpected behaviour. While checking DOF, I noticed it did not seem to work unless the lens was set to 'A'. Of course I would usually like to use the lens in AV mode, preselecting the aperture. Playing arround a bit, I found the DOF check only closes the aperture when either the lens is set to 'A', or the body is set to 'M'. This is a bit annoying, since it does not allow you to set a fixed aperture for good DOF, use automatic exposure, and check the actual DOF in the viewfinder as well. The best work-arround I found was to use manual and the 'green button' to set exposure ... (or no use of DOF-preview :-) I checked with the MZ-S too, and that definately does DOF-preview in all modes ... So, is this a problem with my istD, or do they all have this ? Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery
Re: OT - Upping the anti
someone has to pay the startup cost. if you wait until that is paid for, your competition has the market sewn up. Herb - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:49 AM Subject: Re: OT - Upping the anti Herb Chong wrote: the Dalsa sensors for 22MP cameras were in excess of $5K in OEM quantities. That's certainly a lot. Still, the price doesn't necessarily say much about what Dalsa's cost per unit was, or (perhaps more interesting) what it cost them to make one extra once the production equipment was up-and-running.
Re: At it again...
Have at it. We'll look forward to pics of the new arrival. Paul On Aug 12, 2005, at 2:51 AM, Simon King wrote: Hi All, Unsubscribing for a while to take delivery of number three. http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~sking/pages/withcelia04.htm (click on the image for more) When I joined the list I had one body, one lens and no children. Now I've got 2.95 kids, 5 bodies and 12 lenses. Is there a link? TTFN Simon
PESO: Black Goat
Here's another cruiser on Woodward. Again, shot with the FA 35/2, f8, 1/8th second, ISO 400. To my mind this shows the wider lens/ slow shutter swish pan effect to better advantage than the previous shot. It's another Pontiac GTO, either a '67 or '68. Paul http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3627325size=lg
Re: DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Jan van Wijk wrote: While checking DOF, I noticed it did not seem to work unless the lens was set to 'A'. Of course I would usually like to use the lens in AV mode, preselecting the aperture. Playing arround a bit, I found the DOF check only closes the aperture when either the lens is set to 'A', or the body is set to 'M'. This is a bit annoying, since it does not allow you to set a fixed aperture for good DOF, use automatic exposure, and check the actual DOF in the viewfinder as well. How? With an A lens set the aperture from the body and use DOF. With a non-A lens, put the camera to manual (it won't meter/fire properly otherwise anyway, if I recall correctly). What is the problem? I checked with the MZ-S too, and that definately does DOF-preview in all modes ... That's because it is not a cripple-mount. Kostas
Re: DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction
If you want to use aperture priority, set Av on the camera, and select the aperture you want - ON THE CAMERA. I suggest you read the manual. You clearly have no idea how the camera works! :-) John On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:33:57 +0100, Jan van Wijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This may be a known issue to istD owners but ... I was checking out my new D-FA 100mm macro today and noticed some unexpected behaviour. While checking DOF, I noticed it did not seem to work unless the lens was set to 'A'. Of course I would usually like to use the lens in AV mode, preselecting the aperture. Playing arround a bit, I found the DOF check only closes the aperture when either the lens is set to 'A', or the body is set to 'M'. This is a bit annoying, since it does not allow you to set a fixed aperture for good DOF, use automatic exposure, and check the actual DOF in the viewfinder as well. The best work-arround I found was to use manual and the 'green button' to set exposure ... (or no use of DOF-preview :-) I checked with the MZ-S too, and that definately does DOF-preview in all modes ... So, is this a problem with my istD, or do they all have this ? Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 11/08/2005
Re: DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction
Jan van Wijk escribió: This is a bit annoying, since it does not allow you to set a fixed aperture for good DOF, use automatic exposure, and check the actual DOF in the viewfinder as well. I don't know if I have understood well, but you can set whatever aperture you want with the *ist D (or DS,DL) using one of the wheels on the camera body, when you are in Av mode, and then you have both things: automatic exposure and DOF preview. Carlos
Re: At it again...
Simon, Great picture, best wishes for a speedy and easy delivery, looking forward to seeing photos of the new addition soon. Regards, Bob S. On 8/12/05, Simon King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Unsubscribing for a while to take delivery of number three. http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~sking/pages/withcelia04.htm (click on the image for more) When I joined the list I had one body, one lens and no children. Now I've got 2.95 kids, 5 bodies and 12 lenses. Is there a link? TTFN Simon
Re: PESO: Black Goat
Paul, Liked the first better... Bob S. On 8/12/05, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's another cruiser on Woodward. Again, shot with the FA 35/2, f8, 1/8th second, ISO 400. To my mind this shows the wider lens/ slow shutter swish pan effect to better advantage than the previous shot. It's another Pontiac GTO, either a '67 or '68. Paul http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3627325size=lg
New APS-C sensor from Sony!
It seems that we could have what many have been waiting for: http://www.adelco.it/online/company/Sony/pdf/ICX263AL.pdf So it seems possible that *istD successor could have 10.5 MPix. Just frame rate is slow (1.6 fps), but maybe there will be improved version built for DSLR? -- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
Re: PESO playground
As captured, this doesn't work for me, cluttered distracting. I like the theme though. However with a slightly different perspective it looks like you could place the seat of the swing away from its merging with the mountain line lose the distracting ground play toys the swing chain on the LH side the swing pipe on the RH side. Might work better in a vertical composition. Just my $.02 worth.. Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO playground Crap. Sorry. It's late and I haven't had any beer. http://twosixteen.com/gallery/index.php?id=151 Thanks for the head's up, Glen. On 8/11/05, Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:07 PM 8/11/2005, you wrote: This was taken at a public park near my home. Hi Scott, I didn't find the playground picture with the mountain. I only saw some very urban looking street scenes. Are you sure you gave us the right URL? take care, Glen -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- You have to hold the button down -Arnold Newman PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
Re: PESO: Black Goat
Paul, Just right. The only thing wrong is the subject (Goat). VBG Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: Black Goat Here's another cruiser on Woodward. Again, shot with the FA 35/2, f8, 1/8th second, ISO 400. To my mind this shows the wider lens/ slow shutter swish pan effect to better advantage than the previous shot. It's another Pontiac GTO, either a '67 or '68. Paul http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3627325size=lg PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
Another first peso
Hi guys, This is my first PESO. Taken after my daughter left her BMX helmet on some bollards, while taking a drink break at a BMX coaching session last month. I don't remember the EXIF stuff - was acting as a prop for her race bike at the time! http://www.pbase.com/petergly/image/47576409/ All comments and critiques most welcome - I've got lots to learn... :-) Ciao, Peter in Sydney
No, was: New APS-C sensor from Sony!
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:45:25 +0200, Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that we could have what many have been waiting for: http://www.adelco.it/online/company/Sony/pdf/ICX263AL.pdf So it seems possible that *istD successor could have 10.5 MPix. Just frame rate is slow (1.6 fps), but maybe there will be improved version built for DSLR? Hey Sylwester, The pdf says it's created in 2001... Also see this dpreview discussion: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000message=9607393 The second post puts it in 2001 as well, with arguments. I didn't read the whole thread, so there could be more information/speculation there... -- Sorry, Lucas
Re: No, was: New APS-C sensor from Sony!
Lucas Rijnders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that we could have what many have been waiting for: http://www.adelco.it/online/company/Sony/pdf/ICX263AL.pdf So it seems possible that *istD successor could have 10.5 MPix. Just frame rate is slow (1.6 fps), but maybe there will be improved version built for DSLR? The pdf says it's created in 2001... Also see this dpreview discussion: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000message=9607393 The second post puts it in 2001 as well, with arguments. I didn't read the whole thread, so there could be more information/speculation there... Expect future Pentax DSLR's to have CMOS sensors, not CCD. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: No, was: New APS-C sensor from Sony!
And Nguyen's nephew will be employed too, assembling Pentax's high-end PS digicams in the new Sanyo plant. http://www.dpreview.com/ Dario - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:52 PM Subject: Re: No, was: New APS-C sensor from Sony! Lucas Rijnders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that we could have what many have been waiting for: http://www.adelco.it/online/company/Sony/pdf/ICX263AL.pdf So it seems possible that *istD successor could have 10.5 MPix. Just frame rate is slow (1.6 fps), but maybe there will be improved version built for DSLR? The pdf says it's created in 2001... Also see this dpreview discussion: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000message=9607393 The second post puts it in 2001 as well, with arguments. I didn't read the whole thread, so there could be more information/speculation there... Expect future Pentax DSLR's to have CMOS sensors, not CCD. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Another first peso
I like this; I'm always a sucker for lines of things. I think it would be better if the whole bollard with the helmet were in the frame, though. Rick --- Peter McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, This is my first PESO. Taken after my daughter left her BMX helmet on some bollards, while taking a drink break at a BMX coaching session last month. I don't remember the EXIF stuff - was acting as a prop for her race bike at the time! http://www.pbase.com/petergly/image/47576409/ All comments and critiques most welcome - I've got lots to learn... :-) Ciao, Peter in Sydney __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
SV: At it again...
Nice shot. Happy Kick-Off. Soon you'll have more to photograph - if you can find the time...:-) Regards Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Simon King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 12. august 2005 08:51 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: At it again... Hi All, Unsubscribing for a while to take delivery of number three. http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~sking/pages/withcelia04.htm (click on the image for more) When I joined the list I had one body, one lens and no children. Now I've got 2.95 kids, 5 bodies and 12 lenses. Is there a link? TTFN Simon
Re: At it again...
Great shot! Subjects, composition, interaction, (lack of) background--really nice. Good luck!!! Rick (remembering this stage of his life--kids are now 17 and 20!) --- Simon King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Unsubscribing for a while to take delivery of number three. http://wwwstaff.murdoch.edu.au/~sking/pages/withcelia04.htm (click on the image for more) When I joined the list I had one body, one lens and no children. Now I've got 2.95 kids, 5 bodies and 12 lenses. Is there a link? TTFN Simon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: PESO playground
I think your self-critique is spot-on. I like the photo that follows it even more, though the plane focus may be a bit behind where you want it. Rick --- Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crap. Sorry. It's late and I haven't had any beer. http://twosixteen.com/gallery/index.php?id=151 Thanks for the head's up, Glen. On 8/11/05, Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:07 PM 8/11/2005, you wrote: This was taken at a public park near my home. Hi Scott, I didn't find the playground picture with the mountain. I only saw some very urban looking street scenes. Are you sure you gave us the right URL? take care, Glen -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com -- You have to hold the button down -Arnold Newman __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Another first peso
Rick Womer wrote: I like this; I'm always a sucker for lines of things. I think it would be better if the whole bollard with the helmet were in the frame, though. Rick Thanks for the feedback, Rick. I did crop it - I'll have a play and see how it looks with the whole bollard there. Ciao, Peter in Sydney
Re: OT - Upping the anti
Herb Chong wrote: someone has to pay the startup cost. True. if you wait until that is paid for, your competition has the market sewn up. Yes. That's one of the reasons why many people on this list say that Pentax ought to compete in the high-end DLSR market, isn't it? And I guess being an early adopter at least means you can make *some* of the money back by asking a very high price for the equipment that initially uses the new technology (because you have no competition yet.) Herb - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:49 AM Subject: Re: OT - Upping the anti Herb Chong wrote: the Dalsa sensors for 22MP cameras were in excess of $5K in OEM quantities. That's certainly a lot. Still, the price doesn't necessarily say much about what Dalsa's cost per unit was, or (perhaps more interesting) what it cost them to make one extra once the production equipment was up-and-running.
Re: to Optio or not to Optio?
On Aug 12, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Cotty wrote: My Samsung SGH-i530 has a max resolution of 1152X864 which is not the worst in the world. I have it set to mono and grab faces and such with it. It's a Palm OS phone, a bit like the Kyocera 7135 and Samsung SPH- i500 in the USA. http://www.palmzone.net/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=255 I thought about the Treo but it uses a keypad (which was what I *didn't* want) instead of a stylus (which I did want). It's also a bit too big for my liking. I looked at the Samsung as well, decided on the Treo despite its size due to the fact that it supports quad-band GSM where the Samsung is only tri-band. Took a bit but I've gotten comfortable with the keyboard now. Godfrey
SV: A curiosity: SMC Pentax-D
Never heard of this. Pentax makes lenses etc. for video and security systems and industrail products. Not only for still photograaphy. I think that Pentax line of industrial producs are in fact more profitable than for photography (if at all). Regards Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Lucas Rijnders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 12. august 2005 08:42 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: A curiosity: SMC Pentax-D Hi all, Never heard of it before: an SMC Pentax-D 1:2 12,5-63mm. See http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7536360195rd=1sspagenam e=STRK%3AMEWA%3AITrd=1. It's Autofocus and Powerzoom with a 2/3 bayonet mount. Which seems to have a register distance of 48mm, so you can 'easily' make an adapter for your *ist-D. Might vignette a bit at the wide end, though :-) Does anyone know whether this is a one-off, or are there more SMC Pentax-D lenses? -- Regards, Lucas
RE: FA 50mm 1.4 Lens
It's still listed at Fovitech http://www.fovitech.dk/fotodok/pentax/ptaxobj/fastobj-auto.htm in Denmark. This does not necessarily mean is not discontinued. Just that it's in stock (or they forget to take it out). List price is crazy: 500 USD. I paid less than 200 USD (used. like new) for mine. I love it, naturally. I use it mainly for portraits on my *ist D. Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: John Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 11. august 2005 16:23 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: FA 50mm 1.4 Lens Is the FA 50mm 1.4 gone or has production has been cut back. Everyone seems to be OOS of the lens. John G
Re: No, was: New APS-C sensor from Sony!
Lucas Rijnders wrote on 12.08.05 14:26: The pdf says it's created in 2001... Also see this dpreview discussion: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000message=9607393 The second post puts it in 2001 as well, with arguments. I didn't read the whole thread, so there could be more information/speculation there... That's a pity :-( -- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
Re: No, was: New APS-C sensor from Sony!
Mark Roberts wrote on 12.08.05 14:52: Expect future Pentax DSLR's to have CMOS sensors, not CCD. Do you really think so? Eventually it is possible they'll design such a sensor and then order production for instance in Sony. -- Balance is the ultimate good... Best Regards Sylwek
Re: A curiosity: SMC Pentax-D
Hi all, Never heard of it before: an SMC Pentax-D 1:2 12,5-63mm. See http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7536360195rd=1sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AITrd=1. It's Autofocus and Powerzoom with a 2/3 bayonet mount. Which seems to have a register distance of 48mm, so you can 'easily' make an adapter for your *ist-D. Might vignette a bit at the wide end, though :-) Does anyone know whether this is a one-off, or are there more SMC Pentax-D lenses? -- Regards, Lucas 1998 technology. Equivalent of 50mm-252mm, so the sensor is very small, won't give a big enough image on a APS sized sensor. Andre
Re: you guys will like this
On Aug 12, 2005, at 3:20 AM, Glen wrote: Can't do that with a DS... :-) You could buy a Ewa-marine housing for your *istDS. It would be good for depths a lot greater than any hot tub I have ever seen. ;-) Also, it can protect your camera from other potential dangers, such as blowing sand, spattering mud, rain, etc. I still doubt I could do quick, casual pictures at arms length with an Ewa-Marine housing. It's a bit bulky to carry around all the time ... Godfrey
Re: you guys will like this
On Aug 12, 2005, at 1:35 AM, Cotty wrote: I did a LOT of photos with a Sony DSC-U60 last year, the fixed focal length, 2Mpixel, ruggedized and waterproof model. It is a tremendous amount of fun and takes a remarkably good picture. One of my favorites was a self portrait made from under the surface of a hot tub looking up at my boyfriend and I looking down ... If I can fish it up, I'll post a URL. Voyeur! ;-) http://homepage.mac.com/godders/uw.html Godfrey
Re: you guys will like this
Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 12, 2005, at 1:35 AM, Cotty wrote: I did a LOT of photos with a Sony DSC-U60 last year, the fixed focal length, 2Mpixel, ruggedized and waterproof model. It is a tremendous amount of fun and takes a remarkably good picture. One of my favorites was a self portrait made from under the surface of a hot tub looking up at my boyfriend and I looking down ... If I can fish it up, I'll post a URL. Voyeur! ;-) http://homepage.mac.com/godders/uw.html Sleeps with the fishes? ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: Protective polypro sleeves for prints?
Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:13 PM 8/10/2005, Mark Roberts wrote: I may have another good gig soon - for the Carnegie Science Museum! It's doing sound design, not photography, but still looks very promising. Cross your fingers for me. Sound design? I didn't know that anyone else on this list was into sound design. (I do sound design and tech support for Camel Audio.) Doing sound design for Carnegie Science Museum sounds interesting. Can you say more about it? (Reply off-list, if you think it wouldn't be appropriate for PDML.) Why should being off-topic bother be? g They're doing a major re-vamp of their (apparently world famous) model railway and want to integrate sound design into the project in a big way. The guy with whom I taught the sound design course at Duquesne University this summer wants me to collaborate with him on the project. He's writing the grant proposal as we speak. As for your sleeves, others have already mentioned Light Impressions. That would have been my first suggestion also. They have all sorts of interesting products. I used to live two blocks away from Light Impressions in Rochester and had friends who worked there. I find their wen site difficult to navigate but they do have very useful stuff. Now, if only I could find an audio synthesis and digital photography mailing list...:) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Re: A curiosity: SMC Pentax-D
It's designed for video with a very small imaging circle, (don't know exactly what format it covers, I'm sure someone else on this list does). Almost worthless on an *ist-D. Lucas Rijnders wrote: Hi all, Never heard of it before: an SMC Pentax-D 1:2 12,5-63mm. See http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7536360195rd=1sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AITrd=1. It's Autofocus and Powerzoom with a 2/3 bayonet mount. Which seems to have a register distance of 48mm, so you can 'easily' make an adapter for your *ist-D. Might vignette a bit at the wide end, though :-) Does anyone know whether this is a one-off, or are there more SMC Pentax-D lenses? -- Regards, Lucas -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
Re: PESO: Black Goat
Thanks Ken. I think I have a fastback early sixties Fairlane somewhere in the mix. I'll look for it when I get home. Paul Paul, Just right. The only thing wrong is the subject (Goat). VBG Kenneth Waller -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PESO: Black Goat Here's another cruiser on Woodward. Again, shot with the FA 35/2, f8, 1/8th second, ISO 400. To my mind this shows the wider lens/ slow shutter swish pan effect to better advantage than the previous shot. It's another Pontiac GTO, either a '67 or '68. Paul http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3627325size=lg PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
Re: DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction
It may be a problem with your *ist-D or with the electronics in that particular lens. DOF should work in any mode and just to make sure I tried it with each of my FA F and A lenses. Guess what it does. If you don't have problems with other lenses I'd suspect the lens, otherwise the camera has a fault. Jan van Wijk wrote: Hi all, This may be a known issue to istD owners but ... I was checking out my new D-FA 100mm macro today and noticed some unexpected behaviour. While checking DOF, I noticed it did not seem to work unless the lens was set to 'A'. Of course I would usually like to use the lens in AV mode, preselecting the aperture. Playing arround a bit, I found the DOF check only closes the aperture when either the lens is set to 'A', or the body is set to 'M'. This is a bit annoying, since it does not allow you to set a fixed aperture for good DOF, use automatic exposure, and check the actual DOF in the viewfinder as well. The best work-arround I found was to use manual and the 'green button' to set exposure ... (or no use of DOF-preview :-) I checked with the MZ-S too, and that definately does DOF-preview in all modes ... So, is this a problem with my istD, or do they all have this ? Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
Re: you guys will like this
On Aug 12, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/godders/uw.html Sleeps with the fishes? ;-) Or rather The Fishes look up! Godfrey
Re: Another first peso
That's not bad, I like it. Peter McIntosh wrote: Hi guys, This is my first PESO. Taken after my daughter left her BMX helmet on some bollards, while taking a drink break at a BMX coaching session last month. I don't remember the EXIF stuff - was acting as a prop for her race bike at the time! http://www.pbase.com/petergly/image/47576409/ All comments and critiques most welcome - I've got lots to learn... :-) Ciao, Peter in Sydney -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
Re: DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction
I should have read the whole post carefully before posting this... Nevermind. P. J. Alling wrote: It may be a problem with your *ist-D or with the electronics in that particular lens. DOF should work in any mode and just to make sure I tried it with each of my FA F and A lenses. Guess what it does. If you don't have problems with other lenses I'd suspect the lens, otherwise the camera has a fault. Jan van Wijk wrote: Hi all, This may be a known issue to istD owners but ... I was checking out my new D-FA 100mm macro today and noticed some unexpected behaviour. While checking DOF, I noticed it did not seem to work unless the lens was set to 'A'. Of course I would usually like to use the lens in AV mode, preselecting the aperture. Playing arround a bit, I found the DOF check only closes the aperture when either the lens is set to 'A', or the body is set to 'M'. This is a bit annoying, since it does not allow you to set a fixed aperture for good DOF, use automatic exposure, and check the actual DOF in the viewfinder as well. The best work-arround I found was to use manual and the 'green button' to set exposure ... (or no use of DOF-preview :-) I checked with the MZ-S too, and that definately does DOF-preview in all modes ... So, is this a problem with my istD, or do they all have this ? Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- When you're worried or in doubt, Run in circles, (scream and shout).
Re: DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction
I was checking out my new D-FA 100mm macro today and noticed some unexpected behaviour. While checking DOF, I noticed it did not seem to work unless the lens was set to 'A'. Of course I would usually like to use the lens in AV mode, preselecting the aperture. Playing arround a bit, I found the DOF check only closes the aperture when either the lens is set to 'A', or the body is set to 'M'. This is normal behavior as expected with both the *ist D and DS bodies. The aperture control is designed to be driven from the body, not the aperture ring, so the normal operation of the D-FA lens, and all A/F/FA/DA lenses as well, is to set the aperture ring on the lens to the A position then use the thumbwheel to control the aperture setting. If the lens' aperture ring is moved off the A position, the body will not stop the lens down in any mode other than Manual exposure mode, and then (on the DS) only if the Aperture Ring Use custom function is set to Permitted. So ... To achieve what you want you set the lens to the A position, set Av mode, and then set the aperture on the body to whatever you desire. You'll have both DoF preview and Av exposure functionality. Godfrey
Re: DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction
- Original Message - From: Jan van Wijk Subject: DOF-preview on istD, weird restriction Hi all, This may be a known issue to istD owners but ... I was checking out my new D-FA 100mm macro today and noticed some unexpected behaviour. While checking DOF, I noticed it did not seem to work unless the lens was set to 'A'. Of course I would usually like to use the lens in AV mode, preselecting the aperture. Set the camera to AV and use the rear wheel to set the aperture. This is the way it is designed to work. William Robb
Re: A mirror image view camera?
- Original Message - From: Dario Bonazza Subject: A mirror image view camera? Hi all, I've read that mounting your tripod head reversed can be useful with mirroir image view cameras. Does anybody know what above camera is and what is intended for? All view cameras are mirror image as there is no mirror/ prism to erect the image. William Robb
SV: My First PESO
I like it a lot too. I have a weakness for postcards. They are often very informative and quite difficult to make - you know - the right place at the right time :-) Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: John Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 12. august 2005 08:46 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: Re: My First PESO Agreed. Great picture. Sell it to the town tourist board, if there is one. John On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:45:03 +0100, Mark Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nice. It almost has a toy like quality like it was part of an extravagant model railroad setup. Very Americana. This is different. The skylines of NY or LA have been all shot up. This is fresh. - Original Message - From: Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:06 PM Subject: PESO: My First PESO Hello, I just uploaded one of the images I shot with the *istDS. The picture was shot at twilight, with the camera resting on the handrail of a balcony. The image is of Huntington, West Virginia. I would have preferred the skyline of New York or LA, but this is all I had to work with. ;-) http://mclilith.audioshot.net/photos2005/pullman.html take care, Glen -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.6/69 - Release Date: 11/08/2005
Re: PESO: Black Goat
I like it, but I much rather prefer the other pic with the cuda and the other car. rg Paul Stenquist wrote: Here's another cruiser on Woodward. Again, shot with the FA 35/2, f8, 1/8th second, ISO 400. To my mind this shows the wider lens/ slow shutter swish pan effect to better advantage than the previous shot. It's another Pontiac GTO, either a '67 or '68. Paul http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3627325size=lg
Re: OT - Upping the anti
On 12/8/05, David Savage, discombobulated, unleashed: But will they now work on a Pentax camera? g yes of course. I take the EOS-K mount off and put a K mount on, and away we go. I lose open aperture metering, that's all. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: OT - Upping the anti
More news on the competition: http://news.techwhack.com/1878/canon-5d-is-finally-unveiled/ Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: PESO: Black Goat
Thanks Gonz. I prefer the other as well, but I wanted to show what kind of results this technique sometimes yields in terms of active movement. Knarf may well prefer this one vbg. Paul I like it, but I much rather prefer the other pic with the cuda and the other car. rg Paul Stenquist wrote: Here's another cruiser on Woodward. Again, shot with the FA 35/2, f8, 1/8th second, ISO 400. To my mind this shows the wider lens/ slow shutter swish pan effect to better advantage than the previous shot. It's another Pontiac GTO, either a '67 or '68. Paul http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3627325size=lg
Re: PESO: Black Goat
On 12/8/05, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: Here's another cruiser on Woodward. Again, shot with the FA 35/2, f8, 1/8th second, ISO 400. To my mind this shows the wider lens/ slow shutter swish pan effect to better advantage than the previous shot. It's another Pontiac GTO, either a '67 or '68. Paul http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3627325size=lg Another keeper Paul, very nice. Not so steady tho ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: PESO playground
Hi! Crap. Sorry. It's late and I haven't had any beer. http://twosixteen.com/gallery/index.php?id=151 Scott, I think that if you edited out the railings (if this is a correct word) on the right top side it would benefit the picture. You see, to me it has a sense of the whole world being opened for the child who's having fun on the playground. That piece of metal seems to be a limit to this... Just a little thing to consider, nothing more... Boris
Re: Another first peso
Hi! This is my first PESO. Taken after my daughter left her BMX helmet on some bollards, while taking a drink break at a BMX coaching session last month. I don't remember the EXIF stuff - was acting as a prop for her race bike at the time! http://www.pbase.com/petergly/image/47576409/ All comments and critiques most welcome - I've got lots to learn... :-) Peter, I really like this one. But I am known to have a weak spot for geometric patterns... Boris
Re: you guys will like this
On 12/8/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: http://homepage.mac.com/godders/uw.html So no CA corrections there then ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: PESO: Black Goat
Steady is as steady does ;-)) On 12/8/05, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: Here's another cruiser on Woodward. Again, shot with the FA 35/2, f8, 1/8th second, ISO 400. To my mind this shows the wider lens/ slow shutter swish pan effect to better advantage than the previous shot. It's another Pontiac GTO, either a '67 or '68. Paul http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3627325size=lg Another keeper Paul, very nice. Not so steady tho ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
On the road with AnnSan
Here's four shots from Ann's trip so far. http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=518950 Nice felt there, Steady. We went out last night and watched a particularly nice prarie sunset, I am sure that at her next stop she will post a few of them. Anyway, she is off to Calgary in the next couple of hours to take advantage of the delights of Cowtown, and prbably to beat up on a few cocky Canuck scrabble players. William Robb
Re: you guys will like this
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Mark Roberts wrote: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/godders/uw.html Sleeps with the fishes? ;-) No bait today? Kostas
Mr Rolfo's EOS-K adapter - Report
I recently purchased an adapter that allows Pentax K mount lenses to be used on Canon EOS cameras from a German eBay seller called Mr. Rolfo. Here is a short, er long report. Someone on the list pointed out an auction for a EOS-K mount adapter, and in fact I had been looking for one of these for a while. http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7535484070 I nabbed it and waited for it to arrive. As you may know, I use a couple of Pentax lenses on my Canon kit, mainly because they are too good not to. I designed my own adapters and had them fabricated - the whole story is here: http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/mods/details.html When I came across Mr. Rolfo's adapter, I was very curious as to how he'd solved the problem, and the only way to see for myself was to get hold of one. 65 Euros later, one arrived in a small jiffy-bag. The adapter is quite nifty, and is based on an M42/EF adapter that can be had from most photo shops, and eBay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=7537522212 As you can see, the M42/EF is a simple adapter that allows a screwmount lens to be inserted into the middle of the adapter, and then the whole thing mates with a Canon bayonet camera. Mr Rolfo's EOS-K mount adapter has been machined directly from one of these screwmount adapters, and the machinist has done a reasonable job. Because the K mount flanges and the EF mount flanges are only 'out if sync' by a few millimetres, there is some interesting metalwork, and in places it looks quite thin. But once mounted, it does the job and holds the lens in place well, complete with a grub screw to prevent the adapter un-mounting itself. So the idea is that once on the lens, you leave it there, and it become part of the lens. If you had 2 or 3 lenses, you'd need 2 or 3 adapters. It is possible to change the adapter from one lens to another, but becomes moot with a further mod to the lens that is required - more on this in a moment. In fact, when I first mounted the adapter onto the lens (a test-bed K50mm f/1.2) and attached to a camera, it was out of whack by half a turn - so that the aperture and focus registration marks on the lens barrel were underneath somewhere and not on top as expected. I thought Mr Rolfo had sent me a dud, and to be fair he replied to my enquiring email very quickly, offering a full refund if the unit was bad. He sent some mounting guide pics and a PDF. His english is not the best, but I used Babel Fish to translate his German and that worked very well. In fact, it was me who was the dud. I had placed a K mount on the K50 1.2 but could only lay my fingers on 3 screws (too butt-lazy to go get some more screws in the next room!) and lo and behold, even though I thought I had lined up the K mount onto the lens correctly, it was out of kilter by quite an amount. Once the K mount was re-attached at the correct orientation, of course Mr. Rolfo's superb German engineering fitted like a glove. They don't say Vorsprung Dirch Technik (or whatever it is) for nothing. Naturally I apologised to Mr Rolfo forthwith and took back all the nasty things I said about his lathe. To anyone who hasn't got a clue about using an adapter like this, it means savaging the Pentax lens - this is Peter Alling's favourite part. The aperture lever (the short metal post that sticks out of the back of any K mount lens) has to be completely removed, or shortened so it doesn't protrude from the back of the lens, as there's nowhere for it to reside inside an EOS body, and nothing for it to do even if there was room. So once a lens has been modified like this, it will either work on a Canon camera with Mr. Rolfo's adapter, or on a Pentax camera without. Both cameras will only be able to use stop-down metering with the lens, in manual or aperture-priority. Open-aperture metering is lost. I haven't posted the detailed pics of the mount that Mr Rolfo sent me, as they are his copyright, but if anyone wants to see them, I have 3 jpegs of about 85kb each that I can send you. Email me off list. That concludes this presentation and if you've read this far then you're a worse schluck than I thought you were! I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: On the road with AnnSan
Thanks Bill. Love the shot of the little girl on the bus. By the way, I scratched on the eight ball. It's always hard for me to focus on the game when Elvis is watching. Paul Here's four shots from Ann's trip so far. http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=518950 Nice felt there, Steady. We went out last night and watched a particularly nice prarie sunset, I am sure that at her next stop she will post a few of them. Anyway, she is off to Calgary in the next couple of hours to take advantage of the delights of Cowtown, and prbably to beat up on a few cocky Canuck scrabble players. William Robb
Re: Work Flow Question
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:53:51PM -0700, David wrote: Hey all, Finally I have a question for IrfanView users: I've been using the JPG Lossless Operations command to rotate my images. I tested it first to see if the file size changed or there were any visible image degradation and I didn't notice any changes. Is the process truly lossless? If it is, just out of curiosity, does anyone know how the process works? From what I understood about JPG's is that every time you resave the image it compresses a little more. I'm not an IrfanView user, but I'll take a stab at this: Rather than saving pixels, a JPEG file saves a matrix of weights. In fact it stores many of these - one matrix for each 8x8 pixel block. The matrix of coefficients for an 8x8 block rotated by 90 degrees bears a very simple relationship to the matrix for the unrotated block. (Basically it contains all the same numbers, in a different order, exept that some of the coefficients end up with the opposite sign) Applying this simple transformation (and altering the order in which 8x8 sub-blocks are written out) yields an image rotated by 90 degrees. The lossiness in a JPEG image comes when you calculate the weights to represent an 8x8 pixel sub-block. For this operation there is no such calculation being done, so no additional losses are incurred.
Re: On the road with AnnSan
On 12/8/05, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=518950 Nice felt there, Steady. This surely has to be a contender for the caption competition? http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3628066 I'll start off with: 'Want me to chalk yer tip, sir? Ahaaahum' Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Apple advise - Image Viewers etc
Hi, ///ACDSee is available in a Mac OS X version. I tried it and found it somewhat lacking. iView MediaPro is what I recommend for its functionality, see http://www.iview-multimedia.com for full details. You need the Pro version if you want to be able to view RAW files. Yes, on Mac U may use iPhoto (a part of iLife package from Apple) and iView Media Pro. Apart from these, there are ACDSee 1.6.9 (rather old and not updated) and ViewIt. BTW there is a very useful Adobe Bridge coming in CS2. Also U may search on www.macupdate.com and www.versiontracker.com/mac/ ///All you need to do is buy Microsoft Office X (latest version, of course) and you'll have near 100% compatibility between your Excel and Word documents on both platforms. Latest one is MS Office 2004 11.1.1 Regards, S. ___ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:51:17 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: OT:Apple advise Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mr Rolfo's EOS-K adapter - Report
and if you've read this far then you're a worse schluck than I thought you were! Thanks, Cotty - g. Fred
Res: Re: MZ-s Rubber caps
Thanks Dave. Those cr before kennedy in the email adress sould resolve the no reply issue. Manuel ---Mensagem original--- De: David Savage Data: 08/10/05 13:07:58 Para: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Assunto: Re: MZ-s Rubber caps Try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] C.R. Kennedy are the Australian distributor of Pentax Sigma in Australia Check out there website at: www.crkenedy.com.au They say they don't do retail but some of the Aussie lister's have managed to get them to sell stuff. HTH Dave On 8/10/05, Manuel Magalhães [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre, Thanks for your kind attention. I have been trying to contact Kennedy's but I am getting the emails returned. Is there any other option? Thanks again, Manuel -Mensagem original- De: Andre Langevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: segunda-feira, 8 de Agosto de 2005 22:49 Para: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Assunto: Re: MZ-s Rubber caps I lost the bigger ruber cap that protects the connectors in the bottom of the MZS, where the Battery Grip touch. The Portuguese dealer say that they don't have spare parts of the two rubber caps, the Belgium Pentax center don't even answer to my emails, and I even tried the japanese email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) whom don't answer either. Pentax Canada also wouldn't answer, from my experience. Nguyen, in Vietnam must have a box of these not far away but he is too busy to answer. I have the feeling that Pentax in Colorado might cooperate. A list member might even have the name of a person working there. But I would try Kennedy in Australia, tel 61 3 9823 1555 (not sure if the first numbers are good from your country). Send them a mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck Manuel... Andre
Re: Apple advise - Image Viewers etc
On Aug 12, 2005, at 10:02 AM, Arjuna Anandanatha wrote: ACDSee is available in a Mac OS X version. I tried it and found it somewhat lacking. iView MediaPro is what I recommend for its functionality, see http://www.iview-multimedia.com for full details. You need the Pro version if you want to be able to view RAW files. Yes, on Mac U may use iPhoto (a part of iLife package from Apple) and iView Media Pro. iPhoto works well for some things, but a) does not support PEF format, and b) is not intended for high volume workloads. It also has no capability to deal with off-line archives of image files. I've tried several applications. The ones that work well for professional level photo catalog management are Extensis Portfolio and iView MediaPro, of the ones I've experimented with. I prefer iView MediaPro. BTW there is a very useful Adobe Bridge coming in CS2. CS2 was released a month or three ago and Adobe Bridge is part of the package. A new update of Adobe Bridge, v1.0.2, is now available for download that improves performance. Adobe Bridge is more of a live viewer-adjunct to Photoshop CS2 and RAW workflow. I find it works well (now...) when used as that labeling implies, but it does not replace or achieve iView's primary use as a standalone image catalog. Overall I use iView about 100x more than I use Bridge for image searching, browsing, sorting, etc. Godfrey
Re: On the road with AnnSan
This surely has to be a contender for the caption competition? http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3628066 I'll start off with: 'Want me to chalk yer tip, sir? Ahaaahum' Cheers, Cotty -- Someone, anyone, please help him. Joe
OT: Photo Vest
Do any of you guys use a photogs vest? There are many offered at the market place. Cheap or expensive ones, long or short ones. I like the appearence of the small one from Manfrotto. Vested Interest makes very cool (and expesive ones). Lowepro makes one that not a vest, just a harness. Tenba! Tamrac! L.L.Rue Which are good or bad? Regards Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
Options for editing viewing PEF files?
On the Windows platform, what are the software options for converting or editing Pentax PEF files? Is there anything besides the Pentax software bundled with the *istDS camera, and the Camera RAW plugin for Photoshop? Have the details of the PEF format been published? Does anyone know where to get the details of the format? thanks, Glen
GESO: An evening with the M100/2.8
Yesterday I went to Union Suqare in San Francisco with the M100/2.8 on the istD. I shot with the lens wide open and the camera on program mode. I tried to keep my usual shooting distance, which was kind of difficult given how long the lens is compared to what I'm used to. Nothing amazing here, but I really liked the shallow depth of field. Now I want a 35mm/0.95... http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbuhler/sets/742493/ j -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog at http://photoblog.jbuhler.com
Re: Options for editing viewing PEF files?
On Aug 12, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Glen wrote: On the Windows platform, what are the software options for converting or editing Pentax PEF files? Is there anything besides the Pentax software bundled with the *istDS camera, and the Camera RAW plugin for Photoshop? I am a Mac OS X user, but for Windows I've heard of: Pentax Lab Photoshop/Camera Raw RawShooter Essentials Phase One - Capture 1 Vuescan Bibble Labs I'm sure there are others, but Photoshop/Camera Raw, Rawshooter Essentials and Capture One seem to have the largest following of users. Godfrey
Re: GESO: An evening with the M100/2.8
I like _ALL_ of those images Michael On 8/12/05, Juan Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I went to Union Suqare in San Francisco with the M100/2.8 on the istD. I shot with the lens wide open and the camera on program mode. I tried to keep my usual shooting distance, which was kind of difficult given how long the lens is compared to what I'm used to. Nothing amazing here, but I really liked the shallow depth of field. Now I want a 35mm/0.95... http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbuhler/sets/742493/ j -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog at http://photoblog.jbuhler.com
Re: On the road with AnnSan
Whole lotta scratchin goin on. Don't be Cue-l I can help Stand by Me Cotty wrote: This surely has to be a contender for the caption competition? http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3628066 I'll start off with: 'Want me to chalk yer tip, sir? Ahaaahum' Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: GESO: An evening with the M100/2.8
GOD this one is amazing IMGP6945 On 8/12/05, Michael Spivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like _ALL_ of those images Michael On 8/12/05, Juan Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I went to Union Suqare in San Francisco with the M100/2.8 on the istD. I shot with the lens wide open and the camera on program mode. I tried to keep my usual shooting distance, which was kind of difficult given how long the lens is compared to what I'm used to. Nothing amazing here, but I really liked the shallow depth of field. Now I want a 35mm/0.95... http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbuhler/sets/742493/ j -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog at http://photoblog.jbuhler.com
Re: Options for editing viewing PEF files?
Oh yes: for viewing, sorting, cataloging, there's iView MediaPro. The others mentioned below are RAW conversion processing software. Godfrey On Aug 12, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Aug 12, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Glen wrote: On the Windows platform, what are the software options for converting or editing Pentax PEF files? Is there anything besides the Pentax software bundled with the *istDS camera, and the Camera RAW plugin for Photoshop? I am a Mac OS X user, but for Windows I've heard of: Pentax Lab Photoshop/Camera Raw RawShooter Essentials Phase One - Capture 1 Vuescan Bibble Labs I'm sure there are others, but Photoshop/Camera Raw, Rawshooter Essentials and Capture One seem to have the largest following of users. Godfrey
Re: Apple advise - Image Viewers etc
For image viewing under MacOSX I'd highly recommend ViewIt: http://www.hexcat.com/viewit/index.html It is very, very fast, has a bunch of useful features, support .PEF files (among other RAW formats) and is cheap. Very worth looking at! -- Best regards Sylwek
Re: Options for editing viewing PEF files?
On 2005-08-12, at 19:53, Glen wrote: On the Windows platform, what are the software options for converting or editing Pentax PEF files? Is there anything besides the Pentax software bundled with the *istDS camera, and the Camera RAW plugin for Photoshop? Yes, there are some applications that enable this: Bibble - probably the fastest one - www.biiblelabs.com Capture One - well featyred, but quite slow and expensive - www.phaseone.com Raw Shooter Essentials - well featured and free - www.pixmantec.com And I'm sure there are a few more, less known. -- Best regards Sylwek
Re: Apple advise - Image Viewers etc
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 17:02, Arjuna Anandanatha wrote: ///All you need to do is buy Microsoft Office X (latest version, of course) and you'll have near 100% compatibility between your Excel and Word documents on both platforms. ...or use any flavor of the free Open Office suite which is often more compatible with some versions of Microsoft Office files than Microsoft Office itself. As someone said before NeoOffice is a good choice. The original Open Office it derives from is quite heavier as it must load a version of the X Windows system when it starts.
PESO: Hopi Couple
These friends of my friends were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary along with my friend's Wedding. They were having so much fun! This was one of several cake shots. http://bob.blakely.com/Cake_4.jpg Watch out - large file! Regards, Bob... - The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance to French King Louis XIV
Re: Photo Vest
- Original Message - From: Jens Bladt Subject: OT: Photo Vest Do any of you guys use a photogs vest? There are many offered at the market place. Cheap or expensive ones, long or short ones. I like the appearence of the small one from Manfrotto. Vested Interest makes very cool (and expesive ones). Lowepro makes one that not a vest, just a harness. Tenba! Tamrac! L.L.Rue I have a Domke, but it's not really a great photo vest, as it is shy on pocket dividers. I'll likely be in the market for a replacement at some point, so I will be reading this thread with interest. William Robb
Re: Options for editing viewing PEF files?
- Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Subject: Re: Options for editing viewing PEF files? Pentax Lab Photoshop/Camera Raw RawShooter Essentials Phase One - Capture 1 Vuescan Bibble Labs Last I heard, Phase One wouldn't run on AMD computers. Something to be aware of if you are running a non Intel chipset. William Robb
Re: Mr Rolfo's EOS-K adapter - Report
Fred wrote: and if you've read this far then you're a worse schluck than I thought you were! Not that I'm any expert, but...isn't that a Schmuck? Or maybe a schlemozzle? [sp?] keith Thanks, Cotty - g. Fred
Re: GESO: An evening with the M100/2.8
On 12/8/05, Juan Buhler, discombobulated, unleashed: Yesterday I went to Union Suqare in San Francisco with the M100/2.8 on the istD. I shot with the lens wide open and the camera on program mode. I tried to keep my usual shooting distance, which was kind of difficult given how long the lens is compared to what I'm used to. Nothing amazing here, but I really liked the shallow depth of field. Now I want a 35mm/0.95... http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbuhler/sets/742493/ Some great catches in there Juan. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
