Re: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On 9/7/2011 10:30 PM, John Francis wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:37:21PM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2011-09-07 22:39, Anthony Farr wrote: But they were much more powerful and faster in a straight line. Through the bendy bits they really were mobile chicanes. Several run groups at your typical SCCA event will have that flavor, due to the classes that end up combined sometimes. I think the worst I've seen was a run group that included both GT1 monster horsepower cars and GT-Lites (or was it GT4 back then) which handled like roller skates but had zip for power compared to the GT1 cars. GT1s took off like scalded cats on the straights, and got caught up by the Lites in the twisty bits. Lap after lap after lap. Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around 40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. Several years ago, when I built my spec miata, one of the local clubs had us in the same run group as the legends cars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_car_racing On pavement, the Legends were running on spec tires, which were pretty much street tires. They have about 140 hp, and weigh 1,300 pounds with driver. The spec miatas were running on DOT legal race tires, which are stickier than the full on race slicks of up until not too many years ago, have a bit under 140 hp, and weigh 2,300 pounds with driver. Despite having nearly twice the acceleration, the legends would turn about the same lap times as the spec miatas. The end result being that the legends cars would go barreling down the straights like a scalded ape often passing one of a pair of miatas in a hot duel, then park it in the turns so that any miatas unlucky enough to be behind the legend would not only end up split up from the driver they were dicing with, but would then lose their momentum, and lose even more speed on the next straight. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (from dos4est) -- 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: Can anyone identify this beetle?
On 06/09/2011 07:51, Larry Colen wrote: On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Larry Colen wrote: That's beetle, not beatle: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627605282212/ He's about 2.5 (6cm) long. Found in the Santa Cruz mountains. I think a friend in another venue identified it. It seems to be a long horn beetle: http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/long-horn-beetle:arhopalus-rusticus-photo-5534.html That's rather like saying That bird with a hooked beak and talons is a bird of prey. I forget how many estimated millions there are of beetle species but it is quite a few. -- 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: Can anyone identify this beetle?
That's Ringo. On 6 September 2011 13:30, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: That's beetle, not beatle: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627605282212/ He's about 2.5 (6cm) long. Found in the Santa Cruz mountains. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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. -- 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: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
It sure looks like a selectively hand-coloured bromide, perhaps even chloride, print to me. As for being very glossy there are ways to get around the deglazing that would happen if an already glazed print was coloured. The yellow dye could be a waterproof ink wash applied to an unglazed print. When it dried the print could then be re-wet and glazed, giving a perfect gloss finish despite the retouching. Sometimes a glazed fibre print could be retouched carefully enough, if it wasn't wet too much, that the surface could be buffed back to a good gloss, enough to make it almost undetectable. regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) On 8 September 2011 08:35, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Another postcard from my friends family.. calling all chemists This is a very glossy photo - anyone know anything about this kind of tinting back then? I can't figure it out... not a traditional tinting where the whole photo would have been colored.. or was it once and lost other colors? Is the yellow. thre is sime silvering out but it sint'very noticiable because of the background exposure. anyone? http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Things-Im-selling-directly- Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/1468163517_sJnbMK3/Large 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 and follow the directions.
Re: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
On 8 September 2011 10:11, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: .. this is , I believe , a bromide print. Close inspection of the edges, especially the corners, would go a long way to confirm this. A print of this age will probably show some fanning out of the layers at the corners, where you'd expect to see the emulsion layers standing apart as a thicker strata, while the paper layer underneath would be more feathered and fluffy in its appearance. You might also see some chipping or seperation of the emulsion at the edges. The paper of an offset or gravure print is paper all the way through. regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) -- 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.
Pentax K-Q adapter
Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Dario -- 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: Can anyone identify this beetle?
On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:28 PM, mike wilson wrote: On 06/09/2011 07:51, Larry Colen wrote: On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Larry Colen wrote: That's beetle, not beatle: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627605282212/ He's about 2.5 (6cm) long. Found in the Santa Cruz mountains. I think a friend in another venue identified it. It seems to be a long horn beetle: http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/long-horn-beetle:arhopalus-rusticus-photo-5534.html That's rather like saying That bird with a hooked beak and talons is a bird of prey. I forget how many estimated millions there are of beetle species but it is quite a few. It's a type of longhorn beetle called a Pine Sawyer. It's probably female. -- 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On Sep 8, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Impressive, the way that it makes the DA40 look big: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/475/272/html/004.jpg.html Actually, the DA40 isn't big, it's just that the adapter+DA40 looks to be about the size of the FA77. Though, on that body, the DA40 would probably be a pretty nice medium tele. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On 7/9/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: On the track, I'm sure that you're a real tosser. Just thought I'd chip in here to stir a bit :) Filming corporate video tomorrow for one of my clients who are holding an annual conference with morning seminars. In the afternoon, the 60 odd delegates will get some track time, which we can film also. Track time? Yup - the venue is the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone, with the race circuit just feet away hosting a Le Mans series this weekend IIRC. The other cameraman and me will be having a go in either a Cayman or a Boxster :) I told him shiny side up please. Then three days of editing !! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On Sep 8, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Well, seeing as we've strayed from the Artist-on-Artist insults, one of my favourite put downs was by then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. One of my favourites was uttered by our late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon who was in office from 1975 to 1984. Any NZer who moves to Australia raises the average IQ of both countries. Having said that, a friend of mine is moving to Perth in October. Cheers, Dave -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
David Mann wrote: One of my favourites was uttered by our late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon who was in office from 1975 to 1984. Any NZer who moves to Australia raises the average IQ of both countries. Having said that, a friend of mine is moving to Perth in October. Cheers, Dave What if Aussies go to Canada? Dario -- 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: interesting trends...
On 8 September 2011 12:35, Subash pdml.l...@gmail.com wrote: these are only figures for japan/asia but interesting nonetheless. canon and nikon lose a combined 35% market share while sony doubles it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-07/canon-clinging-to-mirrors-means-opportunity-for-sony-cameras.html so, is the dslr dead yet? perhaps there's hope for the Q :) -- regards, subash I found this quote quite revealing, 'Mirrorless cameras are a threat,' said David Rubenstein, a Tokyo-based analyst at MF Global FXA Securities Ltd I guess they would be a threat to companies that choose to oppose the trend rather than embrace it. Some observations: Non adoption of autofocus cut the SLR market from perhaps twenty or more brands in the sixties and early seventies to less than ten. (Topcon, anyone? Or Miranda? Yashica? Petri?) Contax and Olympus both flubbed their AF implimentations, but Olympus redeemed itself with a confident early digital program. Non or late adoption of digital imaging cut that figure down to about seven (not counting brands that only sell small sensor cameras. Pentax scraped through by the skin of its teeth after dodging the Phillips bullet. Contax fell to the Phillips bullet after botching its AF program. (Panasonic and Leica briefly dallied in the sector, the last Panny DSLR was launched in 2007, while Leica has gone upscale to medium format DSLRs). Oh, then there's Sigma, but their unconformity puts them so far out in left field that they're a boutique product in a very small niche, kept alive by their third party lens sales. So now we have Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic and Leica. Have I forgotten anyone? We'll add Ricoh later, but they have no DSLR legacy so we won't count them just yet? Samsung? Same as Ricoh, except that while they briefly sold some DSLRs those were seconded from the Pentax line-up, and surely nobody ever saw them as anything but Pentaxes. Leica's gone back to its rangefinder roots, no DSLR in this segment any more. Sony has launched a strong product into the MILC (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera) segment, while retaining their DSLR range. Even there, the reflex mirror is being challenged by the fixed beamsplitter. Olympus has almost completely moved to MILCs with their m43 range. Their last 4/3 DSLR, the E5 was launched a year ago and is, I suspect, the only one still being made. Their next most recent DSLR was launched more than 2 years ago, but here in Australia only the E5 is still catalogued as a current model, all the others are drying up fast. Panasonic has fully committed to m43 MILCs, their last 4/3 DSLR was the DMC-L10 from 2007 which is discontinued. So now we have only four and a half brands selling DSLRs with sensor formats between 4/3 and 135 full-frame. Half a brand? Well, I reckon Olympus will pull the plug on 4/3 when their lens inventory depletes to where they either need to recommit to the format by making more lenses, or kill the format entirely. It's a loss-maker, m43 is a milking-cow. What would you do? That leaves Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax as the only DSLR makers in the segment. Sony is safe with their MILCS. Pentax has the capability proven by the Q. Will they merge the concept with an APS-C sensor? Can they afford not to? Nikon is rumoured to have a MILC coming soon: http://nikonrumors.com/2011/08/16/nikons-mirrorless-interchangeable-lens-camera-will-be-announced-on-august-24th.aspx/ and http://nikonrumors.com/2011/08/16/first-drawings-of-nikons-mirrorless-interchangeable-lens-camera.aspx/ It's reported to be a 2.6x crop factor format, which makes it about a one inch, or a little smaller than 4/3. Is the market ready to accept a smaller sensor? Japan will, so I guess the rest of the world will just have to suck it up. Canon has nothing, only the report of a patent application. Are they mad, or just very good at keeping a secret? Ricoh was out in the cold for years, but kept a good reputation for quality and innovation in the smaller formats. They're back now with the GXR with A12 module for M-mount getting good notices. Samsung seems to have fallen on its feet even though it blundered by making its MILCs incompatible with M-mount. They've got ambition going for them, but they don't always make the best decisions. Which means, funnily enough, that while all the previous adoptions of new technology have reduced the number of brands competing in this segment, this latest shift might actually increase the number of brands. My prediction is that within five years the only DSLRs will be a few premium and professional models, perhaps one from each surviving major player. I also predict that within ten years their won't be DSLRs in the 4/3 to 135 range. This was longer than I thought it'd be, so thanks for reading. regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) --
Re: Pentax K-Q adapter
On 8 September 2011 17:46, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Dario What a hoot! http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/475/272/html/005.jpg.html Good luck hand-holding that combo. Anyone know the crop factor for the Q? regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On Thursday, September 08, 2011 8:56 PM, David Mann d...@multisport.net.nz wrote: On Sep 8, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Well, seeing as we've strayed from the Artist-on-Artist insults, one of my favourite put downs was by then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. One of my favourites was uttered by our late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon who was in office from 1975 to 1984. Any NZer who moves to Australia raises the average IQ of both countries. Having said that, a friend of mine is moving to Perth in October. Perth? Is that part of Australia?... Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On Thursday, September 08, 2011 11:08 AM, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: David Mann wrote: One of my favourites was uttered by our late Prime Minister Robert Muldoon who was in office from 1975 to 1984. Any NZer who moves to Australia raises the average IQ of both countries. Having said that, a friend of mine is moving to Perth in October. Cheers, Dave What if Aussies go to Canada? They freeze and are never heard of again. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
I wrote: Anthony Farr wrote: What a hoot! http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/475/272/html/005.jpg.html Good luck hand-holding that combo. Anyone know the crop factor for the Q? 5x, hence the DA 40mm acts as a 200mm at least! While the soon-to-be-announced Nikon should be somewhere around 2.5x. Pity that Sony does not make a 4/3 format sensor, as their current sensor technology will allow them to blow away Panasonic. My dream mirrorless camera is a m43 shaped like a rangefinder (viewfinder included) with a Sony sensor. Not so different from a Sony NEX-7 after all... hmmm... mumble mumble... pity it's a Sony, with their so-so management of their excellent sensors and a weird flash shoe on top of that. Dario -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On 2011-09-08 0:48, Larry Colen wrote: On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: Passable if it's someone else's car, throwable if it's mine. ;-) On the track, I'm sure that you're a real tosser. Off track, too. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On 2011-09-08 1:30, John Francis wrote: Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around 40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. It's pretty much unavoidable when the day is long enough for six or seven run groups and you're trying to stuff thirty or forty classes into them. That doesn't make it less frustrating on track, though. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- 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: lighting idea, would it work?
On 11-09-07 10:12 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker But I've played with a new feature in CS5 that helps with this: the Auto Edge Detect tool in Refine Selection is very smart. It does a great job with texture, hair, etc. I've been able to lift a flower off a background, use Content Aware Fill to create plausible new background where the flower was, then lens-blur the background and superimpose the flower back. Results were just about perfect. I would definitely try green screen before this projection technology. For me, a regular painted background is preferable to either of them. Shop around. I found a good quality 10'x20' on sale for $50.00 Or use out of doors locations where you can throw the background pleasingly out of focus. Good idea on the painted backgrounds. My neighbor does custom fashion display windows. I'm going to see if I can bum some painted backdrops from him sometime. One out of doors subject that almost *requires* mucking with background extraction is the handsome flower that is growing close to some scruffy hedge. You can go all F1.4 in your attempt to DoF the hedge out, but then you lose detail in the flower. Or you can go F8 and preserve the flower detail but end up with a noisy, unattractive background. So now I extract the flower, content-aware-fill in the cutout, lens-blur the background, and layer blend the flower back in place. I hear that some people suspend a backdrop behind a flower in an ugly setting to solve this. I've tried using a black reflector, with mixed results. Too much light fell on the reflector--hard to avoid. -bmw -- 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: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
These answers (this post and the next) is one of the reasons I love the list so much! The scan doesn't do the card justice.. but I'm glad you lean to what I most suspected about it being a bromide print. Your comments about the tinting and the process of buffing are great... If i get anyone writing me about it on ebay I'll quote you :-) Not much interest so far. I think that the real photo from that market tends more to people, cities,buildings and such. The C R Childs card I have up is garnering a lot and already has a bid. Thanks so much! ann On 9/8/2011 03:32, Anthony Farr wrote: It sure looks like a selectively hand-coloured bromide, perhaps even chloride, print to me. As for being very glossy there are ways to get around the deglazing that would happen if an already glazed print was coloured. The yellow dye could be a waterproof ink wash applied to an unglazed print. When it dried the print could then be re-wet and glazed, giving a perfect gloss finish despite the retouching. Sometimes a glazed fibre print could be retouched carefully enough, if it wasn't wet too much, that the surface could be buffed back to a good gloss, enough to make it almost undetectable. regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) On 8 September 2011 08:35, Ann Sanfedeleann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Another postcard from my friends family.. calling all chemists This is a very glossy photo - anyone know anything about this kind of tinting back then? I can't figure it out... not a traditional tinting where the whole photo would have been colored.. or was it once and lost other colors? Is the yellow. thre is sime silvering out but it sint'very noticiable because of the background exposure. anyone? http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Things-Im-selling-directly- Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/1468163517_sJnbMK3/Large 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 and follow the directions.
Re: interesting trends...
Very interesting reading Anthony, thanks for sharing your analysis and predictions... Who's next? ;-) Jaume De: Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Enviado: jueves 8 de septiembre de 2011 11:49 Asunto: Re: interesting trends... On 8 September 2011 12:35, Subash pdml.l...@gmail.com wrote: these are only figures for japan/asia but interesting nonetheless. canon and nikon lose a combined 35% market share while sony doubles it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-07/canon-clinging-to-mirrors-means-opportunity-for-sony-cameras.html so, is the dslr dead yet? perhaps there's hope for the Q :) -- regards, subash I found this quote quite revealing, 'Mirrorless cameras are a threat,' said David Rubenstein, a Tokyo-based analyst at MF Global FXA Securities Ltd I guess they would be a threat to companies that choose to oppose the trend rather than embrace it. Some observations: Non adoption of autofocus cut the SLR market from perhaps twenty or more brands in the sixties and early seventies to less than ten. (Topcon, anyone? Or Miranda? Yashica? Petri?) Contax and Olympus both flubbed their AF implimentations, but Olympus redeemed itself with a confident early digital program. Non or late adoption of digital imaging cut that figure down to about seven (not counting brands that only sell small sensor cameras. Pentax scraped through by the skin of its teeth after dodging the Phillips bullet. Contax fell to the Phillips bullet after botching its AF program. (Panasonic and Leica briefly dallied in the sector, the last Panny DSLR was launched in 2007, while Leica has gone upscale to medium format DSLRs). Oh, then there's Sigma, but their unconformity puts them so far out in left field that they're a boutique product in a very small niche, kept alive by their third party lens sales. So now we have Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic and Leica. Have I forgotten anyone? We'll add Ricoh later, but they have no DSLR legacy so we won't count them just yet? Samsung? Same as Ricoh, except that while they briefly sold some DSLRs those were seconded from the Pentax line-up, and surely nobody ever saw them as anything but Pentaxes. Leica's gone back to its rangefinder roots, no DSLR in this segment any more. Sony has launched a strong product into the MILC (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera) segment, while retaining their DSLR range. Even there, the reflex mirror is being challenged by the fixed beamsplitter. Olympus has almost completely moved to MILCs with their m43 range. Their last 4/3 DSLR, the E5 was launched a year ago and is, I suspect, the only one still being made. Their next most recent DSLR was launched more than 2 years ago, but here in Australia only the E5 is still catalogued as a current model, all the others are drying up fast. Panasonic has fully committed to m43 MILCs, their last 4/3 DSLR was the DMC-L10 from 2007 which is discontinued. So now we have only four and a half brands selling DSLRs with sensor formats between 4/3 and 135 full-frame. Half a brand? Well, I reckon Olympus will pull the plug on 4/3 when their lens inventory depletes to where they either need to recommit to the format by making more lenses, or kill the format entirely. It's a loss-maker, m43 is a milking-cow. What would you do? That leaves Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax as the only DSLR makers in the segment. Sony is safe with their MILCS. Pentax has the capability proven by the Q. Will they merge the concept with an APS-C sensor? Can they afford not to? Nikon is rumoured to have a MILC coming soon: http://nikonrumors.com/2011/08/16/nikons-mirrorless-interchangeable-lens-camera-will-be-announced-on-august-24th.aspx/ and http://nikonrumors.com/2011/08/16/first-drawings-of-nikons-mirrorless-interchangeable-lens-camera.aspx/ It's reported to be a 2.6x crop factor format, which makes it about a one inch, or a little smaller than 4/3. Is the market ready to accept a smaller sensor? Japan will, so I guess the rest of the world will just have to suck it up. Canon has nothing, only the report of a patent application. Are they mad, or just very good at keeping a secret? Ricoh was out in the cold for years, but kept a good reputation for quality and innovation in the smaller formats. They're back now with the GXR with A12 module for M-mount getting good notices. Samsung seems to have fallen on its feet even though it blundered by making its MILCs incompatible with M-mount. They've got ambition going for them, but they don't always make the best decisions. Which means, funnily enough, that while all the previous adoptions of new technology have reduced the number of brands competing in this segment, this latest shift might actually increase the number of brands. My prediction is that within five years the only DSLRs will be a few premium and professional models, perhaps one from each surviving
Re: PESO - Shadow
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks, Ann! It's fun to shoot around home, but I must admit I like travel shooting more. With gas at $1.30 a litre i shoot in the back yard.:-) Dave BTW i like this one Dave Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 9/6/11, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com Subject: Re: PESO - Shadow To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 7:30 PM Rick-- I like this, and your stripes but especially caution Not sure why, but your recent stuff is much more to my liking than images from your travels abroad, for the most part. I absolutely love caution I think I'd like Stripes more in BW and the leaves and shadows are very pleasant . ann On 9/6/2011 18:46, Rick Womer wrote: Another taken on my way home from work last week: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14142975size=lg (K7, FA 24-90) Rick -- 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. -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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: OT PESO - On a Dime
Excellent Dave. Perfect moment Dave On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:52 PM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: G'day All, http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6116911692_756c54b228_o.jpg D700, AF-S 70-200mm @ 135mm, 1/320 @ f2.8, ISO 6400. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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: PESO - Parking
Excellent line work here Dave On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: Another from walks home from work last week: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14142976size=lg (K7, FA 24-90) This was not rendered in BW, BTW. Rick -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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: OT PESO - My Ride
Super, i really like your night work. Dave On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:52 PM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: G'day All, Here's a last minute shot from a night under the stars in the mountains: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6067577264_56267bddf2_o.jpg D700, 14-24mm f2.8 @ 14mm, 120 seconds @ f5.6, ISO 3200 with a little maglite lightpainting. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
OT: For fans of Burning Man
http://xkcd.com/948/ Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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: OT PESO - My Ride
It is indeed a striking and effective image. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:28 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Super, i really like your night work. Dave On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:52 PM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: G'day All, Here's a last minute shot from a night under the stars in the mountains: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/6067577264_56267bddf2_o.jpg D700, 14-24mm f2.8 @ 14mm, 120 seconds @ f5.6, ISO 3200 with a little maglite lightpainting. Enjoy. Cheers, Dave -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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. -- 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.
Epson R3000
Hi All: Has anybody had any experience with the new Espon R3000 printer yet? It seems to have all the features of R2880, plus a few advanatages: you don't need to swap between two black cartridges, and you have Ethernet/WiFi connection in addition to the USB. Does anybody know if there is anything that would be missing in R3000 compared to R2880? Igor PS. I don't expect anybody to miss me, but in case you were wondering why I was silent in the past ~2 months: - we had a newborn daughter, and then, in addition to that, I had an international conference trip. -- 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: OT: For fans of Burning Man
Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://xkcd.com/948/ Even further off topic, but I love this one: http://xkcd.com/946/ -- 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.
Black Snake On Bldg. #1
After being absent from the list for the summer (due to illness) I have been catching up w/o participating. Herewith is my 1st offering for CC. http://donspix.posterous.com/black-snake-on-building-one -- 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: Black Snake On Bldg. #1
Exceedingly well done, Don. DOF and lighting, superb! Jack - Original Message - From: Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com To: pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 8:39 AM Subject: Black Snake On Bldg. #1 After being absent from the list for the summer (due to illness) I have been catching up w/o participating. Herewith is my 1st offering for CC. http://donspix.posterous.com/black-snake-on-building-one -- 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. -- 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: Black Snake On Bldg. #1
Glad to have you back, Don. I like it a lot. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- 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: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
From: Ann Sanfedele Another postcard from my friends family.. calling all chemists This is a very glossy photo - anyone know anything about this kind of tinting back then? I can't figure it out... not a traditional tinting where the whole photo would have been colored.. or was it once and lost other colors? Is the yellow. thre is sime silvering out but it sint'very noticiable because of the background exposure. anyone? http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/1468163517_sJnbMK3/Large Hand painted with tinting oils. http://www.google.com/search?q=hand+tinted+photographshl=enprmd=ivnstbm=ischtbo=usource=univsa=Xei=XOVoTtrPL5DPgAe99YjdDAved=0CC0QsAQbiw=1415bih=864 OR http://preview.tinyurl.com/445vyhd Probably Marshall's Retouching Oils. http://www.reuels.com/reuels/Marshalls_Photo_Retouch_Photo_Tinting_Sets.html Studied the technique during my Professional Photo Retouching class during my final semester this summer. Some high dollar portrait photographers still use it. The actual tinting is usually subcontracted out to someone like Heather The Painter. Not the real Heather The Painter, she does Corel Painter, but a similar contractor. Point is, you can hire it done according to my instructors at school it's one of those little things that return BIG BUCK$. -- 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: OT: For fans of Burning Man
On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:11, Mark Roberts wrote: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://xkcd.com/948/ Even further off topic, but I love this one: http://xkcd.com/946/ Let's veer even further off-topic then with this related comic: http://www.whattheduck.net/home?page=0%2C4 -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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: PESO: As High as an Elephant's Eye
From: Daniel J. Matyola http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=128 Comments Welcome Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola Based on the only New Jersey elephant I'm aware of, that makes it about 43 feet. ;-D -- 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: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
Agree! Jack - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com To: pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 9:09 AM Subject: Re: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI From: Ann Sanfedele Another postcard from my friends family.. calling all chemists This is a very glossy photo - anyone know anything about this kind of tinting back then? I can't figure it out... not a traditional tinting where the whole photo would have been colored.. or was it once and lost other colors? Is the yellow. thre is sime silvering out but it sint'very noticiable because of the background exposure. anyone? http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/1468163517_sJnbMK3/Large Hand painted with tinting oils. http://www.google.com/search?q=hand+tinted+photographshl=enprmd=ivnstbm=ischtbo=usource=univsa=Xei=XOVoTtrPL5DPgAe99YjdDAved=0CC0QsAQbiw=1415bih=864 OR http://preview.tinyurl.com/445vyhd Probably Marshall's Retouching Oils. http://www.reuels.com/reuels/Marshalls_Photo_Retouch_Photo_Tinting_Sets.html Studied the technique during my Professional Photo Retouching class during my final semester this summer. Some high dollar portrait photographers still use it. The actual tinting is usually subcontracted out to someone like Heather The Painter. Not the real Heather The Painter, she does Corel Painter, but a similar contractor. Point is, you can hire it done according to my instructors at school it's one of those little things that return BIG BUCK$. -- 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. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter and an OT rant about corporate silliness
On 8 September 2011 20:27, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: I wrote: Anthony Farr wrote: What a hoot! http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/475/272/html/005.jpg.html Good luck hand-holding that combo. Anyone know the crop factor for the Q? 5x, hence the DA 40mm acts as a 200mm at least! So that's 1250mm of full frame equivalence! Even if you could hold it you shouldn't. While the soon-to-be-announced Nikon should be somewhere around 2.5x. Pity that Sony does not make a 4/3 format sensor, as their current sensor technology will allow them to blow away Panasonic. My dream mirrorless camera is a m43 shaped like a rangefinder (viewfinder included) with a Sony sensor. You probably won't see a Sony sensored m43 camera because Sony isn't part of the Micro Four Thirds consortium, which comprises Olympus, Panasonic, Cosina (Voigtlander), Carl Zeiss AG, Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, Komamura Corporation and Sigma Corporation. Perhaps Cosina could do an m43 pseudo rangefinder with a Sony sensor, if the fine-print of the consortium's agreement allows it. It's my opinion that the Panasonic 10MP 4/3 sensor, with its poor low-light performance, was the weak link in full sized FourThirds cameras. At least when Kodak made DSLR sensors there was competition and choice, but I feel that their 4/3 monopoly made Panasonic lazy. The subsequent 12.3MP 4/3 sensor is a better match for the competition, but only the premium models got it. The entry level models, where first impressions are made, were left with the old 10MP sensor. Combined with slow kit zoom lenses they performed well below the benchmarks of their day at ISO800 and up, and must have cost Olympus a sizeable amount of repeat business. They didn't make that mistake a second time, the m43 EPs and EPLs (Electronic Pens) were never saddled with the 10MP sensor, and have been good sellers and performers. Sony, Nikon and Pentax were very lucky that the old 6MP CCD, the mainstay of their early DSLRs and later entry level DSLRs, was a good performer with acceptable quality at its higher ISOs. What I can't for the life of me understand is why Sigma, who is a full partner in the FourThirds consortium, kept its DSLRs quarantined from 4/3 even though the sensor was just millimetres different in size. That Foveon sensor in the FourThirds camp would have boosted everyone's sales. While not having any worthwhile low-light performance its unique selling proposition of superb colour reproduction and high sharpness due to interpolation-free capture would have brought a shipload of wedding, portrait and fashion professionals into the fold. But Sigma in its hubris coveted all the sales from those users, sales they then didn't get because image conscious professionals wouldn't be seen dead with a Sigma camera. I can't help thinking that many an Olympus using professional might have added a Sigma 4/3 body to their bag for portrait shooting if such a thing had existed. Nice shooting of your own foot, Sigma, to make a camera that wants to be pro-gear but can only take a Sigma lens. What a joke! Not that Sigma lenses are no good, but nobody's going to jump brands to get one. I notice that Sigma SD1s are being pushed on eBay at less than MSRP. Hmmm, why am I not surprised? Not so different from a Sony NEX-7 after all... hmmm... mumble mumble... pity it's a Sony, with their so-so management of their excellent sensors and a weird flash shoe on top of that. Dario At least they've made their good components available to other brands. They were a supplier of DSLR sensors before they acquired KonicaMinolta, were they not? As they were already supplying other brands and earning good money from it, the benefits of exclusivity weren't clear cut to them. regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) -- 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: lighting idea, would it work?
On 11-09-07 10:12 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bruce Walker But I've played with a new feature in CS5 that helps with this: the Auto Edge Detect tool in Refine Selection is very smart. It does a great job with texture, hair, etc. I've been able to lift a flower off a background, use Content Aware Fill to create plausible new background where the flower was, then lens-blur the background and superimpose the flower back. Results were just about perfect. I would definitely try green screen before this projection technology. For me, a regular painted background is preferable to either of them. Shop around. I found a good quality 10'x20' on sale for $50.00 Or use out of doors locations where you can throw the background pleasingly out of focus. Good idea on the painted backgrounds. My neighbor does custom fashion display windows. I'm going to see if I can bum some painted backdrops from him sometime. One out of doors subject that almost *requires* mucking with background extraction is the handsome flower that is growing close to some scruffy hedge. You can go all F1.4 in your attempt to DoF the hedge out, but then you lose detail in the flower. Or you can go F8 and preserve the flower detail but end up with a noisy, unattractive background. So now I extract the flower, content-aware-fill in the cutout, lens-blur the background, and layer blend the flower back in place. I hear that some people suspend a backdrop behind a flower in an ugly setting to solve this. I've tried using a black reflector, with mixed results. Too much light fell on the reflector--hard to avoid. Or you could use the black reflector to shade the background causing it to drop out. I've done that. For a background behind a flower I've used an old poncho liner on occasion. Or, move closer to the flower; split the difference use F4; let selective focus emphasize the particular detail that's attractive and slightly blur out the background. -- 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: Black Snake On Bldg. #1
On 11-09-08 11:39 AM, Don Guthrie wrote: After being absent from the list for the summer (due to illness) I have been catching up w/o participating. Sorry to hear that. I hope you're well recovered. Herewith is my 1st offering for CC. http://donspix.posterous.com/black-snake-on-building-one Nice. I like the PoV and composition, Don. I think, though, that the local contrast boosting is a little too obvious (visible as a dark halo around the building edges, against the sky). -bmw -- 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: PESO - Parking
Thanks, Dave! Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 9/8/11, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: From: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com Subject: Re: PESO - Parking To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 10:27 AM Excellent line work here Dave On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com wrote: Another from walks home from work last week: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14142976size=lg (K7, FA 24-90) This was not rendered in BW, BTW. Rick -- 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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. -- 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: interesting trends...
On 08/09/2011 3:49 AM, Anthony Farr wrote: On 8 September 2011 12:35, Subashpdml.l...@gmail.com wrote: these are only figures for japan/asia but interesting nonetheless. canon and nikon lose a combined 35% market share while sony doubles it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-07/canon-clinging-to-mirrors-means-opportunity-for-sony-cameras.html so, is the dslr dead yet? perhaps there's hope for the Q :) -- regards, subash I found this quote quite revealing, 'Mirrorless cameras are a threat,' said David Rubenstein, a Tokyo-based analyst at MF Global FXA Securities Ltd I guess they would be a threat to companies that choose to oppose the trend rather than embrace it. Some observations: Non adoption of autofocus cut the SLR market from perhaps twenty or more brands in the sixties and early seventies to less than ten. (Topcon, anyone? Or Miranda? Yashica? Petri?) Contax and Olympus both flubbed their AF implimentations, but Olympus redeemed itself with a confident early digital program. Topcon, Miranda and Petri were gone long before AF came about. They left about the same time auto exposure came along. You may as well toss Mamiya in there as well, with their lamentable 35mm SLR attempts. Yashica and Contax were one and the same at the time of AF, both were owned by Kyocera. My prediction is that within five years the only DSLRs will be a few premium and professional models, perhaps one from each surviving major player. I also predict that within ten years their won't be DSLRs in the 4/3 to 135 range. This was longer than I thought it'd be, so thanks for reading. EVF type cameras are going to happen, whether we want or like them or not. They cost less to produce, which makes them attractive to manufacturers, and they are the newest thing, which makes them attractive to marketers and people who buy based on hype rather than function. My only hope is that they can make a decent EVF (they are still crap) before the choice of optical viewfinder is taken away from us entirely. -- William Robb -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
Its just a matter of finding a small enough, twisty enough track and/or racing in the rain. One of my regional races, way back when, was at Waterford Hills, Michigan - named by Stirling Moss as one of the best small tracks he'd ever seen. I was driving a 72 Pinto that competed in the under 2.0 L Trans Am. For the feature race, run in the rain, I outran several higher horsepower race cars and finished ahead of them. They were all over the track in the rain. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: John Francis jo...@panix.com Subject: Re: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:37:21PM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2011-09-07 22:39, Anthony Farr wrote: But they were much more powerful and faster in a straight line. Through the bendy bits they really were mobile chicanes. Several run groups at your typical SCCA event will have that flavor, due to the classes that end up combined sometimes. I think the worst I've seen was a run group that included both GT1 monster horsepower cars and GT-Lites (or was it GT4 back then) which handled like roller skates but had zip for power compared to the GT1 cars. GT1s took off like scalded cats on the straights, and got caught up by the Lites in the twisty bits. Lap after lap after lap. Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around 40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
Enjoy the experience - the Cayman should be a touch faster than the Boxster if they're both the base or 'S' model. Be sure to relate the experience here. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Cotty cotty...@mac.com Subject: Re: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History On 7/9/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: On the track, I'm sure that you're a real tosser. Just thought I'd chip in here to stir a bit :) Filming corporate video tomorrow for one of my clients who are holding an annual conference with morning seminars. In the afternoon, the 60 odd delegates will get some track time, which we can film also. Track time? Yup - the venue is the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone, with the race circuit just feet away hosting a Le Mans series this weekend IIRC. The other cameraman and me will be having a go in either a Cayman or a Boxster :) I told him shiny side up please. Then three days of editing !! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: OT: For fans of Burning Man
Or maybe the rear window on the right should have cartoons of animals instead of bags of money. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com Subject: Re: OT: For fans of Burning Man Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://xkcd.com/948/ Even further off topic, but I love this one: http://xkcd.com/946/ -- 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: Black Snake On Bldg. #1
Well seen captured but I'd eliminate about half of the blank sky above the building. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com Subject: Black Snake On Bldg. #1 After being absent from the list for the summer (due to illness) I have been catching up w/o participating. Herewith is my 1st offering for CC. http://donspix.posterous.com/black-snake-on-building-one -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On 08/09/2011 3:08 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: What if Aussies go to Canada? We teach them about beer and barbecuing. -- William Robb -- 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: PESO: As High as an Elephant's Eye
Oh, you have seen Lucy? One of our great attractions. I have seen other elephants in Jersey -- when the Big Apple Circus is in town, and this grass is about as high as their eyes, 12 feet or so. I can't believe how quickly this stuff grows every year. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Daniel J. Matyola http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=128 Comments Welcome Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola Based on the only New Jersey elephant I'm aware of, that makes it about 43 feet. ;-D -- 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. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:46:20AM +0200, Dario Bonazza wrote: Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Hmm. What's the set of numbers 7654321 0 on the knurled ring? -- 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: Epson R3000
Can't say about the R3000, but I have the R2000 and so far it's great. Has much the same features of the R3000 - no swapping black carts, USB, Ethernet WIFi, same paper sizes. The inkset is different, though - similar to the R1900, but larger carts. And the R3000 is a couple hundred dollars more expensive. If you want to run WiFi, be sure you are n capable. We have U-Verse and ATT does not have any n routers so I had to use a separate router for the printer WiFi. -p On 9/8/2011 9:53 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Hi All: Has anybody had any experience with the new Espon R3000 printer yet? It seems to have all the features of R2880, plus a few advanatages: you don't need to swap between two black cartridges, and you have Ethernet/WiFi connection in addition to the USB. Does anybody know if there is anything that would be missing in R3000 compared to R2880? Igor PS. I don't expect anybody to miss me, but in case you were wondering why I was silent in the past ~2 months: - we had a newborn daughter, and then, in addition to that, I had an international conference trip. -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:01:33PM +1000, Anthony Farr wrote: On 8 September 2011 17:46, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Dario What a hoot! http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/475/272/html/005.jpg.html Good luck hand-holding that combo. Anyone know the crop factor for the Q? About 6 (it's a 6.17 x 4.55mm sensor). And that's a DA lens, so there's no aperture ring. And with no digital communication between the body and the camera, you're stuck with manual focus at full aperture :-( -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:20:10AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2011-09-08 1:30, John Francis wrote: Nothing new there. That's exactly the scenario that unfolded around 40 years ago, except in that case the powerhouses were Ford Galaxies, and the roller skates were Mini Coopers. It's pretty much unavoidable when the day is long enough for six or seven run groups and you're trying to stuff thirty or forty classes into them. That doesn't make it less frustrating on track, though. Oh, the Minis-vs-Galaxies battles were extremely entertaining (at least from a spectator viewpoint). I've seen them at Silverstone (a circuit with long, fast straights where the Galaxies disappeared in the distance) and on the club circuit at Brands Hatch (1.3 twisty miles). The cars would pass and re-pass each other at several different points on every lap, but still got to the start-finish line in about the same time. -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
Three of my favorite ripostes are by Winston Churchill: Lady Astor to Churchill: Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison. Churchill: Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it. Bessie Braddock to Churchill: Winston, you're drunk! Churchill: Bessie, you're ugly, very ugly. Tomorrow morning I shall be sober. Playwright George Bernard Shaw invited Winston Churchill to the first night of his newest play, enclosing two tickets: “One for yourself and one for a friend – if you have one.” Churchill wrote back, saying he couldn’t make it, but he would like tickets for the second night – “if there is one.” Regards, Jim -- 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: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
On 9 September 2011 02:09, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Hand painted with tinting oils. http://www.google.com/search?q=hand+tinted+photographshl=enprmd=ivnstbm=ischtbo=usource=univsa=Xei=XOVoTtrPL5DPgAe99YjdDAved=0CC0QsAQbiw=1415bih=864 OR http://preview.tinyurl.com/445vyhd Probably Marshall's Retouching Oils. http://www.reuels.com/reuels/Marshalls_Photo_Retouch_Photo_Tinting_Sets.html Were Marshall's already in business in 1912, the postmark date on Ann's postcard? I can't find any history of them at all. Also, you should look at the postcard at 200% or more and you'll see that the colouring is very sloppily applied and has bled or blotted into the print. Remember that this isn't fine art, it's a cheap postcard (or it was when it was new, anyway). The blotting and the cheapness makes me think oils are an unlikely colouring medium because it is necessary to size the print first to prevent absorption of the colours into the paper, if Wikipedia is to be trusted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring_of_photographs On the other hand, I've never retouched with oils, only dyes and waxes. The waxes I used could leave a glossy finish because after retouching you would apply a little heat (hot breath was usually enough) to release the pigment into the emulsion, after which the residual wax could be buffed away. But the postcard looks like it was coloured with a wet medium (because of the bleeding), ruling out wax I think. I'm interested to learn if a high glaze can be maintained after colouring with oils, because Ann remarked that the postcard was very glossy. Do the oils themselves dry glossy? Can they be buffed? It could have been varnished, but I think unmounted paper, even if double weight, varnished in 1912 would be showing cracks by now. Dye or ink wash is still my guess, because they would penetrate well into the emulsion and allow the print to be glazed after retouching. I'm not certain that would be possible with oil or watercolour retouching because they are surface treatments. I'm not married to these ideas, so I'm willing to be proven mistaken. regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) -- 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.
*ist-Ds battery longevity?
Yes I know the Ds is hopelessly outdated, but I've been using it as my backup/carry anywhere camera, and until recently it was serving admirably. Now however it's acquired a new annoying behavior, to wit, after loading a new set of lithium batteries it will totally drain them, in less than a week, even when turned off. Now my *ist D has always been a battery hog, but the Ds now even seems to beat that. I have now idea what might be wrong but I was wondering if anyone else had a clue. Needless to say it's not worth getting it repaired, a good used one from KEH is going for less than the repair bill would be. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
That may be fine. The diffraction limit for that small a sensor might be arount 2.8-4 On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:13 PM, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:01:33PM +1000, Anthony Farr wrote: On 8 September 2011 17:46, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Dario What a hoot! http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/475/272/html/005.jpg.html Good luck hand-holding that combo. Anyone know the crop factor for the Q? About 6 (it's a 6.17 x 4.55mm sensor). And that's a DA lens, so there's no aperture ring. And with no digital communication between the body and the camera, you're stuck with manual focus at full aperture :-( -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On 9 September 2011 04:13, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: And that's a DA lens, so there's no aperture ring. And with no digital communication between the body and the camera, you're stuck with manual focus at full aperture :-( Here's the Bing translation of the relevent text, But the date is TBD. It is said that even if it was released just a prototype of this specification is not always. KQ-mount adapter was exhibited electrical contacts at all without focus, manual exposure metering only and rather narrow specification. No aperture ring K mount lenses, such as the DA lens （ ） of merits and against was equipped geared ring aperture mount adapter. Venue DA 40 mm F2.8 Limited and DA the 60-250 mm F4 ED [IF] SDM with demo had been done. DA 40 mm F2.8 Limited 35 mm equivalent focal length 220 mm equivalent, DA the 60-250 mm F4 ED [IF] SDM is 1,375 mm equivalent. Ultra Telephoto angle can be obtained in small systems. I take that to mean it was a prototype explaining why it didn't yet have AE or AF contacts, and a liberal interpretation suggests it will have a geared ring adapter for K mount lenses, such as the DA lens that have no aperture ring. regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Its just a matter of finding a small enough, twisty enough track and/or racing in the rain. One of my regional races, way back when, was at Waterford Hills, Michigan - named by Stirling Moss as one of the best small tracks he'd ever seen. I was driving a 72 Pinto that competed in the under 2.0 L Trans Am. For the feature race, run in the rain, I outran several higher horsepower race cars and finished ahead of them. They were all over the track in the rain. I did an endurance race in the rain once. On an FZR400 I was able to pass quite a few GSXR750s and similar big bikes that simply couldn't get any power down. After my friend came in from the first shift he warned me not to exit corners above 7000 rpm, which is odd because standard procedure with the FZR400 was to always keep the revs between 10-14 thou. But the first time I tried coming out of a corner at 8000 rpm showed me in quite dramatic fashion that 7000 was the right number! -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Dario Obviously pentax has to make an adapter from K to Q mount. Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything but a Q (or similar tiny lens), then your camera is no longer small. Sorry for stating the obvious! --- Sam -- 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: *ist-Ds battery longevity?
My ist*Ds was always decent in terms of battery life. One spare set of lithiums is all I ever carried. How about when you turn the camera off? Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:47 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I know the Ds is hopelessly outdated, but I've been using it as my backup/carry anywhere camera, and until recently it was serving admirably. Now however it's acquired a new annoying behavior, to wit, after loading a new set of lithium batteries it will totally drain them, in less than a week, even when turned off. Now my *ist D has always been a battery hog, but the Ds now even seems to beat that. I have now idea what might be wrong but I was wondering if anyone else had a clue. Needless to say it's not worth getting it repaired, a good used one from KEH is going for less than the repair bill would be. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On 08/09/2011 1:25 PM, Sam L wrote: Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything but a Q (or similar tiny lens), then your camera is no longer small. Sorry for stating the obvious! Have you looked at a NEX with any lens mounted? -- William Robb -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 03:25:05PM -0400, Sam L wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Dario Obviously pentax has to make an adapter from K to Q mount. Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything but a Q (or similar tiny lens), then your camera is no longer small. Sorry for stating the obvious! But, even more obviously, it's a whole lot smaller (and cheaper) than a conventional DSLR lens combo with the same angle of view. So buying a Q to get a smaller setup still makes sense, as long as the delivered image quality is good enough to meet your requirements. -- 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: *ist-Ds battery longevity?
On 11-09-08 2:47 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Yes I know the Ds is hopelessly outdated, but I've been using it as my backup/carry anywhere camera, and until recently it was serving admirably. Now however it's acquired a new annoying behavior, to wit, after loading a new set of lithium batteries it will totally drain them, in less than a week, even when turned off. Now my *ist D has always been a battery hog, but the Ds now even seems to beat that. I have now idea what might be wrong but I was wondering if anyone else had a clue. Needless to say it's not worth getting it repaired, a good used one from KEH is going for less than the repair bill would be. Are you absolutely certain the lithiums are good? All the cells? One weak one will make the whole set appear weak after little use. -bmw -- 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.
FS: FA 24-90
Well, it's that time. Time to get back to tightening up during unemployment. So the 24-90 has to go. Got it from Boris. And it is a very satisfying lens. $250 shipped in US. A bit more overseas. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- 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: Epson R3000
On 8/9/11, Igor Roshchin, discombobulated, unleashed: - we had a newborn daughter Congrats Igor! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: Epson R3000
Igor Roshchin wrote: we had a newborn daughter Best kind to have ;-) Congratulations! -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
What is often called hand-tinted was more likely done with stencils in a semi-automatic process called the Pathécolor process, which was originally developed for postcards and wallpaper. The example Ann shows was likely just a one-color wash on the blooms. The process could be repeated with multiple colors and eventually was used to create color slides and movies long before the invention of true color film. http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/colourful-stories-no-9-they-do-it-with-stencils/ Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- 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: *ist-Ds battery longevity?
That's the problem, it was turned off. I put the batteries in just before Irene hit and picked up the camera today. batteries were flat lined. This is the third time something similar happened. On 9/8/2011 3:28 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: My ist*Ds was always decent in terms of battery life. One spare set of lithiums is all I ever carried. How about when you turn the camera off? Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:47 PM, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I know the Ds is hopelessly outdated, but I've been using it as my backup/carry anywhere camera, and until recently it was serving admirably. Now however it's acquired a new annoying behavior, to wit, after loading a new set of lithium batteries it will totally drain them, in less than a week, even when turned off. Now my *ist D has always been a battery hog, but the Ds now even seems to beat that. I have now idea what might be wrong but I was wondering if anyone else had a clue. Needless to say it's not worth getting it repaired, a good used one from KEH is going for less than the repair bill would be. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
The ring marked 0-7 is probably a manual stop down ring. But even with that this is an extraordinarily silly proposition. On 9/8/2011 2:13 PM, John Francis wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:01:33PM +1000, Anthony Farr wrote: On 8 September 2011 17:46, Dario Bonazzadario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: Just to see how it looks: http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20110905_475272.html Dario What a hoot! http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/dcw/docs/475/272/html/005.jpg.html Good luck hand-holding that combo. Anyone know the crop factor for the Q? About 6 (it's a 6.17 x 4.55mm sensor). And that's a DA lens, so there's no aperture ring. And with no digital communication between the body and the camera, you're stuck with manual focus at full aperture :-( -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On 9/8/2011 3:38 PM, William Robb wrote: On 08/09/2011 1:25 PM, Sam L wrote: Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything but a Q (or similar tiny lens), then your camera is no longer small. Sorry for stating the obvious! Have you looked at a NEX with any lens mounted? Which I think makes the point nicely. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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: Can anyone identify this beetle?
Hum, I thought it was George. On 9/8/2011 2:28 AM, David Savage wrote: That's Ringo. On 6 September 2011 13:30, Larry Colenl...@red4est.com wrote: That's beetle, not beatle: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627605282212/ He's about 2.5 (6cm) long. Found in the Santa Cruz mountains. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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. -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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: OT The 30 Harshest Artist-on-Artist Insults In History
On 9/7/2011 5:33 PM, Bob W wrote: Bob W wrote: One of the greatest art feuds was between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Leonardo famously said that Michelangelo's anatomical pictures look like a bag of walnuts. And I agree with him. The version of the story I heard had him using sack of potatoes, but DaVinci probably wouldn't have been familiar with that New World food so bag of walnuts makes more sense. And, yes, he was right. Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com recent research into his childhood sketchbooks have proved that in fact Leonardo da Vinci invented the potato. B And the Florence Fry, an idea almost immediately stolen by the French... -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On Sep 8, 2011, at 2:16 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 9/8/2011 3:38 PM, William Robb wrote: On 08/09/2011 1:25 PM, Sam L wrote: Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything but a Q (or similar tiny lens), then your camera is no longer small. Sorry for stating the obvious! Have you looked at a NEX with any lens mounted? Which I think makes the point nicely. Don't expect marketing to have any basis in reality. When (a vast percentage of) people are shopping for something like the Q they will merely look at the ticky box that says that they *can* mount their camera to K-mount lenses, they won't look at the ticky box that says whether it's a good idea. Although, to be honest, I'm very curious to see what sort of moon photos I could get with a Q mounted to my bigma. I suspect that at 500mm the moon would more than fill the frame. It'll be the center of the FOV, so the sharpest part of the lens. With the bigma mounted on a tripod, I wouldn't tremendously care what the body was like. And to be honest, with the weird angles I've had a lens aimed at for lunar photography, live view would probably be a lot easier to deal with than the optical viewfinder. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On 08/09/2011 1:25 PM, Sam L wrote: Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything but a Q (or similar tiny lens), then your camera is no longer small. Sorry for stating the obvious! Have you looked at a NEX with any lens mounted? -- William Robb I can't believe all the nay-sayers regarding a small camera with a large lens, who haven't purchased and used such a camera. For one, it's not much different than using an SLR with a gigantic 500mm, 600mm, 1000mm, etc., lens on it. Second, the small camera body, even with a large lens, still reduces the total package size and weight by a significant percentage. Third, the proof is in the results, not in the gear. Tom C. -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On 08/09/2011 3:16 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 9/8/2011 3:38 PM, William Robb wrote: On 08/09/2011 1:25 PM, Sam L wrote: Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything but a Q (or similar tiny lens), then your camera is no longer small. Sorry for stating the obvious! Have you looked at a NEX with any lens mounted? Which I think makes the point nicely. Except that the whole world is cumming in their pants over the NEX. -- William Robb -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On 08/09/2011 4:15 PM, Tom C wrote: On 08/09/2011 1:25 PM, Sam L wrote: Yet I have never seen anything quite as retarded. It is a little bit like mounting a race engine to a bicycle. If you bought the Q, you wanted a small camera. If you mount anything but a Q (or similar tiny lens), then your camera is no longer small. Sorry for stating the obvious! Have you looked at a NEX with any lens mounted? -- William Robb I can't believe all the nay-sayers regarding a small camera with a large lens, who haven't purchased and used such a camera. For one, it's not much different than using an SLR with a gigantic 500mm, 600mm, 1000mm, etc., lens on it. Second, the small camera body, even with a large lens, still reduces the total package size and weight by a significant percentage. Third, the proof is in the results, not in the gear. I'm gonna play the Devil's Advocate for a moment. You are certainly stating the obvious regarding size, but what is perhaps getting lost is the usability of said package. I'd happily be proven wrong, but tossing a NEX sized camera onto the back of a sizable lens, say an 80-200/2.8, might make for a really badly balanced package that is a PITA to use simply because the small body shape doesn't give enough to hold onto. I read a post on PentaxForum from some guy who had seen a bunch of people having exactly that problem at some sort of sports event. The weight difference between a NEX and a small SLR (I used the Pentax Kr as a reference) is less than 12 ounces. -- William Robb -- 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: Pentax K-Q adapter
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:07 PM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: Except that the whole world is cumming in their pants over the NEX. That explains all the floods we're having. -- 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.
OT: Sick, drunk or half-stupid
Don't you just hate it when you find a drunken elk in your apple tree? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14842999 We should invite it to join the PDMLk. B -- 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: OT: 24 Hi Res Images From World War II
On Sep 6, 2011, at 18:28 , Doug Franklin wrote: Yep, those are B-24s, if you're talking about the seventh image from the top on page two. I'm kinda partial to the second one from the top of page 2, just because I've always been somewhat entranced by train artillery (the original form of rail gun). My father, R.G. McAllister, was a Sergeant in the 723rd Railway Operating Battalion in WW II. After 10 months of training after he was called up, he embarked for England Aug 11, 1944. They docked in Liverpool on the 22nd, disembarked on the 24th, then 30 hours later boarded a British ship in Southampton. Two days later (a slow sailing waiting for the beach to be ready) at 1600 hrs on the 26th they loaded up into L.C.I.'s and headed for Utah beach in France, where they gathered up their equipment and personal gear then headed inland. They caught a convoy on the 28th and made it to Le Mans by 1330 hrs on the 29th. On September 9th, after working for a week under the command of the 708th Railway Grand Division repairing the rails and getting under steam, they moved on to Surdon where the Battalion Headquarters was established. When the Battalion arrived in Surdon, there was much to be done. Most of the buildings had been damaged by air attack. The railroad yards were in poor condition and there were no facilities for handling other than a mere trickle of traffic. On September 14th, the Advance party with it's hundreds of tons of heavy equipment, prime movers to picks and shovels, arrived. What his Battalion was responsible for in essence was repairing damaged track and rail yards as fast as possible to allow the locomotives my father worked with to carry supplies to the front line(s). They had to keep up with the forward movement of the troops as they liberated France, turning the lines and equipment over to the French crews as they became available. My father was a yard locomotive engineer, a keeper of records and maps for the Battalion, and when not busy doing that, he had to crawl into and repair or overhaul with new pipe the boilers, clean and repair the fireboxes, grease the parts that needed it, oil those that did not, fire them up and take them out for testing before they were turned over to the long haul engineers and crews. The Battalion moved to Dreux France to re-establish it's headquarters on October 25th. They had by now established 70.4 miles of good track through to Argentan. They kept enough locomotives and tenders operable to work that trackage 24 hours a day. Leaving Dreux they were treated to a parade, flowers, bands, food (women?) by the residents returning from wherever they hid to avoid capture by the Germans. By Christmas, they had 110 miles operating to the front beyond Versailles. On March 12 of 1945 the entire remaining rail system was turned over to the French. The 723rd left on four trains to re-establish themselves in - Germany! - at Munchen-Gladbach by 1200 noon on the 15th. One year to the day and hour they started their training in Lincoln, Nebraska, plus someplace in Texas where they had a European railway system and rolling stock set up to play with. The main line of operation was from Herzogenrath to Geldern in priority movement support of the Ninth Army. They operated under decent amount of shell fire, though no lives were lost, just track needing repair. The Ninth soon broke through the German Rhine defenses. The day was taken off on the 14th of April to honor the death of President Roosevelt. In the month of April an estimated 125,000 prisoners of war and 29,000 French and Belgium repatriates, in addition to the constant movement of supplies foreword to the lightening advances of the troops. The 723rd's most important and exacting task was the repair and rebuilding of the Gouldin Bridge at Wesel - first railroad span constructed across the Rhine River. The 723rd got the responsibility of that span from completion until VE-Day. A daily average of 16 Eastbound trains crossed the bridge every day, about one per hour. The same was true of the empties or troop trains heading West. What was significant was that it was a single track bridge in support of the American 1st, 9th, and 15th Armies, as well as the British 2nd Army. A self-imposed bottleneck that took careful tending and control to make everything work trouble free. Thank Company A, the signal, track, and bridge platoon, my father's in B company, the car, shop, and roundhouse platoon. The war ended on the 9th of May, but wasn't over for the 723rd. They still maintained control and responsibility of the road from the border of Germany over the Victory Bridge at Duisberg on to the city of Hamm, plus all associated spur track. The Allies hired former German railroad employees before the end of the war to rebuild the circuits of the electrically operated switches and control towers in the various yards. Once the war ended, we utilized all former German
Bad Photochop On The Move
What do you do when you've created an awesomely bad Photochop of your van? You pay someone to turn it into a decal for the rear window of said van, of course! http://www.youdrivewhat.com/vantastic-2/ -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- 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: interesting trends...
I'm really curious to see a Q review. Still, it's really expensive. I think it would have a real chance at $400-500. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:11 PM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/2011 3:49 AM, Anthony Farr wrote: On 8 September 2011 12:35, Subashpdml.l...@gmail.com wrote: these are only figures for japan/asia but interesting nonetheless. canon and nikon lose a combined 35% market share while sony doubles it. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-07/canon-clinging-to-mirrors-means-opportunity-for-sony-cameras.html so, is the dslr dead yet? perhaps there's hope for the Q :) -- regards, subash I found this quote quite revealing, 'Mirrorless cameras are a threat,' said David Rubenstein, a Tokyo-based analyst at MF Global FXA Securities Ltd I guess they would be a threat to companies that choose to oppose the trend rather than embrace it. Some observations: Non adoption of autofocus cut the SLR market from perhaps twenty or more brands in the sixties and early seventies to less than ten. (Topcon, anyone? Or Miranda? Yashica? Petri?) Contax and Olympus both flubbed their AF implimentations, but Olympus redeemed itself with a confident early digital program. Topcon, Miranda and Petri were gone long before AF came about. They left about the same time auto exposure came along. You may as well toss Mamiya in there as well, with their lamentable 35mm SLR attempts. Yashica and Contax were one and the same at the time of AF, both were owned by Kyocera. My prediction is that within five years the only DSLRs will be a few premium and professional models, perhaps one from each surviving major player. I also predict that within ten years their won't be DSLRs in the 4/3 to 135 range. This was longer than I thought it'd be, so thanks for reading. EVF type cameras are going to happen, whether we want or like them or not. They cost less to produce, which makes them attractive to manufacturers, and they are the newest thing, which makes them attractive to marketers and people who buy based on hype rather than function. My only hope is that they can make a decent EVF (they are still crap) before the choice of optical viewfinder is taken away from us entirely. -- William Robb -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: Bad Photochop On The Move
Too bad the right front wheel fell offand the whole mess is about to tip over. Nice. Paul On Sep 8, 2011, at 7:43 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: What do you do when you've created an awesomely bad Photochop of your van? You pay someone to turn it into a decal for the rear window of said van, of course! http://www.youdrivewhat.com/vantastic-2/ -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- 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. -- 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: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
On 9 September 2011 07:02, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: What is often called hand-tinted was more likely done with stencils in a semi-automatic process called the Pathécolor process, which was originally developed for postcards and wallpaper. The example Ann shows was likely just a one-color wash on the blooms. The process could be repeated with multiple colors and eventually was used to create color slides and movies long before the invention of true color film. http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/colourful-stories-no-9-they-do-it-with-stencils/ I like the sound of that explanation. While there's only a single reference to its having been adopted from methods used for colouring postcards and wallpaper, the page was about movie print colouring so I mustn't grumble. I would have liked more information on the workflow and the actual colouring medium used for paper rather than film, but overall the explanation fits the appearance of Ann's postcard. Diid anyone notice the addressing of this postcard. It's a sign of much simpler times when an item addressed as sparsely as Miss Myrtle Jacobson Park Ridge Ill successfully arrives at its destination. regards, Anthony Of what use is lens and light to those who lack in mind and sight (Anon) -- 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: Epson R3000
Paul, Thank you for your response. I've been happy for the most part with my R2880 for about 2.5 years now. I doubt I can justify upgrading it. The R3000 will actually be for my brother to whom I advertised the R2880, and who discovered what seems to be the newer model, R3000. I am surprised thought that R3000 is not backward compatible with g, as I thought all the n devices must be. Igor Thu Sep 8 14:08:35 EDT 2011 Paul Sorenson wrote: Can't say about the R3000, but I have the R2000 and so far it's great. Has much the same features of the R3000 - no swapping black carts, USB, Ethernet WIFi, same paper sizes. The inkset is different, though - similar to the R1900, but larger carts. And the R3000 is a couple hundred dollars more expensive. If you want to run WiFi, be sure you are n capable. We have U-Verse and ATT does not have any n routers so I had to use a separate router for the printer WiFi. -p On 9/8/2011 9:53 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Hi All: Has anybody had any experience with the new Espon R3000 printer yet? It seems to have all the features of R2880, plus a few advanatages: you don't need to swap between two black cartridges, and you have Ethernet/WiFi connection in addition to the USB. Does anybody know if there is anything that would be missing in R3000 compared to R2880? Igor PS. I don't expect anybody to miss me, but in case you were wondering why I was silent in the past ~2 months: - we had a newborn daughter, and then, in addition to that, I had an international conference trip. -- 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: Epson R3000
Thank you, guys! Mark, I noticed your irony. ;-) Igor Thu Sep 8 16:27:00 EDT 2011 Cotty wrote: On 8/9/11, Igor Roshchin, discombobulated, unleashed: - we had a newborn daughter Congrats Igor! Thu Sep 8 17:00:30 EDT 2011 Mark Roberts wrote: Igor Roshchin wrote: we had a newborn daughter Best kind to have ;-) Congratulations! -- 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: OT: 24 Hi Res Images From World War II
Joe, My Uncle was a toy train enthusiast and a public health officer at the outbreak of WWII. His parents were Polish and he couldn't stand being a civilian with other men in uniform. He got himself a commission and couldn't get into the war in health, so he transfered. He served in a railroad unit in Europe. His name was Harry Krzywicki. Maybe with your dad. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: On Sep 6, 2011, at 18:28 , Doug Franklin wrote: Yep, those are B-24s, if you're talking about the seventh image from the top on page two. I'm kinda partial to the second one from the top of page 2, just because I've always been somewhat entranced by train artillery (the original form of rail gun). My father, R.G. McAllister, was a Sergeant in the 723rd Railway Operating Battalion in WW II. After 10 months of training after he was called up, he embarked for England Aug 11, 1944. They docked in Liverpool on the 22nd, disembarked on the 24th, then 30 hours later boarded a British ship in Southampton. Two days later (a slow sailing waiting for the beach to be ready) at 1600 hrs on the 26th they loaded up into L.C.I.'s and headed for Utah beach in France, where they gathered up their equipment and personal gear then headed inland. They caught a convoy on the 28th and made it to Le Mans by 1330 hrs on the 29th. On September 9th, after working for a week under the command of the 708th Railway Grand Division repairing the rails and getting under steam, they moved on to Surdon where the Battalion Headquarters was established. When the Battalion arrived in Surdon, there was much to be done. Most of the buildings had been damaged by air attack. The railroad yards were in poor condition and there were no facilities for handling other than a mere trickle of traffic. On September 14th, the Advance party with it's hundreds of tons of heavy equipment, prime movers to picks and shovels, arrived. What his Battalion was responsible for in essence was repairing damaged track and rail yards as fast as possible to allow the locomotives my father worked with to carry supplies to the front line(s). They had to keep up with the forward movement of the troops as they liberated France, turning the lines and equipment over to the French crews as they became available. My father was a yard locomotive engineer, a keeper of records and maps for the Battalion, and when not busy doing that, he had to crawl into and repair or overhaul with new pipe the boilers, clean and repair the fireboxes, grease the parts that needed it, oil those that did not, fire them up and take them out for testing before they were turned over to the long haul engineers and crews. The Battalion moved to Dreux France to re-establish it's headquarters on October 25th. They had by now established 70.4 miles of good track through to Argentan. They kept enough locomotives and tenders operable to work that trackage 24 hours a day. Leaving Dreux they were treated to a parade, flowers, bands, food (women?) by the residents returning from wherever they hid to avoid capture by the Germans. By Christmas, they had 110 miles operating to the front beyond Versailles. On March 12 of 1945 the entire remaining rail system was turned over to the French. The 723rd left on four trains to re-establish themselves in - Germany! - at Munchen-Gladbach by 1200 noon on the 15th. One year to the day and hour they started their training in Lincoln, Nebraska, plus someplace in Texas where they had a European railway system and rolling stock set up to play with. The main line of operation was from Herzogenrath to Geldern in priority movement support of the Ninth Army. They operated under decent amount of shell fire, though no lives were lost, just track needing repair. The Ninth soon broke through the German Rhine defenses. The day was taken off on the 14th of April to honor the death of President Roosevelt. In the month of April an estimated 125,000 prisoners of war and 29,000 French and Belgium repatriates, in addition to the constant movement of supplies foreword to the lightening advances of the troops. The 723rd's most important and exacting task was the repair and rebuilding of the Gouldin Bridge at Wesel - first railroad span constructed across the Rhine River. The 723rd got the responsibility of that span from completion until VE-Day. A daily average of 16 Eastbound trains crossed the bridge every day, about one per hour. The same was true of the empties or troop trains heading West. What was significant was that it was a single track bridge in support of the American 1st, 9th, and 15th Armies, as well as the British 2nd Army. A self-imposed bottleneck that took careful tending and control to make everything work trouble free. Thank Company A, the signal, track, and bridge platoon, my father's in B company,
Re: Epson R3000
--- On Thu, 9/8/11, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Igor Roshchin wrote: we had a newborn daughter Best kind to have ;-) Congratulations! Oh, I dunno... A former newborn daughter who's now on her own and out of the house is pretty nice, too! Congratulations, Igor! It is an incredible trip! Rick -- 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: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
On 9/8/2011 20:41, Anthony Farr wrote: ... Diid anyone notice the addressing of this postcard. It's a sign of much simpler times when an item addressed as sparsely as Miss Myrtle Jacobson Park Ridge Ill successfully arrives at its destination. regards, Anthony However ...here is another from close to the same time :-) http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/1469870933_Ln5P3JS/Large 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 and follow the directions.
RE: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI
Even fairly recently it can still work: my address in 1967-9 was Mr. J D Coyle Island of St. Helena South Atlantic Ocean Easy because the mail had to be picked up from the main Post Office in Jamestown. The island now has a postcode, but some mail still gets misdirected to California or South West Africa. Fortunately, the local St. Helena Island in Moreton Bay (off Brisbane) has no residents other than museum staff and thus very little mail, so causes no confusion in sorting offices. John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Ann Sanfedele Sent: Friday, 9 September 2011 11:46 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: real photo postcard from pre WWI On 9/8/2011 20:41, Anthony Farr wrote: ... Diid anyone notice the addressing of this postcard. It's a sign of much simpler times when an item addressed as sparsely as Miss Myrtle Jacobson Park Ridge Ill successfully arrives at its destination. regards, Anthony However ...here is another from close to the same time :-) http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/1469870933 _Ln5P3JS/Large 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 and follow the directions. -- 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: OT: 24 Hi Res Images From World War II
Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: Thank you for reading. Wow! Thanks for writing! -- 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.
Fuji stops produntion of several more film types
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Re: OT: 24 Hi Res Images From World War II
I don't see any officers by that name. All enlisted men in companies A, B, C are listed as coming from a state in the USA. They are alphabetized that way. Means the names are all jumbled up within each company. So that makes it difficult to know. If you want to look at them all, the rosters are on the middle pages of the website. Lots of images as well, but they are scans from the original book, so don't expect much. http://usmrr.tripod.com/finsaga.htm On Sep 8, 2011, at 18:02 , Bob Sullivan wrote: Joe, My Uncle was a toy train enthusiast and a public health officer at the outbreak of WWII. His parents were Polish and he couldn't stand being a civilian with other men in uniform. He got himself a commission and couldn't get into the war in health, so he transfered. He served in a railroad unit in Europe. His name was Harry Krzywicki. Maybe with your dad. Regards, Bob S. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- 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.
PESO: Center of Attention
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=130 Comments Welcome. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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: OT: 24 Hi Res Images From World War II
Thanks for thanking me for writing! If you have the time and are interested, I've included some statistics the 723rd racked up while in-country, as we Vietnam Vets say. On Sep 8, 2011, at 19:30 , Mark Roberts wrote: Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: Thank you for reading. Wow! Thanks for writing! Some statistics, if you are interested. May not line up for you, I'm using 14 pt Arial. TRAIN MOVEMENTS - FRANCE, 11 SEPT 1944 TO 12 MARCH 1945 Eastbound | Westbound No. Trains TotalLoadsNet tons |No. Trains Total LoadsNet tons 3,851 144,978 1,797,402| 4,321 34,014414,249 TRAIN MOVEMENTS - GERMANY, 20 MARCH 1945 TO 15 JULY 1945 Eastbound | Westbound No. Trains TotalLoadsNet tons | No. Trains Total LoadsNet tons 3,03988,881 1,244,334 | 3,229 83,428 1,167,992 TOTAL OPERATIONS IN EUROPEAN THEATRE No. Trains TotalLoadsNet tons 14,440 351,3014,623,977 CAR, SHOP and ROUNDHOUSE CAPTURED ENEMY FREIGHT No. CARSNo. Engines Serviced PASSENGER CARS STENCILED REPAIRED and Repaired in FranceGermany 5,862 1,55215,540 5,355 Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- 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.
