Re: PESO: Canopy

2014-06-17 Thread Attila Boros
Thanks, Frank.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:42 AM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yeah, I'm with Tim.

 But maybe that tension isn't such a bad thing. I do like the colours.

 Cheers,
 frank

 On 16 June, 2014 4:10:29 PM EDT, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote:
Nice, but my eyes want to see more green.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com
wrote:
 I saw this scene during a late afternoon walk, the green leaves
 against the blue sky caught my eye.


 http://1x.com/photo/624144/

 or

 http://500px.com/photo/73903121/canopy-by-attila-boros

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Re: PESO - House Sitting Swallow

2014-06-17 Thread Attila Boros
Nice catch! Swallows around here won't sit for more than a few seconds.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:01 AM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
 Because he's sitting on his house?

 http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/06/house-sitting-swallow.html?m=1

 I wish it were a bit sharper but I'll take it.

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Re: PESO A drop of sap

2014-06-17 Thread Larry Colen

On Jun 16, 2014, at 7:01 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:

 I can't get to my FarceBook acccount any more.  Any chance you can
 send the image to me directly?
 
 Some old Spotmatic images of the planes I flew can be seen here:
 http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=398541

Here’s a link that should be visible to everyone:
 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152550186578689


 
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 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
 
 
 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
 
 On Jun 16, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
 
 It was a tough choice between them, not to mention the others I took, but 
 didn’t post.
 
 It must be REALLY tough when you have so many great images you can't
 decide which to share with your many admirers!
 
 I think you mean, when I have so many great subjects to photograph, I just 
 have to find which photo I screwed up the least.
 
 
 
 That is meant only in small part as a joke.
 
 There are reasons that I’m spoiled by living here.  You should come visit 
 sometime. Stop on your way to or home from Hawaii for a few days.
 Did you see that F4 photo in the FB photo critique group I tried to point 
 you at?  Wasn’t that what you flew in Vietnam?
 
 
 
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Re: not necessarily OT for some ... Mac mini performance with SSD

2014-06-17 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 16/6/14, Charles Robinson, discombobulated, unleashed:


 https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/54-Bit-Driver-Kit/IF145-022
 

I was *just* telling the wife that I need to replace my craptastic mini-
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Re: Lightroom question

2014-06-17 Thread Paul Sorenson
Will this work?

Open the file with her tweaks
Create a develop preset
Open your original RAW file and create a virtual copy
Apply the preset of her tweaks to the new copy

-p

Sent from my iPad

 On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:51 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
 
 My friend Candice wanted to try her hand at processing one of my photos in 
 lightroom. I exported several virtual copies of it onto a catalog on a usb 
 stick. She imported that catalog, made the tweaks she wanted and saved the 
 catalog back to the usb stick.
 
 I’d like to import her edits to the file as virtual copies along side my 
 edits, but I seem to either have the option of copying the files to a new 
 location, or importing the edits leaving the files in place. If I try the 
 latter, unmounting the stick, then pointing at the raw file already on my 
 disk, it says it can’t have two things pointing to the same raw file.
 
 How do I solve this problem of merging edits as virtual copies?
 
 
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Re: PESO A drop of sap

2014-06-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Yes, Larry, that is pretty much the plane I flew in in Viet Nam.  This
particular model is an Air Force veteran, but otherwise the same as we
used.  The Air Force was very fond of camo paint jobs.  We were mostly
concerned about visibility from below, so we didn't use much camo.

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:

 On Jun 16, 2014, at 7:01 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:

 I can't get to my FarceBook acccount any more.  Any chance you can
 send the image to me directly?

 Some old Spotmatic images of the planes I flew can be seen here:
 http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=398541

 Here’s a link that should be visible to everyone:
  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152550186578689



 Dan Matyola
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 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:

 On Jun 16, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:

 It was a tough choice between them, not to mention the others I took, but 
 didn’t post.

 It must be REALLY tough when you have so many great images you can't
 decide which to share with your many admirers!

 I think you mean, when I have so many great subjects to photograph, I just 
 have to find which photo I screwed up the least.



 That is meant only in small part as a joke.

 There are reasons that I’m spoiled by living here.  You should come visit 
 sometime. Stop on your way to or home from Hawaii for a few days.
 Did you see that F4 photo in the FB photo critique group I tried to point 
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Re: Lightroom question

2014-06-17 Thread Stanley Halpin
I may not understand the question. But it would seem that if you do an 
import-from-catalog you will bring in her (changed) files. Or just the changes 
to the files. If you don’t want to lose your originals in the process, make a 
duplicate first. The re-import will “overwrite the original but your duplicate 
should stay as it was.

stan

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 My friend Candice wanted to try her hand at processing one of my photos in 
 lightroom. I exported several virtual copies of it onto a catalog on a usb 
 stick. She imported that catalog, made the tweaks she wanted and saved the 
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 I’d like to import her edits to the file as virtual copies along side my 
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 location, or importing the edits leaving the files in place. If I try the 
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 disk, it says it can’t have two things pointing to the same raw file.
 
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Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Richard Womer
Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser
noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started
Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day).

Gee, I said to myself halfway through the first movement, this
sounds crappy.  I tried all of the equalization settings, and found
flat was the best, but it still sounded crappy.

Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same
selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the
headphones.

So my questions are:

1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is
there a better one?

2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond
recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there
any way to circumvent that?

3. Or is the problem that the iPhone has crappy sound circuitry, and
I'll just have to live with it?

Cheers,

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Re: PESO - House Sitting Swallow

2014-06-17 Thread knarf
Thanks Dan. It was cool and I think he was puffed out to conserve heat. As well 
I know he noticed me so maybe he was trying to look big.

Appreciate the comment!

Cheers, 
frank

On 16 June, 2014 10:04:08 PM EDT, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com 
wrote:
I also like it, Frank.

He;s not just sitting ON the house, he is just ab out sitting AROUND
the house.

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:01 PM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com
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 Because he's sitting on his house?


http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/06/house-sitting-swallow.html?m=1

 I wish it were a bit sharper but I'll take it.

 Comments welcome.

 Cheers,
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Re: PESO 2014 - 141 - GDG

2014-06-17 Thread knarf
Intriguing!

Cheers,
frank

On 16 June, 2014 11:09:54 PM EDT, Godfrey DiGiorgi godfreydigio...@me.com 
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Thanks for all the comments on #140! I appreciate you taking the time. 

Another from the Saturday walk … 
  https://flic.kr/p/nZZjEd

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Re: PESO - House Sitting Swallow

2014-06-17 Thread knarf
Hi Attila,

Best time to catch them is first thing in the morning or later in the evening. 
They like to sun themselves after they wake up and appear to rest for a few 
minutes before retiring. Between those times they are constantly on the wing.

Thanks for the comment!

Cheers,
frank

On 17 June, 2014 3:10:09 AM EDT, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Nice catch! Swallows around here won't sit for more than a few seconds.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:01 AM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com
wrote:
 Because he's sitting on his house?


http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/06/house-sitting-swallow.html?m=1

 I wish it were a bit sharper but I'll take it.

 Comments welcome.

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Re: Vivian Maier EXPOSED In Suburbia - Around Town - Downers Grove Patch, IL

2014-06-17 Thread Bob Sullivan
So here's what's happening in my neighborhood.
If anybody is interested in seeing this show, let me know.
Maybe we can meet there.
Regards,  Bob S.

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Re: not necessarily OT for some ... Mac mini performance with SSD

2014-06-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jun 16, 2014, at 21:00 , Godfrey DiGiorgi godfreydigio...@me.com wrote:
 
 I'm glad you got it done without issue. For me, I didn't get past step three. 
 Removing the fan connector … gently as I could imagine … ripped the connector 
 socket block right off the motherboard. From how the folks at the store 
 reacted, I think this is not uncommon. It's a very delicate little component. 
 

I've damaged connectors like this before when attempting to bring trashed 
digital cameras back to life.  I've been there.  Maybe I got lucky with that 
connector this time (shudder). Hopefully I'll never have to go back in 
there!

Agree with the external TimeMachine drive... even if it makes the desktop a 
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Re: Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jun 17, 2014, at 08:46 , Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:

 Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser
 noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started
 Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day).
 
 Gee, I said to myself halfway through the first movement, this
 sounds crappy.  I tried all of the equalization settings, and found
 flat was the best, but it still sounded crappy.
 
 Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same
 selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the
 headphones.
 
 So my questions are:
 
 1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is
 there a better one?
 
 2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond
 recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there
 any way to circumvent that?
 

Files transferred from iTunes to your phone aren't (or shouldn't be) 
recompressed.  But check your settings!

With your phone connected to iTunes, click on the phone in the left sidebar so 
you get the summary (phone, backups, options) in the big window on the right.

In the lowest options box, look for the checkbox titled: Convert higher bit 
rate songs to xxx AAC.

If that's checked... UN-check it.   Now the music sent to your phone will just 
be a COPY of the file from your MBP, not a re-rip of same.

I find that the music output on my iPhone5 sounds just great to my 48-year-old 
ears.

 -Charles

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Fwd: costco

2014-06-17 Thread Bipin Gupta
Hello PJ Sir, and all other PDMLer Friends who posted, I was recently
in Wallmart, Toronto talking to the Pharmacist, a very knowledgeable
person.
I had fallen short of my BP medication RAMIPRIL 10 mg (famous brand
name Altace) and asked for the cheapest one available. The brand I
bought in Bangalore, India, costed me USD 1.20 for 10 capsules. She
quoted $ 10 for a strip of 10 for a generic brand here in Canada.

Now it is for you folks to decide on the rampant profiteering by drug
companies here in North America. Yes or no could be your personal
choice, but being a global person I have seen the suffering of poor
labourers, daily waged workers and others who just cannot afford
costly medicines.

Almost every drug is cheaper by one-tenth in India, and I note that
India has paved the way for cheaper drugs that the poor of this world
deserves.

Here is an extract on Ramipril from Wikipedia org.:-
The compound was protected by U.S. Patent 5,061,722 which was
assigned to the German pharmaceutical company Hoechst AG (since merged
into Aventis) on 29 October 1991. The patent was scheduled to expire
on 29 October 2008. On 11 September 2007, in an appeal by the Indian
company Lupin Ltd., the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit reversed a district court trial verdict and found that
Aventis's patent on Ramipril was invalid for obviousness, opening
this drug to generic manufacturers.
Ramipril is marketed in India under the brand names of Cardace,
Zigpril, Ramistar, Zorem, and many others.

Regards.
Bipin.
camp: Thornhill, Toronto.

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Re: not necessarily OT for some ... Mac mini performance with SSD

2014-06-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jun 17, 2014, at 04:44 , Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote:

 On 16/6/14, Charles Robinson, discombobulated, unleashed:
 
 
 https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/54-Bit-Driver-Kit/IF145-022
 
 
 I was *just* telling the wife that I need to replace my craptastic mini-
 driver set with something higher-quality.
 
 Would be very interested to see what you think when they arrive.
 

I have to decide between the driver set or the $65 entire tool-roll... I will 
report back when one or the other arrives at home!

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Re: Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Richard Womer
Thanks, Charles.  It wasn't checked.

Do you listen to classical music? I imagine the reproduction would be
fine for pop, but it flunks for chamber or symphonic music.

Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote:
 On Jun 17, 2014, at 08:46 , Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:

 Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser
 noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started
 Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day).

 Gee, I said to myself halfway through the first movement, this
 sounds crappy.  I tried all of the equalization settings, and found
 flat was the best, but it still sounded crappy.

 Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same
 selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the
 headphones.

 So my questions are:

 1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is
 there a better one?

 2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond
 recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there
 any way to circumvent that?


 Files transferred from iTunes to your phone aren't (or shouldn't be) 
 recompressed.  But check your settings!

 With your phone connected to iTunes, click on the phone in the left sidebar 
 so you get the summary (phone, backups, options) in the big window on the 
 right.

 In the lowest options box, look for the checkbox titled: Convert higher 
 bit rate songs to xxx AAC.

 If that's checked... UN-check it.   Now the music sent to your phone will 
 just be a COPY of the file from your MBP, not a re-rip of same.

 I find that the music output on my iPhone5 sounds just great to my 
 48-year-old ears.

  -Charles

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Re: PESO 2014 - 141 - GDG

2014-06-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Nice pattern and textures.

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:17 AM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
 Intriguing!

 Cheers,
 frank

 On 16 June, 2014 11:09:54 PM EDT, Godfrey DiGiorgi godfreydigio...@me.com 
 wrote:
Thanks for all the comments on #140! I appreciate you taking the time.

Another from the Saturday walk …
  https://flic.kr/p/nZZjEd

Thanks for looking. As always, comments are appreciated.

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Re: Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jun 17, 2014, at 10:33 , Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks, Charles.  It wasn't checked.
 
 Do you listen to classical music? I imagine the reproduction would be
 fine for pop, but it flunks for chamber or symphonic music.
 

I absolutely do not.  I grew up with in playing in the house all of the time, 
but never developed a taste for it.

You may well just be pickier than I am (I used to be the fanatic with the 
Discwasher and the Zerostat, working on adjusting cartridges and complaining 
about inner-groove distortion).  I am no longer too picky, I guess. 

Try borrowing someone's iPod, see if you like the reproduction better out of 
one of those.  FWIW, A friend of mine says the DAC on the Classics is nowhere 
near as good as earlier models.  As a matter of fact, he has a device which 
plugs into the 30-pin port and gets a direct digital output which this extra 
device then converts for ultra-high-fidelity analog independently of the iPod.  
I think he's nuts, but if he wants to spend $200 on a device to convert output 
from a $150 device, all power to him.

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Re: Now why didn't I think of this?

2014-06-17 Thread John

On 6/16/2014 7:30 PM, Brian Walters wrote:

A novel approach to combing digital and film photography...

http://tinyurl.com/mx4avc3



Doesn't appear to have any way to trigger the shutters simultaneously.

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Re: PESO A drop of sap

2014-06-17 Thread John

On 6/16/2014 7:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote:


On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:40 AM, John sesso...@earthlink.net wrote:



It was a tough choice between them, not to mention the others I took, but 
didn’t post.



Y'all at any risk from that fire? I hope they get it controlled soon and
that it's not near where you live.


What fire?  I just did a quick google search and can’t find any reference to a 
local fire.



Heard it on NPR yesterday evening as I was driving home. Large
un-contained fire near Sequoia National Park threatening to spread into
residential areas.

I'm kind of vague about where you live, other than it being in
California  you appear to have Redwood trees in your back yard. And I
wasn't bothered to refresh my memory by looking up Sequoia National Park
on Google Maps.


Google maps says that it’s a 240 mile drive, with the central valley between us.

If I lived back east, there’d probably be two states between us, in Europe, 
we’d be in different countries.  :-)

Yes I know 100 years is a long time, vs. 100 miles is a long distance.

I live in Felton, just outside Santa Cruz, about 40 miles south of San Jose and 
about 75 south of San Francisco.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Felton,+CA/




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Re: Now why didn't I think of this?

2014-06-17 Thread P.J. Alling

On 6/17/2014 1:08 PM, John wrote:

On 6/16/2014 7:30 PM, Brian Walters wrote:

A novel approach to combing digital and film photography...

http://tinyurl.com/mx4avc3



Doesn't appear to have any way to trigger the shutters simultaneously.



If you're really cheep you can get this.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/875862-REG/vello_ir_p1_infrared_remote_for_pentax.html

Otherwise Pentax makes some fine IR remotes.  (Personally I was cheep).

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For John - More Time Warner woes

2014-06-17 Thread Paul

From today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

http://tinyurl.com/ktyhzn6

They say it's a database problem and they don't have any idea when it 
will be fixed - but they're working as fast as they can.   :{


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Re: not necessarily OT for some ... Mac mini performance with SSD

2014-06-17 Thread John

Yeah, at this point, I don't have need of a second drive in there
either. My only point is having to go into the machine twice is twice
the opportunity to screw it up.

I just figure having someone else clean up my mess will cost me less if
I combine all of my mistakes into one operation.

On 6/16/2014 10:02 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

ifixit.com is great. I've used them a lot.

As I wrote to Charles, I didn't see the point of putting another
drive into the machine in the end and revised my original plan.
Plenty of disk space free and all my photo data is on external drives
anyway, both for safety and for best performance.

Yes, doing RAM is a no brainer. But I already have the mini maxed out
with 16G RAM; bought it that way.

G

On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:06 AM, John sesso...@earthlink.net wrote:


The day I got a Mac mini I started looking at upgrade options. I
found a place called ifixit.com that has a lot of guides 
tutorials.

Replacing the hard-drive on the Mac mini looks to be a real bear.
If I was going to attempt it, I'd want to go ahead and add the
second drive at the same time so I didn't have to go in there
twice.

Adding RAM doesn't appear to be too much of a challenge though.





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Re: Now why didn't I think of this?

2014-06-17 Thread John

On 6/17/2014 1:19 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:

On 6/17/2014 1:08 PM, John wrote:

On 6/16/2014 7:30 PM, Brian Walters wrote:

A novel approach to combing digital and film photography...

http://tinyurl.com/mx4avc3



Doesn't appear to have any way to trigger the shutters simultaneously.



If you're really cheep you can get this.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/875862-REG/vello_ir_p1_infrared_remote_for_pentax.html


Otherwise Pentax makes some fine IR remotes.  (Personally I was cheep).



I don't see either camera listed as compatible with that remote. Would
the Pentax Remote Control F work with both cameras? Either camera?

I've got a bag full of them from when Wolf Camera went out of business.

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Re: For John - More Time Warner woes

2014-06-17 Thread John

On 6/17/2014 1:21 PM, Paul wrote:

From today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

http://tinyurl.com/ktyhzn6

They say it's a database problem and they don't have any idea when it
 will be fixed - but they're working as fast as they can.   :{

-p


And Time-Warner is still lying through their teeth about it.

This week it's a database problem. Last week it was latency.

How does a database problem cause latency that prevents you from
even connecting to the email server to log in?

It's horse-shit is what it is.

Meanwhile, the forwarding I set up the one time I *was* able to log in
appears to be working.

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Re: Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Classical music sounds just fine from the iPhone, modulo the quality of the 
encoding and output devices. Even my brother (a recording engineer) agrees. So 
something's wrong with the encoding or the output. 

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 On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Thanks, Charles.  It wasn't checked.
 
 Do you listen to classical music? I imagine the reproduction would be
 fine for pop, but it flunks for chamber or symphonic music.
 
 Rick
 http://photo.net/photos/RickW
 
 
 On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote:
 On Jun 17, 2014, at 08:46 , Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser
 noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started
 Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day).
 
 Gee, I said to myself halfway through the first movement, this
 sounds crappy.  I tried all of the equalization settings, and found
 flat was the best, but it still sounded crappy.
 
 Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same
 selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the
 headphones.
 
 So my questions are:
 
 1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is
 there a better one?
 
 2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond
 recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there
 any way to circumvent that?
 
 Files transferred from iTunes to your phone aren't (or shouldn't be) 
 recompressed.  But check your settings!
 
 With your phone connected to iTunes, click on the phone in the left sidebar 
 so you get the summary (phone, backups, options) in the big window on the 
 right.
 
 In the lowest options box, look for the checkbox titled: Convert higher 
 bit rate songs to xxx AAC.
 
 If that's checked... UN-check it.   Now the music sent to your phone will 
 just be a COPY of the file from your MBP, not a re-rip of same.
 
 I find that the music output on my iPhone5 sounds just great to my 
 48-year-old ears.
 
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Re: Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Richard Womer
Godfrey,

So it appears. The files I'm listening to are from CDs, copied onto
the MBP and thence to the iPhone.  They sound much, much better on the
MBP. I'm puzzled.

I think I'll try a third-party graphic equalizer/playback program, but
somehow I'm not anticipating great success.

Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote:
 Classical music sounds just fine from the iPhone, modulo the quality of the 
 encoding and output devices. Even my brother (a recording engineer) agrees. 
 So something's wrong with the encoding or the output.

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 On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks, Charles.  It wasn't checked.

 Do you listen to classical music? I imagine the reproduction would be
 fine for pop, but it flunks for chamber or symphonic music.

 Rick
 http://photo.net/photos/RickW


 On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com 
 wrote:
 On Jun 17, 2014, at 08:46 , Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:

 Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser
 noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started
 Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day).

 Gee, I said to myself halfway through the first movement, this
 sounds crappy.  I tried all of the equalization settings, and found
 flat was the best, but it still sounded crappy.

 Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same
 selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the
 headphones.

 So my questions are:

 1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is
 there a better one?

 2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond
 recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there
 any way to circumvent that?

 Files transferred from iTunes to your phone aren't (or shouldn't be) 
 recompressed.  But check your settings!

 With your phone connected to iTunes, click on the phone in the left sidebar 
 so you get the summary (phone, backups, options) in the big window on the 
 right.

 In the lowest options box, look for the checkbox titled: Convert higher 
 bit rate songs to xxx AAC.

 If that's checked... UN-check it.   Now the music sent to your phone will 
 just be a COPY of the file from your MBP, not a re-rip of same.

 I find that the music output on my iPhone5 sounds just great to my 
 48-year-old ears.

 -Charles

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Re: Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jun 17, 2014, at 17:03 , Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:

 Godfrey,
 
 So it appears. The files I'm listening to are from CDs, copied onto
 the MBP and thence to the iPhone.  They sound much, much better on the
 MBP. I'm puzzled.
 
 I think I'll try a third-party graphic equalizer/playback program, but
 somehow I'm not anticipating great success.
 

have you tried different methods of output - ie, using a dock to a stereo or 
something?  The 30-pin (older phone) or lightning jack (newer phones) puts out 
a line output which would be going through your DAC but not your amplifier... 
you could get a clue where the problem lies.

How about when you handle phone calls using that headphone jack? How do those 
sound?  You might have something gumming up your headphone jack physically, or 
there might be a problem with the amplifier.

I know that in the past I've gotten some really REALLY bad sound when a 
headphone is not FULLY inserted into the jack - you get something that is 
mostly monophonic with the L+R signals added up out of phase with each other 
(or something like that).  Can really sound like crap.  Make sure (compressed 
air?  toothpick?) that there isn't something keeping your headphone plug from 
going all the way in.

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Re: Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
They should sound virtually identical if you use the same headphones for 
output. I'd go to an Apple store and compare against another unit before you do 
anything else. Your iPhone may have a bad part ... 

My partner bought his 4S used and the sound was terrible from it. He brought it 
to the store, they agreed; they replaced it with a new one as it was still 
under warranty. 

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 On Jun 17, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Godfrey,
 
 So it appears. The files I'm listening to are from CDs, copied onto
 the MBP and thence to the iPhone.  They sound much, much better on the
 MBP. I'm puzzled.
 
 I think I'll try a third-party graphic equalizer/playback program, but
 somehow I'm not anticipating great success.
 
 Rick
 http://photo.net/photos/RickW
 
 
 On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote:
 Classical music sounds just fine from the iPhone, modulo the quality of the 
 encoding and output devices. Even my brother (a recording engineer) agrees. 
 So something's wrong with the encoding or the output.
 
 Godfrey
 --
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 On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Thanks, Charles.  It wasn't checked.
 
 Do you listen to classical music? I imagine the reproduction would be
 fine for pop, but it flunks for chamber or symphonic music.
 
 Rick
 http://photo.net/photos/RickW
 
 
 On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com 
 wrote:
 On Jun 17, 2014, at 08:46 , Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser
 noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started
 Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day).
 
 Gee, I said to myself halfway through the first movement, this
 sounds crappy.  I tried all of the equalization settings, and found
 flat was the best, but it still sounded crappy.
 
 Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same
 selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the
 headphones.
 
 So my questions are:
 
 1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is
 there a better one?
 
 2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond
 recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there
 any way to circumvent that?
 
 Files transferred from iTunes to your phone aren't (or shouldn't be) 
 recompressed.  But check your settings!
 
 With your phone connected to iTunes, click on the phone in the left 
 sidebar so you get the summary (phone, backups, options) in the big window 
 on the right.
 
 In the lowest options box, look for the checkbox titled: Convert higher 
 bit rate songs to xxx AAC.
 
 If that's checked... UN-check it.   Now the music sent to your phone will 
 just be a COPY of the file from your MBP, not a re-rip of same.
 
 I find that the music output on my iPhone5 sounds just great to my 
 48-year-old ears.
 
 -Charles
 
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Re: Over-the-horizon OT -- iPhone music playing

2014-06-17 Thread Richard Womer
Mystery solved!

Poking around in iTunes on the Mac, I found I had set the equalizer so that it 
sounded good on trains, planes, and at home with the AC running.

After some research, I downloaded the EQ 10 app, and set its equalizer 
similarly.

Zounds! Nice sounds, even here near the AC!

Thanks for your input, Charles and Godfrey. I really was helpful.

Rick

On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:20 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:

 They should sound virtually identical if you use the same headphones for 
 output. I'd go to an Apple store and compare against another unit before you 
 do anything else. Your iPhone may have a bad part ... 
 
 My partner bought his 4S used and the sound was terrible from it. He brought 
 it to the store, they agreed; they replaced it with a new one as it was still 
 under warranty. 
 
 Godfrey
 -- 
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 On Jun 17, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Godfrey,
 
 So it appears. The files I'm listening to are from CDs, copied onto
 the MBP and thence to the iPhone.  They sound much, much better on the
 MBP. I'm puzzled.
 
 I think I'll try a third-party graphic equalizer/playback program, but
 somehow I'm not anticipating great success.
 
 Rick
 http://photo.net/photos/RickW
 
 
 On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote:
 Classical music sounds just fine from the iPhone, modulo the quality of the 
 encoding and output devices. Even my brother (a recording engineer) agrees. 
 So something's wrong with the encoding or the output.
 
 Godfrey
 --
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 On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Thanks, Charles.  It wasn't checked.
 
 Do you listen to classical music? I imagine the reproduction would be
 fine for pop, but it flunks for chamber or symphonic music.
 
 Rick
 http://photo.net/photos/RickW
 
 
 On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com 
 wrote:
 On Jun 17, 2014, at 08:46 , Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Taking the train last evening, I put on my (very good) Sennheiser
 noise-cancelling headphones, plugged them into my iPhone, and started
 Beethoven's Violin Concerto (sublime after a very stressful day).
 
 Gee, I said to myself halfway through the first movement, this
 sounds crappy.  I tried all of the equalization settings, and found
 flat was the best, but it still sounded crappy.
 
 Were my headphones giving out? I pulled out my MBP and played the same
 selection via iTunes--it sounded fantastic. It's the iPhone, not the
 headphones.
 
 So my questions are:
 
 1. Is the problem that the music player on the iPhone is crap? Is
 there a better one?
 
 2. Is the problem that the music files are compressed almost beyond
 recognition getting transferred from the MBP to the iPhone? Is there
 any way to circumvent that?
 
 Files transferred from iTunes to your phone aren't (or shouldn't be) 
 recompressed.  But check your settings!
 
 With your phone connected to iTunes, click on the phone in the left 
 sidebar so you get the summary (phone, backups, options) in the big 
 window on the right.
 
 In the lowest options box, look for the checkbox titled: Convert 
 higher bit rate songs to xxx AAC.
 
 If that's checked... UN-check it.   Now the music sent to your phone will 
 just be a COPY of the file from your MBP, not a re-rip of same.
 
 I find that the music output on my iPhone5 sounds just great to my 
 48-year-old ears.
 
 -Charles
 
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Re: Time for a new macro purchase--possible duplicate posting, oops

2014-06-17 Thread Mark C

HI Barry -

I have an older version of the Tamron - the 90mm f2.8 auto focus - and 
the DFA Pentax 100mm Macro (non WR). Both are excellent lenses but the 
biggsest difference I notice is the the Pentax has the quick-shift focus 
adjustment which makes manually fine tuning focus very quick and easy. 
With the Tamron I have to both pull the lens focus ring back to put it 
in manual focus mode *and* disable AF on the body. The two step process 
if very clunky (would be better to be able to juse disengage AF from the 
body.) Like I said, I have the film era Tamron lens, maybe the latest 
versions offer something more like the Pentax quick shift. To me that 
would be a significant issue.


Optically both lenses seem to be excellent, though I bought the Tamron 
last year to use with film bodies and have not really tested it with a 
digital body.


Mark

On 6/16/2014 10:04 AM, Barry Rice wrote:

Hey Brian,

Thanks for  your input. You answered what was perhaps my most critical
question. Good to see that Tamron has graced Pentax with a dedicated model,
instead of just Canon and Nikon.

How does the focus on the AF Tamron feel?

Barry

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VESO: RAW Showcase Video

2014-06-17 Thread Jeffery Johnson

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Re: Now why didn't I think of this?

2014-06-17 Thread P.J. Alling
I don't know. I never had a wireless remote when I was using film, 
though I assumed it would work with later auto focus film bodies.  
Though on consideration, maybe only with the film *ist.  I have no idea 
where my ZX-5n is hiding or I'd try it out.



On 6/17/2014 3:50 PM, John wrote:

On 6/17/2014 1:19 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:

On 6/17/2014 1:08 PM, John wrote:

On 6/16/2014 7:30 PM, Brian Walters wrote:

A novel approach to combing digital and film photography...

http://tinyurl.com/mx4avc3



Doesn't appear to have any way to trigger the shutters simultaneously.



If you're really cheep you can get this.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/875862-REG/vello_ir_p1_infrared_remote_for_pentax.html 




Otherwise Pentax makes some fine IR remotes.  (Personally I was cheep).



I don't see either camera listed as compatible with that remote. Would
the Pentax Remote Control F work with both cameras? Either camera?

I've got a bag full of them from when Wolf Camera went out of business.




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The Bible has been updated.

2014-06-17 Thread P.J. Alling
Boz, finally got around to updating his K mount information page. Looks 
like he's brought Arnold Stark on as co-editor.  So if you have any 
questions about all things Pentax you can check here first


http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/index.html

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