Re: PESO-A Young Lady on a Bike
Nice panning! On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:17 AM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Some images need to stay in colour: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/09/a-young-lady-on-bike.html?m=1 Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. Cheers, frank “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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: PESO: Barred Owl
Superb! Paul via phone On Sep 7, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Jeffery Johnson jefferyjohn...@photocapturesbyjeffery.com wrote: While visiting Radnor Lake yesterday morning I was privileged to be allowed, by one of the Barred Owls that call Radnor Lake home, to photograph it while it was perched in a tree. At one point it flew down and then back up to the same tree.. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p339098354/e3c10426d -- Jeffery Johnson Photo Captures by Jeffery http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com http://www.Facebook.com/photocapturesbyjeffery https://twitter.com/PhotoCaptures Bringing joy and happiness to lonely and depressed walls across the nation with wonderful eclectic photography and Pet photo sessions for an array of pets and their families. -- 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: Back in the USA after the London PDML meet
Did you get to the museum? On 7 September 2014 20:11, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote: We had a nice PDML meet-up with Bob Walkden and Chris Mitchell last night. We gathered in Greenwich to consume food and beer/wine and talk about the rest of you behind your backs. Much fun was had but a full report and photos will have to wait as I discovered in the middle of the trip that I'm going to be teaching one extra class this semester, which begins tomorrow. Lots of work to do... -- 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. -- 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: Barred Owl
I have to say that I agree with ann's choice due to the lighting, however, I prefer the Owl's pose that you selected. Jack - Original Message - From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2014 8:31:40 PM Subject: Re: PESO: Barred Owl Hmmm Your page loaded in firefox quickly - this is my fave pose for you owl http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p339098354/h3C10426D#h18590c9c because he looks so extra professorial I guess. Nice to have a visit with him! ann On 9/7/2014 23:22, Jeffery Johnson wrote: While visiting Radnor Lake yesterday morning I was privileged to be allowed, by one of the Barred Owls that call Radnor Lake home, to photograph it while it was perched in a tree. At one point it flew down and then back up to the same tree.. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p339098354/e3c10426d -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
I had nothing better to do so I watched it. Not surprising, he is biased, in spite of his statement to the contrary, but so is everybody else. To paraphrase; You need auto focus for portraits. Bland statement, to which I say; No, not really, but Canon does have the least expensive moderately fast 50mm lens. If there's a must have lens in a system, then that's the system you buy. Unless of course you can't afford it. Then you get the closest thing you can afford, and make do. There, I boiled down his entire video into three sentences. On 9/8/2014 1:55 AM, Brian Walters wrote: Quoting P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Link? http://petapixel.com/2014/09/04/why-i-want-to-switch-to-nikon-but-cant-tony-northrup-throws-gas-on-the-canikon-debate/ Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On 9/7/2014 11:51 PM, Darren Addy wrote: I will pass along this video, which was featured on PetaPixel. It is by a Canon guy (who I guess is famous but I didn't know of him prior to this) who was so impressed by the new Nikon that he was ready to chuck all his Canon stuff and switch. Except... he couldn't. The reasons why are interesting (and, I think, perhaps relevant to Pentax DSLR users also). Also interesting (if not controversial) is his use of DXO lens data to make resolution comparions across platforms. There is a fair amount to react to here, if the spirit moves you. Watch the video with notepad in hand. :) -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
Thanks Brian and sorry to all. I must have been half-asleep already when I posted that. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Link? http://petapixel.com/2014/09/04/why-i-want-to-switch-to-nikon-but-cant-tony-northrup-throws-gas-on-the-canikon-debate/ Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On 9/7/2014 11:51 PM, Darren Addy wrote: I will pass along this video, which was featured on PetaPixel. It is by a Canon guy (who I guess is famous but I didn't know of him prior to this) who was so impressed by the new Nikon that he was ready to chuck all his Canon stuff and switch. Except... he couldn't. The reasons why are interesting (and, I think, perhaps relevant to Pentax DSLR users also). Also interesting (if not controversial) is his use of DXO lens data to make resolution comparions across platforms. There is a fair amount to react to here, if the spirit moves you. Watch the video with notepad in hand. :) -- 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. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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: GESO Entries
Thanks Frank On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:19 PM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: 1 and 10 are brilliant. The rest are merely excellent! Cheers, frank On 7 September, 2014 10:10:56 AM EDT, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I made my final decisions yesterday for my fair entries for this years photo contest and as in previous years i did a gallery of those photos.: http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2014-fair1/album/index.html The BW category is self evident, The digital category ones all start with a two digit number the open colour and senior colour are all mixed into the crowd.:-) Dave “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:53 AM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: There, I boiled down his entire video into three sentences. This is why P.J. will never be a YouTube star. (Why use one word when thirty will do?) :) I think that a lot of what he is going through is what Pentaxians would/will be going through if/when Pentax ever offers a full frame camera. You don't really realize how much you are taking advantage of (relying on) the 1.5x focal length factor (actually equiv. FOV) of the APS-C until you try to replicate your lenses on a full frame system. To try to find lenses that still give you that focal length and maximum aperture becomes an expensive proposition, when it is possible at all. Extreme example: DA* 200mm f2.8 can be bought for under $1K. (More like $700, used) 300mm equiv. FOV on APS-C Move to a full frame, now you need a 300mm f2.8 to replicate that FOV. Price one of those lately? A Sigma is $3400. A more reasonable choice would be a 300mm f4. You've replicated the FOV, but lost a full stop of light. -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Godfrey -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
Well, FWIW, I never heard of him either. On 9/8/2014 1:55 AM, Brian Walters wrote: Quoting P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Link? http://petapixel.com/2014/09/04/why-i-want-to-switch-to-nikon-but-cant-tony-northrup-throws-gas-on-the-canikon-debate/ Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On 9/7/2014 11:51 PM, Darren Addy wrote: I will pass along this video, which was featured on PetaPixel. It is by a Canon guy (who I guess is famous but I didn't know of him prior to this) who was so impressed by the new Nikon that he was ready to chuck all his Canon stuff and switch. Except... he couldn't. The reasons why are interesting (and, I think, perhaps relevant to Pentax DSLR users also). Also interesting (if not controversial) is his use of DXO lens data to make resolution comparions across platforms. There is a fair amount to react to here, if the spirit moves you. Watch the video with notepad in hand. :) -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
Cure for insomnia? On 9/8/2014 10:27 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Godfrey -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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: Geso - 2015 calendar work files
Ann, I would vote off the following: 17 at MOMA 14 snapshooting 13 chihuahua 12 Midtown Holiday shoppers 8 Windows 3 cranes Reasons: 3, 13, 14, 17 - not being in the same theme (NYC streets). 12 - I think this image is much weaker than the rest of your images 8 - I am on the fence with this one. While it is a curious image, for some reason I don't think I'd like this pm a ca;emdar .. probably because it's unresting. 3 - I found it being disturbing to my eye. At first, I even thought it was from 9/11. However, on the 3rd and subsequent looks (on a larger screen), I don't have that feeling any more. So, it might be fine in the series. 13 - looks very low contrast, greyish, as if it was from an old film... If it were mine, I would boost the contrast on it. On the opposite end, these are the best from the bunch: 2 On the Williamsburg Bridge 5 Tour bus 15 fantasy world I am fluctuating between liking and not-liking #16 From Hoboken. I hope this helps. Igor Ann Sanfedele Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:19:44 -0700 for My NYC street shot Calendar Well I'm down to 16 -- need 12 Given that I may totally ignore your choices - can you help me decide? About half of them are definitely in - but I won't say which ones.. maybe I'm wrong about them.. So have at it and please tell me which you would take out, not want to look at on your wall for a month, etc. http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/New-York-in-BW/ I've promised a friend I'd do a new flower calendar too - but that one has a hook such that no one can see it until I get it done. (hint- something the flowers have in common that isn't obvious to a gardener or jsut nature lover - it will include a quiz) Thanks for any help 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
On 08/09/14 16:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? - Toralf Godfrey -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
On 08/09/14 16:11, Darren Addy wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:53 AM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: There, I boiled down his entire video into three sentences. This is why P.J. will never be a YouTube star. (Why use one word when thirty will do?) :) I think that a lot of what he is going through is what Pentaxians would/will be going through if/when Pentax ever offers a full frame camera. You don't really realize how much you are taking advantage of (relying on) the 1.5x focal length factor (actually equiv. FOV) of the APS-C until you try to replicate your lenses on a full frame system. To try to find lenses that still give you that focal length and maximum aperture becomes an expensive proposition, when it is possible at all. Extreme example: DA* 200mm f2.8 can be bought for under $1K. (More like $700, used) 300mm equiv. FOV on APS-C Move to a full frame, now you need a 300mm f2.8 to replicate that FOV. Not really, if the full-frame camera gets an equivalent pixel density to the APS-C one(s). You might then use the 200mm as before, and crop by 1.5x in post processing, and get exactly the same result... - T Price one of those lately? A Sigma is $3400. A more reasonable choice would be a 300mm f4. You've replicated the FOV, but lost a full stop of light. -- 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-A Young Lady on a Bike
True that. And I like this photo. And BW would not be terrible. On 9/7/14, 8:40 PM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 3 Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:17:01 -0400 From: knarfknarftheria...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO-A Young Lady on a Bike Message-ID:8a9a7038-ff2d-40b7-a253-1b3390de7...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Some images need to stay in colour: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/09/a-young-lady-on-bike.html?m=1 Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. Cheers, frank ?Analysis kills spontaneity.? -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net wrote: On 08/09/14 16:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? You can waste your time debating anything you want. I'm not debating anything, just offering my opinion. G -- 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:GESO -- East Haven Festival (Auto Show)
Sadly these remind me I have not been to any car shows this summer. Happily these really make me wish I had. So I am jealous impressed. On 9/7/14, 8:40 PM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 10 Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:22:34 -0400 From: P.J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: GESO -- East Haven Festival (Auto Show) Message-ID:540d04da.5010...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed A small GESO from earlier today. I stopped the East Haven Festival, which on Sunday has traditionally had a car show. These a the ones I liked... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20red%26black1.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20red%26black2.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20blue.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20green1.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20green2.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20bus1.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20bus2.html -- 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: Barred Owl
And you made good use of your opportunity. On 9/7/14, 11:02 PM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 3 Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:22:44 -0500 From: Jeffery Johnsonjefferyjohn...@photocapturesbyjeffery.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Barred Owl Message-ID:540d2104.2040...@photocapturesbyjeffery.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed While visiting Radnor Lake yesterday morning I was privileged to be allowed, by one of the Barred Owls that call Radnor Lake home, to photograph it while it was perched in a tree. At one point it flew down and then back up to the same tree.. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p339098354/e3c10426d -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: To try to find lenses that still give you that focal length and maximum aperture becomes an expensive proposition, when it is possible at all. Extreme example: DA* 200mm f2.8 can be bought for under $1K. (More like $700, used) 300mm equiv. FOV on APS-C Move to a full frame, now you need a 300mm f2.8 to replicate that FOV. Price one of those lately? A Sigma is $3400. A more reasonable choice would be a 300mm f4. You've replicated the FOV, but lost a full stop of light. Not really (I mean about losing the stop of light). It's true that f/4 on full frame will only produce an image half as bright on the sensor compared to f/2.8 on APS-C, but that's half as bright in the sense of photons per second _per unit area_. The full frame sensor has a little over twice the area, so it will actually be collecting slightly more photons per second _over the whole image_, which is what actually matters (or, another way to think of it is they will both get the same number of photons per second per pixel if the two sensors have the same number of pixels).And a 300 f/4 on full frame would have about the depth of field as the 200 f/2.8 on APS-C. So these two scenarios are actually very comparable. -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
The other side of the coin is that, to produce the same picture (same depth of field and shutter speed), the full frame camera will only be getting half as many photons per unit area, so has to shoot at 2x the ISO of the crop camera. So the common wisdom that you get a stop extra ISO out of a full frame camera is true but misleading, because you _need_ a stop higher ISO on full frame to produce the same image as you would with an APS-C camera. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Bryan Jacoby bryan.jac...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: To try to find lenses that still give you that focal length and maximum aperture becomes an expensive proposition, when it is possible at all. Extreme example: DA* 200mm f2.8 can be bought for under $1K. (More like $700, used) 300mm equiv. FOV on APS-C Move to a full frame, now you need a 300mm f2.8 to replicate that FOV. Price one of those lately? A Sigma is $3400. A more reasonable choice would be a 300mm f4. You've replicated the FOV, but lost a full stop of light. Not really (I mean about losing the stop of light). It's true that f/4 on full frame will only produce an image half as bright on the sensor compared to f/2.8 on APS-C, but that's half as bright in the sense of photons per second _per unit area_. The full frame sensor has a little over twice the area, so it will actually be collecting slightly more photons per second _over the whole image_, which is what actually matters (or, another way to think of it is they will both get the same number of photons per second per pixel if the two sensors have the same number of pixels).And a 300 f/4 on full frame would have about the depth of field as the 200 f/2.8 on APS-C. So these two scenarios are actually very comparable. -- 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: Geso - 2015 calendar work files
Good points made, Igor Bob W already had the uneasy feeling about the cranes and I can see that! Especially since I was here on 9/11 and it approaches again. But at the time I produced it it was just my anger at the building going up in the place it did.. I'm more forgiving of that building now because of the reflections it produces. I'm giving all of these a 2nd third and fourth look and going back to dig for more that might work better. One thing to remember (reminding myself too) is that basically I'm just going for 12 good photos taken in New York - title can come later - and that since it is a wall calendar no one is looking at the photos as a sequence - and I think a bit more variety is called for.. and I guess I should have it more upbeat than dark humor - save dark humor for a book perhaps. The thing about doing the calendars is I don't have to spend anything but TIME. cafepress supplies the bottoms and does some of the marketing. I just have to design and load and say publish (on my shop) but people can find the calendar on the general marketplace too. For myself and one particular friend, I'll be doing and oversized calendar of pretty color stuff Thanks for input - you and everyone It really is a help ann annsan.smugmug.com http://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff On 9/8/2014 11:22, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Ann, I would vote off the following: 17 at MOMA 14 snapshooting 13 chihuahua 12 Midtown Holiday shoppers 8 Windows 3 cranes Reasons: 3, 13, 14, 17 - not being in the same theme (NYC streets). 12 - I think this image is much weaker than the rest of your images 8 - I am on the fence with this one. While it is a curious image, for some reason I don't think I'd like this pm a ca;emdar .. probably because it's unresting. 3 - I found it being disturbing to my eye. At first, I even thought it was from 9/11. However, on the 3rd and subsequent looks (on a larger screen), I don't have that feeling any more. So, it might be fine in the series. 13 - looks very low contrast, greyish, as if it was from an old film... If it were mine, I would boost the contrast on it. On the opposite end, these are the best from the bunch: 2 On the Williamsburg Bridge 5 Tour bus 15 fantasy world I am fluctuating between liking and not-liking #16 From Hoboken. I hope this helps. Igor Ann Sanfedele Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:19:44 -0700 for My NYC street shot Calendar Well I'm down to 16 -- need 12 Given that I may totally ignore your choices - can you help me decide? About half of them are definitely in - but I won't say which ones.. maybe I'm wrong about them.. So have at it and please tell me which you would take out, not want to look at on your wall for a month, etc. http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/New-York-in-BW/ I've promised a friend I'd do a new flower calendar too - but that one has a hook such that no one can see it until I get it done. (hint- something the flowers have in common that isn't obvious to a gardener or jsut nature lover - it will include a quiz) Thanks for any help 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
bangs head repeatedly against keyboard On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Bryan Jacoby bryan.jac...@gmail.com wrote: The other side of the coin is that, to produce the same picture (same depth of field and shutter speed), the full frame camera will only be getting half as many photons per unit area, so has to shoot at 2x the ISO of the crop camera. So the common wisdom that you get a stop extra ISO out of a full frame camera is true but misleading, because you _need_ a stop higher ISO on full frame to produce the same image as you would with an APS-C camera. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Bryan Jacoby bryan.jac...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: To try to find lenses that still give you that focal length and maximum aperture becomes an expensive proposition, when it is possible at all. Extreme example: DA* 200mm f2.8 can be bought for under $1K. (More like $700, used) 300mm equiv. FOV on APS-C Move to a full frame, now you need a 300mm f2.8 to replicate that FOV. Price one of those lately? A Sigma is $3400. A more reasonable choice would be a 300mm f4. You've replicated the FOV, but lost a full stop of light. Not really (I mean about losing the stop of light). It's true that f/4 on full frame will only produce an image half as bright on the sensor compared to f/2.8 on APS-C, but that's half as bright in the sense of photons per second _per unit area_. The full frame sensor has a little over twice the area, so it will actually be collecting slightly more photons per second _over the whole image_, which is what actually matters (or, another way to think of it is they will both get the same number of photons per second per pixel if the two sensors have the same number of pixels).And a 300 f/4 on full frame would have about the depth of field as the 200 f/2.8 on APS-C. So these two scenarios are actually very comparable. -- 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. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: bangs head repeatedly against keyboard why? -- 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: Barred Owl
All wonderful photos but that first one is my favourite. Beautiful light, iconic pose. Great shot! Cheers, frank On 7 September, 2014 11:22:44 PM EDT, Jeffery Johnson jefferyjohn...@photocapturesbyjeffery.com wrote: While visiting Radnor Lake yesterday morning I was privileged to be allowed, by one of the Barred Owls that call Radnor Lake home, to photograph it while it was perched in a tree. At one point it flew down and then back up to the same tree.. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p339098354/e3c10426d “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? Thats debatable. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net Subject: Re: OT? In case you are having some insomnia tonight... On 08/09/14 16:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? - Toralf Godfrey -- 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: Barred Owl
A very nice capture that would be even stronger in a portrait orientation. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com Subject: Re: PESO: Barred Owl And you made good use of your opportunity. On 9/7/14, 11:02 PM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 3 Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:22:44 -0500 From: Jeffery Johnsonjefferyjohn...@photocapturesbyjeffery.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Barred Owl Message-ID:540d2104.2040...@photocapturesbyjeffery.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed While visiting Radnor Lake yesterday morning I was privileged to be allowed, by one of the Barred Owls that call Radnor Lake home, to photograph it while it was perched in a tree. At one point it flew down and then back up to the same tree.. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p339098354/e3c10426d -- 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: GESO -- East Haven Festival (Auto Show)
Very nice set. That VeeDub micro bus looks like it's early into the restoration curve though. ;-) The rest are lovely. Cheers, frank On 7 September, 2014 9:22:34 PM EDT, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: A small GESO from earlier today. I stopped the East Haven Festival, which on Sunday has traditionally had a car show. These a the ones I liked... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20red%26black1.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20red%26black2.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20blue.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20green1.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20green2.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20bus1.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/GESOehf%28carshow%29/PESO%20---%20bus2.html Equipment: Pentax K-5II with either the M 85mm f2.0 or A 24mm f2.8, hover your cursor over the image to find out which if you're curious. As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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: PESOs/GESO - Buenos Aires at night
Thanks to all who looked and especially those who commented. That part of the city indeed looks very much like any modern Western (US/European) city looks like. I was actually a bit surprised by that, becauce from my previous trip, I remembered much more of other parts of the city, at daylight... both modern (but oldish), and now-very-touristy area called La Boca (where presumably tango has started.). Many thanks to Dan who helped with the explanation of what that building was. (I was a bit busy over the past week.) Yes, it is overly pink. But that light puts it into the area where it looks funny (or surreal) because of being so pink. (Although what humors me can sound strange to others.) It looks like one of those toy buildings/castles that I see being sold for girls in different variations. John, - and that was part of why I kept all that pink strong. If anything, I boosted up the contrast to make the colors pop-up a bit. Attila, Thank you for the idea about the bridge. I don't think I have that much time (and energy) on hand to spend on a single photo... At least, not at the moment. Igor On Sat, 6 Sep 2014, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Hi All! In early August, I was in Buenos Aires. I had an evening to walk around the city... Here are a few photos of the night city views: http://42graphy.org/galleries/2014-08-BsAsNight/_IR09721.html http://42graphy.org/galleries/2014-08-BsAsNight/_IR09739.html http://42graphy.org/galleries/2014-08-BsAsNight/_IR09743.html And a very-very pink building: http://42graphy.org/galleries/2014-08-BsAsNight/_IR09733.html The entire gallery (16 photos) is here: http://42graphy.org/galleries/2014-08-BsAsNight/ Comments and suggestions are invited. Igor -- 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 - Quiet on the Lake
I'm back in Philly and back at work, but I'm still in New Hampshire at the same time. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853810size=lg (K-5, DA 16-45) Comments? 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.
GESO: PHALABORWA Cars in the Park 2014
Last Sat. there was a kind of Spring Fair in Phalaborwa, incorporating a Church Bazaar, an Orchid Show Cars in the Park. (We had a Road Relay Race too, in which my Old Toppies team came stone last!) I had no idea there were so many old cars in Phalaborwa. I have only shown those more than 50 years old. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/sets/72157646966452287/ Alan C --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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: PESOs from lake Baikal
My apologies for the delayed response... Thanks to many people who have commented on these photos (Christine, John, Brian, Jack, Attila, Daniel, Tim, P.J.). The place is spectacular, - but it is one of those spectacular areas that are more spectacular when you breeze and feel it, then can be transmitted via photos. Tim: I also had a thought that similar view can be found alone some NorCal shores. But that's one of the things, - Baikal is such a huge lake. I am hoping to sort the rest of the photos some time (soon?), and will post some of those... Sun Aug 31 03:03:02 EDT 2014 Brian Walters wrote: Quoting Igor Roshchin str at komkon.org: PS. On the last photo, Brian and Rob might recognize the kangaroo hat I bought 4 years ago in Sydney. That would be this one... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1370864/PDML_Sydney_Sep2010/slides/_IGP8520j.html Yep! Exactly! I've been wearing it since that much more than I expected... It is actually very comfortable. Unfortunately it might be ending soon, as it is getting old. When it happens, that would be a sad moment... I doubt I'd be able to visit Sidney soon to replace it. But so far it's going strong. Igor On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, Igor Roshchin wrote: PS. On the last photo, Brian and Rob might recognize the kangaroo hat I bought 4 years ago in Sydney. Igor Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 01:16:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Roshchin Hi All, If anybody was wondering why I was silent recently, - I happened to be at a scientific conference that was near the lake Baikal -- the largest surface fresh-water reservoir in the world. It holds about 20% of the world's fresh surface water - more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. (WWF: http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/lake_baikal/ ) Here is the First Crop (c): http://42graphy.org/misc/Baikal/_IR20553.jpg http://42graphy.org/misc/Baikal/_IR20662.jpg http://42graphy.org/misc/Baikal/_IR20585.jpg All comments are welcome! Igor -- 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 - 'Lone Geranium'
Correctly identified thanks to Alstair, a flower image from my June photography in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. K3, 200mm f4.0 ED Macro A*, f5.6 @ 1/50, 400 ISO Comments appreciated. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853813 Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- 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: PHALABORWA Cars in the Park 2014
Nice documentation of the car show ! Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Alan C c...@lantic.net Subject: GESO: PHALABORWA Cars in the Park 2014 Last Sat. there was a kind of Spring Fair in Phalaborwa, incorporating a Church Bazaar, an Orchid Show Cars in the Park. (We had a Road Relay Race too, in which my Old Toppies team came stone last!) I had no idea there were so many old cars in Phalaborwa. I have only shown those more than 50 years old. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/sets/72157646966452287/ Alan C --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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: GESO: PHALABORWA Cars in the Park 2014
Those MGs are lovely. Is the rubber-bumper MG B really over 50 years old? I thought they started putting those horrible bumpers on in the 70s (nearly 50 years already, where does it go?) B On 8 Sep 2014, at 19:59, Alan C c...@lantic.net wrote: Last Sat. there was a kind of Spring Fair in Phalaborwa, incorporating a Church Bazaar, an Orchid Show Cars in the Park. (We had a Road Relay Race too, in which my Old Toppies team came stone last!) I had no idea there were so many old cars in Phalaborwa. I have only shown those more than 50 years old. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/sets/72157646966452287/ Alan C --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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. -- 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 - Quiet on the Lake
Rick, I couldn't resist cloning out those couple of tree tops below the boat and doing a crop of the bottom trees. I'd probably do a portrait crop of the left side with the boat centered near the bottom. Jack - Original Message - From: Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 11:54:33 AM Subject: PESO - Quiet on the Lake I'm back in Philly and back at work, but I'm still in New Hampshire at the same time. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853810size=lg (K-5, DA 16-45) Comments? 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.
Re: PESO - Quiet on the Lake
I'd have a problem not doing a portrait crop of the left side. I'd place the boat in the center near the bottom, pull it up a bit and clone out those two tree tops beneath the boat. A clean image except for the lonesome boat. Jack - Original Message - From: Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 11:54:33 AM Subject: PESO - Quiet on the Lake I'm back in Philly and back at work, but I'm still in New Hampshire at the same time. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853810size=lg (K-5, DA 16-45) Comments? 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.
Re: PESO - 'Lone Geranium'
Like the resolution balance in this case. However, the bud or(?) that appears to be touching a petal on the lower left of the blossom as well as the dark brown thing below it, detract. The stem line is nice. Jack - Original Message - From: Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 12:16:21 PM Subject: PESO - 'Lone Geranium' Correctly identified thanks to Alstair, a flower image from my June photography in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. K3, 200mm f4.0 ED Macro A*, f5.6 @ 1/50, 400 ISO Comments appreciated. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853813 Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- 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: PESO - 'Lone Geranium'
Very pretty. Cheers, frank On 8 September, 2014 3:16:21 PM EDT, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Correctly identified thanks to Alstair, a flower image from my June photography in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. K3, 200mm f4.0 ED Macro A*, f5.6 @ 1/50, 400 ISO Comments appreciated. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853813 Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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 - Quiet on the Lake
Perfect. Cheers, frank On 8 September, 2014 2:54:33 PM EDT, Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote: I'm back in Philly and back at work, but I'm still in New Hampshire at the same time. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853810size=lg (K-5, DA 16-45) Comments? Rick “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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 strawberry
Thanks a lot for the feedback. Igor Roshchin wrote: Hi Larry, The picture on the face is interesting, but I don't think the strawberry fits into that picture. I don't know why: either the color gamma is wrong, the texture is different (smooth face vs. textured stawberry), the size is small, or something else. Of all photos with strawberries, the better one is probably LRC30829. But there are two things that could be improved: 1. She should have a strong, definitive hold of that strawberry: holding the strawberry itself, not the green tail. (the same applies to all photos) 2. Something is missing in the face expression. I think these are the best photos in this series: LRC30749 LRC30720 These could've been a nice shot showing the full picture, but the face expression is subpar on it: LRC30873. This face expression is much better: LRC30745, but there other problems here. HTH, Igor Larry Colen Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:59:30 -0700 wrote: A friend of mine does face painting and wanted to do a photo shoot with me to show off her work. She got a mutual friend to be a model (you may recognize the the model from previous photos of mine). The whole evening was very experimental and educational. I felt like I was spending more effort fighting the lights and our limited time to shoot than I was just getting photos. Here's a photo that despite it's problems, is still kind of nice. The fill flash and the hair light didn't trigger, but the resulting effect seems to have worked. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/14578333810/in/set-72157645988395145 -- Sent with Postbox http://www.getpostbox.com -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
Be careful what you wish for... Was: Asteroid to fly over New Zealand
Be careful what you wish for... Some people wanted that asteroid to be closer... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29106843 Cheers, Igor On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Maybe it would be of interest to New-Zealand-based PDMLers: an asteroid will be flying over you (under you? ;-) ) this Sunday: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-295 Cheers, Igor -- 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 strawberry
Wow!... such a delay in the echo! Ping!... ;-) Igor Larry Colen lrc at red4est.com Mon Sep 8 16:05:38 EDT 2014 Thanks a lot for the feedback. Igor Roshchin wrote: Hi Larry, The picture on the face is interesting, but I don't think the strawberry fits into that picture. I don't know why: either the color gamma is wrong, the texture is different (smooth face vs. textured stawberry), the size is small, or something else. Of all photos with strawberries, the better one is probably LRC30829. But there are two things that could be improved: 1. She should have a strong, definitive hold of that strawberry: holding the strawberry itself, not the green tail. (the same applies to all photos) 2. Something is missing in the face expression. I think these are the best photos in this series: LRC30749 LRC30720 These could've been a nice shot showing the full picture, but the face expression is subpar on it: LRC30873. This face expression is much better: LRC30745, but there other problems here. HTH, Igor Larry Colen Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:59:30 -0700 wrote: A friend of mine does face painting and wanted to do a photo shoot with me to show off her work. She got a mutual friend to be a model (you may recognize the the model from previous photos of mine). The whole evening was very experimental and educational. I felt like I was spending more effort fighting the lights and our limited time to shoot than I was just getting photos. Here's a photo that despite it's problems, is still kind of nice. The fill flash and the hair light didn't trigger, but the resulting effect seems to have worked. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/14578333810/in/set-72157645988395145 -- 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: Where in the world is Juan Buhler?
on 2014-09-07 21:58 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote I haven't heard from Juan for a while, but I located him just a few minutes ago. :-) i have an old friend Jan (male) so i misstated Juan's name in my mention -- 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: Be careful what you wish for... Was: Asteroid to fly over New Zealand
The meteorobs guys are highly suspicious that this had anything to do with a meteor. Fireballs are reported every day all over the world that don't cause known craters. No visible meteor was reported with this one (it should have been ONE HECK of a visual). It is also in the neighborhood of a military base AND in a country where a lot of ordinance was used in a civil war not that many years ago. I'm sure it would be in the government's interests to explain away an explosion (to the public) as a meteorite, as opposed to much more likely causes. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Be careful what you wish for... Some people wanted that asteroid to be closer... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29106843 Cheers, Igor On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Maybe it would be of interest to New-Zealand-based PDMLers: an asteroid will be flying over you (under you? ;-) ) this Sunday: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-295 Cheers, Igor -- 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. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
Y'all can go all sci-ency and prove either side of the argument. It still boils down to Do you need it? Or do you just WANT it? There's a difference. I want it! On 9/8/2014 12:33 PM, Bryan Jacoby wrote: The other side of the coin is that, to produce the same picture (same depth of field and shutter speed), the full frame camera will only be getting half as many photons per unit area, so has to shoot at 2x the ISO of the crop camera. So the common wisdom that you get a stop extra ISO out of a full frame camera is true but misleading, because you _need_ a stop higher ISO on full frame to produce the same image as you would with an APS-C camera. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Bryan Jacoby bryan.jac...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: To try to find lenses that still give you that focal length and maximum aperture becomes an expensive proposition, when it is possible at all. Extreme example: DA* 200mm f2.8 can be bought for under $1K. (More like $700, used) 300mm equiv. FOV on APS-C Move to a full frame, now you need a 300mm f2.8 to replicate that FOV. Price one of those lately? A Sigma is $3400. A more reasonable choice would be a 300mm f4. You've replicated the FOV, but lost a full stop of light. Not really (I mean about losing the stop of light). It's true that f/4 on full frame will only produce an image half as bright on the sensor compared to f/2.8 on APS-C, but that's half as bright in the sense of photons per second _per unit area_. The full frame sensor has a little over twice the area, so it will actually be collecting slightly more photons per second _over the whole image_, which is what actually matters (or, another way to think of it is they will both get the same number of photons per second per pixel if the two sensors have the same number of pixels).And a 300 f/4 on full frame would have about the depth of field as the 200 f/2.8 on APS-C. So these two scenarios are actually very comparable. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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.
Not very tall ships
Greenwich has been horribly busy over the last few days, partly as a result of Mark! and Lisa! visiting, partly as a result of the Tall Ships Festival. The tall ships, what I saw of them, were rather disappointing, so mostly I got away from Greenwich to avoid the non-Mark! crowds. I did take a handful of pictures, but I forgot that my camera was on manual and I didn't set the exposure. I managed to rescue this one, for what it's worth, with Lightroom's high contrast blue filter. http://www.web-options.com/TallShips.jpg 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: Not very tall ships
Oooh... that lovely. Or as our friends from Yorkshire are wont to say BRILLIANT!. Hope you can rescue a few more! On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Bob W-PDML p...@web-options.com wrote: Greenwich has been horribly busy over the last few days, partly as a result of Mark! and Lisa! visiting, partly as a result of the Tall Ships Festival. The tall ships, what I saw of them, were rather disappointing, so mostly I got away from Greenwich to avoid the non-Mark! crowds. I did take a handful of pictures, but I forgot that my camera was on manual and I didn't set the exposure. I managed to rescue this one, for what it's worth, with Lightroom's high contrast blue filter. http://www.web-options.com/TallShips.jpg 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. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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: GESO: PHALABORWA Cars in the Park 2014
I think your ~1967 MGC is really a MGB from at least a decade later. AFAIK, the MGC was never sold in a rubber bumper version it's the wrong bonnet. On 9/8/2014 2:58 PM, Alan C wrote: Last Sat. there was a kind of Spring Fair in Phalaborwa, incorporating a Church Bazaar, an Orchid Show Cars in the Park. (We had a Road Relay Race too, in which my Old Toppies team came stone last!) I had no idea there were so many old cars in Phalaborwa. I have only shown those more than 50 years old. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/sets/72157646966452287/ Alan C -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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: Bill's new toy
On 07/09/2014 10:24 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: Just keep an eye on your airtime ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6YrLN5L_k These guys have even thought of that. The thing will automatically fly back to it's launch point when it is low on power. Seriously, one would have to want to crash one of these if it was going to crash. bill -- 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: GESO: PHALABORWA Cars in the Park 2014
The MG C also has a power bulge on the bonnet. On 8 Sep 2014, at 22:24, John sesso...@earthlink.net wrote: I think your ~1967 MGC is really a MGB from at least a decade later. AFAIK, the MGC was never sold in a rubber bumper version it's the wrong bonnet. On 9/8/2014 2:58 PM, Alan C wrote: Last Sat. there was a kind of Spring Fair in Phalaborwa, incorporating a Church Bazaar, an Orchid Show Cars in the Park. (We had a Road Relay Race too, in which my Old Toppies team came stone last!) I had no idea there were so many old cars in Phalaborwa. I have only shown those more than 50 years old. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/sets/72157646966452287/ Alan C -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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.
Peso: Speaking of Strawberries
When I read Larry's reference to strawberries, this oldy came to mind. Shot on a lightbox with a hand held mirror. Comments invited. Jack http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=812 ME Super w/M50mm f/1.4 -- 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: Be careful what you wish for... Was: Asteroid to fly over New Zealand
Now a source: http://www.space.com/27071-nicaragua-meteorite-crater-impact-video.html On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: The meteorobs guys are highly suspicious that this had anything to do with a meteor. Fireballs are reported every day all over the world that don't cause known craters. No visible meteor was reported with this one (it should have been ONE HECK of a visual). It is also in the neighborhood of a military base AND in a country where a lot of ordinance was used in a civil war not that many years ago. I'm sure it would be in the government's interests to explain away an explosion (to the public) as a meteorite, as opposed to much more likely causes. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Be careful what you wish for... Some people wanted that asteroid to be closer... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29106843 Cheers, Igor On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Maybe it would be of interest to New-Zealand-based PDMLers: an asteroid will be flying over you (under you? ;-) ) this Sunday: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-295 Cheers, Igor -- 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. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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: Speaking of Strawberries
nice shot! jco On 9/8/2014 5:44 PM, Jack Davis wrote: When I read Larry's reference to strawberries, this oldy came to mind. Shot on a lightbox with a hand held mirror. Comments invited. Jack http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=812 ME Super w/M50mm f/1.4 -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
On 08/09/14 18:03, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net wrote: On 08/09/14 16:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? You can waste your time debating anything you want. I'm not debating anything, just offering my opinion. I didn't necessarily say you did, I was just wondering if this was the right room for an argument... - T G -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
On 08/09/14 20:04, Ken Waller wrote: Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? Thats debatable. :-) - Toralf Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net Subject: Re: OT? In case you are having some insomnia tonight... On 08/09/14 16:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? - Toralf Godfrey -- 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: Speaking of Strawberries
Thanks, JC! Jack - Original Message - From: JC OConnell hifis...@gate.net To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 3:11:41 PM Subject: Re: Peso: Speaking of Strawberries nice shot! jco On 9/8/2014 5:44 PM, Jack Davis wrote: When I read Larry's reference to strawberries, this oldy came to mind. Shot on a lightbox with a hand held mirror. Comments invited. Jack http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=812 ME Super w/M50mm f/1.4 -- 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: Peso: Speaking of Strawberries
super Dave On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@comcast.net wrote: When I read Larry's reference to strawberries, this oldy came to mind. Shot on a lightbox with a hand held mirror. Comments invited. Jack http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=812 ME Super w/M50mm f/1.4 -- 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.
ACDSEE for Pentax 3.0 - problems
I loaded this when I got the istD - It has been acting up of late when I preview the jpgs - what I need is not something that includes editing but a simple way to go into each directory where my K-5 -or- any files are viewable. My first 1-t external drive seems to be friend, fortunately I backed up on August 31st so now I've got all my image files on a better seagate drive. When I preview stuff I just need something in read only but that quickly allows me to shift from thumbnails to a larger view - but not full screen, showing me the file number. I don't ahve any images at all in the area called MY Pictures I have all the recent on the E: in a master directory called ALL PENTAXSINCEJULY2013, and the sub-directories/folders are merely the date I shot the photos - my preferred choice. suggestions? acdsEE too frequently says it has encountered a problem and has to shut down. that usually happens after I've been working for a while, viewing lots of photos.. and working in Elements 5.0 at the same time. Thanks, 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.
Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 and earlier Pentax DSLRs...
...is the size of the Operating Manuals. I'm serious! The previous flagship (K-5 II/IIS) manual weighs in at 336 pages. The K-3's is barely over 100 pages. On the one hand, this makes the camera's operation appear to be a lot less intimidating to operate, but that appearance is deceptive because the new manual contains only a fraction of the info that was there previously. In going through the K-3 menu pages: They give you the default value (ONLY) and (most of the time) the page in the manual that contains more info on that setting. But there are a LOT of settings that don't have a page number with more info. Just a little - . The fonts and illustrations are also much smaller. That can't account for all of the lost pages, however. Even though I just shipped my K-5 II off to a new home, I've just printed out the manual for it so I can try to figure out what is missing. It seems to me that a more reasonable approach might be to call the smaller manual the QuickStart Guide and then have the full user's manual in PDF on the software CD. One example of how sparse the K-3 Manual documentation is: Storing Frequently Used Settings (Page 202-208 of the K-5 II/IIS manual).This is reduced to a page and a half (Pg 73 74) in the K-3 manual. This newfound brevity is also much less detailed. For example, Slow Shutter Speed NR is one of those menu items that now has a hyphen, rather than a page in the manual with more info. All it says in the K-3 manual is Sets the Noise Reduction setting when shooting with a slow shutter speed. A reasonable person might ask, What do they consider a slow shutter speed?. The K-5 II/IIS manual has a page (87) devoted to this setting, explaining the difference between the options of Auto, On, and Off. (There are some significant differences between Auto On.) The K-3 manual says nothing. It is funny that this bothers me, because I'm typically a guy who doesn't read manuals. The Pentax is certainly useable without reading the manual and if you have been shooting Pentax for a while you already probably know what most of the settings do. But there are also so many options (some of which are greyed out when in certain settings) that in order to take full advantage of the camera and to set it up the way I want to work I feel like I need that information. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 and earlier Pentax DSLRs...
As one who has ADHD reading manuals, at least more than a page at a time, is difficult. Most of my knowledge of my K-5 workings were discovered using the thing, sometimes experamenting, sometime looking it up in the manual (which is always at home). Try it! It's like getting a new camera every few weeks. Well, new features, anyway… JJM On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Darren Addy wrote: ...is the size of the Operating Manuals. I'm serious! The previous flagship (K-5 II/IIS) manual weighs in at 336 pages. The K-3's is barely over 100 pages. On the one hand, this makes the camera's operation appear to be a lot less intimidating to operate, but that appearance is deceptive because the new manual contains only a fraction of the info that was there previously. In going through the K-3 menu pages: They give you the default value (ONLY) and (most of the time) the page in the manual that contains more info on that setting. But there are a LOT of settings that don't have a page number with more info. Just a little - . The fonts and illustrations are also much smaller. That can't account for all of the lost pages, however. Even though I just shipped my K-5 II off to a new home, I've just printed out the manual for it so I can try to figure out what is missing. It seems to me that a more reasonable approach might be to call the smaller manual the QuickStart Guide and then have the full user's manual in PDF on the software CD. One example of how sparse the K-3 Manual documentation is: Storing Frequently Used Settings (Page 202-208 of the K-5 II/IIS manual).This is reduced to a page and a half (Pg 73 74) in the K-3 manual. This newfound brevity is also much less detailed. For example, Slow Shutter Speed NR is one of those menu items that now has a hyphen, rather than a page in the manual with more info. All it says in the K-3 manual is Sets the Noise Reduction setting when shooting with a slow shutter speed. A reasonable person might ask, What do they consider a slow shutter speed?. The K-5 II/IIS manual has a page (87) devoted to this setting, explaining the difference between the options of Auto, On, and Off. (There are some significant differences between Auto On.) The K-3 manual says nothing. It is funny that this bothers me, because I'm typically a guy who doesn't read manuals. The Pentax is certainly useable without reading the manual and if you have been shooting Pentax for a while you already probably know what most of the settings do. But there are also so many options (some of which are greyed out when in certain settings) that in order to take full advantage of the camera and to set it up the way I want to work I feel like I need that information. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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.
Nikon bigot reviews 645z with mixed results
Has a few wild rants, eg suggesting that Nikons don't have modal dials, but decides image quality may in fact be worth it. http://www.thecamerastore.com/blog/average-normal-photographer-review-of-the-ricoh-pentax-645z.aspx -- -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: Nikon bigot reviews 645z with mixed results
Piggybacking on Bruce's post, you may have seen that the new Mamiya medium format back/camera was announced today: http://www.mamiyaleaf.com/credo50.html It is the same sensor found in the Pentax 645D, but at a price of nearly 4x. For the same moola I would hazard to suggest that if you have Mamiya 645 glass you could sell it, pick up some Pentax 645 glass and the 645z and still have enough left over for a nice photo safari to a distant land where you could put the 645z to WORK. Oh, also? Instead of the Mamiya's 100-6400 ISO you could get the 645z's ISO Sensitivity Range of 100 - 204,800. (And they have the guts to call theirs a high iso single-shot capture device. Both feature a 3.2 LCD. The 645z can capture JPEGs at 3 FPS and the Mamiya only 1.2 (though it doesn't specify if that is RAW or JPEG). Crikey. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Has a few wild rants, eg suggesting that Nikons don't have modal dials, but decides image quality may in fact be worth it. http://www.thecamerastore.com/blog/average-normal-photographer-review-of-the-ricoh-pentax-645z.aspx -- -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. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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: Speaking of Strawberries
Nice of you, Dave. Thanks! Jack - Original Message - From: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 3:45:55 PM Subject: Re: Peso: Speaking of Strawberries super Dave On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@comcast.net wrote: When I read Larry's reference to strawberries, this oldy came to mind. Shot on a lightbox with a hand held mirror. Comments invited. Jack http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=812 ME Super w/M50mm f/1.4 -- 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: ACDSEE for Pentax 3.0 - problems
Irfanview, it's idiosyncratic as hell, with a user interface that only it's mother could love, but it will read pretty much every image file known to man, has a customizable thumbnail viewer allows you to define three external editors to open your files in, and is extendable with Photoshop compatible plugins. Oh, and it's a free download. Plus it will let you generate humungous screen saver files of your images as well as standalone slideshows. It's single drawback is it's a Windows only program. http://www.irfanview.com/ Oh, yes, if your PEF/DNG files manage to get borked so bad that even Pentax Digital Camera Utility barfs when trying to open them, it can sometimes at least extract the imbedded jpeg which may be good enough for web use. On 9/8/2014 6:52 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I loaded this when I got the istD - It has been acting up of late when I preview the jpgs - what I need is not something that includes editing but a simple way to go into each directory where my K-5 -or- any files are viewable. My first 1-t external drive seems to be friend, fortunately I backed up on August 31st so now I've got all my image files on a better seagate drive. When I preview stuff I just need something in read only but that quickly allows me to shift from thumbnails to a larger view - but not full screen, showing me the file number. I don't ahve any images at all in the area called MY Pictures I have all the recent on the E: in a master directory called ALL PENTAXSINCEJULY2013, and the sub-directories/folders are merely the date I shot the photos - my preferred choice. suggestions? acdsEE too frequently says it has encountered a problem and has to shut down. that usually happens after I've been working for a while, viewing lots of photos.. and working in Elements 5.0 at the same time. Thanks, ann -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
I didn't necessarily say you did, I was just wondering if this was the right room for an argument... The argument room is down the hall on the left. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net Subject: Re: OT? In case you are having some insomnia tonight... On 08/09/14 18:03, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net wrote: On 08/09/14 16:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? You can waste your time debating anything you want. I'm not debating anything, just offering my opinion. I didn't necessarily say you did, I was just wondering if this was the right room for an argument... - T G -- 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: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 and earlierPentax DSLRs...
It seems to me that a more reasonable approach might be to call the smaller manual the QuickStart Guide and then have the full user's manual in PDF on the software CD. Which is totally useless when in the field and an issue pops up. I carry a paper manual with me at all time when I have my DSLR with me. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com Subject: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 and earlierPentax DSLRs... ...is the size of the Operating Manuals. I'm serious! The previous flagship (K-5 II/IIS) manual weighs in at 336 pages. The K-3's is barely over 100 pages. On the one hand, this makes the camera's operation appear to be a lot less intimidating to operate, but that appearance is deceptive because the new manual contains only a fraction of the info that was there previously. In going through the K-3 menu pages: They give you the default value (ONLY) and (most of the time) the page in the manual that contains more info on that setting. But there are a LOT of settings that don't have a page number with more info. Just a little - . The fonts and illustrations are also much smaller. That can't account for all of the lost pages, however. Even though I just shipped my K-5 II off to a new home, I've just printed out the manual for it so I can try to figure out what is missing. It seems to me that a more reasonable approach might be to call the smaller manual the QuickStart Guide and then have the full user's manual in PDF on the software CD. One example of how sparse the K-3 Manual documentation is: Storing Frequently Used Settings (Page 202-208 of the K-5 II/IIS manual).This is reduced to a page and a half (Pg 73 74) in the K-3 manual. This newfound brevity is also much less detailed. For example, Slow Shutter Speed NR is one of those menu items that now has a hyphen, rather than a page in the manual with more info. All it says in the K-3 manual is Sets the Noise Reduction setting when shooting with a slow shutter speed. A reasonable person might ask, What do they consider a slow shutter speed?. The K-5 II/IIS manual has a page (87) devoted to this setting, explaining the difference between the options of Auto, On, and Off. (There are some significant differences between Auto On.) The K-3 manual says nothing. It is funny that this bothers me, because I'm typically a guy who doesn't read manuals. The Pentax is certainly useable without reading the manual and if you have been shooting Pentax for a while you already probably know what most of the settings do. But there are also so many options (some of which are greyed out when in certain settings) that in order to take full advantage of the camera and to set it up the way I want to work I feel like I need that information. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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 - 'Lone Geranium'
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Jack Davis jdavi...@comcast.net Subject: Re: PESO - 'Lone Geranium' Like the resolution balance in this case. However, the bud or(?) that appears to be touching a petal on the lower left of the blossom as well as the dark brown thing below it, detract. The stem line is nice. Jack - Original Message - From: Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 12:16:21 PM Subject: PESO - 'Lone Geranium' Correctly identified thanks to Alstair, a flower image from my June photography in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. K3, 200mm f4.0 ED Macro A*, f5.6 @ 1/50, 400 ISO Comments appreciated. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853813 Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- 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 - 'Lone Geranium'
Thanks for your comments Jack. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Jack Davis jdavi...@comcast.net Subject: Re: PESO - 'Lone Geranium' Like the resolution balance in this case. However, the bud or(?) that appears to be touching a petal on the lower left of the blossom as well as the dark brown thing below it, detract. The stem line is nice. Jack - Original Message - From: Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 12:16:21 PM Subject: PESO - 'Lone Geranium' Correctly identified thanks to Alstair, a flower image from my June photography in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. K3, 200mm f4.0 ED Macro A*, f5.6 @ 1/50, 400 ISO Comments appreciated. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853813 Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- 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: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 and earlierPentax DSLRs...
Quoting Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: It seems to me that a more reasonable approach might be to call the smaller manual the QuickStart Guide and then have the full user's manual in PDF on the software CD. Which is totally useless when in the field and an issue pops up. Not necessarily. I have pdf versions of all manuals loaded on my Samsung tablet - much more compact than paper manuals and just as accessible (more so, actually, because you can do a search for the topic you're wanting info on). My camera bag has a dedicated pocket for a 10in tablet which keeps it safe against possible damage. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ I carry a paper manual with me at all time when I have my DSLR with me. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com Subject: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 and earlierPentax DSLRs... ...is the size of the Operating Manuals. I'm serious! The previous flagship (K-5 II/IIS) manual weighs in at 336 pages. The K-3's is barely over 100 pages. On the one hand, this makes the camera's operation appear to be a lot less intimidating to operate, but that appearance is deceptive because the new manual contains only a fraction of the info that was there previously. In going through the K-3 menu pages: They give you the default value (ONLY) and (most of the time) the page in the manual that contains more info on that setting. But there are a LOT of settings that don't have a page number with more info. Just a little - . The fonts and illustrations are also much smaller. That can't account for all of the lost pages, however. Even though I just shipped my K-5 II off to a new home, I've just printed out the manual for it so I can try to figure out what is missing. It seems to me that a more reasonable approach might be to call the smaller manual the QuickStart Guide and then have the full user's manual in PDF on the software CD. One example of how sparse the K-3 Manual documentation is: Storing Frequently Used Settings (Page 202-208 of the K-5 II/IIS manual).This is reduced to a page and a half (Pg 73 74) in the K-3 manual. This newfound brevity is also much less detailed. For example, Slow Shutter Speed NR is one of those menu items that now has a hyphen, rather than a page in the manual with more info. All it says in the K-3 manual is Sets the Noise Reduction setting when shooting with a slow shutter speed. A reasonable person might ask, What do they consider a slow shutter speed?. The K-5 II/IIS manual has a page (87) devoted to this setting, explaining the difference between the options of Auto, On, and Off. (There are some significant differences between Auto On.) The K-3 manual says nothing. It is funny that this bothers me, because I'm typically a guy who doesn't read manuals. The Pentax is certainly useable without reading the manual and if you have been shooting Pentax for a while you already probably know what most of the settings do. But there are also so many options (some of which are greyed out when in certain settings) that in order to take full advantage of the camera and to set it up the way I want to work I feel like I need that information. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
Quoting Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: I didn't necessarily say you did, I was just wondering if this was the right room for an argument... The argument room is down the hall on the left. No it isn't... (someone was bound to say that - it might as well be me!) Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net Subject: Re: OT? In case you are having some insomnia tonight... On 08/09/14 18:03, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net wrote: On 08/09/14 16:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? You can waste your time debating anything you want. I'm not debating anything, just offering my opinion. I didn't necessarily say you did, I was just wondering if this was the right room for an argument... - T G -- 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. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- 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: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 andearlierPentax DSLRs...
Not necessarily. I have pdf versions of all manuals loaded on my Samsung tablet More stuff to lug around in the field. Recent Pentax operating manuals easily fit in the Tamrac backpack I use and don't require recharging. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org Subject: Re: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 andearlierPentax DSLRs... Quoting Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: It seems to me that a more reasonable approach might be to call the smaller manual the QuickStart Guide and then have the full user's manual in PDF on the software CD. Which is totally useless when in the field and an issue pops up. Not necessarily. I have pdf versions of all manuals loaded on my Samsung tablet - much more compact than paper manuals and just as accessible (more so, actually, because you can do a search for the topic you're wanting info on). My camera bag has a dedicated pocket for a 10in tablet which keeps it safe against possible damage. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ I carry a paper manual with me at all time when I have my DSLR with me. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com Subject: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 and earlierPentax DSLRs... ...is the size of the Operating Manuals. I'm serious! The previous flagship (K-5 II/IIS) manual weighs in at 336 pages. The K-3's is barely over 100 pages. On the one hand, this makes the camera's operation appear to be a lot less intimidating to operate, but that appearance is deceptive because the new manual contains only a fraction of the info that was there previously. In going through the K-3 menu pages: They give you the default value (ONLY) and (most of the time) the page in the manual that contains more info on that setting. But there are a LOT of settings that don't have a page number with more info. Just a little - . The fonts and illustrations are also much smaller. That can't account for all of the lost pages, however. Even though I just shipped my K-5 II off to a new home, I've just printed out the manual for it so I can try to figure out what is missing. It seems to me that a more reasonable approach might be to call the smaller manual the QuickStart Guide and then have the full user's manual in PDF on the software CD. One example of how sparse the K-3 Manual documentation is: Storing Frequently Used Settings (Page 202-208 of the K-5 II/IIS manual).This is reduced to a page and a half (Pg 73 74) in the K-3 manual. This newfound brevity is also much less detailed. For example, Slow Shutter Speed NR is one of those menu items that now has a hyphen, rather than a page in the manual with more info. All it says in the K-3 manual is Sets the Noise Reduction setting when shooting with a slow shutter speed. A reasonable person might ask, What do they consider a slow shutter speed?. The K-5 II/IIS manual has a page (87) devoted to this setting, explaining the difference between the options of Auto, On, and Off. (There are some significant differences between Auto On.) The K-3 manual says nothing. It is funny that this bothers me, because I'm typically a guy who doesn't read manuals. The Pentax is certainly useable without reading the manual and if you have been shooting Pentax for a while you already probably know what most of the settings do. But there are also so many options (some of which are greyed out when in certain settings) that in order to take full advantage of the camera and to set it up the way I want to work I feel like I need that information. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- 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. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- 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? In case you are having some insomnia tonight...
No it isn't... That'll be $1.50 per minute. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org Subject: Re: OT? In case you are having some insomnia tonight... Quoting Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: I didn't necessarily say you did, I was just wondering if this was the right room for an argument... The argument room is down the hall on the left. No it isn't... (someone was bound to say that - it might as well be me!) Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net Subject: Re: OT? In case you are having some insomnia tonight... On 08/09/14 18:03, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net wrote: On 08/09/14 16:27, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I tried to watch the video but it put me to sleep it's so boring. I can't imagine why anyone would waste their time and energy debating this stuff. Is it OK to debate whether we ought to debate it? You can waste your time debating anything you want. I'm not debating anything, just offering my opinion. I didn't necessarily say you did, I was just wondering if this was the right room for an argument... - T G -- 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. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- 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: Is this a rant? The biggest difference between the K-3 andearlierPentax DSLRs...
It's no more stuff to carry around for me. I always have my iPad mini with me anyway ... It's light and I use it all the time. I have manuals, notes, and photo tools on it that are very useful in the field. Godfrey On Sep 8, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Not necessarily. I have pdf versions of all manuals loaded on my Samsung tablet More stuff to lug around in the field. Recent Pentax operating manuals easily fit in the Tamrac backpack I use and don't require recharging. -- 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 - Quiet on the Lake
To my eye the texture in the the top half of the photo looks as though you're looking directly down on the lake from above. This really confuses me considering the perspective of the trees. It's as if you're channeling Picasso. I like the effect... I think :) Cheers, Dave On Sep 9, 2014, at 6:54 am, Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote: I'm back in Philly and back at work, but I'm still in New Hampshire at the same time. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17853810size=lg (K-5, DA 16-45) Comments? 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.
