Re: Anyone know what brand this tripod is?

[Anthony Farr]

The style of the feet suggests Slik to me.

regards, Anthony

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 08:48, Daniel J. Matyola  wrote:
>
> Brand X? 
>
> Dan Matyola
> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:57 PM Collin Brendemuehl 
> wrote:
>
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/55001392@N08/albums/72157706725437421
> >
> > I can't find any markings on it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Collin Brendemuehl
> >
> > 614-354-6686 (texting ok)
> >
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Re: OT - interesting taxi concept

[Anthony Farr]

It reminds me of the Johnny Cab from the first 'Total Recall' movie.
http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/article_width/public/johnnycab.jpg?itok=mMLIwb0j

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Don't Update Gmail

[Anthony Farr]

Gmail pushed out a new version today. Don't take it, it isn't ready.
It partly ignores the categorisation filters I'd set to keep PDML
under a separate tab to my "Primary" mail. Well, PDML does in fact go
to its proper tab, but it is also going into, and drowning out, my
Primary mail. I don't see any way to backdate the update.

If it doesn't get fixed, I'll have to cancel and rewrite all the
categorisation filters that I made years ago. Aarrgghh. Bastards.

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Re: Photographs don't have to be perfect to be great

[Anthony Farr]

If a photo is great, then it IS perfect. Perfect for the job of being
a great photo, that is.

Anthony.
regards, Anthony


On 26 May 2018 at 00:40, Igor PDML-StR  wrote:
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>
> It is not a new thought. But I had to reiterate it in my mind this morning.
> While eating breakfast, I had CBS news on, and they had an episode with the
> photographer Alexi Lubomirski who was photographing the newly-wed royal
> couple.
>
> Among other things, they were discussing this photo:
> https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/bazaar-brides/a20882655/royal-wedding-photographer-most-popular-official-picture/
>
> It's a nice photo, but one thing I've noticed while watching TV was that the
> photo is tilted: the vertical lines are leaning to the write.
> That reminded me of a popular photo-forum criticism: "the horizon is off!"
> (see Rule #5 from the "Rules of a cool photographer":
> http://komkon.org/~igor/coolphotog.html )
>
> It's one of those things in art (any type of art) where you need to know the
> foundation rules, but it's fine to depart from them (or disregard) every so
> often.
>
>
> As numerous examples show, while facial symmetry is considered to be
> attractive, many (most? all?) people widely accepted as "beautiful" have/had
> imperfections and facial asymmetries.
>
> (See, e.g. http://www.youbeauty.com/beauty/face-symmetry-of-celebrities/ )
>
> Cheers,
>
> Igor
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Re: Into the Light (perhaps OT for some, but amusing at least I hope) - GDG

[Anthony Farr]

This must be the camera that Leon Kowalski used to take the photo that
Rick Deckard analysed with his Esper machine in Blade Runner,

Real life has finally caught up with sci-fi. Still waiting for my
flying car, though.
regards, Anthony

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Re: refusal to even attempt to focus

[Anthony Farr]

The electrical contacts between lenses and bodies are usually kept
clean by the mounting and dismounting process. Each time you turn a
lens towards the lock position, or away from it, it wipes clean the
contacts by a very small amount. So, a seldomly mounted or changed
lens only gets cleaned seldomly and can become 'iffy' in its
connection. Sometimes I've had to hold in the lock button and work the
mount to eliminate an intermittent electrical disconnection of a lens,
which I've experienced in different mounts and their various
sub-versions: Nikon, Pentax K, FourThirds and Micro FourThirds.
They've all experienced this issue from time to time.
Some people claim you should switch off a camera whenever you change
lenses. I think that's being overly cautious, however if you're going
to 'work the mount' like I suggested it'd be a good idea. Perhaps it's
also a precaution to take with this lens in case it's getting
premature and interrupted boot-ups during mounting to a powered
camera.
regards, Anthony


On 19 December 2017 at 07:10, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
>
>
> Anthony Farr wrote:
>>
>> First you need to isolate the fault to either the lens or the camera
>> body. You have other camera bodies so start by determining if the
>> Bigma behaves or misbehaves on those.
>> regards, Anthony
>
>
> I've had similar problems with the lens on other bodies. I don't tend to use
> other lenses for birding.  Cleaning contacts seems to be a good suggestion.
> This was just the time it happened and I actually thought to mention it.
> Since it's sporadic, that makes diagnosis a bit more challenging.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> On 18 December 2017 at 17:49, Larry Colen<l...@red4est.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> This afternoon I was photographing a heron at the Waldport seawall with
>>> my
>>> K-1 and sigma 50-500 during low tide.  It had flown from one spot to
>>> another, I was walking back to the new spot, photographing as I went, and
>>> at
>>> one point the camera went completely out of focus, then wouldn't even
>>> attempt to focus. I eventually got it back on track, got some more shots,
>>> then the bird spooked, flew off (past me) I tried for some flight photos
>>> but
>>> the lens again went completely out of focus, then refused to do anything
>>> to
>>> get back into focus. With the bigma I couldn't (easily) manually focus
>>> and I
>>> completely lost my opportunity for those BiF photos.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what causes the focus mechanism to freeze up like that,
>>> or
>>> any way to convince it to try to refocus?
>>>
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Re: refusal to even attempt to focus

[Anthony Farr]

First you need to isolate the fault to either the lens or the camera
body. You have other camera bodies so start by determining if the
Bigma behaves or misbehaves on those.
regards, Anthony


On 18 December 2017 at 17:49, Larry Colen  wrote:
> This afternoon I was photographing a heron at the Waldport seawall with my
> K-1 and sigma 50-500 during low tide.  It had flown from one spot to
> another, I was walking back to the new spot, photographing as I went, and at
> one point the camera went completely out of focus, then wouldn't even
> attempt to focus. I eventually got it back on track, got some more shots,
> then the bird spooked, flew off (past me) I tried for some flight photos but
> the lens again went completely out of focus, then refused to do anything to
> get back into focus. With the bigma I couldn't (easily) manually focus and I
> completely lost my opportunity for those BiF photos.
>
> Does anyone know what causes the focus mechanism to freeze up like that, or
> any way to convince it to try to refocus?
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Re: The K1000 is back...

[Anthony Farr]

Remind me, when was it that daylight developing tanks became known as
"funnels"? To think of all those years I wasted my time with daylight
tanks and just used funnels to pour liquids into narrow necked
bottles. Silly me, I could've just put the film in the funnel and
reduced the clutter of unnecessary tanks in my darkroom.

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Re: guillotine or rolling cutter for paper?

[Anthony Farr]

I've used and owned both guillotines and rotary cutters and find them
equally good at the mid-level of quality. Both my cutter and my
guillotine at home have slightly skewed measuring guides on their
boards, which is annoying, but I've learned to compensate, and the
blades are good and square so that's the most important things sorted.
Guillotines are potentially the better tool in my opinion. The paper
skewing problem that has been mentioned is easily overcome by pressing
a sheet of cardboard down over the work, just inside the cut line, to
prevent the work from lifting or shifting. A really good cutting edge
(actually edge pairs because a guillotine works the same as scissors)
will slice the paper with so little resistance that skewing isn't an
issue. Some guillotines come with a hold-down bar that clamps the work
just before the blade comes down and I'd recommend looking for that
feature. Guillotines are definitely better for bulk cutting and a good
blade will have no trouble with ten or more sheets at a time, even
twenty plus if it's standard letter quality paper. I've used pedal
operated guillotines that don't even baulk at 100 sheets.
One last hint... If you place the cutting edge above a light table you
should, unless the paper is very thick, be able to see the cut line
absolutely exactly.

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Re: False news

[Anthony Farr]

But I mea culpa'd in the very next message. A true blue American would
know that a stars-right flag is correct for the starboard side, while
this dinky di Aussie was reacting to a flag that seemed backwards, but
has a logical reason for the superficially apparent, but non-existant
blunder.

regards, Anthony


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>
>> On Oct 14, 2017, at 8:47 AM, Anthony Farr <farranth...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm Australian and saw it in about ten seconds. How many Americans would it
>> have taken before one spotted it. Mike Wilson is English and smelled a rat,
>> though I'm not sure he knows why his BS detectors trembled.
>
> Proof once again that Americans are just not very bright. Certainly not 
> compared to Australians and Brits.
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Re: False news

[Anthony Farr]

Well, I just checked images of Air Force One, and it does indeed display
the flag stars to the right on the starboard side. It must be an exception
to the protocol so that the flag "flutters" behind the imaginary flagstaff
in the correct direction of travel.
Disregard my previous comment, sigh

regards, Anthony

On 14 October 2017 at 23:47, Anthony Farr <farranth...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently, because of US flag respect/disrespect controversies, I read the
> US governments guidelines about the display and handling of the
> Stars-and-Stripes, or images of it. One of the requirements was that
> representations of the flag should be imaged as if the flagstaff was on the
> left, and another was that the starfield should always be on the side
> nearest the flagstaff. Therefore the starfield should be on the left of the
> flag on Air Force One's vertical stabiliser. Therefore the image of Air
> Force One is flipped.
> However, the image of the Mandalay Bay Hotel is not flipped, because the
> broken windows are in their correct positions.
> Therefore, the picture is a composite of a true picture of the hotel and a
> reversed picture of Air Force One.
> I'm Australian and saw it in about ten seconds. How many Americans would
> it have taken before one spotted it. Mike Wilson is English and smelled a
> rat, though I'm not sure he knows why his BS detectors trembled.
>
> regards, Anthony
>
> On 14 October 2017 at 08:31, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> So it looks like the picture is possible after all.  I was somethat
>> thrown by
>> the caption, which, as in the article Larry found, says something like
>> "AF1
>> flies past the broken windows"  Clearly, it is flying behind the whole
>> hotel.
>>
>> > On 13 October 2017 at 22:18 John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I also found this regarding "right turn" departures from McCarran
>> > International Airport.
>> >
>> > https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/effort-to-change-flights-on-brink/
>> >
>> >
>> > On 10/13/2017 13:59, mike wilson wrote:
>> > >> On 13 October 2017 at 17:31 John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> More likely it would be a right turn departing runway 25R.
>> > >>
>> > >> http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLAS
>> > >>
>> > >> Runway 7L/25R (the Airnav sheet has it as 8L/26R) is the longest
>> runway at
>> > >> McCarran. Traffic departing 25R should normally go straight ahead or
>> turn
>> > >> right.
>> > >
>> > > It says traffic pattern _left_ which I would expect - away from high
>> > > population
>> > > areas.  If you do turn right I would expect a very high rate of climb,
>> > > making
>> > > the pictures less possible again.  Although, as I wrote earlier,
>> traffic
>> > > rules
>> > > may not aply to AF1.  Some planes are more equal than others, it
>> seems.
>> > >
>> > >>
>> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfield_traffic_pattern
>> > >>
>> > >> You could get that angle of view standing near the Las Vegas Village
>> > >> concert
>> > >> venue's Gate #5 on Giles St and have a pretty good chance that Air
>> Force
>> > >> One
>> > >> would be departing in that direction.
>> > >>
>> > >> 36.095449, -115.170635
>> > >>
>> > >>
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Re: False news

[Anthony Farr]

Recently, because of US flag respect/disrespect controversies, I read the
US governments guidelines about the display and handling of the
Stars-and-Stripes, or images of it. One of the requirements was that
representations of the flag should be imaged as if the flagstaff was on the
left, and another was that the starfield should always be on the side
nearest the flagstaff. Therefore the starfield should be on the left of the
flag on Air Force One's vertical stabiliser. Therefore the image of Air
Force One is flipped.
However, the image of the Mandalay Bay Hotel is not flipped, because the
broken windows are in their correct positions.
Therefore, the picture is a composite of a true picture of the hotel and a
reversed picture of Air Force One.
I'm Australian and saw it in about ten seconds. How many Americans would it
have taken before one spotted it. Mike Wilson is English and smelled a rat,
though I'm not sure he knows why his BS detectors trembled.

regards, Anthony

On 14 October 2017 at 08:31, mike wilson  wrote:

> So it looks like the picture is possible after all.  I was somethat thrown
> by
> the caption, which, as in the article Larry found, says something like "AF1
> flies past the broken windows"  Clearly, it is flying behind the whole
> hotel.
>
> > On 13 October 2017 at 22:18 John  wrote:
> >
> >
> > I also found this regarding "right turn" departures from McCarran
> > International Airport.
> >
> > https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/effort-to-change-flights-on-brink/
> >
> >
> > On 10/13/2017 13:59, mike wilson wrote:
> > >> On 13 October 2017 at 17:31 John  wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> More likely it would be a right turn departing runway 25R.
> > >>
> > >> http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLAS
> > >>
> > >> Runway 7L/25R (the Airnav sheet has it as 8L/26R) is the longest
> runway at
> > >> McCarran. Traffic departing 25R should normally go straight ahead or
> turn
> > >> right.
> > >
> > > It says traffic pattern _left_ which I would expect - away from high
> > > population
> > > areas.  If you do turn right I would expect a very high rate of climb,
> > > making
> > > the pictures less possible again.  Although, as I wrote earlier,
> traffic
> > > rules
> > > may not aply to AF1.  Some planes are more equal than others, it seems.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airfield_traffic_pattern
> > >>
> > >> You could get that angle of view standing near the Las Vegas Village
> > >> concert
> > >> venue's Gate #5 on Giles St and have a pretty good chance that Air
> Force
> > >> One
> > >> would be departing in that direction.
> > >>
> > >> 36.095449, -115.170635
> > >>
> > >>
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Re: Frame counter mystery

[Anthony Farr]

Dark frame subtractions, live view actuations, and the additional exposures
from a multiple exposure may also count as shutter actuations that aren't
justified by an image file.

regards, Anthony

On 30 August 2017 at 12:23, Igor PDML-StR  wrote:

>
>
> Besides "no-card" activations, I wonder if it might also count those
> actuations when you check the WB. And checking for the dust...
>
>
>  John Francis Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:51:08 -0700 wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:23:09AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Gonz wrote:
>> > Hmm, but that only accounts for 6 lost frames no?  Or perhaps it skips
>> > other 000 instances, like from 999 to 001?
>>
>
>
> I was wondering when somebody else would notice that ...
>
> d'Oh!
>>
>>
>> I wonder if bracketing in Live View would do it.
>>
>
> I rather doubt that - I find it hard to imagine anything that would only
> result in a deficit of 50-60 frames if it was related to any mode setting
> on the camera. It would have to be something you only do once in every
> thousand exposures.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
>
>
>> Wow!
>> The infamous "off-by-one" error in a somewhat unusual incarnation. :-)
>>
>> While I was reading your thriller, my guess was it would be due to the
>> shutter activations without a card in the slot.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Igor
>>
>>
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Re: GESO: Different Moons

[Anthony Farr]

The lower picture looks like a projection onto black paper. I think that's
the paper's texture showing through the image. If so, then it's 'wrong
reading' aka a mirror image, because we're looking at the reflection side
rather than the transmission side.

regards, Anthony

On 25 August 2017 at 08:29, Larry Colen  wrote:

>
>
> Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
>
>> These two rather crude images where taken at the same location in New
>> Jersey within a few minutes of each other:
>>
>> https://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2017/
>> 8/24/different-moons
>>
>> Someone asked me why the crescents are reversed.  Can you deduce the
>> reason
>> they are so different?
>>
>
> For the same reason that the moon is black in both of them.
>
>
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Re: PESO - Purple Dream Machine

[Anthony Farr]

Dream, or nightmare?

regards, Anthony

On 21 August 2017 at 12:24, John Coyle  wrote:

> Inspired by Paul's Woodward Dream Cruise series, here's one I took on our
> last day in SF last year
> (Larry, those shots from the last visit will be up this week!)
>
> http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~jcoyle/PESO17.html
>
> Big wheels and narrow tyres - isn't that going to give a firm ride?  Maybe
> he's got soft shockers
> fitted!
>
> Comments welcome
>
>
>
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Re: GESO: Woodward Dream Cruise

[Anthony Farr]

I get a security warning about Photo.net in all three of Chrome, Firefox
and Edge, both at Paul's link and at their homepage. I'm getting dire
warnings of potential hackers, expired certificates and the site possibly
not being who they say they are, and the https letters are struck out to
indicate that it's not providing that level of security. I hope they aren't
taking money to host peoples photos.

regards, Anthony

On 21 August 2017 at 12:12, Richard Klein  wrote:

> That URL doesn't work for me.  It tells me there's an expired security
> certificate.  After I tell my browser to accept the certificate anyway, it
> loads a page, but the photos get 'broken' icons.  I can find your pictures
> by searching for Paul Stenquist, but that's a sub-optimal solution.  Also,
> do you know if there's any way to navigate from one picture to the next
> with the keyboard?
>
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Paul Stenquist 
> wrote:
>
> > I shot the Dream Cruise for the Times for quite a few years in a row.
> That
> > paper no longer covers a lot of automotive topics due to budget cuts, so
> > the Cruise is no longer an assignment. But habits die hard, and I can’t
> > deem to get out on Woodward without my camera. Shot at different times of
> > day this week and put together a little gallery.
> >
> > https://www.photo.net/gallery/1107491#//Sort-Newest/All-
> > Categories/All-Time/Page-1
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Re: OT - Universal battery chargers

[Anthony Farr]

Brian, I have the exact universal charger you linked to, and I find it a
decent unit although setting up the contact pins to meet the battery's
terminals can be fiddly and the grip of the connection can be a bit
tenuous. The Inca charger has just two pins, +ve and -ve, while the OEM
units may or may not (brand dependent) use the extra pins to read out the
condition of the battery. Polarity doesn't matter so you can connect the
battery whichever way way fits best, but you need to be able to identify
which of the (usually) four terminals are the battery poles. The charger
has a car adapter that seems handy, but I suspect that its tenuous grip on
the battery could cause the battery to disconnect with the bumps and
jostles of driving. Although it can charge all your camera batteries it can
only handle one at a time, so you may find yourself with a queue if it's
your one and only charger.
On the plus side, you get to see the approximate charge level, in 25%
increments, unlike the OEM chargers that just tell you a battery is
charging or is full. And it can also charge two AA or AAA cells, although
not at the same time as a camera battery, and it has a 0.5A USB outlet.
So... some pros and some cons.

regards, Anthony

On 26 April 2017 at 16:14, Brian Walters  wrote:

> G'day all
>
> Does anyone have any experience with universal battery chargers such as
> this:
>
> https://www.jbhifi.com.au/cameras/camera-accessories/
> inca/inca-universal-charger/601162/
>
> Somehow I've managed to accumulate 4 cameras all of which use different
> batteries. While I don't travel with all of them, I would always have
> two (and occasionally three) on some trips and it would make life easier
> if I didn't have to cart around separate chargers.
>
> Any experiences to report?
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian
>
> ++
> Brian Walters
> Western Sydney Australia
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Re: Christchurch Fires _ Dave, Check in please

[Anthony Farr]

I think David means a couple of kilometres ~away~ from the bottom of the
hill, not ~up~ from the bottom. Otherwise he'd be a lot less relaxed.

regards, Anthony

On 17 February 2017 at 08:33, P. J. Alling 
wrote:

> I wouldn't be too blasé if I lived at the top of the hill.  Fire moves
> pretty fast uphill, when it really takes off.
>
>
> On 2/16/2017 3:05 PM, David Mann wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the concern everyone but we're fine and our house is not under
>> threat. We live a couple of km from the bottom of the hill so there are a
>> lot of houses it'd have to get through first.
>>
>> We're actually holidaying in Wanaka for a race that's on tomorrow so
>> we've had to watch the coverage from afar. It looks like my favourite bike
>> and run training areas are badly affected :(
>>
>> (The race won't go well as I have an injury but at least the weather is
>> nice.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
>>
>> On 17/02/2017, at 6:50 AM, ann sanfedele  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hope he checks in soon!
>>>
>>> I've been meaning to write him off list to see if he watches "Brokenwood
>>> mysteries"
>>>
>>> ann
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/16/2017 10:28 AM, Gonz wrote:
 What is going on?  Seems like NZ is having all sorts of catastrophes,
 first the giant earthquake, now what... a fire?  Geesh, I hope there
 is something left when the missus and I go down there in December.  I
 surely hope everyone is ok.


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>
> Hope you are OK - the fire looks particularly scary.
>
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Re: PESO 2017 - 012 - GDG

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It's a photo that I wish I had taken myself.

regards, Anthony

On 5 February 2017 at 11:18, Steve Cottrell  wrote:

> On 4/2/17, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
> >A quiet scene after rain.
> >
> >  https://flic.kr/p/QxUQvh
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Re: Storage wars

[Anthony Farr]

Your discs could be unfinalized. This is convenient if you want to add
files to a disc in multiple sessions or if you only ever read them on a
single computer, but is a problem when you want to read discs on a
different machine, such as in the future when you've retired the computer
or drive that originally burned the discs. Hopefully you can close the
sessions and finalize the disc, even without the original hardware or
software.
http://www.cd-info.com/howto/finalize/


regards, Anthony

On 3 February 2017 at 10:35, David J Brooks  wrote:

> I did have DVD success last month when i did one or two of them.
> Perplexed for sure.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 6:32 PM, David J Brooks 
> wrote:
> > Way back when i stored my picture files on CD's or DVD's. When i
> > replaced my aging PC with the current iMac i took the old HD out
> > bought a case and pulled files from it when needed. This drive is now
> > failing so i decided to put all of my CD's and DVD's on my new 1TB
> > external. I did the CD's first and all is going well however now that
> > i'm onto my DVD's all is not well in Casa Del Brooksie. I keep getting
> > " you have inserted a blank DVD what do you want to " and i get 3
> > options non of which is to open files. these are definitely recorded
> > DVD's.
> >
> > Am i screwed.??
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > --
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> > www.caughtinmotion.com
> > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/
> > York Region, Ontario, Canada
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Re: Thank you Mr Brewer.

[Anthony Farr]

Thank you all for the warm welcome 'home'.

regards, Anthony

On 25 January 2017 at 05:07, Doug Brewer <d...@dougbrewerphoto.com> wrote:

> Glad to have you back, and hope your health issues are properly sorted.
>
>
> On 1/23/17 7:06 PM, Anthony Farr wrote:
>
>> Many moons ago my internet provider's domain was briefly listed on a
>> dodgily curated South American blacklist, probably because a few of its
>> subscribers fell for a trojan and started relaying spam. Like 'that' never
>> happened to any other domains (cough, cough, AOL, Yahoo, et al.). As a
>> consequence my posts to PDML were bouncing, and I was too distracted at
>> the
>> time, dealing with health issues, to pursue this little corner of my life.
>> So, I just kept reading but had to settle for being an enforced lurker. I
>> think it was good for my soul.
>> Occasionally I'd reply to something to see if it penetrated the filters.
>> And occasionally, if the
>> conversation amongst our Facebook brethren steered that way, I'd mention
>> my
>> predicament. Doug did say to contact him and he'd fix the issue, but you
>> know how life is and how things get forgotten.
>> Anyway, the subject was mentioned again a few days ago, today I made an
>> exploratory reply on a thread, and hey presto! I'M BACK (and couldn't help
>> shouting it out).
>> Thanks Doug. I'll try not to be a pest.
>>
>> regards, Anthony
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Thank you Mr Brewer.

[Anthony Farr]

Many moons ago my internet provider's domain was briefly listed on a
dodgily curated South American blacklist, probably because a few of its
subscribers fell for a trojan and started relaying spam. Like 'that' never
happened to any other domains (cough, cough, AOL, Yahoo, et al.). As a
consequence my posts to PDML were bouncing, and I was too distracted at the
time, dealing with health issues, to pursue this little corner of my life.
So, I just kept reading but had to settle for being an enforced lurker. I
think it was good for my soul.
Occasionally I'd reply to something to see if it penetrated the filters.
And occasionally, if the
conversation amongst our Facebook brethren steered that way, I'd mention my
predicament. Doug did say to contact him and he'd fix the issue, but you
know how life is and how things get forgotten.
Anyway, the subject was mentioned again a few days ago, today I made an
exploratory reply on a thread, and hey presto! I'M BACK (and couldn't help
shouting it out).
Thanks Doug. I'll try not to be a pest.

regards, Anthony
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Re: Anyone looking for Zeiss Optics

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Leitz on a Leica, not Zeiss.

regards, Anthony

On 24 January 2017 at 01:30, Godfrey DiGiorgi 
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> Bipin,
>
> Is there some point to this post? I'm mystified.
>
> G
>
>
> > On Jan 22, 2017, at 10:44 PM, Bipin Gupta  wrote:
> >
> > 70 Years or more ago Zeiss and the Germans made good lenses - perhaps
> > the best - as there were no others making lenses then!!??
> > The Russians and the Japanese stepped in to slowly match Zeiss and
> > later exceed them.
> > They were followed by the Koreans who made equally good optics.
> > And now the Chinese are repeating History once again.
> >
> > Even countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, etc
> > make - err rather assemble - great Lenses & Photo Gear.
> >
> > Well the truth is this statement has been made popular by one of our
> > own PDMLers:-
> >
> > "Buy a Leica, get the full Leica Experience? - a quick reduction of
> > funds in the bank a/c".
> >
> > Where LEICA = ZEISS now (ie please replace Leica with Zeiss in the
> > statement above).
> >
> > There you are, go ahead and buy a Zeiss Len for $ when you can buy
> > similar or better ones for much less
> > er
> > friends.
> >
> > Regards.
> > Bipin
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Re: HoHoHo

[Anthony Farr]

That's purty, Bill.  Looks good here on my desktop, and the sentiment
is gratefully received.  I hope Christmas was good to you, and the New
Year finds you well.

regards, Anthony



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OT - Scotch Tape Series

[Anthony Farr]

An interesting set of portraits:

http://wesnamanphotography.com/portfolio/scotch-tape-series/

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Re: OT - Scotch Tape Series

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On 21 December 2012 08:44,  eactiv...@aol.com wrote:
 Marnie aka Doe And I made my previous  statement BEFORE I looked at his
 other pics.

I'm almost scared to look.  The Scotch tape series was the only set I
saw, having followed a link to it, and not having looked beyond.  Now
I know where I'm going today.

regards, Anthony

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Re: OT - Scotch Tape Series

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On 21 December 2012 13:46, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote:

 My reaction is that one or two shots might be interesting,
 but by the time you've looked at three pages of them it gets
 repetetive and tiresome.


That's the downside of a narrowly themed series.  I don't know what
minimum number qualifies a set of pictures as a series, but they often
seem to be labouring the point before the last entry is reached.
Philippe Hausman’s ‘Celebrities Jumping’ series would have got the
point across in three or four images IMO, but then it possibly
wouldn't have been a series.  It would have been just a few pictures.

regards, Anthony

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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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Thank you for your encouragement, Boris.  It all counts :-)

regards, Anthony

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Re: OT: Something to think about

[Anthony Farr]

You had me going until the very last line, Paul.  That's a really good
story that I intend to steal from you and re-use as my own.  The good
thing is that the humour doesn't blunt the message at all, IMO.

regards, Anthony



On 17 December 2012 14:45, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
 With the Holidays upon us I would like to share a personal experience with my 
 friends on the list about drinking and driving.
 As you may know some of us have been known to have brushes with the 
 authorities from time to time on the way home after a night out with friends.
 Well, two days ago I was at a car company Christmas party and had several 
 cocktails followed by some rather nice red wine. Most of the bottle, I 
 believe. Feeling jolly, I still had the sense to know that I may be slightly 
 over the limit.  That's when I did something that I've never done before - I 
 took a cab home.

 Sure enough on the way home there was a police road block, but since it was a 
 cab they waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident.

 This was a real surprise as I had never driven a cab before, I don't know 
 where I got it and now that it's in my garage I don't know what to do with it.

 Paul



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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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On 16 December 2012 10:49, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote:
 What I find a bit baffling is why it is taking so long for Pentax to produce
 another mirrorless APS-C camera.
 They've obviously got the 'guts' of a good camera in the K-01.  Would it be
 that difficult to produce a new version with a viewfinder (with or
 preferably without Newson)?


Isn't the problem that the K-01 is Hoya's idea, not Ricoh's?  Hoya
didn't have to integrate its products with a stablemate brand.  Ricoh
has a closely competitive product, the GXR with the Mount A12 unit
which is currently priced in the low $US800s for a body plus lens
mount module (without lens). An EVF adds another $US200 and a bit.
The K-01 body can be bought in the low $US300s at present, which makes
it excellent value by comparison if you can live without an EVF, or if
an EVF was never in your budget.

My feeling is that the new Pentax-Ricoh entity should fold these two
cameras into a single product line with two distinct bodies like
Nikon's V1 and J1 for customers who either do or don't want an EVF.  A
camera with integrated EVF will always be cheaper than a
viewfinderless body plus an external EVF.  Pentax simply cannot afford
to put cameras on shelves at a higher price than a competitors
solution.  Ricoh can because it has developed more of that indefinable
boutique cachet that Pentax wishes it had.  Some Pentax lenses might
have it, but no camera since the MZ-S has been anything that a
competitor wishes was their own.  Class leading performance doesn't
cut it when the competion is already trading in a higher class.


 Maybe the problem is developing a new range of lenses to suit the shorter
 register distance.


I spoke of this before.  A short register would mean abandoning
compatibility with screwdriver AF.  How many of Pentax's customer base
will live with that?

regards, Anthony

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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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On 16 December 2012 11:37, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 Would it be possible for Ricoh-Pentax to offer an auxiliary electronic
 viewfinder that would mount on the hotshoe?

I'm sure they could, but it would cannibalise sales from Ricoh's GXR.
They need to integrate these similar products, not diversify the
ranges even more.

regards, Anthony

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Re: Pentax 645D IR

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In 1979 I worked as an assistant at a small studio.  Making colour
prints was one of my duties.  I can tell you with absolute authority
that a print made on Kodak Ektaprint 2 paper from a C41 processed
Kodak VPS negative that came out of a Leica M5 was inferior to the
product of a 2MP point @ shoot in 2002.  My conclusion therefore is
that analogue Leicas no longer had a reason to exist 10 years ago,
therefore they are no better than scrap metal.  Anyone who possesses
one of these wastes of resources is welcome to send it my way, and
I'll dispose of it in the most environmentally sensitive way possible.

regards, Anthony



On 14 December 2012 19:09, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote:
 J.C.O. is entirely right. Once superseded by another model, the 645D will 
 stop taking pictures on any ISO other than 140, force JPG format, and 
 introduce a lag of 30 seconds before writing exposures to card. During that 
 lag, you will see a message on the chimp screen explaining what you have to 
 do to re-enable the camera's functionality. For unknown reasons, this message 
 will only appear in the language used by the Inuits of North-East Greenland, 
 who refuse to translate because they find the text offensive.

 The next model will be a lot better. Among its most important achievents will 
 be abandoning the hopelessly inaccurate way of relaying aperture information 
 between camera and optics using a simple lever. According to Pentax 
 officials, that's on par with steam engines for obsolence, and they are 
 deeply ashamed about it still being there, despite their best efforts to move 
 forward.

 Just FYI, you know, like, :-)

 Cheers,
 Jostein

 J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote:

And presto, you have a $10K obsolete piece o crap original 645D.


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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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On 14 December 2012 18:17, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
 regarding the K-01, the appearance is not awful, but i'd feel awkward with
 it in public because it is too attention-getting; i think much of Newson's
 aesthetic is like that; i also have non-Newson concerns: manual focus, grip
 ergonomics

It sounds like it's not the camera for you.  It's a good thing that
nobody's forced to own one.

regards, Anthony

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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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Thanks Stan.  No longer a problem, there is no old film stock at my
house.  I do carry a letter from my oncologist to explain any oddities
about, for instance, airport security scans and how vital it is that
my sieve and my small lead flask are not taken away from me.

regards, Anthony



On 15 December 2012 00:43, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote:

 On Dec 14, 2012, at 12:28 AM, Anthony Farr wrote:

 ... we know how you feel about optical frame 'finders
 and wire frame 'finders and live-view-on-the LCD 'finders and no
 'finders.  Just don't buy them and see if I care.

 Finally, pardon my grumpiness.  I have prostate cancer, and last week
 underwent a brachytherapy implant after a year of hormone blockers.  I
 still hurt (a cough or sneeze is unbearable), have no endurance, scant
 tolerance, and I have to carry a sieve and a lead container everywhere
 in case a radioactive pellet gets loose when I pee.  Have a nice day.

 regards, Anthony

 Sorry to hear about your medical travails Anthony! But, to try and see this 
 from the lighter side, does this mean that you have to be careful not to sit 
 too close to any of your old film stock?

 stan


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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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Good result, congratulations but it sounds like you had a rough time.
I'm lucky to be a suitable candidate for brachytherapy, so all going
well I should be cancer free after several months.  The pellets have a
half life of two months so they'll be down to 1/64th energy in a year
and pretty much spent.  After that I'll learn how successful the
treatment is.  Right now I have to keep close contact (less than a
metre) with under 18 year olds and pregnant women to brief periods.
My twelve year old son is giving me a wide berth, the whole idea
creeps him out I fear.

regards, Anthony



On 15 December 2012 01:13, Gerrit Visser gerrit...@gmail.com wrote:
 Cancer sucks, I spent most of this year with prostate surgery, then
 radiation treatments. PSA is now undetectable so I guess I am fortunate that
 it got dealt with in less than a year.

 Gerrit


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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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It's Art.  What can I say?

Lockheed Lounges have topped $US 2 million, when the greenback was
still riding high.  The example I've seen was in a glass case,
probably so the kiddies wouldn't climb all over it.  There's only
fifteen of them, so the world isn't being denied any meaningful amount
of sitting space.

If you do a Google image search for art furniture you'll find a lot
of stuff meant for looking rather than using, and I guarantee there
will be something in the search results for everyone to hate.  I
suspect that an unspoken but essential quality of all art is that
somebody, somewhere, must hate it.

regards, Anthony



On 15 December 2012 03:46, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 It's a chair you're not supposed to sit on? That really is complete 
 utter nonsense.

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Re: Any thoughts on what might cause this?

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On 15 December 2012 09:26, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 But rogue dll makes me wonder if I need to look for a new mouse
 driver. The one thing that I'm sure is common to every occurrence is I
 go to move the mouse pointer  find it's frozen.

It's still possible that it's a video rendering freeze.  I've had a
similar occurrence and it became apparent that the mouse did function
(I got a reaction to a click at an assumed position of the mouse
pointer) but the display wasn't updating to any new input or actions.
I've found that pressing the Windows key on a frozen display can
sometimes break through the lockup better than ctrl-alt-del, the start
menu will pop up and allow you to access some actions, although you
may need to use the arrow keys and enter.  I've been able to do a
soft shutdown this way.  Repeated hard shutdowns seem to get a
computer into a downward spiral of errors and faults.

regards, Anthony

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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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On 15 December 2012 03:56, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 Hope things get better for you


On 15 December 2012 04:13, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote:

 Sorry to hear, but wishing you speedy recovery, Anthony!  Cheers, Christine


On 15 December 2012 08:03, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote:
 Anthony - really sorry to hear that.  As one who has been down a similar
 path (now over 20 years ago), cancer is no fun whatever the prognosis (and,
 from your subsequent posts I see yours is good).

 You're entitled to some grumpiness, so go for it!


Thanks, John, Christine, Brian.

The annoying aspect is that I had no symptoms UNTIL the treatment
started, and the second month is expected to be worse as the radiation
takes effect.  My family history meant that my PSA level was being
watched closely, and at the first sign of acceleration the biopsies
began and eventually found the very earliest traces of cancer.  I'm
told that noticeable symptoms indicate a serious tumour, and treatment
at that stage is necessarily more radical.  In that case I'm glad to
have traded a few biopsies and a brachytherapy procedure for what is a
very nasty piece of surgery backed up by a gruelling course of
external radiation.  I'm sure I'll feel lucky after the dust has
settled.

regards, Anthony

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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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On 15 December 2012 15:12, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote:
 And I have no use for Industrial Designers.
 Put them on the panet with the Marketing people.

And the telephone sanitizers?

I hope your sons are keeping well, chemotherapy is brutal.  Thanks for
your moral support, even small amounts are surprisingly uplifting.
Today has been good.

Thanks for your
regards, Anthony

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Re: Any thoughts on what might cause this?

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Can you remap the windows key operation to a function key?  I don't
even know if that is possible but it sounds reasonable, I think.

regards, Anthony



On 15 December 2012 13:30, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:

 Drat.

 IBM 101-key click keyboard - no windoze keys. I'll have to look around
 and see if I can scrounge up a spare windows-keyboard. Hate to give up
 my good keyboard. I just love the feel of typing on this thing.

 FWIW, it's been doing this maybe once or twice a month for years 
 doesn't seem to be getting any worse.



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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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On 13 December 2012 14:24, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 None of his chairs looked like they'd be comfortable to sit in.

And if you did sit on one, I'm certain you'd be shown the door and
asked not to return.  They're for looking at, not using.

regards, Anthony

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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

[Anthony Farr]

Answering my own message because I'm addressing a raft of issues from
various correspondents in this thread and reaching back through the
life of the K-01.  I don't want to single out anyone, it's a
collective thang.

A Google image search for  toilet suite will find a lot of square
and rectangular toilets.  I've been seeing them (and using them) for
years now, if people got out more they'd be less amazed by the
concept.  Or was it an opportunity to infer that Marc Newson is a
shithouse designer because he designed a toilet?  In fact he designed
an entire bathroom range, it'd be a serious omission if a toilet suite
wasn't a part of it.

I think the attitude to the K-01 is one of Get your stinking paws off
Pentax, you damn dirty foreign designer.  How many times does it need
to be said that the form factor and the feature list of the K-01 were
Pentax's decisions, not Marc Newson's.  Once again, the form factor
and the feature list of the K-01 were Pentax's decisions, not Marc
Newson's.  For the hard of hearing I'll repeat it, the form factor and
the feature list of the K-01 were Pentax's decisions, not Marc
Newson's.  And for the visually impaired,   T H E   F O R M   F A C T
O R   A N D   T H E   F E A T U R E   L I S T   O F   T H E   K - 0 1
 W E R E   P E N T A X ' S   D E C I S I O N S ,   N O T   M A R C   N
E W S O N ' S  .

Is the K-01 any squarer than an LX?  You'd think it was a cinderblock
from the gripes I've read.  For the record it's 22.5mm narrower,
11.5mm shorter, 8mm thicker and 4g lighter than a gripless LX.  And
the LX was praised for it's feel in the hand.  And, by the way, the
next time anyone complains of the K-01's thickness, consider that it
will do screwdriver AF with any K-AF lens since Pentax made AF lenses.
 An mount adapter won't give that, the body needed screwdriver AF to
ensure backwards AF compatibility.  A short mount would only have been
AF-adaptable to SDM lenses, and AFAIK no-one has ever produced a mount
adapter with an integrated AF motor.

If Pentax had taken the short mount plus adapter route we'd still be
hearing the squealing and whining and moaning today, even from people
who wouldn't buy a K-01 anyway.

There's the rub, the biggest complaints appear to be coming from
people who were the most unlikely to ever buy one.  OTOH I've read
some reports from people who bought a K-01 and seem to be OK with
their choice.

Over the years I've observed that single-lens-reflex purists are the
most uncompromising group of photographers around, with respect to
their acceptance of any other type of viewfinder (or no viewfinder).
For them I suggest a future PUG theme, No Viewfinders Allowed - A
Gallery of From-the-Hip and Overhead Shooting.  I'd also suggest that
enough is enough, we know how you feel about optical frame 'finders
and wire frame 'finders and live-view-on-the LCD 'finders and no
'finders.  Just don't buy them and see if I care.

Finally, pardon my grumpiness.  I have prostate cancer, and last week
underwent a brachytherapy implant after a year of hormone blockers.  I
still hurt (a cough or sneeze is unbearable), have no endurance, scant
tolerance, and I have to carry a sieve and a lead container everywhere
in case a radioactive pellet gets loose when I pee.  Have a nice day.

regards, Anthony

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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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Thanks, Paul.  Sympathy is a good soother, yours is appreciated.

regards, Anthony



On 14 December 2012 17:02, Paul Sorenson pentax1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Sorry to hear about your condition, Anthony.  Here's hoping the pellets do
 their job...

 -p



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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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All good points, Peter, no disagreement here.  Personally it was a
letdown to see the camera hit the shelves without an EVF option, but
there it is.  I'm not going to get all twisted up about it after the
event.  Pentax (or any brand) will sell what they want to sell, and if
it doesn't suit me it really doesn't matter.  There will be other
cameras, there always is.

Who does Pentax think they are?  I suspect that Pentax sees itself as
a style leader and a mold breaker.  Didn't they once have a motto like
Pentax is enough or something to that effect, suggesting that they
had the good sense to stop piling on features for features' sake.

Sometimes I get more pleasure from using a stripped down camera than a
specced up one.  In that respect I get Pentax.

Thanks for your thoughts.

regards, Anthony



On 14 December 2012 17:19, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
 Anthony let me start out by saying I'm sorry to hear about your health
 issue.

 Now I started this thread, and let me say my problem with Newson being hired
 as a designer has nothing to do with his external package per se, but with
 the fact that Pentax thought that it meant that they could simply repackage
 a K-30 DSLR, without the SLR portion, if they just made it a collectors item
 instead of an actual new product.  Maybe if they had invested some of his
 fee into actually having a camera designer and electronics engineer do a
 repackaging they could have put a decent EVF into roughly the same location
 that  Sony has on their  Nex 7, (and Nex 6) cameras.  It looks to me as if
 there would be plenty of room there given a proper review of current design.
 I never said that the K-01 was too big in any dimension, in fact I compared
 the K-01 to another mirrorless camera from Panasonic which was released
 about same time which is actually larger the K-01 and pointed out that no
 one has complained about it's size, at least that I know of. I don't mind so
 much that the camera looks like a camera envisioned by the manufacture of
 LEGOs just that it cost so much to do it for so little return.   As I said
 repeatedly in my original post.  Pentax cheeped out, (and I thought that I
 strongly implied), and tried to make up for it with style.  Who do they
 think they are to get away with that Hasselblad or Leica?




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Re: What's wrong with the K-01

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On 14 December 2012 18:17, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
 you yourself pointed out chairs not meant for sitting, then flipped to
 defending square toilets

Different messages answering different issues.  If I'd meant them to
be part of the same sentiment they would have been posted together.
The chairs not meant for sitting are art pieces commanding
astronomical prices and now mainly found in museums.  Don't you think
an artist can create art on one day and fulfil a commercial commission
for a mass market product on another?  I'm certain there's no law
prohibiting that.

 the tone of your message deteriorated after what i've quoted, so i didn't 
 read the rest of your it

Really?  Being a bit sensitive aren't you?  Shame, you missed the best bits.

regards, Anthony

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Re: WTB 300mm reflex (mirror) lens

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On 27 November 2012 20:18, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote:
 In astronomy that filter is known as a corrector plate. If it corrects…

That's how I discovered I needed eye-glasses.  One day I put on some
safety glasses to use a power tool.  Everthing became a little clearer
which didn't make sense, especially as the safety glasses were
presumably plain lenses, but there was enough of something happening
to merit a follow-up at an optometrist.  I've worn glasses ever since.

regards, Anthony

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Re: WTB 300mm reflex (mirror) lens

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There was a Makinon 300mm reflex, f5.6 as I recall.  I almost bought
one second hand around 1990 and got as far as taking some test shots
in the shop which were impressive.  Alas, another purchase took
precedence and I let it pass.  It'd be quite old now but if you found
a clean example (refexes are a bit susceptible to fungus in my
experience) it would be worth a look.  It's compactness is amazing, it
is hardly bigger than a 50mm lens, probably smaller than a Canon 50mm
lens.

Here's a link to some comments about it:
http://www.pentaxforums.com/userreviews/makinon-300mm-f5-6-mirror-lens.html
Apparently there's a fair bit a of quality variation from sample to
sample, but you shouldn't pay much for one so it could be worth the
risk.  FWIW, I was at first disappointed with my Tamron SP500 reflex
that I got in 1988, but it sharpened considerably after I put a good
UV filter up front, the only lens I've had that result from (every
other lens takes a tiny hit in sharpness when you use a UV filter).

regards, Anthony


On 27 November 2012 13:25, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote:
 Sorry, I only have a 400mm for sale. It's a Sigma f/5.6, and pretty
 good for a mirror lens.

 The only 300mm I'm aware of is indeed the one you mention for m4/3.

 Cheers,

—M.


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Re: OT reading Canon 5DII cards

[Anthony Farr]

A quick bit of research gives me two obvious sources for your problem.
 There may be more but these should be easy to identify or eliminate.
The first is that the CF card could be a CFast card, designed for
extremely fast read/write speeds and needing a card reader cabable of
the specification.  Second is the file system of the card.  FAT32 file
system can only create or read a single file up to 4GB minus one byte
(now I know why my GoPro video files get split into multiple smaller
files for a single long shot) and if your friend shot video with his
Canon, or wanted to future-proof himself for the possibility then the
card or its filing system could be beyond FAT32 spec.

So, have you tried connecting the camera to your iMac with an
older/smaller CF card that is definitely FAT32?  If it's a card
compatibility issue, then your friend would have already catered for
the problem, but you apparently haven't.

regards, Anthony



On 17 November 2012 17:20, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
 The widow of my friend who passed away from cancer last year asked me to 
 teach her how to use his Canon 5DmkII.  So, first of all, I need to figure it 
 out.   When I was last at his place, we plugged his CF card into the reader 
 on his desktop computer, and uploaded his last files.
 I just tried doing that on my iMac, with no luck.  It wouldn't even recognize 
 the card in finder.  I then found a USB cable, plugged it into the camera and 
 while OSX wouldn't recognize the camera, Lightroom did.  So I was able to 
 back up his last photos (and the last photos of him) onto my computer.

 The CF card in question is a 64GB card.  Do I need a special reader for it?  
 Does anyone know the reason that the camera isn't showing up in the finder 
 when it is plugged in with the USB cable, even though lightroom can read the 
 files?

 --
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Re: Lost, K10D

[Anthony Farr]

Will the mall let you view any security camera footage?  Perhaps some
shops nearby have cameras that overlook the place you left your
camera.

There's been two incidents in Australia recently that were solved by
unrelated security cameras that recorded the events.  An assault and
murder was solved in Melbourne because a shops internal camera
recorded the victim being pestered by her attacker shortly before her
disappearance.  A dognapping in Sydney was solved and the dog
recovered because a camera further along the street recorded a small
boy carrying the dog away, the footage and a screenshot were put up on
Facebook, and the dognapper was recognized.

I know your camera is small change by comparison, but the principle is the same.

regards, Anthony



On 24 October 2012 14:20, knarftheria...@gmail.com
knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
 Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench.

 It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my 
 camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a 
 shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, 
 telling me I got a call to pick up.

 As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit 
 me; no camera around my neck.

 I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two 
 hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with 
 security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera 
 to security - mall policy); nothing turned in.

 Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, 
 continued to monitor ads and security.

 Nothing.

 Gone.

 Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing 
 illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally 
 right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security.

 They might as well have stolen it from me.

 I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn 
 it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value.

 Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 
 for a few beers.

 Oh well.

 About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm 
 was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens.

 And I still have my venerable *IstD.

 It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it.

 cheers,
 frank


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Re: I Wanna Be a Cameraman

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Made me smile :-)

regards, Anthony



On 24 October 2012 12:29, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote:
 B

 A bit of fun - even with the odd Pentax sighting

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKBetMjwLk8feature=g-user-u


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Re: lessons learned this weekend

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On 22 October 2012 14:30, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
 1) Taking photos from a moving pony cart can be challenging.  Not so much for 
 camera motion blur, which can be compensated for by a fast shutter speed 
 combined with shake reduction, but because the bouncing up and down makes it 
 very challenging to compose a shot.

 2) This is exacerbated when the sound of the 18-250 focusing sounds to the 
 horse like the noise that means go faster.

 3) Taking photos of a hawk flying overhead from a moving pony cart is nearly 
 impossible.

 4) Taking photos of said hawk, when standing on the ground with the 18-250 
 works a lot better with manual focus and a split prism focusing screen than 
 it does with auto focus.

 --
 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est


How autofocus works with sport, action, wildlife, etc:

Oh, you want to take a shot right now, do you?  Just give me a second
or two while I check my full range of focus, just in case there's a
point where things are sharper.  Wait, I'll check again, you can never
be too sure, can you?  There, I bet that shot of empty blue sky is
sharper than anything Canon could've made.

G!

regards, Anthony

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Re: Really OT, Structural engineering question

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While I'm not sure what you mean by buckled, looking at the picture
suggests that it might have settled with some spreading, some twisting
and some leaning.  Is that the case?

That structure seems to have all its strength focused at the cross
point, and depends for its strength upon mechanical friction at its
junction.  As a sawhorse it's probably designed to be folded flat.
I'd be inclined to attach some horizontal ties between the feet of
each 'X' to resist spreading, and put in a diagonal brace between the
top and bottom stringer (is that the correct name?) on each side.
Don't forget to attach the each brace where it crosses the centre leg,
you might need spacer blocks for this, or you might find brackets
that'll bridge the gap.

You should be able to park a (small) car on it then.

regards, Anthony



On 22 October 2012 02:42, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
 Sorry about this folks, but i'm sure someone here will have an answer.

 Last year, after i had some trees cut down, i built an X frame
 sawhorse log cutter, like number 2 in this
 links:http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Sawbuck-for-Cutting-Firewood, so
 i decided to build a similar one for my 40 gallon rain barrel i built
 as it looked like it would be sturdy enough to hold it on its side.
 About 1/2 way through summer it buckled a bit out but did not fall
 apart. I only screwed the X member in, i did not do a notch and
 secure. I have decided this winter i will take it apart, the reason
 for using screws instead of nails, and notch out the parts that meet
 at the X, i suppose it would be 3/4 on each piece of the 2x4, then
 put two 1/4 or 3/8 carrage bolts and some screws, as well as the side
 braces.

 question now is, would you think that by notching out the X pieces and
 using 1-2 lag bolts plus a few screws would hold 40 US gallons of
 waters, weight./??

 Dave


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Re: Really OT, Structural engineering question

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Having just seen your picture of the actual stand, I think you need to
put a little more twist resistance into the lower half, because
nothing is bracing the legs below the 'X'.  No stringers there, so
maybe just a diagonal brace from end to end attached directly to the
legs.  Your horizontal plate across the ends underneath the barrel
should be enough to stop the 'X' spreading, but your joining might
need beefing up, consider gang-nails across the joint.  If the
buckling persists then determine which corners are spreading apart and
tie those corners with rod or wire, after straightening them of
course.

regards, Anthony



On 22 October 2012 12:39, Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com wrote:
 While I'm not sure what you mean by buckled, looking at the picture
 suggests that it might have settled with some spreading, some twisting
 and some leaning.  Is that the case?

 That structure seems to have all its strength focused at the cross
 point, and depends for its strength upon mechanical friction at its
 junction.  As a sawhorse it's probably designed to be folded flat.
 I'd be inclined to attach some horizontal ties between the feet of
 each 'X' to resist spreading, and put in a diagonal brace between the
 top and bottom stringer (is that the correct name?) on each side.
 Don't forget to attach the each brace where it crosses the centre leg,
 you might need spacer blocks for this, or you might find brackets
 that'll bridge the gap.

 You should be able to park a (small) car on it then.

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Re: FB group

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On 9 October 2012 06:45, knarftheria...@gmail.com
knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
 Reminds me of the funniest sketch I've ever seen from the Two Ronnies:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3M1nppd3cfeature=youtube_gdata_player

 cheer,
 frank

Another comedy sketch at Sweden's expense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2N1mBsEdM

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Re: FB group

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On 9 October 2012 06:49, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
 Steven Desjardins wrote:

OMG.  FF on FB?  WTF?

 LOL!

ROFL

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Re: OT - Only in Scotland

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Only in Scotland would it be so difficult to remove stuff from a
rubbish bin.  That town council must be very protective of its
garbage.

regards, Anthony



On 2 October 2012 09:23, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
 on 2012-10-01 5:17 Steve Cottrell wrote

 There's a few on the list who will have a belly laugh at this...


 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19783214


 i especially like the fellow grabbing at his chum to keep from falling down
 laughing



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Re: Fixed lens digital cameras : Why not go larger than 24x36?

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On 20 September 2012 10:03, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote:
 Like a digital version of a Fujifilm GSW 6x7 or 6x9 camera? That would be
 swt

 It would be grand, but it would be very very costly. A big sensor like
 that is the most expensive component of the camera.

 I'd love a true 6x6 digital camera with a 75 mm lens. The available,
 new film cameras (Fuji GF670 $1600, or Voigtländer Bessa III $2995, or
 Rolleiflex TLR $5500) are already a great deal of money. Add a $10,000
 sensor/data system package ... Eventually, someone will make it, I'm
 sure.


Granted, they aren't fixed lens cameras, but in their configuration
some of the Alpas are functionally like fixed lens cameras.  They
don't look like they'd be very handy for quick change of lenses, and
extra lenses on their boards would be very UNhandy to carry about.
But a set up Alpa looks sweet.  I'd love to hit the streets with an
Alpa 12 TC, http://www.alpa.ch/en/products/cameras/camera-bodies/alpa-12-tc.html

It's got the kind of presence that says, Never mind me, I'm just a
photographer going about my business.  I'm certainly not a creepy old
guy with a big, expensive black camera.

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Re: OT - Are Cigarettes History?

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On 15 September 2012 01:18, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
 does the paper even realize that they've given the stamp even more
 visibility by running the story?

You betcha they do.

  and why does it feel as if Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia?

Who cares how long the war has been going on, so long as I get my
ration of chocolate and gin.

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Re: OT - Are Cigarettes History?

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On 15 September 2012 02:29, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 the decision whether or not to include a cigarette was within the discretion
 of the artist who did the paintings.

Actually, that decision was mandated by U.S. Postal Service's publicly
stated policy against the depiction of tobacco smoking on its
products.  The artist's attitude was moot, whatever it may have been.

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Re: OT - Are Cigarettes History?

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On 15 September 2012 02:36, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
 But weren't they at war with Eurasia last week?

What do the back-issues of The Times say?

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Re: OT - Are Cigarettes History?

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Interestingly, 'Top Gear Australia' did a segment on this car and
driver, and they treated the tobacco advertising completely
differently depending upon whether the footage was historic or newly
recorded.  The old stuff went to air intact, but the new footage had
the text of the adverts blurred out.

Double standards, what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7_pPiDksI0

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Re: OT - Are Cigarettes History?

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On 15 September 2012 01:36, Walt ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
 Next up: the booze.

 http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/201.jpg?w=900


Frankie lived to a decent age, didn't he?  And he doesn't look the
least bit cranky under the influence the demons of alcohol and
tobacco.  They keep his hands occupied.  Remember, idle hands are the
Devil's tools.


 I, for one, welcome our new pinch-faced scold overlords:

 http://blogofthecourtierdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/carrie.jpg

 -- Walt


The Good Book in one hand and a hatchet in the other, that's a bit scary.

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Re: Oracle vies with Apple to see who will be the supreme ASSHOLES in the entire universe.

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On 7 September 2012 12:18, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 Another popup Java update, and another attempt to hijack my browser  shove
 McAfee down my throat. Every damn week. If I wanted McAfee, I'd already have
 it installed!


It's just the universe balancing itself for all the times that Norton
tries to piggyback onto a download or update.

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Re: OT fifty worst cars of all time

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On 31 August 2012 05:34, Walter Hamler hamlerwal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Whew! None of mine are there.

 Cars I Have Owned

(clip)

Here's my list with some comments.  One of mine got onto the list,
under a different name.

1970 Morris Mini K
Australian model with a torquey, lazy 1100cc engine.  Later fitment of
twin 1 3/4inch SU carbies and extractors made it fly like shit off a
shovel, but a broken engine mount led to one carb being smashed, and
it was reverted to the standard 1 1/4 inch SU, keeping the extractors.
 Gearbox in sump caused fast ring and bearing wear because of metal
contaminents getting into engine, an old Mini shortcoming.  When oil
loss reached a litre per thousand kilometres it was time to move on.

1980 Suzuki Stockman LJ80V
 V = van body.  The Australian name for the Jimny, the original 4WD
Kei car.  I had this one for nine happy years, and 170,000km.  The
engine was getting a little knocky in the end which was an amazing
long life for a sub litre engine that was taken to the redline on
every gearchange for most of its life.  I would have kept it for twice
as long, maybe forever, if 3rd gear hadn't broken when I couldn't
afford the repair.

1977 Toyota Corona
Well into its 2nd decade when it was put down due to terminal
tattiness, but it just wouldn't die.  At one time it blew the
head-gasket when I couldn't afford repairs (a frequently recurring
story).  The radiator was left bubbling and fizzing, and the engine
oil turned to mousse.  A change of fluids, some Bars-Leaks in the
radiator and STP additive in the engine oil, and it healed itself and
continued to improve for another year and a half.  A bulletproof car
if ever there was one.

1959 Morris Minor 1000 2-door
An amazingly modern driving experience (excluding the pathetic brakes)
for a car that was 35 years old. Wrecked on my 3rd day of ownership
when it was rear-ended while stopped at the roadside.  The fuel tank
had run dry although indicating 1/4 full.  The dealer later said about
the fuel guage, Oh yeah, they all do that.  That's the kind of
information best shared sooner rather than later. _

1984 Holden Camira
The deservedly maligned GM J-car.  In its defence it was a very sweet
drive with tight, stable handling and a free-revving 1.6 litre engine
that could easily exceed the redline even in 5th gear.  In the end It
lost the race against galloping rust.  Poor detail design meant that
there were dust and water traps that wouldn't drain out, exacerbating
the low quality paint coverage inside the body panels and dodgy steel
with fissures and random crystallization.  The J-car, in it guise as
the 1982 Cadillac Cimarron, earns its place in the worst 50 for this
reason alone.

1981 Honda Accord Sedan
Pleasant white-goods on wheels.  Semi-automatic gearbox was a bore.
Fairly uneventful ownership except for a top-end rebuild after a
broken cam-belt, beware of used cars without log books.  Rust got this
one in the end, too.

1991 Toyota Camry Wagon
Strong car, satisfying drive.  Bulletproof like the Corona.  A serious
overheating event mid-life should have killed the engine, but a
thorough service found no problem, so with new water hoses and plug
leads (the heat melted the old set!!!) it soldiered on until the old
bogeyman rust began to creep in (did I mention that I live on the
coast?).

2005 Ford Focus Zetec 5-doorPleasant drive but the Zetec body-kit was
too low for most suburban driveways and shopping mall car parks,
grounding itself almost daily.  The 4 speed auto gearbox was behind
the curve at a time when most other cars were getting 5 or 6 speed
autos, and was a disappointing aspect of the Focus due to the big gaps
between gears.

2008 Ford Focus Ghia sedan  Much the same as the previous car but
without the low body-kit and with a boot (trunk) rather than a rear
hatch.  Comfy leather upholstery was nicer than the nasty microfibre
of the Zetec, while a less sporty wheel/tyre combination made it a
smoother ride.  Still that same gearbox with not enough ratios.

2011 Hyundai ix35 Elite 2.0CRD  Yes, a dreaded SUV.  The attraction
wasn't the all-wheel-drive, it was the interior space, hugely bigger
than the Focus Ghia but with a smaller footprint on the road, handy in
my parking-space deficient street.  The turbocharged diesel engine
pulls like a train.  Hills don't seem to exist anymore and its cabin
quietness on the freeway needs to be NOT heard to be believed.

regards, Anthony

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OT - I wonder if Apple will try to shut this down.

[Anthony Farr]

Samsung Galaxy Camera Officially Unveiled:
http://www.photographybay.com/2012/08/29/samsung-galaxy-camera-officially-unveiled/?awt_l=CE3oFawt_m=JTXtrI3WFv62xu

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Re: OT: Jury verdict is for Apple (vs Samsung)

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On 31 August 2012 04:06, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
 So, if Porsche comes out with a new car that has a unique shape, is it
 alright if GM copies that unique shape and sells cars to compete with
 the new Porsche?

If you too closely copy a work of literature or art then wouldn't
there be a breach of copyright?  Patent protection as well would be
something of a belt 'n' braces situation.  OTOH, perhaps big
corporations prefer to litigate patent infringements over copyright
infringements.

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Re: OT: Interesting images

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The Sahara Dessert (sic) picture is sweet.

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Re: Mailing list change?

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I suspect that the proliferation of mailing apps on a proliferation of
operating systems across a proliferation of platforms is the reason
for whatever non-standard behaviour you may notice on any particular
day.  The old reason was that digest subscribers were cutting and
pasting from a digest into a new mail (when they don't is when you see
a mail titled as a digest number).

regards, Anthony



On 21 August 2012 12:27, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote:
 Lots and lots of messages are showing up that are continuations of
 previous threads, but without a “Re:” in the subject line.  Is this a
 change in my gmail, or in the list software, or what?  It’s sort of
 annoying, when I get behind on PDML, I only visit each thread once,
 which is pretty easy if you skip threads labeled “Re:”

 Or maybe I’m just imagining this? -T


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Re: Pentax Si

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On 16 August 2012 01:14, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@gmail.com wrote:
 Olympus seems to be hinting that all 43 lenses will be fully usable on m43 
 bodies (via a future adaptor), which is somewhat comforting.


There have been 4/3 to m43 adapters since the beginning of m43.  The
Olympus version conveys every function of Olympus 4/3 lenses.  The
Panasonic version adds the extra function of in-lens optical image
stabilization which is particular to their lenses and was developed
outside of the 4/3 blueprint, a bit like RIcoh's independent
development of aperture control linkage for K-mount lenses.

Despite this you can still use an Olympus adapter between Panasonic
m43 cameras and 4/3 lenses, because it is the principle of the 4/3
concept to be a universal fit regardless of brand.  You simply
sacrifice the OIS function which Olympus gear was never meant to
support.

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Re: Pentax Si

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That's good news, because it means I can save a load of dollars when I
buy an adapter, because Panasonic's is much pricier.  Are Panasonic's
shake sensors built into the lenses and not the bodies?

I had thought they were controlled from the bodies, because the
stabilization mode selection is controlled from the body's menu on my
Panny G2 and there's no switch on the lens.  Did the G1 use a switch
on the lenses like the 4/3 Panny DSLRs did?

regards, Anthony


On 16 August 2012 03:44, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote:
(older stuff snipped)

 Actually, the FourThirds to Micro-FourThirds adapters are identical in
 function. Panasonic's in-lens IS on their Elmarit-D 14-50 and 14-150
 mm lenses for FourThirds format works fine on the Olympus bodies
 (although it is unneeded for all the modern ones which have IBIS).
 Panasonic only produced four lenses for FourThirds SLRs anyway, and
 only three of them have OIS (the Summilux-D 25mm does not).

 Olympus bodies simply don't have the firmware for controlling the
 different options of the Panasonic OIS, just like they don't have the
 firmware to allow the Summilux and early 14-50/2.8-3.5 or
 14-150/3.5-5.6 lenses' aperture rings. The OIS is switched on and off
 by a mechanical switch on the lenses, and operates only in Mode 1
 (continuous). (The aperture is controlled by standard Olympus on-body
 controls.) Did a fine job with my E-1.

 All the FourThirds SLR lenses have been fully usable on all
 Micro-FourThirds bodies from the beginning with both Panasonic and
 Olympus adapters, with the exception of auto-focus capabilities. All
 Olympus bodies will support autofocus functions, albeit not
 particularly quickly, where Panasonic felt that the AF was poor enough
 on most that they limited support to those that at least had some CDAF
 logic built into them on the earliest bodies.

 The latest Micro-FourThirds bodies from Olympus manage the FourThirds
 SLR lenses' AF functions more efficiently so AF performance has been
 improved. My understanding is that they might implement a PDAF module
 in an adapter to supplement the CDAF and improve focusing speed, like
 Sony has done.

 Whew, has this discussion moved off the track from the Si ... ;-)
 --
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Re: Pentax Si

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On 16 August 2012 04:49, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm a little confused by what adapter you plan to buy. No adapter is
 needed to use Panasonic FT lenses on Olympus FT bodies, and vice
 versa. Similarly, no adapter is needed to use Panasonic mFT lenses on
 Olympus mFT bodies and vice-versa. You only need an FT to mFT adapter
 to use FT SLR lenses on mFT bodies, and which adapter you choose from
 Olympus or Panasonic makes no difference other than for the weather
 sealing I mentioned above, and price.

I have Oly 4/3 lenses which I'd someday like to use on my Panny mFT
camera body.  I wanted to leave the door open to use Panny 4/3 lenses
if I ever found such a beast at an affordable price.  Thanks to you
I've learned that the humble Oly adapter will suffice, I thought I'd
need the Panny adapter to get OIS function.

regards, Anthony

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Re: London Olympics

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On 2 August 2012 03:21, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 Don't mean nothin' but given the earlier discussion of What is Hockey?,
 take a look at today's (01Aug2012) Google Doodle.


As you rightly say, it Don't mean nothin'...  Google is a US based
corporation, and uses American English and American naming
conventions.

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Re: OT: Are all men predisposed to be car junkies?

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On 1 August 2012 20:01, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
 I have a MGB Tourer in the basement. I can't remember if it's half assembled
 or half disassembled. Does that count?


I'd suggest it's half assembled.  Presumably it got into the basement
in pieces, not as an entire car.  Unless, that is, your basement has a
remarkably wide and smooth stairway down into it.

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Re: OT - Backups Cockups, Netbooks MyBooks, Hard Drives , Dryers

[Anthony Farr]

To all who've responded, thank you for the sympathetic comments.  I
guess I was correct to believe that PDMLers would find data backup to
be a topic close to their own hearts, and that a saga about it would
find interested readers.

Something that I should point out is that the failed drive wasn't the
WD MyBook 1TB, it was a Maxtor Basics Desktop 500GB which is about
three years old.

The WD MyBook is the unit I hold responsible for shutting down my
Clickfree Automatic Backup, thus initiating my descent into backup
hell.

I uncased the Maxtor and tested it in a hard drive dock, and although
spinning and free of any clicks it was absent from the drive list in
'My Computer'.  Disk Management couldn't find it either.  I took it to
a data recovery service for a quote (not worth $600 for two months of
uninspired unbacked-up work IMO) who said that many Maxtors Basics
have a firmware fault lying dormant within, just waiting for some
little stimulus like a bad shutdown to push them over the edge.  The
fault prevents them from initializing on startup.  Maxtor users be
warned.

This year is the first in my time as a computer user that I've had any
total hard drive failures, and now I've had two (the Maxtor and my
netbook).  In the past one or two of my drives had developed bad
sectors, but remained in service once I'd run error detection and
mapped the bad sectors out of use.

regards, Anthony

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Re: Bikers w/o engines

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Don,

I like your shot and the movement really works for me, much more
important in this case than perfect sharpness.  I worried me at first
that the composition was extremely biased to the right, but then I
full screened both my browser and the picture, and the penny dropped.
This picture is a perfect desktop wallpaper for bicycle enthusiasts,
with the important content over to the right where it won't get
covered by icons.

regards, Anthony


On 1 August 2012 02:20, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote:
 Every year thousands of bike riders gather to ride across Iowa in one week.
 Here's two of them who really got up to speed

 http://donspix.posterous.com/1-bike-riders-went-across-iowa-last-week#!/

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Re: Bikers w/o engines

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On 1 August 2012 13:15, knarftheria...@gmail.com
knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm told that tandems can really fly.

Twice the power, less than twice the weight and no extra frontal area,
they should be fast.  I wonder if anyone has made a tandem with the
cranks offset so that there's always some power being applied even
when one of the cyclists is at the top or bottom of their pedal-stroke
(is that even a correct term?).  There seems to be plenty of room so
that pedal or leg clashing wouldn't be a problem.  It might be hard to
push off, though.

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Re: Bikers w/o engines

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Answering my own question, I googled it and found that it's common and
well regarded to set up a tandem's cranks out-of-phase (OOP), by
anything from two chain teeth up to 90 degrees.  From what I read it
seems that the rear rider, the 'stoker', should be behind the front
seater's phase rather than ahead of it.

regards, Anthony

On 1 August 2012 13:54, Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com wrote:
 I wonder if anyone has made a tandem with the
 cranks offset so that there's always some power being applied even
 when one of the cyclists is at the top or bottom of their pedal-stroke
 (is that even a correct term?).

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Re: OT: London Olympics 2012

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On 31 July 2012 05:52, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote:
 Rockne looks him in the eye and says 'You want me to give a bunch of
 Irishmen clubs and
 have them play field hockey?'

He'd obviously never seen Hurling.
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OT - Backups Cockups, Netbooks MyBooks, Hard Drives Dryers

[Anthony Farr]

Backups, to me, originally meant CDs, then DVDs.  But doubts were
raised about the permanence of optical media, and my backup load was
too large to periodically refresh everything, so I moved to hard
drives.  A couple of years ago I saw a product called Clickfree
Automatic Backup, which is a small device placed in the usb cable
between a computer on a wifi network and an external hard drive.  With
a little bit of software running on each computer in the network,
they'd all be periodically backed up with no attention required.
Great!  And in all honesty it worked a treat.  My son and I had all
our data secured across 3 computers.

But... and there's always a 'but', isn't there, the time came when my
500GB drive wasn't a big enough repository, so I got a 1TB WD MyBook,
and my troubles began.  Although there was nothing wrong with the
MyBook, it had its own backup software, didn't it.  No worries, thinks
I, I'll just delete it from the drive.  I don't want it, didn't ask
for it and won't ever use it, so why not?  The answer to 'why not?'
was that WD had put the backup software on a fixed partition, and all
my subsequent research on forum after forum informed me that the
partition resists every attempt at deletion or reformatting.
Bastards!

Never mind, thinks I, I'll just ignore it.

But... a week or two after the MyBook went into service I noticed that
backups had ceased to occur on schedule.  Then I noticed that the
Clickfree icon in 'My Computer' had gone plain, when it should appear
as a logo.  Uh oh.  Looking into it I found that the device, which
came filled with installation files and firmware and such, was empty.
The Clickfree help desk was great, I couldn't ask for better.  They
gave me a link to download the files needed to reflash the firmware,
but to no avail.  Then they emailed the files to me to ensure that I
had uncorrupted copies of them.  Still no success.  So without any
hesitation they sent me a new device.  And that's where the Clickfree
story ends for the moment, because it seemed to me that the MyBook had
killed the Clickfree, and I wasn't about to give it a second chance.

Now I was back to doing manual backups.  No way was I going to use the
WD backup software.  I would plug the Mybook into my netbook computer
and send to it, over my home network, the new files and changes from
each computer .  Even at 54Mb/sec it was quicker than doing a disk to
disk copy on one computer, because the source computer only had to
read the filefrom its disk, and the destination computer only had to
write the fileto its disk.  Doing the job on one computer leads to a
lot of disk swapping and appallingly slow copy and paste times.  It
was a perfect solution until about two months ago when I took the
netbook on a long car trip.  At the end of the journey I found that
I'd forgotten to shut it down, it was only on standby which doesn't
safely park the hard drive's read/write heads.  Soon afterwards it
developed the faintest of clicks.  Soon after that it crashed and has
been out of service since.  My backup strategy had been derailed.

Fast forward to last week.  It was cold, so our heaters were cranked
up to full power.  It was a wet, grey day so the family was inside
using televisions and Nintendo Wiis and computers and all the
accessories that go with those things.  The kettle was on to brew a
pot of tea.  The washing machine was in mid-load.  Then... my dear
wife, who knew not what she was about to do, started the clothes
dryer.  Everything went very quiet for half a second, then our son
complained about 'unsaved progress', but no harm was done, or so I
thought.

I was wrong.  The external hard drive on my computer, where I keep my
documents because they're safer there than in a laptop's internal
drive, was gone from the drive list in 'My Computer'.  The unexpected
shutdown had prematurely ended its life, and I'd lost all my new files
and changes of the last two months, because I hadn't put a new backup
process into place.  The only positive spin I can put on it is that
I've been in a creative doldrum, and very little of any value has been
lost.

Which brings us to now.   The MyBook drive is now my computer's full
time document drive, with its backup software sector disabled in disk
management.  I've got a brand new 2TB drive formatting in a brand new
double hard drive dock.  Down the track as needed I'll get more and
bigger drives, but NO MORE external drives with manufacturer embedded
crapware for me.  From now on it's internal drives, which are
delivered clean and unformatted, in a swappable dock.  And soon I'll
get the Clickfree Backup installed again.

Who can remind me how to make different versions of Windows play
nicely on a network?  And who can tell me how to make EVERTHING
sharable in Vista?  You can make a folder sharable only to find that
its contents aren't shared.  Bastards!

Thanks for reading.

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Re: OT: London Olympics 2012

[Anthony Farr]

On 30 July 2012 07:32, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote:
 no, your hockey would be field hockey.
 too technical!


Here's the homepage of the International Hockey Federation:
http://www.fih.ch/en/home

Here's the homepage of the International Ice Hockey Federation:
http://www.iihf.com/

These are the peak bodies of their sports, and that is what they call
themselves.

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Re: OT: London Olympics 2012

[Anthony Farr]

On 30 July 2012 09:58, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote:
 The international names arent the same as the usa
 conventions.

You are right, they aren't.  There's the whole wide world, and there's
the USA, which isn't the whole world.  The tail doesn't wag the dog.

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Re: OT: London Olympics 2012

[Anthony Farr]

To clarify my outlook on this, my own country has some quaint local
naming conventions for things that are internationally known by other
names.  Our round ball footballers play soccer, but I have to concede
that soccer, more than any other code of football, has the precedence
of popularity to claim the name Football.

If an Aussie says he likes to wear thongs in hot weather, look at his
feet and not his trousers.  Even so, we are amusedly aware that it is
we who are out of step with the world.  There's my point, you need to
be aware of when it's you who is out of step, and not claim that the
world is out of step with you.

regards, Anthony



On 30 July 2012 10:01, Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 30 July 2012 09:58, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote:
 The international names arent the same as the usa
 conventions.

 You are right, they aren't.  There's the whole wide world, and there's
 the USA, which isn't the whole world.  The tail doesn't wag the dog.

 regards, Anthony

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Re: OT: London Olympics 2012

[Anthony Farr]

On 30 July 2012 10:46, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
 True, but even in the Olympics, Ice Hockey is a much bigger sport than
 Field Hockey.

Hmm.  You really should look that up.  You may be surprised.

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Re: OT: London Olympics 2012

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On 30 July 2012 11:21, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
 You're probably right that field hockey is a much bigger sport in the
 third world and girl's prep schools.  I was thinking mostly of North
 America, Europe and Russia.

Well obviously a nation needs to be reasonably affluent to support a
sport that is alien to its its climate, which requires artificial
rinks with powerful refrigeration to overcome relatively high ambient
temperatures even in winter.  But you call many of these nations
third world at the risk of being labeled a cultural imperialist.

Hockey is massive in the Asian sub-continent, and is strongly
entrenched in Western Europe.  Naturally, ice hockey is more strongly
followed in Northern and Eastern Europe and North America, where the
culture of snow and ice sports is strongest, and barely represented in
Central Africa, Equatorial America and South East Asia where there is
practically no culture of winter at all.  But the people who follow
these sports are equal citizens of the world, and are due absolutely
no more or less consideration or respect because of their homelands'
place in the world or the hue of their flesh.  Shame on anyone who
would think otherwise.

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Re: OT - GoPro Test

[Anthony Farr]

I really enjoyed watching these, Cotty.  You can turn a
run-of-the-mill subject into entertainment.  I wish I had that
mindset.  In wanting to only produce something of 'great consequence'
or 'Art, I frequently either never get anything started, or let
entertaining scenes like this go begging.  Bravo, Sir.

regards, Anthony



On 23 July 2012 04:47, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote:
 A few shots from my new GoPro. Lawn-mowing and cycling content. The
 former judders a bit as I had the camera on NTSC oops! Converted quick
 and dirty. The cycling is PAL but all this of no consequence as web
 video is viewable anywhere...

 https://vimeo.com/user2607591/review/46188061/6771783691


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Re: The Online Photographer asks; Is color printing easier now?

[Anthony Farr]

On 8 July 2012 11:03, Jeffery Smith jsmith...@gmail.com wrote:
 My biggest challenge was getting the plastic print drums absolutely clean 
 between procedures. As I recall, it involved ammonia, detergent, my bathtub, 
 and a rinse in Orbit bath to get the drums totally clean.

Jeffery,

You do realise that ammonia is a fogging agent, don't you.  How did
you ever manage to keep it from contaminating your unprocessed
materials?

When I was 20 I worked in a lab that did both photographic services
and diazo printing, which developed in ammonia fumes.  You couldn't
move from the dyline area to another without a thorough hand
scrubbing, lest all your subsequent work would be spoiled, and any
contaminated chemistry would need to be ditched.  Even just handling a
finished dyeline print would contaminate your hands for other
photographic processes.

I wouldn't have any ammonia product in the same room as photographic
film or paper.

Personally
regards, Anthony

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Re: My super-duper macro setup... that doesn't appear to work as hoped?

[Anthony Farr]

On 9 July 2012 03:25, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote:
 I have never found a good explanation of what is going on when you reverse
 mount a lens. After using reverse mounted lenses quite a bit, I can say that
 reversing the lens allows you to focus closer. It also seems like the
 subject to lens distance does not change as much as you'd expect when you
 reverse mount and change extension. But I've never learned the theory.

If the lens is a symmetrical design without any floating or FREE
groups of elements then the formula works equally whether the lens is
mounted normally or reversed.  The purpose of reverse mounting in this
case is not to gain magnification, because it won't.  The theory
behind it is that a lens in regular, non-macro use is closer to the
focal plane than the subject plane and is best corrected for that
circumstance.  When you exceed 1:1 magnification the lens becomes
closer to the subject plane than the focal plane, and gets out of the
range for which it is best corrected.  Reverse mounting it goes some
way towards restoring its balance.  That is, it makes the plane of
focus on the rear element side nearer than the plane of focus on the
front element side, as it should be.

There's no cover-all formula for reverse-mounted non-symmetrical
lenses.  A telephoto lens is almost useless reversed.  Imagine putting
a negative dioptre filter in front of your lens.  It defeats the
purpose of photomacrography and is often impossible because the
subject plane falls inside the lens.  But reverse mounted wide-angle
lenses are famously effective.  Keep in mind that, at least in SLR
mounts, they were originally known as inverted telephoto lenses and
are best corrected for large reductions.  Reverse mount one of those
and you have a true telephoto (but still of short focal length) that's
best corrected for large magnifications.

regards, Anthony

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Re: My super-duper macro setup... that doesn't appear to work as hoped?

[Anthony Farr]

On 8 July 2012 02:40, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote:
 I would put the fixed extension tubes on the camera, then the bellows, then 
 the hellicoid, then the lens.

For a moment I had the same thought, but then I remembered that in
extreme lens extension, especially for macro work, the first
preference is to focus by moving the whole rig back and forth so you
don't disturb the reproduction ratio.  The second preference is to
move the focal plane, which in this case means the camera body ,which
the helicoid tube behind the bellows achieves.  Only if all other
options are impossible should you rack the lens out, as doing so often
means having to make gross corrections to the camera position, as well
as risking contact between the lens and the subject.

Personally, I think John's rig is probably exceeding best practice for
this lens.  He's got the lens at about 3.5x focal length extension
(231.5mm ~ 251.5mm of tube  bellows plus the 1x focal length inherent
in the lens itself)  Extending the lens helicoid itself is doing some
unknown thing, but it's not adding extension to the main focusing
group of the lens, just extending the FREE element, which in reverse
position may or may not serve any purpose.

For big magnifications an enlarging lens often does a better job
because of it's conventional symmetrical design.  Modern camera lenses
with floating elements and such can quickly get out of their
design/performance envelope when they're put into non-standard
configurations.  That said, a wide angle lens reversed can give good
results at spectacular magnifications, although YMMV.

regards, Anthony

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Re: PESO - Che

[Anthony Farr]

On 25 June 2012 04:06, knarftheria...@gmail.com
knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
 The dog was ordered destroyed. No defence or explanation allowed at law.

That's a shame for someone to lose their family pet this way.  Having
no personal stake in the debate, I'll leave it alone.  What it shows
is that you can't trust a kid to respect a gate, no matter which side
of it they belong on.

Some years ago I was compelled to padlock the gate to my back yard
after my neighbour's kids repeatedly left it opened when retrieving
balls they'd lost over the fence.  I had no objection to their entry
provided they closed the gate when they left, but they wouldn't.  My
wife's cat was of a breed that couldn't jump fences, and we were safe
in the knowledge that she wouldn't wander unless a careless child
let her out :-(

The lesson is that no matter how careful you are, nobody else gives a
damn and one of them will undo your precautions.  Cover every base,
and then some.

regards, Anthony

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Re: In a pub, waiting for Cotty

[Anthony Farr]

On 26 June 2012 08:32, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:

 Funny, I sent this email on January 12. Wonder why it should show up
 now? It must be a sign: I'm off to my local for a pint!



The thread about Annsan's eye test results reappeared in my inbox
yesterday, as well.  I wonder what other news from January I can
expect to read?

regards, Anthony

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Good SD card deal

[Anthony Farr]

HP brand 32GB class 10 SD card for $20.99 at Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007X7U224/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8tag=photo-12-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=390957creativeASIN=B007X7U224

I saw it here:
http://www.photographybay.com/2012/06/16/32gb-class-10-sdhc-card-for-21/?awt_l=CE3oFawt_m=K4EXCNiEUv62xu

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Re: OT: no Jobs...

[Anthony Farr]

  IIRC, tablet PCs had about the same On 22 June 2012 12:49, Daniel J.
Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
 Microsoft's first tablet was just as worthless.  There were no apps,
 and that is what produces the utility of the iPad and its knock-offs.
 Dan Matyola
 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola


That comment puzzled me, so I did some reading.  FWIW, Wikipedia's
page on Tablet PC had this statement,
'According to a 2001 Microsoft definition[5] of the term, Microsoft
Tablet PCs are pen-based, fully functional x86 PCs with handwriting
and voice recognition functionality.'  So how can you say there were
'no apps' for it, when it could run any Windows software that its
hardware resources could support?  Obviously Photoshop would have been
too big an ask for one of these computing lightweights, but Windows
compatible software with a small footprint has always been there for
anyone lacking a big-brand fixation.  For example IrfanView has been
around since 1996, and has such a tiny footprint that even my old
400MHz Win98 box hardly knew when it was running  Over the years I've
used plenty of tiny apps, and probably half of those were pre 2001
when I was finding my way around a PC for the first time.

My understanding is that Tablet PC never took off because stylus input
was unpopular.  Apple did away with the stylus, expanded on the
flexibility of gesture controls, and scored a hit with an otherwise
similar form factor.

regards, Anthony

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Re: OT: no Jobs...

[Anthony Farr]

On 22 June 2012 07:07, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
 The Apple Newton pedated Microsoft's crappy attempt at a tablet by
 several years.  Both were simply ahead of their time.  Timing is quite
 important in marketing success.

The Newton was a PDA rather than a computer.  It was very limited
compared to even the simple computers in its time.  And it didn't work
as described.  A friend of mine who was running a small ad agency got
some Newtons when they came out, and within a month they had been
abandoned, sent back to the shop from whence they came.  As useless
as tits on a bull may have been said at the time.

regards, Anthony

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Re: OT: Fuji X10 sensor replacement saga

[Anthony Farr]

On 20 June 2012 13:49, Kenneth Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote:
 Suction cup mount with a zip strap for added security.

Thanks, Kenneth.  That would assuage my insecurity considerably.

regards, Anthony

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Re: OT: Fuji X10 sensor replacement saga

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On 18 June 2012 09:08, Kenneth Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote:
 The Go Pro is a terrific little P O V camera IMO . Bought one early this year 
 to record my dog sled race. Ran well in 15 degree F weather.

 Can anyone recommend easy to use video editing software for use with HD video?


PC or Mac?

There's a free editor available on the GoPro website for download to
GoPro users (although there's no strict check on ownership so I
suppose anyone can get it).  I can't comment on its usefulness because
I haven't installed it yet.  There's also a free editor called
VideoPad that I have used and does a good job, but whatever you do
DON'T INSTALL THE MIXPAD AUDIO MIXER that is offered in the software
suite when you install.  It isn't part of the freeware, but it refuses
to uninstall when its trial is over :-(

This video was edited with VideoPad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVEoHO4x6Q

Please don't watch it at the default 360p setting, it'll be rubbish.
Click on the cog and choose at least 480p, but 720p and fullscreen is
definitely nicer.  It was also my first try at video editing, and I
could have managed some of the transitions better, like when passing
traffic vanishes.  I should have made the cuts when the road was
empty.

I shot it about two hours after I unpacked my GoPro Hero.  It's a
first generation HD Hero which is of course cheaper than an HD Hero2
and gives a good account of itself in good lighting.  The new models
have much less noise when the light gets dimmer, if that's an issue,
and have higher resolution in still camera mode (11MP v 5MP).  The
extra megapixels don't translate to higher video resolution but
apparently are used to allow digital zooming without a need to
interpolate upwards at narrower FOVs.  The higher image quality makes
me suspect that they interpolate DOWNWARDS at the wider FOVs, which
cleans up the image a lot.  They also give higher frame rates in still
image multishot modes.

Incidetally, I'm using a laptop as my main computer, ever since my
last desktop fell over and I never bothered to replace it.  It's a few
years old now and is only good for streaming video at 720p.  At 1080p
it only streams a few seconds then drops a bunch of frames while it
catches up.  The funny thing is that it''ll play back a YouTube video
at 1080p without a problem, but it grumbles about playing 1080p off a
local drive.

regards, Anthony

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Re: OT GESOs - still liking the OM-D

[Anthony Farr]

On 18 June 2012 08:23, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote:
 On the day I left, only really had the morning before checking out to take
 some real pics. Shame I only had half a charge left on the battery.
 http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/12/12_06/12_06_shanghai/index.htm

Very nice set of pictures, Derby.  But, are you certain you didn't
slip a shot from the streets of Surry Hills into the set:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/12/12_06/12_06_shanghai/02.htm
It looks like the lower end of Devonshire Street.

regards, Anthony

   Of what use is lens and light
    to those who lack in mind and sight
                                               (Anon)

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Re: OT: The difference between a tourist taking photos and an artist making images

[Anthony Farr]

On 12 June 2012 23:19, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
 http://themetapicture.com/art-degrees/
 Dan Matyola
 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola


I'm inclined to agree with that observation.

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Re: OT OM-D OMG!

[Anthony Farr]

On 10 June 2012 04:04, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 09/06/2012 11:51 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:

 Derby, on the screen, in web size files it does not look any different
 than your other street photography, be it m43 or Pentax or other gear
 you have and use.


 Other than the busy bokeh..

 --

 William Robb


I believe Derby has used the same lens for both these sets.  PhotoME
reports from the EXIF that the lens on both sets has a maximum
aperture of F1, which suggests his Voigtlandter Nokton 25mm f0.95 in
both cases.  As much is said in the name of one set, after all.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/12/12_06/12_06_noktonfun/01.htm
has some eye-pulling bokeh in the upper left, and
http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/12/12_06/12_06_noktonfun/10.htm
has bokeh just as busy as anything from the Olympus OM-D set, so I
reckon it's all got the same lens out in front.

regards, Anthony

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Re: If imitation is the sinecurist form of flattery

[Anthony Farr]

Crispy deep fried in sesame or peanut oil would be most palatable.
Just like prawn chips, yum yum.

regards, Anthony

On 9 June 2012 16:44, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote:
 On 8/6/12, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:

Maybe after Cotty eats his hat

 I think your supposition is seriously flawed Lar - eager optimism will
 not bring a 24X36 sensor to the Pentax range before my hat unthreads
 itself through the ravages of time!!

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 Cheers,
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Re: Presentation

[Anthony Farr]

On 6 June 2012 16:16, luiz felipe luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br wrote:
 Well, it's not the camera, it's the photographer - but choosing the right
 tool is the better start, IMHO. And here is the right place to learn about
 the right tool, isnt't it?

You won't find a better bunch of right tools than here at the PDML   };-)

regards, Anthony

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