At 09:07 20.9.2001 -0700, Mark wrote:
I'm ready to upgrade my tripod head to something that handles the Pentax 67
effectively. Currently, I have the Bogen 3262QR and 3030. Both work fine
when in the horizontal position. When I shoot verticals, I run into problems
with the camera shifting. The
Hi all,
I'm gonna leave the list for a few weeks now - time for vacation at last!
This time I'll be going to Malaysia for a month of scubadiving,
rainforesttrekking, and of course picturemaking (God forbid they start
bombing so all flights are cancelled). This is my equipment list:
Bodies: MZ-3
Do you have the Pentax part number for the C-74 MZ-M screen Frantisek? I
thought I might try it too but couldn't find any screens for the MZ-M from
Adorama or BH.
It's because the C74 screen is not considered as an accesory, but a spare
part. You have to contact Pentax for it.
regards,
Alan
I had similar problem with W2k Pro as well when 1st installed, but
everything works well after my 2nd attempt.
regards,
Alan Chan
Interestingly enough I just installed Win2k Pro at home and true to MS
advertising it was far more stable than previous versions of Windows,
however it did crash
the photo.net geeks all recommend the Arca Swiss head and Really Right
Stuff
plate combo. Yes, it's is an awesome way to go but that's out of my price
range.
A pity indeed because this combo works really well.
I'm considering the Bogen 3055 (heavy duty ball head) or 3275 (geared
head).
In a message dated 21/09/01 04:03:18 GMT Daylight Time,
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It appears (and is
probably the
case) that the photographer is basically in the same situation
as the
subjects. It doesn't surprise me, Gianfranco, that you took
the image in
the way that you did,
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I've seen some wonderful color work at several exhibitions
over the past few months. Prints that were at least 2 feet
long on one side. The quality of those prints were very,
very good, but it's clear they were not made on a typical
Mike Johnston wrote:
An
error message pops up and the explanation is Relaying messages to
hotmail.com is not allowed.
Ah, the brave new world...
Entourage has obviously analyzed the content of your e-mail to Albano
and decided that Albano is not interested. This feature is really
useful,
Annsan,
Pentax Colorado is notoriously slow. Hell, they won't open their mail and
check in your camera for 3 or 4 days after arrival.
For $25 you can get special handling/rush service and it's worth it. You
talk to a service guy on the phone, then send it to his attention. He gets
it in
...a fiasco.
Didn't get there until dusk.
Really, really gloomy; dark walls, carpets and ceilings, but
plenty of mirrors. Displays of white lilies against it all.
Dimly lit Christmas trees against large cabinets of brightly
lit prcelain. Loads of people wandering around getting in the
I failed to get anything prepared to meet the PUG deadline yesterday, but
don't we have an equinox coming up tomorrow (today). It will be hard to
participate in that future PUG if you don't put your shots on film now! g
Regards, Bob S.
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Mike said:
Another sort of perfectionism is being able
to react very quickly to fast-changing scenes.
As an example, try following a bunch of playing
children as they move from sunlight to deep shadow
and back again repeatedly. It's difficult enough
if you know both exposures and
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
The prints I saw were also quite wide ... some were almost three feet
square. What is the largest width that a consumer-type ink jet
printer can print?
Well, with Epson, the only line dividing the pro and consumer machines
is paper width. The leap occurs after the
Rob Brigham wrote:
A new innovation?
http://www.smartlens.com/ProductsDisplay.asp?pID=37
Nope ... more useless crap!
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William Robb wrote:
From the US Naval Laboratory:
Autumnal Equinox Sep 22 2001 7:05 PM EDT
I have no idea what this translates into according to Greenwich
Mean Time (is that what is called Universal Time now?)
That would be 23:05 Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Coordinated Universal
http://www.geocities.com/thombell/history.html
I found this fascinating.
May some others will as well.
And, it has NOTHING to do with politics or theology! Unless, of course, one worships
in Rochester. :)
Collin
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What a crock ...
Due to the industry progression of films
towards extremely fine grain, photographers
have often had to do without the pleasing
visual effect a coarse or moderately grained
image can invoke. [...] Many photographers have
wanted to add the mood and drama of graininess
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
Well, with Epson, the only line dividing the pro and consumer machines
is paper width. The leap occurs after the thirteen inch wide machines.
My 7500 (which was under $8000 Canadian) can print two feet wide by one
hundred feet long.
So how long have you gone?
tv
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Rob Brigham wrote:
Is this idea of any interest?
One of our distributors tried to get me interested in it... I passed.
-Aaron
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My work group, the training department for a large chemical company, just
had a meeting where I was given the task of upgrading some of our photo
related equipment. Most of our work will be in digital, as most of the
training has transferred to computer based. We have extensive slide files,
Of course, one could always use a neutral density filter on a higher
speed film and get the grain plus some of the benefits (wider
aperture, slower shutter speeds) of a slower, finer grained film.
Chris Brogden wrote:
Well, to be fair to them the nice thing about an add-on grain filter is
So you have to keep the thing inside the camera for the whole
roll. Great idea.
And I like this phrase:
transforming ordinary images into extraordinary works of art.
Whohoo!
I'm calling the MOMA right now!
j
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Shel wrote:
What a crock ...
bunch 'o advert stuff deleted for brevity
Color film? What do i know, but I'm sure there are at least several
color films that offer moderate to course grain.
May I humbly suggest Fuji 1600
(Oh, you said moderate grain, sorry ;^)
Hi,
download some good flower pix* off the PUG and sell them...
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*or is that a contradicition in terms? :o)
Friday, September 21, 2001, 12:33:37 PM, you wrote:
...a fiasco.
Didn't get there until dusk.
Really, really gloomy; dark walls, carpets and
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Tri-X, Agfapan 400, Kodak 2475 Recording Film, Ilford HP-5 and HP-5+,
Neopan 1600, Delta 3200, Bergger 200, etc. And then there are
numerous developers and developing techniques that can contribute to
grain.
Well, to be fair to them the nice thing
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
Rob Brigham wrote:
Is this idea of any interest?
One of our distributors tried to get me interested in it... I passed.
Did you test it forts? Does it really work? Or is it all hype?
Bob Harris
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Yeah, the Kodak Max films. Especially the 800 speed.
Bruce Dayton
Sacramento, CA
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Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Artificial film grain (different)...
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Tri-X, Agfapan 400,
Collin wrote:
And, it has NOTHING to do with politics or theology!
Amen to that! ;o)
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That would be 23:05 Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Coordinated Universal
Time). GMT is four hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time; five hours ahead
of Eastern Standard Time.
And also known by aviators the world over as 'Zulu'. EG : '...expected at
1430 Zulu...' Don't ask me why - I used to
I would speculate on the why as being so that the image was on a stable
non-volatile media. If you store them on hard disk, you are susceptible to
the disk crashing and if you store them on a floppy you could find either
that a stray magnetic field images to wipe the floppy at some point or that
Robert Harris wrote:
Does it really work? Or is it all hype?
The idea was so silly that I just passed on it after reading the brochure.
-Aaron
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Bill D. Casselberry wrote:
May I humbly suggest Fuji 1600
(Oh, you said moderate grain, sorry ;^)Fore!!8^D )
...or Konica 3200. As a photography teacher once said to me, in a thick
Danish accent, These grains appear to be the size of chickens.
To be totally
Brendan,
I doubt you still have it, but I'll pay shipping PLUS one U.S. dollar
;-) Seriously, how do you want for it to ship it to the states.
Bill
Brendan wrote:
This lens is sitting in the bag gathering dust, Any
newbie or students want it? It's going for the cost of
shipping since
W Keith Mosier wrote:
Does anyone know how to convert digital images to common sized
transparencies? Expensive/inexpensive? Why?
Anyone with a negative writer can do it. Cost varies wildly from place
to place, depending on quality and speed. Places like Kinkos will do
inexpensive,
The Pentax Japan home page is listing TWO NEW lenses for the 67 II.
1. Pentax 67 75mm f/2.8 AL wide angle lens
2. Pentax 67 90-189 f/5.6 zoom lens
Are additional FA* or Limited lenses on the way?
Alexander Grigolia
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Gianfranco Irlanda wrote:
Why not? Didn't Bill stated more than once that the monthly
theme has to be interpreted by the photographer personal vision?
:-)
Or are you afraid you won't be able to reassemble the lens?
Oh, I was thinking about smashing it into the ground.
Does anyone know how to convert digital images to common sized
transparencies? Expensive/inexpensive? Why?
Easy as Pie --- just open them up on a good sized flat
screen monitor and use a macro lens to shoot as slides.
They'll be true to the digital originals, right
William Robb wrote:
From the US Naval Laboratory:
Autumnal Equinox Sep 22 2001 7:05 PM EDT
I have no idea what this translates into according to Greenwich
Mean Time (is that what is called Universal Time now?)
William Robb
no clue - but as I live in EDT - I'm glad you posted that so
I have a calender that lists the Autumnal Equinox at 4.04pm PDT on the
23rd of September. I thought it was the 21st?? My SO has a chart which
confirms this. Any more bids on when this blooming thing is supposed to
be??
Cheers,
Cotty
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tv wrote:
Why'd you use a pseudonym and what's the reference?
Because my boss wouldn't let me write articles for other magazines under my
own name. Uh, whaddaya mean reference?
--Mike
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Juan J. Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, I was thinking about smashing it into the ground.
Reassembly
wasn't something that concerned me :-)
You can still smash it for an open month...
We'll miss your submission.
Oh, no you wouldn't.
I'm not very good in telling lies... :^)
From: Aaron Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone on the list used the old 67 400mm f4 (the non-ED IF one)? Is
it worth using? What's the minimum focus distance?
Aaron,
Here's a chart showing all the info for 67 lenses:
http://web.mit.edu/dennis/www/pentax67/lens-info.html
The minimum
Mark wrote:
I did not take any actual pictures to test the quality of this combo. I
have tried using my ATX with teleconverters, and have not been happy with
the results. I'll also break from the consensus here and say that I don't
consider the 1.7 AF converter to be all that good. When I
Sorry it's aldready with fedex
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Brendan,
I doubt you still have it, but I'll pay shipping
PLUS one U.S. dollar
;-) Seriously, how do you want for it to ship it to
the states.
Bill
Brendan wrote:
This lens is sitting in the bag
Keith Mosier wrote:
For some reason, which could not be explained to me, my cohorts
foresee the need to convert a digital image file to a transparency.
[Snip]
Does anyone know how to convert digital images to common sized
transparencies? Expensive/inexpensive? Why?
Hi Keith,
Could
Aaron wrote:
I haven't touched my LX in a week. To be fair, I had the 67 first, so
the LX is the other woman, if we want to make this into a creepy
relationship analogy.
Ew! Creepy!
Still, I think audible means obtrusive in that kind of environment.
Certainly I was less annoying than
True enough. Some may not be partial to using a faster film, especially
with the attendant degradation from the ND filter, but that could work for
others.
chris
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Of course, one could always use a neutral density filter on a higher
speed film and
At 09:42 AM 9/19/01 -0500, Mike wrote:
Personally I'm extremely surprised by my own reaction to trying digital. I
have been so loyal to my established method (dirt-simple: manual-focus 35mm
camera, 35 to 50mm lenses, Tri-X, D-76, carefully crafted 6x9 or 7x10.5
full-frame prints) for so long,
I was talking about the fish, although I do know of
the haircut. People talk about stunned mullets,
perhaps because when you hit the fish on the head
after catching it, it becomes stunned.
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Ann Sanfedele wrote:
What's a mullet?
'round here, a
Have you ever been to a Warehouse store in NZ? Believe
me, the quality in K-Mart is ten times better.
Jody
--- Daniel J. Matyola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jody wrote:
snip
You have a K-mart? I am so jealous. I have to
drive
7hrs to get to my favourite department store,
which is
I think I would have to go with the Spotmatic sound,
complete with manual wind-on.
--- David A. Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
firewire. Functionally very impressive but what got
me was the recorded click-
whirr sound it plays when you take a photo. The
guy hadn't figured out how
to
I think a quill and inkpot would be more appropriate
;)
I think I'm gonna get in trouble soon :)
--- Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shame on you, Shel... ball points are so *modern*...
space age,
even. What's wrong with a good old-fashioned
pencil, hmm? This is just
the first
Hey folks. I'm about 2990 messages behind on reading PDML. It's
been a bad few weeks for me on several fronts at once. But I did
want to reply to this...
Bruce Dayton wrote:
Alto - by D. Glenn Arthur, Jr.
Many times I am drawn to an image that challenges my perspective a bit.
Forces me to
Ahh, it's wonderful to have a unique name. My surname
is even more unique. Put them together, and I doubt
you will find anyone in the world with my name.
Jody.
--- Aaron Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed wrote:
Great idea. And I've decided to now go by the
name of ledmarvin. This
I am stunned. How does she not wear a bra with 39CC?
Sounds painful.
From: Rapture [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I blankly received the thing . it was a brownish
round patch.
Selina stood up and whispered into my ears. I
stick this on my nipples so
that they are not as revealing . I don't like to
And to think just a few short weeks ago, we were
cursing Denime. Thankyou Denime.
--- Mick Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a new virus going around, similar to code
red, it would appear
that the virus was stripped from his message by the
PDML server though (it's
an attachment).
Jody wrote:
I am stunned. How does she not wear a bra with 39CC?
Sounds painful.
Guess she's a kinky lady. She says she likes it.
Bob
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Tim S Kemp wrote:
Trust me on this one, they are trained not to treat any comment as a joke.
If you want to see some shit tell them there's a bomb in your bag, when they
allow you a phone call be prepared to tell people you'll be arriving a day
late.
More like 60 days
Shel Belinkoff writes:
Color film? What do i know, but I'm sure there are at least several
color films that offer moderate to course grain.
I've been known to deliberately underexpose 400 or 800 colour print film to get
a grainy effect. It looks horrible but can be useful. You have to be
Jody writes:
Have you ever been to a Warehouse store in NZ? Believe
me, the quality in K-Mart is ten times better.
I would rather shop at the Warehouse because its NZ owned.
Having said that I must also state that due to the quality of the merchandise I
tend to avoid both places.
Cheers,
Jody writes:
Ahh, it's wonderful to have a unique name. My surname
is even more unique. Put them together, and I doubt
you will find anyone in the world with my name.
Back when I had railroad tracks in my mouth, I had a namesake (sort-of, he
had a different middle name) who went to the
W Keith Mosier writes:
(Can't wait for the MZ-S/digital, and the budget isn't that fat.)
Pity, because if you put the FA100/2.8 macro lens on it you'll have a
scanner.
Does anyone know how to convert digital images to common sized
transparencies? Expensive/inexpensive? Why?
There's
What time in NZ? Probably 23rd or 24th, but my brain
hurts too.
--- Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops - my mistake! It *is* the 23rd of Sep - for me.
http://205.156.54.206/er/box/equinox.html
lists it as
Autumnal Equinox Sep 22 2001 7:05 PM EDT
which puts it at
5 minutes
Dave,
I had some problems on my own when shooting the interior or a church with a
K1000 loaded with ISO 200 film during the day. I'm not sure if it would
happen with faster film but, in any case, I decided to use a MX for those
dim subjects I mentioned earlier. It worked nicely, except for
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