While there are a lot of ATM machines almost everywhere you go, not
everybody takes a VISA (or any other bank card.)
Very small business persons probably do NOT take a card, because of the
costs involved with low volume businesses.
Which means cabbies may not want to see a VISA card.
I don't
On 20/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] discumbobulated:
on left corner two policemen approachig arrested me.
After two days, 1000 EUR and Pentax Z-1 given to
authorities I was able to go to Macedonia and then
to home.
What was the arrest for?
Cheers,
Cotty
___/\__
|| (O) | People,
On 20/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] discumbobulated:
Just wondering - with regards to my USA trip - I was thinking of not
bringing any cash at all, and just paying my spending money off my visa. It
will be a great help for tax purposes etc, and I rarely carry cash here any
more, I usually use EFTPOS
Is long exposure allowed on digital cameras?
If you set it to 30-60 minutes, will you cook the camera?
I am thinking of doing some astrophotography in a month or so, however I
wouldn't like to kill my camera in the process.
(*)o(*)
Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, not at all. I do it all the time with my cameras (MS-S, PZ-1, Super A
and others).
All the best
Jens
Jens Bladt
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
-Oprindelig meddelelse-
Fra: Greg Lovern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendt: 21. marts 2004 08:36
Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We need a legal ruling on this, of course.
Frank needs to advise. Grin.
Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi!
I think I am going to compile my PAW submissions into nice little web
pages - one for each photograph.
I am thereby (or is hereby g, where's Knarf's lawyer?) asking
permission of those who commented
The way I used to demonstrate the difference between 8 and 16 bit
color depth to students was to display a photo on a monitor, and
switch between 16K colors (8 bit) and millions of colors (16 bit).
I'd ask them to guess which was which. No one could tell the
higher vs. lower color depth.
I would
You live in a very nice neighbourghood, Herb!
As for the pics, I think they are just a little too dark - snow is supposed
to be white, right? Otherwise they are very nice shots.
All the best
Jens Bladt
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
-Oprindelig meddelelse-
Fra:
Reason? Ignoring the effect on battery life and over-heating, and such,
over time the active CCD will incorrectly light up random pixels, more and
more as the exposure lengthens, and eventually all this 'noise' will
compete with and image you're trying to record.
that is what I am afraid of.
I appreciate the comments by the way, and I don't mean to be
argumentative. But I should add that what you're seeing as a blown out
highlight has a lot to do with the direction of the light. The light is
coming in at about a 30 degree angle from the left of camera. I did
that intentionally, so
Didn't last long, though
-Original Message-
From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: March 20, 2004 8:34 PM
Spring officially arrived today,
Here and in other countries I usually travel with $40-50 USD
or local equivalence. Virtually everything is with credit
card, the cash is for backup. If I need more cash, it is
readily available as a withdrawal from an ATM.
As several have noted, ATM's in foreign countries have
usually been
Shel pointed out that a couple photos I've taken with the *ist D had
burned out highlights. (I would call them hot, not burned out.) But in
any case, I wanted to point out that the highlight level is a function
of how I convert the frames, rather than how the camera exposes them.
With
Hi Paul ...
You didn't come off as argumentative, just firm. Anyway,
WTF do I know about snowdrops ;-)) The web is a poor place
to show photos that have any kind of subtle detail, iac.
shel (struggling to get one of my photos to look right on
the screen)
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I appreciate
Ordinary slide copiers are designed for a camera/sensor with dimensions of
24x36mm. Anything smaller crops the slide, which is not what you want.
So far there are no APS slide copiers on the market, and people are having
to use ingenuity. Unfortunately, ingenious inventions of the Heath
Hi!
Dave, I wonder where were you positioned when taking that shot. It
looks like you were high above the sea level g and probably quite
far from the person who's running on the beach.
Apparently New Zealand is way roomier than, say, Israel. I couldn't
think of any place where I could take such
I changed the crop a bit, burnt down some bright areas, and
adjusted the toning. Comments welcome, of course.
Adjusted version:
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/tres-2.html
Original version:
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/tres-s.html
Hi!
The fourth and the fifth one are my favorites. They remind me of New
Year festivities and of those good snowy winters I had back in Moscow.
It is amazing how different can be a climate on the same ball of rock
at the same time.
This weekend I took some pictures of poppies under bright
Hi!
Well, baby Galia just saw the feet and pronounced out loud
Gaaliaa... You know - like me it is!...
That would be Liberman's family comment here g...
Boris
([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hi,
I am using a Heliopan RG780 Filter on my *ist-D, it cuts visible light
off at 780 nm.
The effect is undenialble. Results look even better than the cover of
the U2 album
the unforgettable fire, if you should know that.
One day i will have a website to show you my pics... ;-}
Thomas
- Original Message -
From: John Forbes
Subject: Re: Slide Dup for *ist D
Ordinary slide copiers are designed for a camera/sensor with
dimensions of
24x36mm. Anything smaller crops the slide, which is not what you
want.
So far there are no APS slide copiers on the market, and
Thanks Joe.
It was kodak gold 200.
I took a number of shots throught out the eclipse and the ones that were in the f
11,seemed more
natural, f 8 seemed a bit goldy in colour.
When it was almost total i did some 3-4 second shots but they were all to long as i
got a
lot of motion
blur.I think if
No, except that what he WANTED to do was to use his new digital camera,
and he was exploring as to whether he could practically DO that!
He hadn't got around to asking for alternatives yet...
keith
Jens Bladt wrote:
Would it be a problem to use film? Any old camera could do this. I'd use my
summing exposures with NR enabled is the best thing to do with ordinary
digital cameras.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Long exposure on *istD
No, except that what he WANTED to
Problem is, I don't have the money for a slide scanner. I'm not
satisfied with the pain/time/results from my flatbed scanner. I'm
imagining that this can be done for pennies on the dollar of what a
slide/film scanner is worth.
IL Bill
On Sunday, March 21, 2004, at 06:33 AM, Hal Sandra Davis
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Spring officially arrived today, and my Snowdrops cooperated by
blooming. It was a pretty day, sunny and 60 degree F temperatures. I
shot 70 frames or so and had a very nice afternoon.
My PAW is here
Thanks Dave. I tried it first with a small tripod, but the blossoms
wouldn't stop moving as there was a slight breeze. So I rigged up a
flash and umbrella reflector, got down in the dirt and hand held it.
On Mar 21, 2004, at 10:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul Stenquist
I am pretty sure that the best method is going to turn out to be
extending the slide farther from the lens, but this will require a
custom made rod to mount the slide duplcator to the front of the
bellow, and a longer bellows from the slide holder to the lens.
It is true, the stem of slide-copier
Thank you to all who replied, both privately by email and on-list, regarding
the LX+lenses kit I asked about.
The LX has sticky mirror syndrome. At least, I think it does. The
symptoms are: slower mirror return when on automatic, but reading a shutter
speed of 1/30s, than when manually set to
At 10:17 AM 3/21/2004 +1000, you wrote:
Ok, Photshoppers, I am looking to recreate the effect of infared photography
on my digital images... Anyone got an action or a workflow that they use?
I sat down and tried to figure that out one day and concluded that about
all you can do is 'hand color'
The change is an improvement for me. The crop works better and the
toning seems about right. Nice shot, Shel!
--
Best regards,
Bruce
Sunday, March 21, 2004, 6:27:11 AM, you wrote:
SB I changed the crop a bit, burnt down some bright areas, and
SB adjusted the toning. Comments welcome, of
The LX reads light off the film and if there is no film the camera will read
off the black pressure plate and expose longer - so it might be OK.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http:\\www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
- Original Message -
From: Aric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul, are you shooting with program metering? It will tend to overexpose
highlights if you have a wide exposure range, since it is designed to
bring out shadow details.
I've seen it written many times that digital is like slides in its
exposure range. It has a narrower exposure range than
- Original Message -
From: Aric
Subject: LX and lenses, revisited
The LX has sticky mirror syndrome. At least, I think it does.
The
symptoms are: slower mirror return when on automatic, but reading
a
shutter
speed of 1/30s, than when manually set to 1/30s; and mirror
My limited tests indicate the same, Herb. The DA 16-45 is in a class
optically with the FA 20-35.
Joe
The mirror lock up could be a weak battery, the slower mirror return on
automatic could be, probably is
due to the OTF meter inaccurately reading the pressure plate which is a
bit darker than film. I'd stay away
from the 400/5.6. If it is fungus it's going to be expensive and never
be the
Tanya, this guy has a plug-in that claims to give an infrared effect:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/software/
I haven't tried this. I do have his noise reducer plug-in and am very
pleased with it. It seems to soften less than other noise reducesrs.
Joe
On 21/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] discumbobulated:
Visa is very widely accepted here, however the snack bar on GFM is cash
only. There is an ATM in the museum, but I'm not sure how much can be
withdrawn from it. You won't need much cash on the mountain except for
souvenirs and maybe a lunch or two.
Tanya, in re: your large purchase, you should know that you may be
limited to withdrawing $300 or so at a time (or per day) from ATM
machines. Also, CC fraud is sufficiently rampant that if you suddenly
start making large, daily purchases, and don't ordinarily do so, your CC
company may assume
This is a shot of some repairs being done to our local lake. It has
been quite the undertaking, as the lake was completely drained of
water last fall, and as soon as the ground was frozen hard enough to
allow, heavy equipment started the process of removing some million
and a half cubic yards of
That's presumably your place in the background, Rob. Very nice!
John
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:52:42 -0600, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This is a shot of some repairs being done to our local lake. It has
been quite the undertaking, as the lake was completely drained of
water last fall,
- Original Message -
From: John Forbes
Subject: Re: PAW
That's presumably your place in the background, Rob. Very nice!
I wish. Thats where we keep our provincial politicians caged up so we
know where they are.
William Robb
Sorry, I meant William. When people have surnames that are similar to
forenames, small brains sometimes get confused.
John
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:06:58 -, John Forbes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's presumably your place in the background, Rob. Very nice!
John
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004
It's a good point about the card getting confiscated, or even lost, stolen
or going wrong. I always carry two or three. The rates tend to be very
competitive.
If you buy travellers cheques, they MUST be US$. Anything else is so
rarely seen that it will be treated with the gravest suspicion.
This is a shot of some repairs being done to our local lake. It has
been quite the undertaking, as the lake was completely drained of
water last fall, and as soon as the ground was frozen hard enough to
allow, heavy equipment started the process of removing some million
and a half cubic yards
You will find teller machines all over that place. 90+% of businesses will take
Visa. I seem to remember that there is a teller machine at the gift shop on GFM.
That said there are always those little things that you just can not use the
card for, so some pocket cash would be a good idea.
One
I think what happens is that Visa pays the bank in local currency and charges
you in your own at their regular rates.
--
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I don't know if the opposite is true, but when I need to buy Euros,
Pesos, or other currencies with my US dollars, I get the best deal by
using an
Just a bit of caution here. From personal experience, I can say that
you can have trouble with the Visa/Master cards here in the US and
elsewhere, especially when travelling, due to profile exceptions
showing up in the automated fraud prevention programs. Sorting it out
can range from a
Cotty wrote:
On 21/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] discumbobulated:
Visa is very widely accepted here, however the snack bar on GFM is cash
only. There is an ATM in the museum, but I'm not sure how much can be
withdrawn from it. You won't need much cash on the mountain except for
souvenirs and
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Tanya, in re: your large purchase, you should know that you may be
limited to withdrawing $300 or so at a time (or per day) from ATM
machines. Also, CC fraud is sufficiently rampant that if you suddenly
start making large, daily purchases, and don't ordinarily do so,
On my laptop display, yes :-) It tends to blow out highlights all by
itself...
S
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Did you really need the histogram to see that?
Steve Jolly wrote:
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
The front petals on both
flowers are blown out on my monitor, and they don't seem
to have much more
Took another short trip this weekend. This time it was to Zion National Park
in southern Utah. I wanted to get some shots in the Narrows section of the
Virgin River. The link below is to 5 shots I took in or near The Narrows.
All these were taken with *istD with FA 28 2.8 at f22 and 6 to 8
Cotty wrote:
When one flag is up, Bill is in residence. When two are up, he's logged on :-)
Is the left-hand flag the Tricolore, or a windsock? :-)
Excellent documentary photography IMO, Bill. I think it needs the
context to be interesting, but given the context, interesting it is :-)
In your
Great shots, Larry. Which images were stitched? It's not easy to tell,
which means you did a good job :-).
Paul
On Mar 21, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Larry Hodgson wrote:
Took another short trip this weekend. This time it was to Zion
National Park
in southern Utah. I wanted to get some shots in the
On 21/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] discumbobulated:
I can add my two cents there: here is a picture of Gianfranca and me.
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flamin/F_and_G.jpg
Jumping Jupiter. Gianco, if you're coming over for a few pints we're
going to have to do something about that bloody great badger
Tanya, when you meet Cotty, would you get his autograph for me? He's
been on TV.
Joe
- Original Message -
From: Mike
Subject: Need help removing a stripped screw
Hi all,
I need help with removing a base plate screw that has a
stripped/rounded
head? Apparently a previous owner had attempted to loosen the
screw
without success.
I'm not able to bite into the head
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Cotty wrote:
On 19/3/04, A CANADIAN HOMESTEADER discumbobulated:
So this is a very famous contest ?
It seems to attract participants literally from the four corners
of
the globe.
I am sad that I am unable to attend this one.
On 21 Mar 2004 at 18:11, William Robb wrote:
If you are brave you can use a small drill bit to drill the head off
the screw. After that, remove the base plate and you should be able
to remove the shank of the screw with fine pliers.
Safest is to let a repair shop handle it, though.
But
Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flamin/F_and_G.jpg
Jumping Jupiter. Gianco, if you're coming over for a few pints
we're
going to have to do something about that bloody great badger
stuck to
your chin! I'll dig out the lawn strimmer before we meet. You
got
planning
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Tainter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tanya, when you meet Cotty, would you get his autograph for
me? He's been on TV.
I categorically deny this pernicious rumor.
tv
For small screws what is usually used is a reverse twist drill bit in a pin
vise. You can buy them from Micro Tools.
http://www.micro-tools.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODStore_Code=MTProduct_Code=LHDBSET
--
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I would leave it to a pro repair person. There are a
As long as you use either the AF360FGZ in wireless mode, or one of the
other Pentax digital flashes with the 5p sync cord system, you will have
all the facilities off-camera that you do on-camera.
See Boz's site for details.
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/technology/offCameraFlash.html
The
We all hate you. No one should be allowed to live 'a short
trip' from the places you have shown us unless they are dead.
Stan
Larry Hodgson wrote:
Took another short trip this weekend. This time it was to Zion National Park
in southern Utah. I wanted to get some shots in the Narrows section of
Paul, I'm assuming it's the top-right panoramic one, with the caption
that starts Compostion of 5 images stitched together. ;-)
S
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Great shots, Larry. Which images were stitched? It's not easy to tell,
which means you did a good job :-).
Paul
On Mar 21, 2004, at 2:34 PM,
Excellent photos. I was almost inspired to go out and take some river
photos myself until I remembered that the only running water near here
is either in ditches or an enormous tidal estuary... ;-)
#4 is my favourite.
S
Larry Hodgson wrote:
Took another short trip this weekend. This time it
there are at least two identified in the caption text.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: PAW - Zion National Park
Paul, I'm assuming it's the top-right panoramic one, with the
'Tis now only 3 and a half days til our departure to
Australia. Plans are falling into place. I have just made
the fifth adjustment to my selection of lenses to take. I
expect two more changes, at least, before I leave.
This coming weekend in Sydney. Nothing set there yet. An
Australian
Rob Studdert said:
Another great set of images Larry. Images 2 and 4 are my favourites out of
the
set although each has its particular attraction. On the technical side, I'm
interested in how you set the elevation of your rows, what are you using
for
your pano head? Also I see that the images
with nikon 4000 you normally won't see any noise even at 1x pass,
unless you do some severe tweaking with curves/levels. the noise will
be in the most dense parts of the thing that's being scanned. for
neg those are highlights.
mishka
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I don't know what noise looks like on a
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:43:31 EST, you wrote:
SB I changed the crop a bit, burnt down some bright areas, and
SB adjusted the toning. Comments welcome, of course.
SB Adjusted version:
SB http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/images/tres-2.html
SB Original version:
SB
Hi, Marnie,
Thanks for the comments. Glad you thought it was interesting.
Also, I did reply to some specific questions and comments, but for those to
whom I haven't specifically replied, thanks for taking the time to comment.
I didn't want to waste bandwidth, replying to each and every one
Pretty cool shot, Dave!
The squiggles, if they're an artifact of the scanning process, are something
I get all the time, and it really pisses me off. If you figure out a way to
get rid of it, lemme know!
I really like that image, though. What camera were they taken with?
cheers,
frank
The
Ooops.
I just re-read our initial post, Dave, and I see it was taken with your
trusty SP500.
And, just to clarify, I didn't find the squiggley bits around the moon to be
overly distracting. I was saying that they bother me, when I see them on my
scans. Not too bad on yours, though.
We need
This week is the 60th anniversary of this photo, my uncle
getting ready for his first solo flight in a trainer plane.
I'd like to see what others can do with it. I'll be putting
my final work up soon, as well.
http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/pilot.jpg
I'm just getting home from being away for the weekend, and I'm shocked to
see this post!
Thank goodness you're okay, Andreas! Too bad about the money and the
camera, but your health and safety are far more important.
It must have been a harrowing experience. You were arrested for nothing
Some of you people are very knowledgeable when it comes to optical science.
So, I would like to ask you this:
On the internet there is an ongoing discussion about this subeject.
Some say, that smaller formats have greater DOF (Photonet). They say that in
order to get comparable images, I must use
Ok, guys, now this is serious stuff. I have just been booked for my very
first fashion shoot for the weekend of 16/17 April. This is not just any
old fashion label though, it is actually for an agency. It is a kids
agency, and they want me to shoot 40 kids over two days for their z-cards,
It's silly to tell you to enjoy yourself, Stan, but I will!
Say hi to Chris for me.
Have a ball, and bring some photos back...
keith whaley
Los Angeles
Stan Halpin wrote:
'Tis now only 3 and a half days til our departure to Australia. Plans
are falling into place. I have just made the fifth
On Mar 22, 2004, at 02:25, Boris Liberman wrote:
Dave, I wonder where were you positioned when taking that shot. It
looks like you were high above the sea level g and probably quite
far from the person who's running on the beach.
Yep... I was on the pier which is quite high off the sand. Our
- Original Message -
From: Tanya Mayer Photography
Subject: omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)...
Ok, guys, now this is serious stuff.
lots of serious stuff here
Come guys, dig into your deepest, darkest pits of knowledge and
someone
please offer me an
I haven't seen this posted here yet; apologies if someone has beaten me
to it.
The article throws around a lot of numbers and equipment but its still
quite interesting regardless. My opinion is that there's a killing to
be made by someone with some software smarts. I wonder if they've
tried
- Original Message -
From: Jens Bladt
Subject: DOF and angle of view or focal length (long)
Some of you people are very knowledgeable when it comes to optical
science.
So, I would like to ask you this:
On the internet there is an ongoing discussion about this subeject.
Some say,
Love the photo!
It reminds me of a time when I walked across the tarmac to an F7F
Tigercat, and had that damned seat chute banging me behind the knees all
the way out.
I wish I had movies of that odd walk, and Mancini's music in the
background! g
I needed help to pull my first leg up to the
Hi Stan,Suggest Sunday night at Doyles as before.The breakfast place is
Bondi Icebreakers in Notts Ave
Regards Chris K
Hello Herb,
Very nice photos with a special Crhistmas feeling. The second is my
favorite, a wonderful big tree covered by snow.
Attila
Sunday, March 21, 2004, 2:27:48 AM, you wrote:
HC this Friday morning, i took an extra 15 minutes to walk to my bus stop on
HC the way to work and took 45
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