I've just completed my first day's serious motorsports shooting with the
*ist-D. First, the complaints:
o That stupid eyepiece rubber eyecup - it's vanished somewhere.
o The battery meter needs finer granularity - Full/Half/None is
nowhere near enough to tell you if you've got enough
I am taking a short-term new photography class. New to me, that is.
Studio portrait lighting with a good local photographer. Not adult ed in this
case. A local rental darkroom place that also offers classes with various
people. The teacher also happens to be the director.
I KNOW WHAT A PC
Hi Steve
thanks for your answer, I will try that.
I have to first get such a small screwdriver.
I will report about my success or failure :-)
happy weekend
Markus
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Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Help needed, thanks ! [Me Super]
Markus Maurer wrote:
I have had another problem with two pentax me super
Hi all,
This week's image is some pretty flowers, just in time for Spring in
the Northern Hemisphere.
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/cgi-bin/paw.cgi?date=17-Apr-2004
Comments are welcome (good, bad, or even indifferent).
Also, I finally got around to making some modifications to my PAW
As I mentioned in another thread, I am taking a studio portrait lighting
class.
Here is my first foray in portraiture. I've only shot people once before,
some street people in San Francisco, and not many of those. I also had never used
a flash with a person before.
This was the first class,
You know maybe I misunderstood him. Underexpose? DSLRs underexpose? No wonder
they came out too dark. LOL.
Marnie aka Doe
Here's another polar bear picture that Claire might enjoy. I took it at the St.
Louis zoo.
http://thornsberry.smugmug.com/gallery/64100/1/2234465
He's a very handsome animal and almost seemed to be posing for the people taking
pictures. He's also huge even though there's nothing in the picture
Jon, that shot of the blue 17 car is fabulous given the aforementioned
circumstances.
Were you on a bridge shooting? Seems obvious from the photo unless your were
ON the track and on stilts (!), but you could have rotated the photo)
You think he's looking in his mirror?
I also like that first
Kevin,
That's simply fab. Seriously.
My five year old LOVES it...
Cory
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Thornsberry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 8:22 AM
Subject: RE: Grin and bear it. lol
Here's another polar bear picture that Claire might
On 16/4/04, GFEN discumbobulated:
About a week ago I opened this folder up, today I just deleted 43,341
messages dating back to 8/8/03.
[snip]
Yo Gary.
Cheers,
Cotty
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|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche
||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps
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I've just completed my first day's serious motorsports shooting with the
*ist-D. First, the complaints:
o That stupid eyepiece rubber eyecup - it's vanished somewhere
Typical of all Pentax cameras. When you replace it, put a rubber vand
around it.
Bill
Hi!
C http://www.olympictrans.ru/fun/img/uglyZoo/
C What can I say? Weird.
The ever weirder thing is that it is russian site. Cotty, do you speak
any russian?
Boris
([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sacrilege!!
-frank
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: Dario Bonazza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: a new MX?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:44:25 +0200
Henk,
Thanks, Kevin!
I'll send it along to her. I'm sure she'll love it.
cheers,
frank
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: Kevin Thornsberry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message -
From: Jens Bladt
Subject: RE: Digital Picture of the Day
Santorini - one of the most beautiful places on earth.
Nice shot, but not the one I was pointing out.
Try:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/dpotd/apr2004/04142004.jpg
Shot with an istD and (I think) an FA
With less than two outs, and a man on first, a flyball that stays in the
infield results in the batter being called immediately out, while the ball
is still in the air (ie: before it is caught).
This prevents the infielder from dropping the ball on purpose, then getting
the easy double play.
WOW! Congrats, Ann! Sounds excellent!
- MCC
At 09:54 AM 4/15/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Woo woo WORD WARS is gettin in the theatres! I'm
forwarding the
producer/director's schedule notes to that other
list I'm on.
...
anyway- here is the skinny on the showings. I'm
s excited!
Now I REALLY
Collin,
Say what you will about WNBA or synchronized swimming. Truly, any sport
where the participants are marked on the amount of sequins they have on
their swimsuits, the amount of hairgel and makeup they wear (I'm talking
synch swimming here, not WWF wrestiling, btw), is no sport.
But,
Ah, sweet irony...
All yous 'Murricans on the list, and so far the only two correct answers re:
the Infield Fly Rule are from a Brit and a Canuck (ignoring for the moment,
the fact that Cotty clearly cheated - at least he tried, and now he knows
the rule, so I guess it's all good).
Wither the
Ignore me. Underexpose. Stop down. Posted those late at night and that last
message.
Marnie aka Doe The point is, the DSLR was doing okay on it's own, and
turned out not to need compensation.
Frank, I'm sorry to say that Lacs is considered a girl's game in the
UK. However, it's played by some pretty mean girls.
John
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:15:37 -0400, frank theriault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Collin,
Say what you will about WNBA or synchronized swimming. Truly, any
sport where
Sounds like fun, Marnie!!
Could you take my pitcher (wiff my camera) at GFM? I bought new bunny ears
last weekend (really!), and I need to update the old piccie. New glasses,
new hair (more grey), and many more wrinkles in the last 5 years since the
original infamous bunny ear pic was taken.
As I have mentioned before, Virginia Military Institute is right next
door to Washington and Lee. I was over there yesterday while they were
parading, and caught this:
http://home.wlu.edu/~desjardi/
As always, comments are welcome. In this case, however, feel free to
comment about any shot of
Well, I don't know portraiture for nothing. But I think these are
wonderful, especially for your first try (not meaning to damn with faint
praise at all).
I especially like the one with the hand in front of her face. Nice
spontaneous grab, real emotion there. Plus, studded tongues are ~so~
In a message dated 4/17/2004 7:29:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could you take my pitcher (wiff my camera) at GFM? I bought new bunny ears
last weekend (really!), and I need to update the old piccie. New glasses,
new hair (more grey), and many more wrinkles in the
What's the cadet gonna do with that c*? Is he gonna
blast the school building LOL? Shouldn't the thing be
pointed AWAY from the building?
Steve Desjardins wrote:
As I have mentioned before, Virginia Military Institute is right next
door to Washington and Lee. I was over there
John,
Maybe I was being ironic, and I actually did mean wither.
Of course I wasn't, and I did mean whither. I couldn't decide which way
it was spelled, so I guessed. I guessed wrong.
I'm certainly glad you pointed out my error. Thanks! vbg
Your knowledge of spelling exceeds your knowledge
- Original Message -
From: Bill Owens
Subject: Re: Cadet at Cannon
I like it, Steve!
For those that might not be aware, the cadets (Keydets) of VMI
fought en
masse at the battle of Luray during the American War of Northern
Aggression.
Was that the one where we burned your White
I've always assumed that they were blank charges ;-) Actually, there
are 4 cannons that they fire off in sequence. Of course, if they fired
in the other direction it would be aimed right at the window of my
office.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/17/04 10:46AM
What's the cadet gonna do with that
- Original Message -
From: Steve Desjardins
Subject: Re: PAW: Cadet at Cannon
I've always assumed that they were blank charges ;-) Actually,
there
are 4 cannons that they fire off in sequence. Of course, if they
fired
in the other direction it would be aimed right at the window
Hi,
Cebit is over, but there were piles of work on my desktop. So sorry for
this late mail.
At first: of course lots of PDML-members will visit the Photokina ;-)
and we will certainly meet. But that's not the point of this thread. The
idea was, to organize an earlier meeting (February, March...
The clarification worked.
I immediately placed the reference.
Thanks, keith
William Robb wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Keith Whaley
Subject: Re: Cadet at Cannon
Who's we?
We Canadians (Although I think we were still calling ourselves
British at the time).
William Robb
And another...
I'm a polar bear nut, too...
I have a bunch of stuffed bears (I think Mark
ROberts might have met one of them)
This was from a zoo somewhere in the USA - I
thought it was St Louis but
after looking at this snobby fellow Kevin sent I'm
confused - the background
doesn't look right.
In a message dated 4/17/2004 7:40:21 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I especially like the one with the hand in front of her face. Nice
spontaneous grab, real emotion there. Plus, studded tongues are ~so~ hot
(I'd never do it myself though...).
cheers,
frank
I've just completed my first day's serious motorsports shooting with the
*ist-D. First, the complaints:
And I left off my major annoyance: when the camera goes into auto-
power-saver mode it forgets your hyper-program settings, and comes
back to life in full-auto mode. Extremely
- Original Message -
From: Bill Owens
Subject: Re: Cadet at Cannon
I like it, Steve!
For those that might not be aware, the cadets (Keydets) of VMI
fought en
masse at the battle of Luray during the American War of Northern
Aggression.
There is a very nice mural of
My mistake, I don't know why I said Luray, when I knew full well it was New
Market. Although it's been many years, I vaguely remember seeing that
memorial. I was also moved seeing Lee's tomb there at WL.
Something else I bet a lot of folks didn't know: Arlington National
Cemetery is situated
What are you ultimately going to do with the images? If you will print
them, or have them printed, the output device will print them at 8 bits.
I use 16 bits only for the most important images. Even still, onscreen,
I can see very little difference between 8 and 16 bits. So I rarely use
16
Can anyone explain to me what P-TTL fashj is, please. I want to know
because MZ-S and *ist D both uses the AF 360FGZ flash.
Thanks
Jens
Jens, the unit puts out two flashes: a pre-exposure flash to figure the
best exposure, then the exposure flash. The problem with the 360FGZ is
that it will do
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Malcolm Smith wrote:
I'll probably use them as p/ex items.
Is that Jessops you had in mind? They won't accept the ME Super because
there are no parts available from Pentax anymore. As for the p/e
prices otherwise, they offered me 14 pounds for a mint, boxed
FA28-80/3.5-5.6
Mark wrote:
Well it seems that there's a dead router somewhere between your ISP's
server and my web server. A traceroute would indicate approximately
where that's happening. I'd be interested, anyway...
Well that would be very curious. The ancestor of the internet was
developed to allow
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
Is that Jessops you had in mind? They won't accept the ME
Super because there are no parts available from Pentax
anymore. As for the p/e prices otherwise, they offered me 14
pounds for a mint, boxed
FA28-80/3.5-5.6
Good luck.
I don't tend to use Jessop's
Hi,
My British father in law mentioned one time that baseball is a
kiddies game called rounders in the UK. I suspect it is cricket for
those with a short attention span.
No - we have various short games of cricket for that. Normally 20
overs per team, so the game only lasts about 3 hours. The
Frank,
My knowledge of almost anything exceeds my knowledge of lacrosse, which
is, I think, only played in Britain at expensive girls boarding schools,
and very viciously at that, or so I'm told.
It's only played by girls because it's far too tough for boys. In
England, schoolboys prefer to
Hi,
Actually, I did play a bit at high school in San Jose. That and
sawccer. Bit of track as well. Very unusual to find here in the UK: I
have a couple of el-cheapo catcher's mitts and a softball that we throw
around a bit.
quite common here in London in the parks during summer. I've
And it does Joe, It takes just a bit longer but the message is getting
through.
Cory
- Original Message -
From: Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well that would be very curious. The ancestor of the internet was
developed to allow communication even when some communication nodes and
I ever exhort the exalted to exult.
John
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:55:25 -0400, frank theriault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marnie,
I exalt in my wrinkles!!
I want you to photographically document each and every one of them.
They're what I am...
vbg
cheers,
frank
The optimist thinks this is
Nice John. I agree that the battery gauge is almost useless. I've had
equally good experiences with framing and the viewfinder. It's quite
adequate. Have you considered shooting RAW and sharpening in the
conversion? I've had better luck in terms of the final result when
working that way. Less
i'm surprised you see any difference. that isn't the point. the point is
that 8-bit mode allows you a few manipulations before you see artifacts.
16-bit mode allows you quite a bit more before that starts to happen.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Joe,
Minor correction - the AF360FGZ will only do P-TTL on bodies that
support P-TTL. On other bodies it will do regular TTL. The MZ-S and
*ist/*istD use P-TTL.
The way I work it, I use the 360 for daylight flash fill for my
weddings and portraits because of the high speed flash synch and
John Forbes wrote:
I ever exhort the exalted to exult.
John
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:55:25 -0400, frank theriault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marnie,
I exalt in my wrinkles!!
Stop it! You'll give the poor boy a complex and he'll start talking in
French 8-)
The *packets* may still be able to get through, but that doesn't mean
that the *emails* can. SMTP is not IP. :-)
S
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Mark wrote:
Well it seems that there's a dead router somewhere between your ISP's
server and my web server. A traceroute would indicate approximately
where
Hi,
My knowledge of almost anything exceeds my knowledge of lacrosse, which
is, I think, only played in Britain at expensive girls boarding schools,
and very viciously at that, or so I'm told.
I had a summer job at one such school in 1975, when I was 18. I worked
in the gardens of Harrogate
Thanks Bruce and Joe.
I found that the user guide says:
Standard TTL flash is available when
used with other Pentax TTL flash enabled
camera bodies.
I guess that means it can be used in manual, which I do most of the time
anyway (with PZ-1 and MZ-S). TTL still works in manual with thes bodies.
Have I missed a post somewhere? does all this mean that the page still isn't
working? Has anyone actually viewed it?
thanks!
tan. :-)
- Original Message -
From: Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: A lesson in flash with
Before we get to this week's PAW, just want to mention that I know I haven't
commented on any PAWs for about a week. Been really busy with work (at the
office this week dispatching, so I've been getting home real late), and I've
just not had time. I've saved them all, and I hope to catch up
Jostein wrote:
Hi folks,
It's 4 days to go until the May PUG deadline.
So far it looks to be the smallest gallery ever, just 10 submissions so far.
Throw them in, folks! The submission form is at:
http://www.oksne.net/autopug/pugform.asp
Cheers,
Jostein
Probably because of the
And the link to the PUG itself in the current mode
is???
(i need to change my homepage!)
Sorry if ten thousand pdml'ers have asked this
before and gotten answers,
I'll try to pay attention now that im back
annsan
Jostein wrote:
No problem, Norm!
The theme for May is Environment.
This theme is doing my head in, it's so open to interpretation. Comments
anyone?
Norm
Jostein wrote:
No problem, Norm!
The theme for May is Environment.
Frank,Cricket cannot be explained in as much as one grows up into it,doesn't
one?There are two types of cricket basically(Of which Australia is World
Champions at both).Test Cricket (White flannelled fools) played over five
days,some times without a clear winner and described by Robin Williams as
frank theriault wrote:
So, before you look at it, I know I blew the focus. I was
wide open, shooting at about 1/15th, and once I took the
first shot, she heard the camera, looked at me and glared
such that I decided not to take another (damn that LX is
loud!). So, it was a one shot
- Original Message -
From: Tanya Mayer Photography
Subject: Re: A lesson in flash with the *ist D...(now a bit OT)
Have I missed a post somewhere? does all this mean that the page
still isn't
working? Has anyone actually viewed it?
There was a web page?
WW
Big apology. I've been at the whisky. Sorry Frank.
John
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:35:56 +0100, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
John Forbes wrote:
I ever exhort the exalted to exult.
John
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:55:25 -0400, frank theriault
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marnie,
I exalt in my
At least she's on a train or a bus, you could take as many of those
shots as you want on a workday morning driving down any LA freeway. As
for the picture, you should have gotten her number instead. vbg
For 1/15th, not bad at all as far as sharpness, composition is good,
subject doesn't do
Very funny, Wheatfield! ;-)
http://www.tanyamayer.com/exposurelesson/index.html
There - now you have no excuse for not knowing if there was a web page!
I just really need to know if anyone can actually view it as I have changed
hosting services
tan.
- Original Message -
From:
And I left off my major annoyance: when the camera goes into auto-
power-saver mode it forgets your hyper-program settings, and comes
back to life in full-auto mode. Extremely irritating if you are
used to a PZ-1p!
That's what we are!
If you update your firmware to 1.11 it should fix the
Doug - bless you for this merriment!
I'd answer the questions, but I could never come
up with anything to
top what has already been submitted.
We could have another contest at GAM - best silly
answers to
silly questions
annsan
(leaving the questions in on purpose due to my
crazy computer
--- Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are you ultimately going to do with the images?
If you will print
them, or have them printed, the output device will
print them at 8 bits.
I will archive PEF file. I will import temporarily
when its needed.
Some numbers for a sample image
Hi Frank ...
All I can say is Ho Hum. There are a gazillion shots of
people on buses and trains and trams, and most are just as
average as this one. You did a pretty decent job with it,
but it gives me the feeling you were feeling that you were
running a bit late getting a PAW up. Your work is
Yeah,
Take it easy on me, eh? English isn't my first language...
-frank
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist
fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stop it! You'll give the poor boy a complex and he'll start
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