Re: Macros at full aperture (was: Re: Quality of Sigma's Macro Lenses?)

2004-10-10 Thread Jostein
lol... Bjørn is a good photographer, but he's basically trying out things like that just for the heck of it. Jostein - Original Message - From: Mishka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 1:25 AM Subject: Re: Macros at full aperture (was: Re: Quality of

Re: PESO - Smokin' city

2004-10-10 Thread Kenneth Waller
John, thanks for the explanation. Sometimes, we just have to take what is there! Or not take the image at all. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: John Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO - Smokin' city Ken, the occasion is unrepeatable, of course, as we seldom have

Re: PAW - Lake Pukaki at Sunset

2004-10-10 Thread Kenneth Waller
Well done. The shore line really sucks you in so to speak. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: David Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PAW - Lake Pukaki at Sunset You're seeing this a day late as my ISP has been having server problems... I think the file could use a little

Re: Sunday afternoon spider

2004-10-10 Thread Leon Altoff
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:48:43 +1000, Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pick up the remote cord for the istD. It makes life much easier. I would still need to hold down the button for the lens though. Thus still requireing two hands.

Re: a really big lens

2004-10-10 Thread Maris V. Lidaka Sr.
But will it fit on the istD? :-) Maris Mishka wrote: from a different list http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3842947706category=30076

Re: Sunday afternoon spider

2004-10-10 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Leon Altoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mae up an adaptor for my double shutter release for use with my bellows. Basically it's a micro switch in a box with a 2.5mm plug on it to connect to the *istD. The release screws into a hole in the side of the box

Re: PAW - spider

2004-10-10 Thread Frits Wüthrich
Thanks everyone for responding. Yes, I we call this spider the kruisspin (Cross spider) here in the Netherlands. You are correct, it was facing down, so I should rotate it 90 degrees. I'll rotate it and crop it to make it symmetrical. It was moving out of the center of the frame all the time

Re: istD Owner's Survey

2004-10-10 Thread Mark Roberts
Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:18:16 -0400, Daniel Matyola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have not used a protector, nor have I noticed any problem. Just wait until the paternity suits start coming. :) So that's why everyone was referring to the Baby D. --

Re: Macros at full aperture (was: Re: Quality of Sigma's Macro Lenses?)

2004-10-10 Thread Paul Stenquist
I like this. A very narrow depth of field can lead to a very interesting image. Nice work. Paul On Oct 10, 2004, at 4:10 PM, Jostein wrote: lol... Bjørn is a good photographer, but he's basically trying out things like that just for the heck of it. Jostein - Original Message - From:

Re: PAW - Lake Pukaki at Sunset

2004-10-10 Thread Paul Stenquist
I agree. The blue coloration is an interesting touch. While it may look more like dawn than sunset, it's a very nice image. paul On Oct 10, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Kenneth Waller wrote: Well done. The shore line really sucks you in so to speak. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: David

Re: a really big lens

2004-10-10 Thread Stan Halpin
Looks like a Cotty project in the making... On Oct 10, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Maris V. Lidaka Sr. wrote: But will it fit on the istD? :-) Maris Mishka wrote: from a different list http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemitem=3842947706category=30076

PEF or DNG?

2004-10-10 Thread John Francis
I've just taken my first look at what the Adobe DNG converter does when you give it a Pentax PEF file from the *ist-D First and foremost: the DNG converter doesn't preserve all the Pentax-private data from the MakerNote tag (including, amongst other things, the code identifying the lens mounted

Re: a really big lens

2004-10-10 Thread Mark Roberts
Stan Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mishka wrote: from a different list http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemitem=3842947706category=30076 Looks like a Cotty project in the making... He's working on a fitting for the Pentax 110. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing

Wow!

2004-10-10 Thread Collin R Brendemuehl
The list is back! The list is back! Looks like I missed the conversation about my model. :) Thanks to whomever for the energies expended. I know it's not easy. This week I have to interface DB2 to Notes via DECS and generate some suitable HTML/JS/CSS along with it. So much fun, this blasted

Re: PEF or DNG?

2004-10-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10 Oct 2004 at 19:57, John Francis wrote: Bottom line: this looks very much like a work in progress. I'd expect to see a future release of the DNG converter preserve more of the Pentax-specific information from the MakerNote tag, and perhaps even use the same linearization curve as the

Re: PEF or DNG?

2004-10-10 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks John. I had converted some of my PEF files to DNG for archiving. That seems to be okay. But I was about to edfelete all my PEFs in favor of their DNG counterparts. Now, thanks to your input, that sounds like a poor choice. Thanks again for watching out for us. Paul On Oct 10, 2004, at

Re: Intersting point of view

2004-10-10 Thread Doug Franklin
Could be, but that's not the error message I'd expect in that case. In any case, it's available again, at least from my neck of the Internet woods. On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:08:19 -0400, Graywolf wrote: It worked fine when I looked at it yesterday. Now I can not connect. Perhaps we ran him over

FS:sorry so late/early

2004-10-10 Thread Collin R Brendemuehl
MG with M50/2 Working fine. Good condition. with original manual. $50 SMC Pentax-A 70-210/4. The good one. but it needs repairing. Aperture won't close A pin spring missing. $20. AF200T flash. Works fine. One spring needs cleaning from a battery leak. Just use an emery board to scrape

Re: PEF or DNG?

2004-10-10 Thread Mark Roberts
John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just taken my first look at what the Adobe DNG converter does when you give it a Pentax PEF file from the *ist-D First and foremost: the DNG converter doesn't preserve all the Pentax-private data from the MakerNote tag (including, amongst other things,

Re: PEF or DNG?

2004-10-10 Thread John Francis
Mark Roberts mused: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just taken my first look at what the Adobe DNG converter does when you give it a Pentax PEF file from the *ist-D First and foremost: the DNG converter doesn't preserve all the Pentax-private data from the MakerNote tag

Fw: The Mail Archive on hold this week

2004-10-10 Thread jtainter
For those who, like me, participate in PDML through Mail-Archive.com. As so many times before, I have subscribed temporarily to the digest. Joe -Forwarded Message- From: Jeff Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 10, 2004 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Mail

Re: eBay auction

2004-10-10 Thread Joseph Tainter
I know I'm breaking the rules by posting this but I know how many of you want to photograph something unique. This is your opportunity to get a ghost on film! Not for the weak of wallet. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1523item=5525211815rd=1 Oh, my. Look at how many have

Re: Shooting with the istD

2004-10-10 Thread Sid Barras
On Oct 10, 2004, at 12:49 AM, William Robb wrote: On the other hand, I am now cursed with having to go through almost 10 gigs of image files to see what I managed to accomplish. At least the subject matter is pleasing... Sid replies, I'm sure I speak for many of the testosterone enabled

Re: The Mail Archive on hold this week

2004-10-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: jtainter Subject: Fw: The Mail Archive on hold this week For those who, like me, participate in PDML through Mail-Archive.com. As so many times before, I have subscribed temporarily to the digest. We love ya, Joe. b...

RE: Shooting with the istD

2004-10-10 Thread J. C. O'Connell
Is that sorta like shoot 'em all, and let God sort 'em out! JCO -Original Message- From: Sid Barras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 10:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shooting with the istD On Oct 10, 2004, at 12:49 AM, William Robb wrote: On the

Re: eBay auction

2004-10-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10 Oct 2004 at 20:30, Joseph Tainter wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=1523item=5525211815rd=1 Oh, my. Look at how many have bid and how high the bidding has gone. Just think -- the people who have bid on this are allowed to drive. They are allowed to vote.

Re: eBay auction

2004-10-10 Thread Caveman
Actually I wonder if it's really worse than getting sucked in a FA 600 buy ;-) Rob Studdert wrote: Just save some money, I'm sure the following camera would negate your need for the 600mm and just look how inexpensive it is :-) http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3844857364

Digital is Awesome!

2004-10-10 Thread Steve Pearson
Hi everyone, I know you purists will hate to hear this. But, I just got thru shooting my family's Christmas card. The beauty of digital, when working with 3 kids, 1 dog, and 1 cat is the ability to cut paste. I've never done this before, but out of 50 some shots, of course it was impossible

Was this a good deal on a Sigma macro?

2004-10-10 Thread Steve Pearson
Hi aagin, You probably rememeber that I'm giving some thought to a macro lens. Was this a good deal: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=15240item=3844029025rd=1 ??? Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get

Re: PEF or DNG?

2004-10-10 Thread Mishka
well... no. the idea (as i understand it) behind DNG is to make pentax et al create the proprietory converters, or, better yet, use DNG itself as a raw format. the 3rd party (adobe in this case) raw-to-DNG converter is useful only as a toy to give people some sense of what is should look and feel

Supercomputers

2004-10-10 Thread Graywolf
I just did a little research (very little actually). The current fastest supercomputer is made by IBM and just beat out NEC at 36.1 Tera-FLOPS (trillion floating point opreations per second). Next year they will be delivering one with almost 10 times that power. Even a little 1 cabinet Cray XD1

Re: eBay auction

2004-10-10 Thread Mishka
from another auction of that same seller: GREAT ENTRE LEVEL GUITAR -- just add cheese mishka On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:43:46 +1000, Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Oct 2004 at 20:30, Joseph Tainter wrote: Just save some money, I'm sure the following camera would negate your need for

RE: Was this a good deal on a Sigma macro?

2004-10-10 Thread J. C. O'Connell
Isnt a MANUAL focus (only) lens preferrable for macro rather than an AF lens used manually? Once again, the DOF on Macro is very shallow and I don't think you would want to rely on AF for that so a very smooth Manual Focus would be very high on the list of features you would want in a Macro lens

RE: PEF or DNG?

2004-10-10 Thread J. C. O'Connell
I think the idea behind it all is to have the camera makers OUTPUT a DNG file only from the camera as the raw file. there would be no point in outputting a propriatary RAW file from the camera and then using special software to convert it to DNG later. JCO -Original Message- From: Mishka

Re: Supercomputers

2004-10-10 Thread Mishka
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:38:54 -0400, Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a little research (very little actually). The current fastest supercomputer is made by IBM and just beat out NEC at 36.1 Tera-FLOPS (trillion floating point opreations per second). [EMAIL PROTECTED] does twice

Re: OT - Supercomputers

2004-10-10 Thread Gonz
Just sit back and enjoy the security. That little 36.1 Tera-FLOP is just a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of power it would take to crack the 2048 code, much less the 4096 one. 36.1 Tera-FLOPS is 36.1 x 10^15 flops. If you remember that post before, if each quark in the universe

Re: Supercomputers

2004-10-10 Thread John Francis
Graywolf mused: I just did a little research (very little actually). The current fastest supercomputer is made by IBM and just beat out NEC at 36.1 Tera-FLOPS (trillion floating point opreations per second). Next year they will be delivering one with almost 10 times that power. Even a

Re: Digital is Awesome!

2004-10-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Steve Pearson Subject: Digital is Awesome! I figured out how to cut and paste him from another photo where he was looking at the camera, and I must say I'm pretty impressed with my work. Digital is so cool! I shot an obedience trial this past February, and

Re: Shooting with the istD

2004-10-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: J. C. O'Connell Subject: RE: Shooting with the istD Is that sorta like shoot 'em all, and let God sort 'em out! Pretty much. It is way to easy to shoot way too many pictures with a DSLR. At least with film, you have to stop more often. William Robb

Re: Was this a good deal on a Sigma macro?

2004-10-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: J. C. O'Connell Subject: RE: Was this a good deal on a Sigma macro? Isnt a MANUAL focus (only) lens preferrable for macro rather than an AF lens used manually? I don't have any experience witht eh lens pictured, but it looks to have a decent focusing ring at

Re: OT - Supercomputers

2004-10-10 Thread John Francis
Gonz mused: Just sit back and enjoy the security. That little 36.1 Tera-FLOP is just a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of power it would take to crack the 2048 code, much less the 4096 one. 36.1 Tera-FLOPS is 36.1 x 10^15 flops. If you remember that post before, if each

Re: Sunday afternoon spider

2004-10-10 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if the istDs will take the same remote as the istD? If so, it is a fairly safe bet that a new high end camera would as well. Also, is this the same remote as for the previous flagship, the MZ-S? Kind regards

When good photographers do bad things

2004-10-10 Thread William Robb
Or not. Anyway, here is a random sampling of my escapade yesterday. Before commenting cruelly, please consider that the girls are not professional models, and the entire affair was somewhat underorganized. Also, these pictures are of young women wearing little (very little in some pictures)

Re: OT - Supercomputers

2004-10-10 Thread Gonz
I guess if youre really paranoid, 2048 bits might be taking a risk at some point. But I'm truly skeptical. 10^12 is a big factor. I suspect that most of our computational performance is now going to come from massive parallelism, and not processor frequency. We still have a little room in

Re: When good photographers do bad things

2004-10-10 Thread Peter J. Alling
Just started to look but shouldn't that be When good things happen to bad photographers? William Robb wrote: Or not. Anyway, here is a random sampling of my escapade yesterday. Before commenting cruelly, please consider that the girls are not professional models, and the entire affair was

RE: PAW - Lake Pukaki at Sunset

2004-10-10 Thread Jens Bladt
This is absolutely awesome, David. Beautiful work. All the best Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 10. oktober 2004 05:52 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: PAW - Lake Pukaki at Sunset