Re: SMC Pentax 38/3.5 on *ist D

2005-02-28 Thread Marco Alpert
On Feb 27, 2005, at 2:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a 100% crop of a high contrast area that would reveal any bloom: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3155211size=lg Hmmm... and no bloom in sight. Now I'm wondering again if I have a problem. Naturally, it was raining all day,

Re: Book Competition

2005-02-28 Thread Frantisek
Eac What single thing do you consider to be the most important element of Eac photography? Eac == Eac The front element. No, the rear element! Even in plain meniscus lenses ;-) Good light! fra

GESO: tryout of the *istDS in low light

2005-02-28 Thread Derby Chang
Took the *ist DS and 77mm Ltd to my friends' gig last night. What a pleasure it is to use. None of this focus and recompose biz - I'm getting used to thumbing though the focus zones. Net result: many more in focus shots and not everything focussed centre of frame. And auto-ISO is a great

Re: SMC Pentax 38/3.5 on *ist D

2005-02-28 Thread Paul Stenquist
A shot right into white sky with foreground objects seems to be the worst case scenario. Mine was against snow, which is probably not as extreme. Also the amount of bloom will vary from lens to lens. I would try that 135 shooting some things you might normally shoot. See how it performs in

Re: GESO: tryout of the *istDS in low light

2005-02-28 Thread Paul Stenquist
Nice work. Very nice. You might want to edit it down to the ten best, and you'll have an even better presentation. Paul On Feb 28, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Derby Chang wrote: Took the *ist DS and 77mm Ltd to my friends' gig last night. What a pleasure it is to use. None of this focus and recompose biz

Re: colour shift under big lighting

2005-02-28 Thread Herb Chong
this is the same drive that Rob Studdert that uses that has AA batteries for power, right? it's fast. i am thinking of getting one just to use some of my spare 2.5 drives. i have yet to use up a 4G Microdrive on a normal day's shooting, although i have come close. on a wedding, i can see

RE: [personal] Re: LX Repair Update

2005-02-28 Thread David Chang-Sang
If Kominek's can't repair the LX I think Frank would be hard pressed to find someone else within Canada who could. Their service, from my experience, is top notch and if it's the same Pentax guy that I'm thinking of, he'll scour for spare parts etc. in order to fix a working body. I hope it gets

Re[2]: C 41 BW film

2005-02-28 Thread Alin Flaider
I have quite some experience with XP2 Super (bought a couple of bulk rolls so I had to use them all! :oT ) and I didn't quite reach the same conclusion. XP2 has indeed very large exposure latitude but it does so at the expense of grain and tone compression. I initially bought it for

Re: PESO - End Of The Season

2005-02-28 Thread Peter Lacus
Mark, http://www.markcassino.com/temp/IMGP8516.jpg I'm glad I didn't missed this one (as I often do when someone starts a thread in the middle of another one). Simply beautiful! Bedo.

Re: C 41 BW film

2005-02-28 Thread Toralf Lund
Isaac wrote: Hello all. I'm wondering what everyone's opinion is on this. Is it worth using? It is certainly much easier to acquire, but would I be happy with the results? Also, are filters needed like with real bw film? I tried one film a while back. Konica VX400, I think it was called. The

Re: Re[2]: C 41 BW film

2005-02-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
My experience with XP2 says that you were overexposing it too much at ASA 200, compressing tonal scale quite a lot. I found it best in the range ASA 320 to 640. Going down to 200-250 produces very flat negative: all the highlights are compressed. Yes, underexposing it creates grainier images.

RE: BH fire - follow up

2005-02-28 Thread Amita Guha
Thanks for posting this, Godfrey! -Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 3:26 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: BH fire - follow up I sent a note to Henry Posner of BH Photo/Video when I saw the report about

Winter is still here

2005-02-28 Thread Graywolf
Seems like winter is still here. There is 12 of snow on my truck and it is still falling. That is after 3 weeks of Chinook like weather. I have a doctor's appointment. I hope they will be there. -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof

Re: You have to 'love' electronics.

2005-02-28 Thread Fred
Persnickety things electronics -- they have off days. :-) Yeah - it's just like computers - they're not all ones and zeroes - g. Fred

Re[3]: C 41 BW film

2005-02-28 Thread Alin Flaider
Highlights are compressed at 200 but that's a small price to pay for clean shadows. Originally I was shooting XP2 at 400 ASA as the recommended optimum sensitivity. Darker shadows than 2 EVs then comes out with blotchy, irregular grain. And it's grain all right not just noise introduced

RE: [personal] Re: LX Repair Update

2005-02-28 Thread brooksdj
Frank. Only other place i can think of that might be able to do it if Komineks is unablle is Sun Camera Repair at Keele and Steeles.(1 block east) They fixed my SP500 and Yashica Mat 2 1/4. I was happy with both repairs. Dave If Kominek's can't

Re: PAW: Willy the Springer Spaniel

2005-02-28 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/27/2005 11:53:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, Paul, since the lighting was primarily flash, what specifically caused this look and how can it be avoided. Please remember, you're talking to a guy who's never used a flash ;-)) Shel ===

Re: Winter is still here

2005-02-28 Thread m.9.wilson
From: Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems like winter is still here. There is 12 of snow on my truck and it is still falling. That is after 3 weeks of Chinook like weather. I have a doctor's appointment. I hope they will be there. We had the ubiquitous 1/2inch of snow and everything grinds

Re: PESO - End Of The Season

2005-02-28 Thread Mark Cassino
Thanks - I thought I started a new thread for that. Does this mean that if I hit reply to to a random message and change the subject line, it still sits in the old thread? I guess that is what I get for being to lazy to just pull the address out of my address book... - MCC - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Winter is still here

2005-02-28 Thread brooksdj
Expecting our weekly 6-10 of snow today and Tuesday. Maybe i can finish off the roll of Tmax in the camera.g Drive slow Tom.:-) Dave Seems like winter is still here. There is 12 of snow on my truck and it is still falling. That is after 3 weeks of Chinook

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread David Zaninovic
I would be more happy if they worked on more exposure latitude than more megapixels. D has much less exposure latitude than Astia 100F. I can't take any pictures at noon like I could with Astia. :) Astia was great, but digital wins in every other aspect except exposure latitude for me. Maybe

High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread Rick Womer
I'm going to be shooting a high school play in a few days. The lighting isn't great, and since I'll be using the 80-320 zoom on my PZ-1p a fair amount I'd like to keep the shutter speed respectable. Would I be better off (1) using 800-speed film and underexposing it by a stop; (2) using

Bulk inbox

2005-02-28 Thread Jack Davis
Group, Easily 2/3's of the list posts are winding up in my BULK mail. I understand that opening and noting not spam should~eventually~educate Yahoo as to what isn't Spam. Too tedious considering the number. Anyone? Anyone? Jack __ Do you

Re: SMC Pentax 38/3.5 on *ist D

2005-02-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
What lenses were both of you using? Godfrey --- Marco Alpert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 27, 2005, at 2:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a 100% crop of a high contrast area that would reveal any bloom: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3155211size=lg Hmmm... and

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
If you shoot RAW and convert in PSCS, you should have plenty of exposure latitude, at least as much as color negative film. It's a matter of exposing correctly and using the four key controls: exposure, shadow, brightness, and contrast. Paul I would be more happy if they worked on more

Re: SMC Pentax 38/3.5 on *ist D

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
My test was shot with the K 28/3.5. I believe Marco was using the FA 135/2.8. What lenses were both of you using? Godfrey --- Marco Alpert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 27, 2005, at 2:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a 100% crop of a high contrast area that would reveal

Re: Bulk inbox

2005-02-28 Thread Jon M
I set up an extra folder called PDML and set up a filter to send anything from the list to that folder. It also makes it easy to delete everything once I've read what little I want to. --- Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Group, Easily 2/3's of the list posts are winding up in my BULK

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Rick Womer Subject: High-speed color print film question I'm going to be shooting a high school play in a few days. The lighting isn't great, and since I'll be using the 80-320 zoom on my PZ-1p a fair amount I'd like to keep the shutter speed respectable.

Re: SMC Pentax 38/3.5 on *ist D

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Marco Alpert Subject: Re: SMC Pentax 38/3.5 on *ist D On Feb 27, 2005, at 2:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a 100% crop of a high contrast area that would reveal any bloom: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3155211size=lg Hmmm... and no bloom

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: David Zaninovic Subject: Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition? I would be more happy if they worked on more exposure latitude than more megapixels. D has much less exposure latitude than Astia 100F. Where were you when some list members were insisting that digital

Re: You have to 'love' electronics.

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Fred Subject: Re: You have to 'love' electronics. Yeah - it's just like computers - they're not all ones and zeroes - g. There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don't. William Robb

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread David Zaninovic
That is fine for photographs but for snapshots it does not work. For example when I give the camera to my wife. :) I want the camera to think for her as much as possible. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:49 AM

Re: Bulk inbox

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Jack Davis Subject: Bulk inbox Group, Easily 2/3's of the list posts are winding up in my BULK mail. I understand that opening and noting not spam should~eventually~educate Yahoo as to what isn't Spam. Too tedious considering the number. Anyone? Anyone? Use a

Re: SMC Pentax 38/3.5 on *ist D

2005-02-28 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Paul say again: was that the K28/3.5? Shel On Feb 27, 2005, at 2:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a 100% crop of a high contrast area that would reveal any bloom: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3155211size=lg

Re: PAW: US president Bush in Slovakia

2005-02-28 Thread Albano Garcia
Sad you didn't had a good snipper rifle :-( --- Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, no political content... ;-) just a quick one from the many photos I took at the Bush-Putin summit. http://www.frantisekvlcek.com/paw This is from Hviezdoslav's square, the only place those

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
The latitude of digital varies greatly in regard to the way one works. - Original Message - From: David Zaninovic Subject: Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition? I would be more happy if they worked on more exposure latitude than more megapixels. D has much less exposure latitude

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: David Zaninovic Subject: Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition? That is fine for photographs but for snapshots it does not work. For example when I give the camera to my wife. :) I want the camera to think for her as much as possible. Poor women, such silly

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread David Zaninovic
Being happy shooting Astia at noon with great shadow and highlight detail and bitching about scanning and waiting for slides to come back from developing. Where were you when some list members were insisting that digital had 15 stops of latitude.?

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread David Zaninovic
This digital exposure latitude looks more like Velvia 50 to me. That is fine for controlled shooting but for noon snapshots it is terrible, I hope that AF360 can control this contrast at least for people snapshots. - Original Message - From: David Zaninovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Winter is still here

2005-02-28 Thread Graywolf
Yep I made it and they were there. Funny thing is the weather channel is still predicting 1-3 inches accumulation. I wonder if those guys ever go outdoors at all? Aside to Mark Roberts: This stuff is headed your way, enjoy (grin). graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: David Zaninovic Subject: Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition? This digital exposure latitude looks more like Velvia 50 to me. That is fine for controlled shooting but for noon snapshots it is terrible, I hope that AF360 can control this contrast at least for people

Re: SMC Pentax 38/3.5 on *ist D

2005-02-28 Thread Marco Alpert
On Feb 28, 2005, at 7:51 AM, William Robb wrote: All it means is that Paul didn't reproduce an artifact that you were able to create. Go out and take pictures with the darned thing and stop looking for problems that don't exist. You have a one year warranty, if you really think after taking

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread David Zaninovic
If you are shooting jpegs, you are limiting things somewhat. I also don't think digital has the latitude that film does, but I bow to the knowledge of those who disagree with me on it. Shooting jpegs limits some shadow detail but that detail is mostly noise in my opinion.

Re: Winter is still here

2005-02-28 Thread Peter J. Alling
Sure they do, but I think they're headquartered in Atlanta, and they used up all their remote budgets on the last couple of blizzards and last years Hurricanes. Graywolf wrote: Yep I made it and they were there. Funny thing is the weather channel is still predicting 1-3 inches accumulation. I

RE: You have to 'love' electronics.

2005-02-28 Thread Don Sanderson
Took me a minute to get that, I'm so ashamed. :-( And I'm a computer guy, I deserve 1100100 lashes! Don -Original Message- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:52 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: You have to 'love' electronics.

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
The big limitation in shooting jpegs is that you don't have the exposure control that you get when converting RAW in PSCS. There is no comparison between jpeg and RAW. It's like night and day. Here's a shot I did yesterday to test the 28/3.5 for another member. It includes snow in bright sun

[OT] D2X reviewed...

2005-02-28 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
OK, not so completely OT, as it could be of interest for these hoping for use of this 12MPix sensor in future higher-end Pentax DSLR. And seeing the results (even compared to FF EOS 1Ds mk II) I hope such a *ist{whatever} will happen sooner than later :-)

Re: PAW: Willy the Springer Spaniel

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: wendy beard Subject: Re: PAW: Willy the Springer Spaniel You think getting one to sit still is difficult? Try it with three of 'em! http://www.pbase.com/wendybeard/image/36642090 I see you didn't manage it.. Nice lookin fellas. It turns out we have a

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello Rick, Unless the spot lights are good, that is a very slow lens to be using. I would lean towards the 1600 speed film. You do have the additional issue of color balance. A filter will take care of that, but at the cost of some light - seems like about a 1-2 stops. Another reason to push

Re: You have to 'love' electronics.

2005-02-28 Thread Graywolf
HAR! graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Fred Subject: Re: You have to 'love' electronics. Yeah - it's just like computers - they're not all ones and zeroes - g. There are 10

Re: PESO - End Of The Season

2005-02-28 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:15:02AM -0500, Mark Cassino wrote: Thanks - I thought I started a new thread for that. Does this mean that if I hit reply to to a random message and change the subject line, it still sits in the old thread? That somewhat depends on the software being used to read

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread David Zaninovic
Good highlight and shadow detail, I would be happy with those results. But this was not done at most contrasty time of the day, right ? Do you think that jpg would remove some of the hightlight detail or it makes a difference only in shadows ? You have some realy nice pictures on

Fwd: Re: PAW: Willy the Springer Spaniel

2005-02-28 Thread wendy beard
tyr again... --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've struggled to get a decent picture of Willy for quite some time. Yesterday I got him to sit still on the stairs for a few moments. He's getting on in years now, but he's still quite handsome. Shot him with the FA 50/1.4 at f8 and a

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread Rick Womer
Nice shots, Bruce! Yeah, I am regretting that I didn't shell out for an istD...but I was expecting the next generation to come along this spring or summer. --- Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a play that I shot last year on digital - mix of 800 and 1600 ISO, some lenses were as

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
--- William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be more happy if they worked on more exposure latitude than more megapixels. D has much less exposure latitude than Astia 100F. Where were you when some list members were insisting that digital had 15 stops of latitude.? Not 15 but

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
--- William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This digital exposure latitude looks more like Velvia 50 to me. That is fine for controlled shooting but for noon snapshots it is terrible, I hope that AF360 can control this contrast at least for people snapshots. If you are shooting jpegs,

RE: You have to 'love' electronics.

2005-02-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Is that a signed or unsigned integer? Godfrey --- Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Took me a minute to get that, I'm so ashamed. :-( And I'm a computer guy, I deserve 1100100 lashes! Don -Original Message- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread brooksdj
Hi Rick. I have only used Fuji's 1600 speed film a few times on some indoor horse shows, no spots, just diffused light from side windows and a bit from some skylights. I was pleasantly suprized at the out come. Grainy yes,but not all that bad if i could get a jump with some light on it. I

PESO - One week in Israel

2005-02-28 Thread Jostein
In the early hours of Sunday, my family and I returned from a one week vacation in Israel. The link below is to six images, one for each of the full days we spent there. http://www.oksne.net/paw/israel/index.html Many, many thanks to PDML'er Boris Liberman and family for their hospitality.

Re: colour shift under big lighting, with samples

2005-02-28 Thread wendy beard
--- Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: somebody here is also shooting horses and similar with D2H, which has an ambient light WB sensor, which I heard is designed to detect flicker in fluorescents, do you exhibit same problem? I don't have a D2H or shoot horses, but I have had lots of

Re: PESO - One week in Israel

2005-02-28 Thread Bob W
Hi, Monday, February 28, 2005, 6:44:55 PM, Jostein wrote: In the early hours of Sunday, my family and I returned from a one week vacation in Israel. The link below is to six images, one for each of the full days we spent there. http://www.oksne.net/paw/israel/index.html Very

Four PUG comments

2005-02-28 Thread brooksdj
Hey gang. I thought i would comment on a few of this months Pug's. Once again, a great job, and some lovely pictures. Planning on commenting on more later, just these for now,: Playing out side the Church by Gianfranco Irlanda Lovely BW

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread Alin Flaider
I'd pick Fujipress 800 / Portra 800 - no push procedure - with a flash 36 and above guide number. The combo will give you a respectable 18 m shooting range. You can add a full exposure stop by lowering the speed to 1/125 and pan. This may give also some interesting trail effects.

Re: PESO - One week in Israel

2005-02-28 Thread brooksdj
Some nice pictures Jostein. As Bob already mentioned, i to like the way you have framed up the colums and the smoke stacks. The window shot and the second sunset are also fantastic. I remember working in Oman,the sun seemed to set in just seconds.:-) Dave

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
Thanks David. This was shot at about one in the afternoon under hazy sun. However, the snow was quite bright, brighter in fact, than it appears in the photo. I think a jpeg would have blown out highlights and lost shadow detail if it was exposed the same as this shot. The key to RAW is in how

Re: Four PUG comments

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
Thanks Dave. It's nice to see someone commenting on the PUG. I have to get back there myself. Paul Hey gang. I thought i would comment on a few of this months Pug's. Once again, a great job, and some lovely pictures. Planning on

Re: Fwd: Re: PAW: Willy the Springer Spaniel

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
Nice shot, Wendy. It almost looks like a painting. Beautiful. Paul tyr again... --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've struggled to get a decent picture of Willy for quite some time. Yesterday I got him to sit still on the stairs for a few moments. He's getting on in years

Re: PESO - One week in Israel

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
Great stuff, Jostein. Love the last one from the Mediterranean and the one of your daughter in Jerusalem. Paul In the early hours of Sunday, my family and I returned from a one week vacation in Israel. The link below is to six images, one for each of the full days we spent there.

Re: colour shift under big lighting, with samples

2005-02-28 Thread Frantisek
wb I don't have a D2H or shoot horses, but I have had wb lots of trouble with indoor lighting, including shots wb having the colour shift visible over half of the wb frame. Now that's very strange! Especially as i't is mirrored in the two photos! I assume the camera worked fine in other venues?

Re: Hmm.. ist DS competition?

2005-02-28 Thread David Zaninovic
Thank you ! I will try these tips and will do some more investigation on raw vs jpg highlight/shadow detail, there might be hope afterall. :) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Hmm.. ist DS

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks, Alin. I prefer to shoot without flash to avoid distracting audience and performers. I was considering shooting the dress rehearsal with flash and my 24-90 set wide from up on the stage, but I have to work... --- Alin Flaider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd pick Fujipress 800 / Portra

Re: PESO - One week in Israel

2005-02-28 Thread Rick Womer
Those are lovely shots. Not at all your typical postcard stuff! --- Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the early hours of Sunday, my family and I returned from a one week vacation in Israel. The link below is to six images, one for each of the full days we spent there.

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread Frantisek
RW Would I be better off (1) using 800-speed film and RW underexposing it by a stop; (2) using 800-speed film RW and asking the lab to push it; or (3) using 1600 speed RW film? Both Superia 800 and 1600 do fine. Better yet (marginally) are Press 800 and 1600. All by Fuji. Grain? What size of

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
Frantisek opined: And if you miss digital, digital has as much blue noise under tungsten lighting as the worst film, IF you whitebalance it so it looks like daylight. Heavy postpro is required for noise reduction. For best results with digital, I think classic CC filters are needed. remember,

Re: AC Adaptor for *ist-D/*ist-Ds

2005-02-28 Thread mike wilson
Simon King wrote: Thanks Gonz, No, I'm not paranoid about getting exactly 3000ma, I just wanted to get a ballpark figure on what the Pentax adaptor drew so I could get a similar spec. I just think it's ridiculous to spend an extra $50 just to have the word Pentax on a power adaptor. I suggest

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
Frantisek opined: And if you miss digital, digital has as much blue noise under tungsten lighting as the worst film, IF you whitebalance it so it looks like daylight. Heavy postpro is required for noise reduction. For best results with digital, I think classic CC filters are needed.

Re: Book Competition

2005-02-28 Thread mike wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/27/2005 4:06:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tie-breaker :-) What single thing do you consider to be the most important element of photography? == The front element. Silver.

Re: Book Competition

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
Without trying to be humorous (although sometimes I'm humorous without trying g), I'd have to say the most important element of photography is light. In fact, light is not only the most important element, it is the essence of photography. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated

Re: Book Competition

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
What single thing do you consider to be the most important element of photography? == The front element. Silver. Pretty girls

RE: Grip for *isDS?

2005-02-28 Thread Jens Bladt
Great idea!Funny noone thought of this before... BTW: The MZ-S can easily be carried this way without a Grip Strap. The body/handle is very so well designed - I could carry mine using just two fingers! Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig

RE: Grip for *isDS?

2005-02-28 Thread Jens Bladt
It's very nice. I never use the neck strap at all, anyway. My conserns are two things, though: 1) The tripod mount! 2) Is the base plate strong enough! Jens Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Jim Hemenway [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: colour shift under big lighting, with samples

2005-02-28 Thread wendy beard
--- Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wb I don't have a D2H or shoot horses, but I have had wb lots of trouble with indoor lighting, including shots wb having the colour shift visible over half of the wb frame. Now that's very strange! Especially as i't is mirrored in the two photos!

Re: colour shift under big lighting, with samples

2005-02-28 Thread Graywolf
Those are interesting. Are they taken from aproximately the same point and time of day? If they are it is a camera problem no a lighting problem becase the color cast has shifted from one side to the other. Of course there could be window to either side and one was shot in the early morning and

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread Frantisek
pcn *ist D, tungsten WB setting, ISO 800, f1.4 @ 1/45th: pcn http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3145171size=lg Oh I know, Paul, it almost looks like I am clashing into your opinions ;-) Perhaps I wrote it confusingly. I was hinting at that the WB feature of digital is not miraculous,

Re: Book Competition

2005-02-28 Thread DagT
Photography is a very light art På 28. feb. 2005 kl. 22.04 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Without trying to be humorous (although sometimes I'm humorous without trying g), I'd have to say the most important element of photography is light. In fact, light is not only the most important element, it is

Re: Book Competition

2005-02-28 Thread Christian
What single thing do you consider to be the most important element of photography? == The front element. Silver. Pretty girls Rubber. OOPS! wrong mailing list -- Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread pnstenquist
No problem, Frantisek. I enjoy the debates and never take any of it personally. I don't know enough about the way white balance is controlled to answer intelligently. But my 200W bulbs are conventional tungsten floodlights, not photofloods. Other low-light tungsten efforts have pleased me. I

Re: colour shift under big lighting, with samples

2005-02-28 Thread John Francis
wendy beard mused: I don't have a D2H or shoot horses, but I have had lots of trouble with indoor lighting, including shots having the colour shift visible over half of the frame. http://www.muddypawz.net/dfst3/images/127_2703.jpg http://www.muddypawz.net/dfst3/images/127_2708.jpg

Re: Test. pls. ignore

2005-02-28 Thread Jostein
Cotty wrote: On 27/2/05, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed: Just checking in again. I suppose it's already known what I've been up to... :-) Welcome back - and what have you been up to? Cheers, Cotty Thanks, mate. Your post never reached me, I found it in the archives just now. Haven't been up

Re: Book Competition

2005-02-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Christian Subject: Re: Book Competition Rubber. Did you mean latex?

Fwd: Re: colour shift under big lighting, with samples

2005-02-28 Thread wendy beard
Hmm, reply didn't appear again. (see below) --- Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that's very strange! Especially as i't is mirrored in the two photos! I assume the camera worked fine in other venues? Was it just these two, or a whole bunch from that venue? It might also be

Re: Four PUG comments

2005-02-28 Thread Gianfranco Irlanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Playing out side the Church by Gianfranco Irlanda Lovely BW shot. Yes it fits the theme quite well.:-) Nice shadow detail and the highlights not to bad either. Hi Dave, Thanks for the kind words! The PUG picture is a scan of a small minilab print, which was

Re: Re[3]: C 41 BW film

2005-02-28 Thread Mark Cassino
This must be one of those YMMV issues... I never shot enough XP2 to form a conclusive opinion, and I never did any testing of it. I just shot a handful of rolls over a while and decided I like regular silver. Having said that - after shooting as ISO 400 once, I dropped it to ISO 200. I found

RE: High-speed color print film question

2005-02-28 Thread Jens Bladt
Fuji Superia 1600 ASA has finer grain than the 800 ASA!! Brilliant film for low light: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/5613890/ Regards Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Rick Womer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 28.

RE: Grip for *isDS?

2005-02-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Fra: Jim Hemenway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone here tried one of these grips on a DS? Item 3877946031 on eBay Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's very nice. I never use the neck strap at all, anyway. My conserns are two things, though: 1) The tripod mount! 2) Is the base

Re: Book Competition

2005-02-28 Thread Christian
William Robb wrote on 2/28/2005, 4:46 PM: - Original Message - From: Christian Subject: Re: Book Competition Rubber. Did you mean latex? Depends on your geographic location. -- Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Test. pls. ignore

2005-02-28 Thread Christian
DAMMIT I didn't ignore it! -- Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re[3]: C 41 BW film

2005-02-28 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
By the time I'd moved to XP2 Super and T400CN as my only film emulsions, I was doing all digital scanning to digital print process. Overexposure down in the ASA 200 range created negatives that ran too dense for good scanning practice, a less dense negative renders better results. Of course,

RE: Grip for *isDS?

2005-02-28 Thread Jens Bladt
Thanks for the link. Are you sure they got rexcued from the recent fire at BH? Jens Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 28. februar 2005 23:15 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne:

More PESOs

2005-02-28 Thread mike wilson
Non-Pentax equipment. http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/channel/52/extra/new/display/2677189 http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/cat/3400/display/2677300 http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/cat/3400/display/2677226 All the stuff I've posted so far. http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/mypics/529253

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