RE: OT - Signs of Life

2005-12-04 Thread Bob W
This website reminded me of some of AnnSan's work... http://signsoflife.goose24.org/ Oh dear I'm sorry, but I looked at about twenty so called photos there and some inane unnecessary comments about them - only one even resembled a photograph. Quite right. I came across

Which Optio?

2005-12-04 Thread Juan Buhler
I'd like to get a little compact camera, something I can have with me at all times (I do take the istD with me everywhere, but I want sometime I can have at *all* times, as in at work during meetings and such) So I'm looking at Optios. I want AAs, so that leaves the S6 out. I understand that the

GESO: B+W is so much fun

2005-12-04 Thread Derby Chang
http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/index5/05_12_bw/index.htm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc

Re: Emailing PUG entries

2005-12-04 Thread Jostein
hmmm... Have you checked that your antivirus software does not interfere with your browser settings? This sometimes happens with the latest incarnations of eg. Norton and F-Secure. Jostein Quoting Peter McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Jostein, I've tried IE 6.0 and Firefox 1.5. The

Re: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Subject: Re: Photo scanner vs real film scanner? Well, the Epson scan certainly should be bested by the Minolta film scanner: it's both lower resolution *and* a flatbed scanner with a piece of glass in the way as well as a fixed focus

Re: Emailing PUG entries

2005-12-04 Thread Peter McIntosh
Hi Jostein, Im running Antivir 6. Same result in either browser with anti-virus turned off. Have cleared cache, no difference. Do the various themes for 2006 need to be added to the form? Ciao, P --- Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmmm... Have you checked that your antivirus

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED / Norwegian characters

2005-12-04 Thread Jostein
Quoting Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Charles Robinson wrote: I suggest that Kostas get an emailer than can handle international characters better. :-) It's the list that kicks it back at me. Care to elaborate? Kostas, It's been ages since I used Pine,

Re: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread Toralf Lund
Yes, Toralf, we do. I have the Epson Perfection 3200 Photo. It's kinda allrigt for 6x6 film. I did fine scans from Fuji Velvia 100: http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt/DreamHC/Side24.html For 35mm it's usable, but not brilliant. Or maybe it's just the film:

Re: Emailing PUG entries

2005-12-04 Thread Jostein
Duh! You're completely right Peter. There are no themes registered for 2006. My mistake. Please give me a couple of days. I'll get back to you when I'm back home. Jostein (currently in Cottyland) Quoting Peter McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Jostein, Im running Antivir 6. Same result in

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED / Norwegian characters

2005-12-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/12/05, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed: IIRC, there used to be all sorts of problems with mapping characters between Windows and Pine in the older days of the 'Net... The parrot was pjining for fjords, but kept bumping into the wjindow. stop it, too sjilly Cheers, Cotty ___/\__

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED / Norwegian characters

2005-12-04 Thread Jostein
Quoting Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The parrot was pjining for fjords, but kept bumping into the wjindow. stop it, too sjilly Aha! Chili. That's what you had too much of yesterday! :-) Jostein This message was sent using IMP,

Re: PESO: The Christmas Boat

2005-12-04 Thread keith_w
Jens Bladt wrote: Hello list Every year a Christmas Boat is visiting our small town. From the island of Bornholm. To sell all kinds of nice things manufactured on this small island (45.000 inhabitants). I wanted a rather clear sky or snow for this shot. Well, maybe next year :-) This applet

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with perspective correction

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Dave. That sounds like a logical choice. I'll give it a try. Paul On Dec 3, 2005, at 11:58 PM, David Mann wrote: On Dec 4, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Hi Rob, I downloaded LensFix, and I have the Plug Ins. Where do they go? I tried putting them in plug ins/imports, but

Re: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Exactly. On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Well, the Epson scan certainly should be bested by the Minolta film scanner: it's both lower resolution *and* a flatbed scanner with a piece of glass in the way as well as a fixed focus optical system. The point of the comparison

Re: Pentax RAW vs JPEG Shootout

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Processing performance is fine, even without the latest equipment. I have a dual 1.25 G4 with a large scratch disk and 1.5 gig of ram. It zips right along on 144 meg, 16-bit files. Storage isn't a big problem. Both drives and DVDs are relatively inexpensive. Paul On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:35 AM,

Re: Emailing PUG entries

2005-12-04 Thread Peter McIntosh
No problem. Happy to wait... :-) Ciao, Peter in Sydney --- Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duh! You're completely right Peter. There are no themes registered for 2006. My mistake. Please give me a couple of days. I'll get back to you when I'm back home. Jostein (currently in

Re: Pentax RAW vs JPEG Shootout

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
I agree as well. I've made prints from files with dpi numbers like 311.67, and the results were identical to those from 300 dpi files. But I prefer to work with one resolution in order to achieve a standardized workflow. It just so happens that the 72 meg files I generate using the top step of

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Excellent point. I feel much better knowing that I not only have my processed tiff in storage but my untouched RAW file as well. Paul On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:46 AM, graywolf wrote: Shooting jpeg is sort of like shooting negtives and sending them out to one of those places that make slides from

Re: First DA 12-24 Shot

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Dave. Yeah, I didn't notice the footprints until I looked at the pic. I could PhotoShop them, but I think it's too much work. Real carpets have footprints :-). On Dec 4, 2005, at 1:46 AM, David Savage wrote: Great shot. Ugly room. :-) In future I'd recommend sweeping the carpet to get

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with perspective correction

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Bruce. I agonized over spending that much money on a DA lens, but I'm happy that I did so. I'll get a lot of use out of it. Paul On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:37 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote: Having shot a few interiors, I can say that both you and the lens did a wonderful job. Excellent work! --

Optio 50L

2005-12-04 Thread Dario Bonazza
This went unnoticed, hence I'm posting it: http://www.dcviews.com/press/Pentax-50L.htm Dario

Re: Pentax RAW vs JPEG Shootout

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Shell
On Dec 3, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: I think blanket statements regarding optimum print resolution are pretty useless as the printer in concert with the driver its settings and the paper type determine the optimum print resolution. Also I never experienced problems printing

Re: My mail is down

2005-12-04 Thread brooksdj
Mine was down for a bit longer, but seems to be back. The digest kept working though. Thanks Doug for the fixes,if it was you.:-) Dave I didn´t. I received nothing for almost 24 hours, but now it seems to be working again. DagT Den 3. des. 2005

Re: PS help for background removal

2005-12-04 Thread brooksdj
I know i ask more tahn i give, but hey, i keep you guys on your toes.LOL http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2005-chancefri/753_6631.htm It'll require more than basic Photoshop skills and take a lot of hours. Depending on final print size desired

Browser and Lab crashing on Mac OS X

2005-12-04 Thread brooksdj
Found my cd so i loaded up original version then upgraded photo lab and browser. I just want the program to resize pef's to jpg's incase i need to show people a slide show on the road. Now the two progams crash when i load them up and try to open something. Anyone having this problem with the

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with perspective correction

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Hmmm. It's amazing what the clear light of morning can do for one's thinking. I found the installation instructions in the lens fix download and installed it. A 0.01 adjustment resolved the bit of barrel distortion on the pic. Thanks to Rob for this tip. I'm going to buy the software. (You can

Re: First DA 12-24 Shot

2005-12-04 Thread Pancho Hasselbach
David Savage schrieb: Great shot. Ugly room. :-) Hey c'mon, it's so lo-ve-ly! I'm always been dreaming of such a bedroom - oops, in my nightmares... In future I'd recommend sweeping the carpet to get rid of the foot prints in the pile. And I wonder if it's a lightbulb halfway hidden under

Re: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:59 AM, William Robb wrote: Well, the Epson scan certainly should be bested by the Minolta film scanner: it's both lower resolution *and* a flatbed scanner with a piece of glass in the way as well as a fixed focus optical system. If you look at the way a dedicated

Re: First DA 12-24 Shot

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Hi Pancho, Thanks for the feedback. I've correct the perspective. The revised shot is here: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3924346size=lg. Since posting that i've also corrected the bit of barrel distortion you can see in the left post. Thanks to Rob who pointed that out. I posted

Re: GESO: B+W is so much fun

2005-12-04 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:03 AM, Derby Chang wrote: http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/index5/05_12_bw/index.htm Very nice work, Derby! Godfery

Re: Browser and Lab crashing on Mac OS X

2005-12-04 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I haven't got them installed on my system any more, but what worked fine for Mac OS X v10.4.x was to install both, open Browser on a directory of PEFs, then use Browser's menu to open a file in Lab. I found I had to do that once, after that Lab opened without having to be launched through

Re: I gave myself birthday gifts

2005-12-04 Thread Bill Owens
Thanks, Tom If I'm able to get over this constant pain, I'm looking forward to using them. The extension tubes arrived yesterday and looks like they will be fine with the *istD and the 50/1.7. Bill - Original Message - From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net

Re: M series aperture blade question

2005-12-04 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
That's the sort of thing I always send a lens to a technician to correct. Godfrey On Dec 3, 2005, at 2:23 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: Hey, folks! In an effort to stimulate the gear-headedness around here, I thought I might mention a little problem I'm having with an M series lens. The

RE: PESO: The Christmas Boat

2005-12-04 Thread Jens Bladt
Thanks a lot Kieth. The PhotoVista Panorama makes it easy to have java applets running in no time at all. Oh, my old web site - I actually should update my old Get2net.dk page soon. Only the first page is actually jensblad.dk - the link take you to my old site, which I cannot edit anymore. Thanks

PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread frank theriault
Spotted a couple of Sundays ago outside the Jetfuel Cafe here in Toronto: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3925673 Comments always welcome. Thanks in advance. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson

Re: PAW: Waiting for the Bathurst Car

2005-12-04 Thread frank theriault
On 12/3/05, Mat Maessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's the expression on the woman's face, and her body language, along with the general setting that make it work for me. It's the kind of expression that you see a lot in the NY city subways, when people are impatiently peering down the

SV: PESO: Terminator Ladybird

2005-12-04 Thread Jens Bladt
Very nice shots, Albano. For a Nikon :-) Amazing detail for a standard lens, don't you think! regards Jens Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Albano Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2005 16:03 Til: PDML Emne: PESO: Terminator Ladybird Hi

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread P. J. Alling
Interesting variation on the bicycle and baguette theme... frank theriault wrote: Spotted a couple of Sundays ago outside the Jetfuel Cafe here in Toronto: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3925673 Comments always welcome. Thanks in advance. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments always welcome. Thanks in advance. Nice surprise. The title immediately provokes café table and related associations and then the actual scene is totally different. Well done. Really like it and could only think of one single improvement:

Re: PESO: The Christmas Boat

2005-12-04 Thread frank theriault
On 12/4/05, Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list Every year a Christmas Boat is visiting our small town. From the island of Bornholm. To sell all kinds of nice things manufactured on this small island (45.000 inhabitants). I wanted a rather clear sky or snow for this shot. Well,

Re: PESO: The Christmas Boat

2005-12-04 Thread J
I tried to view this photo also and it will not come up...I am on a cable modem... At 12:10 PM 12/4/05, you wrote: On 12/4/05, Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list Every year a Christmas Boat is visiting our small town. From the island of Bornholm. To sell all kinds of nice

Re: First DA 12-24 Shot

2005-12-04 Thread graywolf
Interesting, Paul, you seem to have nailed that distortion. Although measuring with a caliper indicates that the center of the top bottom and middle of the post are close enough to the same distance from the edge of the frame to not matter, my brain insists that there has to be some distortion

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread Rick Womer
Nice, Frank--nice bit of whimsy and incongruity. Cropping out the right 1/4 would improve it, methinks. Rick --- frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spotted a couple of Sundays ago outside the Jetfuel Cafe here in Toronto: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3925673

PESO PAW - Blue in my Lap

2005-12-04 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Blue is my friend Linda's cat. He's an affectionate Maine Coon. One afternoon he was especially friendly, and made himself at home in my lap for a while. Grabbed this with the little Sony DSC-S85. http://home.earthlink.net/~digisnaps/blue/lap1.html Shel You meet the nicest people with a

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED / Norwegian characters

2005-12-04 Thread graywolf
You misspelled pjarrot, Cjotty. Also, you do not use j before and i as it has a y'ish sound, yi! graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Cotty wrote: On 4/12/05, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed: IIRC, there used to be

Re: Pentax RAW vs JPEG Shootout

2005-12-04 Thread graywolf
18% gray is not a myth. It is just that most people do not understand where it comes from. If you go out and measure thousands of scenes with an averaging meter, the average of those exposures will come out to 18% gray. So 18% reflectance is an average value, where you want to put that average

Re: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread Jens Bladt
If the question is wether to get a digital camera or a flatbed neg scnanner, the answer is: Get a digital camera. If the question is wether to get a digital camera or a film scanner, the answer is: Get a digtal camera. If the question is wether to get a film scanner or a flatbed scanner for

RE: Pentax RAW vs JPEG Shootout (was - Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched)

2005-12-04 Thread Jens Bladt
If you start shooting RAW, you'll probabnly never shoot a single JPEG again ever. I don't. Remember to get a huge harddrive in you computer :-) Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2005 09:38 Til: pentax

RE: PESO - Life and death

2005-12-04 Thread Jens Bladt
A nice thought (and shot) - combining the shed and the tomb stones. I doubt, however, that people actually lived in this windowless shed?? Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Tim Øsleby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. december 2005 13:31 Til:

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread Bruce Dayton
This one is nice. It holds my attention and your caption made me look just a bit closer. Well done, Frank. -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, December 4, 2005, 8:48:10 AM, you wrote: ft Spotted a couple of Sundays ago outside the Jetfuel Cafe here in Toronto: ft

Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched

2005-12-04 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/3/2005 9:48:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shooting jpeg is sort of like shooting negtives and sending them out to one of those places that make slides from them, but they throw away the negative. Shooting raw is like shooting negatives and keeping

PESO: Just a tile

2005-12-04 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/photo/239824. The single element lens was involved here... But no image manipulation otherwise... Have your say please! Boris

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread Ann Sanfedele
frank theriault wrote: Spotted a couple of Sundays ago outside the Jetfuel Cafe here in Toronto: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3925673 Comments always welcome. Thanks in advance. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson love this

Re: PESO: Terminator Ladybird

2005-12-04 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Albano Garcia wrote: I usually do, but this time wanted for people to look at it at 100% Regards Albano Albano, I never did get it to load - have pity on the dial-up users and those whose monitors are set such that one has to scroll to look at the whole image. ann

Re: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/4/2005 10:11:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way - DSLR's cost no more than a film scanner. If you choose a Pentax, you may still use you analog lenses for the next 5-10 years. Jens Bladt === Good advice. Scanning is a PITA. Marnie aka

Re: PESO: SMCP-DA 40 Limited

2005-12-04 Thread Bertil Holmberg
Awesome picture! I like this lens a lot too. Regards, Bertil Here are some Koi in Hawaii http://istds.blogspot.com/2005/12/koi.html

Re: for sale Saturday in NY but Friday somewhere

2005-12-04 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/3/2005 12:08:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The brains were the kind you eat - calves brains. ann = OH. Ugh. Thanks. Great shot. Marnie ;-)

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED / Norwegian characters

2005-12-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/12/05, graywolf, discombobulated, unleashed: You misspelled pjarrot, Cjotty. Also, you do not use j before and i as it has a y'ish sound, yi! Thanks bjuddy ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED / Norwegian characters

2005-12-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/12/05, graywolf, discombobulated, unleashed: You misspelled pjarrot, Cjotty. Also, you do not use j before and i as it has a y'ish sound, yi! BTW Jostein thought you looked very dapper in the Stetson but he might have been tanked up with Hobgoblin !!! Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O)

Re: Pentax RAW vs JPEG Shootout (was - Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched)

2005-12-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/12/05, Jens Bladt, discombobulated, unleashed: If you start shooting RAW, you'll probabnly never shoot a single JPEG again ever. On the contrary, I shot RAW three and a half years ago when I got a D60, but for the sort of stuff I do, for the output I use, jpegs do me just fine and I don't

Re: PESO PAW - Blue in my Lap

2005-12-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/12/05, Shel Belinkoff, discombobulated, unleashed: Blue is my friend Linda's cat. He's an affectionate Maine Coon. One afternoon he was especially friendly, and made himself at home in my lap for a while. Grabbed this with the little Sony DSC-S85.

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread Cotty
On 4/12/05, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: Spotted a couple of Sundays ago outside the Jetfuel Cafe here in Toronto: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3925673 Comments always welcome. Thanks in advance. For me, it's *nearly there*. I love the idea, but the dark space

Re: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread Powell Hargrave
Another option is to photograph a slide with a digital camera. Good enough for may uses. Did this yesterday with the Ds and Sigma 50mm Macro. Full size - 270k highly compressed Jpeg. Grain on slide is not quite as apparent. http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/Dickie_Fowl-Chick-3.jpg Doesn't work

Re: SV: PESO: Terminator Ladybird

2005-12-04 Thread Albano Garcia
Thanks Jens. Yes, I'm amazed at the detail given by this cheap zoom. What's funny is the ladybird is still there, keeps eating the plant louses. Regards Albano --- Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very nice shots, Albano. For a Nikon :-) Amazing detail for a standard lens, don't you

A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-04 Thread Jens Bladt
I have been trying out three different lenses in the 70-200mm range. Sigma EX 2.8/70-200mm APO Tokina AT-X Pro 2.8/80-200mm SMCP-FA 2.8/80-200mm ED(IF) All of them seem to suffer from Back Focus. The Sigma not much, though. Had I been offered a used Sigma, I probably would have bought it. I

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Good shot, although the title had me expecting something different. That's not necessarily a negative. But that (apparently empty?) styrofoam cup doesn't really say cappuccino to me. The shot stands on it's own however. I like it. Paul On Dec 4, 2005, at 11:48 AM, frank theriault wrote:

Re: PESO: Just a tile

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Interesting. It appears to be three-dimensional due to the pattern on the tile. On Dec 4, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/photo/239824. The single element lens was involved here... But no image manipulation otherwise... Have your say please! Boris

Re: Pentax RAW vs JPEG Shootout (was - Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched)

2005-12-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you start shooting RAW *Everybody* shoots RAW - it's just that some let the camera do the conversion to JPEG for them before the shot's stored on their memory card. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com

Nikon LS2000?

2005-12-04 Thread Toralf Lund
A follow up to the photo/film scanner thread: I've come across a used Nikon LS2000. Any opinions on this model? What do you reckon a unit (allegedly) in good condition is worth? - Toralf

Re: Pentax RAW vs JPEG Shootout (was - Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched)

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
And of course the camera makes all the decisions: highlight values, shadow value, color temperature, tint, sharpness. I prefer to make my own decisions. Paul On Dec 4, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you start shooting RAW *Everybody* shoots

Rebate for 9 pentax lenses

2005-12-04 Thread Igor Roshchin
Hi All! I am not sure if somebody had posted this before and I missed it. Pentax has a good rebate (in US) for 9 new Pentax lenses, including 31,40,43,77 limited, Macro 100/2.8, and several other lenses. http://www.pentaximaging.com/purchase/rebates_offers/index.jsp Rebate form:

Re: PESO PAW - Blue in my Lap

2005-12-04 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Why thank you Cotty. Blue was certainly a happy fellow that afternoon, getting both a lap fix and a nice, warm sunbeam at the same time. Shel Cats you nice meetist the people with a Pentax [Original Message] From: Cotty Very nice shot, very striking and well composed.

RE: Nikon LS2000?

2005-12-04 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Well, it's not a bad scanner even though it's a few generations behind what's current. A couple of years ago a friend and I did some comparison scans between his LS2000 and his Coolscan 4000. With good scanning techniques it was virtually impossible to see the difference between the two on the

RE: Nikon LS2000?

2005-12-04 Thread Shel Belinkoff
http://www.cix.co.uk/~tsphoto/tech/filmscan/ls2000/ls2000.htm http://www.sphoto.com/techinfo/ls2000.html Shel You meet the nicest people with a Pentax [Original Message] From: Toralf Lund I've come across a used Nikon LS2000. Any opinions on this model? What do you reckon a unit

Re: Emailing PUG entries

2005-12-04 Thread Igor Roshchin
I sent this yesterday, but due to technical reasons, my e-mail didn't go through. Peter: I apologize for the problem with the e-mail submission. The block of the IP addresses to which your ISP belongs was incorrectly marked as a source of excessive SPAM. It should be fixed now. Feel free to

Re: PESO: Terminator Ladybird (LOW RES for Ann San...)

2005-12-04 Thread Albano Garcia
Ann, Here you have resized smaller versions (around 50k each): http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar/ladybird/DSC_0232res.jpg http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar/ladybird/DSC_0238res.jpg Also, here you have some 100% magnification crops to see detail (around 120k each):

Re: M series aperture blade question

2005-12-04 Thread Scott Loveless
Thanks, Godfrey. I'm leaning toward sending it off to someone who knows what they're doing. Disassembling a lens scares the crap out of me. Got any suggestions for competent lens repairmen? Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: That's the sort of thing I always send a lens to a technician to correct.

Re: Nikon LS2000?

2005-12-04 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've come across a used Nikon LS2000. Any opinions on this model? What do you reckon a unit (allegedly) in good condition is worth? I've had one for a few years and I was quite happy with it. Due to the LED light source, it tends to emphasize film grain

RE: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread Jens Bladt
This was scanned at a pro lab (film scanner) at 6MB Tiff's. Not good enough. I had to put in a lot of work (hours for each shot) to make them look like this - and still grainy - before publishing. If you want to save time and money - film and scanners is not the way to go. Believe me! Unless

Re: PESO: A Cappuccino and the Paper

2005-12-04 Thread Peter McIntosh
I love it! Ciao, Peter in Sydney --- frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spotted a couple of Sundays ago outside the Jetfuel Cafe here in Toronto: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3925673 Comments always welcome. Thanks in advance. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a

RE: Photo scanner vs real film scanner?

2005-12-04 Thread Jens Bladt
This was scanned at a pro lab (film scanner) at 6MB Tiff's. Not good enough. I had to put in a lot of work (hours for each shot) to make them look like this - and still grainy - before publishing. If you want to save time and money - film and scanners is not the way to go. Believe me! Unless

Re: A better 70-200mm F. 2.8

2005-12-04 Thread graywolf
The photos are rather too small to tell anything from. However, it is most likely an auto-focus problem, not one with the lenses. Try manual focus. After you have the proper part of the image in what you think is correct focus, go look out the window for 5 minutes or so, then come back and

Re: PESO PAW - Blue in my Lap

2005-12-04 Thread Rick Womer
Great shot! Great lighting! Scary purple trousers! Rick --- Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blue is my friend Linda's cat. He's an affectionate Maine Coon. One afternoon he was especially friendly, and made himself at home in my lap for a while. Grabbed this with the little

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Bill Lawlor
Bob Korn(Santa Fe Workshops) swears Epson printers need 360 or multiples thereof. It's about the drivers and heads somehow. Bill Lawlor

Other Pentax rebates (was Re: Rebate for 9 pentax lenses)

2005-12-04 Thread Igor Roshchin
Sorry, I should've mentioned other rebates at the same time. The first link has a few rebates for a few Pentax PS digital cameras. Igor Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:40:50 -0800 Igor Roshchin wrote: Hi All! I am not sure if somebody had posted this before and I missed it. Pentax has a good rebate (in

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED / Norwegian characters

2005-12-04 Thread graywolf
Har! It was a self portrait using the self-timer on the MX. I did not get in exactly the correct position, but decided that I liked the asymmetrical result. Part of me and the hat being cropped off lends a bit of mystery to the photo in my opinion. Now I am sounding artistic, better slow down

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi, Rob at the light Room in Berkeley (Bill, you've been there with me and have seen at least some of his work) suggests 360 dpi when working with the 9600. That printer is much like several other Epson printers except for the size prints it can make. Shel You meet the nicest people with a

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Yet another advocate of 360 dpi on Epson. I've heard a lot of this before. That's why I print at 360. More importantly, my prints look good at that resolution. So why not? No, it may not be necessary, and it takes 20% more storage space than a 300 dpi file, but it's a safe bet and it works.

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread graywolf
Yes, a lot of the Experts recommend that. I think maybe most of them do not quite understand how inkjet printers work. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Bill Lawlor wrote: Bob Korn(Santa Fe Workshops) swears Epson printers

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with perspective correction

2005-12-04 Thread Kenneth Waller
Paul, really nice work here. Is the ceiling a continous color? I see some discontinuities in the ceiling coloration, especially over the double window and a little around the hanging lights. I read somewhere, that it was recommnended to shot room interiors at night, so you wouldn't get outside

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bill Lawlor Shel Belinkoff wrote: Bob Korn(Santa Fe Workshops) swears Epson printers need t360 or multiples hereof. It's about the drivers and heads somehow. Rob at the light Room in Berkeley (Bill, you've been there with me and have seen at

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with perspective correction

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Ken. Yes, the ceiling is a continuous color, but I'm using it as a reflector, so it's not lit evenly. I could work on it a bit. I've tried shooting interiors at night, but the windows aren't very attractive without the light behind them. Much more important is the fact that I'm too

Re: First DA 12-24 pic with perspective correction

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
Hi Ken, I took a look at the image after reading your message. The ceiling is stuccoed, and I think the unevenness you're seeing may be a function of that. It doesn't appear to be related to the lighting. Paul On Dec 4, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Kenneth Waller wrote: Paul, really nice work here.

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Shell
On Dec 4, 2005, at 5:30 PM, graywolf wrote: Yes, a lot of the Experts recommend that. I think maybe most of them do not quite understand how inkjet printers work. Righto. There is almost as much mythology about inkjet printers as there is about traditional darkroom printing. I do

PESO: More from the new toys

2005-12-04 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
One of the first presentable shots from the *istDS: http://www.photosight.ru/photo.php?photoid=1163787ref=author The last remaining blast furnace in the Liège region sitting like a mountain over the roofs of Sclessin. This one will be closed down by 2009, at the latest. As always, comments are

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Shell
On Dec 4, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Any of the image quality advocates up for doing a comparison test? I've already done it. Same image at 200, 300, and 360 ppi. Showed the prints to some photographer friends. None could see any difference. I standardized on 300,

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
What resolution do you print at Bob? I think you said you print at 300. Why? Why not 100? If it doesn't make any difference, you could save a lot of disk space. In other words, t's not rubber chicken voodoo. Every printer performs best at a specific resolution. No one may be able to see the

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Stenquist
I'm surprised, and I don't buy it. I've printed the same image at 200 and 360, and the difference was not hard to see. It was a subtle difference, but easily detectable. I've tried this more than once. If 200 dpi yielded satisfactory results, everyone would print at a lower resolution. But

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Cotty
Forgive me, I tried printing at 200, 250, 300, 360, 388, 391.56756575 and anything else you care to mention. In my book, the proof is in the pudding - I look at my prints (unbelievably) and at 300 they are as good as they are at anything else over 300. To be honest I couldn't fault them at 250

Re: 360 dpi

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Shell
On Dec 4, 2005, at 6:16 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: What resolution do you print at Bob? I think you said you print at 300. Why? Why not 100? If it doesn't make any difference, you could save a lot of disk space. I picked 200 as the lower limit because one of the tech heads at Epson told

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