Passing this along for any who might be interested. It is not just a
100 page eBook, but also contains 8 videos and 7 image files.
Cover shot:
http://christopherodonnellphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/exposure-blending-cover.jpg
The techniques might be useful the means to which he puts them are
problematic. The before and after shot in the last one are a bit
extreme. I guess subtlety isn't his middle name.
On 2/13/2015 8:08 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
Passing this along for any who might be interested. It is not just a
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On 2/12/2015 21:52, Bruce Walker wrote:
Ann, if we take the telephoto example, you will get pronounced
compression that your eyes would not have given the scene.
I'm not sure that is true - it is something I used to
It's a link to the Pentax Fora, sorry about that.
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/16-pentax-news-rumors/288490-unveiling-full-frame-prototype.html
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Very nice colors, exposure and subject.
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Taken from our dinner table this evening:
Interestingly, the mockup has Pentax on the front and back - so there Cotty,
its a Pentax BG
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Subject: An artists rendition of what a finished FF Pentax may
Wow, such a heated debate!
As a scientist, I like pationed civilized discussions!
As a scientist, I also feel obligated to clarify the possible confusions
that occured in the process.
A. Perspective and compression.
First, I would provide a sort of rabbinistic response:
Bruce's point is
Hi Team:
Just thought this might be of interest given a recent thread about
compatibility of DNG files on old software versions.
To my mind, more importantly, it makes the case for paper :-)))—print your
photos—and an even better idea is to make photo books—which with Lightroom are
really fun
Still looks like a big, blocky thing.
G
It's a link to the Pentax Fora, sorry about that.
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I just read on BBC the article about the bombing of Dresden exactly 70
years ago:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31448992
Remembering those events is important to deter repeat of such events.
(Unfortunately, as the recent history shows, it is impossible to avoid
those due to the loss of
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But let's start wringing our hands.
I did that when the MZ-D was cancelled ;-)
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What is the difference between Exposure Blending and HDR?
Darren Addy wrote:
Passing this along for any who might be interested. It is not just a
100 page eBook, but also contains 8 videos and 7 image files.
Cover shot:
On 12/2/15, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed:
It's pretty routine now. Even for smaller companies. I'd be surprised
if Pentax made prototype models any other way.
Bright pink Play Doh next.
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It would be pretty blocky, it's got a FF prism, an articulating screen,
and a full frame mirror box, and probably a very powerful, for a camera
body at least autofocus motor, all of which take up space. It's still
probably smaller than a Canon EOS with none of those things.
On 2/13/2015
I seem to remember Pentax showing a mockup or prototype before, which never
actually hit the streets. I could show a mockup of a time machine, doesn't mean
I'll ever be able to travel forward to 2525 to watch Cotty eat his hat when the
camera is available in whatever passes for shops then.
On 2/13/2015 09:20, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
On 2/12/2015 21:52, Bruce Walker wrote:
Ann, if we take the telephoto example, you will get pronounced
compression that your eyes would not have given the scene.
I'm not sure
Recent motherboards don't even have floppy controllers built onto them
and no one makes a PCI anything floppy controller add in board, so 5 1/4
floppys are dead unless you happen to have an older machine, (I have one
for running my film scanner), you can still buy 3 1/2 inch USB floppy
drives,
I saw a bit of a convo between two Facebook connections with this with
one disbelieving that this could be a problem. Someone, somewhere can
read your old file formats, he stated confidently.
I'm tempted to show him some 1 paper tape and ask him if he knows
anyone who can still read that.
But
The results of this and HDR can be similar but the techniques are very
different.
Exposure Blending is more subject-directed than HDR, which is a global
effect. With EB you end up creating masks over specific features in
the image to select different exposures. I've done something similar
to it
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That's why I want him to eat it now, on credit so to speak.
Everything's got to be now with you city folk.
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Thanks for posting the details, Igor - I can't always remember the
science, and sometimes I can't grasp it all, but I definitely am in
the why I love science school. And well aware of the portrait
lens effect - my second favorite lens.
The only reason I ever see for using a wide angle is if
The compatibility of DNG across generations of processing software is akin to
negative management. Making prints is at the other end of the workflow, these
are your finished, rendered works.
I started a two prints a week project this year. That is, I am printing two
of my finished photos per
I expect you'll see one as you're turing around, Bob.
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Somebody ought to invent a Universal Machine!
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Recent motherboards don't even have floppy
On Feb 13, 2015, at 5:35 pm, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote:
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/865/#peso
That's great! Very photogenic - I hope they never 'pretty it up'.
Also not wishing to be picky (har!) but just correcting your comment in the
'Tree' post. Both the
The problem that stopped the Contax and MZ-D in their tracks was that Phillips
was unable to manufacture the sensor to spec, on time, and in sufficient volume
at the agreed upon price. The camera manufacturers dropped the project rather
than renegotiate the deal because the performance was so
Strange looking river, maybe it has water only a few months per year?
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:46 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote:
Australians have a pretty loose definition of river :)
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/863/#peso
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I well know the mushroom
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I'm with you, Cotty; I found it fugly as hell.
Did they fire the K-3/5/7 designers?
Odd. I really like the look of the new camera.
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I'm with Mark. If anything is fugly it is the hump on the K-3 that
is basically just for a headphone jack. But it isn't anything to get
in a kerfuffle over. Form follows function. The only design problem I
ever had with Pentax was their weird prism housing on the K-30 with
looks like some
I think you're confusing the media with the message (DATA).
IF the DATA on those old disks was important you should/would have
backed it up onto newer media translated it into new formats.
My old Quattro Pro spreadsheets are long gone, but before I left them
behind, I moved the information
Thanks.
Here's one from further away:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17966335
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks.
Here's one from further away:
The world learned quite a bit from the bombing, make sure you're
unassailable before you start grabbing off other peoples land, or
provoke a larger power, Russia has nukes, so no one want's to stop
Russia when it nibbles off chunks of it's smaller neighbors, North Korea
has Nukes so when they
But if you use a 3D printer to create your time machine mockup, and
then photoshop the shots you'll convince way more people and ignite
some great firestorms on the Time Machine User forums.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Bob W-PDML p...@web-options.com wrote:
I seem to remember Pentax showing
Somebody ought to invent a Universal Machine!
On 13 Feb 2015, at 19:47, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
Recent motherboards don't even have floppy controllers built onto them and no
one makes a PCI anything floppy controller add in board, so 5 1/4 floppys are
dead unless
The previous FF Pentax the so called MZ-D was actually out for testing,
not a mockup, but hand assembled working prototypes, (there were
supposedly 6 of them almost released to the wild). I expect that Pentax
dropped plans for it's production because, it was only 6mp and would
have cost an
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
No argument at all with you there , Bruce.. we got way off the original
topic...
Good heavens, Ann, this is the PDML. Tangential threading is
encouraged if not mandatory.
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Interesting how nobody replied to this, which I wrote on Jan. 20th,
regarding Benjamin Kanarek's sudden reappearance on dpreview Pentax
Forum and PentaxForums.com.
Makes me wonder if he might not be evaluating an early edition of the
Pentax FF (Ricoh trying to win one of their most influential
On 13/02/2015 4:02 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
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Benjamin's not so big a name that Ricoh should care if he's back or not,
I bet most of us wouldn't even know who he is if he hadn't been a paid
promoter of Pentax, then again there's the K-01, and the out house
designer responsible, so maybe they do care, but who else does really?
On
Hey Cotty could use a 3D printer to make the hat and use chocaolate as
the material!
jco
On 2/13/2015 2:10 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
But if you use a 3D printer to create your time machine mockup, and
then photoshop the shots you'll convince way more people and ignite
some great firestorms on the
You probably saw a production model not a prototype, since it actually
made it to production.
Here's the Luminous Landscape review, clearly stating it's a released
product, though the review was posted after the camera was already
withdrawn from the market.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote:
Kyocera decided to close up camera operations after that as it had been too
expensive a loss and wasn't their main line of business. Pentax soldiered
forth in a different direction with a smaller Sony sensor and a less
I agree that most of the guy's examples are from the Thomas Kinkade
School, but that's why I said what I said about wielding the tool.
But don't blame the hammer for the monstrosity created with it. And I
also agree that HDR is in that same boat. Sadly, the label has been
mostly ruined by what
I'm fairly confident that file formats like JPEG TIFF will be readable
in the future, for at least as long as archival prints can be expected
to last. The media they're saved on might change, but the files will
last as long as someone remembers to transfer them to newer forms of
media when they
I much prefer this vantage point, like it a lot better than the
previous version.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
The nanotechnology building, through the 10-17 fisheye:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17964476size=lg
Comments?
Rick
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Taken from our dinner table this evening:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17965887size=lg
Comments are invited.
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Beautiful cloud formations, but no palms?
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What in the world is ugly about it? That prism housing remind me of a
Stealth Fighter:
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Attack/F117BankingHardLeft10oClock.jpg
It is only slightly taller, and I think the design has elements that
are reminiscent of the 67ii.
Take the M4 from London.
On 2/12/2015 6:27 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Well obviously one goes in the trunk and one goes in the glove compartment.
On 2/12/2015 1:12 PM, John wrote:
How do you get two whales in a Volkswagon?
On 2/12/2015 4:19 AM, Alan C wrote:
It's smiling at you!
Alan C
Yet more over-processed, eye-watering pap!
John in Brisbane
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What is the difference
I'm with you, Cotty; I found it fugly as hell.
Did they fire the K-3/5/7 designers?
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And yet the world learns nothing from history...the powerful and power
hungry continue to flex their muscles as long as they have young men and
women to send out to do their dying for them.
You see a mix old stone and new in many buildings in Munich as
well...and it is a strange feeling.
-p
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Let us raise a strong wind
I think you should differentiate between media obsolence and file format
obsolence.
Jostein
Den 13. februar 2015 20:34:02 CET, skrev P.J. Alling
webstertwenty...@gmail.com:
Recent motherboards don't even have floppy controllers built onto them
and no one makes a PCI anything floppy
Miserere wrote:
I'm with you, Cotty; I found it fugly as hell.
Did they fire the K-3/5/7 designers?
They are in dire straits in this situation between losing customers and
potential customers over lack of an upgrade path to a Full! Frame!
Sensor! and Osborneing themselves because too many
Quoting Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com:
Strange looking river, maybe it has water only a few months per year?
Not even that often - could be years between flood events, All of the
river systems in Central Australia are ephemeral and most of the time
they are reduced to a few
OMG - what was I thinking!! :-)
a
On 2/13/2015 15:32, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
No argument at all with you there , Bruce.. we got way off the original
topic...
Good heavens, Ann, this is the PDML. Tangential threading is
Possibly, the counter signs were all in Japanese and the representatives at the
counter were no fluent English speakers. Given the date, it could have been an
early production unit or very late prototype/test unit. I was not allowed to
capture any images to my card, though: they had the card
Hum, they must gain something in translation...
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Bob W-PDML wrote:
I seem to remember Pentax showing a mockup or prototype before, which never
actually hit the streets. I could show a mockup of a time machine, doesn't mean
I'll ever be able to travel forward to 2525 to watch Cotty eat his hat when the
camera is available in whatever
Quoting Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com:
Caught this awhile back @ a camera store in Traverse City, Michigan.
A Nikon film body being put to use as a doorstop.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17963887
Sacrilege! Couldn't they have just used a brick (and I'm not talking Argus).
I was always more taken by the original 6x7 looks, the 67II looks too
blccky, on the other hand I'd much rather own a 67II for the
functionality.
On 2/13/2015 5:16 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
What in the world is ugly about it? That prism housing remind me of a
Stealth Fighter:
I don't care what it looks like if it fits my hand and is hefty enough to
balance substantial glass. I doubt that I'll be an early adapter, but I suspect
some of my clients will like those huge files, so I'll be on board at some
point. And I can't resist new toys.
Paul via phone
On Feb 13,
Brian Walters wrote:
Quoting Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com:
Caught this awhile back @ a camera store in Traverse City, Michigan.
A Nikon film body being put to use as a doorstop.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17963887
Sacrilege! Couldn't they have just used a brick (and I'm
Completely unique range of sky colors. Can that green be healthy to breath? ;)
Where was your dinner table?
Jack
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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:52:20 PM
Subject: PESO: 5
You can see why some of the farms in Australia are the size of small nations...
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/867/#peso
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Thanks Attila, Dan, and Bruce!
Rick
On Feb 13, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Attila Boros wrote:
I much prefer this vantage point, like it a lot better than the
previous version.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
The nanotechnology building, through the 10-17
Larry Colen wrote:
Bob W-PDML wrote:
I seem to remember Pentax showing a mockup or prototype before, which never
actually hit the streets. I could show a mockup of a time machine, doesn't
mean I'll ever be able to travel forward to 2525 to watch Cotty eat his hat
when the camera is
The temperature was around 15° F when I took this photo today. So cold
that a number of images I tried to capture were less than successful due
to my intense desire to return to the warmth of the car. I tried a
number of different renderings but the original color seems to convey
the feeling
Looks like West Texas, but more fertile.
On 2/13/2015 10:49 PM, David Mann wrote:
You can see why some of the farms in Australia are the size of small nations...
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/867/#peso
Cheers,
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That's amazing and gorgeous...
(I'm guessing the place you are is called 5 palms.)
Want a weather channel guy to tell us the name of that kind of
cloud formation.
ann
On 2/13/2015 17:04, John wrote:
On 2/13/2015 2:52 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Taken from our dinner table this evening:
Grace has been working in Adobe Fireworks. She’s taught herself to dreate
graphics with it, even using layers. She made this wolf graphis. The background
was snatched from the web, and she started the wolf drawing with a series of
circles that were meant to be a framework on which to draw an
Bruce,
From the person who recently posted Fishy Nanotech:
I like it. I like the way the swirl of tram tracks and paving stones draw the
eye to the building, and I like what the fisheye does to show the context of
the subject.'
I also think it could benefit from more post-processing, to
Or, nano-student in the tera-building.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17964475size=lg
(K-5, DA 16-45)
Comments appreciated!
Rick
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My! That's great! Not really clear on
The process, but I'm still impressed.
Tell her so, Paul.
Jack
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On Feb 13, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Grace has been working in Adobe Fireworks. She’s taught herself to dreate
graphics with it,
The kid has talent!
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Grace has been working in Adobe Fireworks. She’s taught herself to dreate
graphics with it, even using layers. She made this wolf
Again, lacking slightly in quality (photographed through double-glazing from a
moving train and cropped quite heavily), but I just couldn't resist the title.
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/866/#peso
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