Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Bob Sullivan
Wearing some now... Bob S. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Yolanda Rowe ypr...@gmail.com wrote: As another who's had cataract surgery, I completely understand the arm length conundrum. The surgeon and I compromised; the right eye can focus @ about 18 inches, but it's not enough to mess

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 24.03.15 um 00:13 schrieb steve harley: late 1960s … Kodak(none) PentaxTI (none)DEC (none)Alpha-Micro CanonIBM MamiyaAmiga Olympus Apple CanonToshiba YashicaApple Canonno change Pentaxno change … present DEC - Amiga - Apple. :-) Same here. I should

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Yolanda Rowe
Still Pentax after all these years. The first one I had in my mitts was a K1000 circa 1978. There are a few K1000s, a Spotmatic (or two) and an SF1n hanging around here. Their digital stable mates are: *istDS (2; one on loan to a cousin and my son shoots w/the other), K10D, K20D, K-5 and K-3.

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 24.03.15 um 12:25 schrieb Paul Stenquist: I took my first digital stills with a video camera, a black box that I think was called Seeing Eye and an Apple IIc. Yep. Video frame digitisers. All the rage in those days. Had one hooked up to a b/w video camera and used R, G, and B filters to

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
I took my first digital stills with a video camera, a black box that I think was called Seeing Eye and an Apple IIc. Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 6:23 AM, Ralf R Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de wrote: Am 24.03.15 um 00:13 schrieb steve harley: late 1960s … Kodak(none) Pentax

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Yolanda Rowe
As another who's had cataract surgery, I completely understand the arm length conundrum. The surgeon and I compromised; the right eye can focus @ about 18 inches, but it's not enough to mess around with camera displays or tiny fonts. I've found some non-prescription readers by Foster Grant that

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Henk Terhell
A brief history of my Pentax-time: P30T - MX - (+K2+Spotmatics) - MZ-5 - MZ-S - *istD - K10D - K5 And now waiting on FF to get some more use of my old lenses. Never use any film nowadays. Henk Malcolm Smith schreef op 21-3-2015 om 08:59: Following on from the previous thread, what make of

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Ken Waller
Having not worn glasses for most of my life, suddenly a few years back, I found myself needing glasses to read work at my desk - a cheap pair of drugstore glasses worked for awhile. Eventually I needed something more serious for close-up and distance - prescription bifocals were what I went

Re: Shrimp and grits

2015-03-24 Thread P.J. Alling
Then wouldn't that be grimp and shrits? On 3/24/2015 5:38 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:25 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: No Gimp and shits... A spoonerism doesn't have to have all the letters. Unless of course, one chooses to use all

Re: OT 2015 Macbook - Engineer's perspective

2015-03-24 Thread Charles Robinson
On Mar 24, 2015, at 13:39 , Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 24/3/15, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: Aha - I stand corrected - from about 2012 they started gluing them in !!! Ok I'm muddling up. My MBP is 2012 (non-retina) and I can swap mine out with

Re: Shrimp and grits

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
No. Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 6:16 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Then wouldn't that be grimp and shrits? On 3/24/2015 5:38 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:25 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: No Gimp and

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 24 Mar 2015, at 23:30, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: [...] Glasses are one of the biggest PAIN IN THE ASS about getting old ! You're wearing them in the wrong place, Ken. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Shrimp and grits

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:25 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: No Gimp and shits... A spoonerism doesn't have to have all the letters. Unless of course, one chooses to use all the letters. On 3/24/2015 4:57 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Grimp and shits? I'll

Re: Ot: safari users - do you have problems viewing my smugmug page?

2015-03-24 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I'm sure it is out of date, steve -- he had to be dragged kicking and screaming into cyberspace... then he started to like it... but just ignored repeated nags to upgrade Safari.. I suspect that is all it is. ann On 3/24/2015 02:08, steve harley wrote: On 2015-03-23 22:27 , Philip Northeast

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Yolanda Rowe
I wore those expensive rascals prior to the surgeries. Nearsighted as a bat all my life. Using computers and doing course work in my late 30's pushed me into bifocal territory. I hated them, but loved the progressives. I think I may end up with a prescriptive pair. Time will tell. On Tue, Mar

Re: PESO - Waiting for the Abstract Trolley

2015-03-24 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 24.03.15 um 16:00 schrieb Rick Womer: The (choose one) weird / interesting / pathetic thing is: I have taken pretty much the same route walking to and from work for almost 29 years, and I still see new things to photograph. Which is what makes you a real photographer. Ralf -- Ralf R.

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Rick Womer
I've used progressives for almost 20 years. It took about 5 minutes for PJ's psychedelic trip effect to go away; and they let me see my iPhone, computer monitor, and scene out the window clearly. Expensive buggers, though. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:40 AM,

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread P.J. Alling
Trifocals and yes that is a thing. There are also progressives if you like the psychedelic trip effect all the better. On 3/23/2015 11:28 PM, Bill wrote: On 23/03/2015 9:18 PM, Bruce wrote: I was thinking more of the opposite and just putting the reading glasses on and using the screen

1986 digitized video frame

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
Ralph and I discussed this technique briefly in the recent equipment thread. There were a number of digitizers available in the mid ‘80s that could create a digital photo from a single video frame using a video camera attached to a black box device and a computer. I think the device I had was

Re: PESO - Waiting for the Abstract Trolley

2015-03-24 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks, Christine! The (choose one) weird / interesting / pathetic thing is: I have taken pretty much the same route walking to and from work for almost 29 years, and I still see new things to photograph. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Christine Aguila

Re: 1986 digitized video frame

2015-03-24 Thread paul stenquist
Doh. I may have shown this many years ago. On Mar 24, 2015, at 11:28 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Ralph and I discussed this technique briefly in the recent equipment thread. There were a number of digitizers available in the mid ‘80s that could create a digital

Re: 1986 digitized video frame

2015-03-24 Thread Bill
On 24/03/2015 1:12 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: A testimony to why Kodak didn't take digital seriously... Kodak blew it by not seeing the connection between the home computer and digital imaging. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: 1986 digitized video frame

2015-03-24 Thread paul stenquist
On Mar 24, 2015, at 8:05 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/03/2015 1:12 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: A testimony to why Kodak didn't take digital seriously... Kodak blew it by not seeing the connection between the home computer and digital imaging. bill Good point. And

PESO's from March

2015-03-24 Thread Mark C
A few recent PESO's - Muddy March Leaves: http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/muddy-march-leaves (K-3, D-FA 17-70) Swirling Leaves: http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/swirling-leaves (Mz-S, FA 28-105 power-zoom, Pro-Max 100 rated at 50) Trees on a Foggy Morning:

Re: PESO - El Capitan

2015-03-24 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net: Beautiful! You did good with the light and clouds, the BW rending works very well. Thanks, Mark - and also for the comment on Butcher, Draper, Grocer. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia

Re: OT 2015 Macbook - Engineer's perspective

2015-03-24 Thread Darren Addy
The discussion has strayed a bit from the original subject (which was the brand new 1/2 thick MacBook Air). The battery issue goes way beyond not being user replaceable. It uses a new technology of thin tiered batteries which make the maximum use of the curved cavities of the MacBook. From an

PESO - At the Jazz Cafe

2015-03-24 Thread frank theriault
I'm very excited. I took my K10D out for a walk on Saturday and actually took photos. This was at the Jazz Cafe, becoming a favourite place of mine: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2015/03/at-jazz-cafe.html The music's great. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness

Re: Shrimp and grits

2015-03-24 Thread frank theriault
Norm Baugher? cheers, frank On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:36 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: tried grits the first time i had the breakfast buffet at GFM in2005, jury still out. Norm Baugher di not like the tiny winy amount of gravy i put on my biscuit. Lest say my biscuit was

Re: Wow. I think I nailed this one...

2015-03-24 Thread Bruce
The new Olympus M5 mark ii already does this sensor shift to produce high res images. -- Bruce On March 24, 2015 6:21:46 PM PDT, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes silence speaks volumes. On March 14th, I sent Asahi Man (on DPReview Pentax SLR forum) a private message. Rather

Re: OT PESO - Butcher, Draper, Grocer

2015-03-24 Thread Mark C
Great composition of an interesting scene - a jack of all trades for sure. On 3/21/2015 9:54 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Just a rural scene in the central west of New South Wales: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGO0826-EM10-1peso.html http://tinyurl.com/mlhfqnq OT

Save the date AND the time :-) My April 4th exhibit in NYC - UPDATE

2015-03-24 Thread Ann Sanfedele
For you who are near and are able to come on April 4th, the official Opening reception is 3 to 5... that Saturday. (Igor, pass that on to your friend) Not that you couldn't see the exhibit before or after.. Ira just told me he would serve 'snacks' :-) so I guess he is planning to not be

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting John Coyle jco...@iinet.net.au: First WP software I used was WordPerfect - the name tells a lie, it was an absolute nightmare to use compared with Word, when Word arrived I switched in a heartbeat! I also used Lotus WordPro, not as good as Word in some ways but had advantages in

Re: Wow. I think I nailed this one...

2015-03-24 Thread Darren Addy
Yes, Bruce. But did you read the imaging-resource article? Unlike Olympus' approach, which grabs 8 frames and uses a half-pixel shift between two groups of four to interpolate additional pixels, Ricoh's method uses just four shots, to bring the four pixels of each Bayer color filter array cell

Re: Wow. I think I nailed this one...

2015-03-24 Thread Darren Addy
Sorry, hit send before I meant to. You *need* to watch the first 9:55 of the video link in the previous email to understand what this technology can do. It has nothing to do with coatings (as the article seemed to think). Coatings improvements are coatings improvement. Pixel shifting is something

Re: PESO - heirloom

2015-03-24 Thread Mark C
Superb! On 3/19/2015 10:01 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: I have become brave enough to attempt to light a woman with a single hard light, a silver reflector, now ... https://500px.com/photo/101514597/aly-by-bruce-walker The heirloom in question is the necklace which was a gift from Aly's

Re: Save the date! I got me a show, after 7 year hiatus APRIL 4

2015-03-24 Thread Mark C
Congrats Ann! That is a superb collection of images. On 3/21/2015 8:19 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Especially to the attention, Rick and Dan - who a close enough to get there.. I announced this on facebook earlier today Save the date! Saturday, April 4th - Opening of my new photo exhibit

Re: PESO 2015 - 041 - GDG

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
What Mark said. Great tonality and an interesting composition. Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 10:18 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: Great light - great dark. Excellent. On 3/19/2015 2:17 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Another from the Saturday morning walk.

Re: Save the date! I got me a show, after 7 year hiatus APRIL 4

2015-03-24 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Thanks much! ann On 3/24/2015 22:26, Mark C wrote: Congrats Ann! That is a superb collection of images. On 3/21/2015 8:19 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Especially to the attention, Rick and Dan - who a close enough to get there.. I announced this on facebook earlier today Save the date!

Re: PESO - At the Jazz Cafe

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
Nice. I like the two-layer look and the two stories it suggests. Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 9:38 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I'm very excited. I took my K10D out for a walk on Saturday and actually took photos. This was at the Jazz Cafe, becoming a

Re: Interesting Business Model

2015-03-24 Thread Mark C
For years my standard approach to ebay was to search for pentax lens and sort from highest to lowest price so that the unobtainable stuff showed up first. I tused to work but for the last several years there are items that are simply ridiculously overpriced showing up at the top of the list.

Re: PESO - El Capitan

2015-03-24 Thread Mark C
Beautiful! You did good with the light and clouds, the BW rending works very well. Mark On 3/19/2015 6:50 AM, Brian Walters wrote: G'day all - just adding my photo to the millions that preceded it. I tried a B W version because the midday light wasn't especially friendly. This dates from

Re: GESO - Icycle 2015 - The Men's Race

2015-03-24 Thread Ken Waller
Nice captures knarF. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: GESO - Icycle 2015 - The Men's Race A couple of weeks ago I showed the women's race, here's a few of the men's races:

Re: 1986 digitized video frame

2015-03-24 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob Sullivan wrote: A testimony to why Kodak didn't take digital seriously... Living in Rochester at the time, and having many friends who worked at Kodak, I got a front seat view of the catastrophe-in-slow-motion that was Kodak's handling of digital. They certainly knew of its potential and

Re: GESO Highlander with an itch

2015-03-24 Thread Mark C
Good shots both but I really like the light in the first - very airy. On 3/22/2015 1:33 PM, Toine wrote: Delurking to show two shots from today's photo walk. Highland cattle with an itch: http://www.repiuk.nl/content/itching1/ http://www.repiuk.nl/content/itching2/ Toine --- This email is

Re: PESO - At the Jazz Cafe

2015-03-24 Thread frank theriault
Thanks, Paul, it was nice to take a few shots (other than a bike activity) this weekend. Haven't done that in a while... cheers, frank On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Nice. I like the two-layer look and the two stories it suggests. Paul via phone

Re: GESO Highlander with an itch

2015-03-24 Thread frank theriault
Lovely shots, both, although I like the second, for the light and the facial expression. Lots of character there! cheers, frank On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Toine to...@repiuk.nl wrote: Delurking to show two shots from today's photo walk. Highland cattle with an itch:

Re: PESO 2015 - 041 - GDG

2015-03-24 Thread Mark C
Great light - great dark. Excellent. On 3/19/2015 2:17 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Another from the Saturday morning walk. https://flic.kr/p/rDDymo enjoy! Godfrey --- Seize the Moment? Sometimes, the Moment seizes us. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast!

Re: Save the date! I got me a show, after 7 year hiatus APRIL 4

2015-03-24 Thread Knarf
Wow! So wish I could be there Ann! Great news! You'll be the talk of the town, I'm sure. :-) Cheers, frank On 24 March, 2015 10:48:04 PM EDT, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Thanks much! ann On 3/24/2015 22:26, Mark C wrote: Congrats Ann! That is a superb collection of images. On

RE: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread John Coyle
First WP software I used was WordPerfect - the name tells a lie, it was an absolute nightmare to use compared with Word, when Word arrived I switched in a heartbeat! I also used Lotus WordPro, not as good as Word in some ways but had advantages in others - like allowing me to define a custom

Re: OT 2015 Macbook - Engineer's perspective

2015-03-24 Thread steve harley
On 2015-03-24 19:01 , Darren Addy wrote: If they are made specific to a particular model's cavity, how plentiful do you think those spare parts are going to be. even if they weren't fitted to the case quite so precisely, most Apple batteries have been model-specific for years, and Apple has

Re: 1986 digitized video frame

2015-03-24 Thread Ken Waller
Kodak blew it by not seeing the connection between the home computer and digital imaging. Only one of many things they blew. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com Subject: Re: 1986 digitized

Re: PESO - At the Jazz Cafe

2015-03-24 Thread Ken Waller
Glad to see you back knarF ! Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: PESO - At the Jazz Cafe I'm very excited. I took my K10D out for a walk on Saturday and actually took photos.

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Subash Jeyan
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:21:51 +1100 Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: I liked Wordperfect - as a DOS wordprocessor it was extremely powerful. Never tried Word for DOS, though. Once Windows 3 arrived Word trumped just about everything else. Wordperfect just took too long to

Re: OT 2015 Macbook - Engineer's perspective

2015-03-24 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 24/3/15, Charles Robinson, discombobulated, unleashed: Ah yes, BUT: Tri-Wing screwdrivers. For some ridiculous reason. Everyone on this list **needs** one of these.. https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/54-Bit-Driver-Kit/IF145-022-1 Best value I've come across and top quality tools.

Re: OT 2015 Macbook - Engineer's perspective

2015-03-24 Thread Otis C. Wright, Jr.
Have this set. Agree. Real handy... Otis On 3/24/2015 8:23 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 24/3/15, Charles Robinson, discombobulated, unleashed: Ah yes, BUT: Tri-Wing screwdrivers. For some ridiculous reason. Everyone on this list **needs** one of these..

Wow. I think I nailed this one...

2015-03-24 Thread Darren Addy
Sometimes silence speaks volumes. On March 14th, I sent Asahi Man (on DPReview Pentax SLR forum) a private message. Rather than repeat myself, I will tell you exactly what I told him... Dear asahi man, You clearly are knowledgeable about the structure of things at the current Pentax company. I

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread frank theriault
For digital, only Pentax. Still have the *istD along with the K10D as my most used camera. cheers, frank On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Malcolm Smith rrve...@virginmedia.com wrote: Following on from the previous thread, what make of camera do you now use, and has it changed over the years?

GESO - Icycle 2015 - The Men's Race

2015-03-24 Thread frank theriault
A couple of weeks ago I showed the women's race, here's a few of the men's races: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/03/icycle-2015-mens-race.html Alberto the Ice Emperor is still around and finished a most respectable 2nd this year. He actually pushed the new perennial champ Justin pretty

April Pug - Panorama Countdown

2015-03-24 Thread Brian Walters
G'day all Six panorama submissions so far. As usual submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Note that there are increased file size allowances for this month: * Maximum file size is 600kb; JPG format. * Images must be sized so that they fit within an 1400x700 pixel box and must have an

Re: PESO - At the Jazz Cafe

2015-03-24 Thread Christine Aguila
Very nice! Cheers, Christine On Mar 24, 2015, at 8:38 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I'm very excited. I took my K10D out for a walk on Saturday and actually took photos. This was at the Jazz Cafe, becoming a favourite place of mine:

Re: PESO's from March

2015-03-24 Thread Christine Aguila
Love them all, Mark! Cheers, Christine Sent from my iPad On Mar 24, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: A few recent PESO's - Muddy March Leaves: http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/muddy-march-leaves (K-3, D-FA 17-70) Swirling Leaves:

peso untitled

2015-03-24 Thread Christine Aguila
Hi Team: I haven’t posted for ages. I caught this the other day and thought I’d post it. http://www.caguila.com/untitled/content/_IMG5044_large.html As we all say, comments welcome :-)! Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: peso untitled

2015-03-24 Thread Ken Waller
Well seen and captured Christine. The sculpture reminds me of a similar sculpture I've seen in Mexico - Choxs or some similar name. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com Subject: peso

Re: peso untitled

2015-03-24 Thread Christine Aguila
Thanks, Ken! Cheers, Christine Sent from my iPad On Mar 24, 2015, at 11:42 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Well seen and captured Christine. The sculpture reminds me of a similar sculpture I've seen in Mexico - Choxs or some similar name. Kenneth Waller

Re: PESO 2015 - 041 - GDG

2015-03-24 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Thank you all for the comments on #041! I appreciate you taking the time to look and comment. G Another from the Saturday morning walk. https://flic.kr/p/rDDymo -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: GESO - Icycle 2015 - The Men's Race

2015-03-24 Thread Christine Aguila
What Ken said! Cheers, Christine On Mar 24, 2015, at 10:57 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Nice captures knarF. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: GESO -

Re: Shrimp Grits

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Sorenson
Let's see...Tom Mix was sponsored by Instant Ralston; Let's Pretend by Cream of Wheat... -p Sent from my iPad On Mar 24, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Now children of another age, in the USA, where do you remember hearing Cream of Wheat is so good to eat and

Re: Shrimp Grits

2015-03-24 Thread Igor PDML-StR
What other list would give you culinary information about simple food from around the world?! On a serious note, I had never noted that polenta is made with corn. (You can tell, I am not a big fun of polenta.) I've heard of mamalyga (mamaliga) which is traditional for Moldavia, Romania and

Re: PESO - Waiting for the Abstract Trolley

2015-03-24 Thread Ann Sanfedele
quite so.. Rick - you could do a whole series of these - the light and colors behind the glass changing them _ I have a couple from New Jersey I grabbed hard to resist them ann On 3/24/2015 11:45, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 24.03.15 um 16:00 schrieb Rick Womer: The (choose one) weird /

Re: OT: Days of Yore.

2015-03-24 Thread John
On 3/23/2015 5:31 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: On 3/23/2015 5:17 PM, John wrote: I pine for the days when you didn't have to remove half the engine bay just to change a headlamp. It's been that way for a long time... Yeah, I know. I had just come in from a refresher course on the subject. --

Re: OT 2015 Macbook - Engineer's perspective

2015-03-24 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 24/3/15, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed: AFAIK, in Apple's case at least, the battery is replaceable... just not user-replaceable. Modern macbooks can easily have the battery replaced by the user, but you do need to open the case with a small screwdriver and fiddle about a bit. If you

Re: OT 2015 Macbook - Engineer's perspective

2015-03-24 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 24/3/15, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: Modern macbooks can easily have the battery replaced by the user, but you do need to open the case with a small screwdriver and fiddle about a bit. If you can swap out a hard drive, you could easily do the battery :-) Aha - I stand

Re: OT 2015 Macbook - Engineer's perspective

2015-03-24 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 24/3/15, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: Aha - I stand corrected - from about 2012 they started gluing them in !!! Ok I'm muddling up. My MBP is 2012 (non-retina) and I can swap mine out with screwdrivers. The later incarnations are glued in. Utter bastards!! -- Cheers,

Re: PESO - Waiting for the Abstract Trolley

2015-03-24 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 23/3/15, Rick Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17987092size=lg (K-5, DA 40/2.8) Comments appreciated! Very nice Rick. Excellent. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --

Re: Shrimp Grits

2015-03-24 Thread Yolanda Rowe
My grits belong on some other person's plate. Yes, I'm southern; I will cook them for hubby, but I won't eat them. Yonnie On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Bob W-PDML p...@web-options.com wrote: In Romania their version of polenta is called mamaliga. I had some one evening at a restaurant in

Re: Shrimp Grits

2015-03-24 Thread Yolanda Rowe
I'll eat semolina (cream of wheat). I love it and oatmeal. No accounting for taste. Yonnie On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Igor PDML-StR pdml...@komkon.org wrote: Oops... I forgot to add the link to that story. While it is in Russian, the pictures describe tell the story well:

Re: Shrimp Grits

2015-03-24 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Oops... I forgot to add the link to that story. While it is in Russian, the pictures describe tell the story well: http://www.planetaskazok.ru/vdragunsky/deniskinyrasskazytajnoestanovitsjajavnym Cheers, Igor On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Igor PDML-StR wrote: What other list would give you

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Bruce
I haven't had any surgery, but am near-sighted. I have contacts that are set up in a monovision approach much like what your surgeoon did. So one eye sees close and one far. But the close is not good for detailed chimping or detailed use of a smartphone or tablet. So I end up with a pair of

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Alan C
I concur. Don't recall any psychedelics, mind you. Fine for the camera viewfinder but I have to remove them when using binoculars. Alan C -Original Message- From: Rick Womer Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 5:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: What does everyone now use?

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I've worn glasses since second grade as I have strong astigmatism in the left eye. One correction sufficed until I was about forty-eight, then I went to progressives. I have no problem working reflex optical, EVF, LCD, or rangefinder optical with my glasses on, although I'm not able to see

Re: Shrimp Grits

2015-03-24 Thread Jack Davis
Have always preferred warm/hot Malt-O-Meal with a ton of brown sugar stirred in. OH Yeah!! Jack *YUM* - Original Message - From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 12:25:41 PM Subject: Re: Shrimp Grits Now children

Re: 1986 digitized video frame

2015-03-24 Thread Bob Sullivan
A testimony to why Kodak didn't take digital seriously... On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Ralph and I discussed this technique briefly in the recent equipment thread. There were a number of digitizers available in the mid ‘80s that could create

Re: Shrimp Grits

2015-03-24 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Now children of another age, in the USA, where do you remember hearing Cream of Wheat is so good to eat and we eat it every day... la lala being sung? hint: radio I never met a porridge I didn't like - as long as it is the real thing, not quick or instant ann On 3/24/2015 12:50, Yolanda

Re: Ot: safari users - do you have problems viewing my smugmug page?

2015-03-24 Thread steve harley
On 2015-03-23 22:27 , Philip Northeast wrote: Safari( 8.0.4) and operating system ( 10.10.2) both latest works find on Safari 6.1.6 on OS X 10.7.5 too; works even though i have some of the JavaScripts suppressed your friend's OS must be quite out of date -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
My optometrist made me a set of glasses that achieve optimum focus at 18 inches, specifically for working on my desktop computer. They’re also okay for use with the phone, since focus is decent up to about 12 inches, and they’re fine for chimping. I have a separate set that were meant for

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread steve harley
On 2015-03-24 5:39 , Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 24.03.15 um 12:25 schrieb Paul Stenquist: I took my first digital stills with a video camera, a black box that I think was called Seeing Eye and an Apple IIc. Yep. Video frame digitisers. All the rage in those days. Had one hooked up to a b/w

Re: Shrimp and grits

2015-03-24 Thread mike wilson
The Spooner in me desperately wants to retitle this. On 22 March 2015 at 23:06, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: I make shrimp and grits often. Grits are a corn meal cereal, much like polenta but more liquid. For shrimp and grits the corn meal porridge is made rich with butter

Re: Shrimp and grits

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
Grimp and shits? I'll whip up a batch for you. Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 4:49 PM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: The Spooner in me desperately wants to retitle this. On 22 March 2015 at 23:06, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: I make shrimp and grits

Re: OT: Days of Yore.

2015-03-24 Thread mike wilson
Pt. Headlight bulbs are easy. New bonnet (hood) cable for Ford Mondeo (Fusion) £17. Ford _estimate_ for labour to fit it £300. Time it took me 2 days. On 23 March 2015 at 21:17, John sesso...@earthlink.net wrote: I pine for the days when you didn't have to remove half the engine bay just

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
I almost bought an Amiga, but then I was exposed to Quark Word Juggler for Apple II series. It was far and away the best word processor of the early '80s. That made Apple a must have for me. Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 4:43 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2015-03-24

Re: PESO - Moonlight Ducklings

2015-03-24 Thread Bulent Celasun
I would treat it as a documentary image. Bulent. - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread steve harley
On 2015-03-24 11:31 , Bruce wrote: So the problem becomes with photography one of having to take the glasses off to see through the viewfinder and then having to put them on to really examine the playback screen. i have a strange presbyopia such that after about age 50 i couldn't focus near

Re: Shrimp and grits

2015-03-24 Thread Jack Davis
Is that based on the usual outcome? Jack Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Grimp and shits? I'll whip up a batch for you. Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 4:49 PM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: The Spooner

Re: What does everyone now use?

2015-03-24 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 24.03.15 um 21:43 schrieb steve harley: i chose Amiga for the affordability, the multi-tasking OS and the fact it did four channels of 8-bit digital audio Not to forget the graphics. Far better than what any IBM compatible PC had to offer, at least in the early days. In the end, I had an

Re: Shrimp and grits

2015-03-24 Thread P.J. Alling
No Gimp and shits... A spoonerism doesn't have to have all the letters. On 3/24/2015 4:57 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Grimp and shits? I'll whip up a batch for you. Paul via phone On Mar 24, 2015, at 4:49 PM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: The Spooner in me desperately wants to