Re: PESO - Lacewing

Wow! And I agree with Cotty!I want to say you caught a great expression—because I feel like there is expression there—but I have absolutely no idea what bug expression looks like :-). Great work! Cheers, Christine > On Apr 30, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Jostein wrote: > >

Re: PESO Spring Finery

That’s pretty! The yellow wonderfully pops, and the detail in the feathers is amazing. Nice work, Paul! Cheers, Christine > On Apr 30, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > My goldfinches are now wearing their spring and summer colors. DFA 150-450 > plus DA

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

Hi Rick: They look really similar. Hard to tell a difference. I’m using a Macbook Pro with Retina screen. Cheers, Christine > On Apr 30, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > > Two exports of the same photo, one in sRGB and the other in Adobe RGB. > > Please let me

Re: *** SPAM ***PESO - The Encounter

Thug school? Alan C -Original Message- From: Marco Alpert Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 12:12 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: *** SPAM ***PESO - The Encounter http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo16/peso4.html Comments, as always, welcomed. -Marco ---

Re: *** SPAM ***PESO Spring Finery

A male, I presume? He is a handsome fellow & very well caught too. Alan C -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 11:18 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: *** SPAM ***PESO Spring Finery My goldfinches are now wearing their spring and summer

Re: *** SPAM ***PESO - Lacewing

I do believe you've got it. Mark C will be thrilled. Alan C -Original Message- From: Jostein Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 10:15 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: *** SPAM ***PESO - Lacewing Here's my first stacked bug. Not a live one, though.

Re: *** SPAM ***Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

No difference. Acer Travelmate. Alan C -Original Message- From: Mark Roberts Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 9:45 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: *** SPAM ***Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk Rick Womer wrote: Two exports of the same photo, one in sRGB and the other

Re: May PUG - Last Call

Thanks for the reminder Brian, I've submitted. As I type this it is early afternoon on Sunday in Oz, so you only have about 6 hours to submit to this month's PUG. "Golden Hour" is a theme that nearly everyone should have SOMETHING for. Let's see another great gallery! On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at

Re: PESO Spring Finery

Very Nice! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > My goldfinches are now wearing their spring and summer colors. DFA 150-450 > plus DA 1.4X converter, nice chair, and a few fingers of

Re: OT: Monitor Specs

You can print from Prophoto on the Epson. It likes it. Just make sure you indicate that in the print directions. Paul via phone > On Apr 30, 2016, at 9:43 PM, Mark C wrote: > > Again - many thanks, Godfrey. > > Your explanations really help me understand how this

Re: OT: Monitor Specs

Again - many thanks, Godfrey. Your explanations really help me understand how this works. I reviewed my color settings in Photoshop and also reviewed workflow and made some changes so ProPhoto RGB will be my standard RGB work space. I'm already converting files to sRGB when outputting for

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

Rick Womer wrote: >Interesting. I suspect that photo.net may convert to sRGB. Nope. I just downloaded the first one and opened it in Photoshop. It's Adobe RGB 1998. I don't think there are any wildly saturated colors in that image that are likely to be outside the sRGB color space, so for those

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

Interesting. I suspect that photo.net may convert to sRGB. I'm going to have to experiment with a few other pix at some point. Feel free to comment on the pic itself! Rick On Apr 30, 2016, at 8:01 PM, Paul wrote: > They look the same to me. > > Firefox > ASUS PA249Q ips monitor > Calibrated

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

They look the same to me. Firefox ASUS PA249Q ips monitor Calibrated with a Spyder 4 to AdobeRGB -p On 4/30/2016 1:44 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Two exports of the same photo, one in sRGB and the other in Adobe RGB. Please let me know: Do they look different? If so, which looks better? What

Re: PESO - Lacewing

Excellent work, Jostein - the detail is very good. The lighting is very dramatic but I'd like like to see a more detail in the shadows - the eyes in particular. Out of curiosity - what stacking software are you using? Mark On 4/30/2016 4:15 PM, Jostein wrote: Here's my first stacked bug. Not

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

Identical as well in Firefox on a Dell S2240M monitor. J Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2016, at 3:42 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > > They look identical to me in Firefox... > > my monitor is an HP w2072a and connected with a VGA cable to the computer > > ann > >> On

Re: OOF rendering in focus stacks

Collin - I'm not familiar with the lenses you reference or implications for lens design, but the sudden transition from in focus to out of focus that you get when focus stacking can be used to manipulate the bokeh. For example, I did not need ot stack this shot but did to put the background

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

They look identical to me in Firefox... my monitor is an HP w2072a and connected with a VGA cable to the computer ann On 4/30/2016 2:44 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Two exports of the same photo, one in sRGB and the other in Adobe RGB. Please let me know: Do they look different? If so, which

Re: PESO Spring Finery

Very nice indeed, Paul! Our gold finches and house finches are all over the fence and a couple feeders. Have shot them so many times in the past I'll possibly not get into them much this season. Sides, this is tough competition. :) J - Original Message - From: "Paul Stenquist"

Re: PESO - Lacewing

Can't argue with Cotty! ann On 4/30/2016 4:45 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 30/4/16, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed: Here's my first stacked bug. Not a live one, though. http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/lacewing/ Comments and ideas for improvement most appreciated. I don't see how you

Re: PESO - The Encounter

mezmerizing ann On 4/30/2016 6:12 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo16/peso4.html Comments, as always, welcomed. -Marco --- http://www.alpert.com/marco -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Ok - it does do that and the old TTL system did it as well. I just shoot in manual mode and dial in flash compensation. Each DSLR model that I've used has been different in terms of how accurate the flash has been - same lens, same flash, same technique so presumably the body is the factor.

Re: PESO Spring Finery

Looks great on my phone, but looking forward to pulling it up on the computer! J computer! Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > My goldfinches are now wearing their spring and summer colors. DFA 150-450 > plus DA 1.4X

PESO - The Encounter

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Re: PESO Spring Finery

Quite lovely. (Although it’s hard to believe something that small could down a few fingers of scotch.) m On Apr 30, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > My goldfinches are now wearing their spring and summer colors. DFA 150-450 > plus DA 1.4X converter, nice

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

> On 30 April 2016 at 21:43 Steve Cottrell wrote: > > > On 30/4/16, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >> >>> Bill's had several moving water shots in the Annual over the > >> >>> years but I don't think this is one of them. > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> Aha

Re: PESO Spring Finery

On 30/4/16, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: >My goldfinches are now wearing their spring and summer colors. DFA >150-450 plus DA 1.4X converter, nice chair, and a few fingers of scotch. > >http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18226037=lg The scotch is good for you! Really like

PESO Spring Finery

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PESO Spring Finery

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Re: PESO - Lacewing

Actually, this is seriously well done, Jostein! J - Original Message - From: "Jack Davis" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 1:38:49 PM Subject: Re: PESO - Lacewing "Hey...she's really stacked!" J's sorry. Sent from my

Re: PESO - Lacewing

Pretty amazing. m On Apr 30, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Jostein wrote: > Here's my first stacked bug. Not a live one, though. > http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/lacewing/ > > Comments and ideas for improvement most appreciated. > > Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PESO - Lacewing

On 30/4/16, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed: >Here's my first stacked bug. Not a live one, though. >http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/lacewing/ > >Comments and ideas for improvement most appreciated. I don't see how you can improve it - it's one of the most interesting insect photographs I've

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 30/4/16, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>> Bill's had several moving water shots in the Annual over the >> >>> years but I don't think this is one of them. >> >>> >> >> >> >> Aha Blackadder >> > >> > Are you suggesting that Bill's a girl? I thought that was Bob. >> > >> >>

Re: PESO - Lacewing

"Hey...she's really stacked!" J's sorry. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Jostein wrote: > > Here's my first stacked bug. Not a live one, though. > http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/lacewing/ > > Comments and ideas for improvement most appreciated. > >

PESO - Lacewing

Here's my first stacked bug. Not a live one, though. http://www.alunfoto.no/innhold/lacewing/ Comments and ideas for improvement most appreciated. Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

Rick Womer wrote: >Two exports of the same photo, one in sRGB and the other in Adobe RGB. > >Please let me know: > >Do they look different? > >If so, which looks better? > >What kind of monitor are you using? > >The PESO: > >http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18225953=lg >

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

I can see absolutely no difference on a six year old Samsung laptop. Fully up-to-date Firefox. > On 30 April 2016 at 19:44 Rick Womer wrote: > > > Two exports of the same photo, one in sRGB and the other in Adobe RGB. > > Please let me know: > > Do they look

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

> On 30 April 2016 at 20:12 Bill wrote: > > > On 4/30/2016 12:13 PM, mike wilson wrote: > >> On 30 April 2016 at 14:41 Steve Cottrell wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 30/4/16, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> > >>> Bill's had several

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 4/30/2016 12:13 PM, mike wilson wrote: On 30 April 2016 at 14:41 Steve Cottrell wrote: On 30/4/16, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: Bill's had several moving water shots in the Annual over the years but I don't think this is one of them. Aha Blackadder

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 4/30/2016 4:09 AM, Jostein wrote: Very nice shot indeed, Bill. Thank you Jostein. I used to have the A*200/4 macro but sold it when I realised that P-TTL didn't work properly with A-series lenses. I miss the snap-in focus, though. That was handy with bugs. Then I bought Stan's FA*

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 4/30/2016 2:59 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 29/4/16, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: Not the A, but I do have one of the very rare FA* 200/4 Macros. It's very nice. I read somewhere that there were only 200 made. I don't know if that is true or not. Here's a picture taken with it:

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 4/30/2016 1:01 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Steve Cottrell wrote: On 29/4/16, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: Not the A, but I do have one of the very rare FA* 200/4 Macros. It's very nice. I read somewhere that there were only 200 made. I don't know if that is true or not. Here's a picture

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Steve Cottrell wrote: On 29/4/16, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: Not the A, but I do have one of the very rare FA* 200/4 Macros. It's very nice. I read somewhere that there were only 200 made. I don't know if that is true or not. Here's a picture taken with it:

Re: PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

Rick, I am using Google Chrome Portable under Win7. My monitor is profiled with Spyder 4. Under these technical conditions, these two images look absolutely identical to my eyes. I cannot tell them apart in any way. Boris On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Rick Womer

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 2016-04-29 14:52 , Larry Colen wrote: What are the options for long focal length macros? How are they optically? Are there any teleconverters that do well? Or, am I just better off cropping tighter? this 300mm mirror lens has 0.5X maximum magnification and theoretically exists in

PESO and an experiment - Spring Walk

Two exports of the same photo, one in sRGB and the other in Adobe RGB. Please let me know: Do they look different? If so, which looks better? What kind of monitor are you using? The PESO: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18225953=lg http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18225952=lg

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

> On 30 April 2016 at 14:41 Steve Cottrell wrote: > > > On 30/4/16, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Bill's had several moving water shots in the Annual over the > >years but I don't think this is one of them. > > > > Aha Blackadder Are you suggesting

Re:Message: 11,Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:59:37 +0100,From: "Steve Cottrell" <co...@seeingeye.tv>, To: "pentax list" <PDML@pdml.net>, Subject: Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?,Message-ID: <2016043008

Absolutely agree. On 4/30/16 5:10 AM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 11 Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:59:37 +0100 From: "Steve Cottrell" To: "pentax list" Subject: Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Ah Stan I was skeptical but looking at your photo well damn that looks pretty nice. On 4/29/16 7:00 PM, pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 3 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:05:43 -0400 From: Stanley Halpin To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Long

Re: *** SPAM ***OT: What Russia looked like before 1917 ... in color from TheWashington Post

Quite amazing. Thanks, Stan. Alan C -Original Message- From: Stanley Halpin Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 4:42 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: *** SPAM ***OT: What Russia looked like before 1917 ... in color from TheWashington Post http://wpo.st/WjbX1 Interesting

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Interesting. In my experience, the P-TTL flashes overexpose at macro distances in combination with A-series lenses. When used with F-series or newer, P-TTL incorporates focal distance communicated from the lens to set the right exposure. For A-series lenses I believe the camera defaults to a

OT: What Russia looked like before 1917 ... in color from The Washington Post

http://wpo.st/WjbX1 Interesting process, interesting story, interesting photos… stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: GESO - Chalk work

Much appreciated, Marco. Thank you. On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: > I’m late to the party on this, but clever concept, well executed. And > congratulations on the publication. > > m > > On Apr 24, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Bruce Walker

Re: GESO - Chalk work

Thank you, Christine. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >>> On 24/4/16, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: >>> http://www.embossmag.com/#!SPOTLIGHT-BRUCE-WALKER/cozyt/ 571cc4d60cf269c350ee2297 > > > Well, I think I like the first

Re: GESO - Chalk work

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> A boutique art magazine called Emboss is featuring the colourful >> project that started my almost year-long series involving a humongous >> chalkboard that I created in the studio. >> >> >>

Re: GESO - Chalk work

:) On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:41 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore > > ann > > > On 4/24/2016 2:36 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >> >> On 24/4/16, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>>

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 30/4/16, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >Bill's had several moving water shots in the Annual over the >years but I don't think this is one of them. > Aha Blackadder -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 30/4/16, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >Last year. Do try to keep up! D'oh! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production -- _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Except for the Pentax ring flash I've not had any problems with P-TTL and A lenses. I'm on my thrid AF360 FGZ used for in field macros. Unfortunately P-TTL and snap in focus is a bit of a problem simply because of the delay due to the pre-flash - the camera and subject cna move a lot in the

May PUG - Last Call

G'day all I'll be closing submissions on Sunday evening (Sydney time). Theme: Golden Hour As usual submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Full Submission Guidelines here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Mark Roberts wrote: >Steve Cottrell wrote: > >>On 29/4/16, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >> > >>http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/pictures/wetrock.html >> >>Never seen that before. Jesus I hope that's going in a pdml annual at >>some point. > >Last year. Do try to keep up! Actually, Bill's

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Steve Cottrell wrote: >On 29/4/16, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: > >http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/pictures/wetrock.html > >Never seen that before. Jesus I hope that's going in a pdml annual at >some point. Last year. Do try to keep up! -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia

Re: PESO living room B/W

> On 29 April 2016 at 19:41 Bob W-PDML wrote: > Where there was a space, there is no more - there is a space-shaped space > where the space used to be. At this rate, the whole thread is going to be in the book. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: My K1

> On 29 April 2016 at 16:44 Mark Roberts wrote: > > > Bruce Walker wrote: > > >On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > >> On 28/4/16, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> > >>>Apparently was shipped from Mississauga yesterday.

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

Very nice shot indeed, Bill. I used to have the A*200/4 macro but sold it when I realised that P-TTL didn't work properly with A-series lenses. I miss the snap-in focus, though. That was handy with bugs. Then I bought Stan's FA* 200/4 a year and a half ago. Hope I'll be able to give it a

Re: PDML Photo Annual: Probably next week

On 29/4/16, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >I got a shipping notice that tells me the proof copy should arrive >here on Mondya. You're now living on an island off the Azores with remarkably good shipping connections. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O)

Re: My K1

On 29/4/16, Stanley Halpin, discombobulated, unleashed: >Cotty will be forced to eat his hat not-later-than this weekend after a >barrage of evidentiary photos. Ahh. The possible* hat dining ceremony will possibly be announced for later this year. * possible, as at time of writing the K-1 is

Re: Long macro lenses for K mount?

On 29/4/16, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: > >Not the A, but I do have one of the very rare FA* 200/4 Macros. It's >very nice. >I read somewhere that there were only 200 made. I don't know if that is >true or not. >Here's a picture taken with it: