Re: Pentax or Olympus?

2021-11-17 Thread Toine
I sold my 400+ sigma and pentax and switched to panasonic dc-g9 and pana leica 100 400. Equal to 200 800 on 35mm. Half the weight, dual lens and body SR. Bird, animal detection, amazinf AF etc etc. And the best part if I look through the viewfinder I remember my MX. On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, 05:28

Re: Pentax or Olympus?

2021-11-17 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:12:29PM -0600, Bill wrote: > Check out this guy's stuff. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/klatuu13/albums/ > > [. . .] > > He had a lot of big prints in his house from the Olympus. The quality is > there with the equipment. > > Bill It certainly is! I looked more

Re: Pentax or Olympus?

2021-11-17 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 06:01:46PM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Switch to an iPhone 13 Pro Max. It will provide excellent 11 megapixel photos > with wide, normal and short tele lenses. Lots of nice features like portrait > and panorama modes. Excellent video too. Good in camera editing as

Re: PESO - Water Music

2021-11-17 Thread Alan C
Shows just how effective Roman technology was! Alan C On 17-Nov-21 09:48 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I saw a bit on TV a few years ago where they built a trebuchet and used to to throw a piano quite some distance, to the great detriment of the piano. like this:

Re: Pentax or Olympus?

2021-11-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I agree with Paul about the capabilities of the iPhone. I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max, and it is an excellent camera, with normal, wide and tele lenses. My son tells me the 13 is even better, by quite a bit. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

Re: Pentax or Olympus?

2021-11-17 Thread Larry Colen
> On Nov 17, 2021, at 1:37 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > The recent posts about the K3-III got me to wondering again about whether > I'll stick with Pentax and get a K3-III, or switch brands. > > I know a few of the posters here have already moved over - I'd appreciate it > if you could

Re: Pentax or Olympus?

2021-11-17 Thread Bill
Check out this guy's stuff. https://www.flickr.com/photos/klatuu13/albums/ Brian was a long time friend who also happened to be a master at all things photography. He contracted polio when he was 12 or so, at which point he lost most of the use of his legs. The first time I met him, he was

Re: Pentax or Olympus?

2021-11-17 Thread Paul Stenquist
Switch to an iPhone 13 Pro Max. It will provide excellent 11 megapixel photos with wide, normal and short tele lenses. Lots of nice features like portrait and panorama modes. Excellent video too. Good in camera editing as well. Oh, and it has phone and web browser functions, When you need big

Pentax or Olympus?

2021-11-17 Thread John Francis
The recent posts about the K3-III got me to wondering again about whether I'll stick with Pentax and get a K3-III, or switch brands. I know a few of the posters here have already moved over - I'd appreciate it if you could share with me (either here on PDML or by direct email) your

Re: for Ann: Photographer Spots Curious Coincidences on New York City Sidewalks

2021-11-17 Thread Paul Stenquist
Fun stuff. Thanks for sharing! > On Nov 17, 2021, at 2:40 PM, Ken Waller wrote: > > This guy sure has the EYE! > > Ken Waller > -Original Message- > From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Sent: Nov 17, 2021 2:23 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: for Ann: Photographer Spots

Re: for Ann: Photographer Spots Curious Coincidences on New York City Sidewalks

2021-11-17 Thread ann sanfedele
John - do read my post.on the subject . it should be just after yours..  :-) ann On 11/17/2021 2:54 PM, John Sessoms wrote: "a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance:" The photographer applied his skills to capturing images of UN-related events that

Re: for Ann: Photographer Spots Curious Coincidences on New York City Sidewalks

2021-11-17 Thread ann sanfedele
These are definitely my kinda thing - I'd loved to have captured any - even the intentional visual jokes..  However, the write of the article doesn't know the meaning of the word "coincidence"  - these photos are all -ironic juxtaposition - also sometimes called "visual puns"  .. not really

Re: for Ann: Photographer Spots Curious Coincidences on New York City Sidewalks

2021-11-17 Thread John Sessoms
"a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance:" The photographer applied his skills to capturing images of UN-related events that visually coincide, but if the "events" hadn't been there in the first place ... Maybe "juxtaposition" would be a better

Re: PESO - Water Music

2021-11-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I saw a bit on TV a few years ago where they built a trebuchet and used to to throw a piano quite some distance, to the great detriment of the piano. like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQLYHt-DM0Q https://www.youtube.com/embed/JQLYHt-DM0Q; title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0"

Re: PESO - Water Music

2021-11-17 Thread John Sessoms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq32ZqRODPY Assholes! On 11/16/2021 2:24 PM, Alan C wrote: It appalls me that anyone would want to "throw away" a piano (& a grand piano nogal!). Surely a home could have been found for it even if it had to be repaired. My daughter in the UK says many people

Re: for Ann: Photographer Spots Curious Coincidences on New York City Sidewalks

2021-11-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
That is a very interesting and effective group of images. I have seen -- and admired -- Kogan's work previously. It is hardly fair to call these photographs "Curious Coincidences on New York City Sidewalks." With one or two possible exceptions, they are not scenes that were simply there to be

Re: PESO - Water Music

2021-11-17 Thread John Sessoms
For a while a couple years back there was some kind of YouTube trend taking old pianos & demolishing them. The people posting videos didn't seem to be too concerned with the trash they left behind. On 11/15/2021 8:34 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: Flood victim I'm guessing   sad... but love the

for Ann: Photographer Spots Curious Coincidences on New York City Sidewalks

2021-11-17 Thread Henk Terhell
https://petapixel.com/2021/11/17/photographer-spots-curious-coincidences-on-new-york-city-sidewalks/ Have fun! Henk -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the

OT: Photo-Op in the Sky this Week

2021-11-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
The longest lunar eclipse in 580 years will be visible early Fri. morning, Nov. 19. The eclipse will turn November’s “Beaver Moon” a reddish hue, hence the name, “Blood Moon.” You’ll have to get up early to see it in all its glory, though, as it will peak between 2 and 4 am on the east coast of

Re: K3 Mark III

2021-11-17 Thread Corey Leopold
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:02 PM Larry Colen wrote: > > > > On Nov 16, 2021, at 8:42 PM, Corey Leopold wrote: > > > > So I just ordered one, with a free battery grip, had been thinking for a > > while about pulling the trigger and upgrading from my now pretty old K5, > > and saw that they had