RE: Phone photos

2023-03-23 Thread jcoyle
Nice to see you back, Marco! These are very nice shots. I am constantly amazed at the quality coming out of the tiny lens and sensor on modern phones, I've used mine exclusively for on-line sales images, and to add to requests for a quote for renovations recently. John in Brisbane

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread Mark Roberts
Larry Colen wrote: >Most of the advances in phone cameras are in the field of computational >photography. They’ll basically take a short video, then combine the photos, >throw a bunch of DSP at it etc. > >If the computational aspect could be applied to DSLR sized sensors the results >would be

Re: Phone photos

2023-03-23 Thread Marco Alpert
> On Mar 23, 2023, at 4:08 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> On Mar 23, 2023, at 4:03 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: >> >> For various reasons, I haven’t been doing any “serious" photography for >> quite a while now (although I do consistently lurk here). I think I’ve only >> taken my K-3 out a few

Re: Phone photos

2023-03-23 Thread ann sanfedele
These are fun.. you will not be surprised  to learn I particularly liked the two sign shots - even though one of them was intentionally funny .. I often printed film shots at a high contrast  so these don't need any refining as far as I'm concerned ann On 3/23/2023 7:03 PM, Marco Alpert

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 22, 2023, at 10:17 PM, John Francis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Alan C wrote: >> When I see 'phone shots like that, I wonder why we bother with cameras. > > Quite. > > As I mentioned, I was interested to compare modern technology to > what I was able to do

Re: Phone photos

2023-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 23, 2023, at 4:03 PM, Marco Alpert wrote: > > For various reasons, I haven’t been doing any “serious" photography for quite > a while now (although I do consistently lurk here). I think I’ve only taken > my K-3 out a few times in the past few years, and then only for some >

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
A white balance adjustment would probably take out that green color cast too. On 3/23/2023 1:17 AM, John Francis wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Alan C wrote: When I see 'phone shots like that, I wonder why we bother with cameras. Quite. As I mentioned, I was interested to

Phone photos

2023-03-23 Thread Marco Alpert
For various reasons, I haven’t been doing any “serious" photography for quite a while now (although I do consistently lurk here). I think I’ve only taken my K-3 out a few times in the past few years, and then only for some practical purposes. However, seeing the conversation about the current

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 23, 2023, at 3:11 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > Well documented. Thank you. > You’re probably lucky it blocked a road. That creates urgency which public > utilities seem to need. One advantage of living on Highway 9, the main thoroughfare of SLV is that repairs to the road,

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-23 Thread Paul Stenquist
Well documented. You’re probably lucky it blocked a road. That creates urgency which public utilities seem to need. Paul > On Mar 23, 2023, at 5:50 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >  > >> On Mar 23, 2023, at 2:41 PM, Comcast wrote: >> >> Ouch! Serious damage. That looks like a several day

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 23, 2023, at 2:41 PM, Comcast wrote: > > Ouch! Serious damage. That looks like a several day outage. Light candles! > (Or curse the darkness.) Surprisingly, it was only out for about 24 hours, unlike the tree the previous Tuesday which caused it to be out for a few days, and then

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-23 Thread Comcast
Ouch! Serious damage. That looks like a several day outage. Light candles! (Or curse the darkness.) Paul > On Mar 23, 2023, at 5:17 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > I haven’t had a chance to finish my GESO from Tuesday night, but someone saw > my house on the news. In the opening sequence you can

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
I haven’t had a chance to finish my GESO from Tuesday night, but someone saw my house on the news. In the opening sequence you can see my van and trailer in the background. https://www.ksbw.com/article/traffic-jams-in-santa-cruz-mountains-from-falling-trees/43381711 -- Larry Colen

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 23, 2023, at 11:21 AM, Alan C wrote: > > Yes, 'phone cameras do still have some limitations but do well enough in most > situations. The Kruger Park Sightings FB page is 90% 'phone stills & videos > and the quality is pretty good. One even sees reckless visitors leaning out > of

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread Alan C
Yes, 'phone cameras do still have some limitations but do well enough in most situations. The Kruger Park Sightings FB page is 90% 'phone stills & videos and the quality is pretty good. One even sees reckless visitors leaning out of car widows trying to take selfies with wild animals! A

SDM question

2023-03-23 Thread collinb
Just a question that came to mind .. I recall the first 50mm SDM drive having lots of reliability problems. Has that been fixed in later SDM-drive lenses? -- %(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

Re: PESOS: Portraits, no Pentax content

2023-03-23 Thread collinb
Well done. Beauty dish is the best portrait lighting. Too bad more people don’t use them. Umbrellas (“lots of soft light”) is the most boring way to shoot. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-23 Thread lrc
On March 23, 2023 5:24:43 AM PDT, ann sanfedele wrote: >what a nightmare... and it doesn't look like you are getting any relief too >soon.  at least you have a new toy. > >BTW, when I look at your photos from your phone Google shows me two of every >frame... maybe you playing with exposures

Re: Pentax to make new film camera?

2023-03-23 Thread mike wilson
They just need to add an exclamation mark to that model for the perfect name... > On 23/03/2023 10:54 Steve Cottrell wrote: > > > https://petapixel.com/2023/03/22/pentax-is-considering-making-a-new-hand-winding-film-camera/ > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-23 Thread ann sanfedele
what a nightmare... and it doesn't look like you are getting any relief too soon.  at least you have a new toy. BTW, when I look at your photos from your phone Google shows me two of every frame... maybe you playing with exposures with difference my eyes can't see ?  also, even though I'm in

Pentax to make new film camera?

2023-03-23 Thread Steve Cottrell
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