Re: Wanted: Germans (attempt 2)

2007-02-06 Thread Adam McKenty
Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a lot Germans seem to read the PDML, I know about 3 active members only? And those few live in other parts of the country. I tend to agree with former German chancellor Adenauer who insisted on installing the

Wanted: Germans (attempt 2)

2007-02-02 Thread Adam McKenty
Pentaxians, Thanks to the evangelical zeal of my brother Francis (who has lately been tooting about his photo contest victory), I recently converted to Pentax and bought a K10D. I made this purchase just before I leaving Canada for a month in Berlin, and the assortment of lenses I bought on

Pentax gear in Berlin

2007-01-27 Thread Adam McKenty
Hi Folks, Thanks to the evangelical zeal of my brother Francis (who has lately been tooting about his photo contest victory), I recently converted to Pentax and bought a K10D. I made this purchase just before I leaving Canada for a month in Berlin, and the assortment of lenses I bought on eBay

What do you do when you get to IMGP9999

2006-09-26 Thread Adam McKenty
How do you rename/organize your digital photos? I'm now at image 17,603 and am having a bit of a crisis with my sorting regime because I can't add my last 7603 images to my file system. Until now I've just been sorting my photos into a bunch of folders (people, deer, sail boats, etc.), and copying

tesT

2006-09-26 Thread Adam McKenty
Tesst! :{ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Photographing Egypt

2006-05-13 Thread Adam McKenty
Hi Folks, I'm going to Egypt in a few days, and -- since I haven't been quite convinced to switch to digital -- I have some questions about film and such. First, what is the current situation with airport x-rays? I had heard that any film below about 800 would be fine, but a NG guide I

Re: PESO: Diesel is dead

2006-01-12 Thread Adam McKenty
I'm certain it does but, compared to the gazillions of gallons of fuel that the freighter burns every hour, its consumption is fairly insignificant if it only uses its engine when necessary (which almost none do, but they could if they smartened up a bit). Having spent more than my fair share

Re: Soliciting all stray brain waves (P3n repair):(

2006-01-12 Thread Adam McKenty
Thanks Don! Encyclopedia Organica to the rescue! (again) That retainer took a considerable amount of... Ahem Convincing (in the form of a small hammer hitting a large nail poked in to the now-non-existent slots as well as a lot of WD40) but I got it off. And... Voila! Just dirty

RGB vs. CMYK

2005-12-28 Thread Adam McKenty
Color management, yay! (not). I'm going to be printing a bunch of scans, which need some adjusting in PS. My limited knowledge suggests that it would be better to tweak the images in RGB, then convert them to CMYK for printing (since the monitor doesn't accurately display CMYK images, so I

Re: RGB vs. CMYK

2005-12-28 Thread Adam McKenty
I'm sending them to a professional printing outfit, but they won't be done on a press per se. I'd guess some form of colour laser printer. Does that sound plausible? Adam William Robb wrote: How are the images going to be printed? William Robb

Re: RGB vs. CMYK

2005-12-28 Thread Adam McKenty
you convert to CMYK... all of the working colour spaces I have are RGB. - Dave On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Adam McKenty wrote: Color management, yay! (not). I'm going to be printing a bunch of scans, which need some adjusting in PS. My limited knowledge suggests that it would be better

Re: vote Francis for _______ ? (resend2)

2005-12-11 Thread Adam McKenty
Bob Sullivan wrote: Do they never run out of pictures for you to rate? Bob S. Not really. I have seen a few photos twice but not many. Francis On 12/11/05, Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody get this? If not you're lucky and I'll spare you the self promotion-induced nausea,

Printers and $tuff

2005-12-09 Thread Adam McKenty
Pentaxians, In your experience, which is a less expensive way to produce cards, prints, calendars and such: buy ink and photo paper and use an inkjet printer; or get them made at a lab/print shop? I would have thought the do-it-yourself method cheaper, but then I ran across Dan Heller's most

Re: Printers and $tuff

2005-12-09 Thread Adam McKenty
and they'll print a calendar for you, complete with special dates (such as Uncle Elmer's birthday) filled in, for a very modest price. Rick --- Adam McKenty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pentaxians, In your experience, which is a less expensive way to produce cards, prints, calendars and such: buy

Re: PESO baby deer... warning cuteness alert

2005-01-13 Thread Adam McKenty
At 06:56 PM 1/13/2005 +, you wrote: you're very lucky to have such willilng subjects! Have you tried shooting them with the camera and lens on a bean bag? Yes, I made a pinto bean one which I use quite a bit, but the ground was very muddy with deep puddles which I wasn't to keen on lying in

Re: OT: Calendar cost

2005-01-10 Thread Adam McKenty
I'm doing calendars on legal size paper (8.5 x 14 inches) folded and stapled. Printing alone is going to cost me $19.50 Canadian per calendar (about $16 US). I could print them at home on an Epson Stylus color 850, but in order to get reasonable quality on the inkjet I'd need to use glossy

Colour laser printing issues

2005-01-09 Thread Adam McKenty
Hi folks, I've put some photos together into a calendar (yes, a bit behind schedule), and I'm getting it printed by someone who runs a local news paper and offers printing services on the side. Unfortunately neither I nor the person doing the printing know much about the complexities of

Re: PESO Bee here now

2004-12-19 Thread Adam McKenty
Not only did I get it twice, but now I've commented twice! vbg Ooops! :-O For some reason your first comment didn't turn up in my mailbox. :( I guess my ISP choked on it. Liked it then, like it now. I asked in my previous comment, did you desaturate everything but the yellow of the daisies?

PESO Bee here now

2004-12-13 Thread Adam McKenty
Bee in flower, that is... I grabbed this one with my brothers N***n outside the polling station while he was participating in democracy. I suppose that it might be outside the rules, seeing as it was produced with equipment from the dark side, but I figured that violators wouldn't be prosecuted