Around here, there is no such thing as a generic pro photographer. Your
subject determines the gear you need. You need to be more specific.
One thing I would say is that you almost entirely left out lighting
equipment. If you ever need any additiona; light at all you need at least
two of those
You posted it on the Pentax Deranged Mailing List
BR
From: Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How on earth did my very mild observation about BR, and subsequent apology
for a careless allusion, warp into another insultfest.
I also know how to trim my responses.
BR
From: Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
at least Bruce
has the ability to stay on topic. (Now that was an insult).
There are lots of wedding shooters who shoot all digital. It's a workflow
efficiency issue that is developed with knowledge and experience. Many folks
can go through 1000-1500 images and come up with a set of files for proofs
in a couple of hours. The key is batch operations and not getting fancy
Automation has nothing to do with light, form and composition, and
everything to do with being a photographer. If anything, automation has
permitted photographers to concentrate more on light, form and composition
rather than technical
minutiae. The strength of an image is what counts and the
There's a whole section devoted to the Fuji DSLRs here:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php
The camera seems to give great color, but a number of them have had problems
and Fuji support doesn't get good reviews. Rumor has it that there's an S3
in the pipeline.
BR
Subject: OT:
I just read a recent issue of Time, where they cover the incident. James had
shrapnel wounds in a hand, abdomen and legs. He is home now. Accordingto the
article, James took pictures of Weisskop receiving first aid from a medic at
the time of the explosion, until he (James) passed out.
BR
Most of my involvment in photography these days is for money; either
shooting or assisting. Right now I like the challenge of having to get the
shots, because someone is paying you to do so. It's very different than
shooting for friends, family or even second shooter. The pressure is
greater, but
Thank you for the compliment. I must tell you though that almost all of them
were done while I was second shooter/assistant. There is no stress of having
to get THE SHOTS, so you can cherry pick.
I wouldn't worry about how many shots you are currently taking to cover a
wedding. You need enough
There is no problem, infact it is probably better, to have the the coverage
of the flash broader than the FOV of the lens. I use a large flash that
covers the field for a 28mm lens, and use it will all focal length lenses.
The advantage to having wider coverage is that the light from the flash
The story on the Pop Photo site is that Pop Photo quoted a Japanese article
stating that Nikon would develop a full frame sensor SLR. No one at Nikon
ever told Keppler that Nikon would do it. This is really just another case
of sloppy Pop Photo reporting.
BR
From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you give her Greywoofs e-mail address? Although she might be a little
young for him. Maybe Pentax could feature her in their next DIY porno ad.
BR
From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Same thing at weddings round here, though I did spot this last week:
http://www.bigdayphoto.com/pentax.jpg
Yes, it
I'm using a Quantum T2 flash so the batteries are separate. The flash alone
weighs around 30 oz.
BR
WR This is one of the reasons for my going with the Metz 60 series. Much of
the
WR flash weight is taken off the flash head and put onto the separate
battery
WR pack, which is carried on a
To keep Canon and Nikon in business.
From what I've read, for Pro games (which are played in much better lit
arenas), still shooters set up multiple radio slaved flashes in the
rafters/cat walks above the court. Now the pro players may be used to flash,
and anyway, most wildlife and athletes don't seem to notice flashs.
BR
From:
With my son's A70, saved as Fine (only does JPG - there is a Super Fine)
with default settings (which add sharpening and a bit of saturation and
contrast, I think). 5x7's, to a Epson 1200, look as good as a shot from a
PS camera in terms of resolution/sharpness. A dump to PS and a print out
with
The show was about the same size as last year. Another company MIA was
Sigma. The Pentax booth was in a much more prominent location than last
year. With the pro orientation of the show, the Pentax booth doesn't get a
lot of attention. One of the reps was carrying on about how every lens, for
Anyone want a deal on a Canon FS4000?
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aha. 4000dpi, 14-bit scanning in the low-end model.
Maybe it's time to replace the CoolScan III.
There is just no good automagic way of doing multiple, off camera flashes.
With studio flashes you: get a meter, use a digital camera (even a PS) to
check a histogram (you can check this with a PS by uploading the file into
PS), or shoot many, many rolls of film. If your shooting a subject, and
www.uniquephoto.com
BR
From: Ramesh Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I order for something I wait anxiously.
Delays like these could drive are frustrating
May be BH and Adorama need some non-religious a
competitors.
I already knew that.
BR
From: Bob Walkden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
congratulations, you must be a different species to the rest of us.
An incident meter measures the amount of light directly striking the meter,
so it won't help judge the tonality of subjects. It will develop an eye for
the amount of light. An incident meter that can also measure flash will make
multiple lighting setups practical to do, it's a pure science fair
Oy! Looking for natural stuff in NYC is like going to the Grand Canyon to
take pictures of kids playing stick ball in the gutter...
Here goes: There's Cental Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn,
along with the Brooklyn and Bronx Botanic Gardens anda patch of grass in my
back yard. The
Because weddings have so much energy the over expose everything by one stop?
If the light meter says f11 shoot at f11.
BR
From: Feroze Kistan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm currently doing a course in wedding photography. One of the things that
came up and which I forgot to ask was: we were told that
It's the rumored, but not yet announced, D2X that I'm waiting for.
BR
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Nikon D2H, which very few if any people actually have in their hands
right now but is promised this month, is better than the equivalent Canon
EOS-1D. Canon isn't sitting still, of course, so
The D1 was based on the F100. It came out around a year before the D30.
You're thinking of the Kodak/Nikon hybreds.
BR
From: Alan Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I remember those days. Those big heavy ugly DSLRs which were not designed
for the general public, but press photographers only. Even so, few
Quite a few Nikons, going back to the early 90's wouldn't meter with MF
lenses. It's just that they were entry level bodies and nobody paid much
attention to them. For the most part people who were buying these things
were new buyers and didn't have any MF lenses. The N80/D100 have a much
larger
Take a look at the Olympus dyesub printers
here:http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_pp_printers.asp
From: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm considering an additional printer to use mobile. Our son and his wife
are members of a hot air balloon crew and I've come up with the idea of
There's only a little over 200 people on the PDML. Within a few months it
will easily be a double digit percentage with them. The folks on the PDML
are not representative of typical Pentax users.
BR
From: Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Most likely something like 1% or less of the PDMLers have
This was done years ago by people who take pictures, an not of eye charts,
for a living. They now shoot with DSLRs and don't scan film. The vast
majoriety of normal people don't examine photographs under microscopes. At
normal viewing distances, for normal people, digital pictures cna be made to
It is about capturing the visual experience/sensation so that someone else
feels what you did. Photography can not be reality or literal, because, for
among other things, you have transformed something from 3D space to a 2D
plane.
BR
From: Keith Whaley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What you say may be true
Then maybe the Pentax reps won't look like a collection of Maytag repair
men.
BR
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's new. Pentax USA has been saying that for months. I figure the delay
will not go past October's end since that's the Javit's Show.
In this part of the world that is taking an order. A sale is a transaction
that results in the exchange of good/services for something of value.
BR
From: Rob Brigham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The *ist D was actually being sold on sept 1 - dealers were selling it,
even if they could not supply it yet.
There were no *ist D's for sale Sept. 1, 2003. Whatever verbiage was
exchanged was an attempt to define the concept of for sale. Pentax still
hasen't moved it into the sales channel. It ain't soup yet and it didn't
make the date.
BR
From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No. I was planning to go through
PS supports 8 and 16 color depth. With 14 bit images, PS will pad it out to 16
bits. The color space I would try would be Kodak sRGB, since sRGB is pretty
much standard for all but special, high end work and works well with just about
all printing devices.
BR
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My
You're looking for a single figue of merit to quantify ability to MF
lense on a AF body, and magnification isn't it, because there isn't one.
There were differences in the quality of viewfinders with MF cameras
and there are with AF cameras. Like many other things, the best
correlation
I knew there was more to this:
RE: dslr
From: tom
Subject: RE: dslr
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:47:10 -0700
Ok, we'll say shipped to a dealer somewhere by 9/1/03.
What's in it for you? I don't have any old Nikon
Not so fast there, Mr. Bigdayphoto. The camera has to be in stock and
shipping by Labor Day. They're only taking orders now.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bet.
--
Thomas Van Veen Photography
www.bigdayphoto.com
301-758-3085
2nd Prize is 2 PPs.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A program plus.
I thought it was understood that it was listed for sale, not for
order. It's been for order in several places already.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't remember saying anything about dealer's shelves, the bet was:
Ok, the bet is that Pentax will have a digital slr for
sale by 9/1/03.
For
Yes, a large cookie made to look like a Pentax lens cap. Any thing other
than that is wishful thinking.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, what was the bet about?
Frank, how could you forget??
Wasn't there something also along the lines that Bruce was going to have
to eat something, er
Win what?
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I win.
tv
-Original Message-
From: Kathleen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 9:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: *ist-D on Adorama Site
Just went into Adorama searching out digital cameras with
5+ megapixels, and
up
Some of us know what we're trying to get before raising the camera to
our eye. I know wher I want the subject and set the AF sensor first. I
don't fiddle with the camera to figure out which AF point to use.
Focus and recompose is better known as Missed Shot when it comes to
moving subjects.
BR
Best Buy sells a PNY CF card reader that plugs into a USB port
(extension cambe inclued for a rear USB port), for $15. With Win2K or XP
you just plug in the reader, plug in a card and the card looks like an
additional drive. Works well.
BR
If you don't see any white residue (salt) on any surfaces, and
everything works right, then it's all OK.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, is my stuff safe from salt corrosion or is there something more I
need to do?
Step this way to the Canon and Nikon Counter, Sir.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have decided to sell my Pentax MX, ME super and
lenses, 28mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.7, 75-150 f/4 zoom.
Unless somebody can convince me it is a mistake.
Why am I selling? Quite simply I want several things
these cameras
They probably just set the threshold for the slave high, so it wouldn't
be sensitive enough to be tripped by the pre-fire flashes (they are low
power flashes).
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I saw an advertisement for a flash that was primarily designed to augment
the flash on a point and shoot
For a CD to be able to be read by any other CD player, the CD has to be
made in disk at once (or what ever Nero calls it, you don't want
packet writting mode). The basic concept for doing what you want to do is:
create a data CD (should be a menu option)
then you drag the files you want copied
It is workable with digital, because the sensor can be mounted in a
fashion that it can be moved a small amount in 2 axis to counter shake.
It's much harder to move film the same way because it is part of a roll.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.dimage.minolta.com/a1/flash.html
Would
Around here, folks think of the following as fads: hulla-hoops, 8 track
cassetes, dry plate photography and gravity.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By this definition it is the enthusiasm that is short-lived, not the
object that people enthuse over. Your dictionary's definition is
consistent with
Don't think so. The original bet was contingent on the DSLR being in
stock and avalible in BH by Labor Day.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bruce hits a new low. What was it that he was going to eat if Pentax
ever released a digital SLR. Does anyone remember? Talk about having
your head in the
Why start off with an apology to the list, instead of doing this off
line? You drooling, senile old jerk?
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey, brucey boy. F. U!
My appoligies to the list, but this troll's personal attacks have finally
gotten to me.
Staring, for hours at a time, at the inner tension and geometric
precision of a resolution chart always makes me weak in the knees.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
there is know way of getting around
the fact that large format is better
than medium format in terms of image
quality.
Rechargeable NiMh AA's work well, and pretty inexpensive to replace when
they wear out. You can also keep a set of lithium AA's in the bag for,
just in case.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Takes four AA batteries or two CR-V3 lithium-ion batteries
This will either quietly kill it off, or
http://www.cameraquest.com/nkmatftn.htm
http://www.nikonlinks.com/
All you'll need to know.
Welcome to the Dark Side.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Told a few of you about my treasure privately -
but going public now with my dirty little secret..
35/2, 50/1.7 and 35-105 on the PZ1. If you can MF well the 35-105 would
be most useful, otherwise stick to the AF primes. A zoom is most useful
at the reception, but that is also where AF is most useful. Small groups
the 50, big groups the 35. Portra UC is the film. Putting the flash on a
Variable aperture zooms - Robb said he didn't like them because the
background exposure changes as you change focal length. True for
aperture ring controlled lenses, but not body controlled ones. I set my
28-105/3.5-4.5 to f8, via the body control, and that's what it will
always shoots at.
BR
There are some folks here that I would love to run some medical
experiments on with that lens.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You may remember that the SMC 50/1,4 Takumar is somewhat radioactive too.
Note:
1 - The problem was propulsion; not navigation
2 - The referenced thread dates to 1998
3 - The second referenced thread is about something else entirely.
Nothing that I've read here has any substantive facts about what
happened or why.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was extensive
You need to find some folks from the Royal Navy. The show was about a UK
sub.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(mike wilson) wrote:
I don't know the OM series well at all but I think all of the shutters
are electromechanical.
The OM-1 shutter is
I see UPS finally delivered your sense of humor.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, but putting a Pentax-logo strap on a Nikon D100 helps remove the
sting of having to use a Nikon DSLR instead of a Pentax.
It also seems to improve the whole system by a factor of 32. Believe
me, I'm speaking from
I think that it is something like practicing scales on a musical
instrument: it's an exercise to make you better, and not an end in
itself. A photographer named David Hume Kennerly did something like this
with a Mamiya 67 with a single wide angle lens (read about him and the
book that was the
There is one plane of focus. The farther you move from it the more out
of focus things are. DOF is determined by what is the maximum amount of
blur considered acceptable at the limits of the DOF. So yes, the
sharpness is not uniform through the DOF.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, I
Hold it right there, Bud, and step away from the focus ring!
You do this (manual focus thing) for a living, day in day out. This is a
highly developed skill that few people have. I think that this is a
case where what works specifically for you, won't work the same way for
most people.
BR
Go back and read Beating the 50 lines per mm Resolution Limit
(http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/limits.html).
In practice it is hard to get 50 lp/mm regardless of how the lens is
focused. If you have to take pictures right NOW, you will get more in
focus shots with AF then MF.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Very little. It's a Pentax list.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After reading this list for a few years, I sometimes wonder what
this list has to do with photography g.
A LF camera isn't very GOOD for underwater photography, is it? I only
said good and bad, you had to go into all sorts of hardware issues. You
also left out the first part of what I said, which is introducing
hardware obscures the main point that good photographers take better
pictures than bad
The last part makes no difference. All that counts is the image. Nobody
knows, or cares how you got it.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
On the other hand...
A good photographer is a person who gets good photographs - and without
getting disliked by his victims.
Don't worry Lon, if you are as old as Tom then you have the knowledge
of the ages and can use any gear you desire. If you are younger, then
you have to take a written test of Tom's (he doesn't care about a
portfolio: only theory counts) to get permission to use auto capable
cameras.
BR
I get Grandfathered into the Knowledge of the Ages, Old Crock
Photographers Union in September when I turn 50. I don't need your test.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brucey thought he was kidding grin.
1. How big is an f-stop
2. How fast does your shutter open and close when set to 125.
3. What
An advanced Pentax user is Pål Jensen.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you please define what an advanced Pentax user is, and do you
include yourself in that category ?
An advanced Pentax user is someone who has their Pentax gear under glass
as museum pieces, and takes pictures with some other brand of cameras.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you please define what an advanced Pentax user is, and do you
include yourself in that category ?
We don't use any Korea War era fighter planes in combat, and for good
reasons: they can't do what modern fighters can, no matter whose flying
it. (There is also no reason to think that pilots of yesteryear (and
photographers too) were better than the current ones. ) Same thing with
cameras.
Production life doesn't equal owned/used life. You don't expect your car
to stop working when the manufacturer changes models do you?
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with plastic shells is that they tend to crack when aged.
But then again, the 6 month cycle for digital cameras should
The Super A has a chrome plated plastic top cover. It is not a metal
sheet over plastic. It still wears much better than the silver paint
that the industry has gone to (cheaper to paint than plate)
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps something like the Super A where the top cover is plastic
The Nikkor is also supposed to have some vignetting issues wide open.
There are reasons why I have the 180/2.8 (good wide open and much
smaller and lighter).
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, that particular test shows that Nikkor was very soft at the
long end wide open. On the otherhand,
From people who have done scanning (very high quality ones) and now do
direct digital capture, they say that a 18meg direct digital file is
equal in quality to a 50 meg (8 bit) scan. Digital capture does not
directly compare to scan resolutions. Film introduces all sorts of crap
that imaging
I hope you got through the wedding OK. With all the moving around and
hauling gear I don't know how you could pull it off without a good
assistant or two.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I severely sprained my ankle last night. The x-ray didn't show a
break, but that doesn't help the fact that I
The biggest problem with electronics and cameras is moisture. At some
point in the production live of the F3, Nikon went to conformal coating
for the circuit boards. This seals the electronics better than sealing
the body.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
don't know about f4, but f3 is not
OK, this is it, the one time I'm going to agree with Frank.
I have a son who is old enough to be in the military. The anguish that a
parent goes through when a child is hurt is deeper than any other.
Politics have nothing to do with the trauma to Bob and Aaron's personal
world.
BR
[EMAIL
On the Nikon list it was an issue until people started using DSLRs in
large numbers several years ago. There are too many working
photographers on the list, who are not PJ's, using digital, for this to
be an issue any more. Also, because there are so many more Nikon and
Canon users than Pentax
Western marketing mindset it to get interest going with tidbit, product
flashes. Perhaps the Eastern mindset is to not reveal anything until it
is finished. Other Japanese companies are much more Western than Pentax.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just finished reading a review of Olympus' E-1
He knows everything. He read it in the spec sheet.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Caveman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's a nice experiment you can do. Ask the lab guy to
enlarge for you
a 645 frame, with the enlarger lens *slightly out of
focus*. It
But he's oh so cute and clever.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I find your attitude annoying, and
your opinions ignorant.
It's in the spec sheet! I don't have to look at anything to know what
you see!
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. In this case, it is the theory of image sampling and reconstruction.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's the theory on the base of which digital cameras are designed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where did you read that ? I suggest you use a hardhat for the next
round of jumpings.
There was Charlie Rose show (PBS) a few weeks ago with 4 or 5
photographers who were in Iraq. At one point the discussion got onto
equipment and they all shot digital and multiple digital backups. At
this point they are as familiar with the durability of the digital gear
as they were with film
The problem for photographers is that they are in a very competitive
field. They are always afraid that the next shooter will be able to
offer something that they can't. For news it timeliness and visual
impact (color). It would be much easier to shoot color film and send it
back to where ever
Tempest approved computers weren't rugged in the sense of being able to
be subjected to extremes of shock, vibration and temperature. They were
designed for very low EMI radiation and used for working on classified
material. They were very expensive and for classified computing it was
cheaper,
This was true for the 10 year period of 1987 - 1997, but there's been
almost no advance in the last 3 years. Maybe some catching up by Pentax,
but Canon and Nikon haven't come out with anything better. RD $ is
going into digital.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the useful life of the body is
This is why the people skills of a photographer are very important for
things like wedding photography. Every bride has a concept of what a
bride should look like, but doesn't realize that the marketed bride
image is that of professional models.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Non professional
The Leica says Leica on the front. The Leica uses Zeiss lenses. When you
understand what these two things mean the comparison is over.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, we seem to be doing a lot of comparison with the MZS to Nikon or
Canon. But take a look at the Leica R9.
No, I know working photographers who just prefer a Leica rangefinder
over anything else. There is also the issue of the look of Leitz lenses.
Many people who have the money for a Leica have no need to brag about
how much they have. I think it's really envy on the part of the have-nots.
BR
All of photojournalism is not an exception. A tripod is just a tool,
and should be used for appropriate conditions and subjects. It may be
just the thing for what you shoot, but for me it's useless 99.9% of the
time.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Give me a break Bruce there are always
Only witless reparte is appropriate for this subject here.
BR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would someone send me the link or info?
I've been barely able to even skim pdml for about
a month ..
sorry if you guys were expecting more witty
reparte on language usuage!
annsan
There is something wrong with the wind mechanism. That top disk is
supposed to be tight. On my trash/mule MX I tightened it as much as I
could with out snapping it off and it made no difference the the feel of
the wind lever. (left hand thread for anyone else fooling with it)
BR
[EMAIL
The top K body was probably the K2DMD. The MX and ME are very different
types of cameras, but similar in terms of material and quality. I think
that they sold for around the same price, so I wouldn't rank one above
the other. Although the SP wasn't the theoretical top of the line, it
was
You can't test one camera to determine the designed MTBF of the shutter.
For a manufacturer, a shutter designed for 100,000 cycles means that
very few would fail before 100,000 cycles. It would all depend on how
similar one shutter would be in terms of manufacturing/process tolerance
and what
Throat diameter is just one thing. What Canon did was to system engineer
an entire SLR system from a fresh start. This means that folks sat down,
figured out what they wanted the system to do and then figured out the
best way to do it. They determined that electronic control of the lens
was
Shell's wife had enough of the whole thing:
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story150953.html
BR
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