Re: Lightroom... Darktable... what else?

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:22 AM Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > Tried Darktable and find it awfuly clumsy and far too slow. > > What else is there, if anything? I need the database function, the RAW > development tools, lens corrections, and the map function. > > Any suggestions? Have you tried

Re: Which eye do you put to the viewfinder?

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > A little informal PDML survey... > > Q: Are you right-handed or left-handed (or ambidextrous) > A: > > Q: When you use a camera viewfinder, which eye do you put to the viewfinder? > A: Right-handed, but always use the

Regarding Sigma 18-35 autofocus with phase-detect issues

Hy there all! I was thinking at getting the Sigma 18-35 to replace my kit lens (DA 18-55 WR) for wide and normal focal lengths (mainly landscapes), but after reading the Pentax Forums review [1,2] regarding the autofocus issues (admittedly only while using phase-detect) I completely changed my

Re: Flickr as backup

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: One thing that I haven't figured out how to do efficiently with rsync is for it to track when I move a directory. I will upload photos into a generic (for this half of the year) directory, then move that shoot into a

Re: Pentax remote control F

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Does anyone else have problems with this remote? I find it unreliable. Sometimes it actuates the shutter, sometimes it does not. It always does eventually, but in the meantime it is irritating. Pentax has another remote,

Re: Question about the Pentax K-3 focusing screen pattern

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Zos Xavius zosxav...@gmail.com wrote: I always thought it had a slightly wavy patternmaybe I was looking at a fingerprint myself lol. :) On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:30 PM, John sesso...@earthlink.net wrote: I've seen the matte finish, but it doesn't look

Question about the Pentax K-3 focusing screen pattern

Hello all! (De-lurking for a quick technical question.) I just got a Pentax K-3, and while toying with it and photographing a landscape, I noticed something weird in the viewfinder, namely if I point the camera at the sky (or a bright source light), I see in the viewfinder a faint

Re: PESO: Afternoon light

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Stanley Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Not that I am complaining, but it is really hard to get through dinner sometimes when the storm clouds start to give way to the afternoon light on the river… Fortunately my wife is very tolerant and often, as

Re: PESO: Willows III - final cut

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote: After long hours of moving rocks out of the river: http://1x.com/photo/722709/all:user:445106 or https://500px.com/photo/84572947/willows-iii-by-attila-boros Perfect! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PESO: Fall color is coming...

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: This is the photo I had hoped to take during the 24-hour window centered on the fall equinox. The weather did not cooperate. Taken from the dock this morning in front of our northern Michigan cabin.

Re: PESO: Willows II

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is in wide format, and rockless: http://1x.com/photo/719720/all:user:445106 or http://500px.com/photo/84269105/willows-ii-by-attila-boros Much better with the new crop. The only drawback is that the

Re: PESO -- Monarch III

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:43 AM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Same as the last two more or less, slightly different crop. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20---%20monarchiii.html Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/vmc Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm f2.8~4.0 (Komine)

PESO riverbank night-scape (and Pentax DA 50mm f/1.8 considerations)

Hello all! [At the end of the email there is a short detour about the Pentax DA 50mm f/1.8, and providing some context for the PESO.] The PESO... After the dark set over the riverbank, while stumbling in the dark (the lights on my side weren't working), I've looked to the other side

Re: PESO riverbank night-scape (and Pentax DA 50mm f/1.8 considerations)

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:28 PM, John sesso...@earthlink.net wrote: Combining exposures in an HDR program may be the tool you need to get the results you want. But that doesn't mean it has to LOOK like an HDR image when you're finished. I'm not sure what camera you're using (other than it's

Re: PESO: Willows

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote: Further down the river, but showing the whole thing this time;) We had heavy overcast for weeks now, the sun just came out for a few minutes before sunset when I took the photo.

Re: PESO riverbank night-scape (and Pentax DA 50mm f/1.8 considerations)

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Alan C c...@lantic.net wrote: A splendid image. The crane adds something to the scene. About the crane I also find it intriguing, especially at sunset or twilight, as it's been sitting there for at least two years now, and every time I'm out there and the

Re: OT: Recovering Olympus OM-D RAW files from corrupt card

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: A friend of mine has run into an issue where he plugged in his write-protected SDXC card to a card reader (on his iPad) and it glitched out. He has no idea how that happened. He always specifically puts the

Re: which crop do you prefer?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote: Well, we made it home from our 2,267 mile road trip! I’ve been working on photos this morning and wondered which crop you might prefer? I caught these cuties during recess outside their grammar school. The shot

Card failure due to (laptop) card reader [Was: Re: K3 card failure]

I'm reviving this old thread because something similar happened to me today, similar to what Bruce reported. (Rob's case --- the initial email of the old thread --- is different I guess, because his card wasn't read even by his camera.) Although I didn't loose any photos (I think), I

Re: K-30 AF-Assist Lamp?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Glen Berry g...@glenvision.com wrote: I just got a new K-30 and I was wondering if there is any way to force the built-in AF Assist lamp to function when I want it to? To my knowledge there is no way to force the AF assist lamp on. Although I've forced it

Re: K-30 AF-Assist Lamp?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Glen Berry g...@glenvision.com wrote: I was kidding about taping a flashlight to my camera :) I know. , but I am definitely considering engineering my own LED focus-assist light. But then again I wonder how difficult it is to create something that

Re: OT:Linux

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: This weekend I installed Ubuntu on my scanning PC - tonight I finally fired up the scanner running the linux version of VueScan and it is churning away, batch scanning 12 35mm exposures. Great! Huray! Welcome to the

Re: OT:Linux

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: On 3/27/2014 2:48 AM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: To directly answer your question of which Linux distribution is better suited for photo processing, I don't think there is such a distribution out there, although I

Re: A Few K-30 Questions

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Glen Berry g...@glenvision.com wrote: 2) Is it possible to control the camera's aperture and shutter speed remotely? I've researched a little bit into this and I didn't find any way to control the camera settings remotely. 3) Is it possible to shoot

Re: K-100D vs K-30 -- Noise at high ISO?

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Glen Berry g...@glenvision.com wrote: So, how good is the K-30 with regards to high ISO noise, and try to compare it to an older model like the K-100D if you can. I'm hoping the K-30 will let me shoot a few stops higher ISO without sacrificing quality. Would that

PESO Misty days

It seems that for the last few days my town was shrouded in a thick mist, especially in the afternoon... (A phenomenon which isn't that usual so many days in a row...) However, because I kind of like the overall atmosphere, I've tried to catch it with my camera (a larger variant is

Re: Regarding the assessment of raw image technical qualities (i.e. correct exposure, focus, sharpness, etc.)

For those curios about what I'm speaking about --- although I have the feeling that I'm alone in this boat :) --- I'll highlight bellow some outputs of my prototype. All the outputs are available at the link below, one folder per RAW image, and for each resulting image one JPEG (several

Regarding the assessment of raw image technical qualities (i.e. correct exposure, focus, sharpness, etc.)

Hello all! Before describing the problem, please let me stress that I know very well that the quality of a photograph lies more in its aesthetic properties than in its technical ones. However in this thread I don't discuss about photographs, but images, i.e. the raw data (pixel values)

Re: Regarding the assessment of raw image technical qualities (i.e. correct exposure, focus, sharpness, etc.)

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Unfortunately you can't separate the technical and aesthetic properties. For example, you ask [...] And I ask in return what does properly focused mean? It depends on what you intend for the picture, so it cannot have a

Re: Regarding the assessment of raw image technical qualities (i.e. correct exposure, focus, sharpness, etc.)

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Consider the following pictures, for example, which all show a Frenchman riding a bicycle, but which are very different technically. Which one is the best? Why? This is a trick question... :D B)

Re: Regarding the assessment of raw image technical qualities (i.e. correct exposure, focus, sharpness, etc.)

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Does it sounds crazy? :) It's a bit over the edge. In my opinion, a trained eye can probably do a better job of image evaluation than can any software. Indeed a trained eye (and brain) would be able to

Re: Regarding the assessment of raw image technical qualities (i.e. correct exposure, focus, sharpness, etc.)

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: The best you can do is go through your work, first removing the obvious junk first. The out of focus, the very badly exposed, the ones that won't make a good print for purely technical reasons. After that, you can start

Re: Regarding the assessment of raw image technical qualities (i.e. correct exposure, focus, sharpness, etc.)

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: To keep the analogy with driving, I guess that the equivalent of artists in the automobile world are the Formula 1 drivers (or similar). However I bet that they master their controls well beyond driving more or

Re: SD Formatter

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: I've never had any problem formatting my SD cards in camera but the SD Association (they maintain the SD Card standards) suggest that you can get better performance using the SD Formatter 4.0 software for

Re: I have to scream now... techno-trouble here

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: through a series of hitting keys in error and then hitting one wrong intentionally but wrongly I basically deleted most of the photos I took with

Re: I have to scream now... techno-trouble here

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:54 PM, CollinB coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: This seems to be a common misconception. For details: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en -us/recycle_bin.mspx?mfr=true On short, deleted files from local hard drives (even external

Pentax K-01 follow-up? (or other Pentax K-mount mirrorless)

(For the meat of the subject you could skip directly to the paragraph THE DILEMMA. Below I add some context to it.) As I've mentioned yesterday in the thread Which camera brand would you choose, if you started from scratch? I currently own a new-ish Pentax K-30 and an old FujiFilm

Re: Pentax K-01 follow-up? (or other Pentax K-mount mirrorless)

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/21/2013 9:28 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: == THE DILEMMA == Therefore my question (or questions) is: is there any chance that a K-mount mirrorless will appear in the near future (i.e. 6 months till

Re: Which camera brand would you choose, if you started from scratch?

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: When I wanted somthing better than my first slr [...] the guy in the shop really had no difficulties in convincing me to buy the MX (still got one). This happened in 1981. I have been using Pentax cameras ever since. But if this

PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

Hello all! Half of the autumn has already passed, and yet I've not seen many pastel pictures on the list. Thus I'm biting the bullet and bellow I put two links (one 2.9 MiB and 400 KiB variants) of an autumn-scape I've captured today while on the road.

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Hi Ciprian I have a couple of comments that should improve this image - Comments are always welcomed, especially those critical, thus let's see... I'd crop out the blank sky as it doesn't add anything to the image. The

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: I have a couple of comments that should improve this image - Comments are always welcomed, especially those critical, thus let's see

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Other than the colors, I'm not sure what I should be looking at - ie I don't see any compositional elements - line, shape, form etc

Re: PESO: Autumn-scapes :)

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:03 AM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: The third try seems more realistic to me. I can assure you that the colors weren't so saturated in reality. In fact I think that even `variant-b` is more saturated than in reality. Or it could be that my monitor pumps the colors

Re: PESO: Too much post-processing?

First thanks to all those that answered! Before commenting a little on the replies, I'd like to make a few observations: (A) Indeed I've overdone the saturation (or chromacity how it's named in RawTherapee's LAB panel), but not by too much, because... (B) Because I think I've

PESO: Too much post-processing?

Hello there! (I hope to keep this mail short...) Two weekends ago during a rainy day I was out photographing. Unfortunately I didn't got too many photos, and none that I'm too glad of. However I found one that during post-processing made me wonder about how visible or heavy my retouches

Re: Linux RAW editor/manager? (was Re: OT - Lightzone Open Source Photo Editor (Windows, Linux))

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Aahz Maruch a...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 04, 2013, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Aahz Maruch a...@pobox.com wrote: Anyone have other suggestions for a Linux RAW editor/manager? Although I've looked through all

Re: Linux RAW editor/manager? (was Re: OT - Lightzone Open Source Photo Editor (Windows, Linux))

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Aahz Maruch a...@pobox.com wrote: Anyone have other suggestions for a Linux RAW editor/manager? Although I've looked through all the replies, I didn't see some of the Linux solutions out there. Thus I'll try to list them here (in order of my preference):

Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

Hello all! I've been struggling twice so far to obtain the so called UniWB on a Pentax K-30, but without any real success so far. Has anyone been able to succeed at this? (And maybe share a raw photo that has the appropriate WB settings?) I've tried the method described on

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On May 22, 2013, at 09:37 , Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: I've been struggling twice so far to obtain the so called UniWB on a Pentax K-30, but without any real success so far. I'm sorry

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to thank Ciprian for his question, without which I would have been unaware of UniWB. After a bit of reading ( http://www.malch.com/nikon/UniWB.html ) I can see why some bother to try it, :) No problem.

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: However - in real-world shooting: I've been shooting RAW since about March of 2008 - starting with my K10D, then the K7, and now the K5. I've never had a problem with not knowing what I get. The images largely just

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: For the K30 (and K5), there is so much exposure

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hello and welcome. If my memory does not fail me (which it might), you're a new poster, at least in de-lurked sense of the word. :) Thanks for the welcome! Yes I'm quite new (1 moth since I bought my K-30). Few

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:16 PM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone will enjoy the hobby in their own way. If you're into Landscape photography I'll suggest that, until you figure out the details of UniWB, you'll probably find it simpler and more useful bracket your exposures.

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: The underexposure is exactly the problem: in most cases although the JPEG (or the embedded JPEG in the RAW that we see the histogram for) is overexposed, the actual RAW data is under exposed, to the point that

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Now elsewhere you have explained that you want to doctor or calibrate your histogram in aid of calculating exposures for doing ETTR. You might want to consider that ETTR is considered by many to be no longer relevant

Re: Pentax K-30 in-camera RAW histogram approximation (UniWB, various tweaks)

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: Although I must make a small correction to my initial statement: I was under the wrong impression that the RAW

Re: Pentax K-30 home-made cable release?

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:04 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: As a side note about costs, in Romania where I live, the CS-205 from Pentax costs about 35 pounds (after roughly applying exchange rate), and the home made parts at most 2 pounds. I don't want to be cheep, but

Pentax K-30 home-made cable release?

Hello all! I was just wondering if anyone managed to build a home-made variant of the cable release for the Pentax K-30? I've found the following links: http://www.hobbymaker.narod.ru/English/Articles/cable_sw_eng.htm http://poildegris.free.fr/electronique/CS205/

Re: Pentax K-30 home-made cable release?

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: Pentax uses the same cable release as the low end Canon cameras, so they are available premade for less than the individual parts cost from places like linkdelight, dealextreme, ephotoinc etc. I didn't know about the

Re: Pentax K-30 home-made cable release?

://www.photosig.com/articles/1088/CS-205-schema.gif * for the focus to work it must be enabled in the custom functions menu (search for the entry with remote control in the name); Ciprian. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all