Re: OT: Displaying Images on the Web and the Problem with Profiles

2007-09-23 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 23/09/2007, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I've been playing around with Gran Paradiso (aka Firefox 3.0 alpha 1). It does support colour profiles. Here is a quick test I did comparing Firefox 2 3: Firefox 2.0.0.7 (~240kb)

Re: Replace or repair a fogged lens?

2007-09-23 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/09/2007, Debra Wilborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some nameless coward dropped my SMC 28-70 f4 for me and now it's all fogged up. (Shattered a perfectly good filter too but at least the body's alright.) Now I'm wondering if I should have it repaired or just get another one (or something

Re: Replace or repair a fogged lens?

2007-09-23 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could be the dreaded aspheric lens separation, the jolt of the drop may have caused it to happen... I agree, it could well be the result of inter element separation or de-lamination of a plastic aspheric element (though I don't recall if

Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps

2007-09-22 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 23/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You misread my comment, I am not saying that the Red Camera is not worth what it costs, but that compared to an ENG (Electronic News Gathering) Camera it is not a complete camera, hence the seemingly low price. It is only one module of a

Re: Film/slide scanning

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 21/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wait, if you could decrease the distance between the sensor and the film, would the average be more accurate? What if pixels were a different shape, like hexagons? Would it look better? The little device bellow may ease the grain pain:

PESO Pope on concrete

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
Hi Team, I've started on my next series project (between nappy changes and hair styling that is), Saturated Abstract Found-object Sub-macro Landscapes: http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO/photo#5112558970543468546 For EXIF details see more info, lens was the trusty A50/2.8 macro:

Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the things that folks may not be realizing is that except for its high resolution this thing is more like a security camera than an ENG camera. You can buy a color security camera the size of a pack of cigarettes these days for $50-100.

Re: OT: Virgin, Creative Commons Flickr Lawsuit

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/2007, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like a photographer rather than a lawyer, but he's definitely right about this: *Intent* is crucial. Unless the plaintiffs can prove that, Virgin is pretty safe. (At least in Australian courts, I'd wager: If the truly frivolous action

Re: PESO Pope on concrete

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exquisite. Wherever did you come up with the concept? Thanks Godfrey, I've been toying with the concept since about age 11 when I got my first Kodak 126 Instamatic, the one with the mechanical flash cubes that you could fire with the

Re: Film/slide scanning

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you had a chance to try that on someone else's scanner? That looks interesting No, only on my scanners to date. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Film/slide scanning

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, only on my scanners to date. oh I didn't realize you had more than one...hmm I have three currently in fact, I'm just not strong willed enough to actually hook them up and start ploughing though my film backlog. Apart from a distinct lack of

Re: Film/slide scanning

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL!! Procrastinating can be fun. Why do you have three scanners? Are they each for different things, or are they different models as you've accumulated them? They are all for different purposes, it's no accumulation over time, I've already

Re: PESO Pope on concrete

2007-09-21 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beautiful! Ah thanks, beauty is definitely in the eye of the bee holder. that's quite a specific category. Well you have to set your bounds and stake your place these days. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10

Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News

2007-09-20 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 20/09/2007, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the generic rule is no announcements. This applies to new product as well as discontinued and also includes changes in specification. Sometimes word leaks out but I'm fairly sure that it is either accidental or as a result of

Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News

2007-09-20 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 20/09/2007, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm out of digestives. Got the plain and dark chocolate topped ones here if you're in the area ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO

Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News

2007-09-20 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 20/09/2007, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the case mentioned earlier the information seemed to coincide with the removal of the lens from the lists at the Pentax Japan website, however. And their statement that the 1.4 variant was still current also coincided with that version

Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps

2007-09-20 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 21/09/2007, Charles Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answer: Because no individual DSLR owner wants to pay what it would cost, nor carry what it would weigh! (That's my best guess anyways) I didn't read the article, but what does equipment with that kind of capabilities cost? Not too

Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps

2007-09-20 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 21/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can't be as compact as it appears, the camera itself may be small, but I'll bet reasonable storage and power will have you tied down with anchors. No more so than a pro 35mm movie cam or a pro video tape cam set-up IMO, Cotty? -- Rob

Re: OT: An oddity

2007-09-20 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 21/09/2007, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run a photo mini-lab. I've mentioned that before. I had a customer come in yesterday, wanting re-prints from some negatives. They'd been processed by another store in our chain, and she had the index print. I wrote down the frame numbers

Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News

2007-09-19 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 20/09/2007, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did get a pretty firm the f/1.7 variant has been discontinued when I asked the local distributor about the availability of normal lenses before I bought the one mentioned earlier. I'm not sure, however, that such responses are the rule, or

Re: The Cult of Leica

2007-09-19 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 20/09/2007, John Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about that..I have an M4...the last of the bench built Leicas. It also is a fantastic machine as well as a great camera. The sound of a Leica going off is delicious just by itself. I think that bringing any Leica to your

Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps

2007-09-19 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 20/09/2007, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at the quotes on the home page. One of the guys is inter-cutting film with digital. Everything is changing. Of course they've been doing this for a while just not at this type of res. I visited their page in Oct 06 and all

Re: K10D RGB histograms in the instant review

2007-09-18 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 18/09/2007, Derby Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recall reading this manual, and found it accidentally when shooting a show one night. Set the K10D to digital preview, and take a preview shot. Then use the up/down button to toggle between full histogram and RGB histogram. That

Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News

2007-09-18 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 19/09/2007, Tim Øsleby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now he quotes some pretty obscure material with no links. Nobody knows the real source. He could be making it up, for all we know. I'm not saying it is all BS, but it sure can be. I have the source documents, what he has posted are verbatim

Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News

2007-09-18 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 19/09/2007, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've said this many times before (it's a pet peeve of mine around here you, may say), but it seems to me that the rumours of the death of the old Pentax line-up are highly exaggerated. If you check the Pentax Japan website you'll find that a

Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News

2007-09-18 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 19/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With eBay I wouldn't bet on that, when LX accessories were still available at BH photo, used FF1 viewfinders regularly sold for more than twice what BH was asking for them... Actually it was the other way around, the used prices were

Re: 3200Tmax

2007-09-16 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/09/2007, Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To anyone familiar with 3200TMax - is this just the effect of a high speed film being ultra sensitive to expiration, or is the D76 a poor choice as a developer? I'm wondering if it might be better to try the other roll in either Rodinol

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

2007-09-16 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 17/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that about what he make in advertising fees every time a bunch of you look at his website? I find it amusing that you guys laugh at him while you are helping him make money. I suspect he finds that amusing as hell too. My visits to his

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-15 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 15/09/2007, Carlos Royo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems an excellent ISO 3200 sample, but if you look at the face of the girl closely, it has the typicla plastic look that results from applying heavy noise reduction. Perhaps it has something to do with the CMOS image sensor. I think

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-14 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 14/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm wondering about is when anyone is going to manufacture a sensor that actually capture sharp images Indeed, I think it's appalling that people will have to put up with ISO3200 images of this quality:

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-14 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 15/09/2007, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing that's sarcasm, although I did get a crick in my neck trying to turn sideways to actually look at it. Gotta get me one of them monitors that has the swivel arm so you can rotate it for vertical shots. Sarcasm? Indeed, at its

Re: PESO Why..

2007-09-14 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 15/09/2007, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a good chuckle out of that one! Thanks for the comments guys, glad it got a few chuckles, that validates my amusement ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PESO Why..

2007-09-14 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 15/09/2007, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SbVFxl64A LOL, methinks you watch way too much YouTube Bob, you know what it'll do to your eyes ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: K10 as all purpose travel camera

2007-09-14 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 15/09/2007, MikeM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the K10 be recommended as an all purpose travel camera? It depends what you deem as all purpose I suppose. The W series Optios are far better under water or if size is an issue so I often take one to complement my K10D when I'm traveling. --

Re: Price of Pentax Lenses in Australia

2007-09-13 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those prices don't seem so out of line, if I assume that the Australian price includes a 17% VAT. Maybe it's your government you should be complaining about. In the US sales taxes are on the order of 4-10% and are assessed by a State

Re: A few more images....

2007-09-13 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/09/2007, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those who upload photos are looking forward to comments. Tastes vary, obviously, and it's with that variable in mind that reactions are sought. As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, if the posting photog has the result they like, all

Re: Price of Pentax Lenses in Australia

2007-09-13 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 14/09/2007, Peter McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A one-time charge, thankfully. Although don't say that too loud - our government might hear you and decide they like the idea... Then again, it's election time, so this would probably get buried. For now. Oh no, sales tax was once off

Re: Price of Pentax Lenses in Australia

2007-09-13 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 14/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly enough I do not believe any state here in the US taxes service, only goods. That was one of the reasons that after my first attempt as a commercial photographer I changed my rate structure to a pure service one of time + a

Re: A few more images....

2007-09-13 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 14/09/2007, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly, and suggested changes really have no reference. It seems most people have missed this rather less than subtle point. Ohhh, is that a booger on my screen! -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours

Re: Pentax Gallery

2007-09-13 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 14/09/2007, Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I say is art, IS art. If it has a frame around it. I say a dog shit with a frame around it is still a dog shit. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PESO Why..

2007-09-13 Thread Digital Image Studio
..did you brush my hair like this dad? http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/Thomas/photo?authkey=pzmnlsD2ZJI#5109850268572191650 Before school this morning. evil grin -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pentax Gallery

2007-09-13 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 14/09/2007, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People keep confusing the question of is it art? with is it any good?. They're separate issues. Of course it can concurrently be art and a dog shit but practically I'd tend towards labeling it the latter if that's what it is. -- Rob

Re: Pentaxian.com Contest

2007-09-12 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/09/2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gads, Tom. How could they make such an egregious error? Sheesh. It seems you always something to be critical about, even when someone has been gifted with a very nice prize unexpectedly. I guess for some people the glass is always half

Re: A few more images....

2007-09-12 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/09/2007, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the impression they're supposed to look like that to give an accurate rendition of the light. I'd love to know what everyone else is using to view these images or whether it's just the expectations that images like this have to be

Re: A few more images....

2007-09-12 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those look like typical Velvia, or as I like to call it Velveeta, (Kraft Corporation's processed Cheese Food, since it has the same relationship to natural color that Velveeta has to natural cheese), to me.. I still have a hard time

Re: A few more images....

2007-09-12 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have not been touched! Only the new images are and two of the old ones. If you have a different reaction to them, its you, not the images I have not boosted saturation on the images displayed now. So if you aren't working on a

Re: A few more images....

2007-09-11 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 12/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After all, they are supposed to look colorful and vibrant. Thats why I shot them! They are mostly shot under spectacular lighting conditions with very vibrant colors. Velvia helps as well. Whatever you are trying to acheive it's not working,

Re: A few more images....

2007-09-11 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 12/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean apart from the Velvia look? :-) I'm not due much with the scans. Some level adjustments; perhaps a slight contrast and brightness adjustment; rarely any saturation adjustment. So is your scanner calibrated to a reference Velvia film

Re: A few more images....

2007-09-11 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 12/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admit I am a novice when it comes to photoshop. I hate it! I really don't know how to help you there, I think it's great but then I've made sure that I understand what it's doing so that I have full control of it. Anyway, many of the

Re: Don't shoot me! Adaptor?

2007-09-09 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 09/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: crazy stuff. Nikon cameras confuse me; every time I've ever held one I couldn't figure out where various buttons were, and if I did find them, I couldn't understand the logic behind their placement. They get my hands all contorted and my brain

Re: PESO: You too can improve road safety ;-)

2007-09-09 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 10/09/2007, Ralf R. Radermacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just put an old Vectra estate, a 6x17 camera, two microphones, and a WAV recorder next to the most notoriously accident-prone stretch of a road and watch hordes of dangerous speed junkies instantly turn into law-abiding citizens. ;-)

Re: Metering Question

2007-09-07 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 08/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whoa, bad idea! It's hard to start eating spicy stuff because you don't want to feel the burn when you come off the endorphine high...if choclate was included, you'd get so fat so fast...man...I think it's capsicum by the way... I've had

Re: Metering Question

2007-09-07 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 08/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds delicious! If you have the recipe, will you send it to me off-list please? I add a bit of cayenne pepper powder to my hot chocolate, it heats things up pretty fast ;) I've never actually made a fudge, not my thing really, the one I

Re: More eBay Madness -- an observation.

2007-09-07 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 08/09/2007, Paul Ewins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe they're nutjob collectors that want the perfect *used* specimen and are buying every one they can just to make sure. Are they selling any of these lenses (i.e. the rejects)? There are a multitude of reasons why someone might be doing

Re: Got my 67

2007-09-07 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 08/09/2007, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wait 'til one of them needs to go in for repair ... I don't know exactly what's wrong with my FA* 80-200, but it's going to cost $380 to fix it so it focusses at the wide end of the zoom range :-( That's value, it sounds like a screw

Re: PESO: Pink Sun Banding

2007-09-05 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 06/09/07, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This AM my wife told me there was a pretty pink sun rising. I shot it as a lark, really, but am surprised to see the degree of vertical banding accross the frame. Thought that was dealt with through a firmware download some time back. This is

Re: OT - Cat Stew

2007-09-02 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 03/09/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feral animals are merely animals returned to the natural wild state in which they once belonged before so-called 'domesticating' took place. The pejorative is applied by humans, who have little bragging room, truth be known. Just that it's the

Re: OT - Cat Stew

2007-09-02 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 03/09/07, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently it's quite difficult to keep kangaroos down. It's not too hard if the kill and cook them first ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO

Re: OT - Cat Stew

2007-09-02 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 03/09/07, Digital Image Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/09/07, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently it's quite difficult to keep kangaroos down. It's not too hard if the kill and cook them first ;-) Try again, It's not too hard if you kill and cook them first ;-) -- Rob

Re: OT: Latest Enablement

2007-09-01 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 01/09/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day All, I picked up a package from the post office today that contained (largish page ~ 880kb): http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/V125/V125.htm I have to say I'm very impressed. LOL., it looks so, don't forget to try it wide open,

Re: OT Interesting concept in image enhancement

2007-09-01 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 01/09/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Impressive, except it hasn't been written for the Mac yet. I guess I should have been more specific in that I don't believe that the concepts are new but more so the idea of combining all these processing systems in one tool. For the Mac a similar

Re: SD and CF

2007-09-01 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 02/09/07, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked about that when I bought my K10D, thinking I could use the adapter for my *ist-D. The guy at the camera store told me they weren't very reliable. And I wonder if they'd work with SDHC cards? Mine certainly hasn't been unreliable

Re: AOVCalculator

2007-09-01 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 02/09/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately you can't vary the input for focal length in your formulas, which is the whole point to comparing different AOVs of particular focal lengths on different formats. It's complicated by the fact that different nominal focal lengths

Re: eBay Madness, Sometime you get lucky!

2007-09-01 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 02/09/07, Perry Pellechia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was starting to get a little nervous when I did not receiver it after ten days. I thought the seller figured out he could have gotten a lot more for it and was not going to complete the deal. However it arrived today via US mail in

Re: Pentax Gallery rules

2007-08-31 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 01/09/2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean by creative framing, Jack? I assume he means boarders/virtual frames. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO

Re: Small SDHC Reader?

2007-08-31 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 01/09/2007, John Celio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a small, fast SDHC card reader? My ex-gf got me a 4gb SDHC and naturally it won't work with my older readers. What I'd like is something very small that I can carry around in my camera bag. I've already got a multi-card

Re: I Hate My *ist D - Eclipse Photos

2007-08-31 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 31/08/2007, Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it's actually Uranus. Which reminded me of this clip I saw recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qIg3gzcCxw -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PESO Through the magnolia

2007-08-31 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 01/09/2007, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very striking and unusual! Strange to see buds on trees, but of course it's spring there in Oz! Thanks Rick, it wasn't meant to be a work of art but I found it unusual too. I looked at the tree earlier this morning and there are no flowers

OT Very clever

2007-08-31 Thread Digital Image Studio
A fun tee shirt: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/78c6/ -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998

OT Interesting concept in image enhancement

2007-08-31 Thread Digital Image Studio
http://www.photoacute.com/studio/index.html -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML

Re: AOVCalculator

2007-08-31 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 01/09/2007, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Just out of curiosity, what's the formula for fisheye lenses? It would be neat if there was a check box for that) From a spread sheet I wrote a while back: VAOV (in degrees) =image height /(image width^2 + image height^2)^0.5x180 HAOV (in

Re: SD and CF

2007-08-31 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 01/09/2007, Jim Apilado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard that you can get an adapter that will take SD cards and place the adapter in a camera (*ist D) that only takes CF cards. If true, does it affect the write speed to a SD card. I have one and it slows them considerably, however it's

PESO Through the magnolia

2007-08-29 Thread Digital Image Studio
Hi Team, Last night well after the lunar eclipse had finished I went out to retrieve my tripod and noticed how bright the moonlight was and I thought it would make for some interesting low light SR tests. I mounted my A50/1.2, set the camera to ISO1600 and opened up the lens and ran around like

Re: Viewfinder Free Zone

2007-08-29 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 29/08/2007, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent. It's actually almost the same plane as mine. A slightly newer year, but the same basic model. I've found fisheyes about the only way to really get wide enough to get a feeling for flying in a small plane like that.

Re: FIND

2007-08-29 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 30/08/2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I leave the review function off as a consequence and review what I've achieved at appropriate times after a moment of shooting passes. I might shoot one or two exposure tests prior to a moment to test my ideas on exposure,

Re: PESO: Moon Eclipse Composite

2007-08-29 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 29/08/2007, Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all My attempts at photographing last night's eclipse seem to have struck similar problems to others - noisy images that, in my case, looked abysmal at full totality. The only answer was to reduce the size of the images and make a

Re: Viewfinder Free Zone

2007-08-28 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 26/08/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day All, Just for chuckles: http://picasaweb.google.com.au/OzSavage/ViewfinderFreeZone (all shot with the K10D DA 16-45) Show 'em if you've got 'em. Shots made with cameras with live LCD view don't count. I made a few overhead shots

Re: Sheesh

2007-08-28 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 28/08/07, Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I spent the entire day getting one of the 320 gig drives working. As usual it turned out the problem was my skipping a step in the reinstall. Then Just after I got it to working the darn $12 ebay workstaion video card goes by-by, so here I am

Re: FIND

2007-08-28 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 25/08/07, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think a calibration target is going to help as much as a scanner with a longer range and higher bit depth. My LS-8000 and AF-5400 II both have problems with Kodachrome, particularly in the really dense areas. -- Rob Studdert

Re: Pentax or Bust

2007-08-28 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/08/07, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 15mm is a superb piece of optical engineering as many of you will know. On a 1.3 crop camera it still gives a very usable wide image, and with no vingetting due to said crop. I don't even focus it - set it to f8, set the focus accordingly and

Re: Viewfinder Free Zone

2007-08-28 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 29/08/07, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On of my favorite fisheye self-portraits. http://filebox.ece.vt.edu/~papenfuss/PESO/7/ Definately viewfinder-free. LOL, I can identify with that: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/BigVdub/Pics/EDDIE2.jpg -- Rob

Re: What sort of caterpillar is THIS???

2007-08-28 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 29/08/07, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So there we were, minding our own business by the lake in New Hampshire, when this critter started marching across our picnic table. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6357916size=lg None of us had ever seen anything like it before. I

Re: I Hate My *ist D - Eclipse Photos

2007-08-28 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 29/08/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quit your whining. Just be glad you got to see it. There was solid overcast here during the eclipse. About an hour after it was all over, the sky cleared. We actually had pretty clear skies here, I made a few shots, nothing that I'm too

Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed

2007-08-24 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/08/07, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the ISO rating (of the sensor) directly linked to the signal-to-noise ratio? Indirectly. Isn't wanting a lower ISO like wishing the sensor was noisier? No, the sensors effective native ISO has more to do with its saturation level, the

News: Pentax: 645 Digital 'no longer priority'

2007-08-24 Thread Digital Image Studio
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Pentax_645_Digital_no_longer_priority_news_139145.html -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax

Re: News: Pentax: 645 Digital 'no longer priority'

2007-08-24 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/08/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't this like the third time that this has been reported... Wasting bandwidth or your time am I? -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO

Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed

2007-08-24 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/08/07, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, Wikipedia says: ISO Standard 12232:2006 http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=3 (Photography — Digital still cameras — Determination of exposure index, ISO speed ratings,

Re: News: Pentax: 645 Digital 'no longer priority'

2007-08-24 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 25/08/07, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Digital Image Studio wrote: http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Pentax_645_Digital_no_longer_priority_news_139145.html Hey, in May they announced that the 645D had been scrapped! No longer a priority is an improvement! ;-) The board

Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed

2007-08-24 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 25/08/07, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, doesn't the real point still remain? Doesn't a lower native ISO mean that you have to amplify the data more at a given higher ISO setting? If it does, asking for a lower ISO is in reality asking for more noise at higher ISO

Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed

2007-08-23 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 23/08/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a facetious response to the familiar SOS. LOL, I'm sticking around for the 645D, should be here for a while ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need 1.5V button cells? Nice hack :)

2007-08-23 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/08/07, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you got cheated by the seller. Rechargeable D cells are now up to 5000mah to 15000mah (why are they still using milli-amp-hours when such capacities are better expressed in amp-hours?), no way you will get that out of a AA cell. You can

Re: FIND

2007-08-23 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/08/07, Norm Baugher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Godfrey, nice to meet you... Brad :-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user

Re: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed

2007-08-23 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 24/08/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it's better than the Canon 6D he reviewed last week based on a online forum rumor. Poor sod, he seems to be getting some slaps from the Nikon forumites and he's Nikons biggest flag waver, it's just not fair. I must confess after his name

Re: OT: Cleaning Mirror and viewscreen

2007-08-23 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/08/07, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This'll make some purists puke here, but I got fed up with dust spots on my Darkside 1D so I just wiped the sensor a few times with clean cotton buds and all my stubborn dust blotches disappeared in one go. This the first time in nearly three years.

Re: OT - Fiberoptics, anyone?

2007-08-22 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/08/07, AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a question for the technically curious. Do you think it will be worthwhile to use fibre optics to lead light from an ordinary flash (eg. Pentax 540 FGZ) into various configurations for macro flash purposes? I can't get the idea out of my

Re: OT: Content Aware Image Resizing

2007-08-22 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 22/08/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who frequent DPReview: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07082201seamcarvingimageresizing.asp I thought it was pretty neat. Mmm, I don't know if I like that, much like some systems I had to deal with in broadcast that made up and

Re: Dream Cruise Photo Contest

2007-08-22 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 23/08/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm one of ten winners in the Detroit News Dream Cruise Photo Contest. My winning entry is a pic of my own '55 Chevy in front of a diner on Woodward. It's been seen here before. I shot it several years ago with the 6x7 and Pentax SMC

Re: Some quick monitor info

2007-08-22 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 23/08/07, Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The more and more I think about it, the more it becomes apparent that regardless of how things look on my monitor I can be almost guaranteed it won't look the same on someone else's, regardless of calibration, etc. If contrast is adjustable, doesn't

Re: need 1.5V button cells? Nice hack :)

2007-08-22 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 23/08/07, Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.wisebread.com/the-40-hidden-inside-a-12v-battery That one is funny.. even usefull for some, maybe ;) LOL, not quite groundbreaking. I was doing this to power my little projects in my early teens, when the alkaline 9v cells become more

Re: LED rings (was Re: OT - Fiberoptics, anyone?)

2007-08-22 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 23/08/07, AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably what I'll do eventually, but I have serious problems getting rid of the fibre optics idea... :-) Have you seen this? http://www.ringflash.cz/ -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL

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