On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:48 PM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote:
I still see film cameras like the K1000 and MX listed for
sale as student cameras. Question is are they still using
film cameras rather than digital in photography classes in
high schools and colleges? Seems like a
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-l14RCW4UA
I just got a Zeiss Ikon ZM. I haven't done it yet, but I'm just
waiting for the day that I leave the lens cap on.
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Nice! Like the simplicity and detail of this shot.
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:42 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote:
This is number 22 in the series Print-a-Day for 30 Days.
http://georges.posterous.com/burlington-window-print-a-day-22
Some of
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Christine Nielsen ch...@inielsen.net wrote:
This just in, from a PF email alert... You may resume your
regularly-scheduled enablement!
Sure glad I didn't pull the trigger on the $1500 DA 16-50. But, I
must confess -- I broke down bought it recently from
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:43 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote:
This is number 11 in the series Print-a-Day for 30 Days.
http://georges.posterous.com/into-the-light-print-a-day-11
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Nicely done. Like the composition and careful framing of the edges.
The orange thing in the upper
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM, P. J. Alling
webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/657111main_1-SOT_120606_venus_ca_nc_yellow_001_color_full.jpg
I don't have the equipment...
I wonder what fstop they shot this at. I think I see a little diffraction.
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:51 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote:
This is number 8 in the series Print a Day for 30 Days
http://georges.posterous.com/omaha-world-herald-print-a-day-8
Nice image. I'd think an exec in that building would like a print
hanging in their office. :)
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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:58 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote:
I spent the weekend taking photos at the annual Sand in the City
fundraiser. Friday's build day was overcast, but the Saturday Family
Festival couldn't have had better weather. There was a great turnout.
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Some good
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:28 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote:
This is number six in the series Print a Day for 30 Days
This duck is a visitor to a small pond in a park near my home.
http://georges.posterous.com/duck-print-a-day-6
The reflections on the pond surface made this one of
Jeffery,
Just took a look at your changes. The site is coming along nicely. :)
One thing I will add. The opening page is centered on the screen.
When opening the thumbnail galleries, they snap to the left. From
there opening a single photo, the photo loads centered. The
right/left, left/right
So I decided a few weeks ago to give film a try. I bought a couple
old Pentax cameras and started shooting. Locally we have a camera
shop that will develop black and white film and scan to disk. So I
shot a few rolls and really liked the process of shooting a manual
film camera. So I thought
Wow, that's really nice! I'm liking Lr 4 better than 3 myself.
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On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a bw portrait of Dorothy from our Hollywood Glamour shoot ...
that your negs would match the calibrated gamma their scanner is
expecting.
My thoughts on the subject, subject to re-interpretation by folks who know
what they are talking about.
Joseph McAllister
Lots of gear, not much time
On May 29, 2012, at 10:23 , Kenton Brede wrote:
So I decided
Jeffry,
I like the minimalism. The site looked fine on my ipad v3 as well
as Safari and Firefox. I'm with Godfrey, galleries need thumbnails
and a link back to home. BTW, the pics are great. :)
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Jeffery Smith
If optically the lens is above average to superb, looks like a good
value to me, given the price. Those who want higher quality and spend
more can opt for the DA * 55mm. Choices are good I think.
My 2 cents. :)
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On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Tom C
I'm making a foray into film and decided I should get a light meter.
I bought a used Sekonic L-508 which has both incident and spot
metering. Messing around with the K-5 and Sekonic, I found the
readings didn't really match up. So I took a picture of the blue sky,
the histogram was spiked in the
I've got a screw in lens hood for my M50mm and M28mm lenses that works
fine with my K-5, but when I tried it with my K1000, I get vignetting.
I found a hood for the 50mm on BH but not for the 28mm. From what I
gather the official hood is a PH-S49 for the 28mm. Can't find that
anywhere. I found
Thanks all for your help! Your answers cleared a lot up for me.
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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Kenton Brede kbr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm just getting started with film. One of the things I've read is,
unlike digital, it's better to expose for shadow
I'm just getting started with film. One of the things I've read is,
unlike digital, it's better to expose for shadow detail. I've read
that a lot of detail can be pulled back from the overexposed areas on
film.
My question is, can that detail be pulled back from a digital scan of
a negative, or
Congratulations Darren!
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote:
I've always been somewhat of a bottom-feeder when it comes to
equipment (you remember me, Mr. Bang-for-the-buck Guy) so this K-5 is
new territory for me
I met the gentleman who owns this shop during the Nebraska Photography
Symposium in Hastings Nebraska. He gave a talk on the first day
during lunch. He talked about camera repair, among other things. He
mentioned Pentax a few times, so I caught him later in the day and
asked if he worked on
Darren I didn't get to Ryan's presentation. :( I am familiar with his
excellent work though.
I will post back with the repair time. At this point we're waiting
for a part from Pentax. Who knows how long that will take. So far I
think it's been three weeks, waiting for the part.
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:55 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
the following are all the blogs of posters on this list with feeds that i
noticed/could find; some of the sites didn't really have obvious default
feeds, so i found feeds of recent photos or some such; if you subscribe to
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:43 PM, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote:
from what I've seen so far, the man competitors are drupal, joomla,
typo3 and wordpress in alphabetical order. can anyone comment on which
is the easiest to learn and maintain? I would probably have the web
site designed by
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:43 PM, eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote:
from what I've seen so far, the man competitors are drupal, joomla,
typo3 and wordpress in alphabetical order. can anyone comment on which
is the easiest to learn and maintain? I would probably have the web
site designed by
I took the following photo in low light conditions with a macro lens
on f/16, shutter speed of 30 sec. and ISO at 200. I used a lamp to
create the shadow. Anyway I liked the photo for the most part. The
histogram shows stacking on the dark side. The part I don't like is
the shadow. In the
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:01 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
From this years family gathering.
Erin tries to explain to her granny were the picture is coming from.
http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2010-simpson-bennett/album/slides/_PHC1059.html
D200 18-70 pop up flash.
Photos are
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:59 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
On 2010-12-18 07:37 , Kenton Brede wrote:
I took the following photo in low light conditions with a macro lens
on f/16, shutter speed of 30 sec. and ISO at 200. I used a lamp to
create the shadow. Anyway I liked
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote:
On 2010-12-18 13:10 , Kenton Brede wrote:
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:59 PM, steve harleyp...@paper-ape.com wrote:
did you shoot RAW or JPEG? did you save as JPEG multiple times while
editing?
I'm working from RAW. I
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote:
I understand the need to overly touch up portraits, but the software
Portrait Magic Professional Actions removes all evidence that the
person has skin. Am I being picky or is this thing way over the top?
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
There are times when it is really handy to have two camera bodies. On the
other hand there are more times that it would be even handier to only need to
have one in my camera bag. This time of year, I often need the wether
I was wondering if someone could give me a critique on this photo?
Any tips on taking pictures of snow, where the now is rendered *white*
would be appreciated. :)
http://aphotoaday.sandhillsnaps.org/2010/12/12/day-paper-snow/
Thanks,
Kent
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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:29 PM, frank theriault
knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
This should be fun:
http://realcanadianhats.blogspot.com/
;-)
I'll be posting my Big Winter Hats on this space from now on. The
title photo is new to the list, but oh so appropriate given the
blog's title,
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote:
Just made 200 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bongmanayon/5180461525/
Interestingly, it was one of my K-r road test photos. For the
morbidly curious, it took me 2 years (2007 to 2009; about the same
time last year) to
Christine, what is GFM? And what are you hoping to go to? Just curious.
Thanks,
Kent
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Christine Aguila
cagu...@earthlink.net wrote:
Just wondering: who's going? Is there hope for a big do? Cheers,
Christine
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I've decided to purchase a laptop for RAW image processing. I'm also
a budding nature audio recordist, so I'll be doing audio post
processing as well. So far I've only played with Bibble and Picassa a
bit processing photos. My plan is to give Photoshop and Lightroom a
try.
I would like to
Love the sense of motion and the lighting.
Kent
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:42 PM, David Parsons parsons.da...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alohadave/5240436950/
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You use your's, I'll use mine: Pentax
Kent
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Larry Colen (Droid Mail)
l...@red4est.com wrote:
Last night when someone saw my camera she comented:
Pentax, the poor man's Nikon.
What else could we do with this:
Cannon, for the skilful photographer.
Or how about
Hi, I've been lurking for a few days here. I'm from the Midwest. I
bought my first DSLR about two weeks ago, a K-x with the 18-55mm,
55-300mm lens kit. I've got a 50mm M f/1.7 on the way, as well as a
polarizer and graduated filter. I also picked up a cleaning kit with
rocket blower and a
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Christine Aguila
cagu...@earthlink.net wrote:
- Original Message - From: Kenton Brede kbr...@gmail.com
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It's excellent to read books for basic understanding and grounding with the
equipment etc, and I support that but do try to start taking
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Walter Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome aboard, Kent!
Thanks Walt. :)
First of all, you don't want that old M-50/1.7 -- let me take that off your
hands.
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Aside from that, just email me off-list and I'll give you a snail mail
address where
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