Re: digital infared?

Hi, I am using a Heliopan RG780 Filter on my *ist-D, it cuts visible light off at 780 nm. The effect is undenialble. Results look even better than the cover of the U2 album the unforgettable fire, if you should know that. One day i will have a website to show you my pics... ;-} Thomas

Re: Porst 135mm 1.8

Hi Kevin, there is a custom function in which you must explicitly engage the firing with non-A lenses. Have you done that already? Have you also installed the new firmware which makes metering with M-lenses much easier? I can fire my ist-D even with enlarger lenses from the darkroom on an old

Re: LX-D

Christian schrieb: How about the Leica Digital back for the R-8 and R-9? http://www.dpreview.com/news/0306/03062502leicadigitalr9.asp Christian Hm, the main point of aquiring an LX for me were the interchangeable finders. That made it _so versatile_ ... Well, a digital MZ-S with

Re: Win98SE *istD

Hi list, I also still do have a machine on 98SE - but I got myself a little Sandisk FireWire/CF reader - 512MB are loaded in less than 1min 30s ! So what's all the fuzz about USB1.1, USB2.0, full-speed hispeed USB... ;-) !?! Thomas Michel Carrère-Gée schrieb: Peter Hillerstrom a écrit:

Re: Best pix of 2003

Hi list, ... t Just out of curiousity...do any of these looked dovtored to you? What do you think about the 747 passing the moon? I think with a focal lenght of about 1600mm equiv., one of the two should be out of focus...depth of field is very flat...or is it already hyperfocal at 35.000 feet?

Re: The decline and fall of (Kodak) film

Pentax schrieb: I use a lot of Tri-X and lots of their chemicals as well: HC-110, Dektol, Photo Flow, and Fixer. Also use PolyMax RC for proofs. From the articles I've read, even though they are shifting away from film, they still sell over 120 million rolls a year providing ample

Re: version 1.1

John Francis said: Pretty much exactly what I predicted would be the best we could hope for, back when the camera was first released. I'm favourably impressed; while it was apparent that these capabilities were technically feasible, I still thought that the hyper manual stop-down

Re: OT: 2004!

T minus 6:40 and counting... ;-) All the best for 2004! Thomas Ryan Lee schrieb: Hey List! 30 minutes into 2004, greeted by a bit of a firework display here in Brisbane, Australia.. Boy do they love their pyrotechnics here.. Anyways Happy New Year All!! Looking good here in 2004, how's

Re: 2004 fireworks

Hi Kevin, I don't know your exposure times, but if you take a long time exposure, say 15 seconds with noise reduction on, the camera needs a time as long as the exposure itself to calculate noise reduction. Writung adds to that but should be the minor part of the process. All the best for 2004!

Re: C41 Black and White contrast problem

Hello, I can second graywolfs comment, but want to add that it always turned out to be easier with solid grade papers instead of multigrade. I used a lot of Labaphot papers in the eighties for printing XP-1, though I don't know if these are known in the States, too. I very much like the new Kodak

Re: Coming to terms with *ist D lens mag factor?

Hello, if you think large chips are going to replace medium-format, why then not make a body in MF-style (cubic body with perhaps interchangeable backs for digi 35mm-film, interchangeable viewfinders like prism and waistlevel of course) that takes 35mm lenses? There once was the Rollei 3003 in

Re: Vertical grip ?

Well, that's right so far... But then there was the *LX* ! If you have one with motordrive and NC-pack, you also have a vertical shutter release! (Of course also true for K2-dmd with motor...) :-) Thomas Bo-Ming Tong schrieb: Am I understanding correctly that only the following 3 cameras have

Re: Another ebay scam!

666? LOL! Not bad... :-) Thomas Ann Sanfedele schrieb: Thomas Stach wrote: Hello, another ebay scam just arrived at an email adress of me that ebay doen't even know. So funny! The page was so primitive, they even wanted to me to give them my credit card number on it. Can

Re: ultra-wide primes

Jose R. Rodriguez schrieb: Peter, If had the opportunity to purchase a K 18/3.5, I would jump on it. Not cheap, but there is one at the very moment at ebay Germany! True! Great condtion, from Mr. Bukovina's collection. Every review I have read on this lens states it performs

Re: OT: PDML - Meeting in Germany?

Hi Katrin, what do you think of this forum: http://digitalfotonetz.de/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2 Lots of Pentax-users are already registered there, and they have a very Starkistdee thread! Greetinx, Thomas Hallo! I think the best way to collect all names and possible places and date is

Re: SAFOX VIII problems?

John Francis schrieb: Borrow someone's A*85mm f1.4 and realise the mistake you have made ;-) Buy an istD and 50/1.4 and get a similar fov. I've just heard of some reported problems with the SAFOX VIII auto-focus with lenses wider than f4 max aperture. Apparently the FA

Re: Another one bites the dust . . .

Rob Brigham schrieb: Wait two weeks, then pick up the MZ-S again. It will feel so good that you will constantly be in a quandry. You will want the istD for what it does, but you will always wish it felt like the MZ-S! I can second that absolutely! The perfect quandary! You can see me

Re: How many musicians? was Re: where are you ? and digital vs film

Hehe, that's funny. Lots of bass players here. I also play bass and at the same time I do the lead vocals in a band. The band was founded 1991 as a kind of high-school band, but it still exists today. As you can guess, I am a bit younger than most of you here, so the kind of music might not

Hi - I'm back!

Hello all of you, I have been away for some weeks and subscribed again today. I think I missed this list! I got an *ist-D in the meantime, so I will have lot of questions I think :-) Glad to be back again, able to participate in all this wisdom ... :-) Thomas (from Germany)

Re: Anyone had this happen on *ist-D?

Hi, I had this very same problem, too! Couldn't figure out why, perhaps bad connections inside the battery pack? I realised that the contact pins on different brand NiMH cells differ a little in their dimensions. Still need to figure out which set does the most trouble. But in the meantime I went

Re: Ok I finally got to ask why LXen

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Ok I finally have to ask why everyone here uses the term LXen when referring to their LX in plural. I must be slow but I can't for the life of me figure it out. LXes yes, it sounds right but LXen throws me every time. vic Hehe, sounds like derived from German

Re: istD review - finally

Sylwester Pietrzyk schrieb: on 28.10.03 13:43, Alexandru-Cristian Sarbu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should check dpreview - it's there! http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/pentaxistd/ *SNIP* ...performed poorer than *XYZ* in dark places (also I've noticed, that it usually focused

Re: Question on *istD lensmount

alex wetmore schrieb: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, J. C. O'Connell wrote: Since this camera has a smaller than 35mm frame size sensor there is a possiblity that pentax will ( or already has) issue lenses that only cover the smaller sensor. They have already announced the DA 16-45mm lens that

Re: Vs: Old lenses, *istD, and the Pentax M(Z)ad-S(cientists)

Hi! For me this feature was one of the main reasons to get an MZ-S. I hope I can learn a lot from this! (Also a very nice body overall...) Thomas Keith Whaley schrieb: Well, I'll be dinged! Thanks for the good info. keith whaley John Francis wrote: Raimo Korhonen wrote:

Re: We need a theme song!

Collin R Brendemuehl schrieb: I propose: Bei mir ist d schoen Any other ideas? Killing Joke: (Living in the) Eighties ;-)=) Thomas

Re: *ist D and BIG Glass

jmb schrieb: John Francis wrote: the 1.7AF adapter with the A* 300 (and also the 200) John, I just learned about the existence of the Pentax 1.7af adapter last night. I also am interested to see how it performs with the M lenses and the *istD. I gather from the name that it also

Re: WTB in the future: 300mm f/2.8

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Explain it to us again. What exactly are you shooting that you need a fast 300 or 200... Why are you shooting at 4,000 of a second? That seems like overkill no matter what you are shooting. Well, okay. I'm shooting aerosport models. I'm into rocketry...I've

Re: WTB in the future: 300mm f/2.8

Hello, first a 'thank you' for all your advise in this 300 f/2.8 thread! I've cut out some pieces of your posts to comment... Antti-Pekka Virjonen schrieb: I've gotten perfect handheld shots at 1/250s with my Z-1 and LX cameras. Sometimes I use the A* 300/2.8 together with the A 2X-L

Re: New wide angle

Wow, this also seems to be a full-frame lens, so it is the shortest wideangle ever for a 35mm SLR. 122 degrees... Up to now, it was the old 13mm f/5.6 Nikkor at 118 degrees... I know, the Cosina rangefinder shooters already have this, but for an SLR...!!! Any information on the price? Pricey, I

Re: *ist D

William Robb schrieb: I had an email from the local store today that they had the *ist D in stock, on the off chance I wanted to have a look at it. I did, of course. I didn't get much chance to inspect it, but my initial impression was strongly favourable. Enough so that I bought one,

Re: What's the difference between F FA Lenses?

Howdy gang! Isn't it true that the FA lenses also communicate the distance to the body, so that better evaluation of the matrix metering can be done? Doesn't this also apply to flash modes? Yours, Thomas John Francis schrieb: on 23.09.03 8:27, Alan Chan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: *ist D + TTL flash = ?

Hi, listening to all these discussions about flashed and the *ist-D I wonder: Will the internal flash support P-TTL? I am a proud owner of the MZ-S for a few days now (replacing my K2dmd...) and found it a little bizarre that the internal flash does NOT support this function. Whatever the

Re: Best Portrait-Lens for ist-D?

Rolf Brenner schrieb: Hi all, what do you think is the best portraitlens (with AF) for the ist-D? Should i keep my Pentax-F 50mm 1:1.7 or should i go for the Pentax-FA 50mm 1:1.4? Hi Rolf - I think this is quite impossible to answer if we know nothing about your personal preferences. I

Re: What's beyond f/64?

Jostein schrieb: Folks, During the last solar eclipse, I used a 2x TC on a lens stopped down to f/45. Could anyone help me out on the effective f-stop for this combination? From stop to stop you can easily calculate with the square root of two, or approximately 1,41. Try it: 1,4 2

Re: A*300/4 value?

Hello, recently I discovered this one: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=293779category=3334 This would be around ~400 US $ - I've also watched several others in this price range... until I found my F300/4.5 :-) Cheers, Thomas David Mann schrieb: Hi all, I've

Re: D-SLR poll on dpreview

Hehe, done! Thomas Rüdiger Neumann schrieb: Hallo on dpreview there ist the following question: Imagine you had $2800 to spend, which D-SLR would you buy (leaving some money for lenses)? Canon EOS-10D Nikon D100 Olympus E-1 Fujifilm S2 Pro Pentax *ist D Sigma SD9 Go to

Re: SV: Pentax Equipment Gets the Job Done

Jens Bladt schrieb: Hi The PZ1-p does not have a button to hold in while rewinding...and no manual rewind function! Jens (snip) Hm, not quite true. You can choose (PF11), whether the camera starts automatic rewind automatically, or only after you manually confirmed to do so! ;-)

LX motordrive/ NiCd pack re-furby

Hello everybody, my LX motordrive works again. I fingered a little bit at the various pins at the top (those ones releasing the camera from its bottom, I think), and suddenly it was alive again! *sigh* So I decided to refurbish my NiCd pack now. Those Sanyo N225 1/3AF cells are not that easy to

MZ-S: not chrome - but green!

:-) Somebody was looking for a chrome MZ-S? I found a green one! :-) Well, don't take this too serious. But the japanese seemed to be very inspired artistically by this body... http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kitsune/shashin/gentlemen.htm Perhaps can someone tell us what goes on ther?

Re: The Pentax Lens Look

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: This is the PDML, so it's not like you're going to get an unbiased opinion. Well, this the PDML, true, and this is why we've got you in here! *g* Thomas People who used to shoot Pentax say that Pentax lenses look flat and lack bite. My personal experience

Re: new toy

Sylwester Pietrzyk schrieb: Hi, my SMC-FA 35/2 has arrived. Nice small piece of glass, with rubber focusing ring wider than one in FA 50/1.4 or 28/2.8... Now I have to check it in praktice. I hope I won't regret this buy :-) -- Hi Sylwek, if you really should regret this - which I

Re: new toy

Thomas Haller schrieb: Hi All, ...I hope I won't regret this buy :-) ...ask me first, if you want to sell it... Anyone an MZ-S to sell? ;-) There was a Like New Minus at KEH for about 24 hours, but only US$100 less than new. I figured it was worth the extra US$100 to get the

Re: Odd Lens

Daniel Liu schrieb: Well, this is a little bit arcane to say the least, but i just looked at this old zoom lens' mount. It sports a KA mount, only it also features a tiny protruding contact that doesn't touch any of the contacts on the camera. I looked at the inside of the lens, and it

Re: To Pentax in Japan (does anybody have their email address?)

Well done, Arnold! I second that, too. But please tell them, I'm a Pentax user for more than 18 years! ;-) Still, I find the idea of an *ist-D very tempting... Thomas Arnold Stark schrieb: Dear Pentax Corporation, For more than 14 years I am a user and a big enthusiast of Pentax

Re: *ist D revisited

Hi, at this point I always asked myself, what where the people doing, I bought my glass like the FA 85/1.4, F* 300/4.5 or FA 20~35 from? Jumping ship? Going digital PS? Got an FA* 300/2.8 or so? Really curios... Thomas Pål Jensen schrieb: Alin wrote: This is just an urban legend.

Re: *ist D revisited

Christian Skofteland schrieb: I'm still not ready to throw in the towel. As I stated before, I can't wait to get my hands on a *ist-D to see what it's really all about. I have only 4 non-A lenses in 3 focal lengths so I'm not too worried about compatibility. As far as Pentax releasing

Re: How do you feel ...

Caveman schrieb: There's this great little camera called an LX, that makes any aperture calibration issue completely irrelevant. I shot for 1 week a lens with faulty aperture, and I couldn't notice it, the exposure was right on spot. And again, there's waiting. Waiting for a successor

Re: leaving for a while

Katrin schrieb: Hello! I'm unsubscribing because I'm going on holidays for a week to south tyrol... hope to come back with a lot of pictures and I hope I can learn a bit more about the optio s ^_^ Oh, South Tyrol ... please say hello from me to Merano, Bolzano, Meran, Naturns where

Re: Release Date for *ist D???

Mark Roberts schrieb: Steve Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been away from the list for awhile. Any news on when the *ist D might be available to purchase? Did I see someone mention a July date? First shipments are expected to arrive in the U.S. in late July or early August.

Re: F verses FA lenses

Arnold Stark schrieb: I bought my F*300/f4.5 for 422 Euros at Ebay Germany, and I sold my FA*300/f4.5 for 405 Euros - so I would say that there may be a price difference, but only a small one. With the exchange being as it is at the moment, $460 would have been very near to what I paid.

Re: 50/1.4 lens comparisons

Hi, I going to do some real-life tests in the near future with both my 50mm's. My impression up to now is, that the FA 50/1.4 is way better than the M 50/1.4 - esp. contrast wide open flare. Thomas collinb schrieb: Anyone done resolution tests comparing the K 50/1.4 to the A/M optics?

Re: Bitch and Moan, again

Bill Owens schrieb: I have come to the conclusion that if Pentax, or any other camera manufacturer, were to introduce a 14MP DSLR, with a12-600/f1.2 zoom, effective motordrive of 36 fps, and price it at $300.00 USD, there would be people on this list who find something to bitch an moan

Re: KAF3 lens mount already here?

snip BTW: Have you seen the new design of the Pentax Germany pages at www.pentax.de? All the nice product-pdf to download are gone ... :.-( Thomas

Re: FA 300/4.5 question

Paul Franklin Stregevsky schrieb: I'm waiting for someone to buy one of each size of Canon's three auxillary tripod mounts, find out which one (if any) fits the FA 300/4.5, and inform the list. LOL!!! Oh, you have my sympathy!!! *g* But as I got Butch, he probably wants to use it on an MF

Re: Gigapixels...

Bruce Rubenstein schrieb: Don't approach it from digital signal processing, because it has nothing to do with what's going on. The phenomenon of interest is where the photon hits the sensor and that's analog/quantum mechanics - physics, not signal processing. Yes, understood. But could