Re: Long lenses colour: white or green? Important things

2002-06-16 Thread Pål Audun Jensen
Fred wrote: Gee whiz, back in February, when I mentioned the greenish color of some of the big A* lens barrels, Pål asked ~me~ Are you suffering from some kind of weird color blindness? Hmmm... ;-) I swear I can't see this green color. Pål - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Long lenses colour: white or green? Important things

2002-06-15 Thread Pål Audun Jensen
Rob wrote: I don't know about the colour miraculously making a cream to yellow green transition as you move from indoors to out however they definitely are a light green in colour (mine is anyway). Did this lens turn green after it arrived in Australia? I can swear it was white when I owned

Long lenses colour: white or green? Important things

2002-06-14 Thread Albano_Garcia
I remember with a mix of sadness and sympathy a relatively long thread sometime ago about the true colour of Pentax long teles. This was one of the times I thought about how far can some things go on a list, about sanity, etc... Well, Mr. Reichmann, from Luminous Landscape, in his review of 67

Re: Long lenses colour: white or green? Important things

2002-06-14 Thread Rob Studdert
On 14 Jun 2002 at 16:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember with a mix of sadness and sympathy a relatively long thread sometime ago about the true colour of Pentax long teles. This was one of the times I thought about how far can some things go on a list, about sanity, etc... Well, Mr.

Re: Long lenses colour: white or green? Important things

2002-06-14 Thread Fred
In order to lay the thread to rest once and for all Er, that's not likely to happen, Rob - Minutia 'R' us - g. I just shot my A*300f2.8 lens along side an old hood (darker green) using my digital camera white balanced on a sheet of regular white copy paper, I deliberately slightly

Re: Long lenses colour: white or green? Important things

2002-06-14 Thread Rob Studdert
On 14 Jun 2002 at 21:20, Fred wrote: I showed something like this previously, using images from Pentax USA's site: http://www.cetussoft.com/pentax/wtgrn.htm Er, um, that's pretty green :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED]