Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
In truth, it will probably get better. Technology is our friend. > On Mar 24, 2023, at 9:43 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> Have you seen this video? Kinda spooky. >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8giCWDcyE >> >> YIKES! > > Yep. And

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-24 Thread Mark Roberts
Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Have you seen this video? Kinda spooky. >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8giCWDcyE > >YIKES! Yep. And things are only going to get worse. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-24 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 7:47 PM Mark Roberts wrote: > Larry Colen wrote: > > Have you seen this video? Kinda spooky. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8giCWDcyE YIKES! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * -- %(real_name)s

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-24 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 04:24:15PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > > On Mar 22, 2023, at 10:17 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > > I managed to dig out one of the images from 2000. This will have > > been taken on my PZ-1p. I'm pretty sure I was using my A* 300/2.8, > > probably shooting 1600 ASA

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread Mark Roberts
Larry Colen wrote: >Most of the advances in phone cameras are in the field of computational >photography. They’ll basically take a short video, then combine the photos, >throw a bunch of DSP at it etc. > >If the computational aspect could be applied to DSLR sized sensors the results >would be

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 22, 2023, at 10:17 PM, John Francis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Alan C wrote: >> When I see 'phone shots like that, I wonder why we bother with cameras. > > Quite. > > As I mentioned, I was interested to compare modern technology to > what I was able to do

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
A white balance adjustment would probably take out that green color cast too. On 3/23/2023 1:17 AM, John Francis wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Alan C wrote: When I see 'phone shots like that, I wonder why we bother with cameras. Quite. As I mentioned, I was interested to

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
> On Mar 23, 2023, at 11:21 AM, Alan C wrote: > > Yes, 'phone cameras do still have some limitations but do well enough in most > situations. The Kruger Park Sightings FB page is 90% 'phone stills & videos > and the quality is pretty good. One even sees reckless visitors leaning out > of

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-23 Thread Alan C
Yes, 'phone cameras do still have some limitations but do well enough in most situations. The Kruger Park Sightings FB page is 90% 'phone stills & videos and the quality is pretty good. One even sees reckless visitors leaning out of car widows trying to take selfies with wild animals! A

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-22 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Alan C wrote: > When I see 'phone shots like that, I wonder why we bother with cameras. Quite. As I mentioned, I was interested to compare modern technology to what I was able to do twenty+ years ago. I managed to dig out one of the images from 2000.

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-21 Thread Alan C
When I see 'phone shots like that, I wonder why we bother with cameras. Time for Ricoh/Pentax to get into the 'phone business with their own embedded optics? Alan C On 20-Mar-23 08:44 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: GREAT PHONE IMAGE! On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:37 PM John Francis wrote: On

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-20 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
GREAT PHONE IMAGE! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:37 PM John Francis wrote: > > > On Fridy my wife and I drove up to Berkeley to catch a > St. Patrick's Day gig at the Freight & Salvage (a music >

Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-20 Thread Comcast
A nice pic! Paul > On Mar 19, 2023, at 10:37 PM, John Francis wrote: > >  > > On Fridy my wife and I drove up to Berkeley to catch a > St. Patrick's Day gig at the Freight & Salvage (a music > venue). Getting there was a nightmare - instead of the > hour and a quarter that Google Maps was

St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

2023-03-19 Thread John Francis
On Fridy my wife and I drove up to Berkeley to catch a St. Patrick's Day gig at the Freight & Salvage (a music venue). Getting there was a nightmare - instead of the hour and a quarter that Google Maps was estimating when we left home it took us twice that - there were no less than three