RE: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Bob W
John Coyle ... and the second was a Pentax SV. Beautiful camera, stolen in 1975 I didn't have the balls to steal mine. I had to save up for it: a little Agfa of some sort, bought when I was 13 or 14. and replaced a few years ago with a second-hand but much-loved and well-maintained one.

RE: PESO - Chilly Chess

2011-04-13 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Rick Womer On a cool November afternoon in Paris: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11943452size=lg very good - it's the guy eyeballing them that makes it. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Rob Studdert
On 13 April 2011 09:55, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: My first photo edit program was Corel draw 5 i think it was. Just after my purchase of a Kodak DC25. DeluxePaint on the Amiga around '85 followed by DeluxPaint II on PC, first personal scans from the original Polaroid SprintScan

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Brian Walters
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:55 -0400, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Just a follow up to Bills, what was your first camera. My first photo edit program was Corel draw 5 i think it was. Just after my purchase of a Kodak DC25. Dave Ulead Image Pals - redefines the term 'basic' but it

Re: E-book - The Power of Black White in Lightroom

2011-04-13 Thread Brian Walters
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:48 -0400, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2011/04/bw-masterclas/ I'm in. They must be doing pretty well, or expect to. My invoice number appears to

Re: PBS Television show The President's Photographer

2011-04-13 Thread Cotty
On 13/4/11, Thomas Bohn, discombobulated, unleashed: You can watch the program online, too. Even outside the US: http://video.pbs.org/video/1672209202/ thanks for posting. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-04-12 10:58 PM, Jim King wrote: This blog post by Erwin Puts rang a few bells for me, and I suspect it will for some of you as well: http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html\ Puts is a Leica guy but they used to say that Pentax is the Japanese Leica... Regards, Jim Whoa! That

Re: 645D: flash and manual focus lenses

2011-04-13 Thread Thibouille
Adam, I think the F lenses do as well. I remember using my SFX with the SMC-F 70-120 and the camera changed its settings (I think it was a program bias of some sort) when zooming the lens. So distance was definitely reported, so was focal length. According to KMP:

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Keith Whaley
Phil Northeast wrote: Kodak Instamatic Phil Brownie. Second one was a Retina I. :-) keith -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: PESO: Poppy and Sun

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Sheppard
Very nice Jack. Spring is in the air: bring on the flower pics! -- Chris Sheppard Zenfolio: http://csheppard.zenfolio.com/ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodiversions/ Blog: http://photodiversions.blogspot.com/ On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: PESO - Chilly Chess

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Sheppard
That's exactly what I was thinking. -- Chris Sheppard Zenfolio: http://csheppard.zenfolio.com/ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodiversions/ Blog: http://photodiversions.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Sheppard
My first was a Argus 126 plastic wonder: http://junkstorecameras.com/jscimages/Argus126.jpg My first 'real' camera was a Pentax ME Super, which I still have and will never let go. -- Chris Sheppard Zenfolio: http://csheppard.zenfolio.com/ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodiversions/

Re: PESO: Poppy and Sun

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Stenquist
Well done. A nice perspective, and I like the compositional result of including that second bud. Paul On Apr 13, 2011, at 6:54 AM, Chris Sheppard wrote: Very nice Jack. Spring is in the air: bring on the flower pics! -- Chris Sheppard Zenfolio: http://csheppard.zenfolio.com/ Flickr:

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Mark Roberts
http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html\ Someone needs to introduce that guy to the concept of the paragraph. -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Steven Desjardins
This stupid thread might cost me money. I got curious, looked for pictures of the Duaflex on the web, and found then on eBay for $22. http://tinyurl.com/3kww67e It could sit proudly on my shelf. ;-) On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Chris Sheppard chris.sheppard...@gmail.com wrote: My first

Re: PESO: Red Sunset

2011-04-13 Thread Jack Davis
Really well composed, Dan! You caught the sun at just the right moment. I like it as is, but I'd give the sailboat the slightest touch of Dodge tool and, at least, consider removing the bit of rocks peeking out of the lower right corner. Jack --- On Tue, 4/12/11, Daniel J. Matyola

Re: Where's Bruce Dayton

2011-04-13 Thread Boris Liberman
On 4/11/2011 22:41, Rick Womer wrote: He's alive, well, preoccupied with earning a living, and enjoying his new K5. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW Thanks, Rick! Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the

Re: PESO: Poppy and Sun

2011-04-13 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks, Chris! After a record setting wet winter and spring, we're seeing a desperate and photo challenging growth race between the wildflowers and weeds. Jack --- On Wed, 4/13/11, Chris Sheppard chris.sheppard...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chris Sheppard chris.sheppard...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

Re: PESO: Poppy and Sun

2011-04-13 Thread Jack Davis
Thanks, Paul. I shot something like 45 images in the small Poppy patch and cropped this out of 'prox the left third of a frame. It, also, took quite a bit of clone tool cleanup. Could have used a vertical viewfinder attachment. Jack --- On Wed, 4/13/11, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net

Re: PESO - Chilly Chess

2011-04-13 Thread Boris Liberman
On 4/13/2011 10:04, Bob W wrote: very good - it's the guy eyeballing them that makes it. B I second what Bob said. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread AlunFoto
My first image editing software was Adobe Photoshop v4. Jostein 2011/4/13 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Just a follow up to Bills, what was your first camera. My first photo edit program was Corel draw 5 i think it was. Just after my purchase of a Kodak DC25. Dave -- Documenting

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-04-13 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/17/2011 09:19, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent - http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun Let

Re: PESO - Skyline

2011-04-13 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/16/2011 21:59, frank theriault wrote: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2011/03/skyline.html http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/skyline-colour-version.html I think I prefer BW, because Parkdale is kind of a monochrome place to me. OTOH, some of you may enjoy the colours of the

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Bob Sullivan
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: In 1966, I purchased a brand new Pentax Spotmatic, and my fate was sealed. A year later I bought a black Spotty, a couple more M-42 lenses. Had not realized that it was a mental ailment yet. And here I am. Black

Re: Re: Re: PESO - A Long time Coming...

2011-04-13 Thread Mitch Conant
Ken: VERY nice gallery! How did you get the black backgrounds on some of the photos, like the one of the leaves, and along the ridge line??? I love it. ...and yes, ancient Chinese secret is a valid answer g... Mitch On 1:59 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Kenneth Waller

Re: Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Steven Desjardins
To be fair, his arguments are not without merit. I'm always suspicious, however, when anyone quotes Pirsig. Ultimately, Pirsig's view of quality is an I know it when I see it argument. It's not wrong, just difficult to apply and even harder to adjudicate when there is a difference of opinion.

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html\ Someone needs to introduce that guy to the concept of the paragraph. I'll do that Dave -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML

Re: PESO - Chilly Chess

2011-04-13 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Chris Sheppard chris.sheppard...@gmail.com wrote: That's exactly what I was thinking. I second what Chris said. Dave -- Chris Sheppard Zenfolio: http://csheppard.zenfolio.com/ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photodiversions/ Blog:

Re: PESO: Red Sunset

2011-04-13 Thread David J Brooks
Well done. Dave On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=79 Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms and Abuse are welcome and encouraged. -- Dan Matyola

Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase

2011-04-13 Thread David J Brooks
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: Dave. You may know this already, but you can make the links active. All you have to do is to click the link icon in the blogpost editor and paste in the link there. -- MaritimTim No i did not, thanks. Dave

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Morris Galloway
Voigtlander Bessamatic with a 50mm lens. SLR with leaf shutter. Learned a lot in a hurry. I was 15. Back to Lurking. G. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Darren Addy
Now THAT was funny, Bob. I think I like how your brain works. : ) On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: John Coyle ... and the second was a Pentax SV.  Beautiful camera, stolen in 1975 I didn't have the balls to steal mine. I had to save up for it: a little

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Matthew Hunt
When I was growing up, my dad was (and remains) an enthusiastic amateur photographer. He shot Canon FD equipment; a TLb and AE-1. He also shot weddings for a little while with a Hasselblad, but I never touched that. I took pictures with the AE-1 now and then, like when we were on vacation and he

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread David Parsons
While it is true that the sensor may have a limited lifespan, how long does he really expect to be using his camera? You have to move on at some point. It's nostalgia speaking here. It's hip to say that you shoot film, and that you shot film before it was cool. Guess what, the rest of the

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Charles Robinson
On Apr 13, 2011, at 6:18, Chris Sheppard wrote: My first was a Argus 126 plastic wonder: http://junkstorecameras.com/jscimages/Argus126.jpg My first 'real' camera was a Pentax ME Super, which I still have and will never let go. LOVE the ME Super. Even though I don't shoot with it

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Igor Roshchin
I don't quite remember how old I was (most likely between 10 and 12), when I was given a Smena-7. It looked like this guy's: http://www.nightphoto.com/smena7.html I was happy to use my older brother's Fed-2: http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/FED_2 on a few occasions (like my brother's wedding).

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Jim King
Jim King wrote on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:58:35 -0700 This blog post by Erwin Puts rang a few bells for me, and I suspect it will for some of you as well: http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html\ Puts is a Leica guy but they used to say that Pentax is the Japanese Leica... Lots

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Steven Desjardins
I appreciate that the old film cameras had a longer lifespan than the digital ones. The problem is that for many of us color was a thing left to the labs, whereas BW was a medium were we could do some PP. Now color is there as well. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Jim King jamesk8...@mac.com

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I'm not a professional, and really not even a craftsman, but I recognize a superiority complex when I see one.Defense of the old ways in the name of professionalism is a fine way of looking down one's nose at all who differ from one's own way of doing things. Dan On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at

Re: PESO: Red Sunset

2011-04-13 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks for your comments and suggestions, Jack. Dan On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Really well composed, Dan! You caught the sun at just the right moment. I like it as is, but I'd give the sailboat the slightest touch of Dodge tool and, at least,

Some thoughts on my first PDML annual purchase...

2011-04-13 Thread Darren Addy
I want to preface my comments by saying that I think the PDML Annual idea, with the proceeds going to charity is one of the REALLY great things about this list. I had a photo in last year's, but haven't seen the book. And I haven't seen previous year's books either, so I really have nothing to

Enablement- upgrades...

2011-04-13 Thread Bong Manayon
Finally upgraded my K10D for a K-5; my son finally gets the K-r to replace the *ist DS...photos after this weekend :-) -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase

2011-04-13 Thread Bong Manayon
Ordered my copy...thanks Mark! On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Cut to the chase: http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2098910 ;-) Bonuses: If you order today and enter the code GMA (must be all upper-case letters) in the discount code box during

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Jim King
Daniel J. Matyola wrote on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:33:00 -0700 I'm not a professional, and really not even a craftsman, but I recognize a superiority complex when I see one.Defense of the old ways in the name of professionalism is a fine way of looking down one's nose at all who differ from

Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase

2011-04-13 Thread Sasha Sobol
Just got my epub version, it is splendid! You guys managed to produce and impressive collection of photos. And Mark managed to create an excellent coherent book. I was impressed by two previous books but this one is a huge leap forward! HUGE kudos to Mark. Btw, I am using

Re: Enablement- upgrades...

2011-04-13 Thread Boris Liberman
On 4/13/2011 18:37, Bong Manayon wrote: Finally upgraded my K10D for a K-5; my son finally gets the K-r to replace the *ist DS...photos after this weekend :-) Congratulations to both of you! Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Stenquist
OMG! All one paragraph. It's unreadable. The part I managed to get through before my eyes and brain hurt seemed silly and obvious. Paul On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: To be fair, his arguments are not without merit. I'm always suspicious, however, when anyone quotes

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Chris Sheppard
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Apr 13, 2011, at 6:18, Chris Sheppard wrote: My first was a Argus 126 plastic wonder: http://junkstorecameras.com/jscimages/Argus126.jpg My first 'real' camera was a Pentax ME Super, which I still have and will

Re: PESO s spinning fire

2011-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
From: Walter Gilbert Great shots, Larry! I never quite got the hang of shooting the fire spinners while we were out there. The closest I manage to get was near the end of the spinning and was ruined by the fact that I'd zoomed in too tight so that the fire left the frame and re-entered at

RE: Tilt-shift lenses or adaptors

2011-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
From: Krisjanis Linkevics Thibouille I didn't think about those. Can they really replace a proper T/S lens ? A couple days ago I sent this little gallery of a T/S lens I made - no real-real-life shots yet (damn weather, work): http://foto.ri-ki.lv/categories.php?cat_id=6 I wouldn't think a

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Sorenson
First photo editing was a Federal enlarger - bought from some catalog for about $17 some time around 1953. The guy who owned the local studio supplied me with paper, chemicals and advice. First pixel editing was probably PaintShop; shareware from Jasc back in the early 1990s. Early versions

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I wrote my own image editing application while I worked at NASA/JPL in 1984. It was simple and crude but got the job I needed done, ran on Macintosh and VAX/VMS. -- Godfrey   godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Gmail quoting

2011-04-13 Thread mike wilson
On 12/04/2011 19:36, steve harley wrote: On 2011-04-12 10:46 , Matthew Hunt wrote: One possibility: The material Dan quoted appears below his signature. Some mail applications suppress quoting signatures (presumably everything after the --). that's exactly it; two hyphens is a standard

Re: PESO - Skyline

2011-04-13 Thread Sasha Sobol
BW for me - wins by a huge margin. --Sasha On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/16/2011 21:59, frank theriault wrote: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2011/03/skyline.html http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/skyline-colour-version.html I

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Mark Roberts
Etch-a-Sketch. -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Mark Roberts
Paul Stenquist wrote: OMG! All one paragraph. It's unreadable. The part I managed to get through before my eyes and brain hurt seemed silly and obvious. There's a story Galen Rowell related in one of his books about the post-workshop slide presentations he always used to have. Each

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Etch-a-Sketch. Magna-Doodle had a more intuitive, pen-based interface. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link

Boris PESO #9 - Impressions

2011-04-13 Thread Boris Liberman
Hi there. Here is another one somewhat similar, at least from technical stand point to the previous ones... http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2011/04/peso-2011-09-impressions.html Brutal and honest comments are as always going to be appreciated. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase

2011-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
From: Brian Walters On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:18 -0400, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Cut to the chase: http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2098910 ;-) Done! Ordered the hard cover with dust jacket. The GMA code doesn't seem to work outside the USA. When I tried I got two error

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Mark Roberts
Matthew Hunt wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: Etch-a-Sketch. Magna-Doodle had a more intuitive, pen-based interface. That's why we purists sneer at it! ;-) -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML

Re: Boris PESO #9 - Impressions

2011-04-13 Thread Bill Owens
Sorry, Boris, but doesn't do anything for me Bill On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there. Here is another one somewhat similar, at least from technical stand point to the previous ones...

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
Brownie Hawkeye (flash was long gone before I got it) ... a gift from my grandmother, it was her old camera. After that I had a number of Kodak cartridge film cameras in 126 110, until the first SLR I bought during my first attempt at college (1968 or so) - a Praktika, I don't remember the

Re: Boris PESO #9 - Impressions

2011-04-13 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
That works nicely, Boris! On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there. Here is another one somewhat similar, at least from technical stand point to the previous ones... http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2011/04/peso-2011-09-impressions.html Brutal and

Re: What was your first camera?

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Sorenson
I used several cameras belonging to my parents and grandparents, but the first that was actually mine was a Minute 16 that used a tiny cassette loaded with 16mm film. My first serious camera was an Argus C-3, purchased in 1962 for $25. Next was a Honeywell Pentax H1a. Cost was $150 paid off

Re: Tilt-shift lenses or adaptors

2011-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
From: Peter Zalabai Not sure what's cheap for you, but you might want to have a look at the Hartblei and Arsat lenses: http://www.hartblei.com/lenses/general_info.htm In Soviet Russia the lenses tilt you! :) Regards, .timber When you go to the price list you find the following message:

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
From: William Robb On 12/04/2011 5:55 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Just a follow up to Bills, what was your first camera. My first photo edit program was Corel draw 5 i think it was. Just after my purchase of a Kodak DC25. Dave Some Microsoft thing that came with a scanner that I had

Re: Enablement- upgrades...

2011-04-13 Thread Larry Colen
On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Bong Manayon wrote: Finally upgraded my K10D for a K-5; Congratulations. Welcome to the club. my son finally gets the K-r to replace the *ist DS...photos after this weekend :-) Are you competing with Boris for the best dad award? -- Bong Manayon

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
From: Mark Roberts http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html\ Someone needs to introduce that guy to the concept of the paragraph. I also disagreed with his definition of professionalism. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Tilt-shift lenses or adaptors

2011-04-13 Thread Thibouille
But Arsat lenses are available: MC PCS Arsat 45mm / f=3.5 Shift w/ Pentacon Six or Kiev 88 lens mount 295$ Just put a Pentacon to PK adapter and you get a cheap Shift lens. No T/S but better than nothing. 2011/4/13 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: From: Peter Zalabai Not sure what's cheap

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread John Sessoms
From: Mark Roberts Paul Stenquist wrote: OMG! All one paragraph. It's unreadable. The part I managed to get through before my eyes and brain hurt seemed silly and obvious. There's a story Galen Rowell related in one of his books about the post-workshop slide presentations he always used to

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Tom C
Mark wrote: Doug Brewer and I see a similar effect at the GFM photo contest we judge: the people who mess up the (very simple) file-naming convention never produce winning photos. Anyway, I think the article in question shows that a similar phenomenon exists with regards to the written word. I

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Larry Colen
On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:49 AM, John Sessoms wrote: That doesn't, however, make the opposite true. My file names were *PERFECT*! I saw a photographer drinking a Pina Colada at Grandfather mountain, his filenames were perfect. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML

Re: Tilt-shift lenses or adaptors

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Zalabai
Only the Hartblei one. The Arsat (rebranded as Arax or Photex) one is still selling: 35mm f2.8: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Arax-Photex-2-8-35mm-TILT-SHIFT-lens-Pentax-M42-camera-/170620854199?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3hash=item27b9cb9fb7#ht_wt_1141 80mm f2.8:

Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase

2011-04-13 Thread David J Brooks
Do you need a tablet to read the ebook.?? Dave On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com wrote: Just got my epub version, it is splendid! You guys managed to produce and impressive collection of photos. And Mark managed to create an excellent coherent book. I was

Re: Boris PESO #9 - Impressions

2011-04-13 Thread Jack Davis
Would work for me only as a peripherally detected black and white pattern. Jack --- On Wed, 4/13/11, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: From: Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com Subject: Boris PESO #9 - Impressions To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Wednesday, April 13,

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Dario Bonazza
The first couple sentences... The last few weeks I took pictures with a fifty-year-old Leica M3 that recently has been serviced with minor adjustments. This was the first overhaul in half a century and given the small amount of repairs it should now be fit for another half century.

RE: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Bob W
This blog post by Erwin Puts rang a few bells for me, and I suspect it will for some of you as well: http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html\ Puts is a Leica guy but they used to say that Pentax is the Japanese Leica... Regards, Jim Whoa! That article amply demonstrates why

RE: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Bob W
While it is true that the sensor may have a limited lifespan, how long does he really expect to be using his camera? You have to move on at some point. Why? That's just a justification for built-in obsolescence to satisfy the manufacturers, not the consumers. It's nostalgia speaking

Re: Tilt-shift lenses or adaptors

2011-04-13 Thread Darren Addy
It sort of depends what you are wanting to shoot. Do you need infinity focus? Do you need a wide angle view? It is hard to have it all without buying a tilt-shift lens that was made for your mount. I'm no expert on this, but learned a bit when creating this:

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Why? That's just a justification for built-in obsolescence to satisfy the manufacturers, not the consumers. While it would be nice for a camera to last forever, I don't see much to complain about in relation to the days of

Re: PDML Book is live online and available for purchase

2011-04-13 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
No. I read it on my desktop and laptop with a free Firefox plug-in. Dan On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:59 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Do you need a tablet to read the ebook.?? Dave On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com wrote: Just got my epub version,

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Doug Franklin
My first image editing program was a library of 8088 assembly code I wrote a lonnng time ago. It worked more like ImageMagick (batch mode) than Photoshop (interactive). Of course, that was back when MS-DOS 2.0 (IBM PC XT) was the current version. And there wasn't any such thing as

Re: Gmail quoting

2011-04-13 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2011-04-13 11:31, mike wilson wrote: that's exactly it; two hyphens is a standard (actually borrowed from Usenet) to denote a signature block; Dan combined top-posting with a signature line, which put the entire quoted material into the signature area; Ann's email client is trying to be

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread Steven Desjardins
I also used Micrografx Picture Publisher and really liked it. Then i got access to PS for free and couldn't justify PP anymore. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:19 PM, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: Micrografx Picture Publisher. I think I started with V3, and used it up to V9 or V10. Then

Re: Some thoughts on my first PDML annual purchase...

2011-04-13 Thread Jaume Lahuerta
Darren, I tend to agree with you in number 1 and specially 2 and 3. I always preferred the classical black background, that focuses more on the pictures although in this kind of books it presents some problems with dark pictures, where it is difficult to distinghish the edges from the

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2011-04-13 11:32, Steven Desjardins wrote: I appreciate that the old film cameras had a longer lifespan than the digital ones. The problem is that for many of us color was a thing left to the labs, whereas BW was a medium were we could do some PP. Now color is there as well. I started

PESO -- Before the Storm

2011-04-13 Thread P. J. Alling
Just popping in to post a quick PESO, well two if you count different renderings. Not much of a stretch but I liked it. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20beforethestorm.html then the BW version http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20beforethestormbw-pt.html

Re: OT What was your first editing program

2011-04-13 Thread P. J. Alling
Photoshop 4.0, I got it bundled with something. Then I got Elements 2.0 bundled with something else. I can't remember which I installed first. On 4/12/2011 7:55 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Just a follow up to Bills, what was your first camera. My first photo edit program was Corel draw 5 i

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Larry Colen
On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Jim King wrote: This blog post by Erwin Puts rang a few bells for me, and I suspect it will for some of you as well: http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html I find that his writing displays neither professionalism, nor craftsmanship. Like others, I

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
MARK! On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: The stereotypical Leica owner does have a reputation for being a Puts, though it's usually spelled a little differently. -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

PESO: White evergreen

2011-04-13 Thread Tim Bray
Outside of my usual visual vocabulary: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/04/13/-big/RUNE0018.jpg.html Might make a nice poster for an ultra-postmodern downtown apartment... -Tim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-04-13 Thread Steven Desjardins
Here's high praise: When I saw this post I went back and looked at the picture again, which is a very rare event. It's a very pleasing image. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/17/2011 09:19, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-04-13 Thread Steven Desjardins
BTW, you did submit this to the PPG, right? On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: Here's high praise:  When I saw this post I went back and looked at the picture again, which is a very rare event.  It's a very pleasing image. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:11

Re: Some thoughts on my first PDML annual purchase...

2011-04-13 Thread Toine
I have the previous print editions on my coffee table. I also got the ebook version this year because I couldn't wait and plan to get the print version later. The ebook version doesn't pop in my ebook readers on PC or Ipad. The photo's are maybe one third of the screen. I hope Mark produces a PDF

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread P. J. Alling
On 4/13/2011 9:39 AM, David J Brooks wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Mark Robertsm...@robertstech.com wrote: http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html\ Someone needs to introduce that guy to the concept of the paragraph. I'll do that Dave Given the perversity of the universe,

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread P. J. Alling
I just loaded film into my ~30 year old LX, damn that camera is a joy to hold. On 4/13/2011 10:12 AM, David Parsons wrote: While it is true that the sensor may have a limited lifespan, how long does he really expect to be using his camera? You have to move on at some point. It's nostalgia

Any PDML folks near Northridge, CA?

2011-04-13 Thread Cory Waters
Looks like I'm going out to visit the folks at JBL in Northridge CA next week. I should have some evening time available. Anybody out that way? Cory -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread Larry Colen
On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: MARK! On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: The stereotypical Leica owner does have a reputation for being a Puts, though it's usually spelled a little differently. It's actually fairly common that

Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism

2011-04-13 Thread P. J. Alling
Writing such as this is more likely the result of a compensated inferiority complex. On 4/13/2011 11:32 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I'm not a professional, and really not even a craftsman, but I recognize a superiority complex when I see one.Defense of the old ways in the name of

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-04-13 Thread Bulent Celasun
Boris and Steven, Thank you very much for your comments. And Steven, YES. A fellow PDML member (Ms. Ann Sanfedele, if my memory is serving me well) has suggested that I should submit more to PPG. After that advice I submitted two images and this particular one was accepted. It is great to be

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