On 2 Sep 2014, at 01:56, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote:
Next week my wife and are taking a vacation to the Washington DC area. [...]
OK - so I am trying to travel light. The biggest impediment to that is
bringing backup bodies and lenses. When you travel - do you carry backup gear
The Tall Ships Festival is on in Greenwich this week, including this weekend. i
have a family matter to attend to in Tunbridge Wells on Saturday but will be
back in the late afternoon.
http://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/tallships/info/5/tall_ships_festival
B
On 2 Sep 2014, at 06:50, Chris
On 9/2/14 1:50 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote:
Devastated that I've been a disappointment to Lisa! Any chance of a
get-together in London on the 6th? I'm free all day.
We're planning on getting together with Bob W on Saturday. Come and join
us if you can.
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On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:26 AM, Stanley Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote:
To more directly address your question - I tend to agree with Christine and
Paul. Take a minimal travel kit.
K-3 + 12-24 [alt = 15 + 21] + 16-50 [alt = 35 macro] + 50-135 + 1.4x extender
for bird shots.
On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:27 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote:
What do you do when you travel?
Let me see. Last time all four of us traveled to Europe the kit was: Anat -
W30, Galia - Ricoh GXR + 50 and 28 mm AF modules, me Ricoh GXR + two M-mount
modules, one with 40 mm lens,
On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:27 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote:
I would probably leave Sigma 135-400 behind... Instead, you could bring Q, K
to Q adapter, and get by DFA 100 macro for extreme telephoto…
I don’t understand this. How would a 100mm macro on a Q be provide extreme
On Sep 2, 2014, at 2:37 AM, Bob W-PDML p...@web-options.com wrote:
The Tall Ships Festival is on in Greenwich this week, including this weekend.
i have a family matter to attend to in Tunbridge Wells on Saturday but will
be back in the late afternoon.
I was thinking astrophotography. Nice flower, I like the tones.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote:
Not Carl Sagan stuff, just the garden flower:
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/cosmos
IR Converted K10D with Tamron 90mm f2.8 on an overcast
On 2 September 2014 11:18, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:27 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote:
I would probably leave Sigma 135-400 behind... Instead, you could bring Q, K
to Q adapter, and get by DFA 100 macro for extreme telephoto…
I don’t understand
On Sep 2, 2014, at 6:24 AM, Eric Featherstone eric.featherst...@gmail.com
wrote:
I don’t understand this. How would a 100mm macro on a Q be provide extreme
telephoto capability? (Not doubting, just would like to know.)
Because the Q has a different crop factor (of 5.6) so 100mm lens on
Gee, Mark, with all that camera gear, your car would only have room
left for a change of underwear and a toothbrush!
I'm also not nearly as prolific (or skilled) a shooter as you and some
others on the list are, and I also dislike carrying lots of stuff.
So, my vacation kit is the K-5, my K-7 as
Good point WRT the insurance - I have a separate rider for photo gear
and file a list of covered items with the agent every year when it
renews. But that said - I don't have the 17-70 on it since it is a more
recent enablement. I'll have to rectify that!
Mark
On 9/1/2014 10:45 PM, Stan
Your plan is more or less what I was thinking of - a small field bag and
then a bag to keep the spares and backups. Maybe I'll skip the film
stuff though...
Mark
On 9/1/2014 10:57 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
Hi Mark:
We did a 2,265 mile road trip this summer. I did take a back-up body (K5)
Yeah - a high quality mirrorless system does sound appealing for this
kind of situation.
Mark
On 9/1/2014 11:01 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
Better be careful… it was the prospect in 2013 of a biz trip to Tokyo
and a vacation to a distant island, in the same month, that drove me
into the arms of
I have the same constraint - my wife is patient but when she keeps on
walking when I'm stopping to shoot I know that that the patience is
wearing thin. Case for a body with good SR and a wider range zoom for
fast n the fly shooting!
Mark
On 9/1/2014 11:29 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
One
Interesting point regarding using the Q with a 100mm instead of the
135-400. The telephoto would just be for some spots on the Eastern Shore
when there would be some possible wildlife opportunities. It would
probably only be broken out once or twice during the trip. Last time I
was there I
I had to google that but... it's a thought!
Mark
On 9/2/2014 12:31 AM, Alan C wrote:
Pantechnicon springs to mind! Have a good trip, Mark.
Alan C
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Subject: Traveling light - or not
Quoting Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net:
Yeah - a high quality mirrorless system does sound appealing for
this kind of situation.
That's precisely why I've just invested in an Olympus E-M10 for a trip
we're planning to NW Australia in 2015. Luggage space will be at a
premium but I'll try
Hi Igor,
I'm running the Trancend TS-RDF8K
http://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-331 with SanDisk 64GB
Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I Memory Cards (95MB/s), it works well but no
indication of support beyond UHS-1
Cheers,
On 2 September 2014 01:44, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote:
Does
Beautiful. I really like the way the IR allows one to see the branches
despite the leaves.
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote:
Very nice, Mark. Really pretty. Cheers, Christine
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 1, 2014,
You got a really good deal on that 30mm I paid lots more for the copy I
have. Be aware that the aperture can become sticky if it's not
exercised regularly. That's probably true of lots of lenses but at my
copy of the 30mm really needs to be used, and I don't use it enough.
On 8/31/2014 4:08
Having played with that web page a while, I've come to the conclusion
that one could pair a generated exhibition tile with almost any image,
and it would make no more or less sense. I just have to decide on which
crap image I'd like to display.
On 8/31/2014 6:37 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
I use the presets once in a while for my BW conversions but its a
guess ing game to me most times. For those that use them, how do you
go about ot. If the colour photo has a lot of green do you start with
a green filter or something else. I just tend to run up and down and
pick one that looks
A quiet morning. The sun came up.
The light just took my breath away and I had to experiment.
https://flic.kr/p/oZWiWw
Thanks for looking! Comments always appreciated.
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Ahhh, it looks roasted--the best way to cook it!
Nice shot, Paul. Did you use fill flash?
Rick
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote:
Fun! Dekalb, Illinois had its corn festival this past weekend. I didn't go,
but I
Steady Stenquist + K-3 + beautiful exposure and composition = lovely shot!
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote:
Very pretty, Paul! Cheers, Christine
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On Aug 31, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Paul Stenquist
Silver Efex Pro 2 is the only way to go, IMHO.
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:13 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
I use the presets once in a while for my BW conversions but its a
guess ing game to me most times. For those that use them, how do you
go about ot. If the colour photo has
On 9/2/2014 11:13 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
I use the presets once in a while for my BW conversions but its a
guess ing game to me most times. For those that use them, how do you
go about ot. If the colour photo has a lot of green do you start with
a green filter or something else. I just tend
If you’ve got a recent Lightroom, go WAY down to the bottom of the
develop tab and just under “Process”, look at the “Profile” pull-down
- it gives you a bunch of presets based on Fujifilm film products,
four of which are BW. I find that often one of them does the trick.
(There are also five nice
If I was going somewhere primarily for photography, I used to carry a
pair of compatible bodies, either two LX or an LX MX in case one of the
camera bodies failed, but mostly to have two different kinds of film
available, a 20-35mm f4.0, 28-70 f4.0, 70-210mm (depending on how much
weight
I haven’t done that much with BW conversions. I’ve read a bunch of articles
that proclaim not to use the simple LR conversion, but often that is what I do
- just click the Black White button in Develop mode. And then look at the
HSL/Color/BW panel to see what LR has automagically done. E.g., I
Ditto Ottawa Canyon. Your series reminds me of a state park nearby. I
like to hike. I like to photograph I like to combine the two. But the
my results never really capture the ambiance of the trek to my
satisfaction. Ottawa Canyon does.
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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:33:07 -0500
From:
The Q is 12mp camera with a 5.6 crop factor. 100 x 5.6 so you'd have
the AOV of a 560mm lens on 35mm using that lens with the Q. Which is
super telephoto by any definition. You could also get the same effect
by using that lens on a ff sensor with 72mp and cropping to 12mp from
the center of
Hi Rob,
Thanks for your response.
After sending the message, I actually found this exactly model on BH
and even put it in the shopping cart. So, you confirmation is helpful.
I don't seem to see any that supports UHS-3, but I think I am not going
to buy that expensive card at the moment
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:13 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
I use the presets once in a while for my BW conversions but its a
guess ing game to me most times. For those that use them, how do you
go about ot. If the colour photo has a lot of green do you start with
a green filter
I taught a macro workshop locally a couple weeks ago and had a side note
about using the Q or other small sensor bodies for macro work. My
calculation was that if you took a 36 mp FF sensor and cropped it down
to the size of the original Q, you'd get a 1.3-1.4 megapixel image. I
considered teh
Thanks, P.J.
On Sep 2, 2014, at 1:02 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
The Q is 12mp camera with a 5.6 crop factor. 100 x 5.6 so you'd have the AOV
of a 560mm lens on 35mm using that lens with the Q. Which is super telephoto
by any definition. You could also get the same
The additional property here would be the bigger dof that may prove useful
for this kind of photography...
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On September 2, 2014 8:36:21 PM Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Thanks, P.J.
On Sep 2, 2014, at 1:02 PM, P.J. Alling
Funny thing about memory. I still remember that color triangle wheel
thingy clearly, but I can't for the life of me recall the little
mnemonic ditty that was supposed to help me remember.
I keep coming up with Bad Booze Rots Our Young Guts, But Vodka Goes
Well, which was a horse of an
On 2 Sep 2014, at 16:13, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
I use the presets once in a while for my BW conversions but its a
guess ing game to me most times. For those that use them, how do you
go about ot. If the colour photo has a lot of green do you start with
a green filter or
On Sep 1, 2014, at 19:56 , Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote:
Next week my wife and are taking a vacation to the Washington DC area. I plan
on checking out the exhibit where I have a couple of photos in Annapolis -
and that will be one afternoon or morning of our trip. Otherwise I am
That sounds rather far from traveling light to me. :-)
- I only carry backup bodies/lenses if I'm traveling on a paid shoot.
- Traveling light to me is one body, one to three small prime lenses. For years
that's been some approximation of 21-28, 35-50, and 90-135 mm equivalent FoV in
terms of
There's captions on the pictures when you view them full size - but
briefly it is the Shipping Yards at Amsterdam - once Europe's most
modern and largest, now being developed as a cultural centre
Alastair
On 31 August 2014 22:41, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote:
Nice shots - what is it? It
I'm not sure that you would get greater DOF. DOF is pretty much defined
by the diameter of the aperture, the distance to the target, and
reproduction size. I think I'd actually have to work out the math of a
100mm f2.8 vs an 560mm (assume f5.6) for a particular distance and
reproduction size
I'm just winding down my UK trip hiking through Yorkshire. I took my
light travel kit: K5, DA 12-24, DA* 16-50 and DA-L 55-300, plus a
Manfrotto Mountaineer carbon fibre tripod and a Sigma +1.6 diopter
achromatic close-up attachment for macro work. No backup body. All
this kit has proven so
Gee, I don't know why you attributed that to me. When I'm traveling
light I usually carry three smallish lenses, and two compact zooms, the
AF adapter, which I use in its roll as a high quality teleconverter, one
camera body, and small repetitively powerful flash.
I said I could add in the
So the background. A bit of whimsey at a little hole in that wall
Chinese takeout, The Main Garden. A place where three worlds collide.
It exists a the edge of the Yale University campus, where an upper
middle class neighborhood is fading into a very lower middle class
neighborhood. In New
So it's official now. The most telling quote is ...with its
LED-illuminated trim and buttons, is sure to turn heads while it
captures great images. Now I like a handsome camera but I really
prefer it go unnoticed while I'm trying to capture images. Oh, well I
hope they sell a zillion of
Sorry, just tripped up on the attribution header. The quote I was intending to
attribute was nested one or two down from that.
Godfrey
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On Sep 2, 2014, at 1:17 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
Gee, I don't know why you
Quoting Mark Roberts postmas...@robertstech.com:
I'm just winding down my UK trip hiking through Yorkshire. I took my
light travel kit: K5, DA 12-24, DA* 16-50 and DA-L 55-300, plus a
Manfrotto Mountaineer carbon fibre tripod and a Sigma +1.6 diopter
achromatic close-up attachment for
If I’m on a job I take a backup body and just about everything else that I
might possibly use: ten lenses, two flashes, multiple batteries and chargers,
a tripod, two heads, a couple of reflectors, a short ladder and my knee pads.
Of course, that’s when I can drive to the location. For
thanks all for your insights
Dave
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Bob W-PDML p...@web-options.com wrote:
On 2 Sep 2014, at 16:13, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
I use the presets once in a while for my BW conversions but its a
guess ing game to me most times. For those that use
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote:
If you’ve got a recent Lightroom, go WAY down to the bottom of the
develop tab and just under “Process”, look at the “Profile” pull-down
- it gives you a bunch of presets based on Fujifilm film products,
four of which are
My wife and I are heading for the UK for two weeks starting October
20th. We will have a car for part of the time. My wife understands that
photography is a major goal and is okay with that...as long as she can
go sailing.
The kit I am pretty sure I will take:
K-3 with battery pack
Sigma
I haven't been around much since we got back from vacation about a week ago.
Work has been a 3-ring circus with the tent on fire.
A holiday weekend has provided some time to catch up.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17836871size=lg
(K-5, DA 16-45)
Comments?
Rick
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The Process menu is in the Camera Calibration section at the bottom of the
right-hand Develop tool panel. However, I believe the Fujifilm presets were
added after LR 5 was released, so you'd first have to upgrade to LR 5.
Godfrey
On Sep 2, 2014, at 5:08 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com
Take either the DA 16-45 or the DA*16-50 The high end of the 10-20 and
the two primes are your redundancy there and there's no reason to take
both Zooms especially as the DA* is considerably heaver than the DA
16-45. I'd carry the Tamron 500 f8, because it weighs nothing
comparatively
Thanks, Charles. The kit you mention is essentially what I plan to carry
for regular use, though I will add the IR body and 100mm macro. In my
case the Q kit fills the just a small camera niche since even the
whole kit is quite small.
Mark
On 9/2/2014 3:03 PM, Charles Robinson wrote:
On
1. I usually take a laptop, so that I can do some preliminary edits in the
evening.
2. Nothing worth photographing in the UK. I took about 2400 exposures there in
1995, 6000 exposures in 6 months in 2009, and a few thousand in subsequent
trips. Between me, Bob, Cotty, Mike, Mark!, and Chris,
I think I am more on the ...or not side of the subject line. I wish I
had small / short primes but unfortunately I never bought them - so
with a few exceptions I would have to rely on zooms. The primes I have
are all in the normal to telephoto range (with a couple of exceptions).
One idea I
Great diptych; very nicely seen and shot.
Rick
On Sep 2, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
A quiet morning. The sun came up.
The light just took my breath away and I had to experiment.
https://flic.kr/p/oZWiWw
Thanks for looking! Comments always appreciated.
Godfrey
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I've actually tested this out. DOF is a function of the absolute
magnification of the image on the sensor. So a 3-4mm long subject fills
the frame on a Q at 1:1. You'd need 5.6x lifesized to get that on a full
frame sensor. I do work at 5-10 lifesized with snowflakes and the DOF is
much
Nice PR shot for them!
ann
On 8/20/2014 21:57, knarf wrote:
That's my next on-site project. They're incredible to look at.
Next time I'm by there with camera...
Thanks for the comment.
Cheers,
frank
On 20 August, 2014 11:58:11 AM EDT, Alan C c...@lantic.net wrote:
Stars indeed! How about
Nice shot. Interesting geometry well presented. As expected!
Paul via phone
On Sep 2, 2014, at 8:17 PM, Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't been around much since we got back from vacation about a week ago.
Work has been a 3-ring circus with the tent on fire.
A holiday
nice mood there
ann
On 8/18/2014 22:08, Richard Womer wrote:
The last of the rainbow series, and also the last of the rainbow:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17837818size=lg
(K-5, DA 16-45)
Comments?
Rick
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I wonder if tiny teeth can deal with the cob.
Mark - now you know none of our PESO's are never quite what
the subject line suggests - I had no fear :-)
ann
On 9/1/2014 18:25, Mark C wrote:
Nice slice of Americana and also of family life. From the title I was
expecting something more
I thought there was a MAN in the moon.. all these years..
ann
On 8/13/2014 13:21, Bill wrote:
On 13/08/2014 8:35 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Excellent, Bob. A bit of retouching to remove some of the lines and
wrinkles and you'd really have something there. ;)
Just for you Bruce:
Especially like the framing here.
ann
On 8/31/2014 13:10, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Shot in a Bloomfield Hills, Michigan wetland that’s part of the Rouge River
system. K-3 with DA*60-250 and DA 1.4X converter, f6.3, 1/1000th, ISO 1000,
350mm.
Like that - though would prefer it a bit darker overall..
ann
On 8/11/2014 10:46, David J Brooks wrote:
wife and I wen to the Blue Jays Tigers game Sunday. What a marathon,
but we won.:-)
Looked up while we were waiting on a stop light and saw this.
Nice grab shot!
ann
On 8/6/2014 09:46, Bruce Walker wrote:
Took a trip down to Bronte Harbour in Oakville on Monday to catch a
new musician friend doing a solo matinee gig at a vegan cafe.
I was lining up for a candid shot of his girlfriend Katie when my wife
cried out, oh look, there's a
The lighting really raises that nicely above the ordinary -
glad you didn't have a clear blue sky :-)
ann
On 8/15/2014 22:47, Philip Northeast wrote:
Old Brigantine Windeward Bound moored in Hobart
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27281712@N08/14931328982/
Pentax *istDS Sigma 18-125mm
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She looks like a poke-mon creature...
ann
On 8/24/2014 11:39, Bruce Walker wrote:
Images from a collaborative project with local Queen Street designer
Emily Yoshizawa. She designs clothing and accessories with a Japanese
and futuristic/steampunk bent.
She usually photographs and retouches her
On 9/2/2014 4:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
I'm just winding down my UK trip hiking through Yorkshire. I took my
light travel kit: K5, DA 12-24, DA* 16-50 and DA-L 55-300, plus a
Manfrotto Mountaineer carbon fibre tripod and a Sigma +1.6 diopter
achromatic close-up attachment for macro work. No
Nice Mantis, Jeffrey...
Yes - Mantids do seem to want to make friends with us.. I spent a lovely
couple of hours with one in Bluff, Arizona some years ago..
I named her Samantha.. She let me move her to different spots -
sat in my hand, came to me readily - but there were certain colors
she
Yes, nice one
more pleasing architecture than the gingerbread in your color shot to my
eye.
ann
On 8/19/2014 03:02, Attila Boros wrote:
Thanks, Rick.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote:
Atilla, I really like this. It's simple, interesting, sharp,
Since you are hiking you probably place an emphasis on keeping things
light I can't quite bring myself to not bring a backup. But the
discussion on this thread is talking me away from some of the heaviest
stuff I was planning on bringing...
I've crossed the 135-400 off the list (too heavy and
well, a nicely done photo but what an eye-sore of a building...
makes me appreciate the gingerbread I found a bit too overdone before :-)
I'd call the style futuristic - but that is surely not a legit
style name :-)
ann
On 8/21/2014 11:26, Attila Boros wrote:
Thanks, Dan.
What caught my
Well the Deusenberg was definitely my fave -- too bad about the cropping
on a few of those shots - I read what you wrote before I looked but
didn't anticipate the crops being quite so extreme -
off with their tails, off with their heads :-)
Glad they used 19!
ann
On 8/1/2014 12:05, Paul
Hi Igor,
I've had two Sandisk readers, not altogether inexpensive and both
weren't flawless actually none have been particularly great designs
ergonomically. The Trancend is inexpensive and seems to work for now,
by the time it's outmoded the next best thing will be cheap enough to
buy :)
One Sunday a month cars are banned from Toronto's Kensington Market and people
reclaim the streets.
We bumped into Kevin, Toronto's fastest courier several years running, now
retired and returned to school:
http://mondociclismo.blogspot.ca/2014/09/kevin-in-market.html?m=1
Hope you enjoy.
Probably, but I was under impression that if you take the smaller sensor
and the correspondingly wider focal length so as to match the angle of
view on the bigger sensor - you get the bigger DOF. That's why smaller
sensor cameras appear to have DOF control problems - everything is in focus.
I
On 9/2/2014 3:36 PM, Mark C wrote:
Good point about the nature of the vacation - I expect it to be a mix of
both urban and rural. The Q kit will be great for museums and Washington
DC. If we go into DC this will be our 4th trip in the past 10 years -
the monuments are lower on my list of
Yep, I'm with Stan on this one. Default LR BW conversion (color/bw
button) works wonders for me as a starting point. Then I can play with
tone, mix colors in HSL/Color/BW panel, etc. Somehow, I don't quite
like the filter packages, though I used to have one (don't even remember
which) that I
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