Re: PDML - PDFG ?

[Steve Cottrell]

I have bad news for you John. There is no PDML group there on FB. The PDML is 
right here!!

There is a separate thing - a test - maybe an ‘extension’, maybe not, called 
the PDFG that has 27 members and quite a disturbing amount of cormorant 
photographs.

But I’ll shut up about it now as I don’t want to upset any folk here. The PDML 
will be what the PDML wants to be :-)

Cotty



On 11 Jan 2023, at 23:53, John Sessoms  wrote:

so I wouldn't see a PDML group there
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Re: PDML - PDFG ?

[Steve Cottrell]

John I have an amazing suggestion that you might consider.

Go to Facebook, and click on ‘create account’ and once you reach the part where 
it wants you to enter your name, why not stick an anagram in, or just make a 
name up? You could use the account then as basically a spoof just to view 
things.

Or maybe I’m missing the point here…
Best

Cot



On 11 Jan 2023, at 23:53, John Sessoms  wrote:

Facebook is fine, but I don't have an account
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Re: Pentax A 35-105mm F/3.5 Macro Zoom

[Steve Cottrell]

Thanks Bill

That’s interesting. I’m sure I had the Tokina 28-70 2.8/2.8 at some point in 
the past, but memory starts to get hazy.

In the end I found a ‘spares or repair’ Nikkor AF-S 28-70/2.8 going cheap at a 
very good used gear retailer in London called MPB.com - I’ve used them before 
when buying high value broadcast equipment. The lens basically ‘wouldn’t focus 
past the 2m mark’. These AF-S lenses suffer similar problems with AF motors 
conking out, apparently. I’ve had my 17-35/2.8 apart in the past so ordered 
this one for 135GBP.

I took it apart yesterday and sure enough, bingo. What happens is that the 
inner workings of the lens (eg the solid surrounding polycarbonate holding the 
lens groups in place) is surrounded by a hexagonal-shaped piece if thin 
aluminium which sits in between it and the outer metal surrounding lens casing 
that carries the zoom and focus rings. On both sides of the thin aluminium is 
glued various printed circuitry all the way around - and there’s plenty of it. 
Over time and handling, some of the glue starts to weaken and occasionally a 
wayward edge of plastic film type circuitry comes away from the aluminium - 
just enough to interfere with the spinning AF inner ring - actually it’s the 
bit you can see through the little ‘window’ on the exterior of the lens, 
displaying focal distances. This is similar on many lenses, including Pentax I 
believe. Of course, the more the bit of circuitry becomes interference fit, the 
more it interferes, until it basically gets caught and stops the AF motor being 
able to push this inner ring around and achieving focus.

I’ve seen fixes on Youtube (search user ‘mikeno62’) where the glue on the weak 
bit is replaced. In my case, I just ripped all the circuitry out and tossed it 
in the bin!! I don’t need no stinking AF. Also de-clicked the aperture ring - 
one of the main reasons I sought this lens and one like it - manual aperture 
control. Plus the glass is uber sharp, great for HD video wide open.

Probably more than you were expecting here :-)

As you were

Cot



On 10 Jan 2023, at 22:31, Bill  wrote:

I had the Tokina for a while. It was plenty sharp enough even wide open, but I 
was into shooting environmental portraits at the time and it had just enough 
barrel distortion to be upsetting, so I let it go.
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Re: Just Before Sunset--Take 2

[Rick Womer]

Alan,

The city’s Parks and Recreation Department usually cleans up the leaves. Before 
the pandemic a local organization (Friends of Clark Park) and the city 
converged on the park on a Saturday morning, and got everything cleaned up. 

Last year Parks and Rec did it alone. This year… nothing.

Rick

> On Jan 13, 2023, at 9:19 AM, Rick Womer  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:10 Alan C  > wrote:
> Looks like work to me. Who cleans up all the leaves?
> 
> Alan C
> 
> On 12-Jan-23 06:39 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
> > I repeated the process with SmugMug from the beginning, and it gave me a 
> > different URL:
> >
> > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2023/January-2023/Jan-2023-Miscellany/ 
> >  
> >  > >
> >
> > It worked when I tested it on a different computer. Here’s hoping others’ 
> > mileage doesn’t vary.
> >
> > Rick
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Re: Just Before Sunset--Take 2

[Alan C]

Looks like work to me. Who cleans up all the leaves?

Alan C

On 12-Jan-23 06:39 PM, Rick Womer wrote:

I repeated the process with SmugMug from the beginning, and it gave me a 
different URL:

https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2023/January-2023/Jan-2023-Miscellany/ 


It worked when I tested it on a different computer. Here’s hoping others’ 
mileage doesn’t vary.

Rick
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