Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

[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 things are only going to get worse.
> 
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Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

[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.
 
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Re: Phone photos

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Nicely done, Marco!

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 7:03 PM Marco Alpert  wrote:

> For various reasons, I haven’t been doing any “serious" photography for
> quite a while now (although I do consistently lurk here). I think I’ve only
> taken my K-3 out a few times in the past few years, and then only for some
> practical purposes. However, seeing the conversation about the current
> state of phone photography, I thought I’d share a few phone photos I took
> this past weekend while we were visiting family up in Olympia WA.
>
> I usually only use the phone for grab shots to record things, but I
> thought I’d try some high contrast B These were all edited on the phone
> using Snapseed. I could definitely have refined them on the computer once I
> got home, but thought I’d leave them as they were as documentation of the
> in-phone  process.
>
> https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAwVC6
>
> (I haven’t used Flickr in about a decade, so hope I didn’t screw the link
> up.)
>
> - Marco
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Re: A chance to play with my new toys

[Daniel J. Matyola]

Sunny California!

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 6:26 PM Larry Colen  wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 23, 2023, at 3:11 PM, Paul Stenquist  wrote:
> >
> > Well documented.
>
> Thank you.
>
> > You’re probably lucky it blocked a road. That creates urgency which
> public utilities seem to need.
>
> One advantage of living on Highway 9, the main thoroughfare of SLV is that
> repairs to the road, power, or comm are prioritized.  Unfortunately, there
> was so much damage to so many roads on Tuesday that I had many friends who
> couldn’t get home. Several towns were cut off.
>
> My neighbor (the one whose house caught the tree last week) called me
> Tuesday afternoon and said that he couldn’t get home.  They had stopped him
> just before the fallen tree, he tried to go around the other way, but those
> roads were closed due to fallen trees as well.  I told him about the trail
> from the road just before where the road block was to the bridge past our
> houses, and when he called to tell me that he was able to get home, I told
> my boss I was leaving work while I knew that I could still probably get
> home.
>
> I parked my car at the church, just before the closure and discretely
> walked past the person watching the road closure. I figured that if I
> couldn’t get past on the road, I could do the trail, but it was dark, muddy
> and I didn’t have a good flashlight.  I’d gotten 10-20 yards past her when
> she called out at me and said I couldn’t go.  I said I lived just around
> the corner, and she said she’d walk me there.
>
> As I mentioned earlier, before taking photos I grabbed my hard hat and
> high-viz vest.  About the time I was finishing up, she had just walked
> someone past, came up to me and asked if I knew who was in charge.
>
>
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Re: PESO upside down

[Daniel J. Matyola]

That Is a wonderful effect!

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 4:45 PM Toine  wrote:

> What the title says
>
> https://repiuk.nl/new/#pid=_1006475.jpg
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> Toine
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Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

[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!

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Re: Pentax to make new film camera?

[Bob W PDML]

Couldn’t you just buy them all a Leica M11 and a selection of lenses?

Something a bit more practical could probably be done in software. My phone and 
my bike GPS both have a ‘Guest’ mode whereby you can limit the functionality 
when you lend the device to someone. On the GPS it’s for people who run 
self-guided cycle tours - you put in the routes and that’s all the client can 
use except for emergency contact. 

It would probably not take much to program a manual-only mode into a DSLR.

For the new Pentax they wouldn’t go far wrong if they just revived something 
like the P30/P3 and 2-3 PKA lenses.

> On 24 Mar 2023, at 13:08, Mark Roberts  wrote:
> 
> I'd really prefer it if they (or someone else) made an all-manual DSLR
> for photography students. Having so much automation available is a
> real handicap for my beginning students learning photography.
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Re: Pentax to make new film camera?

[Mark Roberts]

I'd really prefer it if they (or someone else) made an all-manual DSLR
for photography students. Having so much automation available is a
real handicap for my beginning students learning photography.
 
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Re: St. Patrick's Day in Berkeley

[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 Fuji slide film.
> > 
> > After some playing around in PhotoShop, I came up with this:
> > 
> >
> > 
> 
> Those blue speckles puzzle me, because they look like the noise I got with my 
> K-20 in low light situations.  I???m not sure how you got them off of a slide.

I'm not 100% sure it came from a slide - I'm working from a scanned image.
I know it has to be from film, because the picture was taken in 2000. The
pixel dimensions of the scan suggest it's from the Nikon LS-30 scanner.
I agree that it looks like noise in the blue channel. And while the LS-30
does a better job with slides than the HP PhotoSmart scanner it replaced,
it's still going to have a hard time with parts of the image that are
nearly black (especially if the shot is somewhat under-exposed).

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