Re: Holiday photos

2024-05-14 Thread Bob W PDML
That looks like a really nice spot, and some nice photos. The ‘out of order’ sign on the stamp machine is pretty definitive isn’t it - if they make it out of cast iron I’d say they don’t plan on fixing the machine! I’d forgotten stamp machines even existed, haven’t seen one for decades. > On

Re: GESO: Spiders and Snake

2024-04-29 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 29 Apr 2024, at 09:00, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 29.04.24 um 09:24 schrieb Larry Colen: >> Oh, and I think the snake might be a red diamond rattlesnake. > > Does it make a difference? Better taste in art and beer. http://www.burton-on-trent.org.uk/category/miscellany/bass-logo >

Re: Rediscovering the world's largest cormorant ...

2024-03-21 Thread Bob W PDML
Beautiful plumage. It’s a fascinating article, thanks for posting it. Incidentally, it’s not extinct, merely pinin’ for the fjords. My understanding is that there is a breeding colony of them, descended from Genghis Khan’s flock, still living in a secret location not unadjacent to Ulan Bator,

Re: PESO: A strange looking bird

2024-03-20 Thread Bob W PDML
Beautiful plumage! > On 20 Mar 2024, at 12:53, Alan Cole wrote: > >  An African Snake Darter at Lake Panic, near Skukuza Camp, Kruger Park. > Unfortunately back lit. These birds are closely related to Cormorants but > swim with their bodies totally immersed giving the impression of a swimming

Re: VESO - my pics friend's guitar and why you haven't seen me i a while

2024-03-19 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 19 Mar 2024, at 00:24, ann sanfedele wrote: > > hope you kids like these. Sure do. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: March PUG is up

2024-03-07 Thread Bob W PDML
Thanks. It’s a very good gallery. > On 7 Mar 2024, at 10:03, Brian Walters wrote: > > G'day all > > Enjoy the gallery here: > > http://pug.komkon.org/ > > (you may need to refresh your browser if you see the previous gallery there). > > Note: The automated submission process usually works

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-05 Thread Bob W PDML
 > On 5 Mar 2024, at 01:48, John Sessoms wrote: > I'd play with film more if I had a reliable place to get it processed. I tried several UK labs a couple of years ago when I restarted with film. Most of them were disappointing but I have found two that provide a very good service. One of

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-05 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 5 Mar 2024, at 07:38, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > […] > > My Fulvia's muffler > […] If that’s not the start of a Frankie Howerd joke then I’m a Vestal Virgin. https://youtu.be/SKphHvvvNSs?si=CZcXsrSOaB9lQmco -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-04 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 4 Mar 2024, at 15:42, Alan C wrote: > > It's not going to be a horizontal half frame, that would just be plain > silly. There were a couple of quick teasers in the video. Portrait format > like a 'phone camera. IMHO it will be standard film advance, but half a frame > at a time. It

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-04 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 4 Mar 2024, at 10:16, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > >> In the video he talks about using zone focusing on the camera. > > The only times I ever see this term is when people describe the way the > Horizon panoramic camera is focussed or rather isn't. It has no focussing > control.

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-04 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 3 Mar 2024, at 17:45, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 03.03.24 um 18:29 schrieb Bill: >> I was quite surprised that it is a vertical half frame, but the logic behind >> that decision is that a vertical format is what the target market is already >> comfortable with. > > Making it a

Re: A half-frame Pentax film camera

2024-03-03 Thread Bob W PDML
> Am I missing something here? Yes. You’re not part of the target market. It’s aimed at young people who are using it for fun. > On 3 Mar 2024, at 15:07, Comcast wrote: > > As a medium, film suffers in comparison to digital in that it is less > capable of low light reproduction and when

Re: Soul cam?

2024-03-02 Thread Bob W PDML
It’s larger than 4/3rds. Almost the same as APS-C, but the wrong way up, so a return to the original 35mm movie format. > On 2 Mar 2024, at 22:55, Larry Colen wrote: > > So, they developed a micro 4/3 film cell phone camera. > > >> On Mar 2, 2024, at 2:33 PM, Bob W PDM

Soul cam?

2024-03-02 Thread Bob W PDML
Some of you may have already seen the recent updates about the forthcoming Pentax film camera, which sounds interesting and unusual. There’s an article here https://silvergrainclassics.com/en/2024/03/new-pentax-camera-will-be-half-frame-available-summer-24/ which links to this video:

Re: Problems reading SD cards

2024-02-22 Thread Bob W PDML
If you put the cards back in the camera can you still see all the photos in preview? Can you use the camera as the card reader? That is, connect the camera to the computer and download from there. Can you download to a non-Windows device, such as a phone? > On 22 Feb 2024, at 20:39, John

Re: PESO Leci n'est pas une Magritte

2024-02-11 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 11 Feb 2024, at 09:18, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 11.02.24 um 03:44 schrieb Larry Colen: >> Sometimes my sense of humor amuses me >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/53521668513/in/album-72177720314703860/ > > Great and well seen. > > Here's one I did, years ago: >

Re: February PUG is up

2024-02-10 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 10 Feb 2024, at 12:27, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 10.02.24 um 13:14 schrieb Alan C: >> The "Cow" fooled me too. > A hybrid? The first step to what the Germans call an egg-laying wool-milk-sow? I wonder what its pronouns are. Sheep, ewe, herd? -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: PESO, scratching that itch

2024-02-05 Thread Bob W PDML
I’d be tempted to make a gallery of them and call it Larry Burros… https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/larry-burrows?all/all/all/all/0 > On 5 Feb 2024, at 19:22, Larry Colen wrote: > > On my bike ride Saturday I crossed paths with some of the local burros > >

Re: OT Photoshop 2024 help

2024-02-05 Thread Bob W PDML
In the 2nd picture the dog looks like Joe Biden. > On 5 Feb 2024, at 15:49, Bill wrote: > > Rather than using content aware fill, try using generative fill. > > Original image: https://flic.kr/p/2oEdfzE > > Generative fill image: https://flic.kr/p/2oE8b78 > > bill > > >> On 2/4/2024 11:00

Re: Reprocessing an old file in lightroom

2024-02-04 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 5 Feb 2024, at 06:08, Alan C wrote: > > […] > With AI & Elon Musk's brain implants we may eventually be able to recover > anything we have ever seen directly from our brains!? > That’ll keep the psychiatric industry going for a while. Maybe even longer than Larry’s excellent

P30?

2024-02-03 Thread Bob W PDML
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Re: Pentax APS-C cameras

2024-01-27 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 26 Jan 2024, at 20:00, John Sessoms wrote: > > I have a hard time even remembering to "Spring Forward/Fall Back" ... the > "fall back" part isn't that big of a problem, but the week after "spring > forward" I'd be late for my own hanging. It seems to me that that would be a good thing…

Re: Pentax APS-C cameras

2024-01-23 Thread Bob W PDML
 > On 23 Jan 2024, at 01:54, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >  > Hmm. I like to keep the camera's date setting current, but rarely ever look > at the time my cameras are set to. > I order things in LR by frame number, not by time, and only very very > occasionally use more than one camera at a

Re: Pentax APS-C cameras

2024-01-23 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 23 Jan 2024, at 13:30, John Sessoms wrote: > >  > > […] > I'll have to think about changing over to UTC. > > At least then ALL of the times will be "WRONG", rather than just blocks of > them. > It doesn’t have to be UTC of course - it could be any time you choose as the reference

Re: Pentax APS-C cameras

2024-01-22 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 22 Jan 2024, at 21:36, John Sessoms wrote: > >  > > Can it reset the clock to LOCAL time? > > That's the biggest problem I have with the clock - traveling to a different > time zone and forgetting to set the camera's clock to the correct time zone, > i.e. I have the camera set to "New

Re: Pentax APS-C cameras

2024-01-22 Thread Bob W PDML
I can see the value of it even if it’s something that I don’t have much need for personally. To me it would be quite useful sometimes for a camera to connect automatically (ie without all the ridiculous faff of camera WiFi connections) using Bluetooth or Ant+ or something similar to external

Re: January PUG is up

2024-01-08 Thread Bob W PDML
Alan’s reminds me of a Larson cartoon which has the caption ‘bummer of a birthmark, Hal’. Good gallery all round! > On 8 Jan 2024, at 10:25, Brian Walters wrote: > > G'day all > > Enjoy the gallery here: > > http://pug.komkon.org/ > > (you may need to refresh your browser if you see the

Re: OT maps help

2023-12-14 Thread Bob W PDML
You can add stops either by press/holding a waypoint or by using Add Stop on the … menu. You can rearrange the stops by dragging them around in the list. As far as I know you can’t drag them around on the map. > On 14 Dec 2023, at 04:53, Stan Halpin wrote: > > I know what you mean, have

Re: wishlist items

2023-12-05 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 6 Dec 2023, at 05:51, Larry Colen wrote: > >  > >> On Dec 5, 2023, at 8:50 PM, Alan Cole wrote: >> >> Go for one of these: >> >> https://aas.org/files/cfht_star_trails.jpg >> >> Alan C > > If I could have that, I'd rather have this >

Elliott Erwitt

2023-11-30 Thread Bob W PDML
has died, unfortunately. I met him once after a fascinating and very amusing talk he gave at the National Portrait Gallery in London. He very generously signed a copy of his book Manwatching for me - in Russian - I’d brought it along hoping he’d do that for me so I could give it to a Russian

Re: The unending quest

2023-11-23 Thread Bob W PDML
Divide and conquer. You’re talking about three different situations, storage, transport and shooting. For storage I divide everything by system: Pentax, Leica and MFT, and generic accessories. Each gets its own case; I use a Pelican hard case and two Vanguard soft cases with dividers, and a

Re: PESO: Hélène

2023-11-20 Thread Bob W PDML
Lunched a thousand chips, I think. > On 20 Nov 2023, at 21:54, Larry Colen wrote: > > It's a lovely photo. Is it a reference to "launching a thousand ships"? > >> On Nov 20, 2023, at 12:21 AM, Alan C wrote: >> >> Very Clever! >> >> Alan C >> >>> On 20-Nov-23 01:30 AM, Ralf R Radermacher

Re: A big day for the official bird

2023-11-08 Thread Bob W PDML
g to see these images: After I followed the link > in Bob’s note, I had to affirm several times that I am human and > was > connecting from a secure site in order to be able to open the page, > but eventually got through. > > Stan > >> On Nov 8, 2023, at 9:43 AM, Bob W P

A big day for the official bird

2023-11-08 Thread Bob W PDML
https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/early-bird-wins-sussex-wildlife-trust-photo-competition -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: PESO: mushroom time!

2023-10-17 Thread Bob W PDML
Very beautiful, and very skilful, photos. > On 17 Oct 2023, at 08:25, Henk Terhell wrote: > > It is hard work at present to catch up with the variety of mushrooms > shooting out of the ground. > Here are just a few results of my efforts: > https://flic.kr/p/2p8nGqi > https://flic.kr/p/2p9cyf9

Re: On the Road Again ...

2023-10-07 Thread Bob W PDML
Bonne route! > On 7 Oct 2023, at 00:52, John Sessoms wrote: > > I've made reservations. Confirmed reservations. > > I intend to be in Albuquerque a week from Saturday (14 Oct) > > ... and this time I've ALREADY made sure I have the instructions in the glove > box. Put a copy in there a few

Re: PESO 2023 - Walking (262-268) - GDG

2023-10-05 Thread Bob W PDML
There’s nothing to photograph in France. What parts will you be visiting? > On 4 Oct 2023, at 23:11, Rick Womer wrote: > > I’ve been feeling a bit photographically restless lately, too. > > Shortly we’re going to be taking a trip to France (first “real” trip since > before the pandemic), and

Re: Good find today (not Pentax)

2023-09-29 Thread Bob W PDML
 > On 29 Sep 2023, at 00:52, John Sessoms wrote: > > […] I don't even think the hole is still there in the wall. […] I looked on street view- the hole’s still there, but the wall has gone. It looks a bit like Blackburn, Lancashire. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe

Re: OT: Fire in Phalaborwa

2023-09-17 Thread Bob W PDML
It’s been a bad few years for a lot of people, I’m sorry to hear it’s been your turn. I hope you’re not too badly affected personally by it. I agree with Larry’s comment about ghoulishness. Bon courage. > On 17 Sep 2023, at 07:31, Alan C wrote: > > Yesterday was a very hot day (40°C) in

Re: PESO: Some shots just after dawn

2023-09-15 Thread Bob W PDML
Superb, especially the third. > On 15 Sep 2023, at 20:17, Henk Terhell wrote: > > Sun is rising here now just after 7 o'clock. Last week I decided to get out > of my bed early to shoot some sunrises because some fog was predicted. > It was a pleasant experience as I ended up with a few shots

Re: GESO - Mercer Museum

2023-09-09 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 9 Sep 2023, at 20:20, John Francis wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 06:45:09PM +0200, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: >>> Am 09.09.23 um 18:16 schrieb Rick Womer: >>> Yesterday we took a trip to Doylestown, a well-preserved town incorporated >>> in 1838, about an hour west of Philly. >> >> A

Re: PANO: East & West Bankers

2023-09-06 Thread Bob W PDML
What was it that Kipling wrote? “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and ne’er the trunks shall meet”. > On 6 Sep 2023, at 16:53, Stanley Halpin wrote: > > Alan - nice image! > But, just idle curiosity… Since you merged the images for a pano, will this > inspire the two herds to merge as

Re: September PUG is up

2023-09-04 Thread Bob W PDML
Very impressive. Probably the best I’ve seen in the year or so I’ve been contributing. A small note for John Coyle - I think that’s Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, rather than Hebden Bridge. I know both towns quite well. > On 4 Sep 2023, at 10:12, Brian W wrote: > > G'day all > > Enjoy

Re: Uxbridge fall walk

2023-09-03 Thread Bob W PDML
Lots of nice stuff there. > On 3 Sep 2023, at 15:05, David J Brooks wrote: > > Happy Labour day weekend all, Labor for my USA friends lol > > From a recent walk, we do this trail system 4-5 times a year to get the > changes in seasons and flowers etc > >

Re: OT: Guardian - Photos from South-East London

2023-08-29 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 29 Aug 2023, at 17:27, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > >> Just found this series of photos by one Josh Edgoose in today's online >> edition of The Guardian and thought Bob W and a few others might like them: >> >>

Re: OT: Guardian - Photos from South-East London

2023-08-29 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 29 Aug 2023, at 14:52, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 29.08.23 um 13:16 schrieb Bob W PDML: > >> There’s a lot of money around there. > > So, let everybody have enough money and the world will be a nicer place. > > Ralf > > -- > Indeed. --

Re: OT: Guardian - Photos from South-East London

2023-08-29 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 29 Aug 2023, at 12:11, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 29.08.23 um 13:01 schrieb Bob W PDML: > >> The people tend to be wealthy, artistically inclined, secure and confident >> enough not to be wary of the camera but to be aware of photography

Re: OT: Guardian - Photos from South-East London

2023-08-29 Thread Bob W PDML
Thanks - superb photos, he has a great eye. I know some of those areas well and they attract a certain kind of mild eccentricity which is very photogenic. The people tend to be wealthy, artistically inclined, secure and confident enough not to be wary of the camera but to be aware of

Re: Australia - Brisbane and Perth

2023-08-15 Thread Bob W PDML
I remember overhearing a couple of young Aussies in Greenwich once: “jeez, I can’t wait to get back, I’m sick to death of old buildings”. Must have been from Perth. I have distant relatives in Perth. Of course, anyone in Perth is distant, but you know what I mean. I’d recommend somewhere in

Re: Photos from Colorado

2023-08-15 Thread Bob W PDML
Nice. Looks quite Mediterranean. > On 15 Aug 2023, at 16:52, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Not content with the UK and Austria trips that are bookending our > summer, the Dr and I went to visit some friends in Colorado for a > week. Here are a few snaps: >

Re: LrC and travel

2023-07-27 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 26 Jul 2023, at 22:20, Stanley Halpin wrote: > > […] > I do not want to synch my images to Adobe Cloud, I just want to manage my > backing up and exporting/sharing on my own. Then you can’t use LR CC, simple as that. You’ll need to find something else to edit and render your photos on

Re: LrC and travel

2023-07-26 Thread Bob W PDML
 > > Adobe’s cloud-based design is apparently based on an audience with a totally > different perspective, those who are constantly connected to high-sped > internet and who want every image sucked off their devices and stored in > Adobe’s Cloud to be shared with the world. This is rather a

Brothels, bartenders and film stars: Eve Arnold’s women – in pictures

2023-07-22 Thread Bob W PDML
The Graun has a good review of the Eve Arnold exhibition I went to this week. Hopefully the PDML will accept this link Brothels, bartenders and film stars: Eve Arnold’s women – in pictures

Eve Arnold, Andre Lhote

2023-07-20 Thread Bob W PDML
Yesterday I went to an excellent retrospective exhibition of photos by Eve Arnold, which concentrated mainly on her representation of women, putting it into perspective of her life and times. The exhibition held at the Newlands House Gallery in Petworth is called “To Know About Women”, which

Re: GESO - Cliveden Mansion

2023-07-20 Thread Bob W PDML
That looks like a fascinating place. Nicely photographed. > On 20 Jul 2023, at 02:26, Rick Womer wrote: > > Cliveden is a mansion in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, built in > the 1760s, and home to seven generations of the Chew family. The house and > surrounding fields were the

Re: OnT: Grey Matter Exercise

2023-06-27 Thread Bob W PDML
lan C > > >> On 27-Jun-23 10:10 AM, Bob W PDML wrote: >> Why? >>>> On 27 Jun 2023, at 08:33, mike wilson wrote: >>> Shouldn't the first one have a question mark after it? >>>> On 25/06/2023 19:50 Bob W PDML wrote: >>>> Too easy. &g

Re: OnT: Grey Matter Exercise

2023-06-27 Thread Bob W PDML
Why? > On 27 Jun 2023, at 08:33, mike wilson wrote: > > Shouldn't the first one have a question mark after it? > >> On 25/06/2023 19:50 Bob W PDML wrote: >> >> >> Too easy. >> >> I have two favourite cryptic crossword clues, neither is di

Re: MX Mirror Foam Replacement

2023-06-26 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 26 Jun 2023, at 22:12, Steve Cottrell wrote: > >  > > Thanks and yes on the mend. Cryo-ablation went smoothly and so far so good…. So it’s true what they say, you do have a splinter of ice in your heart… -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: MX Mirror Foam Replacement

2023-06-26 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 26 Jun 2023, at 22:12, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Bob > > You had a Pentax MX fixed *under warranty* ?? How does that work?! The initial repair / refurb came with a 3-month warranty. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to

Re: MX Mirror Foam Replacement

2023-06-26 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 26 Jun 2023, at 21:18, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 26.06.23 um 20:42 schrieb Bob W PDML: >> ...until I got the first roll of film back, which very clearly showed >> significant shutter lag. > > So, that's what it's called. Just copied it into my vocabular

Re: MX Mirror Foam Replacement

2023-06-26 Thread Bob W PDML
I think it would still be a good idea to put a roll of film through. You seem to be where I was last year with my MX, which I bought new in 79/80. I resuscitated it last year and all seemed well, not even a sticking mirror, until I got the first roll of film back, which very clearly showed

Re: OnT: Grey Matter Exercise

2023-06-25 Thread Bob W PDML
Too easy. I have two favourite cryptic crossword clues, neither is difficult, but I like them. One that my housemaster told me when I was about 12 and he was explaining what cryptic crosswords are: Gegs (9, 4) And another which I saw on a book cover: Two girls, one on each knee (7) > On

Re: What Adobe product?

2023-06-10 Thread Bob W PDML
I use Lightroom almost exclusively on my iPhone and iPad. I also have it, and a copy of LR Classic, on my Mac mini, but rarely use it on that. However, I don’t do much post-processing. You could subscribe and try them all for no extra cost, then cancel the subscription if you don’t like it.

Re: peso - yellow sky

2023-06-08 Thread Bob W PDML
I’ve been watching it on the news, thinking about you and everyone else affected by it, hoping you’d post something. It looks dreadful, very apocalyptic. Great little detail about the sweet smell - I’d never have imagined that. Look after yourself. > On 8 Jun 2023, at 15:03, ann sanfedele

Re: Peso: A train in Philly for Ralf

2023-06-07 Thread Bob W PDML
That’s a nice shot, the light on those iron girders is good. It seems to me the station should be in more famous photos, especially in B, but a google search doesn’t seem to turn anything up. > On 7 Jun 2023, at 16:48, ann sanfedele wrote: > > Taken when I visited Philly in 2014 and

Re: 30th St. Station

2023-06-07 Thread Bob W PDML
A very interesting set - it’s a beautiful building. > On 7 Jun 2023, at 02:08, Rick Womer wrote: > > Three photo-friends and I had a photo-visit to 30th St. Station (Philly’s > rail hub) this week. The pics are here: > > https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/2023/May-2023/30th-St-Station-5-30-23/ >

Re: GESO: Our just-completed Pennine Way walk

2023-05-28 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 28 May 2023, at 13:27, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Wow - you had some **cloud** !! We’ve been plagued with wall-to-wall > sunshine for nearly 3 weeks as the Azores high sits righ over the UK and will > continue to do so for at least another week. > > Great set of pics - really captures

Re: GESO: Our just-completed Pennine Way walk

2023-05-27 Thread Bob W PDML
Well done! Superb photos of an amazing landscape. > On 26 May 2023, at 20:43, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Finishing up (finally) in Scotland a couple of weeks ago. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/166715344@N04/albums/72177720308386495 > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To

Re: Pentax Film Camera News

2023-05-16 Thread Bob W PDML
 > On 16 May 2023, at 18:34, Larry Colen wrote: > > […] > > I think that it is kind of silly for someone to buy a brand new film camera > when perfectly servicable ones are practically being given away. I > personally bought several when I got back into photography because I wanted > the

Re: Life Update:

2023-05-13 Thread Bob W PDML
That’s good news - good luck! > On 12 May 2023, at 22:33, John Sessoms wrote: > > Things are looking up. I've found a house, made an offer & it has been > accepted. > > My closing date for this house (the day I get the money from my buyer) is May > 31. > > My closing date for the new house

Re: RIP Dan Matyola

2023-05-11 Thread Bob W PDML
That’s a real shock, he was always so active here. > On 11 May 2023, at 00:27, Bruce Walker wrote: > > Facebook alerted me today of messages about the passing of Dan > Matyola, May 2, 2023, at 81 years of age. > > I'm only a "FB friend" but we've chatted a bunch since I joined the > list and

Re: May PUG is up

2023-05-04 Thread Bob W PDML
… a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all. —-Ogden Nash > On 4 May 2023, at 21:24, ann sanfedele wrote: > > I think that I shall never see... > >> On 5/4/2023 3:37 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote: >> Hmmm. What I sent was not what showed up...

Re: Slide scanners

2023-05-01 Thread Bob W PDML
I’ve been using a Pentax Slide Holder 1X K with Pentax K extension tube #3, a reversing adapter, and a Pentax-M 50mm macro attached to a MFT* digital camera, lit by a Kaiser light table. It’s very quick and the results are good, at least for use as proofs. Nikon has a setup like it, based

Re: Peso - one more lonely tree not submitted for May PUG

2023-05-01 Thread Bob W PDML
Behind every tree hides a cormorant. > On 1 May 2023, at 13:33, mike wilson wrote: > > Seems to be missing a cormorant. As I suspect most of this month's entries > will be. > >> On 01/05/2023 13:08 ann sanfedele wrote: >> >> >> Ok, I'll play >> >> Decided this one had been seen in a

Re: OT: Life Changes

2023-04-26 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 25 Apr 2023, at 14:49, John Sessoms wrote: > > I think I've sold my house. I've got a contract, but I won't be certain > until I actually see the cash in my bank account. > > Don't know where I'm going. That's also awaiting the cash in the bank account. > > But I have to be out of here

Re: Vacation suggestion

2023-04-20 Thread Bob W PDML
ery>* > > > >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 2:11 PM Bob W PDML wrote: >> >> >>> >>>> On 19 Apr 2023, at 18:56, mike wilson wrote: >>> >>>  >>>> On 19/04/2023 14:59 coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: >>&

Re: Vacation suggestion

2023-04-20 Thread Bob W PDML
 > > On 19 Apr 2023, at 18:56, mike wilson wrote: > >  >> On 19/04/2023 14:59 coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: >> In Sept we’re going to Yellowstone for 1 week followed by the Grand Canyon >> for another week. >> At least with digital I don’t have to worry about running out of film. (Just >>

Re: PESO: Flying T-Bird (No Pentax Content)

2023-04-16 Thread Bob W PDML
Looks like it wouldn’t have much trouble catching Maybellene at the top of the hill. Nothin’ outruns a V8 Foad. > On 16 Apr 2023, at 18:34, Bill wrote: > > I was at a car show a while back and happened upon this very futuristic > Ford from the late 1950s. > > https://flic.kr/p/2otHvy9 > >

Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-13 Thread Bob W PDML
X100 > On 13 Apr 2023, at 21:08, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Is it an X100, X100S, X100T, X100F or the unobtainable X100V :-) > > > > On 13 Apr 2023, at 21:04, Bob W PDML wrote: > > I have an original X100 which I never use, hardly used at all really, if > y

Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-13 Thread Bob W PDML
I have an original X100 which I never use, hardly used at all really, if you’re interested when the dust settles I’m sure we can figure something out. > I really like an optical viewfinder for mono, so in theory the Pentax wins on > that score. The Fuji X20 has an optical viewfinder. I suppose

Re: A few Easter PESOs

2023-04-13 Thread Bob W PDML
Lovely stuff. The cafe reminded me immediately of the closing scenes of Haneke’s ‘Happy End’. I love the way the word Frites slides downwards, and if I ever buy a house again I shall call it Villa Kunterbunt. > On 13 Apr 2023, at 17:42, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > We haven't made it to

Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-13 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 13 Apr 2023, at 17:12, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 13.04.23 um 17:11 schrieb Bob W PDML: >> That would be only 1,220. > > Is anyone seriously expecting more than that? > > Ralf Their finance director? > > -- > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-D

Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-13 Thread Bob W PDML
That would be only 1,220. > On 13 Apr 2023, at 16:05, John Sessoms wrote: > > I hope they sell a ton of them. > >> On 4/13/2023 5:14 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >> https://www.dpreview.com/news/2780405465/ricoh-announces-pentax-k-3-iii-monochrome-dslr >> Cotty >> -- >> %( -- %(real_name)s

Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-13 Thread Bob W PDML
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. —- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry > On 13 Apr 2023, at 13:44, Henk Terhell wrote: > > No flip screen, no colour, what can be removed next?:) > > Henk > > Op do 13 apr 2023 om 11:14 schreef

Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-13 Thread Bob W PDML
Nice. The tones that come out of the M10 monochrome are superb. > On 13 Apr 2023, at 10:14, Steve Cottrell wrote: > >  > https://www.dpreview.com/news/2780405465/ricoh-announces-pentax-k-3-iii-monochrome-dslr > > > Cotty > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an

Re: PDML Gothic

2023-04-11 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 11 Apr 2023, at 18:12, Larry Colen wrote: > >  > >>> On Apr 11, 2023, at 5:35 AM, Mark Roberts >>> wrote: >>> >>> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>> >>> I'm in NY for a short visit to deal with some family business and see a >>> couple of friends ... And of course I visited Ann while I was

Re: PDML Gothic

2023-04-11 Thread Bob W PDML
Great shot. One of should have had a pitchfork in your hand! > On 11 Apr 2023, at 12:33, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > I'm in NY for a short visit to deal with some family business and see a > couple of friends ... And of course I visited Ann while I was here. :) > > PDML Gothic -

Re: OT: "Accidentally" Wes Anderson

2023-04-03 Thread Bob W PDML
A PUG theme of Cinema would be quite interesting as it’s fairly wide-ranging and open to quite a lot of interpretation. Making an homage to a single individual’s style seems a bit narrow to me, and why choose Wes Anderson rather than Kurosawa or Godard or Hitchcock or Varda or any other

Re: GESO: Doors

2023-03-31 Thread Bob W PDML
Great gallery - very interesting! > On 31 Mar 2023, at 06:05, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > For a number of reasons, I was unable to take a new image for the April > PUG, so I decided to review my old image files, to see > what interpretations of that theme I could locate. I settled on an old

Re: Bob, Dan, Godfrey, Bill, Collin and I are alive...

2023-03-28 Thread Bob W PDML
We’ve all been around a long time. Sometimes it’s hard to tell. I only read the newspapers these days to see if I’m in the obituaries. > On 28 Mar 2023, at 22:04, Rick Womer wrote: > > Is anyone else? > > Rick > -- > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: GESO (17) - Old City Philadelphia walk

2023-03-27 Thread Bob W PDML
Nice looking place. Parts of it could be mistaken for Spitalfields in London. > On 27 Mar 2023, at 00:09, Rick Womer wrote: > > My apologies for my lack of moderation in posting a 17-photo gallery. They > are my favorites of about 70 shots from a cold, wet photo-walk with two > friends. >

Re: Pentax to make new film camera?

2023-03-24 Thread 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

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-22 Thread Bob W PDML
m. I'm up to my > asshole in storm damage, have no power or Internet at home, I hope you won't > feel offended that I don't spend an hour and a half paying something on > Flickr so you can see it . > >> On March 22, 2023 8:29:27 AM PDT, Bob W PDML wrote: >> Whenever y

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-22 Thread Bob W PDML
gt; > On March 22, 2023 12:25:35 AM PDT, Bob W PDML wrote: >>>> On 22 Mar 2023, at 06:50, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> […] >>> >>> I also learned that if you put on a hard hat and a high visibility vest >>> people are a lot more likely

Re: A chance to play with my new toys

2023-03-22 Thread Bob W PDML
> On 22 Mar 2023, at 06:50, Larry Colen wrote: > > […] > > I also learned that if you put on a hard hat and a high visibility vest > people are a lot more likely to assume that you’re supposed to be where they > chewed you out for being a couple of hours previously. Hi-viz jackets make you

Re: UK PDML meet-up in May, anyone?

2023-03-19 Thread Bob W PDML
on the whiteboard. I was looking forward to that, but sadly none of the nurses stroked me. Bloody NHS! > On 18 Mar 2023, at 21:06, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Sheesh! Waht happened? You’re in hospital?? > > C > > > On 17 Mar 2023, at 15:27, Bob W PDML wrote: > >

Re: PESO: European brook lamprey

2023-03-18 Thread Bob W PDML
Fascinating. One of our medieval kings is said to have died ‘of a surfeit of lampreys’, though presumably not brook lampreys as they seem to small to eat. > On 18 Mar 2023, at 20:29, Toine wrote: > > This fish is very rare and if present an indication of water quality. I had > the opportunity

Re: UK PDML meet-up in May, anyone?

2023-03-18 Thread Bob W PDML
r commitment. We will be in Dorset first > week of July, if you are healed and fancy meeting up. >> On 17/03/2023 19:02 Bob W PDML wrote: >> That sounds very unpleasant and disabling, I hope you make a quick and >> complete recovery. >> It was a motorbike mishap

Re: UK PDML meet-up in May, anyone?

2023-03-17 Thread Bob W PDML
ballsed it up and came off. Concussion, bruising and a broken collarbone were my reward, but I’ve decided that motorbikes and I are not meant for each other. > On 17 Mar 2023, at 18:27, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Bob W PDML wrote: > >> I’ll be in Paris from 18-21 May. &g

Re: UK PDML meet-up in May, anyone?

2023-03-17 Thread Bob W PDML
I’ll be in Paris from 18-21 May. 10th and 11th are possibilities but I’m trying to arrange a trip to Amsterdam and the NL for May sometime, so it’s a bit uncertain. It also depends to some extent how well my fractured collarbone has healed. I expect to be discharged at the end of April, and

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