Re: PESO - The Quiet City

2010-09-26 Thread Graydon
glass, snap neck, etc. and die. Since Toronto is right smack on a migration route, this is even more actively bad than it might be in say, Banff. I was delighted to see that so many lights were _off_. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: Photokina observations...

2010-09-26 Thread Graydon
and a built-in body upgrade path... -- Graydon -- 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: Bitter grapes: pure red...

2010-09-12 Thread Graydon
the river, you idiot'*. The mighty conqueror says 'we shall call it the River Don'. And so it flows quietly on. *This is the meaning of the Ojibwe word Mississippi. My favourite of these is Torpenhow Hill. (Tor, Pen, and How all meaning hill in a succession of languages.) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax

Re: K-5 leaked: plausible IMO

2010-09-11 Thread Graydon
. On the down side, it might make it very challenging to put a third-party split-prism focus screen in there. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: Also official - DA L 35mm f2.4

2010-09-11 Thread Graydon
of people using the DA L 35 on a K-r, they can maybe change that. -- Graydon -- 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: Also official - DA L 35mm f2.4

2010-09-11 Thread Graydon
be, either. I'd be a lot more interested in a 400/2.8. But eventually Pentax is going to run out of FA Ltds, and presumably wants to have enough market share to justify replacing them with something of comparably state-of-the-art-at-time-of-design quality. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Also official - DA L 35mm f2.4

2010-09-10 Thread Graydon
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:34:55AM +0300, Boris Liberman scripsit: [snip] Beside compatibility of mount there will have to be a compatibility of color... Did you notice on the colour-simulator page they have the FA43 with colour options? -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: Anybody in the northern hemisphere missing winter?

2010-08-19 Thread Graydon
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:27:31PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Graydon gray...@marost.ca wrote: It's more than a subset of them are convinced the rest of us aren't Canadian, rather than that they aren't.  Said subset is in a demographic vise and knows

Re: Anybody in the northern hemisphere missing winter?

2010-08-18 Thread Graydon
City, and you could die of your age before getting through all the good food in Montreal. -- Graydon -- 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 - Five Swans and Thousands of Cormorants

2010-08-07 Thread Graydon
get substantial groups flying out to feed together, but that's a migration-scale flock. -- Graydon -- 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: Semi-OT: GIMP

2010-08-03 Thread Graydon
management for printing, you might wish to take a look at CinePaint. (Common ancestry with the GIMP, forked by Hollywood ages ago.) If you're not printing, the GIMP is entirely fine for online images. -- Graydon (it's not actually what one would call _bad_ for printing with the right plugins, either

Re: OT: Happy Canada Day

2010-07-05 Thread Graydon
WWII, because he didn't quite take the hint. I think Bob's fussing about the current Prince of Wales. There are a bunch of people singing Wha'll be king but Charlie? with rather different emphasis these days, to be sure. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net

Re: OT: Happy Canada Day

2010-07-04 Thread Graydon
with the current hereditary succession, but the idea that the English Monarchy came down on the side of Divine Right is really laughable. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: OT: Happy Canada Day

2010-07-04 Thread Graydon
monarchy any real power beyond moral suasion reducing the political focus on the office. -- Graydon -- 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 real or photoshop?

2010-06-19 Thread Graydon
doesn't prevent the driver, etc, from being a PS job but the reflection seems consistent with the ostensible location. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: First the 645D now this

2010-06-07 Thread Graydon
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:31:06PM -0400, Steven Desjardins scripsit: It does makes the 645D look good at under $10K. (Although I do question the use of the wordsteal for any of these cameras.) Only way most folks are going to be able to obtain one? -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: PESO - Old outbuilding wall

2010-06-06 Thread Graydon
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 01:29:51AM +0200, Tim Øsleby scripsit: I think the knife is just a leaf caught by the mesh. Ah well. Sorry to let you down Graydon. Not knowing what to think stemmed from not knowing what I was looking at. This is very likely due to a wetware deficiency on my part

Re: PESO - Old outbuilding wall

2010-06-03 Thread Graydon
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:28:38PM +0200, Tim Øsleby scripsit: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/2010/06/uthusvegg.html Is that really a knife in the window? If it is, that's bizarrely creepy. If it isn't, I don't know what to think. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO Robin at home

2010-05-30 Thread Graydon
delivery. I don't think I'm going to collapse into loathing, but I'm going to have to at least consider it. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: PESO - Yeller Feller

2010-05-21 Thread Graydon
. Now I just have to get a decent photo of one! Goldfinches are pretty easy; what you want for a real challenge is to go into High Park and get a shot of a male wood duck with accurate colour representation. -- Graydon, who is still working on that one -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Lightroom workflow Q

2010-05-11 Thread Graydon
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:48:52AM +0100, p...@web-options.com scripsit: Many people are uncomfortable using UNIX command line utilities. Give that man the Nobel Prize for Understatement. A little gentle remedial education, and all will be well for them. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: PAW18 - Audience

2010-05-09 Thread Graydon
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:40:25PM +0200, DagT scripsit: Link as usual http://www.thrane.name/page3/page7/files/page7-1000-full.html K20D, DA70mm, 1/3500s, f/5.6, ISO200 I have no idea what that's saying but it's clearly saying something. Well done! -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: GESO - PDML Refus�s

2010-05-09 Thread Graydon
://picasaweb.google.ca/lh/photo/4IlMAuCnrHRIrfbhQpLlIQ?feat=directlink -- Graydon -- 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: OT - They're Calling For Snow Tonight

2010-05-08 Thread Graydon
northwest 40 km/h gusting to 60 diminishing to 20 after midnight. Low plus 1. No respectable Canadian makes ARGH noises over a mere 30% chance of snow. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: PESO - Early Morning Run

2010-05-08 Thread Graydon
portion of the left edge -- but even supposing that they're waving away flies, it still looks like there's some sort of aggressive scalp-gnawing mutant easter bonnet situation going on. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Something of interest from his Thomishness

2010-05-05 Thread Graydon
a question of when the user-induced shake is the dominant contributor to the image being blurry, and if it's useful then. (so far as I can tell, if you get to 1/15, the answer is no, because the amplitude of the shake is too big in relation to the shutter speed.) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: Tripods that fit in carry on

2010-05-05 Thread Graydon
would have been correctly describable as completely predictable. -- Graydon -- 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: Tripods that fit in carry on

2010-05-05 Thread Graydon
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:29:36AM -0400, P. J. Alling scripsit: On 5/5/2010 10:17 AM, Graydon wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:58:58AM -0400, P. J. Alling scripsit: I've do a little research, and it appears that no matter what the Mail's agenda, there was little enough reason for a blankett

Re: Peso Raven and nut

2010-05-05 Thread Graydon
Good shot, but pretty sure that's a crow. Ravens have deeper bills and prominent decorative throat feathers. They're generally also noticeably larger than crows, and using the peanut for scale suggests that's a crow. On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:51:22PM -0400, David J Brooks scripsit: Another

Re: PESO - Swan

2010-05-04 Thread Graydon
think you are.) The head detail is very nicely done. If you have more dots there, it would be nice to see that area larger and in colour. -- Graydon, who might point out there's a mute swan nest at the southwest corner of Grenadier Pond within 10 m of the sidewalk. (8 of the intervening meters

Re: K-7 replacement?

2010-05-02 Thread Graydon
emulation of the turnip-nature dealing with Windows.) -- Graydon -- 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: K-7 replacement?

2010-04-29 Thread Graydon
a good surprise. -- Graydon -- 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: GESO from a Norwegian Pentaxian Gathering

2010-04-29 Thread Graydon
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:56:11AM +0200, AlunFoto scripsit: 2010/4/27 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/thumbnails.php?album=20 Glad you liked it folks. Sorry to precipitate so much hatred. Some consolation for David M. and Graydon; The gulls are not fighting

Re: K-7 replacement?

2010-04-28 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:17:44PM -0400, Miserere scripsit: On 27 April 2010 22:05, Graydon gray...@marost.ca wrote: [snip] and the sensor won't be either Sony or Samsung. Which basically leaves us with Kodak, who only makes a CCD, not CMOS, FF sensor. There are others. They're small

Re: GESO from a Norwegian Pentaxian Gathering

2010-04-28 Thread Graydon
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:46:39AM +0200, AlunFoto scripsit: That was odd. I've tried to reset the access rights now. Please try again. :-) Working for me now. The two gulls arguing over the fish shot? Almost enough to make me give up at least bird photography entirely. -- Graydon -- PDML

Re: GESO: 2009 Favorites

2010-04-27 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:31:52PM -0400, Christian Skofteland scripsit: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:14:40PM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote: Thanks Larry and Dave too! I always get Egrets and Herons confused, but this one has the green coloring at the eye. And Dave, I thought the fall leaves

Re: K-7 replacement?

2010-04-27 Thread Graydon
-frame size sensor. They get to keep to 2 lens lines, they get an intro point out there at well below 10 kUSD, they don't need to replace the body design, and the sensor won't be either Sony or Samsung. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: OT rank- Link-Delight in Asia

2010-04-24 Thread Graydon
send one. Even if this makes one's anglo nature want gnaw on rocks. -- Graydon -- 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 - And the holy spirit....amen

2010-04-24 Thread Graydon
as an egret. I really like that shot. -- Graydon -- 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: Ultra-wide zooms

2010-04-17 Thread Graydon
to be a new design and both a very capable one and one that is, in the context of Limited branded lenses, affordable. As far as my very limited experience allows me to opine, people don't like primes because they don't like changing lenses. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Midnight on Augusta Street

2010-04-17 Thread Graydon
with the snow, which I believe only intensifies the why the pluperfect were you walking down Augusta at midnight (in the snow)? question this photograph evokes. Intense and enduring grudge against the Toronto tourist industry? Perverse desire for a complex epitaph? Implausibly lost? -- Graydon -- PDML

Re: PDML Photo Annual on line now

2010-04-17 Thread Graydon
Was there a consensus on hardcover, image wrap versus hardcover, dust jacket last time around? -- Graydon -- 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: Goddamn Micro$oft

2010-04-17 Thread Graydon
, and fifteen other (mostly Western European) languages, but I didn't use Adobe software to do it. -- Graydon -- 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: fa 100mm f2.8 macro or da 77m f1.8 ltd

2010-04-14 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:56:53PM -0400, Doug Franklin scripsit: On 2010-04-13 20:25, Graydon wrote: I find the FA100 is an excellent general purpose things-out-of-reach lens; inside at the zoo, flowers, stuff across the room, etc. Geez, I feel so out of place around here sometimes

Re: OT PESOs - Film is king, the king is dead

2010-04-14 Thread Graydon
-ZX/mzzxS.html You know you could have just posted a link to the MZ-D URL. http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/bodies/prototypes/MZ-D.html ??? Graydon was asking what the screen was, shown in the rotary switch of the D. I pointed out that it was an LCD display and referred to a URL

Re: fa 100mm f2.8 macro or da 77m f1.8 ltd

2010-04-13 Thread Graydon
, but does nicely at leaning over the fence to take pictures of the roses sorts of shots. -- Graydon -- 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: fa 100mm f2.8 macro or da 77m f1.8 ltd

2010-04-13 Thread Graydon
diffraction grating lenses, maybe not. Going to be awhile before that hits retail, though. :) -- Graydon -- 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: OT PESOs - Film is king, the king is dead

2010-04-13 Thread Graydon
in a rotary switch of some kind? Cotty, you *know* they're going to stick a full frame sensor in the 645D body and sell it for about 3 kUSD under a name no one could possibly have predicted. And we can all have a good thrash about having to buy medium format lenses for it. -- Graydon -- PDML

Re: 300mm Kitlens

2010-04-11 Thread Graydon
to lean against. Some days it is more like one in 15. -- Graydon -- 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: tripod advice sought

2010-04-11 Thread Graydon
and people enacting their own political agendas, too, which I am not pleased about but don't expect to apply to tripods. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: 300mm Kitlens

2010-04-10 Thread Graydon
for it. It's now quite sharp, if I manage to get the focus-plane-like-a-microtome where I want it. -- Graydon -- 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: 300mm Kitlens

2010-04-10 Thread Graydon
. -- Graydon -- 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: 300mm Kitlens

2010-04-10 Thread Graydon
and rear. The rear parts don't move during focussing. Most likely the contraption is optimized at infinity. Quite possible. I've certainly never seen the lens you've got, so I'm speaking in generalities. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

tripod advice sought

2010-04-10 Thread Graydon
of the list would be a good place to start enquires, and since I do intend to attach the thing to a Pentax camera (1500/f12; better be a sunny day...) some of the time it's even on topic! -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: PESO - Famous Scientist

2010-04-07 Thread Graydon
.) -- Graydon -- 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: Another LBA.

2010-04-06 Thread Graydon
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:02:23PM -0600, William Robb scripsit: Mike Johnson is right about the 35/2.8 LTD Macro. Yes, yes he is. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: adobe pdf question

2010-04-06 Thread Graydon
in either your OS installation, printer driver installation, or Adobe Reader itself. Adobe Reader is 2009's number one target for malware. Just because it's a Mac doesn't mean you don't have to worry about that, especially because PDF attacks can be cross platform. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax

Re: adobe pdf question

2010-04-06 Thread Graydon
I'd be wildly disinclined to suppose that just because you're on OS X you're safe. Some always gets to go first, and the sort of everything crashes situation Larry's reporting is consistent with library damage from malware. (Or hardware issues, or file system corruption, or...) -- Graydon

Re: Interesting comparison : DPReview EOS 550D (Rebel T2i),, Review

2010-04-02 Thread Graydon
plausibly almost manage -- and in a couple of years when they can get the 645 size sensor into a camera at a 3 kCAD sort of price point they can say throw away your adaptor. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

Re: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest, February 2010

2010-02-27 Thread Graydon
.) I wouldn't assume anybody in uniform knows the movie plot stuff is wrong; some do, many don't. The bit about pictures having political and career consequences *isn't* wrong, and SLRs are associated with photojournalists, whom the police generally do not like. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: Let's not bitch about Pentax... Let's bitch about Adobe.

2010-02-26 Thread Graydon
avoiding for that reason alone. -- Graydon -- 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: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest, February 2010

2010-02-26 Thread Graydon
and it becomes true. -- Graydon -- 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: Let's not bitch about Pentax... Let's bitch about Adobe.

2010-02-26 Thread Graydon
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:27:30PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi scripsit: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: I have no beefs with Adobe. Their software installs easily, quickly, and works very well. They support it when I call with a question. I bank my living

Re: On FF and other must have features

2010-02-25 Thread Graydon
for the USG. Though I'd be deeply amused at autofocus technology from Questar's high altitude observation division showing up in Pentax cameras. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: On FF and other must have features

2010-02-25 Thread Graydon
://www.clickykeyboards.com/ These are brand new: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/keyboards.html You're going to pay, but hey, it is the most used part of the computer. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame

2010-02-25 Thread Graydon
know that ~never~ works... Ah, but if She's omniscient, She can *make* it work. -- Graydon -- 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: On FF and other must have features

2010-02-25 Thread Graydon
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:55:49AM +1100, Rob Studdert scripsit: On 26/02/2010, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:54:03AM -0500, P. J. Alling scripsit: Won't do any good, can't find a decent Keyboard for love nor money any more. (I keep searching

Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame

2010-02-25 Thread Graydon
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:07:28PM -0600, Bran Everseeking scripsit: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:55:52 -0500 Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: Were She really omniscient, she'd know that ~never~ works... Ah, but if She's omniscient, She can *make* it work. -- Graydon Dat would

Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame

2010-02-24 Thread Graydon
isn't going there. -- Graydon -- 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 - There is No Time...

2010-02-24 Thread Graydon
The ironwork and its shadow were also intriguing on their own, and I'm feeling indecisive: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10730843 (K10D, DA 16-45, ISO 800, f/4 @ 1/60) Both impressive, I'd take there is no time in preference to the other. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame

2010-02-23 Thread Graydon
of very cold solid hydrogen, the which you must regularly obtain...) -- Graydon -- 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: PUG picks

2010-02-23 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:55:30PM -0500, ann sanfedele scripsit: I thought I did this already -- Frank, Rick and Graydon made my faves... Woot! Frank and Rick because of the spirit of celebration interstingly caught and Graydon just because he captured so perfectly something beautiful

Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame

2010-02-22 Thread Graydon
if it's full format or not for the next nineteen years. -- Graydon -- 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: GESO - Tama

2010-02-20 Thread Graydon
/index.htm I don't think the young lady in the last shot approved of you at all, Derby. That's a very good gallery; I'm not even sure you would have benefited from a longer lens. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

Re: PESO: Hermit Silhouette

2010-02-17 Thread Graydon
. No North American egret has the dark eye stripe or the head plumes. Nice evocative shot, though. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: peso

2010-02-16 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 05:09:29PM -0800, Sasha Sobol scripsit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/4361136515/ Comments and critique are welcome as always Amazing view, great geology, not quite sharp somehow. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: OT - My New Computer Sucks

2010-02-14 Thread Graydon
traces are that far off spec on the mother board there's no telling what else is wrong. -- Graydon -- 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: Less than a month to wait...

2010-02-14 Thread Graydon
that this particular camera will also be attached to reality fairly well, and so sell. -- Graydon -- 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: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian

2010-02-13 Thread Graydon
harder to see. (Though much less useful if you mottle the lenses...) -- Graydon -- 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: Stalking the Wild Pentaxian

2010-02-13 Thread Graydon
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:24:17AM +0800, Sandy Harris scripsit: On 2/14/10, Graydon o...@uniserve.com wrote: What you want is a mottled matte dark green and dark blue camera; much harder to see. (Though much less useful if you mottle the lenses...) Getting close? http

Re: PESO - Cornered

2010-02-13 Thread Graydon
hunters with this little spark of can we chase it? lurking back of the docile in their eyes. -- Graydon -- 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: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread Graydon
. If you can get it retail, it's outdated. Laptops have a half life around 1 year (a bit less, around 11 months, last time I looked at stats.) 4 years is 4 half-lives, one chance in 16 of making it that far in time. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net

Re: OT- Another freaking Winter Storm Warning....

2010-02-09 Thread Graydon
and in surprising places some of the time. We've had a pretty mild winter this year, with lots of rain and almost not snow. Thirty years ago it would have been much colder and snowier. And there wouldn't have been the cool, wet spring that lasted until the end of July, either. -- Graydon

Re: laptops again...

2010-02-09 Thread Graydon
a difference between it happens and you should make business planning decisions on this basis. -- Graydon -- 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: i'm in luuuuuurv...

2010-02-07 Thread Graydon
doing manual settings of ISO/aperture/shutter for some but not all shots in a changing environment. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: pef or dng why?

2010-02-07 Thread Graydon
software already knows about it; you don't have to futz about with per-camera upgrades. -- Graydon -- 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

2010-02-07 Thread Graydon
? The Moment Before It All Went Wrong? I can't tell... -- I'd say you nailed it. The opinions of normal people likely vary from those of this reviewer. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: k100 viewfinder -- photos

2010-02-06 Thread Graydon
glass that has shattered between layers of plastic laminate. I would not be at all surprised if that was actually the case. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: Laptop computers with good displays?

2010-02-05 Thread Graydon
instance of a particular model in any case. Part substitution on that level is pretty solidly widespread. -- Graydon -- 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

Re: Laptop computers with good displays?

2010-02-05 Thread Graydon
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:16:21PM -0500, Mark Roberts scripsit: Graydon wrote: On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 07:58:56AM -0500, Mark Roberts scripsit: Most of Apple's desktop displays are LG/Philips, with Samsung making an occasional appearance. But I can't find out what kind of display

Re: Surgery tomorrow!

2010-02-05 Thread Graydon
, but still. -- Graydon -- 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: Surgery tomorrow!

2010-02-03 Thread Graydon
. Without, it would be at least twice as long and might never heal properly. This is a nasty break. Sounds grim; I hope the events improve on the prognosis. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML

Re: OT - computer hard drive question

2010-02-01 Thread Graydon
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 06:28:28AM +, Cotty scripsit: On 31/1/10, Graydon, discombobulated, unleashed: [backup advice] Many thanks. You're most welcome! If this is your primary business, and the UK has the same sort of tax laws as Her Majesty's Canadian Dominions, you might-maybe be able

Re: Question of English, American and otherwise

2010-02-01 Thread Graydon
was better for the candour. -- Graydon -- 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: Elements 2 ??

2010-02-01 Thread Graydon
, but compression is normal and works fine. A comperssed PNG will generally give a smaller file size than the equivalent GIF. (Plus more than 256 colours, transparency, and much more bit depth. PNG is a perfectly good image archive format if you don't already have a TIFF infrastructure.) -- Graydon

Re: PESO - pond

2010-02-01 Thread Graydon
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 05:48:56PM -0800, Sasha Sobol scripsit: http://decluttr.com/4323191136_white critique is very welcome It seems to me you have a good photo of the statue being crushed like a bug by whatever that blue stuff in the upper right might be. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax

Re: OT - computer hard drive question

2010-01-31 Thread Graydon
and replacing is a good idea? OS X uses a file system where you shouldn't have to worry about fragmentation in any way. Third, if what you want is a complete wipe, don't delete files; format the disk. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: Spotted on Newegg

2010-01-29 Thread Graydon
a possible instance of novel branding. -- Graydon -- 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: Spotted on Newegg

2010-01-28 Thread Graydon
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:55:59PM -0600, William Robb scripsit: http://is.gd/7g9Hv H. I hate it when there's nothing useful in the EXIF data. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread Graydon
movement? -- Graydon -- 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.

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