Re: Crossed polarization techniques

2006-12-22 Thread Bill
- Original Message - From: Barry Rice Subject: Crossed polarization techniques Hey Folks, Does this work? I've encountered it a couple of times in macrophotography books. It does work, very well. You want biggish light sources, preferably a pair of studio lights with pan

Re: Determining a Focal Length

2006-12-22 Thread Bill
- Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff Subject: Determining a Focal Length For what it's worth, the subject is about 12-feet long and I have to get about six feet from it. Presuming you want to use the DSLR, you will need either the 10-17 fish-eye or possibly the 12-24 might

Re: Trap Focus with k10D

2006-12-21 Thread Bill
- Original Message - From: David Weiss Subject: Trap Focus with k10D Hi all, Has anyone used trap focus with k10D? I cannot seem to get it to work properly. Have been trying with m series lenses. Just shoots. Shouldn't there be a custom function that does not allow it to fire

Re: OT: SENIOR MOMENTS

2013-07-14 Thread Bill
of pocket cost. Plus, the VA will not pay for varifocal lenses so I had to pay for those out of pocket as well. zennioptical.com bill -- 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: OT: wolf chases bike

2013-07-17 Thread Bill
be transported from a person's residence to a shooting range. A person caught carrying an AR-7 in Canada would probably do some jail time. bill -- 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: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-17 Thread Bill
a number of the members of this list combined with the fact that anything I send will be read by them tends to keep some of my less savoury posting habits in check. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML

Re: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-17 Thread Bill
On 17/07/2013 1:34 PM, Tom C wrote: I've found that the combitation of having met a number of the members of this list combined with the fact that anything I send will be read by them tends to keep some of my less savoury posting habits in check. bill You have savoury posting habits also

Off list: Re: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-18 Thread Bill
On 17/07/2013 1:59 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Gee was that supposed to be off-list??? ann No Ann, when I send something off list, I put off list in the subject line. bill On 7/17/2013 15:47, Bill wrote: On 17/07/2013 1:34 PM, Tom C wrote: I've found that the combitation of having met

Re: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-18 Thread Bill
On 17/07/2013 2:03 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote: Unlike many people of my birth culture (Jewish), I don't do guilt. Your mother must love you. bill -- 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: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-18 Thread Bill
different conversations at the same time, and can take a conversation off list if it goes off topic. Changing the default to reply to person rather than reply to list would result in confusion and suicide. Why can't you just leave well enough alone? bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-18 Thread Bill
you if that happens. bill -- 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: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-19 Thread Bill
On 18/07/2013 9:49 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, Bill wrote: On 18/07/2013 8:51 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote: And your point is? FSM knows I'm *so* not a fan of change for change's sake, but I also think it's bizarre to excuse a state of affairs as that's the way we've always done

Re: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-19 Thread Bill
that. bill -- 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: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-19 Thread Bill
don't have any cat pictures. Would a puppy do? http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/pictures/rottiepuppy.html bill -- 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.

OT: Rotties. Re: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-20 Thread Bill
On 19/07/2013 1:20 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Bill, Thanks, I appreciate your insight and will forward on to my son Bill. His Golden really likes people and kids in particular. My daughter-in-law is a special ed teacher who had 'behavior disorders' classrooms until this year. She is probably

Re: [meta] Reply-to list (was Re: FS: Low-mileage K-7 body, WR kit zoom, Tamron 24-135 lens)

2013-07-20 Thread Bill
On 19/07/2013 2:10 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: A Troll - we haven't seen one for a while. Maybe we should have some fun with him. To late for me, he's hit the list of people who I don't see at all. One of my strategies for staying polite is to exclude people who annoy me. bill On Fri, Jul 19

Re: Any new flagship camera rumors?

2013-07-20 Thread Bill
lens. bill -- 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: KEH has an A* 135mm f1.8

2013-07-22 Thread Bill
On 22/07/2013 12:38 PM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Can it really be worth $2569 ? Save yourself $2400.00 and go for the f/2.8. bill -- 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: KEH has an A* 135mm f1.8

2013-07-24 Thread Bill
an A*85/1.4. And neither should you. bill -- 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-5 malfuction... or is it moi? HELP!

2013-07-26 Thread Bill
A on an A series lens. bill -- 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: Why Digital is Dead for me in Street Photography

2013-07-26 Thread Bill
are exposing the film at something like ISO 6 and then giving the film a reach around to get it to cooperate. bill -- 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: Why Digital is Dead for me in Street Photography

2013-07-26 Thread Bill
On 26/07/2013 7:31 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Rob Studdert wrote: ... but I've noticed that the people who are good at it tend not to write about it and the people who write about it tend to give my dry heaves. um. MARK!! bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http

Re: Wanted to buy

2013-07-27 Thread Bill
On 26/07/2013 7:11 PM, John Coyle wrote: A fellow photographer in Brisbane is asking if anyone has any Pentax 67 or Mamiya RZ67 lenses for sale. If anyone has, I'm happy to put you in touch. John Coyle Brisbane, Australia PM sent bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: K5-IIs videos - problems when uploading to Youtube

2013-07-30 Thread Bill
, or something. Your cure, unfortunately, is to convert the videos yourself prior to uploading. bill -- 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 tail of woe...

2013-07-30 Thread Bill
On 30/07/2013 10:10 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: It seems that all of my equipment is broken. I am starting to suffer from the same problem. I thought it was just part of the aging process. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Peso Looking up-looking down

2013-07-30 Thread Bill
. Either way, it will cost the company ROI. Power windows as an option on a vehicle does not have the same effect. bill -- 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: Enablement - Sima 100mm f2.0 Macro! And T-Mount Question

2013-08-01 Thread Bill
this evening. I had a Sima years ago when I was still shooting Nikon. I absolutely adored the thing for nudes. It was wonderful, even the most pornographic image was rendered as fine art with the Sima. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: OT: Perusing Model Mayhem

2013-08-02 Thread Bill
, and do what you say you are going to do, and a little more. Remember that even if its TFP, the model has a stake in the shoot. For me, it's all about the model. If my photography gets in the way of the shoot, I'm not doing my job. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http

Re: OT: Perusing Model Mayhem

2013-08-02 Thread Bill
ahead of my own. Any files I hand over to the model have shared copyright written into the EXIF data, so the model has equal ownership of the images. YMMV, your culture isn't as trusting as mine, and tends to be more litigious and confrontational in this regard. bill -- PDML Pentax

Re: OT: Perusing Model Mayhem

2013-08-03 Thread Bill
is geared toward accentuating beauty. Unfortunately, some of my best work reflects some ugly aspects of humanity. Toss a girl into an old bathtub, splash some stage blood around the set and on her, and take pictures. You'll fit right in. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http

Re: Way OT - to the neighbors

2013-08-05 Thread Bill
/canada-homeland-map/ I'm sure Stephen Harper's is happy that all his hard work as a toadie for Obama is paying off. bill -- 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: Looking for a light tent

2013-08-06 Thread Bill
tent with a white nylon shell and separate fly (camo) that I found at a garage sale for 10 bucks. bill -- 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: Hot Water

2013-08-06 Thread Bill
back to Home Depot to get everything I needed to complete the job. Fortunately they're open 'til 9:00pm. Everything sealed up right tight so I could light off the pilot light by about 1:30am this morning. And thank you for shopping at Home Depot. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: Looking for a light tent

2013-08-06 Thread Bill
On 06/08/2013 5:04 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:44:20PM -0600, Bill wrote: The last light tent I bought was a very inexpensive camping tent with a white nylon shell and separate fly (camo) that I found at a garage sale for 10 bucks. Sounds excellent. Can you send me

Re: A thought-provoking conversation on the death of snapshots

2013-08-10 Thread Bill
into a screen image, and require special equipment for viewing. Very few people actually do any sort of back-ups at all on their computers, the vast majority of people are totally dependent on the one copy of the file they have tucked away in My Documents/My Pictures lasting forever. bill -- PDML

Re: A thought-provoking conversation on the death of snapshots

2013-08-10 Thread Bill
grab some part of you and hold on to it. bill -- 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: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Bill
. bill -- 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: Bizarre: Twenty Four Pentax 67 45mm f4 (NEW) on Amazon?

2013-08-22 Thread Bill
, bellows, tons of accessories, including many very nice B+W filters in 82mm size for the 45 and 75mm lenses, 67mm filters, fiders, and miscellaneous stuff.. My pusher said he wouldn't be able to sell it. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: Question for K5/K7 owners

2013-08-25 Thread Bill
rather a lot of mechanical noises going on inside them during long exposures. bill -- 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: Ansel Adams' 1940s Los Angeles set on Flickr

2013-08-28 Thread Bill
impossible to look at pictures. Isn't looking at pictures what flickr is supposed to be about? bill -- 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: Ansel Adams' 1940s Los Angeles set on Flickr

2013-08-28 Thread Bill
On 28/08/2013 7:40 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/1000photosofnewyorkcity/sets/72057594083888984 Pity flickr is such a pain in the butt. They make it nearly impossible to look at pictures. Isn't

Re: OT: Ansel Adams' 1940s Los Angeles set on Flickr

2013-08-28 Thread Bill
On 28/08/2013 7:40 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/1000photosofnewyorkcity/sets/72057594083888984 Pity flickr is such a pain in the butt. They make it nearly impossible to look at pictures. Isn't

Re: OT: Ansel Adams' 1940s Los Angeles set on Flickr

2013-08-28 Thread Bill
On 28/08/2013 7:53 AM, Darren Addy wrote: This is a derail, but I'm guessing that Bill is using an ancient version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, something that doesn't handle CSS code well. Chrome actually. Look it's no big deal. Every time I try to look at something posted to flickr, it's

Re: Oh, Pentax

2013-08-29 Thread Bill
paid trip to Japan, which extended that repair out by almost a month. Sometimes these things just take time. bill -- 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: Updated roadmap!

2013-08-29 Thread Bill
for the Fuji and not putting my money into Pentax for the foreseeable future. bill -- 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: Updated roadmap!

2013-08-29 Thread Bill
in the country. My reply: Not a bad thing, I'm going to try it next time ;) Dario Don't bother, the only thing that sucks worse than Starbucks is a whore that you could also buy for the aforementioned $5. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: weddings I hate to shoot weddings

2013-08-29 Thread Bill
are better than your posed shots, which doesn't surprise me much, given your normal shooting style. One of the things I learned early on about wedding photography is it doesn't matter if I like the pictures, it matters if they like the pictures. I'm sure they will like the pictures just fine. bill

Re: Updated roadmap!

2013-08-29 Thread Bill
On 29/08/2013 8:30 AM, Tom C wrote: From: Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com Still no fast standard lens (which is why I bought the little Fuji camera), no primes other than the macro between 77 and 200mm. Meanwhile, 4 more zooms in focal ranges they already have (really, how many ~16 - ~ 70mm

Re: Friday: having to part with two of my lenses and some more freebies

2013-08-30 Thread Bill
On 30/08/2013 1:05 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Well, I can always send you mine so that you can construct one good one out of two broken ones... Though it won't be for free... With any luck, the 77 that Shel ripped be off for is suffering the same problem. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-15 Thread Bill
of hours. It has a 270ยบ angle of view, so it can actually see behind itself. IIRC, I could have bought the thing for ~$10k at that time (early 1980s) bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: OT - PK to Fuji X adaptor?

2013-09-15 Thread Bill
onto an adapter and effectively turning them into a third party lens that doesn't work very well. bill -- 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 - PK to Fuji X adaptor?

2013-09-15 Thread Bill
On 15/09/2013 1:03 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 15/9/13, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: I picked up an adapter off of ebay. I don't know much about it other than it cost 30 bucks, which was pretty cheap considering that it's quite well made. My issue with these adapters

Re: Need Repair Advice for my F 100/2.8 Macro

2013-09-15 Thread Bill
On 15/09/2013 8:47 PM, Kevin Thornsberry wrote: Another name I received was Eric Hendrickson. Any experience with him? No personal experience, but I have heard his name well spoken about by too many people for it to be a conspiracy. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http

Re: Pentax sightings

2013-09-16 Thread Bill
On 16/09/2013 10:40 AM, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: They'd press the shutter and by the time it tookt he picture, it was long gone. EVF issue ? Older PS cameras have really bad AF speed. bill Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message

Peso: Is the crop better?

2013-09-17 Thread Bill
pleasure, I give you: http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/pictures/wetrock.html Comments appreciated, rip it apart. bill -- 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: PUG Themes for 2014

2013-09-17 Thread Bill
work. It will be fun to see Synchronicity return. Agreed What do you have in mind for Random Exhibition Title Generator? We each fire it up and shoot what it suggests? That would make for an interesting gallery. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: PUG Themes for 2014

2013-09-17 Thread Bill
On 17/09/2013 8:00 PM, John wrote: I think any and all of them would be good, although Decrepit strikes a little close to home. We haven't done a self portrait PUG for a very long time... bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Camera Brand Pros Cons

2013-09-18 Thread Bill
On 18/09/2013 2:30 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: Then how come I never seem to find nekked nubile blond women? You haven't figured out how to use a search engine? bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: You'd think I would have learned by now

2013-09-20 Thread Bill
. If it's SN# 381, I want it back. bill -- 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: Is the crop better?

2013-09-20 Thread Bill
with each other allowed me to make a 30 second exposure. Fun stuff... bill -- Bruce Sent from my iPad On Sep 17, 2013, at 9:36 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: Or does it suck either way. I can't decide if I prefer the full frame or the crop, which probably means the image has

Re: You didn't hear it from me...

2013-09-20 Thread Bill
lens comes first, and possibly second. A new Pentax might have to wait a year. And all because Pentax has never gotten around to making a fast standard lens for the APS-C format. This is a really inexplicable oversight. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

High diving giraffes

2013-09-22 Thread Bill
this is awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=v9zCEMEDWX0#t=128 bill -- 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: Behold the K-3!

2013-09-26 Thread Bill
-purposed to put it nicely. Every DSLR Pentax has made has been sold with a kit lens. Why would this be any different? bill -- 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: Posting photos of street art can get you arrested

2013-04-09 Thread Bill
On 09/04/2013 7:43 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: That's why voucher funded charter schools are needed in those other areas. They can provide the competition for the public schools. Community involvement is another thing, but having an alternative to the public schools is a start. And when all

Re: Posting photos of street art can get you arrested

2013-04-09 Thread Bill
Johnny will repeat the process You don't need competition, you need accountability. bill -- 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: Posting photos of street art can get you arrested

2013-04-10 Thread Bill
up to the point they couldn't function in either the Indian society or the White society, and then kicked them to the curb to fend for themselves, and then got sanctimonious because many (most) ended up as a waste of humanity. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http

Re: Posting photos of street art can get you arrested

2013-04-10 Thread Bill
. bill -- 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: An Interview with Pentax Executive Vice President Jim Malcolm (4/4)

2013-04-10 Thread Bill
to like (for a lot more moola than the Sigma). The 12-24 is a nice lens, although it is rather a horse. There is also a significant difference between it's field of view at the widest and a 10mm. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: An Interview with Pentax Executive Vice President Jim Malcolm (4/4)

2013-04-10 Thread Bill
. They might not be doing anything, but my pusher is selling Fuji X-Pro1s at a pretty decent price until the end of May. I know what I'm doing, and this year, I'll be doing it without Pentax. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Posting photos of street art can get you arrested

2013-04-11 Thread Bill
, by Canadian standards, an especially corrupt government at the moment. If you think that corruption is the only problem with education, I would respecfully disagree. Corruption is the problem that feeds the other ones. Fix that one, the others will fix themselves. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: OT Smart phone security ?????

2013-04-11 Thread Bill
, and she did not know, so, do you, should you. Depends on what she downloads. Unfortunately, even apps from the Playstore can have malware built in. Google isn't vetting apps very well, so always read the comments before downloading something. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: Posting photos of street art can get you arrested

2013-04-12 Thread Bill
the fault of the natives. bill -- 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.

OT: Oh Yeah. I just found the camera of my dreams.

2013-04-12 Thread Bill
are sweet. Even wide open, the 35/1.4 is exceptionally sharp, and the bokeh is quite nice in my very cursory look. Between 5.6 and 8, it is scary sharp. I didn't buy it today but I did tell him that cleaning my nose prints off the screen wasn't necessary. I'll be back for it. bill -- PDML Pentax

Re: Multiple Brands or Switching - a Trend?

2013-04-13 Thread Bill
one slightly. Often though, these people only take pictures of charts. bill -- 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: Multiple Brands or Switching - a Trend?

2013-04-13 Thread Bill
On 13/04/2013 5:25 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 13/4/13, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: None of these are really quantifiable things. It's like porn, you can't identify it, but you know it when you see it. I hear you brother. Why have we never gotten together for a beer? bill -- PDML

Re: OT: Oh Yeah. I just found the camera of my dreams.

2013-04-14 Thread Bill
and the X-Pro1 package (body and 35mm lens) is $100.00. I can have the hybrid finder for not much more money at the moment. I like the look of the X-Pro1 more as well, which I realize is a shallow reason, but so it goes. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: OT: Oh Yeah. I just found the camera of my dreams.

2013-04-14 Thread Bill
or 35LTD. With the Fuji, I expect I will add the 60 macro and the 15mm when it becomes available, and that will take care of the majority of my needs. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: Subject: Re: Multiple Brands or Switching - a Trend?

2013-04-14 Thread Bill
not going to be something the photographer wants to use. bill -- 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: Multiple Brands or Switching - a Trend?

2013-04-14 Thread Bill
aren't as wrapped up in what the sensor size is as us old school guys. bill -- 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.

Some boring Pictures from the X-Pro1

2013-04-14 Thread Bill
://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/fuji/fuji.html Now if winter would only stop hanging on like a turd on a dog's bum, life would be good. bill -- 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: Multiple Brands or Switching - a Trend?

2013-04-14 Thread Bill
On 14/04/2013 2:32 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 13/4/13, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: Why have we never gotten together for a beer? Would you bring your wife? I 'd have to think about that. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-15 Thread Bill
, there isn't a snowballs chance in hell I would be trying to do it with Pentax at this point. The cameras just don't work well enough to be considered pro grade, which is too bad, because I still like Pentax glass the best (I am however, quite prepared to show Fuji glass some love). bill -- PDML

Re: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-15 Thread Bill
of grief my Pentax bodies gave me in this regard. bill -- 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: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-15 Thread Bill
/2.8 zoom on a Nikon D7K with no problems, but under the same light my 2 stop faster 55/1.4 wouldn't give accurate AF (nor would it give consistently inaccurate AF which could be dialed in with AF bias). bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-15 Thread Bill
, but I prefer shooting a bit wider than that to try to knock the backgrounds out of focus a little bit. bill -- 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: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-15 Thread Bill
being not available to a nearly useless curiosity (which is where Pentax is stuck) to the systems in the modern high end Nikons. What the top photographers are doing today in sports would not have been possible except for blind luck 30 years ago. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: Unusual wedding photo quandary

2013-04-15 Thread Bill
at her pictures already knows she is missing a limb, and probably won't be all that bothered anyway. bill -- 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: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-15 Thread Bill
On 15/04/2013 11:44 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 4/15/2013 12:16 PM, Bill wrote: On 15/04/2013 9:53 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: People can complain about autofocusing all they want, but photographers made do without autofocusing cameras for years and still got good photographs. Even in fast action

Re: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-16 Thread Bill
a salvageable image out of the origial capture. Not really. A 16mp image from an APS-C camera will be just as cropable as a 16mp image from a 24x36mm camera. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: Are the shotcomings really that important?

2013-04-16 Thread Bill
too many frustrations with Pentax over the past few years trying to shoot professionally with their equipment to trust the stuff, especially considering how easy companies like Nikon make it for their photographers. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: Boston PDML'ers please check in

2013-04-16 Thread Bill
strong, and stay sane. bill -- 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: LeeAnn W. -- 4/6/2013 (6 images)

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157633266412562/ She really is something else. Comments and critiques are eagerly solicited. Thanks! -- Walt Meh. Thick ankles. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
I'm trying to use it to catch fleeting moments. -- -bmw This is something that was broken in the K7, fixed with the first firmware update, and then broken again with the K5 (and not fixed with a firmware update), bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
and recomposing is not in the cards. bill -- 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: Boston PDML'ers please check in

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
. Every sentence we speak begins with an apology. I've said some pretty atrociousthings on this forum over the years, and everyone has been pretty forgiving about my idiocy. The ones who aren't, fcuk em, I probably don't like em anyway. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http

Re: GESO: LeeAnn W. -- 4/6/2013 (6 images)

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
up. bill -- 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: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
with the center point and recompose, I have lost the shot - Larry. Honestly Larry, Bill, Bruce, David Paul, I did not have fast paced action in mind when I referred to the center focus point and recomposing technique. Here is what I did for fast paced action:- On a sailing ship recently

Re: GESO: LeeAnn W. -- 4/6/2013 (6 images)

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
if the model flakes on them once, they cease to exist. I mean really, how many times can your Grandmother die? bill -- 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: Boston PDML'ers please check in

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
On 17/04/2013 10:50 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 17/4/13, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: Hell, ask a Canadian. Every sentence we speak begins with an apology. I've said some pretty atrociousthings on this forum over the years, and everyone has been pretty forgiving about my idiocy. The ones

Re: OT: Ansel Adams 1983 BBC interview (1 year before his death)

2013-04-17 Thread Bill
a nerve wearing that colour. I'm pretty sure Ansel saw everything in shades of grey. bill -- 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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