Re: Film scanner question

On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:21 PM, mike wilson wrote: Anyone used one of these? Any opinions? http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=2101 A friend of mine has one of these and is very pleased with it. At the time he purchased it he was able to evaluate both Nikon and Canon

Re: 36mm x 36mm sensor?

On Aug 24, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Pat White wrote: What, doesn't everybody want 8x12 or 13.5x20 enlargements? I used to pay extra for them (got some on the wall, looking good), but now I just shoot with extra room for cropping. Much simpler for frames and mats. I used to ask for full-frame p

Re: 36mm x 36mm sensor?

On Aug 25, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Powell Hargrave wrote: Enablement time! A bigger house to hang photos. :) Oh dear... I just tried that. Maybe I should board up some windows. I could free up some wall space by taking down the AOHC poster in my office, but that wouldn't be right :) - Dave

Re: Large Print Quality From 6mp Cameras (was: )

On Aug 25, 2005, at 6:33 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: I agree with you. It is just that not all motifs are as static as landscape... Ask Jostein when he was trying to shoot some sunsets here... Even if the scene itself is static, the light is certainly isn't... Tell me landscapes are static

Re: Film scanner question

On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:41 PM, mike wilson wrote: That's the one I'm aiming for but my wallet keeps crying, wailing and gnashing its cards. You're living too close to Scotland :) When I bought mine I just thought about how much they used to cost. I'd been saving for a while and it did sti

Re: Photoshop CS2 --was Film scanner question

On Aug 26, 2005, at 11:28 PM, Graywolf wrote: Funny thing is it runs nicely on my now ancient 900mhz/512mb AMD Homebrew computer. I keep seeing people say it is slow on their modern super computers. Once it's running it's generally fine for me. The long startup time is a little annoying.

PAW - "Spider"

Hi all, I finally got around to doing some more scanning. This photo was actually taken in portrait orientation but I think it looks better this way. http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?print_id=99&t=PAW This is the second attempt of two. The first one was focussed on the

Re: PAW - "Spider"

On Aug 28, 2005, at 11:33 AM, frank theriault wrote: Great composition, great lighting (the leave and spider are backlit, right?). I didn't think it was backlit when I scanned it yesterday, but looking closer I see the spider isn't casting a shadow so it must be. To answer Jack's question

Re: I should know this ...

On Aug 28, 2005, at 3:44 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: How many gallons? ;-) UK or US? Oh wait... the UK is supposed to be metric now. - Dave

PAW - "Shell"

Hi all, This one hasn't come up quite as well as I'd hoped, but here it is anyway. I liked the texture in the sand but the shell has blown out. http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?print_id=100&t=PAW BTW I want to formally retract all those times I've said that Photoshop CS

Re: I should know this ...

On Aug 28, 2005, at 9:10 PM, Cotty wrote: You'd think so. Prices for fuel are in litres. Temps are in centigrade. But all our cars drive in miles :-/ Hmm, I've heard of fuel economy commonly expressed as kilometres per litre, litres per 100km and miles per gallon. But miles per litre is

Re: Peso: Two from the football game

On Aug 29, 2005, at 3:16 AM, William Robb wrote: http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/football/_IGP9054.html http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/football/_IGP9066.html I like the second one better. Don't you guys use real grass anymore? Shot with the F*300/4.5. Seems a decent eno

Re: PAW - "Shell"

On Aug 29, 2005, at 6:44 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I don't really understand using the "Save for Web" application. Seems to me to add a lot of needless complication. I found that it gives me much smaller jpg files for a given quality, while also allowing me to pick the optimal size/qualit

OS X DOF-calculator widget

Just in case anyone is interested... http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/calculate_convert/ dofcdepthoffieldcalculator.html FWIW it's of no use to me as I don't take my computer out shooting :) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/

Re: building a web site

On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:34 AM, John Forbes wrote: I suspect you're not alone in being anti-Flash! He's certainly not... I've only ever seen two good uses of Flash. 1) The Kodak site that told the story of the huge panoramas in Grand Central Station (I think) 2) A local pizza chain has a great

Re: PESO - Something aa little bit different...

On 8/29/05, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... for me anyway. Yes, it's a damn bird. Mallards aren't birds, they're vermin. Not a bad pic though... Cheers, - Dave (lives next to a river) http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/

Re: Gimp, Anyone?

On Aug 31, 2005, at 2:50 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/318243.html I found these the other day: An interesting article about how PS CS2 does its memory management: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/320005.html For computers with >1Gb RAM: http://www.adob

Re: Gimp, Anyone?

On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Herb Chong wrote: most of the reason the original Windows versions of Photoshop were relatively crippled relative to other Windows applications is because it contained a lot of code to work around MacOS problems that didn't exist on Windows. remember allocating

Re: Pentax-M f/13.5 2000mm

On Sep 1, 2005, at 5:46 AM, Bertil Holmberg wrote: I did not know that such a monstrocity even existed but now I'm glad to have seen it! I have seen one of these. They are pretty big... I like the 20 metre minimum focus distance :) Cheers, - Dave

Re: Gimp, Anyone?

On Sep 1, 2005, at 3:34 AM, Gonz wrote: LOL. That reminds me of the days I used to load a primitive boot sequence into a PDP (DEC) by the switches in the front, so it could load the next phase of the boot loader through the paper tape reader. I knew the BINARY values of most of the instruc

Re: Gimp, Anyone?

On Sep 1, 2005, at 7:06 AM, William Robb wrote: We couldn't change this to a political discussion could we? It would be much less boring, and far more inclusive. We have an election coming up. National just passed Labour in the polls for the first time in 18 months, but I never trust p

Re: Gimp, Anyone?

On Sep 1, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: There is some, particularly in the components that are optimized to to take advantage of the native hardware signal processing capabilities integrated into the PowerPC G4/G5 and Pentium series cpus. Hand-coded instructions in these critica

Re: FedEx Hoovers!

On Sep 2, 2005, at 10:10 PM, Bob Shell wrote: Fedex can be really bad at times. The worst they ever did to me was to leave a box with $ 15,000 worth of Rollei 6008 gear on my front porch when I was on vacation. I once had a courier leave a NZ$1600 package in our letterbox. He didn't even

Re: The Gaffer Tape Chronicles (was Re: The DS - It's Here!)

On Sep 4, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Rodders would remove extraneous chrome trim, nose and deck their cars, maybe French the headlights. Or do this. http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/Car-1.jpg http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/Car-2.jpg I found that car parked across the road

Re: Opticians

On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:00 PM, mike wilson wrote: I went into my (major high street chain) optician this morning. The optician tells me I have no choice. Pentax lenses or nothing. Lucky sod... can you get them with SMC? I have no idea what glass my specs are made of, but the coating is Ho

PAW - "Red"

Hi all, One from my most recent roll of 35mm :) This is the back wall of an old phone booth, back when they used to be made of wood and painted red. The pattern of light caught my eye as I was walking past so I held the door open with my foot and took a snap. http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/

Re: PAW - "Red"

On Sep 6, 2005, at 1:24 AM, frank theriault wrote: Interesting photo, Dave. I like the patterns and geometries. I fear that it suffers being so small for the computer. Here ya go... this should be a little better (but not much). http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/red/red-700px.html There'

Re: PAW - "Red"

On Sep 6, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Frank wrote: A PUG theme waiting to happen. Interesting photo, Dave. I like the patterns and geometries. I fear that it suffers being so small for the computer. There's probably lots of texture and detail in there that we're missing. I bet

Re: PAW - "Red"

On Sep 6, 2005, at 8:48 PM, David Mann wrote: Yes, there is. Lots of it :) Here is a section I cropped at 25% magnification: Oops, I meant 50% magnification. - Dave

Re: up2date error

On Sep 7, 2005, at 2:17 AM, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: Are there ANY good errors at all? :-) Bank error in your favour. Collect $10. - Dave

Note to self

When using extension tubes with an external meter, don't forget the exposure compensation. Especially if you remembered it for the first photo in the sequence. - Dave "2 stops under"

PAW - "Tennis"

Nothing at all to do with the US open... http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?p=102&t=1 This is from the same roll as last week's red phone box interior. I went for a late-afternoon walk to try and finish off the film and this is one of the things I found. The attempt to fini

Re: PAW - "Tennis"

On Sep 13, 2005, at 3:03 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: I like this a lot. However I would have placed the ball slightly lower and to the left in the frame, but then it would probably have messed up the relationship with the lines on the court. (Ok, I guess I would have gone out on the court and

Re: PAW - "Tennis"

On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:43 AM, frank theriault wrote: I'm not usually a stickler for such things, but the ball seems a bit blown out to me. It was blown out even on the slide. I hate Velvia :) Thanks for commenting. - Dave PS - I just spent my morning redoing my PAW page design. Yes, fi

Re: Note to self

On Sep 13, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Tom Reese wrote: note to self 2: don't forget to reset the exposure compensation after use You're really doing it the hard way. The reason why I didn't set exposure compensation was because I knew I'd forget to change it back :( I'd certainly rather screw up

Re: LED lighting

On Sep 13, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Herb Chong wrote: moreover, a good 5mm white LED is able to deliver over 2Cd. narrow angle ones in IC packages are capable of 12 Cd. no millis involved. arrays designed specifically for lighting purposes can be higher, and you can buy them preassembled. look for

Re: Colour profiles-PS-and home prining

On Sep 13, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: The A-RGB profile does represent a substantially larger gamut. I did the following plots a while ago for a friend of mine. These were done using the "high quality" profiles available on Epson's website. Adobe RGB plotted against the E

Re: Note to self

On Sep 13, 2005, at 10:45 PM, Tom Reese wrote: My "doing it the hard way" comment was in reference to your calculating the exposure compensation for the tubes instead of using in camera metering. I was using my 6x7 at the time, which has no built-in meter. I'd bite the arm off of anyone wh

Re: What Ever Happened to Chrome? was: Being There

On Sep 14, 2005, at 12:42 AM, Adam Maas wrote: I'd have to say the death of the slideshow killed chromes for most folks. People like prints. Now people plug their digicams into the TV. We've gone full circle. - Dave

Re: Ashes (was: Rob Studdert)

On Sep 14, 2005, at 12:51 AM, frank theriault wrote: One day cricket? Each team bats for 50 overs, or until the opposing team gets them all out. The match lasts for one day instead of the usual five, and the teams wear colourful uniforms. I think the most similar American pastime would

Re: What Ever Happened to Chrome? was: Being There

On Sep 14, 2005, at 2:03 AM, Adam Maas wrote: Any modern processor can scan/print 35mm chromes as easily as reprinting negs, and if they can print 120 neg, they'll be able to scan/print 120 chromes as well. I spoke to the guy who runs an Agfa D-Lab and they found that the software in the

Re: Ashes (was: Rob Studdert)

On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:29 AM, frank theriault wrote: Watching fishing on TV is about as interesting as watching poker on the tube (how does poker end up on sports channels, anyway - cards is a sport?). Poker?!? And I thought tennis was impossibly boring to watch. Cheers, - Dave http://www.

Mac Photoshop CS2

Are any other Mac CS2 users having Photoshop crash when they switch to another user account with Fast User Switching? It doesn't crash every time - maybe it's just waiting until I haven't saved my file for a while. I had a quick look at Adobe's support site and forums but didn't see anyth

Re: OT: Historic documents in computer science

On Sep 16, 2005, at 7:15 AM, Bob W wrote: I have a font on my PC called Dijkstra, based on his handwriting. I use it when I want to feel intelligent. I have a font called "Dot Matrix" :) And another one called "Digiface" which is like letters on a 7-segment display. Let me know if you

Re: OT: 1, 2 or 3 more questions.4 is right out

On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you Mac folk use for FTP. If you like command-lines I've used nothing better than ncftp. The finder can theoretically connect to FTP sites (enter an ftp:// url into Safari). My own preference is to use scp whenever possible.

Re: Mac Photoshop CS2

On Sep 17, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Hasn't happened to me. I still have CS installed too. I do always save files before switching to another account, but I tend to switch accounts relatively rarely. What version of Mac OS X are you using? 10.4.2 I switch accounts often b

Re: Mac Photoshop CS2

On Sep 18, 2005, at 4:12 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I'll stress it a little bit and see if I can get CS2 to quit unexpectedly, but so far no problems. It doesn't do it all the time but it happens often enough to keep catching me out as I keep forgetting about it (most of the time I finis

Re: OT: Batch Image Rotation & Thumbnail Creation

Irfanview is pretty good with batch processing. On Sep 19, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Fred wrote: Hi there. Any opinions on a good freeware batch image rotator? Any opinions on a good freeware batch thumbnail creator? In both cases, I'm interested in Windows apps. Thanks muchly. Fred

Re: PAW - "Clouds at Lake Tekapo"

the file size relatively small for fast downloading. - Dave On Jul 17, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: The picture is interesting. I could spend some time looking at it. In fact I did. But I do a comment on your site design. Why don't you have just one title line? "Davi

Re: PAW - "Clouds at Lake Tekapo"

oops, I should have checked the address I was replying to. - Dave

Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)

On Sep 22, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Cotty wrote: Avast me hearties!! Sorry Cotty, you're a couple of days late. Talk like a pirate day was the 19th. http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html Cheers, - Dave

Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)

On Sep 22, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Bob W wrote: Similarly, there's to be no discussion of Monty Python if you didn't watch every episode when it was first broadcast in the 1960s No fair... I wasn't born until the 70s. I do have the 14-disc DVD set though. nothing about single malts unless you'v

Re: printing papers ...

On Sep 22, 2005, at 6:42 PM, John Celio wrote: The only paper I ever use these days is Epson Premium Lustre. It is by far the best paper I've ever used. I use it in both the Epson 9600 and 2200 printers at work. I've heard a lot of good things said about that paper. I'd try if it were

Re: PPI for Printing

On Sep 22, 2005, at 5:04 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: So, what ppi do you use for what size/type prints? If all I can get are small prints using the recommended ppi from the digi, well, that's an unhappy circumstance. But it seems that many of you are getting larger than 6x9 prints from the

Re: printing papers ...

On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I print with an Epson 2200 and am very satisfied. In several years and over 600 13 x 19 prints, I've never experienced a drip or a clogged head. I've had head clogs with my 2100 (=2200 but with different accessories in the box) if I'm no

Re: OT: beating the mail with PDML

On Sep 23, 2005, at 12:49 AM, Doug Franklin wrote: "If it don't fit, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway." If it isn't broken, you need a bigger hammer. - Dave

Re: Update on my profile snags

On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I like IPhoto slide shows. They're easy to make and with music, they can be a hoot. I've never used iPhoto but I do find the Finder's auto-slideshow to be very useful when I'm searching for a photo that has an obscure filename. - Dave

Re: OT: A favour to ask.

The first took a couple of seconds to start loading. The rest were virtually instant. FWIW I occasionally have weird problems with my site as well, but I think that problem is with my computer as it's pretty inconsistent. - Dave On Sep 23, 2005, at 2:27 AM, David Savage wrote: Before I

Re: OT Apple flavored Kool-Aid

On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: Thanks. Will do. I've been using Slackware Linux for a while now, so I think I have a handle on the *nix part. But if I run into problems, you'll build a killfile just for me. You're in for a surprise if you think Mac OS X is anything like

Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)

On Sep 23, 2005, at 1:27 AM, Cotty wrote: I knew an Aussie would chirp up ;-) Get the barbie on mate, we'll be round for a week or two! I dunno - Australia might be a bit hot for you English folk. Come down this way and I'll lend you my 6x7. - Dave (lives in what was intended to be the

Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)

On Sep 23, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Pål Jensen wrote: There is no revenue for supporting obsolete equipment made 30 years ago. They make 120 000 DSLR's a year. If the feature cost $10 a body then its 1 200 000 out of the window. BTW $10 of parts+labour in the factory becomes $40 or $50 by the time

Re: 3rd *istD body bites the dust

On Sep 23, 2005, at 5:26 AM, graywolf wrote: MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) usually expressed in hours or cycles is the design life of equipment. It is an average, some may fail immediately some may go 10 times that long, but it does give some idea of how long something is intended to kee

Re: GESO - ITV @ 50

That tie should be outlawed. - Dave On Sep 24, 2005, at 8:40 AM, Cotty wrote:

Re: printers

On Sep 24, 2005, at 3:50 AM, graywolf wrote: For photos the individual ink tanks are not that hot a deal. That is because you tend to use them all up at about the same time. Mine are used up at greatly different rates. I think that light magenta is the fastest to go, closely followed by li

Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)

On Sep 24, 2005, at 6:22 AM, William Robb wrote: Can you prove it's both possible, and a financially viable thing to do? If it is financially viable, there's nothing technically stopping us from licensing the K-mount and building our own DSLR to our own specifications. It might turn out

Re: Goofy Flashing Flash Arrow in DS

On Sep 24, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Cotty wrote: PS I have to say, I find flashing lights annoying as well. Shame the pentaprism can't be removed, you could access the annoyance immediately Anything can be removed... it's putting it back together that's difficult. - Dave

Re: GESO - ITV @ 50

On Sep 24, 2005, at 7:40 PM, Cotty wrote: You haven't seen the half of it. It's become a tradition over the past 16 years that people send him ties - there are literally hundreds in his dressing room. Little old ladies and that sort of thing I might try sending some new clothes to our we

Re: OT: Illustrator CS vs Painter IX

On Sep 25, 2005, at 3:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a Wacom Intous3 9x12 Tablet. You lucky devil. I have that same model and it's fantastic. I didn't think I'd use the buttons and touch strips but they're actually very useful once they've been set up with some of your preferre

Re: *ist-D raw files compressed: results

On Sep 25, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: There's no question in my mind: all original files get archived unless it's truly junk - OOF, blurry, [...] Frank, are you listening? ;) - Dave (sorry, couldn't resist)

Re: 540FGZ announcement

On Sep 25, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Gautam Sarup wrote: I've had plastics break several times (on cameras and other things.) You go and buy something worth several hundred dollars and it's working is compromised by a flimsy plastic part. For want of a nail the battle was lost. To be honest I'd rath

Re: anybody still shoot film?

On Sep 24, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Peter Jordan wrote: Call me a luddite if you will, but every time I see a bright, sharp set of Velvia trannys from my LX or 645 I am convinced that as far as image quality goes, film still rules. I know how you feel (except the Velvia thing). Nothing beats chro

Re: anybody still shoot film?

On Sep 25, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: I am choking at the possibility of scanning once. You are planning to scan twice? I'm on my third round of some stuff. My first film scanner was an Agfa Arcus 1200 which goes up to 1200ppi. I wanted something affordable that could a

Re: PESO: Moon over Mer de Glace

That is very nice. I really like the little splashes of red in several places - I'm a sucker for little details like that. The slide must be absolutely jaw-dropping. Measure your biggest wall and print it to fit. BTW have you see Galen Rowell's work? - Dave On Sep 25, 2005, at 12:38 AM,

Re: PESO - For Knarf

On Feb 26, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > http://flickr.com/photos/mawz/402230206/ I really like it. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: PESO - Boris, Week 7

On Feb 26, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Kenneth Waller wrote: > Boris, I'll be brutally frank here > > you really should put some liquid in that bottle, either > milk, juice > or water. I'll just be brutal. I have some Bulleit Bourbon you could use }:) - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PESO - Kyoto

On Feb 26, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Eric Featherstone wrote: > Taken on evening walk in a Kyoto backstreet somewhere between > Kiyomizu-dera and Yasaka-jinja: > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5644387 This one shouts "medium format". I'm really drawn in to inspect the finer details in the

Re: Forgive my ignorance, but what use is Lightroom?

On Feb 26, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Bob W wrote: > Having burbled all that, I forgot the point. Which is, does anyone > know of a downloadable thesaurus? I would like to import it into > Lightbox, and save myself the trouble of having to think up zillions > of synonyms whenever I want to add a new keywo

Re: PESO: Photo Shoot Yesterday

On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Walter Hamler wrote: > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/Cormorantweb.jpg Cormorants don't do much for me but it's certainly not a bad photo. Nice detail in the feathers. > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/FoggySunriseweb.jpg This o

Re: Forgive my ignorance, but what use is Lightroom?

On Feb 26, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Bob W wrote: > So a > search for pictures with the key word Starts With 'Cat' finds all my > cat photos, but also all my cattle photos, catastrophic photos, > catatonia photos and catalytic converter photos. Perhaps we could make "catalytic converters" a PUG theme.

Re: PESO -- Theater Noir

On Feb 26, 2007, at 8:50 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend > lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. Oh no, not the science humour! - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net

Re: OT: My Annoying Birthday

On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:14 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A bunch of smooshed-car photos, none taken with a Pentax (because > all my Pentax cameras use film and I haven't gotten to the lab yet > with the film I shot -- these were all done with my widdle P&S > digital), from t

Re: OT: My Annoying Birthday

On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:05 PM, David Savage wrote: > Dave you keep injuring yourself riding. I think The Sloth God is > trying to > tell you something ;-) Yeah, I'm obviously not riding enough and need more practice. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailm

Re: OT: My Annoying Birthday

On Feb 27, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Dave, > That bike riding is downright dangerous. > Weren't you recovering from an injury when we saw you in November? Yes, and that still hasn't fully healed. If I stretch my thumb a certain way it still hurts a little. This time I did a bett

Re: PESO:The Missing link

On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Markus Maurer wrote: > http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/missinglink.jpg How's the cyclist going to get home? - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: K-Mount Accidents?

On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Bong Manayon wrote: > Just curious, has anyone "accidentally" detached their lens from > the body? I once accidentally detached a 400mm f/4 lens from a Pentax 6x7. The shop's lens fell straight down into a box full of nice, soft camera bags while my heart leape

Re: beauty shot: Pentax K10D

On Mar 3, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Had a lot of product shots to do yesterday so while I was at it I > nabbed this one of the Pentax K10D and lenses ... > >http://homepage.mac.com/godders/Pentax-K10D-kit.jpg I got to handle/play with a K10D for a few minutes today. Maybe

Re: GESO:roadtrip

On Mar 6, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Alastair Robertson wrote: > You know if anyone PDML's get to NZ I would be happy to show them a > thing or two. Well if I'd known you'd be coming through my neck of the woods... :) The Mt Cook/Twizel/Tekapo area is a real favourite of mine. Boy do I need another ho

Re: Is Feisol 3371 an upgrade?

On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Bob W wrote: > buy a dog with telescopic wooden legs and you solve 2 problems at a > stroke. Get a wife who's about 1 foot shorter than yourself, and balance the lens on her head. Bonus: she can carry your gear, too. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: PESO: Incognito

On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Things are slow on the old list tonight. That's because you weren't invited to the new list. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5687917&size=lg Sorry but photos of people eating don't do much for me. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discus

Re: Do you suffer from TLS?

On Mar 10, 2007, at 1:16 AM, Bob Shell wrote: > http://www.dpreview.com/news/0703/07030805sigma200500mm.asp That thing probably weighs more than I do. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT - 600mm FA or Knee - what's a photog to do ?

On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:54 AM, graywolf wrote: > Or in other words, best wishes and my sympathy to all on the list who > are not feeling quite up to snuff. Sympathy chocolate is always good. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: How Big is the Sigma 200-500 2.8?

On Mar 11, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Bill, can you tell us please, how much does it weigh? Obviously not as much as I thought, unless the lens is just a cardboard model. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: David Burnett's website...

On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Bob W wrote: > ...is well worth looking at: > http://www.davidburnett.com/portfolio.html Warning: it resizes your browser window. Profanity may ensue. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Bors (PESO) - week 12

On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:58 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Just a bit of humor here... > > http://not.contaxg.com/document.php?id=17101&full=1 The guy without a camera has the right idea. Just enjoy the scenery :) - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listin

Re: OT: high speed hijinks

On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Cotty wrote: > The excerpt is from 'Top Gear' and was broadcast on the BBC here a > while > back. The Veyron is quite a machineuntil it all goes wrong: > > (story) > > > (pics) >

Re: A disastrous farewell to film.

On Mar 29, 2007, at 2:44 AM, William Robb wrote: > Water inside the camera will eventually cause rust, and a camera > that stops > working. > Same with the lens. That's why real pros use Canon. Plastic doesn't rust. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mai

Re: POLL - Computer Screen Size & Resolution

On Apr 4, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > 1) What size screen do you use 2x 19" > 2) What resolution do you prefer? 2x 1600x1200 > 3) What's the largest size image that you can see on your screen > without > undue scrolling? This would have to take into consideration real > e

Re: PESO - Mungo Lunette

On Apr 16, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I suppose this should be a PESMOS (Photo Every Six Months or So) but I'll try to contribute more frequently in future.. I know the feeling. One of these days I'll get my new PAW site online... http://members.ozemail.com.au/~sgap/photos/paw/m

Re: OT: Little bit of politics...

On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:25 AM, Bob W wrote: It's not immigrants, and it's not even historically oppressed countries necessarily. Over here in the UK people seem ready to roll over and give in without a murmur on matters such as ID cards and imprisonment without charge and without trial. "How will the

Colour theory page

Hi all, A number of times in the past I've mentioned a good webpage about colour theory (as it applies to colour management), which is part of the Barco website. Anyway I have finally managed to dig out an old bookmark, so here it is for your enjoyment. It's reasonably technical but I could fo

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