On Feb 27, 2007, at 5:57 PM, William Robb wrote:

> That poor DA70mm lens. There it was, sitting unloved and unused on  
> a camera
> store shelf.
> Lens purgatory.
> The damnation of the unbought.
> Terribly sad.
> A poor little box, hiding shyly behind a bunch of other boxes on a  
> shelf,
> nearly forgotten, wanting a home.

LOL ... Can't help youself, eh? ;-)
It's a wonderful little lens.

> I was at The Don's today to buy a replacement Extreme 3 SD card for  
> the one
> that has gone AWOL, and a newer reader that would read it.
> I found a Sandisk Extreme card reader which is very nice, and will  
> do both
> CF and SD cards.

Which one? the ImageMate 12-in-1 or some other model?

> It was so happy it flared.
> Anyway, I am wondering if it is a flare or some sort of weird  
> phosphorescent
> dream created by the picture tube?
> http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/temp/flare70.html
>
> There was on hell of a hot spot on the screen in the center of the  
> blasted
> out bit.
>
> K10D, DA 70mm LTD lens, f4.5, 1/125 second, iso 400

I would say so, one hell of a hot spot ... straight specular  
reflection of the sun. I think its response was delightfully  
restrained. ;-)

Godfrey

-- 
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Reply via email to