On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:15:35PM -0600, Christine Aguila wrote: # Hi Larry: Welcome to the list! I'm from the Land of Corrupt Govs, who
Isn't that a prerequisite for the job? # love to watch westerns, but I'm also from the Land of New Presidents as What part of the state? I've got a couple of net.friends in C-U. # well. Frankly, I'll drink anything, and, like you, we're into book porn at # our house as well. Catch a quickie of a corner of our living room, but all # corners in all rooms look pretty much like this. That's my husband looking # for a quickie ;-). Nice shot. I could see books and bookshelves as a fun theme for photos. # # http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8549841 I showed that to Zab, my girlfriend, and she made very appreciative noises. # Cheers, Christine # # # # ----- Original Message ----- # From: "Larry Colen" <[email protected]> # To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> # Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:56 AM # Subject: New guy, Introduction # # # >Howdy folks, # > # >I joined the list this afternoon, after meeting John Francis at a # >photo-meetup lunch I instigated. Some of you may know me as "ellarsee" # >on the dpreview pentax forum. Ellarsee is just a funny way of spelling # >LRC, my initials (and part of my destiny to be an Electrical Engineer, # >but I digress, often). # > # >My involvement with photography seems to be a very common profile. In # >1973, when I was 12, Dad got a Spotmatic II and taught me some of the # >basics. I'd frequently play with the camera, setting up shots, # >exposure etc. but rarely actually taking any shots. Someplace, there's # >a print of my first photograph, but I haven't seen it in a while. The # >following summer, I took photography in summer school and learned the # >basics of darkroom work. My first camera was an Argus C3, which I # >still have. That September I got a used Minolta SRT-101. Sometime # >around then, Dad and I set up a darkroom which I spent a lot of time # >in over the next several years, until my folks got divorced and Mom # >rented out the downstairs apartment. # > # >I had intermittent darkroom access in college, but after I lost access # >to a darkroom, photography became something I did, but not # >seriously. Lest this post rival a Norse saga in length, I'll skip # >forward to November 2007 when I bought my K100D super. I almost got a # >Nikon D40 but when I found out about the Pentax, came to the # >conclusion that even if Pentax didn't have any offerings at the top # >end, what they did offer gave a lot more for the money than Nikon. I'm # >afraid that I've never shot a Canon SLR that "felt good in my # >hands". The plan was that the K100 and kitlens should be enough to # >last me a couple years until the performance that I wanted was # >"affordable". My favorite lens on 35 had been the Vivitar 28-105 and # >the kit lens was not too far from the equivalent range. # > # >One of my key reasons for getting a DSLR rather than replacing my # >stolen FZ50 was low light performance. The following weekend, I # >determined that the kit lens just simply was not fast enough. Cutting # >to the chase, the next week I spent more than I had on my camera and # >kit lens on an FA 31 limited. # > # >The past year has been a pretty typical one of spending stupid amounts # >of money on toys. A few very nice lenses, and quite a few inexpensive # >used ones. My latest gear acquisition is a katzeye focusing screen # >which to someone who grew up with manual focus, is like growning an # >arm back. When I'm not exhibiting fiscal irresponsibility, I'm working # >on the theory that the best way to learn from your mistakes is to make # >sure that you make a lot of them. So, I've been shooting a lot of # >photos, basically whenever I can find a few minutes to play with my # >camera, and 40,000 frames later probably have almost a dozen that I # >don't need to ashamed of. # > # >I've been posting pictures on my flickr account: # >http://flickr.com/ellarsee # > # >Since I do a lot of blues dancing ( http://fridaynightblues.com ) and # >nobody else has much luck shooting dancers in the ridiculously low # >light environment, I've been working on that, experimenting with both # >IR flash with my K100 and an FZ20 I had converted to IR. # > # >I tend to keep my 18-250 on the camera as my "Ready for anything # >lens", but when I can I prefer to shoot with a prime. I'm currently # >toying with getting a DA40 to see how close to a "carry in a coat # >pocket" sized camera I can get. I've also toyed with the idea of the # >43 or the 21, but while the 40 is just over my threshold of financial # >pain, the other two are quite a bit over. # > # >I was wondering if anyone in the San Jose/Santa Cruz/Bay Area had any # >of those lenses and would be interested in getting together so I could # >try them out before spending money on one. # > # >Another Pentax related question is that I have a friend who lives in # >Sacramento who is very interested in the K2000, but who would much # >rather try one out before buying it. Does anyone know of any stores # >in her area where she could check one out? # > # > Larry # > # > # >-- # > It's not the steps in the dance, it's the dance in the steps. # >Larry Colen [email protected] # >http://www.red4est.com/lrc # > # > # >-- # >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List # >[email protected] # >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net # >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and # >follow the directions. # > # # # # -- # PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List # [email protected] # http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net # to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and # follow the directions. -- It's not the steps in the dance, it's the dance in the steps. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
