I've been trying to remember when I came on the list - my best guess is 1997 sometime - shortly after my son was born. My interest in photography was peaked then and I got going with my Super Program and then picked up a ZX-10 and went on from there.
Does anyone remember Mark Dalal? I remember he organized the first Norcal PDML at Muir Woods - Met John Francis there, among several others. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, February 16, 2009, 10:39:30 AM, you wrote: IR> Some recollections about PDML, PUG, etc. IR> I joined the list some time in 1997, when I purchased my IR> first Pentax - ZX-5n. (Actually, since even before I purchased it, - IR> as the list helped with some information on that camera and lenses.) IR> I found it through the links on Pentax website. PDML (which probably IR> was not called that way yet) was hosted by Pentax then. IR> When Pentax decided that it does not want to deal with all these IR> whiners, Doub Brewer picked up hosting of PDML. IR> As for >> Does anyone remember the name of the Scotsman who ran the first >> incarnation of the PUG, before Igor struck the deal with Komkon? IR> - I am not sure who you are talking about... IR> :-) >> Actuall, I think it might be this guy, Steven Graham... >> http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/1837/gallery.html >> >> jOstein IR> Indeed, Steve Graham was the 2nd PUG maintainer, after Doug Brewer: IR> http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/1837/ IR> Originally some galleries of PUG were hosted on Doug's personal web-space IR> (or does my memory decieve me about this?). IR> Unfortunately, I didn't think about creating a copy of those IR> galleries, - and they are not available anywhere for long time. IR> (BTW, - Doug, if you are reading this, - if you have a copy somewhere, - IR> let's post them to PUG.Komkon.org , under "previous galleries") IR> Due to the space limitation, a few galleries in late 1997 were posted on IR> geocities.com : IR> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1318/ IR> Having seen that, I contacted Doug and Steve, and offered hosting on IR> Komkon server. March 1998 gallery was the first one hosted on Komkon. IR> With the February of 1999 gallery, a bird [grin] named Mark Cassino IR> became the new PUG maintainer, followed by Bill Wrobb in July of 2000. IR> The longest PUG maintainer was Adelheid von Kirschten IR> http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/account/myprofile/529059 IR> who started with the January 2002 gallery, and prepared all galleries IR> through June 2007. Scott picked up the baton with the July 2007 gallery. IR> If you carefully look at the old galleris, you will notice that several IR> other people have been acknowledged for the help in enabling PUGs. IR> I am afraid to forget somebody, but I will try to list them here: IR> Rob Studdert, Jeff Renner, Bong Manayon, Maney Gomez, Fred Wasti, IR> Robert Batten, Alin Flaider, Tom Van Veen, Sid Barras, IR> Delano Mireles, Flavio Minelli, Gary L. Murphy, Michael Bromm, IR> Yves Caudano, Jan van Wijk. IR> Amongst them, one name is repeated over the longest period of time: IR> Jostein Oksne. (August 2000- June 2007). IR> He was the author and maintainer of the "AutoPUG" web-site based IR> submission form that he hosted on his website. IR> Over these years, I enjoyed my interaction with all PUG maintainers. IR> Some other notable contributors on PDML who haven't been mentioned yet IR> in this thread. IR> Fred Wasti, whose name is listed above, has also contributed with his IR> very useful PLG page: http://plg.komkon.org/ IR> PLG, despite alternative suggestions like "Pentax Loosers' Gallery", IR> "Pentax Lickers Gallery" or "Canon Users Gallery" still stands for IR> Pentax Lens Gallery :-) IR> See this thread: IR> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg269956.html IR> Stan Halpin - assembled together and organized information about IR> many Pentax lenses http://stans-photography.info/ - based on PDMLers' IR> opinions. IR> Jim Colwell who created SPLOSdb - the tool that I used a lot while IR> choosing my lenses and looking for them on eBay and elsewhere. IR> Boz has been mentioned already. IR> Well, I still have the F 50/1.7 that I purchased from him. IR> :-) IR> I am sure I am forgetting somebody... IR> Cheers, IR> Igor IR> -- IR> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List IR> [email protected] IR> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net IR> 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.
