On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:29:26AM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: >> A couple of shots I took with my K20d and their 55mm: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3803774714/ >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sobol/3802958471/ >> >> I tried different lenses and I really liked 200mm, 300mm and 50-250mm. >> >> >> No free camera for me, instead my bike was stolen. >> I love San Jose! > > Bummer about the bike. Locked up and everything? Yep. I now own a two parts of a very nice cable lock, will sell cheap :)
> > I wish I knew that you were there, it would have been nice to meet. > I think I did notice someone names Sasha there, but but it's not like > it's a rare name so I didn't think to ask. When is the next NorthCal meeting? The guy with "Sasha" tag was me indeed :) >> >> --Sasha >> >> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:34 PM, John Francis<[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Unfortunately neither Larry nor I won the K-7 they gave away :-( >> > >> > But they did bring a whole load of nice tempting toys to play with: >> > >> > http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow1.jpg >> > >> > Apart from several working K-7s (and a cutaway model, and a model >> > with a transparent body shell) and a Star Wars K2000, they also >> > had pretty much all the DA* lenses, and a good selection of the >> > DA Limiteds. I got to try out the DA* 200, 300, 60-250 and 55, and >> > the DA 15 (which looks *tiny* when you put it alongside the 14). >> > >> > (The above shot, of course, is taken with the 10-17mm fisheye @17mm. >> > That's fairly obvious. Not quite so obvious, perhaps, is that it was >> > taken at ISO 3200 using one of the K-7s; I took along my own SD card. >> > It would be even better if I'd dialed in 2/3 of a stop more exposure). >> > >> > >> > Long-time PDML members might recall the name of Mark Dimalanta - he >> > was active on the list something like twelve years ago. He was the >> > primary presenter at the event. >> > >> > http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow2.jpg >> > >> > That's Mark on the left, explaining something to Larry. This was a >> > shot taken with the DA 15mm - a lens I could easily grow to love. >> > >> > >> > And here's a shot of the K-7 in see-through clothing: >> > >> > http://www.jfwaf.com/temp/RoadShow3.jpg >> > >> > That's taken with something at 55mm - probably the DA* 55 (which >> > didn't seem that slow to focus to me). Unfortunately I can't tell >> > exactly what lens it was - I haven't upgraded the version of Adobe >> > Lightroom that I'm using on this machine, so it doesn't understand >> > the Pentax-private data in the K-7 files (which includes lens ID). >> > >> > It's just as well I'm getting a new laptop computer; opening three >> > K-7 files at the same time on this machine, which only has 1GB RAM, >> > just about brought the system to its knees. I'll upgrade to the >> > new version of Lightroom when I've got the new machine. >> > >> > >> > One of the other Pentax folks there was taking notes about points >> > raised by attendees (Mark had already stressed the responsiveness >> > of Pentax - he too had not liked the original way that the 4-way >> > controller worked when selecting focus points during a shoot). I >> > mentioned the lack of a calibration capability for the built-in >> > level, so this will probably get back to the folks at Pentax. >> > >> > >> > P.S. I did, of course, wear one of my PDML T-shirts. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > 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. > > -- > The first step is learning to take great photos, > the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. > 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.
