Welcome, Kenton! I'll leave any further enlightenment to those more plugged in.
Jack --- On Sat, 12/4/10, Kenton Brede <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kenton Brede <[email protected]> > Subject: New to list / acronyms > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010, 9:57 AM > Hi, I've been lurking for a few days > here. I'm from the Midwest. I > bought my first DSLR about two weeks ago, a K-x with > the 18-55mm, > 55-300mm lens kit. I've got a 50mm M f/1.7 on the > way, as well as a > polarizer and graduated filter. I also picked up a > cleaning kit with > rocket blower and a manfrotto tripod and head. No one > told me the > peripherals were going to cost so damn much. I feel > like I'm > hemorrhaging money. LOL It's sad but true. > > I know next to nothing about photography. I've read > "Understanding > Exposure" by Bryan Peterson and "The Digital Photography > Book" by > Scott Kelby; both have been a good introduction I > think. I'm > currently reading "Creative Nature & Outdoor > Photography" by Brenda > Tharp. Next on the list is "The Photographer's Eye" > by Michael > Freeman. If anyone has suggestions as to which other > books I should > be reading, I'm all ears. > > I've never used any image manipulation type software other > than > Picassa. I'm a Linux user and have evaluated Bibble 5 > for a couple > evenings. It's crashed on me a few times and sucks > all available > memory and some swap when it imports RAW and builds > thumbnails. I > might have to break down and get a MAC at some point, if > all Linux > image software is this crash prone. Bibble does have > some cool tricks > though. I really like the heal/clone thing but I > suppose other > software packages have something similar. > > OK, I do have a question: > > Is there a page defining the acronyms used here, like: > PESO, GESO, > PAW? If not, could someone enlighten me? > > Thanks, > Kent > > -- > 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.
