Re: PESO - Forever?
Post it to Fail Blog! - Dave On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:41 AM, frank theriault wrote: Perhaps they were a tad optimistic in their market research? http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2008/10/some-things-just-arent-forever.html Or perhaps some things just aren't meant to be... ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Inverters
On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: Since this is almost certainly a modified sine wave inverter, do you guys think it might cause a problem with the stuff I'd like to plug into it? Or would I be better off ordering something a little better? I doubt it'd cause any problem with the gear you mentioned. - Dave (power electronics engineer in a previous life) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:36 AM, John Celio wrote: Anyone gotten Photoshop CS4 yet? How is it, compared to CS3? It goes to 4! It's, like, one louder than 3! I'm still on CS2 at the moment. I need to wade through the million different packages they have to see if I can get a good deal to upgrade Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Fireworks all at once. My old Macromedia packages won't work in OS X 10.5. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: One Dollar Camera
On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Brian Walters wrote: But if I tried that Downunder it would have to be a $5 camera. $1 banknotes haven't been in circulation here for over a decade. I still have a couple of NZ$1 and $2 notes from when they went out of circulation (1990). There was some talk of a $5 coin a few years back but nothing came of it. I very rarely carry banknotes anymore but I have this really strange habit of carrying exactly two of each coin denomination. - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Batteries
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:02:34PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: I'm getting tired of disposable batteries for flash. Even the Energizer Lithium batteries don't do that good a job, and they worked great for powering my *ist-D (better than NiMH). Anyone have experience to share using NiMH rechargeables in flash, particularly AF-500FTZ, AF-360FGZ or AF-540FGZ? I use the former with my PZ-1P, and the latter two with the *ist-D K10D. I use rechargeables in my 500 and 540 (and in the *ist-D). I used to use Ray-O-Vacs (which were fine). When I needed some more it was hard to find Ray-O-Vacs, so I tried the Duracells (especially as they had 2500 mAh cells). I wasn't impressed - they didn't seem to last as long as the Ray-O-Vacs 1800s, and self-discharged far too quickly. Now I've switched to Sanyo Eneloops, which stay charged for ever (or at least for months) - a good thing for the flash, and for a backup body. The one negative is that the *ist-D isn't thrilled with the Eneloops if you hook it up with the USB cable - it shows a 'flat battery' icon. I keep a set of low self discharge Ray-O-Vacs (and some Lithium cells) around in case I want to do that - it's a pain reading CF cards on my notebook, so for just a few images I often use the USB cable instead. As long as your charger can handle Eneloops (not all of them can) I'd suggest getting those. Thomas Distributing sells them at a good price. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
tripod advice (again)
hi, one more query regarding tripods. ;-) basically, i am looking for a lightweight tripod to carry with me on my motorcycle rides. since i'll usually be carrying a lot of camping gear too (tent, sleeping bag and stuff) besides spares, i am really looking for something which wouldn't take too much space, which is light and can handle the k10d and either the DA16-45mm or the sigma 10-20mm (if i get one). i am kind of leaning towards the manfrotto 725B with an integrated ball head. would really appreciate your inputs on this. do tell me if i am making a blunder. for reference: http://www.amazon.com/Manfrotto-725B-Tripod-Integrated-Carrying/dp/B000FFSDCC/ref=pd_cp_e_3?pf_rd_p=413862901pf_rd_s=center-41pf_rd_t=201pf_rd_i=B000N81BXOpf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DERpf_rd_r=1XY48CKTSD8EKG2VXY2S http://tinyurl.com/5mcbwr thanks and regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT: Linus' blog and solid state drives
hi, for those interested, i stumbled on linus torvalds's recently-started blog. and found this post on intel's solid state drives particularly interesting: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: tripod advice (again)
I haven't seen a 725B so I can't comment on it from experience. However I note that it has 4 sections, which will make it less stable than a 3 section trip and more of a faff to put up and down. For lightweight use I have a 190 with a ballhead and it's a great tripod and combo. It straps easily to the pannier of a (non-motor) bike. Bob hi, one more query regarding tripods. ;-) basically, i am looking for a lightweight tripod to carry with me on my motorcycle rides. since i'll usually be carrying a lot of camping gear too (tent, sleeping bag and stuff) besides spares, i am really looking for something which wouldn't take too much space, which is light and can handle the k10d and either the DA16-45mm or the sigma 10-20mm (if i get one). i am kind of leaning towards the manfrotto 725B with an integrated ball head. would really appreciate your inputs on this. do tell me if i am making a blunder. for reference: http://www.amazon.com/Manfrotto-725B-Tripod-Integrated- Carrying/dp/B000FFSDCC/ref=pd_cp_e_3?pf_rd_p=413862901pf_rd_s=center- 41pf_rd_t=201pf_rd_i=B000N81BXOpf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DERpf_rd_r=1XY48CKTSD8EKG 2VXY2S http://tinyurl.com/5mcbwr thanks and regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: tripod advice (again)
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen a 725B so I can't comment on it from experience. However I note that it has 4 sections, which will make it less stable than a 3 section trip and more of a faff to put up and down. For lightweight use I have a 190 with a ballhead and it's a great tripod and combo. It straps easily to the pannier of a (non-motor) bike. then it shouldn't be a problem on motored bike ;-). that, with a 486RC2, was another option i was thinking of. but there seems to be so many 190s around (XDB3, CXPro4 and so on) it had/has me a little confused. but thanks Bob, i'll do a little more homework.. regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: temple tower
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:34 AM, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:49 PM, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subash wrote: Here's what I did just for fun: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/subash.jpg Oh, that looks neato I like Mark's version, too. Not so sure about the pink sky, but the rest of it is great - of course he started with a pretty damned good photo! Nice one, Subash. thank you Frank. i thought Mark's rendition was much much better too... regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Inverters
On 24/10/08, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: Continuing the Batteries thread. I'd like to get an inverter for the car to run a AA battery charger, cell phone charger and the laptop. I can't think of anything else I'd plug into it at the moment. The laptop's power supply indicates 65W. My reasoning is that it would cost more to buy the appropriate DC chargers for this stuff, and the inverter allows some flexibility. While this is probably simpler than I'm making it out to be, I'm very green on this subject. Sine, modified-sine, continuous wattage, etc. It's all very technical and I'm lazy at this stage in my life. From what I can tell I should be able to go to Target and get a $35 inverter. Since this is almost certainly a modified sine wave inverter, do you guys think it might cause a problem with the stuff I'd like to plug into it? Or would I be better off ordering something a little better? If it makes any difference, physical size doesn't really matter. I have lighter sockets in the dash, two in the center console and another in the cargo area. So I can pretty much put this thing where I want. Running a laptop would be fine with most any type of inverter. If it's 65w you need, make sure you get one that will power double that load, continuously. Further reading: http://www.sterling-power.com/products-230vi-pure-info.htm I have a 230volt pure sine wave 1500 watt continuous inverter, but I power a video monitor, audio monitors, VTRs, you name it. I have yet to test the angle grinder on a wheel clamp in full anger ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
On 23/10/08, Christine Aguila, discombobulated, unleashed: Just printed out my first 13 x 19 BW on Ultra Premium Matte. Yee Ha!!! If I do say so myself, it looks so cool. This printing is so much fun. Here's the photo: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8080119size=lg Lovely shot Christine. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT: head to head: Hasselblad and a Canon :-)
got it from reading another forum actually but thought it worth posting it here:The MF Hasselblad H2 with Phase One P45+ back compared to a Canon G10on 13x19 prints...(i guess i am relatively workless at work today :-)) http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/kidding.shtml quoting without prejudice: The point of all of this is simple. As the industry matures the low end is improving rapidly while the high end's improvements are slowing down. This is narrowing the gap, and that's good news for all of us. Don't read too much more into it than that. regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: single light portraits
From: John Celio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/10/23 Thu PM 07:30:58 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: single light portraits http://tinyurl.com/5bpnrz My gosh, is it really 1870 again? ]:-) Heard it before. I've had this style for two days now and have already heard every possible taunt and tease under the sun. John Show us your sword stick. - Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: head to head: Hasselblad and a Canon :-)
Yep. I also saw this article. In fact I've just finished reading (diagonally) through it. Although I am not immediately in agreement with published findings and although I haven't seen the prints and although I don't intend to download these files and pixel peep into them, I generally approve of Michael Reichmann's conclusion. The Moore's law is kicking in with the vengeance. Also indeed it may be that new Digic IV processor is a serious step up/forward for Canon. On the other hand, one can notice in the article that print-wise the difference between 15 MP G10 and that MF camera wasn't all that apparent up until and including 13x19 prints. Given that A3 is how many - 11x16 inches or so, it also means that even ancient from Moore's perspective K10D is still pretty much up to the task. It only makes me wonder what will it be in 10 years from now. Boris Subash wrote: got it from reading another forum actually but thought it worth posting it here:The MF Hasselblad H2 with Phase One P45+ back compared to a Canon G10on 13x19 prints...(i guess i am relatively workless at work today :-)) http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/kidding.shtml quoting without prejudice: The point of all of this is simple. As the industry matures the low end is improving rapidly while the high end's improvements are slowing down. This is narrowing the gap, and that's good news for all of us. Don't read too much more into it than that. regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: head to head: Hasselblad and a Canon :-)
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, one can notice in the article that print-wise the difference between 15 MP G10 and that MF camera wasn't all that apparent up until and including 13x19 prints. Given that A3 is how many - 11x16 inches or so, it also means that even ancient from Moore's perspective K10D is still pretty much up to the task. hi Boris, i am sure the K10D can hold its own pretty well against the G10 in the area of IQ. but, like you, i too have often felt it to be a little too big. i guess that's where the m43 and the likes of G10 score... regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: the nanny state continues to grow ...
Godfrey, from outside of US of A, your sentiment appears more towards the overreacting end of the spectrum. Although, I should say that last two weeks were especially bloody on Israeli roads, at least half-dozen hit-and-run-away accidents all endings in death or severe injury of the victim. Boris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2008/10/safety.html I hate this stuff. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
I know the feeling, Christine. The rush of getting a pleasing print, especially in 13x19, has to be experienced to be appreciated. Actually holding a glorious print in your hand is the final satisfaction. Jack --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yee Ha!!! To: pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 7:10 PM Just printed out my first 13 x 19 BW on Ultra Premium Matte. Yee Ha!!! If I do say so myself, it looks so cool. This printing is so much fun. Here's the photo: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8080119size=lg For the past couple of months, I've been photographing the construction that is taking place at my work. We're getting a 6-7 story indoor parking building and a beautiful new student services building. The architectural renderings are now on exhibit in the lobby of our main campus building about 15 of my BWs will also be on exhibit as soon as the framing is done. During the next 18 months, we'll be rotating photos that tell the story and progression of the construction. I have full access to the construction site and have my own hard hat, which I must obviously wear. I had to read a safety manual have to follow the safety rules. When I can shoot, I call down, and a young (and usually cute :-)) assistant foreman lets me on site, then escorts me around. He usually says things like, Christine, watch out for that boulder ahead of you, (like when I'm walking have my nose behind the camera) or I have him explain to me what it is I'm seeing, since I know absolutely nothing about construction, though I am learning, and it's very interesting. I've always admired what man can build. I'm using the K20D with the DA 16-45mm. Since the DA is F4, I put it on the K20, since that camera has really good High ISO quality if I need it. The DA* 50-135mm is on the K10D, but today, when I shot the crusher grinding up huge boulders, I put the DA* on the K20D. I didn't feel like doing any wide angle shots. Anyway, I just felt like letting a Yee Ha loose :-). Thanks for listening, if you, in fact, did ;-). Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: tripod advice (again)
dont know how much you are willing to spend on your tripod, but here some suggestions: - i do have a Velbon Sherpa Pro 640 which is lightweight and sturdy, i can recommend it - they also say Benro tripods are worth a look - but the next one i buy (for carrying around manually) will most definitly be a Feisol CT-3441 Pro (under 0.9kg weight, folded length 43cm, 4 segments, carbon, carries 6kg load), it has been said to be comparable in quality and features with Gitzo's Explorer brand but at a fraction of costs hope that helps, regards from germany Andreas Subash wrote: hi, one more query regarding tripods. ;-) basically, i am looking for a lightweight tripod to carry with me on my motorcycle rides. since i'll usually be carrying a lot of camping gear too (tent, sleeping bag and stuff) besides spares, i am really looking for something which wouldn't take too much space, which is light and can handle the k10d and either the DA16-45mm or the sigma 10-20mm (if i get one). i am kind of leaning towards the manfrotto 725B with an integrated ball head. would really appreciate your inputs on this. do tell me if i am making a blunder. for reference: http://www.amazon.com/Manfrotto-725B-Tripod-Integrated-Carrying/dp/B000FFSDCC/ref=pd_cp_e_3?pf_rd_p=413862901pf_rd_s=center-41pf_rd_t=201pf_rd_i=B000N81BXOpf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DERpf_rd_r=1XY48CKTSD8EKG2VXY2S http://tinyurl.com/5mcbwr thanks and regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Inverters
On 10/24/08, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running a laptop would be fine with most any type of inverter. If it's 65w you need, make sure you get one that will power double that load, continuously. Further reading: http://www.sterling-power.com/products-230vi-pure-info.htm I have a 230volt pure sine wave 1500 watt continuous inverter, but I power a video monitor, audio monitors, VTRs, you name it. I have yet to test the angle grinder on a wheel clamp in full anger ;-) Where is Angle Grinder Man when you need him? Thanks for the link and advice, Cotty. -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Inverters
On 10/24/08, David Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: I doubt it'd cause any problem with the gear you mentioned. Thanks, Dave. Much appreciated. -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
I agree. Adobe has been the backbone of the graphic arts and advertising business since the early nineties. I can't imagine where we would have been today without the work Adobe has done. That idea that no one should have to pay for software is the result of twisted thinking and hopeless nostalgia. Paul On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: What he means to say is that all those programs are likely available online now for the sum of $0.0 if you're willing to download the torrent files and connect to seeds that are certainly out there on the world wide web providing the software to anyone who asks without being encumbered by the pesky licensing and ownership process. CW proponent of torrents but not willing to outright steal thousands of dollars worth of software, yet. I have absolutely no objection to stealing from Adobe or Microsoft. Fortunately, I don't really use their software anymore, so it's not an issue. ;) Stealing is stealing. You can't say that Microsoft and Adobe are evil if you are a thief. All my software is obtained legally. I get good deals by making connections and being polite. I also get excellent support from Adobe. I would not even consider stealing from them. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
Obviously, my tongue-in-cheek references were taken a bit too seriously. My apologies for not adding enough smilies. On 10/24/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. Adobe has been the backbone of the graphic arts and advertising business since the early nineties. I can't imagine where we would have been today without the work Adobe has done. That idea that no one should have to pay for software is the result of twisted thinking and hopeless nostalgia. Paul On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: What he means to say is that all those programs are likely available online now for the sum of $0.0 if you're willing to download the torrent files and connect to seeds that are certainly out there on the world wide web providing the software to anyone who asks without being encumbered by the pesky licensing and ownership process. CW proponent of torrents but not willing to outright steal thousands of dollars worth of software, yet. I have absolutely no objection to stealing from Adobe or Microsoft. Fortunately, I don't really use their software anymore, so it's not an issue. ;) Stealing is stealing. You can't say that Microsoft and Adobe are evil if you are a thief. All my software is obtained legally. I get good deals by making connections and being polite. I also get excellent support from Adobe. I would not even consider stealing from them. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Inverters
On 10/24/08, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a 230volt pure sine wave 1500 watt continuous inverter, but I power a video monitor, audio monitors, VTRs, you name it. I have yet to test the angle grinder on a wheel clamp in full anger ;-) Solid-state inverters tend not to work well on anything with more than a small electric motor in it. So angle grinding is probably out unless you get a generator. :-) For stuff like a laptop/AA battery charger/portable DVD player/etc. they work fine. A better solution would be to find power supplies for the equipment in question that run off of 12 volts. More efficient that way at least, though it'll cost more money. For the laptop and battery charger at least, solutions are easy to find. For the cheap solution, a $35 inverter will work just fine. :-) -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Peso: The Latest in Handheld Devices
http://chemistry.wlu.edu/~desjardins/ My daughter and her 3 roommates found this abandoned kitten 6 weeks ago. The mother probably left him since he was too small, and he's only survived because four human beings has catered to his every whim. The vet says he is perfectly healthy but stunted. Seeing them all in action, this tiny creature again demonstrates that cute is a Darwinian survival skill. Steve -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: *ist D and focus confirmation with M42 mount lenses?
My *ist DS has focus confirmation with my M42 lenses. John Graves WA1JG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bran Everseeking wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:03:12 -0500 Cymen Vig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the *ist D have focus confirmation with M42 mount lenses? If so, was support in the initial firmware or did it require an upgrade? the K10D does and did out of the box... best I can do. Bran -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1743 - Release Date: 10/24/2008 8:33 AM -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: The Latest in Handheld Devices
On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:58, Steve Desjardins wrote: http://chemistry.wlu.edu/~desjardins/ My daughter and her 3 roommates found this abandoned kitten 6 weeks ago. The mother probably left him since he was too small, and he's only survived because four human beings has catered to his every whim. The vet says he is perfectly healthy but stunted. Seeing them all in action, this tiny creature again demonstrates that cute is a Darwinian survival skill. It's a great story, but I can't get the image to load. I'll wager this line is the issue: img border=0 src=file:///H:/public_html/francois.jpg width=1000 height=669 ..as the rest of the world does not have access to your H: drive. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
I'd like to try a big print for 1 or 2 of my shots, but i still get some minor incositencies on the 2400, so i'm a bit gun shy.:-0 Dave On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:25 PM Subject: Re: Yee Ha!!! Congratulations on your first 13 x 19. There's nothing like a great print to renew a photographer's enthusiasm. Thanks, Paul, and how right you are! :-) Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: The Latest in Handheld Devices
On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:10, Charles Robinson wrote: It's a great story, but I can't get the image to load. I'll wager this line is the issue: img border=0 src=file:///H:/public_html/francois.jpg width=1000 height=669 ..as the rest of the world does not have access to your H: drive. This works, though! http://chemistry.wlu.edu/~desjardins/francois.jpg Cute! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: the nanny state continues to grow ...
'60's Pogo comic strip for sure. One of the lasting truths from the cartoonists. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:23 PM, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, we - as a nation - keep voting nannys into office. We have no one to blame but orselves. We have met the enemy and he is us! Walt Kelly, on a 1970 anti-pollution poster for Earth Day. I remember it from a 60s Pogo strip ... re-cycled for that Earth Day poster. The next panel was We is confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: single light portraits
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heya! Anyone have any single light portraits to share? Also, what are you opinions are using a single light? David Bailey famously used only one light. When asked why he replied 'cause there's only one f_cking sun. If it's good enough for Rembrandt... Wonder if he used Pentax paints. Probably not, the paintings would have looked soft before post painting. Dave Dave Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Forever?
Good eye Frank. Ann worthy.:-) Dave On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:41 AM, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps they were a tad optimistic in their market research? http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2008/10/some-things-just-arent-forever.html Or perhaps some things just aren't meant to be... ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO -- Fall Stairs
Nice. I like the composition and just the right amount of leaves on the stairs. Dave On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~morephotos/PESO%20--%20fallstairs.html Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax A 24mm f2.8 As usual comments are welcomed but may be totally ignored. -- You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: The Latest in Handheld Devices
On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:58, Steve Desjardins wrote: http://chemistry.wlu.edu/~desjardins/francois.jpg Seeing them all in action, this tiny creature again demonstrates that cute is a Darwinian survival skill. Yup, I can see why you let your daughter live. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: The Latest in Handheld Devices
Interesting. This used to work just fine. I wonder what changed. Thanks for the fix. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: The Latest in Handheld Devices
FYI, the new link (thanks to Charles) http://chemistry.wlu.edu/~desjardins/francois.jpg Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: single light portraits
- Original Message - From: Scott Loveless Subject: single light portraits Heya! Anyone have any single light portraits to share? Also, what are you opinions are using a single light? I believe everything on this page was done with a single beauty dish. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/lyndsaye/lyndsaye1.html I like single light portraiture, I suppose because I'm just not competent to use more than that.. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: tripod advice (again)
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:32:56 +0200 Andreas Pfotenhauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dont know how much you are willing to spend on your tripod, but here some suggestions: - i do have a Velbon Sherpa Pro 640 which is lightweight and sturdy, i can recommend it - they also say Benro tripods are worth a look - but the next one i buy (for carrying around manually) will most definitly be a Feisol CT-3441 Pro (under 0.9kg weight, folded length 43cm, 4 segments, carbon, carries 6kg load), it has been said to be comparable in quality and features with Gitzo's Explorer brand but at a fraction of costs thanks Andreas. yes i did forget to mention by price range. i am looking for something within about (converted) US$200. the sherpa pro looks a bit out of reach right now. but thanks for the suggestions. i am still looking around... regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
OT PESO - Suburban Lightshow
G'day All, Took this one a couple of hours ago with the non Pentax camera (~105kb): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2969441818_f926077313_o.jpg It's going to be a wild woolly night Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: tripod advice (again)
I wouldn't buy any tripod that does not allow you to interchange heads easily. After an excellent experiene on the Isle of Man using my friend's Manfrotto 190CX 3-section aluminum legs fitted with my Markins Q3 head, I purchased a set of 190CXpro3 carbon fiber legs for myself. It's a little smaller tripod than I normally thought I would prefer, but it's very stable, very fast in the field, folds up small, and is very light. The height suffices for that 95% of what is needed in most circumstances, and it holds the camera and long lens quite nicely. As a complete setup, it's quite a bit more than your $200 price point, unfortunately. The head cost me $270 and the legs another $270. But the quality, precision, and sturdiness is well worth it, they'ver very light; I think they'll last a very very long time. For that $200 price point, you can get the Manfrotto 190XB legs fitted with one or another of the mini or midi Manfrotto ballheads. And upgrade the head later when you can afford to. Godfrey On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Subash wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:32:56 +0200 Andreas Pfotenhauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dont know how much you are willing to spend on your tripod, but here some suggestions: - i do have a Velbon Sherpa Pro 640 which is lightweight and sturdy, i can recommend it - they also say Benro tripods are worth a look - but the next one i buy (for carrying around manually) will most definitly be a Feisol CT-3441 Pro (under 0.9kg weight, folded length 43cm, 4 segments, carbon, carries 6kg load), it has been said to be comparable in quality and features with Gitzo's Explorer brand but at a fraction of costs thanks Andreas. yes i did forget to mention by price range. i am looking for something within about (converted) US$200. the sherpa pro looks a bit out of reach right now. but thanks for the suggestions. i am still looking around... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: the nanny state continues to grow ...
Thanks for your concerned comment. G On Oct 24, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: Godfrey, from outside of US of A, your sentiment appears more towards the overreacting end of the spectrum. Although, I should say that last two weeks were especially bloody on Israeli roads, at least half-dozen hit-and-run-away accidents all endings in death or severe injury of the victim. Boris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2008/10/safety.html I hate this stuff. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT PESO - Suburban Lightshow
On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:46, David Savage wrote: G'day All, Took this one a couple of hours ago with the non Pentax camera (~105kb): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2969441818_f926077313_o.jpg It's going to be a wild woolly night Looks like fun! The streetlights are making the same starburst pattern I see with the DA16-50 when it's stopped down and doing long exposures. Cool. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Forever?
Since you can't straighten it, we'll all tilt our monitors when we look at it grin. Nice shot BTW... -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, October 23, 2008, 9:28:36 AM, you wrote: CR On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:07, frank theriault wrote: So, yeah, I agree that it should be rotated about a degree, but given my current issues, it wasn't to be. CR Oh... sorry, I completely forgot about that! As you were CR -Charles CR -- CR Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] CR Minneapolis, MN CR http://charles.robinsontwins.org CR -- CR PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List CR PDML@pdml.net CR http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net CR to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: single light portraits
Hello Scott, It usually works better than zero light portraits grin. I have only limited experience using one light - almost always use two. But what I have found is the one light tends to create more dramatic highlight/shadows. The second light is used most of the time to bring up the shadows to make the picture not so strong. So I would say it can be used ok - also if you have any means of bouncing light - like a reflector or white wall then you can compensate for not having the second light to some degree. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, October 23, 2008, 9:52:44 AM, you wrote: SL Heya! SL Anyone have any single light portraits to share? Also, what are you SL opinions are using a single light? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO -- Fall Stairs
Pretty cool shot, there. Well seen and captured. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, October 23, 2008, 5:02:51 PM, you wrote: PJA http://home.earthlink.net/~morephotos/PESO%20--%20fallstairs.html PJA Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax A 24mm f2.8 PJA As usual comments are welcomed but may be totally ignored. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: head to head: Hasselblad and a Canon :-)
A while back Brooks Jensen from the magazine Lens Works did a podcast about a similar test: Hasselblad some DSLR, can't remember which one. Similar findings were made with prints 13 x19 and smaller. Very little difference was noticed. The difference came when printing larger, museum sized prints; here medium format won out, as would be expected. Yep, I think it's an exciting time for photography and photographers--the journey has been great fun so far; it will be interesting to see where it takes us. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Subash [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 4:09 AM Subject: OT: head to head: Hasselblad and a Canon :-) got it from reading another forum actually but thought it worth posting it here:The MF Hasselblad H2 with Phase One P45+ back compared to a Canon G10on 13x19 prints...(i guess i am relatively workless at work today :-)) http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/kidding.shtml quoting without prejudice: The point of all of this is simple. As the industry matures the low end is improving rapidly while the high end's improvements are slowing down. This is narrowing the gap, and that's good news for all of us. Don't read too much more into it than that. regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
- Original Message - From: David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to try a big print for 1 or 2 of my shots, but i still get some minor incositencies on the 2400, so i'm a bit gun shy.:-0 Go for it, Dave! No guts, no glory! :-) Seriously, just out of interest, what are the inconsistencies? Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
- Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 7:24 AM Subject: Re: Yee Ha!!! I know the feeling, Christine. The rush of getting a pleasing print, especially in 13x19, has to be experienced to be appreciated. Actually holding a glorious print in your hand is the final satisfaction. Thanks, Jack, and how right your are. This is so much fun. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
Thanks, Cotty. It'll be interesting to see how this project goes, since I know so little about my subject--construction (lol), and I've never had the opportunity to commit to a formal project like this--I've never been accountable to anyone's tastes and expectations in such a public way. The curator is also a photographer (she's done some brilliant infrared exhibits), so I get to learn a lot from her about shooting for an exhibit--that is, as I'm walking about the site, my mind's eye is seeing-at the speed of nano-seconds- the image, the print, then the print on the wall. It's different: usually I just look for cool things to shoot and hope my husband and family will like what I show them (lol). :-) Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax list PDML@pdml.net Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:43 AM Subject: Re: Yee Ha!!! On 23/10/08, Christine Aguila, discombobulated, unleashed: Just printed out my first 13 x 19 BW on Ultra Premium Matte. Yee Ha!!! If I do say so myself, it looks so cool. This printing is so much fun. Here's the photo: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8080119size=lg Lovely shot Christine. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just printed out my first 13 x 19 BW on Ultra Premium Matte. Yee Ha!!! If I do say so myself, it looks so cool. This printing is so much fun. Here's the photo: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8080119size=lg For the past couple of months, I've been photographing the construction that is taking place at my work. We're getting a 6-7 story indoor parking building and a beautiful new student services building. The architectural renderings are now on exhibit in the lobby of our main campus building about 15 of my BWs will also be on exhibit as soon as the framing is done. During the next 18 months, we'll be rotating photos that tell the story and progression of the construction. I have full access to the construction site and have my own hard hat, which I must obviously wear. I had to read a safety manual have to follow the safety rules. When I can shoot, I call down, and a young (and usually cute :-)) assistant foreman lets me on site, then escorts me around. He usually says things like, Christine, watch out for that boulder ahead of you, (like when I'm walking have my nose behind the camera) or I have him explain to me what it is I'm seeing, since I know absolutely nothing about construction, though I am learning, and it's very interesting. I've always admired what man can build. I'm using the K20D with the DA 16-45mm. Since the DA is F4, I put it on the K20, since that camera has really good High ISO quality if I need it. The DA* 50-135mm is on the K10D, but today, when I shot the crusher grinding up huge boulders, I put the DA* on the K20D. I didn't feel like doing any wide angle shots. Anyway, I just felt like letting a Yee Ha loose :-). Thanks for listening, if you, in fact, did ;-). Cheers, Christine That's very cool, Christine. I've only had a couple of digital prints done, and I don't think any larger than 11x14. It's something I miss from film days, getting back prints from the lab. That's a lovely photo - it must look glorious all blowed up! ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO -- Fall Stairs
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~morephotos/PESO%20--%20fallstairs.html Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax A 24mm f2.8 That's quite beautiful, in an autumnal sort of way (meaning that for me, autumn is always a bit sad, even if it can be beautiful). cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: single light portraits
On Oct 23, 2008, at 23:12 , William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Scott Loveless Subject: single light portraits Heya! Anyone have any single light portraits to share? Also, what are you opinions are using a single light? I believe everything on this page was done with a single beauty dish. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/lyndsaye/lyndsaye1.html I like single light portraiture, I suppose because I'm just not competent to use more than that.. William Robb With two shadows? Joseph McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO -- Fall Stairs
What Frank said, Peter. Nice one. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~morephotos/PESO%20--%20fallstairs.html Equipment: Pentax *ist-Ds/smc Pentax A 24mm f2.8 That's quite beautiful, in an autumnal sort of way (meaning that for me, autumn is always a bit sad, even if it can be beautiful). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
- Original Message - From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's very cool, Christine. I've only had a couple of digital prints done, and I don't think any larger than 11x14. It's something I miss from film days, getting back prints from the lab. That's a lovely photo - it must look glorious all blowed up! Thanks, Frank. Also, I accidently deleted your Forever PESO. Sorry about that. Just wanted to say fun shot, made me giggle, good eye/catch, and best to the family ;-). Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: tripod advice (again)
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:39:05 -0700 Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a complete setup, it's quite a bit more than your $200 price point, unfortunately. The head cost me $270 and the legs another $270. But the quality, precision, and sturdiness is well worth it, they'ver very light; I think they'll last a very very long time. For that $200 price point, you can get the Manfrotto 190XB legs fitted with one or another of the mini or midi Manfrotto ballheads. And upgrade the head later when you can afford to. thanks Godfrey for the detailed reply. that *is* much above what i can afford right now. tentatively planning to go with the manfrotto 190XDB3 stand and the 486RC2 head for now.i still have a week before i hand in the cash so i'll keep looking around. regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO - Crossing College
The shadows are lengthening, even at mid-day: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2008/10/crossing-college.html It's simple, but I still like it. Comment if you feel compelled to. Thanks, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
It's been a long long time since I've filled up my hard drives with LimeWire downloads that I hardly or never used, and I understand the corporate need to perpetuate. That being said, I get cranked every time I run into the invisible wall created by the collusion of hardware and software producers, causing you to HAVE to upgrade your software to run on the newer hardware, which you HAVE to buy because the software producer ceases support for the older versions. Not a problem for the corporate worker- bees, or government drones, but a substantial burden on the self employed or retired. Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4, Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'. The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. I just want to use it to keep track of my checkbook and charges. I don't need all the 100s of NEW features for tracking my investments, graphing everything in seventeen different forms. Back in the 90s they even got the banks to change to a new form of download files so you couldn't use the older versions of Quicken at all. So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $.10 on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time On Oct 24, 2008, at 06:37 , Scott Loveless wrote: Obviously, my tongue-in-cheek references were taken a bit too seriously. My apologies for not adding enough smilies. On 10/24/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. Adobe has been the backbone of the graphic arts and advertising business since the early nineties. I can't imagine where we would have been today without the work Adobe has done. That idea that no one should have to pay for software is the result of twisted thinking and hopeless nostalgia. Paul On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: What he means to say is that all those programs are likely available online now for the sum of $0.0 if you're willing to download the torrent files and connect to seeds that are certainly out there on the world wide web providing the software to anyone who asks without being encumbered by the pesky licensing and ownership process. CW proponent of torrents but not willing to outright steal thousands of dollars worth of software, yet. I have absolutely no objection to stealing from Adobe or Microsoft. Fortunately, I don't really use their software anymore, so it's not an issue. ;) Stealing is stealing. You can't say that Microsoft and Adobe are evil if you are a thief. All my software is obtained legally. I get good deals by making connections and being polite. I also get excellent support from Adobe. I would not even consider stealing from them. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Crossing College
Hi Frank: That's fun. You've got some great framing there with the arm positions of the two folks on either end. Body positions are subtle, but speak volumes. That person in the middle with the hat is great. Nice one, Frank. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] The shadows are lengthening, even at mid-day: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2008/10/crossing-college.html It's simple, but I still like it. Comment if you feel compelled to. Thanks, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Crossing College
Looks superb on my handtop screen. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:50 PM, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shadows are lengthening, even at mid-day: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2008/10/crossing-college.html It's simple, but I still like it. Comment if you feel compelled to. Thanks, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:54:49 -0700 Joseph McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4, Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'. So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $.10 on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought. funnily enough, same thing happens with linux too. i use slackware (with my own custom-rolled kernel) and am eagerly awaiting slack13, which has the KDE 4.1. i am beginning to wonder if my 2004 compaq presario laptop can take that load of course, there are plenty other, rather important differences too.. :-)) regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
Sounds like you have a neat arrangement @ the construction site - go get'em girl ! Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Christine Aguila [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yee Ha!!! Just printed out my first 13 x 19 BW on Ultra Premium Matte. Yee Ha!!! If I do say so myself, it looks so cool. This printing is so much fun. Here's the photo: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8080119size=lg For the past couple of months, I've been photographing the construction that is taking place at my work. We're getting a 6-7 story indoor parking building and a beautiful new student services building. The architectural renderings are now on exhibit in the lobby of our main campus building about 15 of my BWs will also be on exhibit as soon as the framing is done. During the next 18 months, we'll be rotating photos that tell the story and progression of the construction. I have full access to the construction site and have my own hard hat, which I must obviously wear. I had to read a safety manual have to follow the safety rules. When I can shoot, I call down, and a young (and usually cute :-)) assistant foreman lets me on site, then escorts me around. He usually says things like, Christine, watch out for that boulder ahead of you, (like when I'm walking have my nose behind the camera) or I have him explain to me what it is I'm seeing, since I know absolutely nothing about construction, though I am learning, and it's very interesting. I've always admired what man can build. I'm using the K20D with the DA 16-45mm. Since the DA is F4, I put it on the K20, since that camera has really good High ISO quality if I need it. The DA* 50-135mm is on the K10D, but today, when I shot the crusher grinding up huge boulders, I put the DA* on the K20D. I didn't feel like doing any wide angle shots. Anyway, I just felt like letting a Yee Ha loose :-). Thanks for listening, if you, in fact, did ;-). Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Peso: The Latest in Handheld Devices
FYI, the new link (thanks to Charles) http://chemistry.wlu.edu/~desjardins/francois.jpg Where do you put the batteries? Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: tripod advice (again)
On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Subash wrote: thanks Godfrey for the detailed reply. that *is* much above what i can afford right now. tentatively planning to go with the manfrotto 190XDB3 stand and the 486RC2 head for now.i still have a week before i hand in the cash so i'll keep looking around. You're welcome. I prefer the 190XB vs the 190XDB legs ... there's a difference in the leg locks. The XB's are a bit faster to operate. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: The Latest in Handheld Devices
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Steve Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://chemistry.wlu.edu/~desjardins/ My daughter and her 3 roommates found this abandoned kitten 6 weeks ago. The mother probably left him since he was too small, and he's only survived because four human beings has catered to his every whim. The vet says he is perfectly healthy but stunted. Seeing them all in action, this tiny creature again demonstrates that cute is a Darwinian survival skill. That's about the cutest thing I've ever seen. Thanks for a Friday smile, Steve! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why use quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do it with a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've migrated it through several different DB engines as things changed. It works fine. Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere near as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and document creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages. G On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: It's been a long long time since I've filled up my hard drives with LimeWire downloads that I hardly or never used, and I understand the corporate need to perpetuate. That being said, I get cranked every time I run into the invisible wall created by the collusion of hardware and software producers, causing you to HAVE to upgrade your software to run on the newer hardware, which you HAVE to buy because the software producer ceases support for the older versions. Not a problem for the corporate worker-bees, or government drones, but a substantial burden on the self employed or retired. Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4, Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'. The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. I just want to use it to keep track of my checkbook and charges. I don't need all the 100s of NEW features for tracking my investments, graphing everything in seventeen different forms. Back in the 90s they even got the banks to change to a new form of download files so you couldn't use the older versions of Quicken at all. So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $. 10 on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: One Dollar Camera
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. But if I tried that Downunder it would have to be a $5 camera. $1 banknotes haven't been in circulation here for over a decade. Same thing in Canada. $1 and $2 denominations have been coins for a long long time. Pretty amazing origami! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
The mailman just dropped CS4 Design Suite on my doorstep. I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl. I do a lot of work beyond conversion and rendering, so I believe PS is better suited to my workflow than Lightroom. Paul On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why use quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do it with a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've migrated it through several different DB engines as things changed. It works fine. Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere near as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and document creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages. G On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: It's been a long long time since I've filled up my hard drives with LimeWire downloads that I hardly or never used, and I understand the corporate need to perpetuate. That being said, I get cranked every time I run into the invisible wall created by the collusion of hardware and software producers, causing you to HAVE to upgrade your software to run on the newer hardware, which you HAVE to buy because the software producer ceases support for the older versions. Not a problem for the corporate worker-bees, or government drones, but a substantial burden on the self employed or retired. Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4, Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'. The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. I just want to use it to keep track of my checkbook and charges. I don't need all the 100s of NEW features for tracking my investments, graphing everything in seventeen different forms. Back in the 90s they even got the banks to change to a new form of download files so you couldn't use the older versions of Quicken at all. So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $. 10 on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PS CS4
It's possible to get a lot of the big name software for nothing, or next to nothing, quite legitimately. I got the entire Office 2003 suite for less than US$20- under the Home Use Programme which my employer subscribed to. I would never pay the full price for something like that, and Microsoft seem to understand that, so they make the best of it with something like home use. It's also fairly easy to get things for the student price by enrolling in a course which gets you a proper student id. The Open University here offers a number of courses quite cheaply for that. If all that fails, then there is a lot of high-quality free software available, such as OpenOffice which does a perfectly good job for most of the things that MS Office does. Microsoft themselves give a lot of good stuff away. Some products, though, have no cheap or free parallel unfortunately. Lightroom is one of those, although I happen to think it's very fairly priced considering its market. I'm still in the process of recovering my system after having to reinstall the operating system, so I've just been forced to upgrade to Lightroom 2 earlier than I might have planned, but that's just one of my punishments for stuffing my OS. Things like accountancy packages are available for nothing very easily, or are very easy to deal with on spreadsheets. When I had my own business I did everything in Excel. It helps to keep things simple. Bob It's been a long long time since I've filled up my hard drives with LimeWire downloads that I hardly or never used, and I understand the corporate need to perpetuate. That being said, I get cranked every time I run into the invisible wall created by the collusion of hardware and software producers, causing you to HAVE to upgrade your software to run on the newer hardware, which you HAVE to buy because the software producer ceases support for the older versions. Not a problem for the corporate worker- bees, or government drones, but a substantial burden on the self employed or retired. Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4, Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'. The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. I just want to use it to keep track of my checkbook and charges. I don't need all the 100s of NEW features for tracking my investments, graphing everything in seventeen different forms. Back in the 90s they even got the banks to change to a new form of download files so you couldn't use the older versions of Quicken at all. So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $.10 on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: tripod advice (again)
The Velbon Ultra Luxi F is the travel tripod I really want. Back when I worked at Reed's, I got to use a lot of tripods, and this one was the best travel tripod I ever tried. It's small when folded up but just as tall as a regular tripod when extended. It's very light and yet well-built. The head is good for its size, and can be replaced with any other head, I believe. The center column can be truncated for low-to-the-ground shooting, as well as flipped if you want the camera upside down. The legs use a twist-lock mechanism, making them VERY quick to extend and retract. The legs also can be positioned in a wide range of angles, to accommodate the terrain. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00022UE8O Sorry to be so verbose about it, but I really do think it's a great tripod. John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
Maybe you should consider moving to a Windows box...we're still running Quicken 2000 on one of our XP machines. ;} -p Joseph McAllister wrote: The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:03 PM, PN Stenquist wrote: I do a lot of work beyond conversion and rendering, so I believe PS is better suited to my workflow than Lightroom. I'm not entirely sure I understand what you meant, Paul. What do you mean by beyond conversion and rendering? I don't understand what distinction you're making there. With respect to my image processing, Lightroom does the heavy lifting along with the image management and organizational work. Photoshop does in image processing what LR cannot. My workflow uses both applications integrated together seamlessly. I use Photoshop for a lot of other things too, only peripherally associated with image processing needs, so I wouldn't be without it. I don't know that I need the latest version ... yet ... simply because I'm still running on Apple PowerPC and CS2 is doing what I need for the moment. For an Apple Intel system, I would have placed the order two weeks ago. ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: radical experience
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Ralf R. Radermacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some more industrial nights and magic from Liège: http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/855640/display/14723576 As always... :-) Terrific shot. As always... ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: tripod advice (again)
Did you ever travel with it? It's one thing for it to be good in the shop, quite another for it to be good when you're on top of a Himalaya waiting for the storm to clear! (not that I've ever been in that situation) The Velbon Ultra Luxi F is the travel tripod I really want. Back when I worked at Reed's, I got to use a lot of tripods, and this one was the best travel tripod I ever tried. It's small when folded up but just as tall as a regular tripod when extended. It's very light and yet well-built. The head is good for its size, and can be replaced with any other head, I believe. The center column can be truncated for low-to-the-ground shooting, as well as flipped if you want the camera upside down. The legs use a twist-lock mechanism, making them VERY quick to extend and retract. The legs also can be positioned in a wide range of angles, to accommodate the terrain. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00022UE8O Sorry to be so verbose about it, but I really do think it's a great tripod. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: tripod advice (again)
The Velbon Ultra Luxi F is the travel tripod I really want. snip Did you ever travel with it? I didn't, since I've never been in a position to be able to afford a second tripod (my current tripod is a Velbon El Carmagne 640, another very good model. Velbon seems to be underrated most of the time.), however I did hear back from a few people I sold it to, and they seemed very pleased with it. One guy took it up into the Sierra Nevada range with him, and he didn't say anything about having problems with it. John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - Cape May Wildwood, NJ
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An album from our recent vacation to Cape May and Wildwood, New Jersey: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coneslayer/sets/72157607770191688/ I rented a DA*300/4 from www.cameralensrentals.com for the trip, with an eye toward buying it next summer. Good service from the company, and I found it to be an outstanding lens. Sharp and contrasty from f/4, with no noticeable CA or purple fringing. My K10D have me some AF trouble, mostly trying to shoot birds in flight. If the bird ever slipped off the AF sensor, and the camera only saw clear blue sky, it would send the lens to the close-focus limit, and stay there (with the AF hexagon blinking). Releasing and re-pressing the shutter wouldn't budge it, nor would switching between AF.C and AF.S, nor would turning the camera off and back on. I had to switch to MF, move the lens focus out, and then switch back to AF. I was able to reproduce this problem on the DA*300, my Tamron 70-300, and my DA 18-55. Now that I'm back home, and thinking of sending the camera in for service, I can't reproduce it any more. :-/ Late commenting, but it's a great album! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
Christine Aguila wrote: Just printed out my first 13 x 19 BW on Ultra Premium Matte. Yee Ha!!! If I do say so myself, it looks so cool. This printing is so much fun. Here's the photo: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8080119size=lg For the past couple of months, I've been photographing the construction that is taking place at my work. We're getting a 6-7 story indoor parking building and a beautiful new student services building. The architectural renderings are now on exhibit in the lobby of our main campus building about 15 of my BWs will also be on exhibit as soon as the framing is done. During the next 18 months, we'll be rotating photos that tell the story and progression of the construction. I have full access to the construction site and have my own hard hat, which I must obviously wear. I had to read a safety manual have to follow the safety rules. When I can shoot, I call down, and a young (and usually cute :-)) assistant foreman lets me on site, then escorts me around. He usually says things like, Christine, watch out for that boulder ahead of you, (like when I'm walking have my nose behind the camera) or I have him explain to me what it is I'm seeing, since I know absolutely nothing about construction, though I am learning, and it's very interesting. I've always admired what man can build. I'm using the K20D with the DA 16-45mm. Since the DA is F4, I put it on the K20, since that camera has really good High ISO quality if I need it. The DA* 50-135mm is on the K10D, but today, when I shot the crusher grinding up huge boulders, I put the DA* on the K20D. I didn't feel like doing any wide angle shots. Anyway, I just felt like letting a Yee Ha loose :-). Thanks for listening, if you, in fact, did ;-). Cheers, Christine Nice one, Christine. Will you be posting a gallery soon? Derby -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
I just meant that since I can only afford one or the other at the moment, the nod had to go to CS4. I might like Lightroom as a conversion and rendering tool. I haven't spent enough time with it to be certain. But I do know that CS1 doesn't take advantage of the Intel box speed, I need PhotoShop for image processing beyond what Lightroom does, and I need InDesign. So for now, I'm still a PhotoShop and Adobe Raw Converter boy. Paul On Oct 24, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:03 PM, PN Stenquist wrote: I do a lot of work beyond conversion and rendering, so I believe PS is better suited to my workflow than Lightroom. I'm not entirely sure I understand what you meant, Paul. What do you mean by beyond conversion and rendering? I don't understand what distinction you're making there. With respect to my image processing, Lightroom does the heavy lifting along with the image management and organizational work. Photoshop does in image processing what LR cannot. My workflow uses both applications integrated together seamlessly. I use Photoshop for a lot of other things too, only peripherally associated with image processing needs, so I wouldn't be without it. I don't know that I need the latest version ... yet ... simply because I'm still running on Apple PowerPC and CS2 is doing what I need for the moment. For an Apple Intel system, I would have placed the order two weeks ago. ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Forever?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you can't straighten it, we'll all tilt our monitors when we look at it grin. Nice shot BTW... Thanks, Bruce. And thanks to everyone else who commented! Never leave the house without a camera! ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT PESO - Suburban Lightshow
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:46 AM, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day All, Took this one a couple of hours ago with the non Pentax camera (~105kb): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2969441818_f926077313_o.jpg It's going to be a wild woolly night The colours are amazing! Is that what they looked like in real life? cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: tripod advice (again)
Subash escribió: then it shouldn't be a problem on motored bike ;-). that, with a 486RC2, was another option i was thinking of. but there seems to be so many 190s around (XDB3, CXPro4 and so on) it had/has me a little confused. but thanks Bob, i'll do a little more homework.. Hi Subash: I use a 190 with a 486RC2 ballhead. It is a great combo, but it isn't exactly lightweight, at least in my view. It is very solid and doesn't weight a lot, but there are probably better options for a travel tripod, as you aren't going to use heavy lenses. Carlos -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
Quicken updates come for free if you buy TurboTax DeLuxe. It's generally been worth updating - Intuit products can be very touchy about working with software firewalls, NAT routers, etc. Until the most recent version we had to disable our firewall and/or use direct dial-up access to be able to talk to some parts of the Intuit site :-( On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:26:26PM -0500, Paul Sorenson wrote: Maybe you should consider moving to a Windows box...we're still running Quicken 2000 on one of our XP machines. ;} -p Joseph McAllister wrote: The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Geso Photos from Thanksgiving weekend in Madawaska
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:39 AM, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Christine said. A couple of the IR shots are stunning. But I enjoyed all these. Great seeing your family. Thanks for sharing. I'm late looking at these, but I agree with Paul and Christine! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Empire Pump
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same feverish drive looking for targets for the new 20. This was taken near Grass Valley, CA at the played out Empire Gold Mine. Only memorialized for its weathered character. Being able to closely examine the RAW file, revealing the effects of time and the elements, is my excuse for taking this. Not that I'm an aficionado of old gas pumps, but I've never seen one like that before. That's pretty cool. The photo's terrific - love the colours! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Picker's Palace
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Took the K20D for a spin in the Sierra foothills today. Went through the small settlement of Rough and Ready which was established in 1849 in the Mother Load; ground zero of the '49 gold rush. Appears Picker's Palace has nothing directly to do with the nostrils, but, as the banner states, Fruitjar Pickers. I gather guitars are involved. I like it. I agree with you WRT the mailboxes - they certainly emphasize the rural setting. Those old buildings with the facades look like something out of an old western. Nice shot! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
One way to keep using old software on newer operating systems is to install a virtual machine onto which you install the older OS and associated software. On my Ubuntu Linux installation I've installed Virtual Box in which I run Windows 2000 and Photoshop 6. It works well, provided your computer has sufficient memory to run 2 OSs at the same time (my machine has 1GB) and provided you have the older operating system available. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:54:49 -0700, Joseph McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's been a long long time since I've filled up my hard drives with LimeWire downloads that I hardly or never used, and I understand the corporate need to perpetuate. That being said, I get cranked every time I run into the invisible wall created by the collusion of hardware and software producers, causing you to HAVE to upgrade your software to run on the newer hardware, which you HAVE to buy because the software producer ceases support for the older versions. Not a problem for the corporate worker- bees, or government drones, but a substantial burden on the self employed or retired. Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4, Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'. The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. I just want to use it to keep track of my checkbook and charges. I don't need all the 100s of NEW features for tracking my investments, graphing everything in seventeen different forms. Back in the 90s they even got the banks to change to a new form of download files so you couldn't use the older versions of Quicken at all. So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $.10 on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Inverters
On 24/10/08, Mat Maessen, discombobulated, unleashed: Solid-state inverters tend not to work well on anything with more than a small electric motor in it. So angle grinding is probably out unless you get a generator. :-) ptui Thems fightin' words. I am going to try my angle grinder this weekend. 650 watts of pure metal resection and cauterization. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
Bob W. Wrote: It's possible to get a lot of the big name software for nothing, or next to nothing, quite legitimately. and It's also fairly easy to get things for the student price by enrolling in a course which gets you a proper student id. and If all that fails, then there is a lot of high-quality free software available, such as OpenOffice which does a perfectly good job for most of the things that MS Office does. Microsoft themselves give a lot of good stuff away. and Things like accountancy packages are available for nothing very easily, or are very easy to deal with on spreadsheets. When I had my own business I did everything in Excel. It helps to keep things simple. That is partially true, Bob. With a bit of planning, I could enroll in a community college course for less than $100, if I was to purchase a high dollar software package. The rest of which you speak has to do with the 'evil empire', who, given their spotty support for the Mac platform over the years, is on my sh*t list forever. Paul Sorenson wrote: Maybe you should consider moving to a Windows box...we're still running Quicken 2000 on one of our XP machines. ;} You are a facetious lout, sir... :-) More evil empire drivel... Godfrey wrote: If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why use quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do it with a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've migrated it through several different DB engines as things changed. It works fine. Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere near as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and document creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages. Because I'm a lazy dog, who doesn't want to be inputing every penny I spend into a database or spreadsheet. I like the idea of downloading the data from my bank(s), entering the minor cash purchases, then checking the balances and smiling at how clever that all is. And most of all, sucking it all back out into what used to be MacinTax, then TurboTax, to do my taxes every year. I do use Pages now, though it surprises me all the time with crap built into it's templates that I don't want, and can't figure out how to get rid of. And I use Numbers as my spreadsheet engine - getting used to that as well, but have neither the expertise nor the patience to design and troubleshoot a personal financial package that would do my taxes as well. On Oct 24, 2008, at 13:22 , John Francis wrote: Quicken updates come for free if you buy TurboTax DeLuxe. It's generally been worth updating - Intuit products can be very touchy about working with software firewalls, NAT routers, etc. Until the most recent version we had to disable our firewall and/or use direct dial-up access to be able to talk to some parts of the Intuit site :-( I stopped using TurboTax after years of having a hard time finding a copy for the Mac. Now, you can buy an inexpensive copy for simple tax situations and no state (I live in a no income tax state) that runs on your PC, but if you want a Mac version, you must buy the Deluxe version, and not use 98% if it. So I have not been aware it would allow you to upgrade your Quicken, and frankly doubt very much if it would upgrade anything for the Mac, especially back to the 2006 version. By the way, you cannot upgrade 2006 to 2008, and cannot buy (from Intuit) 2007, and the new 2009 is not available yet for the Mac (now called something like Financial Freedom). You think that sound like support for the Mac platform? I think Intuit is a tank-load of crap. You can tell them I said so. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
Probably the best idea of them all. I have a license to install Parallels on my iMac. It's already working on my MacBook. And I have a borrowed copy of windows. But I've never heard of anyone running Mac OS 9.2.2 in it, nor do I have the windows versions of Quicken! I do have a desktop G4 and a laptop G3 on which I could set up OSX that would still run Classic (OS-9) and still communicate on the network with my iMac. Good project before the end of the year. Thanks. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time On Oct 24, 2008, at 14:15 , Brian Walters wrote: One way to keep using old software on newer operating systems is to install a virtual machine onto which you install the older OS and associated software. On my Ubuntu Linux installation I've installed Virtual Box in which I run Windows 2000 and Photoshop 6. It works well, provided your computer has sufficient memory to run 2 OSs at the same time (my machine has 1GB) and provided you have the older operating system available. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
Paul Sorenson wrote: Maybe you should consider moving to a Windows box...we're still running Quicken 2000 on one of our XP machines. ;} Joseph McAllister wrote: The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. Since Joe is on the Mac, and his needs are really simple, maybe he should consider GnuCash or one of the other open source options? -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why use quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do it with a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've migrated it through several different DB engines as things changed. It works fine. Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere near as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and document creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages. Because I'm a lazy dog, who doesn't want to be inputing every penny I spend into a database or spreadsheet. I like the idea of downloading the data from my bank(s), entering the minor cash purchases, then checking the balances and smiling at how clever that all is. And most of all, sucking it all back out into what used to be MacinTax, then TurboTax, to do my taxes every year. I do use Pages now, though it surprises me all the time with crap built into it's templates that I don't want, and can't figure out how to get rid of. And I use Numbers as my spreadsheet engine - getting used to that as well, but have neither the expertise nor the patience to design and troubleshoot a personal financial package that would do my taxes as well. 1: You pay for your conveniences. Then complain. Inputting my daily receipts and expenditures takes a few minutes a day and costs me nothing. 2: Design your own templates for Pages that have what you want in them. Everything you need to know is in the built in Help, including tutorial videos on how to do things, never mind the automatic pointers to online help and discussion groups. You do what you want to do. Such it is. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:59 PM, PN Stenquist wrote: I just meant that since I can only afford one or the other at the moment, the nod had to go to CS4. I might like Lightroom as a conversion and rendering tool. I haven't spent enough time with it to be certain. But I do know that CS1 doesn't take advantage of the Intel box speed, I need PhotoShop for image processing beyond what Lightroom does, and I need InDesign. So for now, I'm still a PhotoShop and Adobe Raw Converter boy. Photoshop, Bridge and Camera Raw constitutes a good image processing system. What do you use for image organization, cataloging and other management activities? I am curious as to what it is that you do with Photoshop that is not possible in Lightroom 2. I know things like panorama stitching and compositing ... but I don't see too much of that in your posted photos. However, for an Apple Intel system, yes: you need CS3 or CS4 as a minimum for good performance. Peripheral to my image processing, I use PS CS2 for watermarking, borders, and other relatively light duty stuff. I also use it for designing layouts and other stuff like that. And yes, I could really use a copy of InDesign ... G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
I've been using TurboTax, on a Mac, for at least ten years. These days I simply download it from the Intuit website. The software gets better every year, and it makes tax time a breeze, even for someone like me who has lots of itemized deductions and a schedule C. Paul On Oct 24, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: Bob W. Wrote: It's possible to get a lot of the big name software for nothing, or next to nothing, quite legitimately. and It's also fairly easy to get things for the student price by enrolling in a course which gets you a proper student id. and If all that fails, then there is a lot of high-quality free software available, such as OpenOffice which does a perfectly good job for most of the things that MS Office does. Microsoft themselves give a lot of good stuff away. and Things like accountancy packages are available for nothing very easily, or are very easy to deal with on spreadsheets. When I had my own business I did everything in Excel. It helps to keep things simple. That is partially true, Bob. With a bit of planning, I could enroll in a community college course for less than $100, if I was to purchase a high dollar software package. The rest of which you speak has to do with the 'evil empire', who, given their spotty support for the Mac platform over the years, is on my sh*t list forever. Paul Sorenson wrote: Maybe you should consider moving to a Windows box...we're still running Quicken 2000 on one of our XP machines. ;} You are a facetious lout, sir... :-) More evil empire drivel... Godfrey wrote: If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why use quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do it with a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've migrated it through several different DB engines as things changed. It works fine. Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere near as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and document creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages. Because I'm a lazy dog, who doesn't want to be inputing every penny I spend into a database or spreadsheet. I like the idea of downloading the data from my bank(s), entering the minor cash purchases, then checking the balances and smiling at how clever that all is. And most of all, sucking it all back out into what used to be MacinTax, then TurboTax, to do my taxes every year. I do use Pages now, though it surprises me all the time with crap built into it's templates that I don't want, and can't figure out how to get rid of. And I use Numbers as my spreadsheet engine - getting used to that as well, but have neither the expertise nor the patience to design and troubleshoot a personal financial package that would do my taxes as well. On Oct 24, 2008, at 13:22 , John Francis wrote: Quicken updates come for free if you buy TurboTax DeLuxe. It's generally been worth updating - Intuit products can be very touchy about working with software firewalls, NAT routers, etc. Until the most recent version we had to disable our firewall and/or use direct dial-up access to be able to talk to some parts of the Intuit site :-( I stopped using TurboTax after years of having a hard time finding a copy for the Mac. Now, you can buy an inexpensive copy for simple tax situations and no state (I live in a no income tax state) that runs on your PC, but if you want a Mac version, you must buy the Deluxe version, and not use 98% if it. So I have not been aware it would allow you to upgrade your Quicken, and frankly doubt very much if it would upgrade anything for the Mac, especially back to the 2006 version. By the way, you cannot upgrade 2006 to 2008, and cannot buy (from Intuit) 2007, and the new 2009 is not available yet for the Mac (now called something like Financial Freedom). You think that sound like support for the Mac platform? I think Intuit is a tank-load of crap. You can tell them I said so. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
On Oct 24, 2008, at 14:42 , Doug Franklin wrote: Joseph McAllister wrote: The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. Since Joe is on the Mac, and his needs are really simple, maybe he should consider GnuCash or one of the other open source options? Thanks, Doug. I just went and read the 'install' directions, and the 'troubleshooting' instructions for GnuCash for OSX, and my eyes crossed and my head nodded half way through. As Godfrey has chastised me for my Scottish frugality and my ADD prevents me from tackling anything more complex than the settings on my K20, it looks like I just may have to re-enter the whirlpool of Intuit to meet my needs. Rats! Joseph McAllister Pentaxian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
I do quite a bit of compositing, cloning and even some filter effects. Much more so for my commercial work than for the hobby photography that I generally show here. I don't know if everything I do can be accomplished in Lightroom. Perhaps. I catalog simply by assigning a date and keywords to every new folder. I've been using the Browser as my file search and retrieval system. I'll now use Bridge. I had CS3 on my work computer and found Bridge quite adequate for my purposes. Paul On Oct 24, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:59 PM, PN Stenquist wrote: I just meant that since I can only afford one or the other at the moment, the nod had to go to CS4. I might like Lightroom as a conversion and rendering tool. I haven't spent enough time with it to be certain. But I do know that CS1 doesn't take advantage of the Intel box speed, I need PhotoShop for image processing beyond what Lightroom does, and I need InDesign. So for now, I'm still a PhotoShop and Adobe Raw Converter boy. Photoshop, Bridge and Camera Raw constitutes a good image processing system. What do you use for image organization, cataloging and other management activities? I am curious as to what it is that you do with Photoshop that is not possible in Lightroom 2. I know things like panorama stitching and compositing ... but I don't see too much of that in your posted photos. However, for an Apple Intel system, yes: you need CS3 or CS4 as a minimum for good performance. Peripheral to my image processing, I use PS CS2 for watermarking, borders, and other relatively light duty stuff. I also use it for designing layouts and other stuff like that. And yes, I could really use a copy of InDesign ... G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
Wow, never knew you could do this--course I'm no computer whiz. Thanks for the tip, Brian. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 4:15 PM Subject: Re: PS CS4 One way to keep using old software on newer operating systems is to install a virtual machine onto which you install the older OS and associated software. On my Ubuntu Linux installation I've installed Virtual Box in which I run Windows 2000 and Photoshop 6. It works well, provided your computer has sufficient memory to run 2 OSs at the same time (my machine has 1GB) and provided you have the older operating system available. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:54:49 -0700, Joseph McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's been a long long time since I've filled up my hard drives with LimeWire downloads that I hardly or never used, and I understand the corporate need to perpetuate. That being said, I get cranked every time I run into the invisible wall created by the collusion of hardware and software producers, causing you to HAVE to upgrade your software to run on the newer hardware, which you HAVE to buy because the software producer ceases support for the older versions. Not a problem for the corporate worker- bees, or government drones, but a substantial burden on the self employed or retired. Most of what I do today I could still be doing in PS 4, Pagemaker 4, Quicken 2000, and AppleWorks. But none of those will run on current equipment, or are no longer around nor have any support, no minor upgrades to run on newer hardware, not even an upgrade 'path'. The worst is Quicken, who forces you to upgrade at full price every 3 years, as they roll off support for the older versions. My Quicken 2006 will not run on my iMac under 10.4 or later, and there is no upgrade path. I just want to use it to keep track of my checkbook and charges. I don't need all the 100s of NEW features for tracking my investments, graphing everything in seventeen different forms. Back in the 90s they even got the banks to change to a new form of download files so you couldn't use the older versions of Quicken at all. So when I'm offered (as I am almost every day via email) the latest greatest version of even $50 software, let alone $1400 stuff, for $.10 on the $1.00, it gives me pause for thought. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
In a book on Lightroom, the author made the claim that Lightroom is not very good for professional quality sharpening. The recommendation is to do rendering in Lightroom, then open image in PS for final sharpening. This surprised me. I'd be interested in knowing what list folks think. The book is S. Kelby's Adobe PS Lightroom Book for Dig. Photogs. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
From: Derby Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will you be posting a gallery soon? Thanks, Derby. Just a small one--maybe I'll put a 6 pic one together this weekend. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Yee Ha!!!
- Original Message - From: Ken Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 1:35 PM Subject: Re: Yee Ha!!! Sounds like you have a neat arrangement @ the construction site - go get'em girl ! Hey, big thanks, Ken. Your comment really cheered me up. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
See, that makes so much sense. My personality is such that I would bitch to the floor person at Costco for 30 minutes about no standard version of TurboTax in an attempt to save $15 over an online download (if it is in fact available in that version for the Mac) based primarily on the principle of the thing, i.e.: windows vs Mac support by any vendor. Any of you Mac users try to get any of the free perks that Comcast offers for it's customers? Windows only - no compensation for loss of value to Mac users - 16 years now. Yes, I know it's unreasonable, especially for someone who HAS to have the latest Pentax bodies, but holds on dearly (unsuccessfully, of late) to his collection of older high dollar glass, and HAS to have the latest greatest Macs, yet whines about the older software not running on it. I'll shut up now. Back to whatever you all were up to when I got up this morning! :-) Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time On Oct 24, 2008, at 14:54 , PN Stenquist wrote: I've been using TurboTax, on a Mac, for at least ten years. These days I simply download it from the Intuit website. The software gets better every year, and it makes tax time a breeze, even for someone like me who has lots of itemized deductions and a schedule C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PS CS4
On 10/24/08, Joseph McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Doug. I just went and read the 'install' directions, and the 'troubleshooting' instructions for GnuCash for OSX, and my eyes crossed and my head nodded half way through. As Godfrey has chastised me for my Scottish frugality and my ADD prevents me from tackling anything more complex than the settings on my K20, it looks like I just may have to re-enter the whirlpool of Intuit to meet my needs. You're not trying to compile it from source, are you? Read this: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation apt-get is very easy to use. -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
