Re: PESO x3: Thunderstorm
On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:20 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Yeah, but if I remember, there was a whole lot of pissing and moaning because turning off Noise Reduction doesn't actually turn off the dark frame subtraction. I just did a test with a 15-second exposure in my darkened living room. Turning off Noise Reduction meant I could access the preview straight away. With NR on I get no preview until after the dark frame has been shot (indicated by the shots-remaining number flashing on the top LCD). So whoever said K20D may have been right as the dark frame subtraction definitely can be turned off in the K10D. I'll compare the images later to see what kind of difference it makes to the noise :) 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.
GESO (6): Daffies
Spring is here :) I took these about a week ago but have only just got around to processing them. http://www.multi.net.nz/daffies/ 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.
PESO: Cake
It was delicious and there is still plenty more left :) http://www.multi.net.nz/cake/ 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: PESO x3: Thunderstorm
On Sep 7, 2012, at 6:02 PM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: I'll compare the images later to see what kind of difference it makes to the noise :) I just had a look. Noise-wise it made little difference in a 15-second exposure at 400ISO. The frame was a bit underexposed; the meter may have been fooled by the wall which is a pretty light colour. But it looks like I'm getting some colour shifts with NR turned off. It seems to be going a bit green towards the left of the frame. I did a couple of tests and the amount of colour shift is a bit inconsistent as well. I can handle colour shifts but not when they're uneven, so I think I'll leave NR on. 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: PESO: How big can you print?
Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: That picture I got a few weeks ago of some mountains out the plane window, I asked my neighbor the fine-art printer how big it could be printed. Pretty big! http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/09/06/-big/RUNE6097.jpg.html - that’s a chair it’s propped up against. 40x50, more or less. Bloggage with more details at http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/09/06/The-Big-Picture Disclosure: Not a Pentax, a Canon S100. Looks great doesn't it? Some friends of mine printed a portrait I'd taken of their son on 16x20 canvass. It was taken from a JPEG from my ist*d that had already been cropped. If they'd asked me I'd have said don't bother but they didn't and the resulting print looks stunning on their wall... Chris -- 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: Oracle vies with Apple to see who will be the supreme ASSHOLES in the entire universe.
Two words: Firefox NoScript http://photo.net/photos/RickW - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com To: pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:18 PM Subject: Oracle vies with Apple to see who will be the supreme ASSHOLES in the entire universe. Another popup Java update, and another attempt to hijack my browser shove McAfee down my throat. Every damn week. If I wanted McAfee, I'd already have it installed! -- 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: Rain Garden
Quite an effort, John. Hope your K20 dries out and the pixel issues go away. Successful shot! Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 9:55 PM Subject: PESO: Rain Garden I had some time to kill yesterday waiting for a photography club meeting to start. We meet at an arboretum associated with NC State University. They have a nice little Japanese garden, and I got to thinking how it might look in one of those old Japanese wood-block prints, with the rain fog. So, I kind of planned this shot out, and then all I had to do was wait until it rained scurry over there to take the shot. Which it did this afternoon. About rain - I needed it to be raining hard so the rain would show up in the photo. The hard rain is at the leading edge of the storm. If you're not ready to move as soon as you hear the first crash of thunder you're probably going to miss it. Also, if you use fill flash to try to make the rain pop out, you need to be on trailing curtain sync. Otherwise your raindrops will look like they're falling upwards. Standing in the rain, holding the umbrella over the camera tripod because I didn't have my rain-sleeves ready. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7947602716/lightbox/ K20D, DA18-55 II aperture priority @f/22 NIK filters (HDR Pro, Color Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro) Cropped it 12x24 to give it a panoramic feel. In the end, I had to assist the rain just a little in Photoshop (a whole lot actually). My K20D has got some hot pixels or something. There are 2 bright red dots in exactly the same spot in every frame. They appear to be 1 pixel each. Plus there's a bright white blob about the size the light in the garden sculpture. It's pretty easy to locate because it's right in the middle of a 1 pixel high bright red line that extends from side to side across the frame. It's a b**ch cloning the red line out. Content aware fill can't do it, and if you're not super careful, it just ends up looking like someone cloned out a red line across the middle of the frame. -- 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: The NEW Pentax Q
Larger sensor and the right price. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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 (6): Daffies
Waiter, there's a fly on my flower . . . I love the ducks. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: Spring is here :) I took these about a week ago but have only just got around to processing them. http://www.multi.net.nz/daffies/ 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
http://photorumors.com/2012/09/07/pentax-k-5-ii-and-k-5-iis-dslr-cameras/ I would expect them to get the video and AF upgrades of the K-30, at least. So what makes the Super super? -- 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 (6): Daffies
Dave, Great to see spring again... Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:01 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: Spring is here :) I took these about a week ago but have only just got around to processing them. http://www.multi.net.nz/daffies/ 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. -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
Such an imaginative choice of names! On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: http://photorumors.com/2012/09/07/pentax-k-5-ii-and-k-5-iis-dslr-cameras/ I would expect them to get the video and AF upgrades of the K-30, at least. So what makes the Super super? -- 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: The NEW Pentax Q
That's probably wishful thinking on both points. On 9/7/2012 9:11 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: Larger sensor and the right price. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthly search. -- 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: Rain Garden
John, That is an interesting and different looking image. You need something more added to give it a center of interest. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:55 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I had some time to kill yesterday waiting for a photography club meeting to start. We meet at an arboretum associated with NC State University. They have a nice little Japanese garden, and I got to thinking how it might look in one of those old Japanese wood-block prints, with the rain fog. So, I kind of planned this shot out, and then all I had to do was wait until it rained scurry over there to take the shot. Which it did this afternoon. About rain - I needed it to be raining hard so the rain would show up in the photo. The hard rain is at the leading edge of the storm. If you're not ready to move as soon as you hear the first crash of thunder you're probably going to miss it. Also, if you use fill flash to try to make the rain pop out, you need to be on trailing curtain sync. Otherwise your raindrops will look like they're falling upwards. Standing in the rain, holding the umbrella over the camera tripod because I didn't have my rain-sleeves ready. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7947602716/lightbox/ K20D, DA18-55 II aperture priority @f/22 NIK filters (HDR Pro, Color Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro) Cropped it 12x24 to give it a panoramic feel. In the end, I had to assist the rain just a little in Photoshop (a whole lot actually). My K20D has got some hot pixels or something. There are 2 bright red dots in exactly the same spot in every frame. They appear to be 1 pixel each. Plus there's a bright white blob about the size the light in the garden sculpture. It's pretty easy to locate because it's right in the middle of a 1 pixel high bright red line that extends from side to side across the frame. It's a b**ch cloning the red line out. Content aware fill can't do it, and if you're not super careful, it just ends up looking like someone cloned out a red line across the middle of the frame. -- 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: The NEW Pentax Q
It looks like the same size sensor to me. And unless they engineered the Q lenses to cover a larger image circle, they *can't* put a bigger sensor in the Q. But this is still terrific news for any fan of the Q. It means they have not abandoned it, and that means that even more lens support may be coming. Still hoping for a fast wide angle to be made for it. -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
I would have preferred K5 IIa and K5 IIb. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Such an imaginative choice of names! On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: http://photorumors.com/2012/09/07/pentax-k-5-ii-and-k-5-iis-dslr-cameras/ I would expect them to get the video and AF upgrades of the K-30, at least. So what makes the Super super? -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
Hum, such as the Canon XXX N Mark X camera names? Remember last time Pentax got imaginative we got the unpronounceable and unsearchable *ist series. Besides it's good marketing. The K-5 is still in the DxOMark top 10 for absolute sensor quality almost two years after it's release, beating out several FF and medium format sensors. Pentax hit a home run and they want to capitalize on that.Who wouldn't? On 9/7/2012 9:41 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Such an imaginative choice of names! On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: http://photorumors.com/2012/09/07/pentax-k-5-ii-and-k-5-iis-dslr-cameras/ I would expect them to get the video and AF upgrades of the K-30, at least. So what makes the Super super? -- 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. -- Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthly search. -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
On 7 September 2012 14:32, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: http://photorumors.com/2012/09/07/pentax-k-5-ii-and-k-5-iis-dslr-cameras/ I would expect them to get the video and AF upgrades of the K-30, at least. So what makes the Super super? For what it's worth, the relevent sentence from: http://digicame-info.com/2012/09/k-5-ii-k-5-iis.html スペックは今のところ不明ですが、K-5 IIs はK-5 II のローパスレスバージョンでしょうか？ Says Specs are, at the moment, unclear, but perhaps the K-5 IIs is the low pass version of the K-5 II? -- Eric -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
Yes, and so it appears that THIS poster knows what he's talking about: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/visitors-center/197932-new-pentax-items-like-k5-mark-ii-lenses.html#post2084711 -- 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: How big can you print?
That is a terrific image, Tim, and I'm glad you did this little experiment. It is hard to simulate what you are seeing with a picture of a picture presented at monitor resolution (of course) but the fact that YOU are pleased with it tells me all I need to know. I think that sometimes we forget that the larger an image is, the greater the distance away that it is to be viewed/appreciated. Yes, I imagine if you step up and put your face 18 away from a 30x40 print you will be able to tell a (big) difference between a small-sensor-produced image (particularly one produced by a backlit Sony Exmor sensor) and your K-5/K-7/K-x etc. but from a proper viewing distance maybe not so much. -- 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: Rain Garden
Great when a plan comes together. Since the post processing is quite evident the question is does it succeed in giving the viewer a satisfactory experience. I enjoy looking at it and I think it would be nice have on the wall and it would not wear out its welcome. In short I think you have created something and have set a high standard for your future work. A verbose way of saying I liked it. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 13 Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:55:52 -0400 From: John Sessomsjsessoms...@nc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Rain Garden Message-ID:50497e58.6090...@nc.rr.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I had some time to kill yesterday waiting for a photography club meeting to start. We meet at an arboretum associated with NC State University. They have a nice little Japanese garden, and I got to thinking how it might look in one of those old Japanese wood-block prints, with the rain fog. So, I kind of planned this shot out, and then all I had to do was wait until it rained scurry over there to take the shot. Which it did this afternoon. About rain - I needed it to be raining hard so the rain would show up in the photo. The hard rain is at the leading edge of the storm. If you're not ready to move as soon as you hear the first crash of thunder you're probably going to miss it. Also, if you use fill flash to try to make the rain pop out, you need to be on trailing curtain sync. Otherwise your raindrops will look like they're falling upwards. Standing in the rain, holding the umbrella over the camera tripod because I didn't have my rain-sleeves ready. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7947602716/lightbox/ K20D, DA18-55 II aperture priority @f/22 NIK filters (HDR Pro, Color Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro) Cropped it 12x24 to give it a panoramic feel. In the end, I had to assist the rain just a little in Photoshop (a whole lot actually). My K20D has got some hot pixels or something. There are 2 bright red dots in exactly the same spot in every frame. They appear to be 1 pixel each. Plus there's a bright white blob about the size the light in the garden sculpture. It's pretty easy to locate because it's right in the middle of a 1 pixel high bright red line that extends from side to side across the frame. It's a b**ch cloning the red line out. Content aware fill can't do it, and if you're not super careful, it just ends up looking like someone cloned out a red line across the middle of the frame. -- 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 (6): Daffies
Daffies are always in season. I particularly like 2 6. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 2 Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 19:01:59 +1200 From: David Manndmann...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: GESO (6): Daffies Message-ID:b82dc776-ee67-471c-9f97-b0fdd2b15...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Spring is here:) I took these about a week ago but have only just got around to processing them. http://www.multi.net.nz/daffies/ 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: The NEW Pentax Q
Q10, eh? Bet that will become ubiquitous bar none. :-) Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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: Rain Garden
I'm a big fan of planned shoots, so I really appreciate how much went into this, John. I really like the subject matter, and I'd say you got the rain effect you were hoping for. But I feel that the lightening vignette works against this image. And I'd like to see more contrast in the image overall--seems to be a tad too undefined. Sorry to hear about sensor issues with your K20. I wonder what Pentax would charge to fix these now? Maybe cheaper to buy a neglected one from a PDMLer? On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:55 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I had some time to kill yesterday waiting for a photography club meeting to start. We meet at an arboretum associated with NC State University. They have a nice little Japanese garden, and I got to thinking how it might look in one of those old Japanese wood-block prints, with the rain fog. So, I kind of planned this shot out, and then all I had to do was wait until it rained scurry over there to take the shot. Which it did this afternoon. About rain - I needed it to be raining hard so the rain would show up in the photo. The hard rain is at the leading edge of the storm. If you're not ready to move as soon as you hear the first crash of thunder you're probably going to miss it. Also, if you use fill flash to try to make the rain pop out, you need to be on trailing curtain sync. Otherwise your raindrops will look like they're falling upwards. Standing in the rain, holding the umbrella over the camera tripod because I didn't have my rain-sleeves ready. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7947602716/lightbox/ K20D, DA18-55 II aperture priority @f/22 NIK filters (HDR Pro, Color Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro) Cropped it 12x24 to give it a panoramic feel. In the end, I had to assist the rain just a little in Photoshop (a whole lot actually). My K20D has got some hot pixels or something. There are 2 bright red dots in exactly the same spot in every frame. They appear to be 1 pixel each. Plus there's a bright white blob about the size the light in the garden sculpture. It's pretty easy to locate because it's right in the middle of a 1 pixel high bright red line that extends from side to side across the frame. It's a b**ch cloning the red line out. Content aware fill can't do it, and if you're not super careful, it just ends up looking like someone cloned out a red line across the middle of the frame. -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
Hmmm... That was possibly the lamest pun ever. But seriously, a rumor that claims the name Q10? Doesn't sound very likely to me... AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Q10, eh? Bet that will become ubiquitous bar none. :-) Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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: Rain Garden
John's WIALDD (woman in a long diaphanous dress) wasn't available that day. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: John, That is an interesting and different looking image. You need something more added to give it a center of interest. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:55 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I had some time to kill yesterday waiting for a photography club meeting to start. We meet at an arboretum associated with NC State University. They have a nice little Japanese garden, and I got to thinking how it might look in one of those old Japanese wood-block prints, with the rain fog. So, I kind of planned this shot out, and then all I had to do was wait until it rained scurry over there to take the shot. Which it did this afternoon. About rain - I needed it to be raining hard so the rain would show up in the photo. The hard rain is at the leading edge of the storm. If you're not ready to move as soon as you hear the first crash of thunder you're probably going to miss it. Also, if you use fill flash to try to make the rain pop out, you need to be on trailing curtain sync. Otherwise your raindrops will look like they're falling upwards. Standing in the rain, holding the umbrella over the camera tripod because I didn't have my rain-sleeves ready. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7947602716/lightbox/ K20D, DA18-55 II aperture priority @f/22 NIK filters (HDR Pro, Color Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro) Cropped it 12x24 to give it a panoramic feel. In the end, I had to assist the rain just a little in Photoshop (a whole lot actually). My K20D has got some hot pixels or something. There are 2 bright red dots in exactly the same spot in every frame. They appear to be 1 pixel each. Plus there's a bright white blob about the size the light in the garden sculpture. It's pretty easy to locate because it's right in the middle of a 1 pixel high bright red line that extends from side to side across the frame. It's a b**ch cloning the red line out. Content aware fill can't do it, and if you're not super careful, it just ends up looking like someone cloned out a red line across the middle of the frame. -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
A pair of small watercolors - I'm hoping that the one on the left is of a known location - I'm gathering in Europe somewhere.. It looks like the signature is ZILK or ZTK or ZFk. http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large thanks, guys ann -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
At least they didn't predict the opposite order: 10Q 10Q very much. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:10 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Hmmm... That was possibly the lamest pun ever. But seriously, a rumor that claims the name Q10? Doesn't sound very likely to me... AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Q10, eh? Bet that will become ubiquitous bar none. :-) Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
They should use primes, i.e., Q', Q, etc. . .. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:10 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Hmmm... That was possibly the lamest pun ever. But seriously, a rumor that claims the name Q10? Doesn't sound very likely to me... AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Q10, eh? Bet that will become ubiquitous bar none. :-) Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
The repressed Q punnery is beginning to emerge. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: At least they didn't predict the opposite order: 10Q 10Q very much. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:10 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Hmmm... That was possibly the lamest pun ever. But seriously, a rumor that claims the name Q10? Doesn't sound very likely to me... AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Q10, eh? Bet that will become ubiquitous bar none. :-) Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
MOre OT - help with monitor
I think my monitor is dying... when I increase the brightness setting (I have a Proview monitor) which is right at the bottom of the monitor itself, it starts blinking and goes dark. turning it off and on gets it back but blinking... the only way I can use it now is to keep the brightness so low (at about 30%) that it certainly affects my ability to edit my photos and appreciate yours. I can up the brightness for a few seconds to check something but more than 15 seconds and it flickers and dies and I have to drop it back to under 30%. I mention this particularly now as I'm sure I'm not appreciating some of the PUGS due to it. any recommendations for a monitor? I'm running XP on a dell dimension C521 - thank goodness i have a PC Richards credit card (only one I have) ann -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
A Pentax Q lens (the 06) has been leaked. A 15-45mm f2.8 zoom (84-250mm equiv.) Still hoping there is an 07 for the PRIME crowd. Also leaked, a 90mm DFA Macro for the 645 and what is apparently just a rebadge of an existing Tamron for the 18-270mm. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: The repressed Q punnery is beginning to emerge. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: At least they didn't predict the opposite order: 10Q 10Q very much. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:10 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Hmmm... That was possibly the lamest pun ever. But seriously, a rumor that claims the name Q10? Doesn't sound very likely to me... AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Q10, eh? Bet that will become ubiquitous bar none. :-) Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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. -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
If the 9 announcement number was correct... how many do we have left? New Q New Q lens 645 macro 18-270mm rebadge Still presuming the Q K-mount adapter leaves 4. Guessing: 645D mkII, K-5 mkII, flash and K-z/K300 ? -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
Oops. Forgot the 560mm presumed to be real. So scratch one (or combine a couple of products into one announcment - like all the Q stuff together???) On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: If the 9 announcement number was correct... how many do we have left? New Q New Q lens 645 macro 18-270mm rebadge Still presuming the Q K-mount adapter leaves 4. Guessing: 645D mkII, K-5 mkII, flash and K-z/K300 ? -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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 2012 - 089 - GDG
I've been struggling with finding the time to do much shooting, never mind keeping focused on a theme. Working full time as a staff writer consumes a lot of my creative energy. So I've been putting a lot of my photo involvements on the back burner and dallying with a few new cameras seeking a balance point. Less time means shooting less ... If I can do that with a renewed focus and intent, I can progress further. While I've bought more equipment, I've been looking for a simplification. I'm using fewer lenses and accessories than I once did, looking for simplicity in controls and operation. Picking back up shooting some film ... although it's more work, the constraints of shooting BW film simplify what I'm doing in another way. One of the cameras I've acquired is an old favorite, the Leica CL. It arrived from the Netherlands on Aug 25. I fitted the M-Rokkor 40mm f/2 (Mark II) lens I already had, stuffed it with a roll of Ilford XP2 Super, and carried it exclusively this past week. I'm happy to say that using it, I fall in love with it once again. Third time's the charm: this is a marvelous camera with just the 40mm lens. Here's one of several exposures from the test roll that made me really happy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/7948457076/lightbox/ Add the 90mm, which I also have, and a 21mm and it's probably as much as I ever need for my new world of photography. Except that it isn't digital ... Sigh. I love film, but it does take a lot more work to get from taking to finished photograph. I guess I'll just have to see where this goes. To quote another famous guy, The journey is the reward. Blog post coming up over the weekend. enjoy! Godfrey - http://godfreydigiorgi.posterous.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: PESO: Rain Garden
Bruce, Do John and Frank share the WIALDD model. She must be getting lots of Frequent Flyier miles. Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: John's WIALDD (woman in a long diaphanous dress) wasn't available that day. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: John, That is an interesting and different looking image. You need something more added to give it a center of interest. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:55 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I had some time to kill yesterday waiting for a photography club meeting to start. We meet at an arboretum associated with NC State University. They have a nice little Japanese garden, and I got to thinking how it might look in one of those old Japanese wood-block prints, with the rain fog. So, I kind of planned this shot out, and then all I had to do was wait until it rained scurry over there to take the shot. Which it did this afternoon. About rain - I needed it to be raining hard so the rain would show up in the photo. The hard rain is at the leading edge of the storm. If you're not ready to move as soon as you hear the first crash of thunder you're probably going to miss it. Also, if you use fill flash to try to make the rain pop out, you need to be on trailing curtain sync. Otherwise your raindrops will look like they're falling upwards. Standing in the rain, holding the umbrella over the camera tripod because I didn't have my rain-sleeves ready. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7947602716/lightbox/ K20D, DA18-55 II aperture priority @f/22 NIK filters (HDR Pro, Color Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro) Cropped it 12x24 to give it a panoramic feel. In the end, I had to assist the rain just a little in Photoshop (a whole lot actually). My K20D has got some hot pixels or something. There are 2 bright red dots in exactly the same spot in every frame. They appear to be 1 pixel each. Plus there's a bright white blob about the size the light in the garden sculpture. It's pretty easy to locate because it's right in the middle of a 1 pixel high bright red line that extends from side to side across the frame. It's a b**ch cloning the red line out. Content aware fill can't do it, and if you're not super careful, it just ends up looking like someone cloned out a red line across the middle of the frame. -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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: The NEW Pentax Q
On 9/7/2012 8:44 AM, Darren Addy wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! Excellent news! Let's hope for a dedicated Q prime macro - a 20mm f2.8 would be sweet. Q-ED lens! Mark -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
Ann, I do not know anything about the paintings or the location. However, I thought I'd offer a guess that may help in your investigations. It is possible that the signature is actually for the name Zitka (that blot which is consisten on both paintings, might stand for a). Zitka appears to be a rather common last name. If I were to guess, I'd place its origin to Eastern Europe, probably Czechia or maybe Slovakia. While it might be a very long shot, based on that, I wonder if what is pictured is in Prague or Bratislava, both cities standing on rivers. With both cities being major tourtist destinations (especially Prague), it is quite conceivable that they were bought at one of the street markets from a local (possibly unknown) artist and brought into the US. HTH, Igor Fri Sep 7 11:11:07 EDT 2012 Ann Sanfedele wrote: A pair of small watercolors - I'm hoping that the one on the left is of a known location - I'm gathering in Europe somewhere.. It looks like the signature is ZILK or ZTK or ZFk. http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large thanks, guys ann -- 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 Fuji XE-1
Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Just read about the newly announced XE-1. First little cam since the Q to make me consider a buy. That plus the 35mm/1.4 could be an outstanding portraiture kit! Anyone researched this puppy? Sent from my iPod I'm looking into it. $999 is a price I can digest, and it seems they really have improved the AF. It's still missing focus peaking and face-detect AF for me, but I'm considering it. Will have to test drive it first, though. True there aren't that many lenses, but they have the most important one for me, 35mm f/1.4, which I'd use 95% of the time. I can wait for whatever else they're designing by using my K-mount lenses on it. My biggest gripe is the lack of good Adobe support for the RAW files. All that said, I think this is going to be Fuji's big success. Cheers, --M. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
Samyang 35mm tilt/shift in PK is for Full Frame
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/09/07/samyang-24mm-f3-5-tilt-shift-lens One explanation is that Samyang is marketing the lens already to budget buyers of other full frame cameras (including the soon to be announced Sony A99 which will allegedly share the same sensor with the Pentax FF) so they might as well make a PK mount also. However, I would argue that few people want a 52mm (effective) focal length T/S lens, so why bother. I think it is one more evidence that the Pentax FF is coming (personally, I believe the rumors that say that Pentax must give Sony 6 months lead time with the A99 before they can market it). -- 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: Samyang 35mm tilt/shift in PK is for Full Frame
Sorry. Somehow I mixed up in my head that this was a 35mm focal length lens. In fact, that is what it would be (36mm equiv. FOV) on an APS-C camera. True 24mm is better than 36mm. If this lens is any good, it is going to exert some serious downward pressure on the price of the old Pentax shift lenses (that have no tilt). If you've still got one (and don't use it), the time to sell is NOW before word of this lens gets out. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/09/07/samyang-24mm-f3-5-tilt-shift-lens One explanation is that Samyang is marketing the lens already to budget buyers of other full frame cameras (including the soon to be announced Sony A99 which will allegedly share the same sensor with the Pentax FF) so they might as well make a PK mount also. However, I would argue that few people want a 52mm (effective) focal length T/S lens, so why bother. I think it is one more evidence that the Pentax FF is coming (personally, I believe the rumors that say that Pentax must give Sony 6 months lead time with the A99 before they can market it). -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
Could well be Prague for the water wheel: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2D8Y_Water_Wheel_Prague_Czech_Republic I remember seeing it on a visit, but didn't take any pictures myself. Lots of artistic licence and maybe an imaginary vantage point, but the bend in the river's similar and the shape of the windows... As I say, could be... Chris On 7 September 2012 16:11, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: A pair of small watercolors - I'm hoping that the one on the left is of a known location - I'm gathering in Europe somewhere.. It looks like the signature is ZILK or ZTK or ZFk. http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large thanks, guys ann -- 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: MOre OT - help with monitor
Ann, Sorry to hear about your monitor problems. A few thoughts: 1. It might be actually the problem related to the built-in graphics controller. In that case you would need to buy a new graphics adapter. In that case you'd need to make sure it can be handled by the power supply (which is not that powerful in this computer model) Note, that one of the common reasons for graphics controllers going bad is overheating. (It's hot in NYC, isn't it? - so if the cooling is not efficient, it can happen.) You can check this by plugging a different monitor that I hope you can borrow from somebody. 2. If it is the monitor: It is hard to suggest something specific, since there are many parameters out there, and the budget is limited. I guess if you were to suggest what is the desired monitor size, it would make it easier for people to suggest something. Just in case, about the resolution supported by the computer: This computer has a built-in graphics controller nVidia GeForce 6150LE. According to the Wikipedia page (and other sources), for this family of controllers, maximum supported resolution is 1920 x 1440 pixels (@75 Hz) for RGB display and 1600 x 1200 pixels (@65 Hz) for DVI-D display. In your computer you have a standard 15-pin VGA connector. So, I'd assume it should able to go up to 1920x1440, but I see some people reporting problems getting anything beyond 1600x1200. With not very large monitor, I suspect you won't be using anything beyond 1280x786 or 1280x1024. HTH, Igor Fri Sep 7 11:20:10 EDT 2012 Ann Sanfedele I think my monitor is dying... when I increase the brightness setting (I have a Proview monitor) which is right at the bottom of the monitor itself, it starts blinking and goes dark. turning it off and on gets it back but blinking... the only way I can use it now is to keep the brightness so low (at about 30%) that it certainly affects my ability to edit my photos and appreciate yours. I can up the brightness for a few seconds to check something but more than 15 seconds and it flickers and dies and I have to drop it back to under 30%. I mention this particularly now as I'm sure I'm not appreciating some of the PUGS due to it. any recommendations for a monitor? I'm running XP on a dell dimension C521 - thank goodness i have a PC Richards credit card (only one I have) ann -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
Yeah, but the 645 version will cost 4 times as much. ;-) I'll be curious to see how big that Q zoom is. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: A Pentax Q lens (the 06) has been leaked. A 15-45mm f2.8 zoom (84-250mm equiv.) Still hoping there is an 07 for the PRIME crowd. Also leaked, a 90mm DFA Macro for the 645 and what is apparently just a rebadge of an existing Tamron for the 18-270mm. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: The repressed Q punnery is beginning to emerge. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: At least they didn't predict the opposite order: 10Q 10Q very much. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:10 AM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Hmmm... That was possibly the lamest pun ever. But seriously, a rumor that claims the name Q10? Doesn't sound very likely to me... AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Q10, eh? Bet that will become ubiquitous bar none. :-) Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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. -- The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around. -Thomas Moore, Original Self -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
And the bridge / tower is Prague too. http://www.praguewelcome.cz/en/visit/monuments/top-monuments/57-old-town-bridge-tower-.shtml On 7 September 2012 18:07, Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net wrote: Could well be Prague for the water wheel: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2D8Y_Water_Wheel_Prague_Czech_Republic I remember seeing it on a visit, but didn't take any pictures myself. Lots of artistic licence and maybe an imaginary vantage point, but the bend in the river's similar and the shape of the windows... As I say, could be... Chris On 7 September 2012 16:11, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: A pair of small watercolors - I'm hoping that the one on the left is of a known location - I'm gathering in Europe somewhere.. It looks like the signature is ZILK or ZTK or ZFk. http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large thanks, guys ann -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
I think, Chris, you nailed it! See e.g. this photo: http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/1237030.jpg or this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffsheehan2010/2111724076/ or any of these for comparison: http://goo.gl/pXhdK Igor Fri Sep 7 13:07:29 EDT 2012 Chris Mitchell wrote: Could well be Prague for the water wheel: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2D8Y_Water_Wheel_Prague_Czech_Republic I remember seeing it on a visit, but didn't take any pictures myself. Lots of artistic licence and maybe an imaginary vantage point, but the bend in the river's similar and the shape of the windows... As I say, could be... Chris On 7 September 2012 16:11, Ann Sanfedele annsan at nyc.rr.com wrote: A pair of small watercolors - I'm hoping that the one on the left is of a known location - I'm gathering in Europe somewhere.. It looks like the signature is ZILK or ZTK or ZFk. http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large thanks, guys ann -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
Ann, Following the lead from Chris, I think I found what is depicted on the left photo Charles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower in Prague: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prague_-_Charles_Bridge.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karlsbr%C3%BCcke00.jpg and http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/30/3061/FJEDF00Z/posters/barnes-david-charles-bridge-and-old-town-bridge-tower-prague-czech-republic.jpg http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large Cheers, Igor -- 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: Dinner Party in San Mateo Thursday 6 Sept.
Oh what a shame! The 800GBP air fare would have been OK, but $25 for the meal just tips it over the edge of too expensive joke Have a great party, Chris On 6 September 2012 09:30, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On the off chance that anyone in the Bay Area wants to join me, I'm meeting with a bunch of friends for dinner at Hokkaido Express at BridgePointe Mall in San Mateo. The plan is to start showing up around 6PM. Around 8:30 a bunch of us are going to head over to Redwood City for blue/fusion dancing. If you're on facebook, the details are at: https://www.facebook.com/events/450010925043405/ 18:00 until 20:30 Hokkaido Seafood Buffet, 2200 Bridgepointe Parkway San Mateo, CA 94404 We will meet for dinner at Hokkaido Buffet in San Mateo. Some time between 8:30 and 9:00 we'll head up to South Bay fusion to finish the night off with dancing. I picked a buffet to make paying for each person's dinner simple. I'd love to be able to buy everyone dinner, but I'm afraid I'll need each of you to pick up your own tab. My guess is that it'll be about $25 with tax and tip. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
Heh... I see that Chris came up with the same conclusion... (the lead from Chris was on the water wheel). Igor From: Igor Roshchin Subject: Re: Ot - do you know where the watercolor was done? Ann, Following the lead from Chris, I think I found what is depicted on the left photo Charles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower in Prague: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prague_-_Charles_Bridge.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karlsbr%C3%BCcke00.jpg and http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/30/3061/FJEDF00Z/posters/barnes-david-charles-bridge-and-old-town-bridge-tower-prague-czech-republic.jpg http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large Cheers, Igor -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
On 9/7/2012 3:44 PM, Darren Addy wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/198154-new-pentax-q-2012-a.html Yay! Fascinating news... I've read your posts on that forum page that you just linked, Darren. You appear to be very happy about Q. I, OTOH, would rather keep shooting with my Ricoh GXR and 50 mm (EFL) module. The shots I've been able to obtain with it are most impressive (for me). I do hope though that this will provoke more competitors of Pentax to do things in a unorthodox way. Small sensor or not, but Q is surely unorthodox and although I don't see myself owing Q, I do hope it will benefit me as well, only implicitly. -- 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 - Sony NEX-7
On 9/6/2012 7:09 AM, Tom C wrote: Well, I've had the NEX-7 for a little over a week. ... All that aside I'm exchanging the NEX-7 for a new one. :-((( Sorry to hear that, Tom. IIRC you were anticipating NEX-7 for a long time now... Let's hope that the replacement will meet all of your requirements. Godfrey, I should say that I shoot from the screen (no viewfinder for me yet) and that the exposure compensation buttons arrangement is just fine for me. Surely your ergonomics is different than mine. -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
Well, it seems that there will be K-5II and K-5IIs, so that leaves two slots for Tanya's FF K mount. I however will believe that, when I see Cotty eat his hat. On 9/7/2012 12:08 PM, Darren Addy wrote: If the 9 announcement number was correct... how many do we have left? New Q New Q lens 645 macro 18-270mm rebadge Still presuming the Q K-mount adapter leaves 4. Guessing: 645D mkII, K-5 mkII, flash and K-z/K300 ? -- Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthly search. -- 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 last Photokina speculation thread on PDML before Photokina
On 9/5/2012 6:18 AM, Larry Colen wrote: There was the lens shown along with the K-01 that had the rear element that extended back into what would be the mirror box. I suspect we'll see that lens announced, and that it'll be around 20mm, f/1.8 or faster. If they can pull out a 20mm f/1, it'll have similar depth of field to a 30/1.4 or a 50/2.4. I'm going to throw a wild one out and say that if Pentax does announce a full frame, i.e. 24x36mm sensor, it'll be mirrorless, like the K-01, and that the lens I described above, will work on it. I've been said more than once that I have rather powerful imagination. But you certainly have me pinned down here, Larry. I could only try to imagine the size of the front element of the 20/1 lens that will in fact cover full frame on K-mount camera... -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
Only problem was that I pasted the wrong link to the water wheel. Should have been this one: http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/177417.html But Igor has found many more... Chris On 7 September 2012 18:29, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote: Heh... I see that Chris came up with the same conclusion... (the lead from Chris was on the water wheel). Igor From: Igor Roshchin Subject: Re: Ot - do you know where the watercolor was done? Ann, Following the lead from Chris, I think I found what is depicted on the left photo Charles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower in Prague: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prague_-_Charles_Bridge.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karlsbr%C3%BCcke00.jpg and http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/30/3061/FJEDF00Z/posters/barnes-david-charles-bridge-and-old-town-bridge-tower-prague-czech-republic.jpg http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large Cheers, Igor -- 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: The NEW Pentax Q
Steve, How about 10Dq? ;-) (I apologize to the rest of PDMLers, - this is a very scientific pun that would be understood only by some chemists and even fewer physicists.) Igor Fri Sep 7 11:17:21 EDT 2012 Steven Desjardins The repressed Q punnery is beginning to emerge. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.walker at gmail.com wrote: At least they didn't predict the opposite order: 10Q 10Q very much. -- 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 last Photokina speculation thread on PDML before Photokina
Reply interspersed below. On 9/5/2012 2:39 AM, Darren Addy wrote: The Pentax K to Q adapter shown at CPP+ Well, kind of fitting, methinks. If you produce several mounts, kindly produce the necessary adapters :-). A new flash unit This one has been way way way overdue... Pentax 645Dii Given that this 645D is the flagship - they probably must at least say something here. I surely hope 645DII will be announced. The DA High Magnification Zoom lens on the roadmap for 2012 (this language sounds a lot like the lens on the X-5 bridge camera, only to cover an APS-C image circle, so I'm guessing a 16-250mm superzoom) Rebadged Tammy 18-270?! A fast wide lens for the Q... a 5mm f1.8 would be perfect. Well... A K-mount module for the Ricoh GXR (sells more lenses to another installed base)* I doubt that very much, Andy. I cannot imagine a K-mount module for Ricoh GXR that will provide electricity for SDM and also have screwdriver for legacy AF. Without AF you can already buy an M-module and K-M adapter. In fact this is almost surely on my to get list. I will have first to examine the EVF and see if I can reliably focus manually with it. If so, this is the likely the route I will take. I would be seriously surprised if Pentax announced follow up to K-01 that would be, well how to put, designed by a regular, non-celebrity camera designers. A K-z entry level (I have my doubts about this even happening... I think Pentax is abandoning the low-entry DSLR arena, but I think that would be a mistake) I think what you think may be right. *does this count as a Pentax announcement? Is the Pentax booth combined with Ricoh at Photokina this year? Is that a rhetorical question? :-) ...I think that Pentax is going to finally *announce* that they are working on a FF camera, but that it won't ship until next year. This one is tricky. It may provoke yet another wave of people to jump ship, so Pentax may have to walk very carefully here. All obviously IMVHO. And BTW, did I say Pentax ought to upgrade their flash for like gazillion years? ;-) -- 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.
Leaked lenses
Fri Sep 7 12:05:05 EDT 2012 Darren Addy wrote: A Pentax Q lens (the 06) has been leaked. A deep [har!] philosophical thought: It would be easier to leak LIQUID lenses... See e.g. http://www.gizmag.com/samsung-liquid-zoom-lens-plans/16851/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/25/varioptic-liquid-lenses-now-shipping-in-snakecam-webcam/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/trufocals-make-steampunk-glasses-a-functional-expensive-reality/ Cheers, Igor -- 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 - Sony NEX-7
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Godfrey, I should say that I shoot from the screen (no viewfinder for me yet) and that the exposure compensation buttons arrangement is just fine for me. Surely your ergonomics is different than mine. Definitely. Using an eye level finder vs using the LCD finder almost completely changes how you grip the camera (GXR). That said, I found the rocker switch to be in the way in either case ... Must be large hands or something . :-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.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: Ot - do you know where the watercolor was done?
Wow ! what excellent resources you guys are! Thanks Igor and Chris so .. I bought both of these at the Salvation Army for $5 total. One was framed one was not - in fact, the framed one was in a bin about to go back to the main store and the other was just lying on a shelf. I'm glad I was right that the buildings were significant - I thought the other was more generic and guessed Eastern Europe but didn't have anything real to base that on. The one that was framed was poorly matted - that is, clearly not cut by a pro. and the two pieces had tape residue on the back of each (which I'll show if I put them on ebay) On 9/7/2012 13:27, Igor Roshchin wrote: Ann, Following the lead from Chris, I think I found what is depicted on the left photo Charles Bridge and the Old Town Bridge Tower in Prague: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bridge See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prague_-_Charles_Bridge.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karlsbr%C3%BCcke00.jpg and http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/30/3061/FJEDF00Z/posters/barnes-david-charles-bridge-and-old-town-bridge-tower-prague-czech-republic.jpg http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large Cheers, Igor -- 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 - Storm Brewing (the re-do)
I think you overdid it in re-do, Frank. Somewhere in between the original and the re-do version may lie the ideal... On 9/6/2012 3:08 PM, frank theriault wrote: Darkened the clouds. Actually it's now the darker exposure of the bracketed trio, so you'll notice the figure is slightly different: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/09/storm-brewing-re-do.html I know the figure is now darker (I did dodge him a fair bit, as I did in the original) but I kind of like it this way. Think this works a bit better now. Here's the original for comparison: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/09/storm-brewing.html Let me know what you think (if so inclined). Thanks! cheers, frank -- 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 last Photokina speculation thread on PDML before Photokina
On 7 September 2012 13:39, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/5/2012 6:18 AM, Larry Colen wrote: There was the lens shown along with the K-01 that had the rear element that extended back into what would be the mirror box. I suspect we'll see that lens announced, and that it'll be around 20mm, f/1.8 or faster. If they can pull out a 20mm f/1, it'll have similar depth of field to a 30/1.4 or a 50/2.4. I'm going to throw a wild one out and say that if Pentax does announce a full frame, i.e. 24x36mm sensor, it'll be mirrorless, like the K-01, and that the lens I described above, will work on it. I've been said more than once that I have rather powerful imagination. But you certainly have me pinned down here, Larry. I could only try to imagine the size of the front element of the 20/1 lens that will in fact cover full frame on K-mount camera... Boris, It would be for a mirrorless camera, so it wouldn't be a retrofocus design (thus the rear element protruding into the mirror box. —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
Wonder what kind of price-point to expect on that 18-270. That's an extremely appealing focal range. On 9/7/2012 11:08 AM, Darren Addy wrote: If the 9 announcement number was correct... how many do we have left? New Q New Q lens 645 macro 18-270mm rebadge Still presuming the Q K-mount adapter leaves 4. Guessing: 645D mkII, K-5 mkII, flash and K-z/K300 ? -- 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 - Two on the Wharf
Welcome back. You most surely caught a very decisive moment :-). On 9/6/2012 6:35 AM, Marco Alpert wrote: Looking at my email archive, it appears that it's been almost 2 1/2 years since last I posted here. But I seem to be back, at least for the moment. http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo07/peso21.html Comments, as always, welcomed. -Marco --- http://www.alpert.com/marco -- 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: My Yard
On 9/6/2012 2:12 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I didn't ask for a model release: http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-GfHZHX5/0/XL/myyard-XL.jpg Steve, on my screen the greens look very succulent (for lack of better word) in a way that makes me wanna run a special check when I arrive to my friends in DC next week - can the greens be so green? -- 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: Leaked lenses
Very cool, but I already have a pair of liquid filled lenses. And I still need a pair of glass lenses in addition so that they'll focus properly. On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Fri Sep 7 12:05:05 EDT 2012 Darren Addy wrote: A Pentax Q lens (the 06) has been leaked. A deep [har!] philosophical thought: It would be easier to leak LIQUID lenses... See e.g. http://www.gizmag.com/samsung-liquid-zoom-lens-plans/16851/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/25/varioptic-liquid-lenses-now-shipping-in-snakecam-webcam/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/trufocals-make-steampunk-glasses-a-functional-expensive-reality/ Cheers, Igor -- 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Steve, How about 10Dq? ;-) (I apologize to the rest of PDMLers, - this is a very scientific pun that would be understood only by some chemists and even fewer physicists.) Can you point those of us who are merely nerds to a hint? Igor Fri Sep 7 11:17:21 EDT 2012 Steven Desjardins The repressed Q punnery is beginning to emerge. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.walker at gmail.com wrote: At least they didn't predict the opposite order: 10Q 10Q very much. -- 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: If you're interested in (history of) math
On 8/31/2012 3:38 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Boris, Besides being in Russian, it is a video file format I can't play. I looked for you in the photo though. Bob Oh, I took the video here in Israel (in fact prof Zalgaller leaves in the same town) while the conference was in St Petersburg, Russia, so you couldn't possibly find me on the photo. If you're on Windoze, you could view the video in VLC video player (http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/vlc_portable) -- 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: MOre OT - help with monitor
I had two monitors of this mfg. One of them died totally but we took it down to a friends apartment and hooked it up to his computer to see whether or not it could have been the card instead of the monitor. IT still didnt work so this younger monitor of mine suffering from the same problem I think it would be safe to say it is the monitor itself. It is hot in NY but not in my apartment -- I'm very comfortably air conditioned and especially in my office. I though at first it might be power brown outs... but over the last few days I've been testing the monitor by upping the bright now and then to see how long it lasts. I did browse a bit in PC richard and I should be able to get something for under $200 that would be more than adequate... of course the one they had a price on of $119 (an HP) was not available and a samsung for $169 was also no longer in stock. I left before I started getting testy about why they still had them on display if there were none to be found. ann On 9/7/2012 13:08, Igor Roshchin wrote: Ann, Sorry to hear about your monitor problems. A few thoughts: 1. It might be actually the problem related to the built-in graphics controller. In that case you would need to buy a new graphics adapter. In that case you'd need to make sure it can be handled by the power supply (which is not that powerful in this computer model) Note, that one of the common reasons for graphics controllers going bad is overheating. (It's hot in NYC, isn't it? - so if the cooling is not efficient, it can happen.) You can check this by plugging a different monitor that I hope you can borrow from somebody. 2. If it is the monitor: It is hard to suggest something specific, since there are many parameters out there, and the budget is limited. I guess if you were to suggest what is the desired monitor size, it would make it easier for people to suggest something. Just in case, about the resolution supported by the computer: This computer has a built-in graphics controller nVidia GeForce 6150LE. According to the Wikipedia page (and other sources), for this family of controllers, maximum supported resolution is 1920 x 1440 pixels (@75 Hz) for RGB display and 1600 x 1200 pixels (@65 Hz) for DVI-D display. In your computer you have a standard 15-pin VGA connector. So, I'd assume it should able to go up to 1920x1440, but I see some people reporting problems getting anything beyond 1600x1200. With not very large monitor, I suspect you won't be using anything beyond 1280x786 or 1280x1024. HTH, Igor Fri Sep 7 11:20:10 EDT 2012 Ann Sanfedele I think my monitor is dying... when I increase the brightness setting (I have a Proview monitor) which is right at the bottom of the monitor itself, it starts blinking and goes dark. turning it off and on gets it back but blinking... the only way I can use it now is to keep the brightness so low (at about 30%) that it certainly affects my ability to edit my photos and appreciate yours. I can up the brightness for a few seconds to check something but more than 15 seconds and it flickers and dies and I have to drop it back to under 30%. I mention this particularly now as I'm sure I'm not appreciating some of the PUGS due to it. any recommendations for a monitor? I'm running XP on a dell dimension C521 - thank goodness i have a PC Richards credit card (only one I have) ann -- 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 last Photokina speculation thread on PDML before Photokina
On 9/7/2012 9:00 PM, Miserere wrote: Boris, It would be for a mirrorless camera, so it wouldn't be a retrofocus design (thus the rear element protruding into the mirror box. —M. Oh, I don't expect Pentax a.k.a. king of backward compatibility to produce K-01-only lens. That is something that can be imagined, but can probably not be imagined to come true, you know. -- 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: MOre OT - help with monitor
P s My display setting is 1280x1024 and 32bit color. The screen ratio is 4:3 again thanks for help ann I suspect you won't be using anything beyond 1280x786 or 1280x1024. HTH, Igor Fri Sep 7 11:20:10 EDT 2012 Ann Sanfedele I think my monitor is dying... when I increase the brightness setting (I have a Proview monitor) which is right at the bottom of the monitor itself, it starts blinking and goes dark. turning it off and on gets it back but blinking... the only way I can use it now is to keep the brightness so low (at about 30%) that it certainly affects my ability to edit my photos and appreciate yours. I can up the brightness for a few seconds to check something but more than 15 seconds and it flickers and dies and I have to drop it back to under 30%. I mention this particularly now as I'm sure I'm not appreciating some of the PUGS due to it. any recommendations for a monitor? I'm running XP on a dell dimension C521 - thank goodness i have a PC Richards credit card (only one I have) ann -- 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 fifty worst cars of all time
Genetically modified in the worst way. They took out the truly SAAB substituted inserted Opel. John Mullan '77 99, '80 900, '86 9000t -Original Message- From: Brian Walters Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 6:57 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT fifty worst cars of all time Quoting steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: on 2012-08-30 22:06 J.C. O'Connell wrote I have owned about 7 cars in my life, all american and all held up pretty well. No imports for me. i've managed to steer clear of anything domestic, or on that list; got my driver's license at 30, at which time i already owned a 1970 saab 95 wagon; since then i've had a 1982 honda accord hatch, 1987 saab 900s, and 1992 saab 900t since June i haven't owned a car and it's alright; i may buy another pre-GM Saab someday, Saabs have been genetically modified? Those Swedes are pretty clever Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ i had my last one for 15 years and just don't need or want anything else; my partner has had a succession of ancient Toyota Corollas, and is now on her second Audi A4 Avant 1.8T, which is pretty sweet but steers like a racing bike and costs twice as much to maintain as my Saabs did -- 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: Oracle vies with Apple to see who will be the supreme, ASSHOLES in the entire universe.
From: Anthony Farr On 7 September 2012 12:18, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Another popup Java update, and another attempt to hijack my browser shove McAfee down my throat. Every damn week. If I wanted McAfee, I'd already have it installed! It's just the universe balancing itself for all the times that Norton tries to piggyback onto a download or update. regards, Anthony It's a three way tie for first place? I stand corrected. -- 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: Rain Garden
I like it when I'm able to capture an image I've been carrying around in my head, glad you got a chance with this image. I like the general composition of your image but it has the feel of heavy manipulation IMO. My K20D developed the same symptoms as yours and CRIS repaired it for around $200 IIRC. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com Subject: PESO: Rain Garden I had some time to kill yesterday waiting for a photography club meeting to start. We meet at an arboretum associated with NC State University. They have a nice little Japanese garden, and I got to thinking how it might look in one of those old Japanese wood-block prints, with the rain fog. So, I kind of planned this shot out, and then all I had to do was wait until it rained scurry over there to take the shot. Which it did this afternoon. About rain - I needed it to be raining hard so the rain would show up in the photo. The hard rain is at the leading edge of the storm. If you're not ready to move as soon as you hear the first crash of thunder you're probably going to miss it. Also, if you use fill flash to try to make the rain pop out, you need to be on trailing curtain sync. Otherwise your raindrops will look like they're falling upwards. Standing in the rain, holding the umbrella over the camera tripod because I didn't have my rain-sleeves ready. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7947602716/lightbox/ K20D, DA18-55 II aperture priority @f/22 NIK filters (HDR Pro, Color Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro) Cropped it 12x24 to give it a panoramic feel. In the end, I had to assist the rain just a little in Photoshop (a whole lot actually). My K20D has got some hot pixels or something. There are 2 bright red dots in exactly the same spot in every frame. They appear to be 1 pixel each. Plus there's a bright white blob about the size the light in the garden sculpture. It's pretty easy to locate because it's right in the middle of a 1 pixel high bright red line that extends from side to side across the frame. It's a b**ch cloning the red line out. Content aware fill can't do it, and if you're not super careful, it just ends up looking like someone cloned out a red line across the middle of the frame. -- 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 fifty worst cars of all time
on 2012-09-07 12:15 John Mullan wrote Genetically modified in the worst way. They took out the truly SAAB substituted inserted Opel. John Mullan '77 99, '80 900, '86 9000t cool! we can start the SAAB corner of PDML and challenge the MGB owners to an ice race -- 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.
A little happy ending
Hi! If you remember, some time ago I posted on the list about a photograph of mine which I've accidentally found was being used to promote a hotel in Italy without my approval. Few day ago Dario had send them a letter presenting my view on the matter and asking to kindly remove the picture. The picture was removed on the next day with a letter that could be considered apology attached to it. Since I did not look for any gain other than removal of the picture, I am happy camper. Great many thanks go to Dario for finding a time and helping me with the language. 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: PESO: Rain Garden
From: Jack Davis Quite an effort, John. Hope your K20 dries out and the pixel issues go away. Successful shot! Thanks. The K20, fortunately, never got appreciably wet. I carried it on the tripod with a 1 gallon zip-lock bag over it didn't take the bag off until I had it all set up was standing there with the umbrella. I only got distracted once and forgot to hold the umbrella over it. At that point the rain was no more than a light sprinkle. The pixel issue is unrelated I think. I'd already noticed it before I went out yesterday. I'm going to have to look up the procedure for mapping hot pixels in the manual. -- 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 - Two on the Wharf
Thanks to Boris, Rick, Bruce and Jack for the comments. It's good to be back. - Marco On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: Welcome back. You most surely caught a very decisive moment :-). On 9/6/2012 6:35 AM, Marco Alpert wrote: Looking at my email archive, it appears that it's been almost 2 1/2 years since last I posted here. But I seem to be back, at least for the moment. http://www.alpert.com/marco/photo07/peso21.html Comments, as always, welcomed. -Marco --- http://www.alpert.com/marco -- 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: Rain Garden
From: Bob Sullivan John, That is an interesting and different looking image. You need something more added to give it a center of interest. Regards, Bob S. Thanks. I need to go back and work the scene some more. I wasn't quite prepared when the opportunity came up yesterday. I have another point of view in mind. There's a small bridge just behind the bamboo, and I want to frame the scene so it leads you into it. Yesterday I couldn't include it without the handle of the flashlight sticking out the back of the stone lantern showing. -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
What advantages are they supposed to confer? -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
Better autofocus makes it a winner for me. On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, and so it appears that THIS poster knows what he's talking about: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/visitors-center/197932-new-pentax-items-like-k5-mark-ii-lenses.html#post2084711 -- 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: MOre OT - help with monitor
Have a look at geeks.com. I buy quite a bit of my computer hardware from them. http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=MON -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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: The NEW Pentax Q
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabe-Sugano_diagram How's your ligand field theory? I remembered the term but had to look up exactly what it was. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: Steve, How about 10Dq? ;-) (I apologize to the rest of PDMLers, - this is a very scientific pun that would be understood only by some chemists and even fewer physicists.) Can you point those of us who are merely nerds to a hint? Igor Fri Sep 7 11:17:21 EDT 2012 Steven Desjardins The repressed Q punnery is beginning to emerge. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.walker at gmail.com wrote: At least they didn't predict the opposite order: 10Q 10Q very much. -- 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
maybe the original plain K5 will drop in price, I dont use AF anyway so I wouldnt care - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:51 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked Better autofocus makes it a winner for me. On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, and so it appears that THIS poster knows what he's talking about: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/visitors-center/197932-new-pentax-items- like-k5-mark-ii-lenses.html#post2084711 -- 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. -- 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: Leaked lenses
Bet Salvador Dolly could do it. Sorry! Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org To: PDML@pdml.net Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 10:52 AM Subject: Leaked lenses Fri Sep 7 12:05:05 EDT 2012 Darren Addy wrote: A Pentax Q lens (the 06) has been leaked. A deep [har!] philosophical thought: It would be easier to leak LIQUID lenses... See e.g. http://www.gizmag.com/samsung-liquid-zoom-lens-plans/16851/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/25/varioptic-liquid-lenses-now-shipping-in-snakecam-webcam/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/trufocals-make-steampunk-glasses-a-functional-expensive-reality/ Cheers, Igor -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
Pure speculation on my part, but I think the sale of Pentax first to Hoya and then to Ricoh has put Pentax behind the power curve in terms of developing new product. -- 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: My Yard
we are pretty green here, but it's starting to die off as september passes. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/6/2012 2:12 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I didn't ask for a model release: http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/i-GfHZHX5/0/XL/myyard-XL.jpg Steve, on my screen the greens look very succulent (for lack of better word) in a way that makes me wanna run a special check when I arrive to my friends in DC next week - can the greens be so green? -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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 NEW Pentax Q
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be curious to see how big that Q zoom is. I took the leaked image of the 06 and an image of the 02 standard zoom and sized them so that the mount was an identical width and this is what I got for relative sizes: http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/QzoomsRelativeSizes.jpg Looking at the lettering on the lens, the new telephoto zoom may be a bit larger than shown, but not by a whole lot. -- 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 Politicians
Taken about a couple of weeks ago in Santa Cruz, California. http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/politics.html Just my little jab at our current political cycle. Marnie aka Doe ;-) (I'm bc! Well, I think I am. Sort of. I think I've said 2-3 times in the past three years that I was back. Then I wasn't. But this time I think I am REALLY, REALLY back. Pretty sure. I think. Probably. Heh.) -- 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 last Photokina speculation thread on PDML before Photokina
On 7 September 2012 14:13, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/7/2012 9:00 PM, Miserere wrote: Boris, It would be for a mirrorless camera, so it wouldn't be a retrofocus design (thus the rear element protruding into the mirror box. —M. Oh, I don't expect Pentax a.k.a. king of backward compatibility to produce K-01-only lens. That is something that can be imagined, but can probably not be imagined to come true, you know. I'd say Pentax is the *Queen* of compatibility; Nikon is the King. But yes, most things related to Pentax are hard to imagine, even if they do actually happen. —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- 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 Politicians
Hey, I voted for that guy on the right. On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:05 PM, eactiv...@aol.com wrote: Taken about a couple of weeks ago in Santa Cruz, California. http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/politics.html Just my little jab at our current political cycle. Marnie aka Doe ;-) (I'm bc! Well, I think I am. Sort of. I think I've said 2-3 times in the past three years that I was back. Then I wasn't. But this time I think I am REALLY, REALLY back. Pretty sure. I think. Probably. Heh.) -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: Rain Garden
From: Bruce Walker John's WIALDD (woman in a long diaphanous dress) wasn't available that day. I was thinking more a woman in a traditional Kimono for this shot, but she wasn't available either. Someone it seems, does have sense enough to come in out of the rain. My inspiration are some Japanese woodblock prints my father brought home from the Korean War. I have two of them: http://shogungallery.com/images/products/toku_1204.jpg http://images.artelino.com/images/items/21645a.jpg The PESO isn't quite there (by a very long distance), but at least it got me out of the house. -- 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: MOre OT - help with monitor
On 2012-09-07 11:20, Ann Sanfedele wrote: any recommendations for a monitor? I'm running XP on a dell dimension C521 - thank goodness i have a PC Richards credit card (only one I have) If you can find one that's 1080p, take a look at the LCD TVs in the size that interests you. I've been pleasantly surprised at the color rendition on those units and at how much cheaper they often are than similar IPS monitors. The TVs often cost no more than a TN monitor but give colors as nice as IPS monitors. -- Doug Lefty Franklin NutDriver Racing http://NutDriver.org Facebook NutDriver Racing Sponsored by Murphy -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
On 7 September 2012 09:59, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: I would have preferred K5 IIa and K5 IIb. Are you an astronomer, Steven? :-) —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- 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: MOre OT - help with monitor
From: Ann Sanfedele I think my monitor is dying... when I increase the brightness setting (I have a Proview monitor) which is right at the bottom of the monitor itself, it starts blinking and goes dark. turning it off and on gets it back but blinking... the only way I can use it now is to keep the brightness so low (at about 30%) that it certainly affects my ability to edit my photos and appreciate yours. I can up the brightness for a few seconds to check something but more than 15 seconds and it flickers and dies and I have to drop it back to under 30%. I mention this particularly now as I'm sure I'm not appreciating some of the PUGS due to it. any recommendations for a monitor? I'm running XP on a dell dimension C521 - thank goodness i have a PC Richards credit card (only one I have) ann Looking at what PC Richards appears to have available, either the HP 2311x or the AOC 2436VWH. The HP is available for in store pick up and the AOC is eligible for free shipping. -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 September 2012 09:59, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: I would have preferred K5 IIa and K5 IIb. Are you an astronomer, Steven? :-) Who doesn't love supernova humor? : ) -- 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 - Sony NEX-7
On 6 September 2012 14:17, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I'm just another instagram'er at heart. MARK! —M. \/\/o/\/\ -- http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- 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 - do you know where the watercolor was done?
From: Ann Sanfedele A pair of small watercolors - I'm hoping that the one on the left is of a known location - I'm gathering in Europe somewhere.. It looks like the signature is ZILK or ZTK or ZFk. http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large thanks, guys ann Perhaps Prague, Czech Republic. Second image down: http://www.fenichel.com/prague/malastrana.shtml -- 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: K-5 II and K-5 IIs leaked
Matthew Hunt wrote: http://photorumors.com/2012/09/07/pentax-k-5-ii-and-k-5-iis-dslr-cameras/ Photoshop jobs. Well, at *least* one of them is (the bottom, K-5 IIs and the top K-5 II are the same image except for the model number text on the body. I'd wager that they're both fake, though. My feeling is that there's a possibility that the K-5 II is a real camera even though the photo's fake. -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.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.
Best selling camera?!?
Are we aware that the K1000 is #41 on Amazon's best selling DSLRs list? Hard to explain but slathered with awesome sauce nonetheless. Cory -- 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: MOre OT - help with monitor
The screen ratio is likely to change because most new monitors are wider. Windoze XP should auto-detect the new monitor set the ratio accordingly. From: Ann Sanfedele P s My display setting is 1280x1024 and 32bit color. The screen ratio is 4:3 again thanks for help ann I suspect you won't be using anything beyond 1280x786 or 1280x1024. HTH, Igor -- 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.
