Re: Lost, K10D
Will the mall let you view any security camera footage? Perhaps some shops nearby have cameras that overlook the place you left your camera. There's been two incidents in Australia recently that were solved by unrelated security cameras that recorded the events. An assault and murder was solved in Melbourne because a shops internal camera recorded the victim being pestered by her attacker shortly before her disappearance. A dognapping in Sydney was solved and the dog recovered because a camera further along the street recorded a small boy carrying the dog away, the footage and a screenshot were put up on Facebook, and the dognapper was recognized. I know your camera is small change by comparison, but the principle is the same. regards, Anthony On 24 October 2012 14:20, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, telling me I got a call to pick up. As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit me; no camera around my neck. I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera to security - mall policy); nothing turned in. Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, continued to monitor ads and security. Nothing. Gone. Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value. Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 for a few beers. Oh well. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. 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: Lost, K10D
From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of knarftheria...@gmail.com [...] Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. [...] That's damn bad luck, Frank. I hope it turns up. I'm not sure about the legality of it, but I consider that to be theft. Whoever picked it up knew that it did not belong to them. If you take something that doesn't belong to you, that's stealing isn't it? Do you have insurance that will cover it? B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
Frank - yikes I'm just seeing this now - that's awful... Would be surprised if the photos showed up anywhere.. bet the camera has been sold - The serial number etc turned in somewhere useful? Possible it got turned in somewhere else? ann On 10/24/2012 01:29, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Actually the proper name of the place is the Yonge-Eglinton Centre. The camera was left on the bench outside the Rexall Pharmacy at about 4pm October 12, and the images on the card were what one might expect: Street stuff, including bikes and messengers and a bunch of portraits of a tabby cat. The tabby portraits might not be quite as expected as the former two items. ;-) Thanks! cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com Sent: October 24, 2012 10/24/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Lost, K10D On 10/24/12 1:11 AM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Yonge-Eglinton Mall here in Toronto. cheers, frank okay, I'll put a word out on G+. Can you give me an idea what kinds of shots were on there? Messengers? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I Wanna Be a Cameraman
Made me smile :-) regards, Anthony On 24 October 2012 12:29, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: B A bit of fun - even with the odd Pentax sighting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKBetMjwLk8feature=g-user-u -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
Groan!! There are on-line utilities that will let you know if a photo is posted with your camera's serial number in the exif. I think they've been mentioned here in the last couple of months. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW - Original Message - From: knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com To: PDML@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:20 PM Subject: Lost, K10D Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, telling me I got a call to pick up. As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit me; no camera around my neck. I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera to security - mall policy); nothing turned in. Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, continued to monitor ads and security. Nothing. Gone. Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value. Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 for a few beers. Oh well. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
Damn it!! Sorry to read this, Frank. Cameras truly seem to become friends and companions in a thoroughly pleasing adventure. Not the same thing, but I walked away from a decent tripod which I left on a park picnic table near a local lake. I'd driven maybe half a dozen blocks when it hit me. Did a quick U-turn, but no tripod when I got back to where it had been left. Living in a small town, I went to the local police who took a report and pronounced it stolen. After a few days I checked some local Pawn Shops, but nothing. Jack - Original Message - From: knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com To: PDML@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:20 PM Subject: Lost, K10D Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, telling me I got a call to pick up. As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit me; no camera around my neck. I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera to security - mall policy); nothing turned in. Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, continued to monitor ads and security. Nothing. Gone. Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value. Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 for a few beers. Oh well. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I Wanna Be a Cameraman
That's my dream, quit my nine to five and... On 24 October 2012 03:29, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: t of fun - even with the odd Pentax sighting -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
I feel your loss Frank. It's disappointing that people follow their worst nature sad to say. I'm always amazed when someone does the right thing. On 10/23/2012 11:20 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, telling me I got a call to pick up. As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit me; no camera around my neck. I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera to security - mall policy); nothing turned in. Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, continued to monitor ads and security. Nothing. Gone. Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value. Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 for a few beers. Oh well. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- 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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
I'm a chemist; use glue. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote: They say that flowers and duct tape fix everything. :-) Tue Oct 23 16:17:13 EDT 2012 Mark Roberts wrote: My solution is always duct tape and safety wire. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Comparing in-body and lens-based image stabilisation
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Interesting article that uses a K-5 and a Sigma 50-500 mm HSM lens. The article doesn't say what focal length was used in the tests but presumably it was the long end. http://www.digitalversus.com/digital-camera/image-stabilisers-optical-mechanical-a1608.html I'll read the article a little later, but my personal experience with both systems says: - OIS is better for video and working with a DSLR using long lenses because it stabilizes the image you see in the viewfinder. It's downside is that, of course, you only get IS with lenses so equipped. - IBIS is convenient as all lenses can benefit from it. - Regards efficiency of performance, I haven't seen much in practical terms that shows a distinct superiority to either system in still camera use. BTW, none of my present cameras includes image stabilization of either type. I haven't seen any evidence this is proving a blocker to my photography. ;-) -- 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: Re: The last Bike Ride
Thanks for looking Dave. Iowa has a wonderful selection of bike trails with lots of it thru parkland like this. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 10 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:24:26 +1300 From: David Mann dmann...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: The last Bike Ride Message-ID: 91115c42-8aef-4ec4-9eee-416ad76e3...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing sweeter than the last warm days of fall. This is not a self portrait. Shot with the new 50mm at f2. Thought the autofocus did a nice job on object moving toward me. http://donspix.posterous.com/one-last-bike-ride-in-the-fall-color-before-t#!/ Looks like a very nice place for a ride. Not that there are many bad places to ride... 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:GESO: 2012 TN State Pow Wow
Must have missed your post 1st time around. Thanks to Dan for calling it up again. Fine job of event photography lots of colorful portraits. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Jeffery Johnson jefferytjohn...@bellsouth.net wrote: We went Saturday to the TN State Pow Wow and had a nice time watching the dancing, listening to the music, talking with many different folks and even talked to a wolf/Husky mixed dog (though I forgot her name). This will take you to the gallery so if you are not interested in looking through a gallery just ignore. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p483251840 Later, Jeffery Johnson -- Jeffery Johnson Photo Captures by Jefferyhttp://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
Sounds like something Larry would say... On 10/24/2012 12:15 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: They say that flowers and duct tape fix everything. :-) Tue Oct 23 16:17:13 EDT 2012 Mark Roberts wrote: My solution is always duct tape and safety wire. -- 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 Bike Ride
Thanks Frank, It was a one off no time to take more so I got a bit lucky. I will take a look at tighter crop. ps Sorry about your camera. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 9 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:30:37 + (UTC) From:knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com To: \Pentax-Discuss Mail List\pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: The last Bike Ride Message-ID: 208344719.185452.1351045847838.javamail.se...@ap0.p2.fra.samsungsocialhub.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I really like this (and not just because of the bike). The colours are lovely, as is the light. Composition and timing is wonderful. I might crop just a bit off the left. There's a mass of green there not really doing much imho. But that's just me, and it's lovely as is. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Don Guthrieshark50...@gmail.com Sent: October 23, 2012 10/23/12 To:pdml@pdml.net Subject: The last Bike Ride Nothing sweeter than the last warm days of fall. This is not a self portrait. Shot with the new 50mm at f2. Thought the autofocus did a nice job on object moving toward me. http://donspix.posterous.com/one-last-bike-ride-in-the-fall-color-before-t#!/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
Oh, dammit, Frank! What a kick in the gut. :( I would be absolutely beside myself right now if I were in your position. I do hope that by some miracle you somehow manage to get it back safe and sound. I like to think if I were the person who discovered it, I would have turned it in simply because I'm a photographer and I know how much my cameras mean to me. Best of luck to you, Frank. If you don't get it back, I at least hope you'll be able to replace it relatively soon. -- Walt On 10/23/2012 10:20 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, telling me I got a call to pick up. As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit me; no camera around my neck. I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera to security - mall policy); nothing turned in. Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, continued to monitor ads and security. Nothing. Gone. Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value. Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 for a few beers. Oh well. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Comparing in-body and lens-based image stabilisation
A guy called Falk Lumo has concluded that Pentax' system is only efficient up to about 200mm focal length. Iirc, he did his testing in the K20-D era. Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Interesting article that uses a K-5 and a Sigma 50-500 mm HSM lens. The article doesn't say what focal length was used in the tests but presumably it was the long end. http://www.digitalversus.com/digital-camera/image-stabilisers-optical-mechanical-a1608.html I'll read the article a little later, but my personal experience with both systems says: - OIS is better for video and working with a DSLR using long lenses because it stabilizes the image you see in the viewfinder. It's downside is that, of course, you only get IS with lenses so equipped. - IBIS is convenient as all lenses can benefit from it. - Regards efficiency of performance, I haven't seen much in practical terms that shows a distinct superiority to either system in still camera use. BTW, none of my present cameras includes image stabilization of either type. I haven't seen any evidence this is proving a blocker to my photography. ;-) -- 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.
What about immage stabilization and macro
I always wondered how to adjust for image stabilization in macro. I use SMC-M 100mm macro and SMC-M 50mm on my K5d quite often with a macro ring. I have to adjust the focal distance of the lens manually. But what really counts for image stabilization is the angle of view, I guess. So should I use a correction factor and adjust maybe 300mm for the 100mm lens??? Similar things for my Sigma 17-70mm in macro mode. Any thoughts?? Greetings, Jos -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: 2012 TN State Pow Wow
Jeffery, Those are marvelous photos and a great looking event. Where is it help. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Jeffery Johnson jefferytjohn...@bellsouth.net wrote: We went Saturday to the TN State Pow Wow and had a nice time watching the dancing, listening to the music, talking with many different folks and even talked to a wolf/Husky mixed dog (though I forgot her name). This will take you to the gallery so if you are not interested in looking through a gallery just ignore. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p483251840 Later, Jeffery Johnson -- Jeffery Johnson Photo Captures by Jeffery http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Comparing in-body and lens-based image stabilisation
Well, interesting. I wonder if he knows that you can compare the difference between Optical and In camera stabilization by mounting a 4:3 Panasonic stabilized lens, (or m4:3 if you prefer to use them), on an Olympus 4:3 body? Hum, I guess not. I'm always amazed by experts who don't seem to know very much, how did they get to be experts is there a test? He does make pretty charts, maybe that's his area of expertise. This isn't earth shattering, in fact his results mirror the general perceived wisdom. Olympus by the way is supposed to have a much much improved in body stabilization in the OM-D. Maybe someone will test it vs a Panasonic stabilized lens. I expect that the K-3, or whatever the heck it will be called, will have much improved in body stabilization, because they'll have On 10/23/2012 5:15 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Interesting article that uses a K-5 and a Sigma 50-500 mm HSM lens. The article doesn't say what focal length was used in the tests but presumably it was the long end. http://www.digitalversus.com/digital-camera/image-stabilisers-optical-mechanical-a1608.html -- 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.
GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo
Spent all day Sunday jeeping around the back roads in the Buffalo River National Forest being overwhelmed by the beauty of this years fall colors. I have posted a set on Flikr, for anyone to look and possibly comment on. Had a hard time editing this set (52 shots posted.) Thanks for your time Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Fall colors on the Buffalo
Of course, I forgot the URL. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/8119440844/in/set-72157631843888271/lightbox/ Thanks again Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Comparing in-body and lens-based image stabilisation
I've kind of disregarded those findings. Maybe I'm fooling myself but I seem to get a better hit rate with the A*300 on the K20D than I ever got with it on any previous body film or digital. Ok for the record before digital I used the M*300 much more than the A*300, but they are for all intents and purposes identical on an LX. On 10/24/2012 12:06 PM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne wrote: A guy called Falk Lumo has concluded that Pentax' system is only efficient up to about 200mm focal length. Iirc, he did his testing in the K20-D era. Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Interesting article that uses a K-5 and a Sigma 50-500 mm HSM lens. The article doesn't say what focal length was used in the tests but presumably it was the long end. http://www.digitalversus.com/digital-camera/image-stabilisers-optical-mechanical-a1608.html I'll read the article a little later, but my personal experience with both systems says: - OIS is better for video and working with a DSLR using long lenses because it stabilizes the image you see in the viewfinder. It's downside is that, of course, you only get IS with lenses so equipped. - IBIS is convenient as all lenses can benefit from it. - Regards efficiency of performance, I haven't seen much in practical terms that shows a distinct superiority to either system in still camera use. BTW, none of my present cameras includes image stabilization of either type. I haven't seen any evidence this is proving a blocker to my photography. ;-) -- 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: GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo
Ted, Great album. I hate you! You used the water for excellent reflections, and then you had bluffs too! Great stuff. Such a beautiful place... Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012, Theodore Beilby tbei...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Spent all day Sunday jeeping around the back roads in the Buffalo River National Forest being overwhelmed by the beauty of this years fall colors. I have posted a set on Flikr, for anyone to look and possibly comment on. Had a hard time editing this set (52 shots posted.) Of course, I forgot the URL. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/8119440844/in/set-72157631843888271/lightbox/ Thanks again Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Comparing in-body and lens-based image stabilisation
I thought of that, having just recently used the OIS Lumix 45-200 on my IBIS E-PM1. (You can get the E-PM1 body now for under $200) As per urban legend, I turned off the IBIS and left the OIS on. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:48 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Well, interesting. I wonder if he knows that you can compare the difference between Optical and In camera stabilization by mounting a 4:3 Panasonic stabilized lens, (or m4:3 if you prefer to use them), on an Olympus 4:3 body? Hum, I guess not. I'm always amazed by experts who don't seem to know very much, how did they get to be experts is there a test? He does make pretty charts, maybe that's his area of expertise. This isn't earth shattering, in fact his results mirror the general perceived wisdom. Olympus by the way is supposed to have a much much improved in body stabilization in the OM-D. Maybe someone will test it vs a Panasonic stabilized lens. I expect that the K-3, or whatever the heck it will be called, will have much improved in body stabilization, because they'll have On 10/23/2012 5:15 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Interesting article that uses a K-5 and a Sigma 50-500 mm HSM lens. The article doesn't say what focal length was used in the tests but presumably it was the long end. http://www.digitalversus.com/digital-camera/image-stabilisers-optical-mechanical-a1608.html -- 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. -- 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: Fall colors on the Buffalo
nice shots, especially liked 9714. - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Theodore Beilby Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:51 PM To: pentax Mail List Subject: RE: GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo Of course, I forgot the URL. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/8119440844/in/set-72157631843888271/ lightbox/ Thanks again Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: 2012 TN State Pow Wow
Great set. Sharp and colorful. I too missed this the first time. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Jeffery, Those are marvelous photos and a great looking event. Where is it help. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Jeffery Johnson jefferytjohn...@bellsouth.net wrote: We went Saturday to the TN State Pow Wow and had a nice time watching the dancing, listening to the music, talking with many different folks and even talked to a wolf/Husky mixed dog (though I forgot her name). This will take you to the gallery so if you are not interested in looking through a gallery just ignore. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/p483251840 Later, Jeffery Johnson -- Jeffery Johnson Photo Captures by Jeffery http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- 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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 06:04:29AM +1100, Peter McIntosh wrote: FWIW, My father (god bless him) used to describe a hammer as an American screwdriver... :-) Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne - back to practicing my (poor) manual focus skills... The comparable UK expression I grew up with is Birmingham screwdriver -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Fall colors on the Buffalo
Those are very nice. I bet it was truly lovely to see it live. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:11 PM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote: nice shots, especially liked 9714. - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Theodore Beilby Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:51 PM To: pentax Mail List Subject: RE: GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo Of course, I forgot the URL. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/8119440844/in/set-72157631843888271/ lightbox/ Thanks again Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
British Leyland fine adjustment tool BFH-042. John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 06:04:29AM +1100, Peter McIntosh wrote: FWIW, My father (god bless him) used to describe a hammer as an American screwdriver... :-) Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne - back to practicing my (poor) manual focus skills... The comparable UK expression I grew up with is Birmingham screwdriver -- 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: Lost, K10D
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. cheers, frank Bad luck for sure Frank. I have my K10-d just sitting around doing nothing. Dave If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Lost, K10D
Yuck. Sorry to hear it. Nearly lost the bag holding the M9 and three lenses the same way back in June. I got that sinking feeling about ten minutes away from the snack shop where I'd been having a cup of coffee and answering a telephone call ... ran back and it was still there, thank goodness. -- 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: What about immage stabilization and macro
I don't know of any image stabilization system that has sufficient range to work properly for macrophotography. In practical terms, it can work ok for low magnifications (1:4 and lower) but in the 1:1 to 1:3 range it simply can't do enough to make a difference. -- 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: What about immage stabilization and macro
If I remember correctly the manual claims SR should be switched off for macro. Toine On 24 October 2012 18:32, Jos from Holland jos_from_holl...@onsnet.nu wrote: I always wondered how to adjust for image stabilization in macro. I use SMC-M 100mm macro and SMC-M 50mm on my K5d quite often with a macro ring. I have to adjust the focal distance of the lens manually. But what really counts for image stabilization is the angle of view, I guess. So should I use a correction factor and adjust maybe 300mm for the 100mm lens??? Similar things for my Sigma 17-70mm in macro mode. Any thoughts?? Greetings, Jos -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
Speaking of sticky controls
I noticed the power/DOF preview switch on the D-BG2 for my K20D is kind of sticky; hard to turn on when I use the DOF preview it doesn't spring back when I let it go. I mostly leave it in the OFF position because I carry the camera on one of those sling straps it tends to trigger the shutter when it gets bumped. But I would like for it to work when I *do* use it. I'm open to practical suggestions how to safely clean and lubricate 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: Lost, K10D
On 10/24/12 2:15 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Yuck. Sorry to hear it. Nearly lost the bag holding the M9 and three lenses the same way back in June. I got that sinking feeling about ten minutes away from the snack shop where I'd been having a cup of coffee and answering a telephone call ... ran back and it was still there, thank goodness. Yeah, I left my black lowepro bag stuffed full of gear in a darkened room corner of a motel in Greeneville, SC once, not realizing it until I arrived home three hours later that it didn't make the trip with me. Fortunately, I was a regular there and they recognized the bag as mine, so they held on to it until I could get back down there a couple days later. I tell you, though, it was a rough realization when it wasn't in the Jeep. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com wrote: Yeah, I left my black lowepro bag stuffed full of gear in a darkened room corner of a motel in Greeneville, SC once, not realizing it until I arrived home three hours later that it didn't make the trip with me. Fortunately, I was a regular there and they recognized the bag as mine, so they held on to it until I could get back down there a couple days later. I tell you, though, it was a rough realization when it wasn't in the Jeep. I once left my 31/1.8 Ltd at a site in a park where I was doing a dawn shoot for a (paying!) client. I realized what I'd done about an hour later. Since it was a dawn shoot in the middle of a large park and it was still before 8:00 a.m. when I returned, the lens was still there sitting on a rock in the middle of a stream. Once in Winston-Salem before GFM my car was broken into with ALL my gear in the back -- including 80-200/2.8, 300/2.8, medium format kit, etc... The thief took only a case of music CDs from the front seat (I think the alarm may have induced him to grab something small as fast as possible without investigating the vehicle's contents further). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
On 10/24/12 2:47 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Doug Brewerd...@alphoto.com wrote: Yeah, I left my black lowepro bag stuffed full of gear in a darkened room corner of a motel in Greeneville, SC once, not realizing it until I arrived home three hours later that it didn't make the trip with me. Fortunately, I was a regular there and they recognized the bag as mine, so they held on to it until I could get back down there a couple days later. I tell you, though, it was a rough realization when it wasn't in the Jeep. I once left my 31/1.8 Ltd at a site in a park where I was doing a dawn shoot for a (paying!) client. I realized what I'd done about an hour later. Since it was a dawn shoot in the middle of a large park and it was still before 8:00 a.m. when I returned, the lens was still there sitting on a rock in the middle of a stream. Once in Winston-Salem before GFM my car was broken into with ALL my gear in the back -- including 80-200/2.8, 300/2.8, medium format kit, etc... The thief took only a case of music CDs from the front seat (I think the alarm may have induced him to grab something small as fast as possible without investigating the vehicle's contents further). of course, there was the time at another motel in Greeneville, SC, when my Blazer was broken into and a few thousand dollars worth of gear was taken. Subsequent conversations with my insurance company were somewhat surreal, because I was in town for Uncle Olan, and they could get their collective head around two separate sets of gear, Uncle Olan's in the studio and mine in the truck. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
Don't know if you've seen this already or not, but here is a comparison of a Japanese Yen note photographed with the same lens (FA 31mm f1.8 AL Limited) on a K-5 and then with a K-5iis K-5 http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1121 Posted in May K-5iis http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1864 Posted today If you are like me, the first thing that will hit you is the color difference. At first I assumed that they were taken side-by-side on the same day, but the fact that they were taken 5 months apart makes me wonder about the light conditions (color) that each was taken under. The color of the K-5 is much more pleasing, to my eye. The K-5iis image is clearly sharper (read the text that wraps around the starburst in the upper right) but one might argue the K-5 is sharp enough. The bottom photo on each page is with extra sharpness (in camera). I put the images side by side in a single photoshop image so I could do some comparing. The extra sharpness K-5 image beats the zero sharpness K-5iis (to my eye). The commentator on the page (Google Chrome translation) says the same thing in reverse: With a sense of resolution (sharpness 0) normal state, there seems to be almost the same degree of proficiency and extra sharpness +1 in K-5. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if that makes it worth the price of an upgrade from your K-5. I believe that most people will be putting more emphasis on its AF capabilities, as compared to the K-5, before deciding. But I think I'm going to remain happy with my K-5 for a long time to come. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Fall colors on the Buffalo
Terrific, Ted. 9715 in particular for me. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Theodore Beilby tbei...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Spent all day Sunday jeeping around the back roads in the Buffalo River National Forest being overwhelmed by the beauty of this years fall colors. I have posted a set on Flikr, for anyone to look and possibly comment on. Had a hard time editing this set (52 shots posted.) Thanks for your time Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
GESO: Fall Colors in Washington
Now located on the Key Peninsula (locals = The Key) in Washington State, instead of 3 miles to the dog park when in Everett, it is now 30 miles to a leash free park, in Port Orchard. As such I only take the dogs for their exercise twice a week. Limits my exposure to the rest of the world. If I were to stop the car and set up each shot I'd like to capture in this new territory for me, I'd never make it to market or the post office. I thought I'd share a few that were taken at the dog park, or on the way home, a week ago. My first use of Flickr. Been a member for two years. After losing my gallery at Apple when they humidified and became an iCloud, I have just made the time to explore the interface and the results. If anyone has any advice for me for or against, or suggestions of the best site for my casual , not trying to make a living with this, too complicated to do the searching needed to see if anyone copied for commercial use, too lazy to put a watermark in them photographs, chime in. http://tinyurl.com/bssq32j Comments up or down will be appreciated. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com “ It is still true, as was first said many years ago, that people are the only sophisticated computing devices that can be made at low cost by unskilled workers!” — Martin G. Wolf, PhD -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Speaking of sticky controls
Radio Shack Tuner Cleaner works wonders at getting the gunk out. On 10/24/2012 2:31 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I noticed the power/DOF preview switch on the D-BG2 for my K20D is kind of sticky; hard to turn on when I use the DOF preview it doesn't spring back when I let it go. I mostly leave it in the OFF position because I carry the camera on one of those sling straps it tends to trigger the shutter when it gets bumped. But I would like for it to work when I *do* use it. I'm open to practical suggestions how to safely clean and lubricate it. -- 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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
You mean percussion adjustment tool... On 10/24/2012 1:41 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: British Leyland fine adjustment tool BFH-042. John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 06:04:29AM +1100, Peter McIntosh wrote: FWIW, My father (god bless him) used to describe a hammer as an American screwdriver... :-) Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne - back to practicing my (poor) manual focus skills... The comparable UK expression I grew up with is Birmingham screwdriver -- 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: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington
Nice set Joe, the sunset photos make me think of the Smokeys. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: Now located on the Key Peninsula (locals = The Key) in Washington State, instead of 3 miles to the dog park when in Everett, it is now 30 miles to a leash free park, in Port Orchard. As such I only take the dogs for their exercise twice a week. Limits my exposure to the rest of the world. If I were to stop the car and set up each shot I'd like to capture in this new territory for me, I'd never make it to market or the post office. I thought I'd share a few that were taken at the dog park, or on the way home, a week ago. My first use of Flickr. Been a member for two years. After losing my gallery at Apple when they humidified and became an iCloud, I have just made the time to explore the interface and the results. If anyone has any advice for me for or against, or suggestions of the best site for my casual , not trying to make a living with this, too complicated to do the searching needed to see if anyone copied for commercial use, too lazy to put a watermark in them photographs, chime in. http://tinyurl.com/bssq32j Comments up or down will be appreciated. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com “ It is still true, as was first said many years ago, that people are the only sophisticated computing devices that can be made at low cost by unskilled workers!” — Martin G. Wolf, PhD -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer... On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:23 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: You mean percussion adjustment tool... On 10/24/2012 1:41 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: British Leyland fine adjustment tool BFH-042. John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 06:04:29AM +1100, Peter McIntosh wrote: FWIW, My father (god bless him) used to describe a hammer as an American screwdriver... :-) Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne - back to practicing my (poor) manual focus skills... The comparable UK expression I grew up with is Birmingham screwdriver -- 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Craigslist Crack Smokers
A ZX-50 with a 35-80 and a Tamron zoom lens for HOW MUCH?!?! http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/pho/3360632357.html Man.. it boggles the mind. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Craigslist Crack Smokers
Ho, ho, ho... On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: A ZX-50 with a 35-80 and a Tamron zoom lens for HOW MUCH?!?! http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/pho/3360632357.html Man.. it boggles the mind. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo
Lovely area and your pictures more than do it justice. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Theodore Beilby Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:51 PM To: pentax Mail List Subject: RE: GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo Of course, I forgot the URL. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/8119440844/in/set-72157631843888271/ lightbox/ Thanks again Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
If it breaks it needed to be replaced anyway. On 10/24/2012 4:28 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer... On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:23 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: You mean percussion adjustment tool... On 10/24/2012 1:41 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: British Leyland fine adjustment tool BFH-042. John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 06:04:29AM +1100, Peter McIntosh wrote: FWIW, My father (god bless him) used to describe a hammer as an American screwdriver... :-) Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne - back to practicing my (poor) manual focus skills... The comparable UK expression I grew up with is Birmingham screwdriver -- 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. -- 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: OT: Craigslist Crack Smokers
Based on that there's gold in my equipment locker. On 10/24/2012 4:30 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: A ZX-50 with a 35-80 and a Tamron zoom lens for HOW MUCH?!?! http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/pho/3360632357.html Man.. it boggles the mind. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington
Sunset in the forest is my favorite. Nice views. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 15 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:15:55 -0700 From: Joseph McAllisterpentax...@mac.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail ListPDML@pdml.net Subject: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington Message-ID:9c88910c-94c7-45ec-9a16-f1ba05e19...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Now located on the Key Peninsula (locals = The Key) in Washington State, instead of 3 miles to the dog park when in Everett, it is now 30 miles to a leash free park, in Port Orchard. As such I only take the dogs for their exercise twice a week. Limits my exposure to the rest of the world. If I were to stop the car and set up each shot I'd like to capture in this new territory for me, I'd never make it to market or the post office. I thought I'd share a few that were taken at the dog park, or on the way home, a week ago. My first use of Flickr. Been a member for two years. After losing my gallery at Apple when they humidified and became an iCloud, I have just made the time to explore the interface and the results. If anyone has any advice for me for or against, or suggestions of the best site for my casual , not trying to make a living with this, too complicated to do the searching needed to see if anyone copied for commercial use, too lazy to put a watermark in them photographs, chime in. http://tinyurl.com/bssq32j Comments up or down will be appreciated. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.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: Craigslist Crack Smokers
He just forgot the decimal point folks. A common typo. Don't be harsh! :-) On Oct 24, 2012, at 13:30 , Charles Robinson wrote: A ZX-50 with a 35-80 and a Tamron zoom lens for HOW MUCH?!?! http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/pho/3360632357.html Man.. it boggles the mind. -Charles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
On 2012-10-24 16:28, Bob Sullivan wrote: If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer... If it doesn't fit, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing, anyway. -- 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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2012-10-24 16:28, Bob Sullivan wrote: If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer... If it doesn't fit, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing, anyway. Doug doesn't need a torque wrench, he just tightens it until it strips, then backs it off a quarter turn. -- 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: Lost, K10D
As long as we're sharing uplifting stories, I left my *ist-Ds w the M85 FA43 limited and A24mm in a bar in Newport RI a few years ago. Realized what I'd done about an hour later after crossing the Newport Bridge returning to the mainland. Called them immediately. The bartender told me he'd found it and would hold it for me. I was able to pick it up the next day, with nothing missing. Nice people. On the other hand I've been in bars where I've watched stolen goods be exchanged, being unarmed made me feel naked. On 10/24/2012 2:47 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com wrote: Yeah, I left my black lowepro bag stuffed full of gear in a darkened room corner of a motel in Greeneville, SC once, not realizing it until I arrived home three hours later that it didn't make the trip with me. Fortunately, I was a regular there and they recognized the bag as mine, so they held on to it until I could get back down there a couple days later. I tell you, though, it was a rough realization when it wasn't in the Jeep. I once left my 31/1.8 Ltd at a site in a park where I was doing a dawn shoot for a (paying!) client. I realized what I'd done about an hour later. Since it was a dawn shoot in the middle of a large park and it was still before 8:00 a.m. when I returned, the lens was still there sitting on a rock in the middle of a stream. Once in Winston-Salem before GFM my car was broken into with ALL my gear in the back -- including 80-200/2.8, 300/2.8, medium format kit, etc... The thief took only a case of music CDs from the front seat (I think the alarm may have induced him to grab something small as fast as possible without investigating the vehicle's contents further). -- 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: 2 Peso - country road and city street
A, as they say on reddit On 24/10/2012 12:10 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/2012-and-all-that/21847075_D88Ngw/1/2170249166_tLFFSHJ/Large 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: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
No pixel peeping there. The images are only 718 pixels on each side. Hard to determine anything on the basis of such mall images, although I did compare the two f4 images, and while the color varies greatly (no color space assigned), one does appear to be somewhat sharper than the other. Pul On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Don't know if you've seen this already or not, but here is a comparison of a Japanese Yen note photographed with the same lens (FA 31mm f1.8 AL Limited) on a K-5 and then with a K-5iis K-5 http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1121 Posted in May K-5iis http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1864 Posted today If you are like me, the first thing that will hit you is the color difference. At first I assumed that they were taken side-by-side on the same day, but the fact that they were taken 5 months apart makes me wonder about the light conditions (color) that each was taken under. The color of the K-5 is much more pleasing, to my eye. The K-5iis image is clearly sharper (read the text that wraps around the starburst in the upper right) but one might argue the K-5 is sharp enough. The bottom photo on each page is with extra sharpness (in camera). I put the images side by side in a single photoshop image so I could do some comparing. The extra sharpness K-5 image beats the zero sharpness K-5iis (to my eye). The commentator on the page (Google Chrome translation) says the same thing in reverse: With a sense of resolution (sharpness 0) normal state, there seems to be almost the same degree of proficiency and extra sharpness +1 in K-5. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if that makes it worth the price of an upgrade from your K-5. I believe that most people will be putting more emphasis on its AF capabilities, as compared to the K-5, before deciding. But I think I'm going to remain happy with my K-5 for a long time to come. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Jazz Profile
Beautiful. The light vignette and the touch of noise really works for me. On 24/10/2012 12:08 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Vocalist Yuko Miyamoto at jazz saxist Bobby Hsu's gig at The Gate 403 in Toronto on Oct 19. http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8117649662/lightbox/ This was a dimly lit club set where I was struggling to get any non-soft shots at all. At one point I accidentally bumped the mode dial from Av to Tv and it set a high shutter speed of 1/160th, then underexposed at f:1.4. Astoundingly these few shots -- until I found the dial set wrong and set it back -- were among the sharpest of the evening. It looks a lot like handholding at low shutter speeds contributes to much softness that I'd thought was bad focus. I'm going to explore this fast shutter in the dark in future. K20D, DA* 55/1.4, 1/160th, ISO 1600. Lr 4.2. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
The size of the cropped image is irrelevant if it is an actual pixel size image (which they are). The FA31 is not a macro lens. : ) They've just saved you a lot of time and bandwidth over downloading the full image (and also made it practical to put them side-by-side on screen). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
X100 under a grand
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/751784-REG/Fujifilm_16128244_Finepix_X100_12_MP.html -- der...@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: X100 under a grand
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/751784-REG/Fujifilm_16128244_Finepix_X100_12_MP.html I think it is a gorgeous camera. This review (on BH) would make me want to peruse some X100 forum posts before I spent that much, however. start of review: The form factor for this camera is EXACTLY what i want. I waited a long time to get this camera. After using it for 3 days I had to return it. This camera does not focus correctly. I do not understand why this issue is not being discussed. I am a very experienced photographer - over 35 years. I have NEVER .. repeat NEVER .. had any camera with this type of unreliable focus. I read all the info on all the forums to mitigate the problem. I concluded it was not worth the effort. This camera is not ready for prime time. At this price you should not have to WORK HARD to get Autofocus to work properly. Yes .. it had the latest firmware. end of review -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
It doesn't really prove much IMO. Without controlling for variables such as lighting, distance, focus, microfocus adjustment, it's just two pictures of a note. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: The size of the cropped image is irrelevant if it is an actual pixel size image (which they are). The FA31 is not a macro lens. : ) They've just saved you a lot of time and bandwidth over downloading the full image (and also made it practical to put them side-by-side on screen). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.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: Lost, K10D
Bloody hell, Frank. That sucks. I hope by some twist of fate you get it back. I suppose the similar stories being posted aren't making you feel a whole lot better but I'll add mine anyway. I left a backpack containing my trusty SFXn in a supermarket trolly at the local shopping centre. I didn't even realise it was missing until about a half an hour later, while I was having a quiet coffee, there was an announcement over the centre's PA system asking me to come to the manager's office. Actually, even after the announcement it didn't occur to me that the backpack wasn't with me. It wasn't until I arrived at the manager's office and saw the pack that the head slapping started. Someone had handed in the backpack and there was a power bill (or something similar) in it with my name on it. I was lucky - and grateful that there was at least one honest person in the centre that day. Cheers Brian + Brian Walters Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) http://anpsa.org.au Quoting knarftheria...@gmail.com: Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, telling me I got a call to pick up. As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit me; no camera around my neck. I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera to security - mall policy); nothing turned in. Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, continued to monitor ads and security. Nothing. Gone. Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value. Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 for a few beers. Oh well. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: What about immage stabilization and macro
Quoting Toine to...@repiuk.nl: If I remember correctly the manual claims SR should be switched off for macro. I don't recall seeing that in the K200D or K-5 manuals - not saying it isn't there, but they are large manuals and I have a short attention span :-) The manuals do say to switch SR off if the cameras are tripod mounted. Cheers Brian + Brian Walters Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) http://anpsa.org.au Toine On 24 October 2012 18:32, Jos from Holland jos_from_holl...@onsnet.nu wrote: I always wondered how to adjust for image stabilization in macro. I use SMC-M 100mm macro and SMC-M 50mm on my K5d quite often with a macro ring. I have to adjust the focal distance of the lens manually. But what really counts for image stabilization is the angle of view, I guess. So should I use a correction factor and adjust maybe 300mm for the 100mm lens??? Similar things for my Sigma 17-70mm in macro mode. Any thoughts?? Greetings, Jos -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
Gave you an excuse (if you needed one) to return to the bar. I doubt you left it on purpose, but. Jacj - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Lost, K10D As long as we're sharing uplifting stories, I left my *ist-Ds w the M85 FA43 limited and A24mm in a bar in Newport RI a few years ago. Realized what I'd done about an hour later after crossing the Newport Bridge returning to the mainland. Called them immediately. The bartender told me he'd found it and would hold it for me. I was able to pick it up the next day, with nothing missing. Nice people. On the other hand I've been in bars where I've watched stolen goods be exchanged, being unarmed made me feel naked. On 10/24/2012 2:47 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com wrote: Yeah, I left my black lowepro bag stuffed full of gear in a darkened room corner of a motel in Greeneville, SC once, not realizing it until I arrived home three hours later that it didn't make the trip with me. Fortunately, I was a regular there and they recognized the bag as mine, so they held on to it until I could get back down there a couple days later. I tell you, though, it was a rough realization when it wasn't in the Jeep. I once left my 31/1.8 Ltd at a site in a park where I was doing a dawn shoot for a (paying!) client. I realized what I'd done about an hour later. Since it was a dawn shoot in the middle of a large park and it was still before 8:00 a.m. when I returned, the lens was still there sitting on a rock in the middle of a stream. Once in Winston-Salem before GFM my car was broken into with ALL my gear in the back -- including 80-200/2.8, 300/2.8, medium format kit, etc... The thief took only a case of music CDs from the front seat (I think the alarm may have induced him to grab something small as fast as possible without investigating the vehicle's contents further). -- 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: I Wanna Be a Cameraman
Livin' the nightmare, err dream. On 10/23/2012 9:29 PM, Brian Walters wrote: B A bit of fun - even with the odd Pentax sighting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKBetMjwLk8feature=g-user-u -- 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: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington
Thanks for lookin' Bob. On Oct 24, 2012, at 13:26 , Bob Sullivan wrote: Nice set Joe, the sunset photos make me think of the Smokeys. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: Now located on the Key Peninsula (locals = The Key) in Washington State, instead of 3 miles to the dog park when in Everett, it is now 30 miles to a leash free park, in Port Orchard. As such I only take the dogs for their exercise twice a week. Limits my exposure to the rest of the world. If I were to stop the car and set up each shot I'd like to capture in this new territory for me, I'd never make it to market or the post office. I thought I'd share a few that were taken at the dog park, or on the way home, a week ago. My first use of Flickr. Been a member for two years. After losing my gallery at Apple when they humidified and became an iCloud, I have just made the time to explore the interface and the results. If anyone has any advice for me for or against, or suggestions of the best site for my casual , not trying to make a living with this, too complicated to do the searching needed to see if anyone copied for commercial use, too lazy to put a watermark in them photographs, chime in. http://tinyurl.com/bssq32j Comments up or down will be appreciated. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Lost, K10D
Aw, Frank, I am so sorry to hear that. That really sucks and I know how much a body blow like that can dishearten one. If there might be some way I can help you out, let me know. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, telling me I got a call to pick up. As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit me; no camera around my neck. I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera to security - mall policy); nothing turned in. Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, continued to monitor ads and security. Nothing. Gone. Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value. Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 for a few beers. Oh well. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: What about immage stabilization and macro
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting Toine to...@repiuk.nl: If I remember correctly the manual claims SR should be switched off for macro. I don't recall seeing that in the K200D or K-5 manuals - not saying it isn't there, but they are large manuals and I have a short attention span :-) That's a Mark! right there. The manuals do say to switch SR off if the cameras are tripod mounted. I think that covers most macro usage. Detailed macro work is almost always going to be on a tripod. -- -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: PESO - Jazz Profile
That's much appreciated, Frank. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:21 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Sublime. cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com Sent: October 23, 2012 10/23/12 To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List PDML@pdml.net Subject: PESO - Jazz Profile Vocalist Yuko Miyamoto at jazz saxist Bobby Hsu's gig at The Gate 403 in Toronto on Oct 19. http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8117649662/lightbox/ This was a dimly lit club set where I was struggling to get any non-soft shots at all. At one point I accidentally bumped the mode dial from Av to Tv and it set a high shutter speed of 1/160th, then underexposed at f:1.4. Astoundingly these few shots -- until I found the dial set wrong and set it back -- were among the sharpest of the evening. It looks a lot like handholding at low shutter speeds contributes to much softness that I'd thought was bad focus. I'm going to explore this fast shutter in the dark in future. K20D, DA* 55/1.4, 1/160th, ISO 1600. Lr 4.2. -- -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. -- -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: PESO - Jazz Profile
Absolutely, Boris. Just as soon as I trademark it and register fastshutterinthedark.com. :-) Thank you Boris, Larry and Dave M.! On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: One of the more original and well executed concert shots as of recently. I will borrow your fast shutter speed in the dark idea, if I may, please. On 10/24/2012 3:08 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: Vocalist Yuko Miyamoto at jazz saxist Bobby Hsu's gig at The Gate 403 in Toronto on Oct 19. http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8117649662/lightbox/ This was a dimly lit club set where I was struggling to get any non-soft shots at all. At one point I accidentally bumped the mode dial from Av to Tv and it set a high shutter speed of 1/160th, then underexposed at f:1.4. Astoundingly these few shots -- until I found the dial set wrong and set it back -- were among the sharpest of the evening. It looks a lot like handholding at low shutter speeds contributes to much softness that I'd thought was bad focus. I'm going to explore this fast shutter in the dark in future. K20D, DA* 55/1.4, 1/160th, ISO 1600. Lr 4.2. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo
Great colors! -Original Message- From: Theodore Beilby tbei...@sbcglobal.net Subject: RE: GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo Of course, I forgot the URL. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/8119440844/in/set-72157631843888271/lightbox/ Thanks again Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Fall Colors in Washington
Thank you Don. My favorite as well. The more panoistic of the two is a crop from a wider angle shot, same position. It is unusual to see a photo op while still a half mile away, but I did. When I found a place to turn off and walk up to the intersection, I was delighted. Hope all of those who view it are too. On Oct 24, 2012, at 13:41 , Don Guthrie wrote: Sunset in the forest is my favorite. Nice views. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 15 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:15:55 -0700 From: Joseph McAllisterpentax...@mac.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail ListPDML@pdml.net Subject: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington Message-ID:9c88910c-94c7-45ec-9a16-f1ba05e19...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Now located on the Key Peninsula (locals = The Key) in Washington State, instead of 3 miles to the dog park when in Everett, it is now 30 miles to a leash free park, in Port Orchard. As such I only take the dogs for their exercise twice a week. Limits my exposure to the rest of the world. If I were to stop the car and set up each shot I'd like to capture in this new territory for me, I'd never make it to market or the post office. I thought I'd share a few that were taken at the dog park, or on the way home, a week ago. My first use of Flickr. Been a member for two years. After losing my gallery at Apple when they humidified and became an iCloud, I have just made the time to explore the interface and the results. If anyone has any advice for me for or against, or suggestions of the best site for my casual , not trying to make a living with this, too complicated to do the searching needed to see if anyone copied for commercial use, too lazy to put a watermark in them photographs, chime in. http://tinyurl.com/bssq32j Comments up or down will be appreciated. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Jazz Profile
Thanks, Derby. FYI, the underexposure and the scene itself combined to provide the vignette. I just had to bring up the shadows and mids a bit and tame some highlights on her face to balance the composition. It's as close to SooC as I've posted here lately. Usually Mr. Photoshop Till I Drop. :-) On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote: Beautiful. The light vignette and the touch of noise really works for me. On 24/10/2012 12:08 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Vocalist Yuko Miyamoto at jazz saxist Bobby Hsu's gig at The Gate 403 in Toronto on Oct 19. http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8117649662/lightbox/ This was a dimly lit club set where I was struggling to get any non-soft shots at all. At one point I accidentally bumped the mode dial from Av to Tv and it set a high shutter speed of 1/160th, then underexposed at f:1.4. Astoundingly these few shots -- until I found the dial set wrong and set it back -- were among the sharpest of the evening. It looks a lot like handholding at low shutter speeds contributes to much softness that I'd thought was bad focus. I'm going to explore this fast shutter in the dark in future. K20D, DA* 55/1.4, 1/160th, ISO 1600. Lr 4.2. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
Another Lens Comparison: M* 300/4 v Tamron 300/5.6 BBAR
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Re: I Wanna Be a Cameraman
Hilarious! I'm so there, yo. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: B A bit of fun - even with the odd Pentax sighting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKBetMjwLk8feature=g-user-u -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington
I concur with Don and give the nod to Sunset in the forest: beautiful. Given your simple criteria, you won't do much better than Flickr. Especially if you intend to make any use of the organizing features (like sets collections) or the social networking (groups, contacts, comments). 500px is cooler but very weak on both those points so I've bailed. At the free level Flickr will only display your latest 200 shots to others, but that won't be a restriction to you for a while. :-) The Pro level is $25 per year, so it's damned cheap. Lifts all the restrictions and gets you statistics. There are noises from Yahoo that they are going to be spending more money and time on Flickr, but who knows. I think Tumblr is an alternative (of sorts), but there's more work involved than Flickr. All the other good ones want some money (SmugMug, etc.). On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote: Sunset in the forest is my favorite. Nice views. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 15 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:15:55 -0700 From: Joseph McAllisterpentax...@mac.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail ListPDML@pdml.net Subject: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington Message-ID:9c88910c-94c7-45ec-9a16-f1ba05e19...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Now located on the Key Peninsula (locals = The Key) in Washington State, instead of 3 miles to the dog park when in Everett, it is now 30 miles to a leash free park, in Port Orchard. As such I only take the dogs for their exercise twice a week. Limits my exposure to the rest of the world. If I were to stop the car and set up each shot I'd like to capture in this new territory for me, I'd never make it to market or the post office. I thought I'd share a few that were taken at the dog park, or on the way home, a week ago. My first use of Flickr. Been a member for two years. After losing my gallery at Apple when they humidified and became an iCloud, I have just made the time to explore the interface and the results. If anyone has any advice for me for or against, or suggestions of the best site for my casual , not trying to make a living with this, too complicated to do the searching needed to see if anyone copied for commercial use, too lazy to put a watermark in them photographs, chime in. http://tinyurl.com/bssq32j Comments up or down will be appreciated. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.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. -- -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: PESO - Jazz Profile
Well done Dave On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Vocalist Yuko Miyamoto at jazz saxist Bobby Hsu's gig at The Gate 403 in Toronto on Oct 19. http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8117649662/lightbox/ This was a dimly lit club set where I was struggling to get any non-soft shots at all. At one point I accidentally bumped the mode dial from Av to Tv and it set a high shutter speed of 1/160th, then underexposed at f:1.4. Astoundingly these few shots -- until I found the dial set wrong and set it back -- were among the sharpest of the evening. It looks a lot like handholding at low shutter speeds contributes to much softness that I'd thought was bad focus. I'm going to explore this fast shutter in the dark in future. K20D, DA* 55/1.4, 1/160th, ISO 1600. Lr 4.2. -- -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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Fall colors on the Buffalo
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Theodore Beilby tbei...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Of course, I forgot the URL. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ted_beilby/8119440844/in/set-72157631843888271/lightbox/ Thanks again Ted Good set there. Nice colours and i like the bluff as back drop Dave The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: 2 Peso - country road and city street
Both lovely shots Dave On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: This was one I was going to use on my 48 state calendar until I found out it was in NY instead of Connecticut and NY was already done. It was outside the home of a friend who lived then right on the NY/CT border. http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/Random-stuff/2607384_ZTHNRm/1/2170283500_WRwrgkX/Original http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/2012-and-all-that/21847075_D88Ngw/1/2170249166_tLFFSHJ/Large 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington
I agree with Don. I like the Sunset in the Forest, best. I might have cropped some of the sky, keeping enough to continue the horizontal lines of the composition. Just a little too much white for me as it is presented. I really like the rim lighting on the trees. Ted The eye of the viewer becomes the eye of the Photographer. Albert Maysles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Another Coyote
Only Google's high handedness could make me like Photo.net. That's a nice shot, but it worries me to see Coyotes in daylight. On 10/22/2012 10:44 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Thanks for the explaination p...@paper-ape.com (you really need a name!). A better gallery of recent shots is here... http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1042479 Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:51 AM, p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2012-10-21 14:10 Bob Sullivan wrote Try again, I didn't have it set for public viewing. https://plus.google.com/u/0/?tab=mX an explanation since this is likely to come up again: the reason this link didn't work is that Google does rather selfish things when you are looking at your own stuff in your own Plus account — every page you load is not really a page, and the URL doesn't change; this is intentional — it makes it really hard to share something outside Google's sphere of control; you have to do something like get to the same photo via Picassa and copy the link from there … the Picassa links you sent turned into plus.google links for me, but i don't know any way to get those links directly; they are cool shots; i very much like the dreamy one with the big trunk framing one edge; i like arboreta too and will try to remember that one if i am in Chicago sometime i missed a great shot of a coyote a couple of weeks ago because i didn't have my iPhone set right, nor my Pentax over my shoulder — coyote leapt across my tall blue gramma lawn about 20 feet away from me, but the durned phone was still processing the previous (not as dramatic) shot in HDR mode … good lesson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Is this ugly or what?
Pimpin' Like a '70's Eldorado with red leather seats and white shag carpet. On 10/21/2012 5:59 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-PENTAX-LX-CUSTOMIZED-/130787533901?pt=Film_C amerashash=item1e738b644d -- 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: Another Coyote
PJ, It's early morning, and they keep the Canada Geese population down. (It's illegal to harm Frank's flying rats here in Illinois, but they ignore this.) Occasionally a suburban housewife loses her small dog in her back yard at night. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:57 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Only Google's high handedness could make me like Photo.net. That's a nice shot, but it worries me to see Coyotes in daylight. On 10/22/2012 10:44 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Thanks for the explaination p...@paper-ape.com (you really need a name!). A better gallery of recent shots is here... http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1042479 Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:51 AM, p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2012-10-21 14:10 Bob Sullivan wrote Try again, I didn't have it set for public viewing. https://plus.google.com/u/0/?tab=mX an explanation since this is likely to come up again: the reason this link didn't work is that Google does rather selfish things when you are looking at your own stuff in your own Plus account — every page you load is not really a page, and the URL doesn't change; this is intentional — it makes it really hard to share something outside Google's sphere of control; you have to do something like get to the same photo via Picassa and copy the link from there … the Picassa links you sent turned into plus.google links for me, but i don't know any way to get those links directly; they are cool shots; i very much like the dreamy one with the big trunk framing one edge; i like arboreta too and will try to remember that one if i am in Chicago sometime i missed a great shot of a coyote a couple of weeks ago because i didn't have my iPhone set right, nor my Pentax over my shoulder — coyote leapt across my tall blue gramma lawn about 20 feet away from me, but the durned phone was still processing the previous (not as dramatic) shot in HDR mode … good lesson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: What about immage stabilization and macro
On Oct 24, 2012, at 14:52 , Bruce Walker wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting Toine to...@repiuk.nl: If I remember correctly the manual claims SR should be switched off for macro. I don't recall seeing that in the K200D or K-5 manuals - not saying it isn't there, but they are large manuals and I have a short attention span :-) That's a Mark! right there. The manuals do say to switch SR off if the cameras are tripod mounted. I think that covers most macro usage. Detailed macro work is almost always going to be on a tripod. I ran some tests a year ago that showed me, personally, that my tripod images were either equal or better with SR on than with SR off. Same with a 2 second delay and SR. But with a 12 sec delay, off was better. I was headed out to the dog park yesterday afternoon (a grey and rainy day) and noticed a couple of our favorite birds sittin' on the swim to platform in Palmer Lake. Positioned the car to afford me a shot or two, using the half way up window to steady the camera and 18-250 with. Looking through the viewfinder at 250mm, I was shocked to see how unsteady my hands have become. Tried spot center AF, MF, and not using the window as a brace, plus 250mm vs 100mm. Think it was between 1/60 and 1/160 of a second with SR on. Nothing was sharp enough for my tastes. Guess I'll have to start lugging to 60-250 brick around. A few months ago I got some nice sharp images at the dog park with the lowly 80-300 FA-J that looked better. than this 18-250. With less CA too. Best at 250mm, and best (cropped) at 100mm plus a crop of a 250mm shot. Mind you, these were shot at jpeg, 5 stars, 16 mp. http://tinyurl.com/8dt4ag5 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.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: Another Coyote
We have coyotes as well. They're good at controlling the rabbit and chipmunk population as well, which is a boon for my vegetable garden. Paul On Oct 24, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: PJ, It's early morning, and they keep the Canada Geese population down. (It's illegal to harm Frank's flying rats here in Illinois, but they ignore this.) Occasionally a suburban housewife loses her small dog in her back yard at night. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:57 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Only Google's high handedness could make me like Photo.net. That's a nice shot, but it worries me to see Coyotes in daylight. On 10/22/2012 10:44 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Thanks for the explaination p...@paper-ape.com (you really need a name!). A better gallery of recent shots is here... http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1042479 Regards, Bob S. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:51 AM, p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2012-10-21 14:10 Bob Sullivan wrote Try again, I didn't have it set for public viewing. https://plus.google.com/u/0/?tab=mX an explanation since this is likely to come up again: the reason this link didn't work is that Google does rather selfish things when you are looking at your own stuff in your own Plus account — every page you load is not really a page, and the URL doesn't change; this is intentional — it makes it really hard to share something outside Google's sphere of control; you have to do something like get to the same photo via Picassa and copy the link from there … the Picassa links you sent turned into plus.google links for me, but i don't know any way to get those links directly; they are cool shots; i very much like the dreamy one with the big trunk framing one edge; i like arboreta too and will try to remember that one if i am in Chicago sometime i missed a great shot of a coyote a couple of weeks ago because i didn't have my iPhone set right, nor my Pentax over my shoulder — coyote leapt across my tall blue gramma lawn about 20 feet away from me, but the durned phone was still processing the previous (not as dramatic) shot in HDR mode … good lesson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: What about immage stabilization and macro
Quoting Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting Toine to...@repiuk.nl: If I remember correctly the manual claims SR should be switched off for macro. I don't recall seeing that in the K200D or K-5 manuals - not saying it isn't there, but they are large manuals and I have a short attention span :-) That's a Mark! right there. The manuals do say to switch SR off if the cameras are tripod mounted. I think that covers most macro usage. Detailed macro work is almost always going to be on a tripod. I ran some tests a year ago that showed me, personally, that my tripod images were either equal or better with SR on than with SR off. Same with a 2 second delay and SR. But with a 12 sec delay, off was better. Ah, now. Are you absolutely sure about that 2 sec delay mode? One thing I did find in the manuals (in the short periods of mental alertness) is that SR is turned off automatically whenever a self timer mode is selected Cheers Brian + Brian Walters Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) http://anpsa.org.au I was headed out to the dog park yesterday afternoon (a grey and rainy day) and noticed a couple of our favorite birds sittin' on the swim to platform in Palmer Lake. Positioned the car to afford me a shot or two, using the half way up window to steady the camera and 18-250 with. Looking through the viewfinder at 250mm, I was shocked to see how unsteady my hands have become. Tried spot center AF, MF, and not using the window as a brace, plus 250mm vs 100mm. Think it was between 1/60 and 1/160 of a second with SR on. Nothing was sharp enough for my tastes. Guess I'll have to start lugging to 60-250 brick around. A few months ago I got some nice sharp images at the dog park with the lowly 80-300 FA-J that looked better. than this 18-250. With less CA too. Best at 250mm, and best (cropped) at 100mm plus a crop of a 250mm shot. Mind you, these were shot at jpeg, 5 stars, 16 mp. http://tinyurl.com/8dt4ag5 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.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 - Jazz Profile
Thanks, Dave! On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:36 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Well done Dave On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Vocalist Yuko Miyamoto at jazz saxist Bobby Hsu's gig at The Gate 403 in Toronto on Oct 19. http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8117649662/lightbox/ This was a dimly lit club set where I was struggling to get any non-soft shots at all. At one point I accidentally bumped the mode dial from Av to Tv and it set a high shutter speed of 1/160th, then underexposed at f:1.4. Astoundingly these few shots -- until I found the dial set wrong and set it back -- were among the sharpest of the evening. It looks a lot like handholding at low shutter speeds contributes to much softness that I'd thought was bad focus. I'm going to explore this fast shutter in the dark in future. K20D, DA* 55/1.4, 1/160th, ISO 1600. Lr 4.2. -- -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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -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: What about immage stabilization and macro
Joe, What about a bean bag in the car... Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 14:52 , Bruce Walker wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting Toine to...@repiuk.nl: If I remember correctly the manual claims SR should be switched off for macro. I don't recall seeing that in the K200D or K-5 manuals - not saying it isn't there, but they are large manuals and I have a short attention span :-) That's a Mark! right there. The manuals do say to switch SR off if the cameras are tripod mounted. I think that covers most macro usage. Detailed macro work is almost always going to be on a tripod. I ran some tests a year ago that showed me, personally, that my tripod images were either equal or better with SR on than with SR off. Same with a 2 second delay and SR. But with a 12 sec delay, off was better. I was headed out to the dog park yesterday afternoon (a grey and rainy day) and noticed a couple of our favorite birds sittin' on the swim to platform in Palmer Lake. Positioned the car to afford me a shot or two, using the half way up window to steady the camera and 18-250 with. Looking through the viewfinder at 250mm, I was shocked to see how unsteady my hands have become. Tried spot center AF, MF, and not using the window as a brace, plus 250mm vs 100mm. Think it was between 1/60 and 1/160 of a second with SR on. Nothing was sharp enough for my tastes. Guess I'll have to start lugging to 60-250 brick around. A few months ago I got some nice sharp images at the dog park with the lowly 80-300 FA-J that looked better. than this 18-250. With less CA too. Best at 250mm, and best (cropped) at 100mm plus a crop of a 250mm shot. Mind you, these were shot at jpeg, 5 stars, 16 mp. http://tinyurl.com/8dt4ag5 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineeringquestion)
force it, if it breaks, it needed replacing anyways... - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bob Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 4:28 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineeringquestion) If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer... On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:23 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: You mean percussion adjustment tool... On 10/24/2012 1:41 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: British Leyland fine adjustment tool BFH-042. John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 06:04:29AM +1100, Peter McIntosh wrote: FWIW, My father (god bless him) used to describe a hammer as an American screwdriver... :-) Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne - back to practicing my (poor) manual focus skills... The comparable UK expression I grew up with is Birmingham screwdriver -- 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Samsung Reportedly Will Stop Sourcing Apple
From: Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com I think that what's moral for individual human beings does not necessarily apply to corporations. Specifically, I think that the so called grey area is much broader for corporations than it is for you and me. In theory that's correct. In practice it's wrong. I know it. You know it. The CEO's know it. (I'm not implying you didn't) :) (Frank wrote:) Doesn't mean they should stop making money from on of their biggest clients, does it? This is a simple ongoing commodity transaction that is completely divorced from the intellectual property departments duking it out. (Boris wrote:) Well, no. In fact, there is nothing immoral in stopping dealing with Apple. Like it is always said - nothing personal, just business... Someone up the ladder came up with the power point presentation that appears to support the idea that in terms of profit this would be the best move for Samsung and hence the decision was eventually made. I am surprised it wasn't made way earlier, in fact. There's several ways to look at it. I'm not a Samsung fanboy or necessarily anti-Apple. On the one hand, if you go suing your supplier who's also a competitor... well I don't know how much profit Samsung makes on their business with Apple, but $1B probably covers what they made on A LOT of iPad displays and other chips. So it sort of looks like, in a way, that Apple would be, in essence, getting Samsung's product for less than the agreed upon price. Score for Apple. If I were Samsung would I want to do business with a company that was essentially getting my product at a cut-rate price via litigation? Rumor has it Apple was already looking for lower cost displays. If I were Samsung I'd tell Apple to shove it, which they may have done. All businesses have a legitimate interest in making a fair and honest profit. On the other hand I read that $1B is only a day or two's worth of revenue for Samsung, and that the lawsuit may have elevated Samsung in the eyes of some as a worthy Apple competitor. If so, a possible misstep by Apple. I don't countenance the theft of intellectual property via Samsung or Apple and I don't know where the truth is there. I certainly don't agree with 'you cant make a product that's slim, rectangular, has rounded corners and uses icons or gestures that are meaningful'. It seems that corporations, like governments, once in power, do everything possible to stay in power and suppress contenders. The actions of a corporation are the deliberate actions of thinking human beings. Those actions are either fair and legitimate or they are not, regardless of how the legal profession wishes to spin it. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Lost, K10D
Argh, that's a heartbreaker, Frank. So sorry to hear :( -c On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, not really lost, rather, stupidly left on a bench. It happened a week and a half ago. I was working at the time, had taken my camera strap off my neck and put the camera next to me while I sat in a shopping mall checking something in my wallet. Then my Android beeped, telling me I got a call to pick up. As I got off the subway about fifteen minutes later that sinking feeling hit me; no camera around my neck. I immediately got a second call to do, so unfortunately it was almost two hours after I left my camera before I got back to the mall. Checked with security and all the stores near the bench (who would have brought the camera to security - mall policy); nothing turned in. Checked the local lost and found ads, placed lost and found ads myself, continued to monitor ads and security. Nothing. Gone. Ok, I know the person who found it and walked away with it did nothing illegal, but you'll never convince me that keeping that camera was morally right. The ~right~ thing to do would have been to turn it in to security. They might as well have stolen it from me. I guess what bothers me most is that they won't get much for it if they pawn it or sell it. It's worth far more to me than it's market value. Even worse, what likely happened is that the finder sold it at a bar for $20 for a few beers. Oh well. About 30 lost images, maybe a few good ones but no prize winners. The 18-55mm was on it and while I'll miss it, at least it's not a valuable lens. And I still have my venerable *IstD. It was a terrific camera and took wonderful images. I'll miss it. cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://christinenielsen.com http://www.facebook.com/ChristineNielsenPhotography -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Fall Colors in Washington
Thanks for your comments, Ted, and Bruce. Just spent an hour or so perusing the gazillion things I can set to keep a leash on my images, see what I can and cannot do, etc.. Seems like a reasonable site for showing to the PDMLr's what my eyes see, and whether the camera agrees or disagrees. Set my licensing up to Attribution, non-commercial, share-alike. As has been discussed before, don't mean a hill o'beans if some want to do as they please. I'd have to be at the dentist or doctors to have a good chance of spotting any. :) On Oct 24, 2012, at 15:32 , Bruce Walker wrote: I concur with Don and give the nod to Sunset in the forest: beautiful. Given your simple criteria, you won't do much better than Flickr. Especially if you intend to make any use of the organizing features (like sets collections) or the social networking (groups, contacts, comments). 500px is cooler but very weak on both those points so I've bailed. At the free level Flickr will only display your latest 200 shots to others, but that won't be a restriction to you for a while. :-) The Pro level is $25 per year, so it's damned cheap. Lifts all the restrictions and gets you statistics. There are noises from Yahoo that they are going to be spending more money and time on Flickr, but who knows. I think Tumblr is an alternative (of sorts), but there's more work involved than Flickr. All the other good ones want some money (SmugMug, etc.). On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote: Sunset in the forest is my favorite. Nice views. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Rainy Day Conversation
It's been soggy weather the past few days: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/10/rainy-day-conversation.html?m=0 Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. Cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Rainy Day Conversation
A couple of umbrella heads! I like it. Paul On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:15 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: It's been soggy weather the past few days: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/10/rainy-day-conversation.html?m=0 Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. Cheers, frank If the world were clear, art would not exist. -- Albert Camus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington
A nice set. I'll go with sunset in the forest as top pic, but I also like wall in fall very much. Good work. Pul On Oct 24, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: Thank you Don. My favorite as well. The more panoistic of the two is a crop from a wider angle shot, same position. It is unusual to see a photo op while still a half mile away, but I did. When I found a place to turn off and walk up to the intersection, I was delighted. Hope all of those who view it are too. On Oct 24, 2012, at 13:41 , Don Guthrie wrote: Sunset in the forest is my favorite. Nice views. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 15 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:15:55 -0700 From: Joseph McAllisterpentax...@mac.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail ListPDML@pdml.net Subject: GESO: Fall Colors in Washington Message-ID:9c88910c-94c7-45ec-9a16-f1ba05e19...@mac.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Now located on the Key Peninsula (locals = The Key) in Washington State, instead of 3 miles to the dog park when in Everett, it is now 30 miles to a leash free park, in Port Orchard. As such I only take the dogs for their exercise twice a week. Limits my exposure to the rest of the world. If I were to stop the car and set up each shot I'd like to capture in this new territory for me, I'd never make it to market or the post office. I thought I'd share a few that were taken at the dog park, or on the way home, a week ago. My first use of Flickr. Been a member for two years. After losing my gallery at Apple when they humidified and became an iCloud, I have just made the time to explore the interface and the results. If anyone has any advice for me for or against, or suggestions of the best site for my casual , not trying to make a living with this, too complicated to do the searching needed to see if anyone copied for commercial use, too lazy to put a watermark in them photographs, chime in. http://tinyurl.com/bssq32j Comments up or down will be appreciated. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: K5 Discontinued at BH
Two days later and the K-5 is back in stock at BH... There are probably enough new K-5 cameras to sell until sometime in January, maybe longer. Pentax/Ricoh USA still lists the K-5 as a current item. The rumors of it's demise are over stated. In fact if my little tongue in cheek diatribe about Pentax announcing a FF camera in January is correct, the K-5 will be a /current/ offering when the K-[whatever], (damn I used to be able to use X as a symbol for the unknown), is about to be released. On 10/22/2012 5:04 PM, Darren Addy wrote: A friend of mine who teaches Computer Science at the university may have gotten the very last BH K-5 (new). It was only a matter of an hour or so between his purchase and the they're out post to PDML. Lowest seller on Amazon, as I type this, is Beach at $894 (body only). That's about the current low price for a Buy It Now from ebay (U.S.) also. If you want to take a chance on a returned one with a 30 day Square Trade warranty, as opposed to the factory 1 year... there are 5 on Amazon Warehouse Deals from $754 to $796. The lower priced ones have minor cosmetic damage. Meanwhile, the 12-bit K-30 body is down to $659 (new by a Seller through Amazon) or $590 through Amazon Warehouse Deals. K-5 ii body is $1199 (preorder price) and the K-5 iis $100 more. -- 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: What about immage stabilization and macro
On Oct 24, 2012, at 16:37 , Brian Walters wrote: Quoting Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting Toine to...@repiuk.nl: If I remember correctly the manual claims SR should be switched off for macro. I don't recall seeing that in the K200D or K-5 manuals - not saying it isn't there, but they are large manuals and I have a short attention span :-) That's a Mark! right there. The manuals do say to switch SR off if the cameras are tripod mounted. I think that covers most macro usage. Detailed macro work is almost always going to be on a tripod. I ran some tests a year ago that showed me, personally, that my tripod images were either equal or better with SR on than with SR off. Same with a 2 second delay and SR. But with a 12 sec delay, off was better. Ah, now. Are you absolutely sure about that 2 sec delay mode? One thing I did find in the manuals (in the short periods of mental alertness) is that SR is turned off automatically whenever a self timer mode is selected Any of you dealing with ADD/ADHD know damn well that one cannot read a manual, let alone a book. Once your mind gets a chance, it flips the mental page to whatever you were just reminded of, and no ability to back up, unless something else you are doing in the near to far distant future reminds you of the manual, or book. Then you have to -a. find the bloody thing -b. start reading again from the front, 'cause you know you won't know where you left off -c. repeat. I'll have to check on that if and when I find the box with my manuals in it. I do remember the movers picking up the bookshelf then rolled it upside down so it's contents were spread around on the carpet. Either that or the stapled-on back of the bookcase fell off.. Only checking because it seems there has been a run of bad memory today. Dave Brooks! If I didn't go back and spell check, then read slowly what I've written for context, thanks to spell checkers changing words to what you think they might be, my posts would be mucho more unreadable than yours. Fingers get fatter, and don't go where you aim them much once you're decrepit. I have a hard time using my iPad if I allow my hand to hover waiting to tap the next whatever. Finger tremble, have their own mind about when to tap. Makes for frustrating backing up. Guess it won't be long before they're fitting me with a cheek-switch and eye tracking apparatus. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com -- The Big Bang was silent, and invisible in it's beginning moments. Photons were one of the earliest particles to develop, but I don't think any were able to escape for a bit. If they could, there would have been a flash during expansion. No one would notice, of course, for another 4.2 billion years. Now we are trying to catch up by looking out, and back in time to that infinitesimally-small fraction of a millisecond in an attempt to see what caused that singularity to we call the Big Bang. This attempt will fail in any visual way, as the furthest galaxies and elements are now moving faster than light by recent theory, making the information sought beyond a theoretical event horizon. — update to the Pentaxian's thoughts on particle physics, so far. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)
On 2012-10-24 16:49, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2012-10-24 16:28, Bob Sullivan wrote: If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer... If it doesn't fit, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing, anyway. Doug doesn't need a torque wrench, he just tightens it until it strips, then backs it off a quarter turn. Followed by application of Shoe-Goo, SuperGlue, or JB Weld, as appropriate. Oh, and a safety wire. Never forget the safety wire. -- 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: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineeringquestion)
safety wire? Hell, chicken wire! - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Doug Franklin Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:31 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineeringquestion) On 2012-10-24 16:49, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2012-10-24 16:28, Bob Sullivan wrote: If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer... If it doesn't fit, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing, anyway. Doug doesn't need a torque wrench, he just tightens it until it strips, then backs it off a quarter turn. Followed by application of Shoe-Goo, SuperGlue, or JB Weld, as appropriate. Oh, and a safety wire. Never forget the safety wire. -- 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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Comparing in-body and lens-based image stabilisation
I'm always amazed by experts who don't seem to know very much, how did they get to be experts is there a test? All they have to do is be more than 50 miles from home. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Comparing in-body and lens-based image stabilisation Well, interesting. I wonder if he knows that you can compare the difference between Optical and In camera stabilization by mounting a 4:3 Panasonic stabilized lens, (or m4:3 if you prefer to use them), on an Olympus 4:3 body? Hum, I guess not. I'm always amazed by experts who don't seem to know very much, how did they get to be experts is there a test? He does make pretty charts, maybe that's his area of expertise. This isn't earth shattering, in fact his results mirror the general perceived wisdom. Olympus by the way is supposed to have a much much improved in body stabilization in the OM-D. Maybe someone will test it vs a Panasonic stabilized lens. I expect that the K-3, or whatever the heck it will be called, will have much improved in body stabilization, because they'll have On 10/23/2012 5:15 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Interesting article that uses a K-5 and a Sigma 50-500 mm HSM lens. The article doesn't say what focal length was used in the tests but presumably it was the long end. http://www.digitalversus.com/digital-camera/image-stabilisers-optical-mechanical-a1608.html -- 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.
