Re: PDML stand for...
On 27/10/13, Ann Sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed: Pentax Does Mean Denial you're cheating, Cotty - last word has to start with L Senior moment!! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Akaroa
Hardly motley, Dave. That's a great Geso, well captured. What a beautiful area but then I suppose most of NZ is with the high rainfall. The heron is a handsome fellow apparently in full breeding plumage (which he should be at this time of the year). Much fancier than our herons. Cheers Alan -Original Message- From: David Mann Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 5:25 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: GESO: Akaroa Here's a motley collection of a dozen photos from our trip to Akaroa, a French town with a Maori name in a British colony. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/gallery/45/#geso Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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: Initial experiences with K-5
On Oct 27, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Another, probably more versatile over time, would be the DA 16~45 f/4. A constant aperture lens which delivers extremely nice results. It's been discontinued, but check with KEH on a regular basis and chances are you'll find one. Thanks, Jack. I’ll keep an eye out for it. Feeling guilty that I’m feeling tempted by autofocus. I want to learn photography. I don’t like things that do things for me without explaining what they’re doing. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net I can explain it for you, I just can't comprehend it for you. - Ed Koch -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - Elegance
Thank you very much, Frank. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 6:00 PM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: That's a lovely, exotic photo! Cheers, frank Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/10481880253/ A _very_ different look from the previous one of photographer-turned-model-for-a-day Alina Antoniou. This was Alina's very first session as a model. I thought we worked very well together. Lighting: Pentax AF540FGZ flash in Westcott 28 Medium Apollo, boomed overhead. Comments welcome. “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Akaroa
All nicely shot, Dave. Crisp and well composed. Jack - Original Message - From: David Mann dmann...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 8:25 PM Subject: GESO: Akaroa Here's a motley collection of a dozen photos from our trip to Akaroa, a French town with a Maori name in a British colony. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/gallery/45/#geso Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: some pics from last June
Hi Christine! You're right. My flight landed 12 hours ago. Today I'll pick up the rental car and head for Yosemite. :-) Jostein -Opprinnelig melding- From: Christine Aguila Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 5:59 AM To: PDML List Subject: Re: GESO: some pics from last June Wow! These are yummy! Wonderfu work, Jostein. Looks like you’re about to land state-side. Can’t wait for the photos! Have a great trip! Cheers, Christine On Oct 21, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Alunfoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Guess I have some catching up to do, in posting pictures to the List. It hasn’t been a very productive year so far, but here are few I took on a trip to Northern Norway in June. http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/PESO/ Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Initial experiences with K-5
Eric - There is no special honor in focusing manually and there is nothing mysterious about auto-focus if you turn off all but one of the sensors. Focusing is a purely mechanical skill that has nothing to do with making your photos better. Picking the place in the photo where you want to focus is the skill. If you set the camera to use a single focusing sensor, then lock the focus so you can recompose the image, you're not doing anything significantly different than when we used to manually focus in the old days. Even then we usually had help from a split image or micro-prism spot that would help us achieve better focus. Those tools do not exist on today's cameras. Once you're comfortable with that start to explore the other autofocus features and determine what is useful to you. Take advantage of the cameras features that can give you more time to concentrate on what is important. I've reached an age where I am quite thankful for auto-focus. If I had to depend on my eyesight I would only have sharp photos by accident. GS George Sinos www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Oct 27, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Another, probably more versatile over time, would be the DA 16~45 f/4. A constant aperture lens which delivers extremely nice results. It's been discontinued, but check with KEH on a regular basis and chances are you'll find one. Thanks, Jack. I’ll keep an eye out for it. Feeling guilty that I’m feeling tempted by autofocus. I want to learn photography. I don’t like things that do things for me without explaining what they’re doing. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net I can explain it for you, I just can't comprehend it for you. - Ed Koch -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-3 Video on Youtube
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/10/2013 5:34 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: I can understand your feelings, that video content would be viewed as superficial and suspicious if it were aired in Australia. Why may I ask? You have a guy, we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and presume he is a professional studio guy, who has may well have never touched a Pentax DSLR before (Pentax isn't exactly mainstream) who has been hired by Pentax to work with the K3. I'm not seeing what Boris is saying as being anything other than something of high probability, neither good nor bad, just something that is. What's with the judgement about it? bill I'm also curious why, as I see nothing objectionable about that video. As for the photographer, just google Allen Birnbach ;) - and yes, he's (also?) shooting with Pentax DSLRs, 645D to be more precise. He was asked to test the new K-3, he did it, the result was captured into a commercial; that's all. Alex -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - two parties - GDG
Two gatherings of willing friends the past couple of weeks have advanced one of the projects I'm working on a good way. Eight and nine photos in each set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157637033047066/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157637032931486/ Thanks to all my friends for being willing subjects in front of the camera! :-) And thanks for looking! Comments always appreciated. Godfrey - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - (and VESO) The Christmas Train
I'm putting up a smaller Christmas tree this year that will sit atop a table. The table is big enough to accommodate a small circle of train track. Rather than leave such an important task to the last minute, I decided to test things out this weekend. (Not the tree. Just the train.) Killing two birds with one stone, I shot a little video with my iPhone and tried out the video editing features in Photoshop CC for the first time. Here are the results. http://georgesinos.com/blog/2013/10/27/the-christmas-train I was surprised at how quickly I figured out the video editor in Photoshop CC. It was (Unlike most things in PS) quite straight forward. I've used a couple of other video editors in the past and they have many more features. But for slapping together a quick video or slide show, this looks like it will do everything I need. gs George Sinos www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.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: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
P.J. Alling wrote: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/an_appeal_for_divergence_and_simplicity.shtml Excellent article. Thanks for pointing it out since I almost never look at Luminous Landscape any more (that site used to be a daily must read before it became a kind of Robb Report for cameras). A lot of designers need to re-read Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things (I'm assuming most read it or were supposed to in school). I still find the control layout of my Sony A850 generally superior to that of my Pentax K5 for a lot of the reasons he discusses (though the Pentax lens release and DOF preview are much superior to Sony's). -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - two parties - GDG
Box Brownie, 1948 ? I get it, Godfrey and see it as well done. I, also, speak from personal experience. Jack - Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi godfreydigio...@me.com To: PAW Picture-A-Week project p...@micapeak.com; PDML List PDML@pdml.net; SeePhoto Talk seeph...@micapeak.com; BAPhotoShooters BAPA baphotoshoot...@yahoogroups.com Cc: Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:08 AM Subject: GESO - two parties - GDG Two gatherings of willing friends the past couple of weeks have advanced one of the projects I'm working on a good way. Eight and nine photos in each set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157637033047066/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157637032931486/ Thanks to all my friends for being willing subjects in front of the camera! :-) And thanks for looking! Comments always appreciated. Godfrey - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: some pics from last June
Looking forward to more great images from you! Wishing you good light and clear roads . . . stan On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Alunfoto - Jostein Øksne wrote: Hi Christine! You're right. My flight landed 12 hours ago. Today I'll pick up the rental car and head for Yosemite. :-) Jostein -Opprinnelig melding- From: Christine Aguila Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 5:59 AM To: PDML List Subject: Re: GESO: some pics from last June Wow! These are yummy! Wonderfu work, Jostein. Looks like you’re about to land state-side. Can’t wait for the photos! Have a great trip! Cheers, Christine On Oct 21, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Alunfoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: Guess I have some catching up to do, in posting pictures to the List. It hasn’t been a very productive year so far, but here are few I took on a trip to Northern Norway in June. http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/PESO/ Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - (and VESO) The Christmas Train
Enjoyed the nudge of nostalgia, Had to be fun to do. Jack - Original Message - From: George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:31 AM Subject: PESO - (and VESO) The Christmas Train I'm putting up a smaller Christmas tree this year that will sit atop a table. The table is big enough to accommodate a small circle of train track. Rather than leave such an important task to the last minute, I decided to test things out this weekend. (Not the tree. Just the train.) Killing two birds with one stone, I shot a little video with my iPhone and tried out the video editing features in Photoshop CC for the first time. Here are the results. http://georgesinos.com/blog/2013/10/27/the-christmas-train I was surprised at how quickly I figured out the video editor in Photoshop CC. It was (Unlike most things in PS) quite straight forward. I've used a couple of other video editors in the past and they have many more features. But for slapping together a quick video or slide show, this looks like it will do everything I need. gs George Sinos www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.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: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
It's not the simplicity itself that's at issue. It's the original UNIX creed, programs that do one thing well. I want a still camera that does still photography well, that's ergonomically suited to it. Something that takes good quality photographs printable up to a certain size. I don't care if the camera makes movies, really good movies require seeing in ways that I just don't see. Really good movies, unless they're good due to compelling subject matter, require planning that even Ansel Adams didn't need to do. As a still photographer, using what used to be called a minicam, I want a Camera that doesn't get in my way, but has all the necessary controls readily available to take still pictures. That should be control over the three parts parts of exposure, ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed. Control over the meter with selectable spot averaging and the program. The ability to turn the anti shake system on or off quickly, as conditions warrant. In auto focus modes the ability to choose focus points quickly. I shoot raw so it's not quite so important that I change color balance quickly though it does help get good exposures. So that shouldn't be buried to deeply in a menu either. For tripod work getting into a true mirror lockup would be nice too. On the K20D Pentax got almost all of those things right. All the shooting controls are right there.Shutter and Aperture are controlled by two wheels, ISO press the OK button and turn the front wheel. Metering pattern is right there under the mode dial. SR a switch on the back of the camera. White balance on the quick menu. Change a focus point, in shooting mode right there on the four way controller. The only thing you need to take your cameras from your eye for is white balance. Tho only real deficiency is mirror lockup for tripod work. We can discuss the cameras deficiencies as a photographic tool at length, it has many and can be extremely frustrating, but it's control layout for the still photographer is better than almost any other camera I've had a chance to play with, (I say almost because I only got to handle a Nikon D3 for a very short period of time so that might be better), though I still liked the quick white balance setup on the *ist-D. On 10/27/2013 9:25 PM, David Parsons wrote: He should just use a film camera if he's that worried about simplicity and video creep. I can say that I've never accidentally turned on video on any camera I own. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:39 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Ruminating on the K-3 and the various reviews of the K-5 family of cameras where the reviewer took off points for clunky ways to get into video mode, (this was especially true of DPReview IIRC), I found myself wanting to scream in the guy's face. What is it about it being primarily a Still camera that you don't get? This little article from Luminous Landscape makes covers most of my arguments, without the Pending assault charges, though I think his plea for simplicity of control might go a bit too far in the other direction, and having a third dial dedicated entirely to ISO... Pushing a button and turning one of the e-dials isn't all that onerous as long as the button is in a convenient location. NO Pentax content in the essay but hell half of us don't use Pentax as our primary camera system anymore anyway. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/an_appeal_for_divergence_and_simplicity.shtml -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
I really don't think you should be looking to the Unix world for simplicity and design cues. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:57 AM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: It's not the simplicity itself that's at issue. It's the original UNIX creed, programs that do one thing well. I want a still camera that does still photography well, that's ergonomically suited to it. Something that takes good quality photographs printable up to a certain size. I don't care if the camera makes movies, really good movies require seeing in ways that I just don't see. Really good movies, unless they're good due to compelling subject matter, require planning that even Ansel Adams didn't need to do. As a still photographer, using what used to be called a minicam, I want a Camera that doesn't get in my way, but has all the necessary controls readily available to take still pictures. That should be control over the three parts parts of exposure, ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed. Control over the meter with selectable spot averaging and the program. The ability to turn the anti shake system on or off quickly, as conditions warrant. In auto focus modes the ability to choose focus points quickly. I shoot raw so it's not quite so important that I change color balance quickly though it does help get good exposures. So that shouldn't be buried to deeply in a menu either. For tripod work getting into a true mirror lockup would be nice too. On the K20D Pentax got almost all of those things right. All the shooting controls are right there.Shutter and Aperture are controlled by two wheels, ISO press the OK button and turn the front wheel. Metering pattern is right there under the mode dial. SR a switch on the back of the camera. White balance on the quick menu. Change a focus point, in shooting mode right there on the four way controller. The only thing you need to take your cameras from your eye for is white balance. Tho only real deficiency is mirror lockup for tripod work. We can discuss the cameras deficiencies as a photographic tool at length, it has many and can be extremely frustrating, but it's control layout for the still photographer is better than almost any other camera I've had a chance to play with, (I say almost because I only got to handle a Nikon D3 for a very short period of time so that might be better), though I still liked the quick white balance setup on the *ist-D. On 10/27/2013 9:25 PM, David Parsons wrote: He should just use a film camera if he's that worried about simplicity and video creep. I can say that I've never accidentally turned on video on any camera I own. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:39 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Ruminating on the K-3 and the various reviews of the K-5 family of cameras where the reviewer took off points for clunky ways to get into video mode, (this was especially true of DPReview IIRC), I found myself wanting to scream in the guy's face. What is it about it being primarily a Still camera that you don't get? This little article from Luminous Landscape makes covers most of my arguments, without the Pending assault charges, though I think his plea for simplicity of control might go a bit too far in the other direction, and having a third dial dedicated entirely to ISO... Pushing a button and turning one of the e-dials isn't all that onerous as long as the button is in a convenient location. NO Pentax content in the essay but hell half of us don't use Pentax as our primary camera system anymore anyway. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/an_appeal_for_divergence_and_simplicity.shtml -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
I can say that I have had that experience, several times, with the E-PL2. Rather than going through the process of reprogramming the button - i.e., setting it so that accidental button-pushes would be less troublesome - I sold the camera. Why would anybody think of putting a big honking button right where the users thumb is going to fall when holding the camera for shooting? stan On Oct 27, 2013, at 9:25 PM, David Parsons wrote: He should just use a film camera if he's that worried about simplicity and video creep. I can say that I've never accidentally turned on video on any camera I own. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:39 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Ruminating on the K-3 and the various reviews of the K-5 family of cameras where the reviewer took off points for clunky ways to get into video mode, (this was especially true of DPReview IIRC), I found myself wanting to scream in the guy's face. What is it about it being primarily a Still camera that you don't get? This little article from Luminous Landscape makes covers most of my arguments, without the Pending assault charges, though I think his plea for simplicity of control might go a bit too far in the other direction, and having a third dial dedicated entirely to ISO... Pushing a button and turning one of the e-dials isn't all that onerous as long as the button is in a convenient location. NO Pentax content in the essay but hell half of us don't use Pentax as our primary camera system anymore anyway. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/an_appeal_for_divergence_and_simplicity.shtml -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-3 manual now available (PDF)
Huh. I never had a reason to look at the K-5 etc pictures with their captions showing where each of the buttons are - I figured I knew all of that. So if the cameras have a sound capability, why haven't we seen functions that would allow a voice-recorded tag on images, or spoken warnings. Why can't I use the O-GPS1 unit to give me driving directions - it already has a navigation feature. And in case anyone thinks I am serious, look at the thread on divergence and simplicity. I disagree with the author's examples in several instances but agree with the basic point that feature clutter is not a good thing. I am still baffled by the whole video thing and haven't been able to think of a single instance where I would want my DSLR to record video, much less sound. I have owned and used video cameras in the past, and if I wanted to shoot video again the last device I would consider for that purpose would be a DSLR. First choice would be a video camera. stan On Oct 27, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: Stan, your K5 and K20 have built in speakers as well. Shoot a movie, play it back, and press your ear close to the holes i the body that are not the mic. On Oct 23, 2013, at 21:15 , Stan Halpin wrote: Ken - I have started into the K-3 manual Darren posted. It looks exactly like the pdf versions of K10, K20, K5, K5ii manuals that I have used before. Same layout, same level of detail on descriptions of e.g. menu functions, etc. And the What is in the box? page shows that the hardcopy manual is included. One thing that strikes me so far is how much more prominent the video-related functions are. And I had not realized that it has a built-in speaker! Verbal alerts? Hey dummy, the flash won't work until you turn it on! I'll read more tomorrow. . . stan 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: K-3 manual now available (PDF)
DSLRs make good video cameras for some applications. I wrote and directed a video for an automotive parts supplier and worked with a pro cameraman who regularly shoots Red Wings hockey, Michigan football and other major television productions. For the shoot in the part supplier's design studio, he used a Canon DSLR with a video screen attached. It was one of their high end APSC models. With relatively wide shots needed, it proved a good choice and a convenient way to do the job. At the auto show many of the pro video guys shoot with similar rigs: DSLRs with video screen attached. I shot the video for my Times Dream Cruise piece with my K-5 on the same day I shot the stills. Worked out well, since I was able to prefocus and use a wide lens for all the shots I needed. The only limitation was my limited experience as a videographer. I look forward to better video on the K-3. Paul On Oct 28, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Huh. I never had a reason to look at the K-5 etc pictures with their captions showing where each of the buttons are - I figured I knew all of that. So if the cameras have a sound capability, why haven't we seen functions that would allow a voice-recorded tag on images, or spoken warnings. Why can't I use the O-GPS1 unit to give me driving directions - it already has a navigation feature. And in case anyone thinks I am serious, look at the thread on divergence and simplicity. I disagree with the author's examples in several instances but agree with the basic point that feature clutter is not a good thing. I am still baffled by the whole video thing and haven't been able to think of a single instance where I would want my DSLR to record video, much less sound. I have owned and used video cameras in the past, and if I wanted to shoot video again the last device I would consider for that purpose would be a DSLR. First choice would be a video camera. stan On Oct 27, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: Stan, your K5 and K20 have built in speakers as well. Shoot a movie, play it back, and press your ear close to the holes i the body that are not the mic. On Oct 23, 2013, at 21:15 , Stan Halpin wrote: Ken - I have started into the K-3 manual Darren posted. It looks exactly like the pdf versions of K10, K20, K5, K5ii manuals that I have used before. Same layout, same level of detail on descriptions of e.g. menu functions, etc. And the What is in the box? page shows that the hardcopy manual is included. One thing that strikes me so far is how much more prominent the video-related functions are. And I had not realized that it has a built-in speaker! Verbal alerts? Hey dummy, the flash won't work until you turn it on! I'll read more tomorrow. . . stan 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.
Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - (and VESO) The Christmas Train
Video works on my android. Cool stuff! Cheers, frank George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm putting up a smaller Christmas tree this year that will sit atop a table. The table is big enough to accommodate a small circle of train track. Rather than leave such an important task to the last minute, I decided to test things out this weekend. (Not the tree. Just the train.) Killing two birds with one stone, I shot a little video with my iPhone and tried out the video editing features in Photoshop CC for the first time. Here are the results. http://georgesinos.com/blog/2013/10/27/the-christmas-train I was surprised at how quickly I figured out the video editor in Photoshop CC. It was (Unlike most things in PS) quite straight forward. I've used a couple of other video editors in the past and they have many more features. But for slapping together a quick video or slide show, this looks like it will do everything I need. gs George Sinos www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 2013 - 104, 105, 106 - GDG
My out of town guests were visiting a week ago. We took a walk around Santa Clara and visited the Carmelite Monastery. It's a lovely place, with a beautiful chapel and a small olive grove. The light shining on this statue of the madonna and christ child was particularly beautiful. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537862745/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537864536/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10538079443/lightbox Thanks for looking! comments always appreciated. G — flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 2013 - 104, 105, 106 - GDG
Superb. The first one is my favorite. Paul On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godfreydigio...@me.com wrote: My out of town guests were visiting a week ago. We took a walk around Santa Clara and visited the Carmelite Monastery. It's a lovely place, with a beautiful chapel and a small olive grove. The light shining on this statue of the madonna and christ child was particularly beautiful. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537862745/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537864536/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10538079443/lightbox Thanks for looking! comments always appreciated. G — flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
Readers Digest wants to use a picture
I don't plan to let them use it for free. Does anyone have any experience/advise on how I should respond? (Text below) Thanks. - - - I'm contacting you from the Reader's Digest photo department. We are interested in potentially running a photo from your Flickr account (see link below) in our January issue. Would we be able to get usage to this photo as well as a high res image? Thanks so much. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PDML stand for...
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:25:55PM -0400, Richard Womer wrote: In view of Chris Mitchell's recent defection, and as we become a more diverse group in our photo equipment, I'm wondering if PDML really does denote Pentax Discuss Mail List. It might, instead, stand for: Pentax Diaspora Mail List Pentax Death Mourning League Pentax Disgust/Despair/Desertion Mail List Pentax Defectors Mail List Photographers Desiring More Leicas Or?.? Puns, disasters, moaning lust. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - (and VESO) The Christmas Train
Worked well on my iPad 2 as well. The iPhone did a nice job with the video... -p On 10/28/2013 10:00 AM, knarf wrote: Video works on my android. Cool stuff! Cheers, frank George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm putting up a smaller Christmas tree this year that will sit atop a table. The table is big enough to accommodate a small circle of train track. Rather than leave such an important task to the last minute, I decided to test things out this weekend. (Not the tree. Just the train.) Killing two birds with one stone, I shot a little video with my iPhone and tried out the video editing features in Photoshop CC for the first time. Here are the results. http://georgesinos.com/blog/2013/10/27/the-christmas-train I was surprised at how quickly I figured out the video editor in Photoshop CC. It was (Unlike most things in PS) quite straight forward. I've used a couple of other video editors in the past and they have many more features. But for slapping together a quick video or slide show, this looks like it will do everything I need. gs George Sinos www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Four
Lucky shot indeed:) It turned out really nice, seems that little flash is not useless after all. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:09 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 28, 2013, at 4:15 pm, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Nice! Pedal pattern allowed by ideal lighting. Focus indicates the camera must have been nearly perfectly on plain with the pedal surfaces and on what I imagine was a hand held knees grab. Yep that's pretty much how I did it. I handhold most of my garden macros but I don't normally use a flash. IIRC it was taken at f/8. It was only meant to be a snapshot that I could throw onto Facebook but I was surprised at how good it looked in Photoshop. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO 2013 - 104, 105, 106 - GDG
Agreed...the first is my fav, too. -p On 10/28/2013 11:23 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Superb. The first one is my favorite. Paul On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godfreydigio...@me.com wrote: My out of town guests were visiting a week ago. We took a walk around Santa Clara and visited the Carmelite Monastery. It's a lovely place, with a beautiful chapel and a small olive grove. The light shining on this statue of the madonna and christ child was particularly beautiful. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537862745/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537864536/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10538079443/lightbox Thanks for looking! comments always appreciated. G — flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: White-Faced Heron
Gotta like that one. The lighting and exposure are excellent! -- Bruce -- Sent from Sony Tablet S David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: For those who didn't look through my gallery I thought this one was worth presenting separately :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/673/#peso It's not often I get to exercise the 400mm but I'm glad I brought it on that trip. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-3 Vs. D600
If I may chime in Boris, your comment seems to be out of context and I don't understand what do you mean. Are the Russians die hard Pentax fans? Would mean a rather big market. The K-3 is very tempting and I'm thinking about an upgrade. -- Attila On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Thankfully, you don't read Russian, Dario (unless I'm badly mistaken) and thus you don't frequent Russian speaking forums... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Readers Digest wants to use a picture
I remember that photo well. Don't know how to respond but it's a hell of a picture. Worthy of publication. Congrats! Squeeze as much as you can out of them. ;-) Cheers, frank Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't plan to let them use it for free. Does anyone have any experience/advise on how I should respond? (Text below) Thanks. - - - I'm contacting you from the Reader's Digest photo department. We are interested in potentially running a photo from your Flickr account (see link below) in our January issue. Would we be able to get usage to this photo as well as a high res image? Thanks so much. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Readers Digest wants to use a picture
The New York Times usually pays $150 for a single photo. That might be a good place to start. Best, Paul On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't plan to let them use it for free. Does anyone have any experience/advise on how I should respond? (Text below) Thanks. - - - I'm contacting you from the Reader's Digest photo department. We are interested in potentially running a photo from your Flickr account (see link below) in our January issue. Would we be able to get usage to this photo as well as a high res image? Thanks so much. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: White-Faced Heron
Spectacular! Beautiful bird. Cheers, frank David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: For those who didn't look through my gallery I thought this one was worth presenting separately :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/673/#peso It's not often I get to exercise the 400mm but I'm glad I brought it on that trip. Cheers, Dave “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Fall Colors (automotive content)
After the Fall Colors Workshop in Michigan's Upper Peninsula earlier this month, Meg and I spent a few days in the general vicinity of Munising where the workshop was based. These beauties were spotted in Marquette's waterfront park. http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h3302c746#h3302c746 http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h3302c746#h2de0f9c6 stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
no LBL but I do have a 36 MP FF Pentax K mount DSLR on my CBL ( Camera Bucket List). On 10/28/2013 11:32 AM, Darren Addy wrote: We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-3 Vs. D600
Attila, IMO, the agiotage around K-3 is rather high, especially so in Russian forums that I happen to visit. So much so that I'm starting to think that indeed the number of die hard fanatics is higher than average over there. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote: If I may chime in Boris, your comment seems to be out of context and I don't understand what do you mean. Are the Russians die hard Pentax fans? Would mean a rather big market. The K-3 is very tempting and I'm thinking about an upgrade. -- Attila On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: Thankfully, you don't read Russian, Dario (unless I'm badly mistaken) and thus you don't frequent Russian speaking forums... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Akaroa
I think the cows and the heron shots are outstanding, and the others give a nice sense of the town and vicinity. stan On Oct 27, 2013, at 11:25 PM, David Mann wrote: Here's a motley collection of a dozen photos from our trip to Akaroa, a French town with a Maori name in a British colony. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/gallery/45/#geso Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PDML stand for...
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:25:55PM -0400, Richard Womer wrote: In view of Chris Mitchell's recent defection, and as we become a more diverse group in our photo equipment, I'm wondering if PDML really does denote Pentax Discuss Mail List. It might, instead, stand for: Pentax Diaspora Mail List Pentax Death Mourning League Pentax Disgust/Despair/Desertion Mail List Pentax Defectors Mail List Photographers Desiring More Leicas Or….? The Non-Sequitor and Bad Acronym Society. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
A real beauty but at that price you wouldn't be able to afford the bucket. Alan -Original Message- From: Darren Addy Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 5:32 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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 2013 - 104, 105, 106 - GDG
Exquisite. You have a way with light. Alan -Original Message- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 5:46 PM To: PAW Picture-A-Week project ; PDML List ; SeePhoto Talk ; BAPhotoShooters BAPA Subject: PESO 2013 - 104, 105, 106 - GDG My out of town guests were visiting a week ago. We took a walk around Santa Clara and visited the Carmelite Monastery. It's a lovely place, with a beautiful chapel and a small olive grove. The light shining on this statue of the madonna and christ child was particularly beautiful. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537862745/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537864536/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10538079443/lightbox Thanks for looking! comments always appreciated. G — flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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 - (and VESO) The Christmas Train
Great idea. Gauge O, is it? I have a huge collection of it from my youth (simply gathering dust). I intended to build a garden railway but never did. I feel the creative juices stirring again. Alan -Original Message- From: George Sinos Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 3:31 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - (and VESO) The Christmas Train I'm putting up a smaller Christmas tree this year that will sit atop a table. The table is big enough to accommodate a small circle of train track. Rather than leave such an important task to the last minute, I decided to test things out this weekend. (Not the tree. Just the train.) Killing two birds with one stone, I shot a little video with my iPhone and tried out the video editing features in Photoshop CC for the first time. Here are the results. http://georgesinos.com/blog/2013/10/27/the-christmas-train I was surprised at how quickly I figured out the video editor in Photoshop CC. It was (Unlike most things in PS) quite straight forward. I've used a couple of other video editors in the past and they have many more features. But for slapping together a quick video or slide show, this looks like it will do everything I need. gs George Sinos www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.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. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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: Fall Colors (automotive content)
I like the red one! Your shot would make a good advert. Alan -Original Message- From: Stan Halpin Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 8:08 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO: Fall Colors (automotive content) After the Fall Colors Workshop in Michigan's Upper Peninsula earlier this month, Meg and I spent a few days in the general vicinity of Munising where the workshop was based. These beauties were spotted in Marquette's waterfront park. http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h3302c746#h3302c746 http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h3302c746#h2de0f9c6 stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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 - Art for the People
I saw that photo on your blog and again today and both time my speed reading said working glass pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:22:31 -0400 From: knarfknarftheria...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO - Art for the People Message-ID:1b56baa4-e6b6-4e94-8f51-e3f583591...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 In the window of my favourite coffee shop: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2013/10/art-for-people.html?m=1 I believe I'll continue to go there.;-) Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. 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: Initial experiences with K-5
What is an excellent bargain zoom lens in the 300mm range? Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Oct 27, 2013 23:46 Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Agreed. Another excellent bargain autofocus lens. Paul via phone On Oct 27, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: It is an excellent choice, as Paul says. Another, probably more versatile over time, would be the DA 16~45 f/4. A constant aperture lens which delivers extremely nice results. It's been discontinued, but check with KEH on a regular basis and chances are you'll find one. Jack From: Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 12:54 PM Subject: Re: Initial experiences with K-5 Excellent choice. Paul via phone On Oct 27, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Oct 27, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: [1] I’ll have to buy an autofocus lens. [In spite of my desire to learn to focus manually, recommendations? By I guess nearly everyone’s standards here, it would have to be cheap—very cheap.] What about this?: 50-200 F4-5.6 SMC DA ED WR. --- --- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net We have different explanations. So what? - Brother Shankara -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: In Honer of the World Series K-01
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:49:00 -0400 From: knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01 Message-ID: 30d80db8-2063-4bc4-ac94-e62c8547b...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Wow! That is an awesome shot, Don! Cheers, frank Thank you Frank, it was a great night for photos and I had good seats for photos, but the home team lost. __ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:51:33 -0400 From: Zos Xavius zosxav...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01 Message-ID: CAKN1KjMLoVR=+++5bxibwuvyxqhnvhmaknmye9ck+ud+9gh...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Nice shot. They let you take the k-01 in to the game? Thanks Zos, Only other Photogs ask me what a K-01 is. I think the non-techs think it is a large Kodak Instamatic. Message: 8 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:39:01 -0400 From: Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01 Message-ID: cajuu0cef8ssqn6exjn4hc0q2ez7b1ysfvjtsomsvrxvxpgo...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Oh, that's excellent! Thanks Bruce, good to hear. ___ Message: 10 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:13:16 -0400 From: Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01 Message-ID: 75197312-e06e-45af-8d0d-66576d10a...@stans-photography.info Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Very nice shot! But I can't make out who is on second . . . stan On Oct 26, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: Thanks Stan, it wasn't a Twin, they did not get past 1st base all night. Haven't shared much lately so here is something for baseball fans. Although even our out of country soccer fans might like it. I have no interest in the outcome of this year's contest since it has no teams I follow. So here's a salute to teams that did not make it. Taken with K-01 and Rokinon fisheye at Target Field. http://donspix.smugmug.com/Architecture/Buildings-Architecture/i-K3hrzzR/0/XL/Target%20Field%20MPLS%20MN%20%2027035-XL.jpg or http://www.flickr.com/photos/valdon/10424183654/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Initial experiences with K-5
TAv is no opstical for taking actions shots. I use is frequently when light conditions are changing. Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Oct 27, 2013 20:06 Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Oct 27, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The auto ISO setting ranged between 2200 and 3200---I didn’t realize until I turned the camera on at this shoot that it had an auto ISO feature…. Just figured out that I had the camera on TAv. I though I had it on Tv. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net Style is truth. - Ray Bradbury -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01
Thanks Ann, it was the Minnesota Twins alright. Boston fan? I'm not find of Cardinals. Sounds like your convention trip was fruitful informative. How could I mistype honor? Even the British spelling would have been better. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 3 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:34:50 -0400 From: Ann Sanfedeleann...@nyc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01 Message-ID:526bd30a.4030...@nyc.rr.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed That's a pretty shot - even though I normally dislike fisheyes Now what team is it and where is target field? Minneapolis? There IS a team I have to root for this year ann On 10/22/2013 12:30, Don Guthrie wrote: Haven't shared much lately so here is something for baseball fans. Although even our out of country soccer fans might like it. I have no interest in the outcome of this year's contest since it has no teams I follow. So here's a salute to teams that did not make it. Taken with K-01 and Rokinon fisheye at Target Field. http://donspix.smugmug.com/Architecture/Buildings-Architecture/i-K3hrzzR/0/XL/Target%20Field%20MPLS%20MN%20%2027035-XL.jpg or http://www.flickr.com/photos/valdon/10424183654/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Steampunk Warrior
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/10540808816/ This was Alina's first time in front of a camera in a studio setting, and her first time taking direction. She's a portrait and event photographer who wanted to find out what being the subject is like. She was expecting to do something more like a natural light portrait session outdoors, but the weather turned very cold and rainy here so I suggested something a little different. She is thrilled with the results, and her fiancé is ecstatic. ;-) K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 45mm/f:5, 1/125th, ISO 320. AF540FGZ in 30 eBay octa softbox, boomed overhead right. Lr Ps + Nik + Portraiture. Model: Alina Antoniou MM# 1931180 MUA/hair: Yurie Oka MM# 2347096 Comments welcome. -- -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: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01
Thank you Yolanda, yes my 21mm didn't quite work. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 8 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 18:06:22 -0500 From: Yolanda Roweypr...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01 Message-ID: CAAvbFkNdu3Eww28p5mdj2rTUj2Y8vuUP=s6cao0l7htaz6d...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Lovely shot! It's an example of fish-eye photography at its best. The benefits of shooting Pentax: even our largest bodies (with the exception of the 645D) aren't perceived as professional. My favorite stealth combination was the *istDS with either an M 28mm or 50mm. If someone was suspicious, I just popped up the flash. Yonnie -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Initial experiences with K-5
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: TAv is no opstical for taking actions shots. I use is frequently when light conditions are changing. It's my favorite setting for walking-around bird photography with the DA* 300/4. I set it to something like f/4 or f/5.6, and 1/500 or 1/1000, and let the ISO vary as I go between open terrain and shade. The K-5 has a such a wide range of usable ISO that it works really well for me. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
On 27/10/13, David Parsons, discombobulated, unleashed: I can say that I've never accidentally turned on video on any camera I own. Me neither ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01
No actually I walked to the game. I was staying in a downtown hotel all very convenient. Thanks for the look, Chris. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 11 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:50:18 + From: Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: In Honer of the World Series K-01 Message-ID: capxfea6-pxzwmtvcuwcgapctl81ohanekwym18qyrcwuhbe...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Excellent shot Don. Did you tailgate? Chris On 22 October 2013 17:30, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote: Haven't shared much lately so here is something for baseball fans. Although even our out of country soccer fans might like it. I have no interest in the outcome of this year's contest since it has no teams I follow. So here's a salute to teams that did not make it. Taken with K-01 and Rokinon fisheye at Target Field. http://donspix.smugmug.com/Architecture/Buildings-Architecture/i-K3hrzzR/0/XL/Target%20Field%20MPLS%20MN%20%2027035-XL.jpg or http://www.flickr.com/photos/valdon/10424183654/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PAW198 - Sculpture
Thanks, Dan, Godfrey and Cotty! DagT 21. okt. 2013 kl. 14:59 skrev Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: Quite strange and unsettling. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: Now that is truly awesome and weird. :-) G On Oct 20, 2013, at 1:38 PM, DagT li...@thrane.name wrote: http://www.thrane.name/Pictures/PAW/files/page7-1001-full.html Pentax K-5, DA*16-50mm@26mm, 1/50s, f5.6, ISO100 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
On 27/10/13, Joseph McAllister, discombobulated, unleashed: In that vein, movies, whilst watching the F-1 race in India this morning, I noticed that each of the team's row of engineers peering at LCD screens of the thousands of sensors on their drivers cars had a slot between the screens and the laptops on the bench through which a DSLR was sliding back and forth on dual rails, rotating to get different angles (don't think it changed vertical angle) as the race progressed. Very erie, with no one in sight at the controls. TV? Team records? Don't know, but it was not a movie or TV cameras. Not even a GoPro (God that guy must be so rich by now) Interesting! I watched the race (BBC coverage) and didnt see anything you describe. Any stills or video on the web of said gizmo? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - two parties - GDG
On 28/10/13, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: Two gatherings of willing friends the past couple of weeks have advanced one of the projects I'm working on a good way. Eight and nine photos in each set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157637033047066/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157637032931486/ Thanks to all my friends for being willing subjects in front of the camera! :-) And thanks for looking! Comments always appreciated. I really like the atmosphere of these portraits. Really excellent work mate. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - (and VESO) The Christmas Train
Thanks for the comments everyone. Alan - the train in this photo is HO scale, roughly half the size of O. When I was in the hobby shop buying the circle of track for these trains I saw some modern O. Wow, nothing like the old Lionel stuff that I remember from when I was a kid. Much more detailed and very much made to look as real as possible. Also, very expensive. $50-$80 for a boxcar. Engine prices were in the Hundreds of dollars. That would add up pretty quickly. Of course, O is pretty big, so you wouldn't need much. Then again, from the conversation I overheard while there, I'm guessing the train hobbyists have the same issues with rolling stock as photographers have with lenses. gs George Sinos www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.com On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Alan C c...@lantic.net wrote: Great idea. Gauge O, is it? I have a huge collection of it from my youth (simply gathering dust). I intended to build a garden railway but never did. I feel the creative juices stirring again. Alan -Original Message- From: George Sinos Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 3:31 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - (and VESO) The Christmas Train I'm putting up a smaller Christmas tree this year that will sit atop a table. The table is big enough to accommodate a small circle of train track. Rather than leave such an important task to the last minute, I decided to test things out this weekend. (Not the tree. Just the train.) Killing two birds with one stone, I shot a little video with my iPhone and tried out the video editing features in Photoshop CC for the first time. Here are the results. http://georgesinos.com/blog/2013/10/27/the-christmas-train I was surprised at how quickly I figured out the video editor in Photoshop CC. It was (Unlike most things in PS) quite straight forward. I've used a couple of other video editors in the past and they have many more features. But for slapping together a quick video or slide show, this looks like it will do everything I need. gs George Sinos www.GeorgesPhotos.net www.GeorgeSinos.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. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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: GESO: Akaroa
On 28/10/13, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed: Here's a motley collection of a dozen photos from our trip to Akaroa, a French town with a Maori name in a British colony. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/gallery/45/#geso Nice work Dave -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - George Pegs the Rail
Charge them all with misuse of a good bike. But still the Artist must express. Nice art. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 4 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:08:04 -0400 From: knarfknarftheria...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO - George Pegs the Rail Message-ID:643817f8-21d3-495a-a77e-a490bc1f7...@email.android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I wasn't going to post this (as I've posted so many bmx freestyle shots of late) but I am extremely excited to find out this morning that photos with bicycles in them are ~automatically~ deemed art! http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2013/10/george-pegs-rail.html?m=1 I have so many bike shots I ~must~ be an artist. Yay! Cheers, frank ?Analysis kills spontaneity.? -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape conflated with Re: K-3 manual now available (PDF)
There are good situations for when the larger sensor in a DSLR or TTL-electronic camera, as well as the availability of the range of lenses they can use, makes sense for video work. At least at the price point I can afford in video cameras … Even professional movie makers choose DSLRs and TTL-electronic cameras for some purposes to save on equipment costs. There are other times when a DSLR or small TTL-electronic enable shots that could not be done with a pro video camera due to size, weight, etc. My sum-up of the LuLa article: Just another old git who wants the good old days to come back. ;-) I have plenty of simple cameras that address the basics, from the stone axe of my plain prism Nikon F up to and including my Leica M9. And I have a couple of very complex cameras. One of the most complex is my latest - the Olympus E-M1. It also has the best controls of any camera I've owned, and I can configure them to work *exactly* the way I want the camera to work, from fully manual with instant access to ISO, exposure time, aperture, and focus, to fully automated. I have no complaints about what manufacturers make. I applaud the diversity of design and ideas their products represent. I choose what I want to work with from that, and make what I choose do what I want it to. If it's too much trouble, I sell whatever it was and buy something else that does it more easily. To me, that's the only sane way to do things. Manufacturers don't make a product for 100 people, or even 1000. They never have, not for anything that costs under $10K anyway. You pick from what they make to suit your needs best, and adapt. A fresh pack of Impossible Color Protection film is in the SX-70 now. :-) G On Oct 28, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: … I am still baffled by the whole video thing and haven't been able to think of a single instance where I would want my DSLR to record video, much less sound. I have owned and used video cameras in the past, and if I wanted to shoot video again the last device I would consider for that purpose would be a DSLR. First choice would be a video camera. ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-3 Vs. D600
On 27/10/13, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: The pentax's full frame is not of the dimension a full frame must be. Paul. Come of the Scotch will you ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - Elegance
Yes very elegant very formal very beautiful. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:51:39 -0400 From: Bruce Walkerbruce.wal...@gmail.com To: Pentax Discuss Mailing ListPDML@pdml.net Subject: PESO - Elegance Message-ID: cajuu0cc0rt+ayozxqxcg7ulxuonozrx5kza8zfzneng+sha...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 http://www.flickriver.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/10481880253/ A_very_ different look from the previous one of photographer-turned-model-for-a-day Alina Antoniou. This was Alina's very first session as a model. I thought we worked very well together. Lighting: Pentax AF540FGZ flash in Westcott 28 Medium Apollo, boomed overhead. Comments welcome. -- -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 - two parties - GDG
On Oct 28, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 28/10/13, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: Two gatherings of willing friends the past couple of weeks have advanced one of the projects I'm working on a good way. Eight and nine photos in each set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157637033047066/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/sets/72157637032931486/ Thanks to all my friends for being willing subjects in front of the camera! :-) And thanks for looking! Comments always appreciated. I really like the atmosphere of these portraits. Really excellent work mate. Thanks Cotty! I find the Polaroids inspiring, can’t say why exactly. But they’re changing what and how I see, which is spilling over into the digital capture work. It’s very exciting, really. :-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Elegance
Thank you, Don. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote: Yes very elegant very formal very beautiful. Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:51:39 -0400 From: Bruce Walkerbruce.wal...@gmail.com To: Pentax Discuss Mailing ListPDML@pdml.net Subject: PESO - Elegance http://www.flickriver.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/10481880253/ A_very_ different look from the previous one of photographer-turned-model-for-a-day Alina Antoniou. This was Alina's very first session as a model. I thought we worked very well together. Lighting: Pentax AF540FGZ flash in Westcott 28 Medium Apollo, boomed overhead. Comments welcome. -- -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. -- -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 2013 - 104, 105, 106 - GDG
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537862745/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10537864536/lightbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/10538079443/lightbox Paul, Paul, and Alan: Thanks for the comments! Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Readers Digest wants to use a picture
Thanks for the responses. If they are only trolling for free images, I will probably not hear back from them. If they are willing to pay (something) I will probably get back a lowball offer (like a copy of the issue and free Gift Subscription). I think it is a strong enough of an image (with solid evidence of its appeal through all of the favorites and comments on Flickr). I just don't feel that a magazine with the highest paying circulation in the world should get its content for free (as much as my ego says that it would be cool to just see it published). My son-in-law does a lot of stock (mostly through Getty and Alamy) and I'm sure he will have some words of wisdom. In the mean time, I've decided to punt with the following response: - - - Hello Emma, Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell image for Reader's Digest. As you probably noticed by the number of times it has been marked as a favorite and been commented on, it is an image that certainly seems to resonate with viewers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ I would be happy license the image to you, and provide you with a hi-res image. In order to provide you with an appropriate licensing fee, I would need to know the particular rights that Reader's Digest is interested in purchasing (Single Use, print only, etc.). Please let me know your intended usage and I will be happy to provide you with a (reasonable) quote. =- - - On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: The New York Times usually pays $150 for a single photo. That might be a good place to start. Best, Paul On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't plan to let them use it for free. Does anyone have any experience/advise on how I should respond? (Text below) Thanks. - - - I'm contacting you from the Reader's Digest photo department. We are interested in potentially running a photo from your Flickr account (see link below) in our January issue. Would we be able to get usage to this photo as well as a high res image? Thanks so much. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Readers Digest wants to use a picture
A lot of scams purport to be stuff from Reader's Digest, so keep your wits about you if and when the talk turns to money. If it is genuine, decide what you want to charge, then double it for crimes against writing - get usage. B On 28 Oct 2013, at 17:06, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't plan to let them use it for free. Does anyone have any experience/advise on how I should respond? (Text below) Thanks. - - - I'm contacting you from the Reader's Digest photo department. We are interested in potentially running a photo from your Flickr account (see link below) in our January issue. Would we be able to get usage to this photo as well as a high res image? Thanks so much. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
I would sure sell my 135mm f1.8 JC Penny Pentax screw mount lens for less than that. Although it does take some interesting photos on my micro 4/3 Oly. Thanks Darren for causing me to dig it out storage. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:32:13 -0500 From: Darren Addypixelsmi...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? Message-ID: caeqabgtdwtdhpxo+tpctmuncmgqefk+0wgs7poeaiygyrpv...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PDML stand for...
On 28 Oct 2013, at 17:13, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:25:55PM -0400, Richard Womer wrote: In view of Chris Mitchell's recent defection, and as we become a more diverse group in our photo equipment, I'm wondering if PDML really does denote Pentax Discuss Mail List. It might, instead, stand for: Pentax Diaspora Mail List Pentax Death Mourning League Pentax Disgust/Despair/Desertion Mail List Pentax Defectors Mail List Photographers Desiring More Leicas Or?.? Puns, disasters, moaning lust. Please don't mock the loonies. 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: Readers Digest wants to use a picture
Darren, I edited your response note per the way that I used to do this sort of thing. I found it to be pretty successful in the years I ran my business. —— Hello Emma, ref: inquiry about Custer County Supercell use (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/) Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell” photograph. I will be happy to license the image and provide an appropriate hi-resolution image file for use in Reader’s Digest. I’m sure we can come to an agreement on terms and fees quickly. A couple of questions to start the ball rolling… - Do you have a standard Terms of Use Agreement contract that you use? Presuming that you have one, please forward it to me so that I can review it. If not, I will be happy to provide one for your review once you provide me with the specifics of your usage requirements. - Do you have a rate schedule that you use for photo purchases of this sort? If you have a standard rate schedule, we can negotiate the appropriate fee based upon that. Otherwise, I price photo licensing using FotoQuote Pro and other industry tools for photo licensing estimation, based on the terms of use desired. Thank you again for your interest in my photograph. I am delighted to do business with you and await your prompt response so that we can set the terms, the fee, and the deliverables schedule. best, —— G On Oct 28, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: - - - Hello Emma, Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell image for Reader's Digest. As you probably noticed by the number of times it has been marked as a favorite and been commented on, it is an image that certainly seems to resonate with viewers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ I would be happy license the image to you, and provide you with a hi-res image. In order to provide you with an appropriate licensing fee, I would need to know the particular rights that Reader's Digest is interested in purchasing (Single Use, print only, etc.). Please let me know your intended usage and I will be happy to provide you with a (reasonable) quote. - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Cycle Mounts - Request
Throwing this open to the list as there are plenty of cycle-holics on here. Anyone know of any decent clamp-on specially-shaped mounts for GoPro (or similar) cameras for attaching to expensive and sensitive aerodynamically contoured carbon fibre cycle frames? GoPro mounts are ten-a-penny but when you come to try and attach them to high-end racing bikes, not only do their riders get very skittish about clamping onto irregular shaped carbon fiber, but actually it's impossible to do quickly and easily. If I had to design it and build it myself, I know exactly what I need, but perhaps someone knows of a good starting point? Any pointers to existing web pages or images gratefully appreciated. I recently filmed an Olympic cyclist but had very little time. With my existing kit I could have done it, but not in the few minutes I had available. Woulda taken me 15 or 20 to set up. I need it to be 1 or 2 minutes! Thanks. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Readers Digest wants to use a picture
Thanks Godders for the edits. I do like your changes and will keep them in mind for the future. Appreciate the words of caution, also Bob. I've dealt with Readers Digest before. They paid for a humor piece I wrote and that they published last year (after trying to get it for free first). Also they contacted me simulatanously through multiple channels (including Flickr Mail). UPDATE: they responded in less than 35 minutes with this: Thanks for getting back to me so promptly. As of now, the image hasn't been selected yet, but we'd like to know if it is available for stock usage (for a single use, print only). I'll be in touch soon about more details. So, we'll see. It probably depends upon how many other images they have in the mix and how many of them are giving them to them for free (and how well they like this image as compared to them). On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: Darren, I edited your response note per the way that I used to do this sort of thing. I found it to be pretty successful in the years I ran my business. —— Hello Emma, ref: inquiry about Custer County Supercell use (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/) Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell” photograph. I will be happy to license the image and provide an appropriate hi-resolution image file for use in Reader’s Digest. I’m sure we can come to an agreement on terms and fees quickly. A couple of questions to start the ball rolling… - Do you have a standard Terms of Use Agreement contract that you use? Presuming that you have one, please forward it to me so that I can review it. If not, I will be happy to provide one for your review once you provide me with the specifics of your usage requirements. - Do you have a rate schedule that you use for photo purchases of this sort? If you have a standard rate schedule, we can negotiate the appropriate fee based upon that. Otherwise, I price photo licensing using FotoQuote Pro and other industry tools for photo licensing estimation, based on the terms of use desired. Thank you again for your interest in my photograph. I am delighted to do business with you and await your prompt response so that we can set the terms, the fee, and the deliverables schedule. best, —— G On Oct 28, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: - - - Hello Emma, Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell image for Reader's Digest. As you probably noticed by the number of times it has been marked as a favorite and been commented on, it is an image that certainly seems to resonate with viewers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ I would be happy license the image to you, and provide you with a hi-res image. In order to provide you with an appropriate licensing fee, I would need to know the particular rights that Reader's Digest is interested in purchasing (Single Use, print only, etc.). Please let me know your intended usage and I will be happy to provide you with a (reasonable) quote. - - - -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Initial experiences with K-5
On Oct 28, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: On Oct 27, 2013 20:06 Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Oct 27, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The auto ISO setting ranged between 2200 and 3200---I didn’t realize until I turned the camera on at this shoot that it had an auto ISO feature…. Just figured out that I had the camera on TAv. I though I had it on Tv. TAv is no opstical for taking actions shots. I use is frequently when light conditions are changing. Thanks, Jens. Yes, I did find it helpful. But I was just a bit mystified about how it got turned on, and was just reporting that I’d figured out how: when you use TAv auto ISO is automatic. Regards, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful? - Mary Oliver -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-3 Vs. D600
On Oct 28, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 27/10/13, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: The pentax's full frame is not of the dimension a full frame must be. Paul. Come of the Scotch will you ;-) I have yet to see a camera that doesn't have a full frame! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Initial experiences with K-5
On Oct 28, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jens p...@planfoto.dk wrote: TAv is no opstical for taking actions shots. I use is frequently when light conditions are changing. It's my favorite setting for walking-around bird photography with the DA* 300/4. I set it to something like f/4 or f/5.6, and 1/500 or 1/1000, and let the ISO vary as I go between open terrain and shade. The K-5 has a such a wide range of usable ISO that it works really well for me. Thanks, Matthew. The conditions in which I was shooting Saturday—shooting action in variable lighting—were similar. Only I was shooting high school athletes, not birds. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” - Aldo Leopold -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Readers Digest wants to use a picture
The price of stock makes it difficult to get much of a price for a photo, unless it's a one-time event that only you have captured. . Stock images are generally available these days for less than $100, much less in some cases. While your photo is excellent, it's a storm photo, and while photos of that genre available as stock may not be as good, I would guess there are thousands from which to choose. Good luck with this, but if I were you I would be happy with a modest sum and a photo credit. On Oct 28, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Godders for the edits. I do like your changes and will keep them in mind for the future. Appreciate the words of caution, also Bob. I've dealt with Readers Digest before. They paid for a humor piece I wrote and that they published last year (after trying to get it for free first). Also they contacted me simulatanously through multiple channels (including Flickr Mail). UPDATE: they responded in less than 35 minutes with this: Thanks for getting back to me so promptly. As of now, the image hasn't been selected yet, but we'd like to know if it is available for stock usage (for a single use, print only). I'll be in touch soon about more details. So, we'll see. It probably depends upon how many other images they have in the mix and how many of them are giving them to them for free (and how well they like this image as compared to them). On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: Darren, I edited your response note per the way that I used to do this sort of thing. I found it to be pretty successful in the years I ran my business. —— Hello Emma, ref: inquiry about Custer County Supercell use (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/) Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell” photograph. I will be happy to license the image and provide an appropriate hi-resolution image file for use in Reader’s Digest. I’m sure we can come to an agreement on terms and fees quickly. A couple of questions to start the ball rolling… - Do you have a standard Terms of Use Agreement contract that you use? Presuming that you have one, please forward it to me so that I can review it. If not, I will be happy to provide one for your review once you provide me with the specifics of your usage requirements. - Do you have a rate schedule that you use for photo purchases of this sort? If you have a standard rate schedule, we can negotiate the appropriate fee based upon that. Otherwise, I price photo licensing using FotoQuote Pro and other industry tools for photo licensing estimation, based on the terms of use desired. Thank you again for your interest in my photograph. I am delighted to do business with you and await your prompt response so that we can set the terms, the fee, and the deliverables schedule. best, —— G On Oct 28, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: - - - Hello Emma, Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell image for Reader's Digest. As you probably noticed by the number of times it has been marked as a favorite and been commented on, it is an image that certainly seems to resonate with viewers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ I would be happy license the image to you, and provide you with a hi-res image. In order to provide you with an appropriate licensing fee, I would need to know the particular rights that Reader's Digest is interested in purchasing (Single Use, print only, etc.). Please let me know your intended usage and I will be happy to provide you with a (reasonable) quote. - - - -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - Steampunk Warrior
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 02:57:18PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/10540808816/ This was Alina's first time in front of a camera in a studio setting, and her first time taking direction. She's a portrait and event photographer who wanted to find out what being the subject is like. She was expecting to do something more like a natural light portrait session outdoors, but the weather turned very cold and rainy here so I suggested something a little different. She is thrilled with the results, and her fiancé is ecstatic. ;-) Very nice photos of a stunning model. I don't know who I'm more envious of, you, or her fiance. K20D, DA* 16-50/2.8 @ 45mm/f:5, 1/125th, ISO 320. AF540FGZ in 30 eBay octa softbox, boomed overhead right. Lr Ps + Nik + Portraiture. Model: Alina Antoniou MM# 1931180 MUA/hair: Yurie Oka MM# 2347096 Comments welcome. -- -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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-3 Vs. D600
I have yet to see a camera that doesn't have a full frame! MARK! Bulent - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://celasun.carbonmade.com/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun 2013/10/28 Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: On Oct 28, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 27/10/13, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: The pentax's full frame is not of the dimension a full frame must be. Paul. Come of the Scotch will you ;-) I have yet to see a camera that doesn't have a full frame! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:57:43AM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: It's not the simplicity itself that's at issue. It's the original UNIX creed, programs that do one thing well. With the ability to combine an arbitrary number of those small programs, each with their own menus of arguments, together, in as large and unmanagebly complex system as the user wants. I want a still camera that does still photography well, that's ergonomically suited to it. Something that takes good quality photographs printable up to a certain size. I don't care if the camera makes movies, really good movies require seeing in ways that I just don't see. Really good movies, unless they're good due to compelling subject matter, require planning that even Ansel Adams didn't need to do. As a still photographer, using what used to be called a minicam, I want a Camera that doesn't get in my way, but has all the necessary controls readily available to take still pictures. That should be control over the three parts parts of exposure, ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed. Control over the meter with selectable spot averaging and the program. The ability to turn the anti shake system on or off quickly, as conditions warrant. In auto focus modes the ability to choose focus points quickly. I also want the camera to report to me what is happening at the raw file level, not the processed jpeg. I want to know just how close I am to clipping my whites and blacks. I shoot raw so it's not quite so important that I change color balance quickly though it does help get good exposures. So that shouldn't be buried to deeply in a menu either. For tripod work getting into a true mirror lockup would be nice too. On the K20D Pentax got almost all of those things right. All the shooting controls are right there.Shutter and Aperture are controlled by two wheels, ISO press the OK button and turn the front wheel. Metering pattern is right there under the mode dial. SR a switch on the back of the camera. White balance on the quick menu. Change a focus point, in shooting mode right there on the four way controller. The only thing you need to take your cameras from your eye for is white balance. And that is only as a convenience since you adjust that in post processing anyways. The problem is not complexity in function, but complexity in interface. As he said, the iPhone does a lot of things, but for many people the user interface is incredibly simple. One place that Pentax completely blew the UI was the FX button. It is a single button press to change to some particular mode, but pressing the button again doesn't bring you back to where you were. To get back to what you were doing, you have to navigate complicted menues. Even if you accidentally pressed the button and didn't really want to change modes. Tho only real deficiency is mirror lockup for tripod work. We can discuss the cameras deficiencies as a photographic tool at length, it has many and can be extremely frustrating, but it's control layout for the still photographer is better than almost any other camera I've had a chance to play with, (I say almost because I only got to handle a Nikon D3 for a very short period of time so that might be better), though I still liked the quick white balance setup on the *ist-D. On 10/27/2013 9:25 PM, David Parsons wrote: He should just use a film camera if he's that worried about simplicity and video creep. I can say that I've never accidentally turned on video on any camera I own. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:39 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Ruminating on the K-3 and the various reviews of the K-5 family of cameras where the reviewer took off points for clunky ways to get into video mode, (this was especially true of DPReview IIRC), I found myself wanting to scream in the guy's face. What is it about it being primarily a Still camera that you don't get? This little article from Luminous Landscape makes covers most of my arguments, without the Pending assault charges, though I think his plea for simplicity of control might go a bit too far in the other direction, and having a third dial dedicated entirely to ISO... Pushing a button and turning one of the e-dials isn't all that onerous as long as the button is in a convenient location. NO Pentax content in the essay but hell half of us don't use Pentax as our primary camera system anymore anyway. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/an_appeal_for_divergence_and_simplicity.shtml -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier.
Re: K-3 Vs. D600
Mon Oct 28 16:09:31 EDT 2013 Paul Stenquist wrote: On Oct 28, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Steve Cottrell cotty at seeingeye.tv wrote: On 27/10/13, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: The pentax's full frame is not of the dimension a full frame must be. Paul. Come of the Scotch will you ;-) I have yet to see a camera that doesn't have a full frame! Standing ovation, Paul! Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Initial experiences with K-5
On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:27 AM, George Sinos gsi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Feeling guilty that I’m feeling tempted by autofocus. I want to learn photography. I don’t like things that do things for me without explaining what they’re doing. There is no special honor in focusing manually and there is nothing mysterious about auto-focus if you turn off all but one of the sensors. Thanks, George. It’s a hangup of mine. Focusing is a purely mechanical skill that has nothing to do with making your photos better. Picking the place in the photo where you want to focus is the skill. I agree with the second sentence. Though I’m the rankest amateur here, not so sure about the first. But maybe that just proves my amateur status If you set the camera to use a single focusing sensor, then lock the focus so you can recompose the image, you're not doing anything significantly different than when we used to manually focus in the old days. Even then we usually had help from a split image or micro-prism spot that would help us achieve better focus. Those tools do not exist on today's cameras. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a try when I get an autofocus lens. Chances are good. Take advantage of the cameras features that can give you more time to concentrate on what is important. I've reached an age where I am quite thankful for auto-focus. If I had to depend on my eyesight I would only have sharp photos by accident. I’m probably older than you, and it’s occurred to me that I could use up a lot of the time left to me learning how to focus manually. However, as I say, I do have the hangup. And though I’m ancient, my eyesight is excellent. No restriction my drivers license. Regards, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net Any assurance economists pretend to with regard to cause and effect is merely a pose. - Emanuel Derman -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Picture Storage
The SMC F 35=70 f3.5~4.5 is a real sleeper and won't set you back much more that $35. Sharp with few if any noticeable optical defects, (maybe a touch of barrel and pincushion distortion at either end of it's zoom range), it's kind of old timey in it's implementation of close focusing, though it does it at the long end of it's zoom range. The other good choice in a bargain lens that pretty much fills that gap is the FA 28-70mm f4.0, also very good though prone to having the rear composite aspheric element separate into its component glass and plastic parts. Well worth it's normal selling price of around $90. as long as you understand that it might go tit's up at any time, even if it's just sitting on a shelf. The *ist Ds supports SDHC cards of up to 32gig. On 10/26/2013 12:53 PM, John wrote: I am about to take a trip and would like to have as much picture capacity as possible with me Does anyone know what the largest sd card usable in my IstDS is? Does it make more sense to use multiple SD cards with 2/3 or so of max capacity instead? I have 2 zooms, the Pentax 20-35 f4 and a Sigma 70-300 f4 Zooms. Any suggestions for a lens in between these two. John WA1JG -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
On 10/28/2013 3:40 PM, Don Guthrie wrote: I would sure sell my 135mm f1.8 JC Penny Pentax screw mount lens for less than that. Although it does take some interesting photos on my micro 4/3 Oly. Thanks Darren for causing me to dig it out storage. Are you joking or did jc penny actually sell a 135mm f1.8 lens??? pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:32:13 -0500 From: Darren Addypixelsmi...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? Message-ID: caeqabgtdwtdhpxo+tpctmuncmgqefk+0wgs7poeaiygyrpv...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-3 Vs. D600
Boris, During my recent short conference trip to Russia, many people (mostly scientists with a variation of photo-experience from none to having some camera, including some C/N DSLR) asked me about the strange brand of my camera (and they were not referring to Ricoh-Pentax conundrum). Many people have not heard about Pentax. From that, I would say that people you are talking about are only from a very thin interlayer (limited people from limited circles). ;-) Cheers, Igor Mon Oct 28 14:12:08 EDT 2013 Boris Liberman wrote: Attila, IMO, the agiotage around K-3 is rather high, especially so in Russian forums that I happen to visit. So much so that I'm starting to think that indeed the number of die hard fanatics is higher than average over there. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Attila Boros attila.pdml at gmail.com wrote: If I may chime in Boris, your comment seems to be out of context and I don't understand what do you mean. Are the Russians die hard Pentax fans? Would mean a rather big market. The K-3 is very tempting and I'm thinking about an upgrade. -- Attila On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Boris Liberman boris71 at gmail.com wrote: Thankfully, you don't read Russian, Dario (unless I'm badly mistaken) and thus you don't frequent Russian speaking forums... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
On 10/28/2013 4:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:57:43AM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: It's not the simplicity itself that's at issue. It's the original UNIX creed, programs that do one thing well. With the ability to combine an arbitrary number of those small programs, each with their own menus of arguments, together, in as large and unmanagebly complex system as the user wants. I want a still camera that does still photography well, that's ergonomically suited to it. Something that takes good quality photographs printable up to a certain size. I don't care if the camera makes movies, really good movies require seeing in ways that I just don't see. Really good movies, unless they're good due to compelling subject matter, require planning that even Ansel Adams didn't need to do. As a still photographer, using what used to be called a minicam, I want a Camera that doesn't get in my way, but has all the necessary controls readily available to take still pictures. That should be control over the three parts parts of exposure, ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed. Control over the meter with selectable spot averaging and the program. The ability to turn the anti shake system on or off quickly, as conditions warrant. In auto focus modes the ability to choose focus points quickly. I also want the camera to report to me what is happening at the raw file level, not the processed jpeg. I want to know just how close I am to clipping my whites and blacks. That would be nice, does /any/ current camera actually implement it that way? I shoot raw so it's not quite so important that I change color balance quickly though it does help get good exposures. So that shouldn't be buried to deeply in a menu either. For tripod work getting into a true mirror lockup would be nice too. On the K20D Pentax got almost all of those things right. All the shooting controls are right there.Shutter and Aperture are controlled by two wheels, ISO press the OK button and turn the front wheel. Metering pattern is right there under the mode dial. SR a switch on the back of the camera. White balance on the quick menu. Change a focus point, in shooting mode right there on the four way controller. The only thing you need to take your cameras from your eye for is white balance. And that is only as a convenience since you adjust that in post processing anyways. The problem is not complexity in function, but complexity in interface. As he said, the iPhone does a lot of things, but for many people the user interface is incredibly simple. One place that Pentax completely blew the UI was the FX button. It is a single button press to change to some particular mode, but pressing the button again doesn't bring you back to where you were. To get back to what you were doing, you have to navigate complicted menues. Even if you accidentally pressed the button and didn't really want to change modes. The K20D doesn't have an FX button so I can't complain about it. I suppose when I get a K-5/II/s or a K-3 I'll be able to complain about the FX button just like everyone else. Tho only real deficiency is mirror lockup for tripod work. We can discuss the cameras deficiencies as a photographic tool at length, it has many and can be extremely frustrating, but it's control layout for the still photographer is better than almost any other camera I've had a chance to play with, (I say almost because I only got to handle a Nikon D3 for a very short period of time so that might be better), though I still liked the quick white balance setup on the *ist-D. On 10/27/2013 9:25 PM, David Parsons wrote: He should just use a film camera if he's that worried about simplicity and video creep. I can say that I've never accidentally turned on video on any camera I own. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:39 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Ruminating on the K-3 and the various reviews of the K-5 family of cameras where the reviewer took off points for clunky ways to get into video mode, (this was especially true of DPReview IIRC), I found myself wanting to scream in the guy's face. What is it about it being primarily a Still camera that you don't get? This little article from Luminous Landscape makes covers most of my arguments, without the Pending assault charges, though I think his plea for simplicity of control might go a bit too far in the other direction, and having a third dial dedicated entirely to ISO... Pushing a button and turning one of the e-dials isn't all that onerous as long as the button is in a convenient location. NO Pentax content in the essay but hell half of us don't use Pentax as our primary camera system anymore anyway. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/an_appeal_for_divergence_and_simplicity.shtml -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net
Re: PDML stand for...
On 10/28/2013 3:40 PM, Bob W wrote: On 28 Oct 2013, at 17:13, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:25:55PM -0400, Richard Womer wrote: In view of Chris Mitchell's recent defection, and as we become a more diverse group in our photo equipment, I'm wondering if PDML really does denote Pentax Discuss Mail List. It might, instead, stand for: Pentax Diaspora Mail List Pentax Death Mourning League Pentax Disgust/Despair/Desertion Mail List Pentax Defectors Mail List Photographers Desiring More Leicas Or?.? Puns, disasters, moaning lust. Please don't mock the loonies. B And just what does Canadian coinage have to do with anything. -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
On Oct 28, 2013, at 1:50 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I also want the camera to report to me what is happening at the raw file level, not the processed jpeg. I want to know just how close I am to clipping my whites and blacks. That would be nice, does /any/ current camera actually implement it that way? With the E-M1, the black and white point clipping points can be adjusted so you can calibrate it to reflect accurately what you need for raw capture. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
No problem Mark, scouring the internet so you don't have to. On 10/28/2013 9:37 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: P.J. Alling wrote: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/an_appeal_for_divergence_and_simplicity.shtml Excellent article. Thanks for pointing it out since I almost never look at Luminous Landscape any more (that site used to be a daily must read before it became a kind of Robb Report for cameras). A lot of designers need to re-read Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things (I'm assuming most read it – or were supposed to – in school). I still find the control layout of my Sony A850 generally superior to that of my Pentax K5 for a lot of the reasons he discusses (though the Pentax lens release and DOF preview are much superior to Sony's). -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:50:31PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: On 10/28/2013 4:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:57:43AM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: I also want the camera to report to me what is happening at the raw file level, not the processed jpeg. I want to know just how close I am to clipping my whites and blacks. That would be nice, does /any/ current camera actually implement it that way? I believe that Leicas do. There is the ongoing problem that for any particular person, just about any bit of software will consist of 70% cruft of useless features that they never need. The problem is that it's a different 70% for each person. The same problem applies to government spending as well. The author of the LL article held Apple up as a paragon of clean simple design. I will say that in general Apple products work amazingly well, as long as what I want to do is something that the designers thought that somebody should want to do. Anything else? You're best off opening up a terminal window and writing a bash script. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Readers Digest wants to use a picture
I agree with you Paul. I am under no illusions with regard to the stock photography market these days. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: The price of stock makes it difficult to get much of a price for a photo, unless it's a one-time event that only you have captured. . Stock images are generally available these days for less than $100, much less in some cases. While your photo is excellent, it's a storm photo, and while photos of that genre available as stock may not be as good, I would guess there are thousands from which to choose. Good luck with this, but if I were you I would be happy with a modest sum and a photo credit. On Oct 28, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Godders for the edits. I do like your changes and will keep them in mind for the future. Appreciate the words of caution, also Bob. I've dealt with Readers Digest before. They paid for a humor piece I wrote and that they published last year (after trying to get it for free first). Also they contacted me simulatanously through multiple channels (including Flickr Mail). UPDATE: they responded in less than 35 minutes with this: Thanks for getting back to me so promptly. As of now, the image hasn't been selected yet, but we'd like to know if it is available for stock usage (for a single use, print only). I'll be in touch soon about more details. So, we'll see. It probably depends upon how many other images they have in the mix and how many of them are giving them to them for free (and how well they like this image as compared to them). On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com wrote: Darren, I edited your response note per the way that I used to do this sort of thing. I found it to be pretty successful in the years I ran my business. —— Hello Emma, ref: inquiry about Custer County Supercell use (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/) Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell” photograph. I will be happy to license the image and provide an appropriate hi-resolution image file for use in Reader’s Digest. I’m sure we can come to an agreement on terms and fees quickly. A couple of questions to start the ball rolling… - Do you have a standard Terms of Use Agreement contract that you use? Presuming that you have one, please forward it to me so that I can review it. If not, I will be happy to provide one for your review once you provide me with the specifics of your usage requirements. - Do you have a rate schedule that you use for photo purchases of this sort? If you have a standard rate schedule, we can negotiate the appropriate fee based upon that. Otherwise, I price photo licensing using FotoQuote Pro and other industry tools for photo licensing estimation, based on the terms of use desired. Thank you again for your interest in my photograph. I am delighted to do business with you and await your prompt response so that we can set the terms, the fee, and the deliverables schedule. best, —— G On Oct 28, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: - - - Hello Emma, Thank you for your interest in my Custer County Supercell image for Reader's Digest. As you probably noticed by the number of times it has been marked as a favorite and been commented on, it is an image that certainly seems to resonate with viewers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/8850051008/ I would be happy license the image to you, and provide you with a hi-res image. In order to provide you with an appropriate licensing fee, I would need to know the particular rights that Reader's Digest is interested in purchasing (Single Use, print only, etc.). Please let me know your intended usage and I will be happy to provide you with a (reasonable) quote. - - - -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
I'm guessing that Don is being serious. I'd love to see some photos of that lens, Don! Does it have a tripod foot on it? How many aperture blades. Inquiring minds want to know! :) On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:42 PM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote: On 10/28/2013 3:40 PM, Don Guthrie wrote: I would sure sell my 135mm f1.8 JC Penny Pentax screw mount lens for less than that. Although it does take some interesting photos on my micro 4/3 Oly. Thanks Darren for causing me to dig it out storage. Are you joking or did jc penny actually sell a 135mm f1.8 lens??? pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:32:13 -0500 From: Darren Addypixelsmi...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? Message-ID: caeqabgtdwtdhpxo+tpctmuncmgqefk+0wgs7poeaiygyrpv...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PAW199 - Fence
http://www.thrane.name/Pictures/PAW/files/page7-1000-full.html Ricoh GR, 18.3mm, 1/60s, f2.8, ISO560 DagT http://www.thrane.name/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
I think that someone is confusing the JC Penny 2.8 with a 1.8. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:14:30PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: I'm guessing that Don is being serious. I'd love to see some photos of that lens, Don! Does it have a tripod foot on it? How many aperture blades. Inquiring minds want to know! :) On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:42 PM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote: On 10/28/2013 3:40 PM, Don Guthrie wrote: I would sure sell my 135mm f1.8 JC Penny Pentax screw mount lens for less than that. Although it does take some interesting photos on my micro 4/3 Oly. Thanks Darren for causing me to dig it out storage. Are you joking or did jc penny actually sell a 135mm f1.8 lens??? pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:32:13 -0500 From: Darren Addypixelsmi...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? Message-ID: caeqabgtdwtdhpxo+tpctmuncmgqefk+0wgs7poeaiygyrpv...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
Absolutely true, Scouts honor. I used it just last nite after sunset to shoot some dangling crab apples. Some bokeh. I remember ordering it from their catalog for my Ricoh film camera. pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 6 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:42:35 -0400 From: J.C. O'Connellhifis...@gate.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? Message-ID:526ecc3b.60...@gate.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 10/28/2013 3:40 PM, Don Guthrie wrote: I would sure sell my 135mm f1.8 JC Penny Pentax screw mount lens for less than that. Although it does take some interesting photos on my micro 4/3 Oly. Thanks Darren for causing me to dig it out storage. Are you joking or did jc penny actually sell a 135mm f1.8 lens??? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Welcome to sunny California
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 03:01:55AM +0100, Alunfoto - Jostein �ksne wrote: Thanks Larry! Currently crashed out on a cheap hotel room near the airport, :-) I hope you slept well. How long are you in the Bay Area for? What is your schedule like? Smooth flight, but stiff muscles. Next time, try taking a plane. Jostein -Opprinnelig melding- From: Larry Colen Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:39 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Gearing up for California Jostein, There is a poem that is very important for you to learn before your California trip. Leaves of three, let it be. Make sure that you know how to recognize poison oak. This is a special time of year for poison oak. Some of it is turning a very lovely bright red. Some of it has lost its leaves. The leaves have had all summer to secrete and collect urushiol, that marvelous oil that most people are allergic to. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
Not necessarily. m42 135mm f1.8s were manufactured by Sigma, Mitake, and Tokina (at the very least) and sold under a variety of brand names. Still, I'd love to see pictures, as I've never before heard of a JC Penney branded version. I doubt if one would confuse the image quality of one of those with the A* 135mm f1.8 or the Zeiss version (natch). Still, one could have some fun! On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I think that someone is confusing the JC Penny 2.8 with a 1.8. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:14:30PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: I'm guessing that Don is being serious. I'd love to see some photos of that lens, Don! Does it have a tripod foot on it? How many aperture blades. Inquiring minds want to know! :) On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:42 PM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote: On 10/28/2013 3:40 PM, Don Guthrie wrote: I would sure sell my 135mm f1.8 JC Penny Pentax screw mount lens for less than that. Although it does take some interesting photos on my micro 4/3 Oly. Thanks Darren for causing me to dig it out storage. Are you joking or did jc penny actually sell a 135mm f1.8 lens??? pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:32:13 -0500 From: Darren Addypixelsmi...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? Message-ID: caeqabgtdwtdhpxo+tpctmuncmgqefk+0wgs7poeaiygyrpv...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
I'm not a betting man, but if I were I would bet that Don's lens looks a lot like this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebanator/sets/72157626704544839/ On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Not necessarily. m42 135mm f1.8s were manufactured by Sigma, Mitake, and Tokina (at the very least) and sold under a variety of brand names. Still, I'd love to see pictures, as I've never before heard of a JC Penney branded version. I doubt if one would confuse the image quality of one of those with the A* 135mm f1.8 or the Zeiss version (natch). Still, one could have some fun! On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I think that someone is confusing the JC Penny 2.8 with a 1.8. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:14:30PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: I'm guessing that Don is being serious. I'd love to see some photos of that lens, Don! Does it have a tripod foot on it? How many aperture blades. Inquiring minds want to know! :) On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:42 PM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote: On 10/28/2013 3:40 PM, Don Guthrie wrote: I would sure sell my 135mm f1.8 JC Penny Pentax screw mount lens for less than that. Although it does take some interesting photos on my micro 4/3 Oly. Thanks Darren for causing me to dig it out storage. Are you joking or did jc penny actually sell a 135mm f1.8 lens??? pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:32:13 -0500 From: Darren Addypixelsmi...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? Message-ID: caeqabgtdwtdhpxo+tpctmuncmgqefk+0wgs7poeaiygyrpv...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List?
On 10/28/2013 5:50 PM, Darren Addy wrote: Not necessarily. m42 135mm f1.8s were manufactured by Sigma, Mitake, and Tokina (at the very least) and sold under a variety of brand names. Still, I'd love to see pictures, as I've never before heard of a JC Penney branded version. I doubt if one would confuse the image quality of one of those with the A* 135mm f1.8 or the Zeiss version (natch). Still, one could have some fun! I had a Sigma back in the film days that I bought at the Miami International Camera show back in the late 80's new old stock in the box. It was single coated and was a flare magnet and was bulky as hell on the front of my spotmatic without any addtional grip. Never used it much, sold it off in the late 90's with most of my other none pentax lenses. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I think that someone is confusing the JC Penny 2.8 with a 1.8. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:14:30PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: I'm guessing that Don is being serious. I'd love to see some photos of that lens, Don! Does it have a tripod foot on it? How many aperture blades. Inquiring minds want to know! :) On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:42 PM, J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net wrote: On 10/28/2013 3:40 PM, Don Guthrie wrote: I would sure sell my 135mm f1.8 JC Penny Pentax screw mount lens for less than that. Although it does take some interesting photos on my micro 4/3 Oly. Thanks Darren for causing me to dig it out storage. Are you joking or did jc penny actually sell a 135mm f1.8 lens??? pdml-requ...@pdml.net wrote: Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:32:13 -0500 From: Darren Addypixelsmi...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail Listpdml@pdml.net Subject: Is the A* 135mm f1.8 on your Bucket List? Message-ID: caeqabgtdwtdhpxo+tpctmuncmgqefk+0wgs7poeaiygyrpv...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We've all heard of LBA, but how about LBL? (Lens Bucket List - lenses you want to own/try before you die). If the A* 135mm f1.8 is on your LBL, there is one on eFlay now that starts at about $750 less than KEH price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMC-Pentax-A-135mm-F1-8-lens-Full-Frame-135-1-1-8-/190945421576 If, after purchasing, you need the original and correct Pentax hard case for that, ring me up. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
That's very true of complex computing devices. Even Windows when it was based on MS-DOS (and NT when it's UI wasn't tightly coupled it's DOS), there were things that were at best cumbersome if not impossible to do except from the command prompt. But that's still a side issue. There are only certain core functions that a camera needs to fulfill. In a still camera only one really, take and store still photos. Everything that helps that should be available, every thing that impedes that should be discouraged. Making movies with a still camera is a nice feature, but it if begins to impede the ability to take stills then it's counter productive. If a reviewer thinks that's a problem then they've missed the point of having a dedicated still camera. Hell I've got two printers currently set up, a laser printer for text documents and a wide carriage inkjet for photographs. They can both do each others job, but the laser prints only BW and relatively low resolution graphics, while the inkjet print quality is equal to the laser printer but tremendously more expensive per page. Should anyone be upset if each isn't as good at the others job? On 10/28/2013 5:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:50:31PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: On 10/28/2013 4:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:57:43AM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: I also want the camera to report to me what is happening at the raw file level, not the processed jpeg. I want to know just how close I am to clipping my whites and blacks. That would be nice, does /any/ current camera actually implement it that way? I believe that Leicas do. There is the ongoing problem that for any particular person, just about any bit of software will consist of 70% cruft of useless features that they never need. The problem is that it's a different 70% for each person. The same problem applies to government spending as well. The author of the LL article held Apple up as a paragon of clean simple design. I will say that in general Apple products work amazingly well, as long as what I want to do is something that the designers thought that somebody should want to do. Anything else? You're best off opening up a terminal window and writing a bash script. -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - Cycle Mounts - Request
On Oct 29, 2013, at 8:47 am, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: Throwing this open to the list as there are plenty of cycle-holics on here. Anyone know of any decent clamp-on specially-shaped mounts for GoPro (or similar) cameras for attaching to expensive and sensitive aerodynamically contoured carbon fibre cycle frames? It depends on where you're intending to mount the camera as it's going to be a very exotic bike that doesn't have at least one round tube somewhere. You do need to be careful about how tight you clamp things on carbon, but that applies to aluminium as well. Non-round shapes are definitely going to be much more sensitive. I recently bought a couple of these for my tail light, which might give you some ideas. http://www.wiggle.co.uk/cateye-hp5-seat-stay-clamp/ Here's the whole category: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/light-spares/ My light came with the flex-tight bracket but it's sized for larger diameter tubes and the light doesn't fit well on the seat tube, hence the seat stay mount. Combined with some clever dremel work you might be able to use something like that if it's strong enough. Whatever you do, I'd strongly recommend cutting a piece from an old inner tube and wrapping it around the frame to protect it from scratches. You only need a small piece to fit under a clamp and the rubber grips pretty well. I think for irregular shapes your best bet might be zip-ties. It's very common to use them to mount bike computer accessories in places that aren't necessarily designed to be clamped (forks, chain stays, down tubes). I'd volunteer for testing but it's not entirely practical... unless you felt like some better weather right now! Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: An appeal for Divergence and Simplicity from the Luminous Landscape
What is important to you isn't necessarily important to someone else. I am really having trouble figuring out what specific problem there is with video on a still camera. Don't use it. I don't use the video function on my K-5. I also don't use the TAv mode, but I don't complain that it takes up extra space on the dial, I simply ignore it. What, specifically, about video on your dSLR is inhibiting your taking still picture? On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:07 PM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: That's very true of complex computing devices. Even Windows when it was based on MS-DOS (and NT when it's UI wasn't tightly coupled it's DOS), there were things that were at best cumbersome if not impossible to do except from the command prompt. But that's still a side issue. There are only certain core functions that a camera needs to fulfill. In a still camera only one really, take and store still photos. Everything that helps that should be available, every thing that impedes that should be discouraged. Making movies with a still camera is a nice feature, but it if begins to impede the ability to take stills then it's counter productive. If a reviewer thinks that's a problem then they've missed the point of having a dedicated still camera. Hell I've got two printers currently set up, a laser printer for text documents and a wide carriage inkjet for photographs. They can both do each others job, but the laser prints only BW and relatively low resolution graphics, while the inkjet print quality is equal to the laser printer but tremendously more expensive per page. Should anyone be upset if each isn't as good at the others job? On 10/28/2013 5:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:50:31PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: On 10/28/2013 4:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:57:43AM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: I also want the camera to report to me what is happening at the raw file level, not the processed jpeg. I want to know just how close I am to clipping my whites and blacks. That would be nice, does /any/ current camera actually implement it that way? I believe that Leicas do. There is the ongoing problem that for any particular person, just about any bit of software will consist of 70% cruft of useless features that they never need. The problem is that it's a different 70% for each person. The same problem applies to government spending as well. The author of the LL article held Apple up as a paragon of clean simple design. I will say that in general Apple products work amazingly well, as long as what I want to do is something that the designers thought that somebody should want to do. Anything else? You're best off opening up a terminal window and writing a bash script. -- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, crazier. - H.L.Mencken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.
