Re: My next piece of photographic gear
Yes, I followed exactly the same road. The frameless multifocals I now use are perfect. I find I only need to remove them when using binoculars. Alan C -Original Message- From: Ken Waller Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 6:58 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: My next piece of photographic gear Glasses for me are just the biggest pain in the arse as I get older. Never wore glasses until I needed them about 15 years ago for close up work, cheap drug store reading glasses worked then. Got prescription bifocals a few years later and had real issues with them - found I was tripping because of the close up part, looking down. Switched to progressives awhile back and I have very little issues with them other than trying to keep them clean. Have had an issue when using a camera, I can't make up my mind to adjust the camera diopter to work without the glasses, but then I can't read the on camera info. -Original Message- From: Larry Colen Sent: Dec 18, 2016 10:51 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: My next piece of photographic gear Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: :-) I'm a bit older than you. I've been wearing progressives since around age 47 or so, fifteen years ago. They work great for me, as long as I'm not working on a large screen computer display ... then I have bifocal splits that give me 22" and 14" in focus. I've been wearing progressives since I was about 48, I probably should have gotten them a year or two earlier. It's just annoying that my older glasses no longer work just fine, it's even more annoying that my vision no longer corrects to as good as it once did, or that I get ranges where my eyes just won't focus, even with the progressives. I've never cared whether I wore glasses... regular, progressives, or bifocals. I just want to see: to read, to do my photography, and to enjoy the beauty of life. Whatever it takes to see is all that matters. What else is important, really? G On Dec 18, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: I have come to the unpleasant realization that as much as I enjoy obtaining new lenses, the next pair of lenses that I need to buy will not be K-mount but eyeglasses. Last week, when I was trying to adjust the temples, my eyeglasses snapped in half. Unfortunately, my spare glasses just don't seem to work. I went thirty years with my prescription barely changing, and now in my fifties and in the era of progressive lenses, glasses just a few years out of date make it hard to read the text on my computer screen, much less process photos. This rant brought to you by the letter F, no that's an R, wait, it's a P, definitely a P. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
If you can live with manual focus, there's the good old 70-210 F4. I've seen them going for 30-50 GBP. So good value, reasonably fast and quite compact. Chris On 18 December 2016 at 20:14, Larry Colen wrote: > > > Steve Cottrell wrote: >> >> On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>> Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the >>> niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but >>> will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. >>> The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. >>> Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? >> >> >> Just being a fly in your ointment for a minute - why would you consider >> a lens of such sweeping focal length? Surely with the K1 having such a >> good sensor, using what can only ever be an inferior lens (with such a >> large zoom range) is counter-productive? > > > OK, I'm not looking for a full frame equivalent of the 18-250, in a sense I > already have one, the sigma 50-500. For what it is, and especially what I > paid for it, it's an awesome lens, but it falls in the "way too big" > category. It's reasonably sharp, but the bokeh is rather unpleasant, and > it's not WR. There are reasons I really want a 150-450 even if I can't > afford one. > > I still do have my 18-250, and when I go for a bike ride, I tend to put that > on the K-3II and that combination does a great job for an all in one camera, > except for the WR bit, and I don't tend to decide the rainy days are perfect > for a bike ride anyways. > > The 55-300 seems to pretty nicely fit the bill. It's a reasonable size, > would be relatively easy to carry around, and it seems to be pretty sharp, > probably sharper than cropping my 28-105 down by a factor of three (which > would turn the K-1 into about a 4 MPix camera). I'll post pictures soon, it > seemed to do a decent job. > > There is also the 60-250, but that gives up in both size and cost, I wonder > how it compares with the 70-210/2.8 in those categories. > > So, I'm looking to extend my reach beyond 75 or 100 mm to the 250 or 300 mm > range. Plan A at the moment seems to be a used 55-300, but before I start > looking for one of those, I want to make sure that there isn't something > that I'd really rather have. > > >> >> > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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.
Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
I don't know. The 70/200 is obviously good and a stop faster than the 60-250, but I already have the latter. I may sell it and the 50-135 some day, but I'm not in a hurry. Paul via phone > On Dec 18, 2016, at 11:25 PM, Larry Colen wrot > 59-145 > > Paul Stenquist wrote: >> The 60-260 vignettes a bit on full frame, but It's not enough to trouble me. >> It's been my go to lens for years now on aps-c and full frame. It's >> excellent. The 150-450 is astounding. But it's much bigger and heavier. If >> you're serious about shooting critters, go for the 150-450 and a good >> tripod. But it's not a walk around lens. The 60-250/4 is > > How does the 60-250 compare with the 70-200? > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
...I should take ownership of a bouncing bundle of fur sometime in late March to early April. How nice. Now if its not a soft tempered girl, do you have name chosen for it (him/her) Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Bill" Subject: Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture Thanks all. It was a pretty shitty week all told. It looks like I have a puppy in the way. Apparently the pregnancy took, and I should take ownership of a bouncing bundle of fur sometime in late March to early April. We have asked for a soft tempered girl, and if it seems appropriate, I will name her Leica. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 - 'Standing out in the lake'
Thanks Dan. Its an image I previsualized awhile back and was finally able to capture. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Daniel J. Matyola" Subject: Re: PESO - 'Standing out in the lake' Ken: Saw this image on the PPG today. Of course, I gave it a thumbs up. I;m still very impressed with this image. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Taken last fall in Seney National Wildlife Refuge in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan K3 and 300mm f4.5 FA Comments ? http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18320529 Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: My next piece of photographic gear
Glasses for me are just the biggest pain in the arse as I get older. Never wore glasses until I needed them about 15 years ago for close up work, cheap drug store reading glasses worked then. Got prescription bifocals a few years later and had real issues with them - found I was tripping because of the close up part, looking down. Switched to progressives awhile back and I have very little issues with them other than trying to keep them clean. Have had an issue when using a camera, I can't make up my mind to adjust the camera diopter to work without the glasses, but then I can't read the on camera info. -Original Message- >From: Larry Colen >Sent: Dec 18, 2016 10:51 PM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >Subject: Re: My next piece of photographic gear > > > >Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> :-) >> >> I'm a bit older than you. I've been wearing progressives since around age 47 >> or so, fifteen years ago. They work great for me, as long as I'm not working >> on a large screen computer display ... then I have bifocal splits that give >> me 22" and 14" in focus. > >I've been wearing progressives since I was about 48, I probably should >have gotten them a year or two earlier. It's just annoying that my older >glasses no longer work just fine, it's even more annoying that my vision >no longer corrects to as good as it once did, or that I get ranges where >my eyes just won't focus, even with the progressives. > >> >> I've never cared whether I wore glasses... regular, progressives, or >> bifocals. I just want to see: to read, to do my photography, and to enjoy >> the beauty of life. Whatever it takes to see is all that matters. >> >> What else is important, really? >> >> G >> >>> On Dec 18, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> I have come to the unpleasant realization that as much as I enjoy obtaining >>> new lenses, the next pair of lenses that I need to buy will not be K-mount >>> but eyeglasses. >>> Last week, when I was trying to adjust the temples, my eyeglasses snapped >>> in half. Unfortunately, my spare glasses just don't seem to work. I went >>> thirty years with my prescription barely changing, and now in my fifties >>> and in the era of progressive lenses, glasses just a few years out of date >>> make it hard to read the text on my computer screen, much less process >>> photos. >>> >>> This rant brought to you by the letter F, no that's an R, wait, it's a P, >>> definitely a P. >>> >> > >-- >Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: Happy Birthday Dan
Happy birthday! On 19 Dec 2016 04:55, "Larry Colen" wrote: > Facebook tells me it's your birthday today. I hope that it's been a great > one. > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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.
Re: Happy Birthday Dan
Ditto, ditto, Dan ! -Original Message- >From: Paul Stenquist >Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Dan > >Happy, happy, Dan!! > >Paul via phone > >> On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Bill wrote: >> >>> On 12/18/2016 8:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> Facebook tells me it's your birthday today. I hope that it's been a >>> great one. >> >> A few years back, when the radio show Q was interesting, Jian Gomeshi was >> interviewing some guy who set up one birthday a month on facebook to see how >> many people would just automatically wish him a happy birthday, not catching >> on that they were doing it month after month. >> Apparently a lot of people wished him multiple happy birthdays that year. >> >> Happy birthday Dan (if it really is your birthday). >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
Alan C wrote: "Interesting. I've found that Nicole's 55-300 is quite pleasantly sharp." I agree but at f8 the 100-300 is just as sharp. Unfortunately, most of the time that I'd be using it would likely be doing things like photographing musicians, in which case I wouldn't want anything less than about 5.6, f/8 would really start leaning heavily on the sensor. When I would be able to get away with f/8 would be outdoors, and half the year it gets really damp around here outdoors, in which case I want the WR. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
Paul Stenquist wrote: The 60-260 vignettes a bit on full frame, but It's not enough to trouble me. It's been my go to lens for years now on aps-c and full frame. It's excellent. The 150-450 is astounding. But it's much bigger and heavier. If you're serious about shooting critters, go for the 150-450 and a good tripod. But it's not a walk around lens. The 60-250/4 is How does the 60-250 compare with the 70-200? -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
"Interesting. I've found that Nicole's 55-300 is quite pleasantly sharp." I agree but at f8 the 100-300 is just as sharp. "There also seem to be three versions of that lens, the DA, the DA-L and the WR." Two versions of the HD WR. Alan C -Original Message- From: Larry Colen Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 6:03 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens Alan C wrote: Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found it no better than the under-rated 100-300 which can be had for a song. Interesting. I've found that Nicole's 55-300 is quite pleasantly sharp. There also seem to be three versions of that lens, the DA, the DA-L and the WR. It has a huge advantage over the 60-250 in that it can easily be carried in my camera bag without displacing multiple other lenses too. Also the fact that I can find them for under $300 used versus $800-900 for the 60-250. Since I do have use of the 80-200/2.8 I don't think that the 60-250 is enough smaller than it to make a huge difference. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Happy Birthday Dan
On 12/18/2016 9:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Facebook tells me it's your birthday today. I hope that it's been a great one. Any birthday you can get out of bed & not find your obituary in the newspaper is a great one. Best wishes to Dan as well. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
On 12/18/2016 11:39 AM, Bill wrote: Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to sleep last Tuesday. This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the last pictures I have of him. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. Sorry for your loss. Hope you will always be able to remember him the way he was in that photo. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - from the shower
On 12/18/2016 6:54 PM, Larry Colen wrote: P. J. Alling wrote: Facebook is run by those most vile of bluenoses, leftest social justice puritans. They make the actual Puritans look like libertines. This is especially galling since Mark Zukerberg designed Facebook as a stalking tool. I wouldn't use Facebook if my life depended on it. Nope, the facebook mechanism is based on people reporting it, because so many right wing whackos think that while it's fine for kids to watch tv shows and movies of people killing each other right and left, the sight of a naked nipple, or gods forbid a woman breast feeding in public will scar someone for life. However, that does not invalidate PJ's point about Zukerberg's original purpose for Facebook. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
The 60-260 vignettes a bit on full frame, but It's not enough to trouble me. It's been my go to lens for years now on aps-c and full frame. It's excellent. The 150-450 is astounding. But it's much bigger and heavier. If you're serious about shooting critters, go for the 150-450 and a good tripod. But it's not a walk around lens. The 60-250/4 is Paul via phone > On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:23 PM, Alan C wrote: > > Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best > bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success > with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an > HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found it no > better than the under-rated 100-300 which can be had for a song. > > Alan C > > -Original Message- From: Larry Colen > Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:33 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens > > Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of > my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still > fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. > The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. Is > there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse any swypos. > 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. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
Alan C wrote: Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found it no better than the under-rated 100-300 which can be had for a song. Interesting. I've found that Nicole's 55-300 is quite pleasantly sharp. There also seem to be three versions of that lens, the DA, the DA-L and the WR. It has a huge advantage over the 60-250 in that it can easily be carried in my camera bag without displacing multiple other lenses too. Also the fact that I can find them for under $300 used versus $800-900 for the 60-250. Since I do have use of the 80-200/2.8 I don't think that the 60-250 is enough smaller than it to make a huge difference. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
Read this (right down to the end). https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/topic/da--60-250-modification-for-full-frame-56581 Alan C -Original Message- From: Bill Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 5:50 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens On 12/18/2016 9:23 PM, Alan C wrote: Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found it no better than the under-rated 100-300 which can be had for a song. The 60-250 doesn't cover the full frame. It is possible it is baffled down to APS-C, in which case there would be a rear hood that might be removable. I sold mine, and I really don't recall what the back end looked like. Alan C -Original Message- From: Larry Colen Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:33 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: My next piece of photographic gear
I hear ya. My vision is still correctable to 20-20, but the daily correction need varies depending on other factors. In recent years, a condition called Map Dot Dystrophy can cause my corneas to become swollen occasionally, which ruins my vision for a day or three regardless of correction. Basically, the issue is that getting older past a certain point sucks. Unfortunately, the alternatives don't leave a lot of options so it's best to suck it in and keep on going however you have to. :-/ G > On Dec 18, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > I've been wearing progressives since I was about 48, I probably should have > gotten them a year or two earlier. It's just annoying that my older glasses > no longer work just fine, it's even more annoying that my vision no longer > corrects to as good as it once did, or that I get ranges where my eyes just > won't focus, even with the progressives. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Probably what's wrong with everything.
On 12/18/2016 4:28 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: I've read the words, it's not a Christmas song, and anyone who thinks it is is sadly misinformed, just because they've recorded it as one doesn't change that. Cohen didn't even try to masquerade it as a Christmas song. It doesn't mean I don't like the song, but It's like Springsteen's "Born in the USA" which isn't a patriotic anthem. Those who support or decry it for that reason are wrong. It's not patriotic at all, and they're being intellectually lazy. Don't want to violate the taboo on politics here, but I consider Springsteen's "Born in the USA" a very patriotic song for its courage calling the country out for not living up to our professed values. It's just not jingoistic patriotism - "my country right or wrong", but a call for the country to be what it claims to be. It's the patriotism embodied in Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" responding to Kate Smith & Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". On 12/18/2016 3:49 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group called Pentatonix is a case in point. Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the kibosh on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get the joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas mix. The answer of course, is one that's too lazy to do their job. Why do I bring this up? Well my reply to Larry's question about a small light FF long lens. I decided to do a little research on available "New" Catadioptric lenses took me to this, the website for a once popular, reputable, photo magazine, you have to click on the link to see the full horror: http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is beyond me, don't they care about their image at all... (All puns intended). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
On 12/18/2016 9:42 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: The 60-250. You can also modify it to cover FF perfectly. Seems like a no brainer to me. The 60-250 crushes the 55-300. Well, that answers my previous post on the subject. A word to the wise about that lens. It is an SDM, my copy failed twice. I don't know if it was one of the ones with a bad reputation or not. Optically, it is a superb lens, though it is big for an f/4 zoom. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Alan C wrote: Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found it no better than the under-rated 100-300 which can be had for a song. Alan C -Original Message- From: Larry Colen Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:33 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse any swypos. 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: My next piece of photographic gear
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: :-) I'm a bit older than you. I've been wearing progressives since around age 47 or so, fifteen years ago. They work great for me, as long as I'm not working on a large screen computer display ... then I have bifocal splits that give me 22" and 14" in focus. I've been wearing progressives since I was about 48, I probably should have gotten them a year or two earlier. It's just annoying that my older glasses no longer work just fine, it's even more annoying that my vision no longer corrects to as good as it once did, or that I get ranges where my eyes just won't focus, even with the progressives. I've never cared whether I wore glasses... regular, progressives, or bifocals. I just want to see: to read, to do my photography, and to enjoy the beauty of life. Whatever it takes to see is all that matters. What else is important, really? G On Dec 18, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: I have come to the unpleasant realization that as much as I enjoy obtaining new lenses, the next pair of lenses that I need to buy will not be K-mount but eyeglasses. Last week, when I was trying to adjust the temples, my eyeglasses snapped in half. Unfortunately, my spare glasses just don't seem to work. I went thirty years with my prescription barely changing, and now in my fifties and in the era of progressive lenses, glasses just a few years out of date make it hard to read the text on my computer screen, much less process photos. This rant brought to you by the letter F, no that's an R, wait, it's a P, definitely a P. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
On 12/18/2016 9:23 PM, Alan C wrote: Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found it no better than the under-rated 100-300 which can be had for a song. The 60-250 doesn't cover the full frame. It is possible it is baffled down to APS-C, in which case there would be a rear hood that might be removable. I sold mine, and I really don't recall what the back end looked like. Alan C -Original Message- From: Larry Colen Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:33 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Probably what's wrong with everything.
On 12/18/2016 3:20 PM, Larry Colen wrote: P. J. Alling wrote: Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national chain, etc., etc., but... Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." You mean it's not the same song as the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah? :-) No, but fear not. There's a full set of verses about the Baby Jebus substituted into the Xmas version. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: My next piece of photographic gear
:-) I'm a bit older than you. I've been wearing progressives since around age 47 or so, fifteen years ago. They work great for me, as long as I'm not working on a large screen computer display ... then I have bifocal splits that give me 22" and 14" in focus. I've never cared whether I wore glasses... regular, progressives, or bifocals. I just want to see: to read, to do my photography, and to enjoy the beauty of life. Whatever it takes to see is all that matters. What else is important, really? G > On Dec 18, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > I have come to the unpleasant realization that as much as I enjoy obtaining > new lenses, the next pair of lenses that I need to buy will not be K-mount > but eyeglasses. > Last week, when I was trying to adjust the temples, my eyeglasses snapped in > half. Unfortunately, my spare glasses just don't seem to work. I went thirty > years with my prescription barely changing, and now in my fifties and in the > era of progressive lenses, glasses just a few years out of date make it hard > to read the text on my computer screen, much less process photos. > > This rant brought to you by the letter F, no that's an R, wait, it's a P, > definitely a P. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
The 60-250. You can also modify it to cover FF perfectly. Seems like a no brainer to me. The 60-250 crushes the 55-300. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Alan C wrote: > Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best > bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success > with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired > an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found it no > better than the under-rated 100-300 which can be had for a song. > > Alan C > > -Original Message- From: Larry Colen > Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:33 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens > > > Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of > my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still > fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. > The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. Is > there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse any swypos. > 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. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Happy Birthday Dan
Ditto. Mind you, you seem to be happy all the year round! Alan C -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 5:10 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Dan Happy, happy, Dan!! Paul via phone On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Bill wrote: On 12/18/2016 8:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Facebook tells me it's your birthday today. I hope that it's been a great one. A few years back, when the radio show Q was interesting, Jian Gomeshi was interviewing some guy who set up one birthday a month on facebook to see how many people would just automatically wish him a happy birthday, not catching on that they were doing it month after month. Apparently a lot of people wished him multiple happy birthdays that year. Happy birthday Dan (if it really is your birthday). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
Having read this thread with interest, I would say the 60-250 is your best bet but it is not cheap. You could add a 1.4x too! Paul had great success with this combination. I have an FA 100-300 which I used before I acquired an HD 55-300. Despite the glowing reviews for the 55-300, I have found it no better than the under-rated 100-300 which can be had for a song. Alan C -Original Message- From: Larry Colen Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:33 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse any swypos. 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. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: December PUG Update
On 12/4/2016 3:12 PM, Jan van Wijk wrote: Thanks Eric, I also liked Bill's 'Pretty Tanquil' a lot Thanks Jan. I appreciate it. On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 12:44:39 + Eric Featherstone wrote: I think my favourite's would be Jack's Winter's Grace, Jan's Sailing Botters, Don's Quiet Park & Bill's Pretty Tranquil. Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com Flickr : jvw_pentax -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: December PUG Update
On 12/4/2016 6:44 AM, Eric Featherstone wrote: Gosh! Thanks, Ann! I think my favourite's would be Jack's Winter's Grace, Jan's Sailing Botters, Don's Quiet Park & Bill's Pretty Tranquil. Thanks Eric, you are too kind. On 3 December 2016 at 23:37, ann sanfedele wrote: The whole gallery is appreciated, especially now.. . Myy 4 personal favorites line up in the index page in the second column Jack,Eric,Bill, Bruce.. I think I remember Jack's from some time ago -- really stunning.. Eric's Constable -homage- (or so it seams to me) is right up there too Wheatfield's peaceful lake - yum Bruce - just about my all time favorite of your photos.. super light, nice pose, etc and I presume she is drinking the appropriate brand of tea...:-) ann On 12/3/2016 4:45 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Jack took my less than subtle hist and sent a larger version of 'Winter's Grace'. Much more enjoyable, I think... http://pug.komkon.org/16dec/slides/JD%20-%20Winter%27s%20Grace%20GB%20II%20copy.html Thanks Jack. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: December PUG is Up
On 12/5/2016 7:26 PM, Rick Womer wrote: Rather "late to the party" because of a ridiculous week at work, but anyway... Jack's is my favorite--beautiful geometry in that shot. Others I especially like are Bill's Matthew's Dan's Eric's, and PJ's. This might be the strongest collection of a year of strong collections. Thanks very, very much Brian! And thank you rick for picking my detritus out of that collection of excellent images. Rick On Dec 3, 2016, at 6:55 AM, Brian Walters wrote: G'day all, A great gallery to wind up 2016. Well done, everyone. Lots of favourites - Matthew's 'Sailboat', Jack's 'Winter's Grace' (pity it wasn't larger, though), Filip's "Schoonselhof ', Joe's 'In Bruge' and Bruce's 'Tranquility' are my personal favourites this month. As usual you'll find the gallery here: http://pug.komkon.org/ (you may need to refresh your browser if you see the previous gallery there). Note: The automated submission process usually works well but it's not infallible. So, if you made a submission and you don't see it in the gallery, let me know. + Now on to 2017 First up: 'Doors' Full Submissions Guidelines here: http://pug.komkon.org/general/autosubmit.html You can submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: December PUG is Up
On 12/5/2016 7:46 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: I love that, David... Jack, note that the "V" of the mountains point to the float... moving the float to the left in the composition would mess up what it looked like to me the best possible placement... Thanks Jack and Ann. I have a couple of outtakes with the float to the right side, but not the left. ann On 12/5/2016 7:30 AM, Jack Davis wrote: This was well worth posting, but I feel the compositional balance would have been somewhat more comfortable had the float been somewhat further to the left. J Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2016, at 8:38 PM, David Mann wrote: On Dec 4, 2016, at 7:35 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Bill's 'Pretty Tranquil' - incredibly subtle colours and tones. Sheesh. I did a double-take when I saw that as it reminded me of an old one of mine. That must be why it's so good. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/77/#peso (OK Bill's is better.) I wanted to submit something but my life this past week has been anything but tranquil. After getting the run-around by a builder I had to do all the preparation for our new kitchen myself. Had to cut a few corners but that stuff's all being hidden behind cabinetry :) 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: December PUG is Up
On 12/4/2016 10:38 PM, David Mann wrote: On Dec 4, 2016, at 7:35 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Bill's 'Pretty Tranquil' - incredibly subtle colours and tones. Sheesh. I did a double-take when I saw that as it reminded me of an old one of mine. That must be why it's so good. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/77/#peso (OK Bill's is better.) Thanks Dave, you are too kind. I wanted to submit something but my life this past week has been anything but tranquil. After getting the run-around by a builder I had to do all the preparation for our new kitchen myself. Had to cut a few corners but that stuff's all being hidden behind cabinetry :) 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: December PUG is Up
On 12/4/2016 9:16 PM, Subash Jeyan wrote: very nice gallery to end the year. found Bill's 'pretty tranquil' particularly stunning... Thank you. I appreciate it. On Sat, 03 Dec 2016 22:55:52 +1100 Brian Walters wrote: As usual you'll find the gallery here: http://pug.komkon.org/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Happy Birthday Dan
Happy, happy, Dan!! Paul via phone > On Dec 18, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Bill wrote: > >> On 12/18/2016 8:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> Facebook tells me it's your birthday today. I hope that it's been a >> great one. > > A few years back, when the radio show Q was interesting, Jian Gomeshi was > interviewing some guy who set up one birthday a month on facebook to see how > many people would just automatically wish him a happy birthday, not catching > on that they were doing it month after month. > Apparently a lot of people wished him multiple happy birthdays that year. > > Happy birthday Dan (if it really is your birthday). > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Another Dog Picture
Thanks all. It was a pretty shitty week all told. It looks like I have a puppy in the way. Apparently the pregnancy took, and I should take ownership of a bouncing bundle of fur sometime in late March to early April. We have asked for a soft tempered girl, and if it seems appropriate, I will name her Leica. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: My next piece of photographic gear
HAR! I have bifocals but they're not progressives, which are too undefined for me. I have old school bigocals. Looking doen my focal point is 18 inches. Looking straight ahead it's 15 feet. Perfect!. Paul via phone > On Dec 18, 2016, at 9:10 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > I have come to the unpleasant realization that as much as I enjoy obtaining > new lenses, the next pair of lenses that I need to buy will not be K-mount > but eyeglasses. > Last week, when I was trying to adjust the temples, my eyeglasses snapped in > half. Unfortunately, my spare glasses just don't seem to work. I went thirty > years with my prescription barely changing, and now in my fifties and in the > era of progressive lenses, glasses just a few years out of date make it hard > to read the text on my computer screen, much less process photos. > > This rant brought to you by the letter F, no that's an R, wait, it's a P, > definitely a P. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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.
Re: Happy Birthday Dan
On 12/18/2016 8:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Facebook tells me it's your birthday today. I hope that it's been a great one. A few years back, when the radio show Q was interesting, Jian Gomeshi was interviewing some guy who set up one birthday a month on facebook to see how many people would just automatically wish him a happy birthday, not catching on that they were doing it month after month. Apparently a lot of people wished him multiple happy birthdays that year. Happy birthday Dan (if it really is your birthday). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Happy Birthday Dan
Facebook tells me it's your birthday today. I hope that it's been a great one. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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.
My next piece of photographic gear
I have come to the unpleasant realization that as much as I enjoy obtaining new lenses, the next pair of lenses that I need to buy will not be K-mount but eyeglasses. Last week, when I was trying to adjust the temples, my eyeglasses snapped in half. Unfortunately, my spare glasses just don't seem to work. I went thirty years with my prescription barely changing, and now in my fifties and in the era of progressive lenses, glasses just a few years out of date make it hard to read the text on my computer screen, much less process photos. This rant brought to you by the letter F, no that's an R, wait, it's a P, definitely a P. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: OT: Fungi ID
If I can remember where abouts the tree is located will check to see what type of tree it is. Jeffery Johnson | Photo Captures by Jeffery http://www.PhotoCapturesbyJeffery.com /Bringing joy and happiness to lonely and depressed walls across the planet with wonderful diverse range of photography./ On 12/18/2016 1:02 PM, John wrote: FWIW, the bark looks like a pine tree. On 12/17/2016 6:10 PM, PhotoCapturesbyJeffery.com wrote: Mike, It was discussed off list that it most likely is an Oyster Mushroom or the Jack-O-Lantern the poisonous cousin. Location was here in Nashville TN and I really don't remember the tree itself as I was at the time paying more attention to the Fungi. Jeffery Johnson | Photo Captures by Jeffery http://www.PhotoCapturesbyJeffery.com /Bringing joy and happiness to lonely and depressed walls across the planet with wonderful diverse range of photography./ On 12/17/2016 4:07 PM, mike wilson wrote: On 17 December 2016 at 16:03 "PhotoCapturesbyJeffery.com" wrote: This Fungi was growing on a tree in Mount Olivet Cemetery and I need help with its proper name. Is there anyone on the list with knowledge to ID the Fungi. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/plants_and_trees/e408a8db4 Thanks, That's a weird one. Looks like a cross between a Polypore, or bracket fungus (which grows on trees) and a chantarelle, which doesn't. Maybe one of the Pleurotus species, commonly known as Oyster mushrooms? Other possibilities: Honey Mushroom Armillaria solidipes Sulfur Shelf Laetiporus sulphureus Northern Tooth Climacodon septentrionalis Location and habitat (what tree is that?) woud help narrow it down. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
Oh my. It is never easy to have a four legged family member pass on Sorry for your loss. Jeffery Johnson | Photo Captures by Jeffery http://www.PhotoCapturesbyJeffery.com /Bringing joy and happiness to lonely and depressed walls across the planet with wonderful diverse range of photography./ On 12/18/2016 10:39 AM, Bill wrote: Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to sleep last Tuesday. This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the last pictures I have of him. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - 'Standing out in the lake'
Thanks Paul, I appreciate the comment, thanks for looking. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Paul Stenquist" Subject: Re: PESO - 'Standing out in the lake' Beautiful. A striking composition. Paul via phone On Dec 15, 2016, at 12:34 AM, Ken Waller wrote: Thanks for commenting Phillip Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Philip Northeast" Subject: Re: PESO - 'Standing out in the lake' Nice, love the reflections and the contrast Philip Northeast www.aviewfinderdarkly.com.au On 14/12/16 11:56 am, Ken Waller wrote: Taken last fall in Seney National Wildlife Refuge in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan K3 and 300mm f4.5 FA Comments ? http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18320529 Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - from the shower
These two did it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Grant_Wood_-_American_Gothic_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg I'm surprised the pitchfork has 3 prongs. Only two are needed for Jezebel's satanic paps. Those moles would have seen her burnt at the stake a few hundred years ago. B On 18 Dec 2016, at 23:59, Larry Colen mailto:l...@red4est.com>> wrote: John wrote: Facebook is so full of shit Zuckerberg has brown eyes. Zuckerberg is just living the capitalist dream. On 12/18/2016 10:59 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: The average North American, and certainly the wise elders who run Facebook believe that the sight of uncovered female nipples will cause Facebook is simply trying to maximize profits, and that means not being banned by bible belt states by allowing children to risk seeing dirty pictures. That's why they make it easy for right wing prudes to flag images that might scar children for life. http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
What an intelligent, alert looking dog, well captured ! My condolences Bill. -Original Message- >From: Bill >Subject: PESO: Another Dog Picture > >Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to >sleep last Tuesday. >This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of >the last pictures I have of him. > >http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html > >K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - from the shower
John wrote: Facebook is so full of shit Zuckerberg has brown eyes. Zuckerberg is just living the capitalist dream. On 12/18/2016 10:59 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: The average North American, and certainly the wise elders who run Facebook believe that the sight of uncovered female nipples will cause Facebook is simply trying to maximize profits, and that means not being banned by bible belt states by allowing children to risk seeing dirty pictures. That's why they make it easy for right wing prudes to flag images that might scar children for life. sufficient moral decay to collapse society. I'm still in my third 30-day ban for allowing a nip-slip on Facebook. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 6:32 PM, John wrote: Nice, but I don't think a few female nipples are what's going to bring down Western Civilization. On 12/17/2016 3:09 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: PESO - from the shower
P. J. Alling wrote: Facebook is run by those most vile of bluenoses, leftest social justice puritans. They make the actual Puritans look like libertines. This is especially galling since Mark Zukerberg designed Facebook as a stalking tool. I wouldn't use Facebook if my life depended on it. Nope, the facebook mechanism is based on people reporting it, because so many right wing whackos think that while it's fine for kids to watch tv shows and movies of people killing each other right and left, the sight of a naked nipple, or gods forbid a woman breast feeding in public will scar someone for life. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: PESO: Another Dog Picture
So sorry to hear about your loss, Bill. I had that happen a few years ago with an elderly Sheltie. Now one of my miniature Australian Shepherds is having problems with her hindquarters. Great portrait. Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Probably what's wrong with everything.
Perhaps, but I was addressing your point about what kind of lazy employees would air the tune. Not lazy at all since their listeners are already expecting -- probably even demanding -- it. For better or worse, it's already established. It's just like how Die Hard has become a Christmas movie. I always shed a tear at the end of it. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:28 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > I've read the words, it's not a Christmas song, and anyone who thinks it is > is sadly misinformed, just because they've recorded it as one doesn't change > that. Cohen didn't even try to masquerade it as a Christmas song. It > doesn't mean I don't like the song, but It's like Springsteen's "Born in the > USA" which isn't a patriotic anthem. Those who support or decry it for that > reason are wrong. It's not patriotic at all, and they're being > intellectually lazy. > > > > On 12/18/2016 3:49 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but >> I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well >> established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it >> being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group >> called Pentatonix is a case in point. >> >> Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling >> wrote: >>> >>> Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... >>> >>> What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, >>> you >>> know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a >>> national >>> chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas music, >>> all >>> the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to >>> get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play >>> Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... >>> >>> After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of >>> Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." >>> >>> I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the >>> compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the >>> kibosh >>> on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get >>> the >>> joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas >>> mix. >>> >>> The answer of course, is one that's too lazy to do their job. >>> >>> Why do I bring this up? Well my reply to Larry's question about a small >>> light FF long lens. I decided to do a little research on available >>> "New" >>> Catadioptric lenses took me to this, the website for a once popular, >>> reputable, photo magazine, you have to click on the link to see the full >>> horror: >>> >>> http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it >>> >>> How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is beyond >>> me, >>> don't they care about their image at all... >>> >>> (All puns intended). >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Probably what's wrong with everything.
Strange Fruitcake, possibly. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > Not convinced that people who buy it or give it airplay it at Christmas have > really thought about the words and the subtext. What next, Strange Fruit? > > B > >> On 18 Dec 2016, at 20:50, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but >> I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well >> established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it >> being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group >> called Pentatonix is a case in point. >> >> Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling >> wrote: >>> Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... >>> >>> What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you >>> know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national >>> chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all >>> the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to >>> get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play >>> Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... >>> >>> After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of >>> Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." >>> >>> I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the >>> compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the kibosh >>> on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get the >>> joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas >>> mix. >>> >>> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: An Iced Cold Bud
Interesting image, decidedly odd looking, and more than a bit suggestive. On 12/18/2016 4:04 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18323018&size=lg K-5 IIs, DA 100 mm macro F 2.8 Comments are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Probably what's wrong with everything.
Which is a very Pagan song, for a Christmas song. On 12/18/2016 4:19 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: Yes, but it's not The Holly and the Ivy. On 18 Dec 2016, at 21:16, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Strange Fruit -- what a moving powerful song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: Not convinced that people who buy it or give it airplay it at Christmas have really thought about the words and the subtext. What next, Strange Fruit? B On 18 Dec 2016, at 20:50, Bruce Walker wrote: I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group called Pentatonix is a case in point. Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the kibosh on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get the joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas mix. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Probably what's wrong with everything.
I've read the words, it's not a Christmas song, and anyone who thinks it is is sadly misinformed, just because they've recorded it as one doesn't change that. Cohen didn't even try to masquerade it as a Christmas song. It doesn't mean I don't like the song, but It's like Springsteen's "Born in the USA" which isn't a patriotic anthem. Those who support or decry it for that reason are wrong. It's not patriotic at all, and they're being intellectually lazy. On 12/18/2016 3:49 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group called Pentatonix is a case in point. Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the kibosh on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get the joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas mix. The answer of course, is one that's too lazy to do their job. Why do I bring this up? Well my reply to Larry's question about a small light FF long lens. I decided to do a little research on available "New" Catadioptric lenses took me to this, the website for a once popular, reputable, photo magazine, you have to click on the link to see the full horror: http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is beyond me, don't they care about their image at all... (All puns intended). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Probably what's wrong with everything.
Yes, but it's not The Holly and the Ivy. > On 18 Dec 2016, at 21:16, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > Strange Fruit -- what a moving powerful song. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: >> >> Not convinced that people who buy it or give it airplay it at Christmas >> have really thought about the words and the subtext. What next, Strange >> Fruit? >> >> B >> >>> On 18 Dec 2016, at 20:50, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>> I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but >>> I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well >>> established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it >>> being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group >>> called Pentatonix is a case in point. >>> >>> Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling >>> wrote: Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM >> station, you know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a >> national chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas >> music, all the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then >> to get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the >> kibosh on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get >> the joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas mix. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.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: Probably what's wrong with everything.
Strange Fruit -- what a moving powerful song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > Not convinced that people who buy it or give it airplay it at Christmas > have really thought about the words and the subtext. What next, Strange > Fruit? > > B > > > On 18 Dec 2016, at 20:50, Bruce Walker wrote: > > > > I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but > > I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well > > established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it > > being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group > > called Pentatonix is a case in point. > > > > Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling > > wrote: > >> Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... > >> > >> What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM > station, you > >> know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a > national > >> chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas > music, all > >> the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then > to > >> get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play > >> Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... > >> > >> After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of > >> Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." > >> > >> I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the > >> compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the > kibosh > >> on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get > the > >> joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas > >> mix. > >> > >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Probably what's wrong with everything.
Not convinced that people who buy it or give it airplay it at Christmas have really thought about the words and the subtext. What next, Strange Fruit? B > On 18 Dec 2016, at 20:50, Bruce Walker wrote: > > I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but > I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well > established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it > being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group > called Pentatonix is a case in point. > > Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) > > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling > wrote: >> Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... >> >> What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you >> know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national >> chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all >> the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to >> get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play >> Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... >> >> After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of >> Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." >> >> I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the >> compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the kibosh >> on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get the >> joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas >> mix. >> >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: An Iced Cold Bud
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18323018&size=lg K-5 IIs, DA 100 mm macro F 2.8 Comments are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Probably what's wrong with everything.
I hate to fully deflate your sails since you have a good wind up, but I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on Hallelujah. There's a well established tradition of folks recording Xmas covers of it and it being programmed as an Xmas song. The very recent cover by a group called Pentatonix is a case in point. Pentatonix: hey, almost on-topic there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pentatonix_Christmas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song) On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... > > What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you > know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national > chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all > the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to > get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play > Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... > > After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of > Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." > > I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the > compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the kibosh > on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get the > joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas > mix. > > The answer of course, is one that's too lazy to do their job. > > Why do I bring this up? Well my reply to Larry's question about a small > light FF long lens. I decided to do a little research on available "New" > Catadioptric lenses took me to this, the website for a once popular, > reputable, photo magazine, you have to click on the link to see the full > horror: > > http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it > > How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is beyond me, > don't they care about their image at all... > > (All puns intended). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Probably what's wrong with everything.
>> http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it >> >> How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is beyond >> me, don't they care about their image at all... That's a web page maintainer's error. Someone just linked to the thumbnail instead of the full-res image. -- 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: Probably what's wrong with everything.
P. J. Alling wrote: Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national chain, etc., etc., but... Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." You mean it's not the same song as the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah? :-) I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the kibosh on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get the joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas mix. The answer of course, is one that's too lazy to do their job. Or too ignorant to actually realize that there might be multiple songs with similar names. Why do I bring this up? Well my reply to Larry's question about a small light FF long lens. I decided to do a little research on available "New" Catadioptric lenses took me to this, the website for a once popular, reputable, photo magazine, you have to click on the link to see the full horror: http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is beyond me, don't they care about their image at all... (All puns intended). -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
Steve Cottrell wrote: On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? Just being a fly in your ointment for a minute - why would you consider a lens of such sweeping focal length? Surely with the K1 having such a good sensor, using what can only ever be an inferior lens (with such a large zoom range) is counter-productive? OK, I'm not looking for a full frame equivalent of the 18-250, in a sense I already have one, the sigma 50-500. For what it is, and especially what I paid for it, it's an awesome lens, but it falls in the "way too big" category. It's reasonably sharp, but the bokeh is rather unpleasant, and it's not WR. There are reasons I really want a 150-450 even if I can't afford one. I still do have my 18-250, and when I go for a bike ride, I tend to put that on the K-3II and that combination does a great job for an all in one camera, except for the WR bit, and I don't tend to decide the rainy days are perfect for a bike ride anyways. The 55-300 seems to pretty nicely fit the bill. It's a reasonable size, would be relatively easy to carry around, and it seems to be pretty sharp, probably sharper than cropping my 28-105 down by a factor of three (which would turn the K-1 into about a 4 MPix camera). I'll post pictures soon, it seemed to do a decent job. There is also the 60-250, but that gives up in both size and cost, I wonder how it compares with the 70-210/2.8 in those categories. So, I'm looking to extend my reach beyond 75 or 100 mm to the 250 or 300 mm range. Plan A at the moment seems to be a used 55-300, but before I start looking for one of those, I want to make sure that there isn't something that I'd really rather have. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) 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: Probably what's wrong with everything.
That is a jarring image indeed. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... > > What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, > you know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a > national chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas > music, all the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now > and then to get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they > play Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... > > After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of > Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." > > I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the > compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the > kibosh on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who > get the joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their > Christmas mix. > > The answer of course, is one that's too lazy to do their job. > > Why do I bring this up? Well my reply to Larry's question about a small > light FF long lens. I decided to do a little research on available "New" > Catadioptric lenses took me to this, the website for a once popular, > reputable, photo magazine, you have to click on the link to see the full > horror: > > http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it > > How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is beyond > me, don't they care about their image at all... > > (All puns intended). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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.
Probably what's wrong with everything.
Is that nobody cares enough, or maybe at all... What I mean is, well I was listening to the local programmed FM station, you know the kind, no local DJ all music piped in from one source for a national chain, etc., etc., but...Right now it's playing all Christmas music, all the time. Since no one else local is doing it I tune in now and then to get a taste of the season. Well in the middle of a set they play Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and I couldn't stop laughing... After my mirth subsided I thought about this for a while, "What Kind of Idiot would allow this to get on the air as a "Christmas" song." I don't mean what kind of bored underpaid employee would put it into the compilation, that answer I know. No what supervisor wouldn't put the kibosh on it. I mean really some people will be offended, even those who get the joke and like Cohen's music might not like it as part of their Christmas mix. The answer of course, is one that's too lazy to do their job. Why do I bring this up? Well my reply to Larry's question about a small light FF long lens. I decided to do a little research on available "New" Catadioptric lenses took me to this, the website for a once popular, reputable, photo magazine, you have to click on the link to see the full horror: http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2008/12/slr-cat-did-it How a photo magazine could publish anything with that picture is beyond me, don't they care about their image at all... (All puns intended). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Tracks
Thanks, Bruce and David. I had a hard time deciding between this "level" version and a slightly slanted version (http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18323012). I decided on the level version but somehow the slanted version looks a bit more interesting after I have looked at both several times. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > A nicely geometric textural study, Dan. Perfect for a Facebook cover photo > too. > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Daniel J. Matyola > wrote: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18323013&size=lg > > > > k-5 IIs, FA 100 mm Macro F2.8 > > Comments are invited > > > > Dan Matyola > > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
On 18/12/16, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to >sleep last Tuesday. >This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of >the last pictures I have of him. > >http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html > >K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. Sorry to read that mate - commiserations. Lovely shot to remember him by. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production -- _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - from the shower
Facebook is so full of shit Zuckerberg has brown eyes. On 12/18/2016 10:59 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: The average North American, and certainly the wise elders who run Facebook believe that the sight of uncovered female nipples will cause sufficient moral decay to collapse society. I'm still in my third 30-day ban for allowing a nip-slip on Facebook. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 6:32 PM, John wrote: Nice, but I don't think a few female nipples are what's going to bring down Western Civilization. On 12/17/2016 3:09 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - from the shower
On 12/18/2016 11:05 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: I'm sure you're right; moles most likely. In any event I decided to leave her dermis unretouched. And I'll leave the health checkups up to the model. :) Thanks for the enlightenment, John. Yeah. I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on TV ... But I do have a lifetime of PERSONAL experience with "Atypical Mole Syndrome". As to retouching them, I would always defer to the model's preference, so it's not for me to say yes or no. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:11 PM, John wrote: They don't look like MRSA. They look like common moles (nevi) to me. Most people have some; some people have more than others. If you have a great number (more than 40) it could possibly be Dysplastic nevus syndrome (also known as "Atypical Mole Syndrome (AMS)","familial atypical multiple mole-melanoma (FAMMM)", "familial melanoma syndrome", and "B-K mole syndrome"). If you have a whole lot of them, you are at higher risk of developing Melanoma and have to be very careful to avoid excessive UV exposure. You should be screened by a Dermatologist at least once per year. On 12/17/2016 4:58 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: Dan, yeah, I was tempted to clone those out but I really wanted to do minimal retouching on this one, and just capture the real woman. Those marks are prominent; it's not the light. The unfortunate girl has a skin condition called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that I believe leads to those blemishes. Because of it she is forced to do her own makeup as she has to be extremely careful to avoid an infection that can lead to serious health problems (potentially death). Thank you! On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: The nipples are nice, as is the composition. For some reason, my eye is distracted by the freckled or mores or whatever. They seem to be emphasized by the lighting and angle. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
That is a fine animal. Sorry for your loss. I have lost a number of dogs over the pasgt decades, and it is always hard. There are such good companions. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Bill wrote: > Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to > sleep last Tuesday. > This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the > last pictures I have of him. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html > > K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
On 12/17/2016 9:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? No. You can have better or you can have not too expensive, but not both. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - from the shower
In that case, it would be the *WRONG* politician, wouldn't it? On 12/17/2016 9:44 PM, Ken Waller wrote: With the right politician they might. -Original Message- From: John Subject: Re: PESO - from the shower Nice, but I don't think a few female nipples are what's going to bring down Western Civilization. On 12/17/2016 3:09 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: Fungi ID
FWIW, the bark looks like a pine tree. On 12/17/2016 6:10 PM, PhotoCapturesbyJeffery.com wrote: Mike, It was discussed off list that it most likely is an Oyster Mushroom or the Jack-O-Lantern the poisonous cousin. Location was here in Nashville TN and I really don't remember the tree itself as I was at the time paying more attention to the Fungi. Jeffery Johnson | Photo Captures by Jeffery http://www.PhotoCapturesbyJeffery.com /Bringing joy and happiness to lonely and depressed walls across the planet with wonderful diverse range of photography./ On 12/17/2016 4:07 PM, mike wilson wrote: On 17 December 2016 at 16:03 "PhotoCapturesbyJeffery.com" wrote: This Fungi was growing on a tree in Mount Olivet Cemetery and I need help with its proper name. Is there anyone on the list with knowledge to ID the Fungi. http://www.photocapturesbyjeffery.com/plants_and_trees/e408a8db4 Thanks, That's a weird one. Looks like a cross between a Polypore, or bracket fungus (which grows on trees) and a chantarelle, which doesn't. Maybe one of the Pleurotus species, commonly known as Oyster mushrooms? Other possibilities: Honey Mushroom Armillaria solidipes Sulfur Shelf Laetiporus sulphureus Northern Tooth Climacodon septentrionalis Location and habitat (what tree is that?) woud help narrow it down. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Diesels
Actually what a Sigma 200-500 f2.8 is for. Well, that and weight training. On 12/15/2016 7:28 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: Morris Galloway wrote: Ain't there a single country boy in this group? Grousing about the ride? These things ain't a limo. They ain't even a station wagon for momma to use picking up the kids after school. They are TRUCKS. They are meant to haul Hay, take Bossy, or a couple of heifers, or a sow, or whatever -- where ever they need to go. Or bring hay or barbed wire and fence posts to the quarter section (poor), section (rich) that you are farming. And I thought they were meant to compensate for a small penis... ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
So very sorry. A lovely remembrance. m > On Dec 18, 2016, at 8:39 AM, Bill wrote: > > Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to > sleep last Tuesday. > This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the > last pictures I have of him. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html > > K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Another Dog Picture
So sad. It's hard to lose a faithful friend. Alan C -Original Message- From: Bill Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 6:39 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO: Another Dog Picture Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to sleep last Tuesday. This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the last pictures I have of him. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - from the shower
Facebook is run by those most vile of bluenoses, leftest social justice puritans. They make the actual Puritans look like libertines. This is especially galling since Mark Zukerberg designed Facebook as a stalking tool. I wouldn't use Facebook if my life depended on it. On 12/18/2016 10:59 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: The average North American, and certainly the wise elders who run Facebook believe that the sight of uncovered female nipples will cause sufficient moral decay to collapse society. I'm still in my third 30-day ban for allowing a nip-slip on Facebook. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 6:32 PM, John wrote: Nice, but I don't think a few female nipples are what's going to bring down Western Civilization. On 12/17/2016 3:09 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Another Dog Picture
sorry to hear this Bill. very nice photo On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Bill wrote: > Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to > sleep last Tuesday. > This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the > last pictures I have of him. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html > > K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Tracks
nicely done dave On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18323013&size=lg > > k-5 IIs, FA 100 mm Macro F2.8 > Comments are invited > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
I find this hard to say about people, dogs are easy. They're so much better than we are. You have my deepest condolences. Dogs get old, die, and break your heart. On 12/18/2016 11:39 AM, Bill wrote: Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to sleep last Tuesday. This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the last pictures I have of him. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Another Dog Picture
A deeply felt loss of a true friend. Sorry, Bill. J Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 18, 2016, at 8:39 AM, Bill wrote: > > Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to > sleep last Tuesday. > This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the > last pictures I have of him. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html > > K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Another Dog Picture
I am so sorry to hear that, Bill. That's a lovely portrait of your buddy. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Bill wrote: > Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to > sleep last Tuesday. > This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the > last pictures I have of him. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html > > K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Another Dog Picture
So sorry. A wonderful photo of a beautiful animal. Paul via phone > On Dec 18, 2016, at 11:39 AM, Bill wrote: > > Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to > sleep last Tuesday. > This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the > last pictures I have of him. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html > > K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
So you're effectively looking for something like 28mm to something between 300mm and 400mm.That's not too big... Well unless someone has repealed the laws of physics that's not going to happen.I don't think that can be made compact or light weight. There is the FAJ 75-300 f4.5~5.6, but AFAIK nobody actually liked it, and three different Pentax auto focus 100-300mm lenses, but I've never heard any one say anything good about them optically, or equivalent lenses from other systems and manufactures for that matter. So if can find one they're probably going to be cheap. There is a Sigma 70-300, that looks like the 70-210 that I was gifted with about a year ago. If it's anything like the 70-210mm it's not horrible, not great either, it will be very light, and extremely inexpensive. KEH.com had one for about $35-40 in like new condition not that long ago. As to a longer max focal length, I've never heard of one. You might start looking for a 400mm Catadioptric, Kenko currently makes one. You won't find anything smaller or much lighter in that focal length, but of course manual focus. On 12/17/2016 9:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:08:46AM +, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the > >niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but > >will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. > >The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. > >Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? > > Just being a fly in your ointment for a minute - why would you consider > a lens of such sweeping focal length? Surely with the K1 having such a > good sensor, using what can only ever be an inferior lens (with such a > large zoom range) is counter-productive? That's not always the case - back when I was regularly shooting motorsports (on film ...) I was used to seeing a lot of the full-time photographers using the Canon L 35-350, which was an amazingly good lens. But that was the exception (and by now I suspect modern digital sensors would point out flaws in that lens that we didn't see when limited by film resolution). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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: Another Dog Picture
Five weeks ago, my Rottie was diagnosed with lymphoma. We had him put to sleep last Tuesday. This was taken in September while he was still healthy, and is one of the last pictures I have of him. http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrphoto/addons/byebug.html K1, 43mm LTD. f/2.2, 1/60th, ISO 6400. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - from the shower
On 12/18/2016 10:05 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 17/12/16, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. Nice block heaters. I thaw what you did there. :) Let me put a plug in for that image too please. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 - 'Standing out in the lake'
simple and beauttiful Dave On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Ken Waller wrote: > Taken last fall in Seney National Wildlife Refuge in the Upper Peninsula of > Michigan > > K3 and 300mm f4.5 FA > > Comments ? > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18320529 > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Tracks
A nicely geometric textural study, Dan. Perfect for a Facebook cover photo too. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18323013&size=lg > > k-5 IIs, FA 100 mm Macro F2.8 > Comments are invited > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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 - from the shower
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 17/12/16, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated >>topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded >>female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. >> >>http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig >> >>Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo >> >>645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. >>Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. > > Nice block heaters. I thaw what you did there. :) -- -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 - from the shower
I'm sure you're right; moles most likely. In any event I decided to leave her dermis unretouched. And I'll leave the health checkups up to the model. :) Thanks for the enlightenment, John. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:11 PM, John wrote: > They don't look like MRSA. They look like common moles (nevi) to me. > Most people have some; some people have more than others. > > If you have a great number (more than 40) it could possibly be > Dysplastic nevus syndrome (also known as "Atypical Mole Syndrome > (AMS)","familial atypical multiple mole-melanoma (FAMMM)", "familial > melanoma syndrome", and "B-K mole syndrome"). > > If you have a whole lot of them, you are at higher risk of developing > Melanoma and have to be very careful to avoid excessive UV exposure. > > You should be screened by a Dermatologist at least once per year. > > > On 12/17/2016 4:58 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Dan, yeah, I was tempted to clone those out but I really wanted to do >> minimal retouching on this one, and just capture the real woman. Those >> marks are prominent; it's not the light. >> >> The unfortunate girl has a skin condition called Methicillin-resistant >> Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that I believe leads to those blemishes. >> Because of it she is forced to do her own makeup as she has to be >> extremely careful to avoid an infection that can lead to serious >> health problems (potentially death). >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Daniel J. Matyola >> wrote: >>> >>> The nipples are nice, as is the composition. >>> >>> For some reason, my eye is distracted by the freckled or mores or >>> whatever. They seem to be emphasized by the lighting and angle. >>> >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Bruce Walker >>> wrote: >>> If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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 - from the shower
The average North American, and certainly the wise elders who run Facebook believe that the sight of uncovered female nipples will cause sufficient moral decay to collapse society. I'm still in my third 30-day ban for allowing a nip-slip on Facebook. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 6:32 PM, John wrote: > Nice, but I don't think a few female nipples are what's going to bring > down Western Civilization. > > On 12/17/2016 3:09 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated >> topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded >> female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. >> >> http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig >> >> Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo >> >> 645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. >> Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. >> > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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 - from the shower
On 17/12/16, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: >If anyone just needs some eye-candy and a distraction from heated >topics, here's some. It's unabashedly NSFW though. It's those dreaded >female nipples. The fall of western civilization is surely nigh. > >http://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/IyLE16dMTWig > >Model, makeup, hair: Dane Halo > >645z, dfa645 90mm/2.8, f/4.0, 1/60th sec, 500 ISO; handheld. >Ambient room light: miniature LED flush ceiling spotlights. Nice block heaters. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production -- _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Looking for an ready to carry long ff lens
On 17/12/16, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >Going to full frame, I no longer have a lens for the k1 to fill the >niche of my 18-250, being reasonably long, if not particularly fast, but >will still fit in my camera bag and not weigh a ton. >The da 55-300, despite nominally being an aps lens seems to do ok on ff. >Is there anything even better, preferably not too expensive? Just being a fly in your ointment for a minute - why would you consider a lens of such sweeping focal length? Surely with the K1 having such a good sensor, using what can only ever be an inferior lens (with such a large zoom range) is counter-productive? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production -- _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.