Re: OT: British House of Cards (a bit political
Not for long based on the Democrat party's prexy hopefuls... On 9/19/2019 1:28 PM, William Robb wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 11:11 AM Daniel J. Matyola wrote: It's the most entertaining thing on the planet, until we realize that these clowns can actually cause us all a lot of harm (and money). A pox on all their houses! At least you guys have the Second Amendment. -- America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. - P.J. O'Rourke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited
Moore's law has been broken for about 5 years now. However I was really hoping that they hadn't gone crazy on the UI since changing between cameras is getting to be more of a pain as I get older. That looks like it might not be true since the top plate controls kind of look like those on the K-1 and the K-P but not really, and the back plate looks like the K-3 but not really. That said, the addition of a joystick for selecting autofocus points etc. is probably a very good thing, better than a lot of videocentric controls on a camera that's universally acknowledged as a not great video platform. The third dial on the back of the top plate if it can be dedicated to something useful such as ISO would be very useful. The small dial that eats into the top plate display seems to have very few functions on it, enough said about that. Better auto focus would be nice, improved battery life would be nice, higher resolution than the K-3 is probably a given, but I don't really think it's necessary in an APS-C sized sensor, fewer higher quality pixels might be a better option but the Megapixel wars must go on apparently. Higher frame rates also probably a given, (hopefully with the return of the 1/8000 sec top shutter speed), but it kind of depends on the implementation. I expect that higher dynamic range is also in the cards, though probably through programming trickery, still that too would be nice, (nicer if the user could turn it off to get true raw files, if possible). Faster bus speed with a big buffer, yes that would be nice too. Most likely we'll see one or the other of those. I really do hope this gives people a compelling case to upgrade, because that's the only way RIcoh will sell enough cameras for Pentax to survive as a brand and a system. Unfortunately as with all Digital cameras nowadays, it's main competition will be with the previous two or three generations of digital cameras, which reached sufficiency for the needs for most photographers, and sell at bargain prices. On 9/20/2019 2:33 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Sep 20, 2019, at 9:28 AM, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 08:08:13AM +, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: I received this today from Pentaxforums and also from the Spanish Pentax/Ricoh importer. Read more at: https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/pentax-news/new-pentax-dslr-prototype-to-be-exhibited.html#ixzz603AzzCzi Hmm. It looks as though I'll probably be buying a camera next year … It will be very interesting to see how it performs. There seems to be about a 2-3 year gap in APS vs FF sensor performance. In theory based on Moore’s law it would be about 1.5 years for a doubling of performance makes up for having half the sensor area. With something like a four year gap between the K-1 and this, the sensor might out perform the K-1. Similarly they also have several years of technology to throw at autofocus. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. - P.J. O'Rourke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited
The sensor below the eyepiece: Maybe an EVF but why a pentaprism on the body. Maybe both DSLR and EVF. I have wet myself :) On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 17:35, Ken Waller wrote: > > So the sky isn’t falling. > > > -Original Message- > >From: Jaume Lahuerta > >Subject: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited > > > >I received this today from Pentaxforums and also from the Spanish > >Pentax/Ricoh importer. > > > >Read more at: > >https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/pentax-news/new-pentax-dslr-prototype-to-be-exhibited.html#ixzz603AzzCzi > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited
> On Sep 20, 2019, at 9:28 AM, John Francis wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 08:08:13AM +, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: >> I received this today from Pentaxforums and also from the Spanish >> Pentax/Ricoh importer. >> >> Read more at: >> https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/pentax-news/new-pentax-dslr-prototype-to-be-exhibited.html#ixzz603AzzCzi > > Hmm. It looks as though I'll probably be buying a camera next year … > It will be very interesting to see how it performs. There seems to be about a 2-3 year gap in APS vs FF sensor performance. In theory based on Moore’s law it would be about 1.5 years for a doubling of performance makes up for having half the sensor area. With something like a four year gap between the K-1 and this, the sensor might out perform the K-1. Similarly they also have several years of technology to throw at autofocus. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Seneca Mills Falls
A PDML gathering in that area would be great. I probably won't be back to NY in 2019 but would love to attend if something was scheduled. -Adam On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:47 PM Stan Halpin wrote: > I suggest a PDML gathering there, we can check out the options on seeking > permission vs. seeking forgiveness. > By the way, there are some great turtle-sunning-on-logs shots not far up > the trail, and 35 miles or so south is Watkins Glen State Park, a great > photo venue. > Stan > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Sep 17, 2019, at 10:41 PM, John wrote: > > > > Maybe. But it sounded to me like one of those times where permission > might be forthcoming, while forgiveness might not. > > > >> On 9/17/2019 15:25:02, Ken Waller wrote: > >> Sounds like it maybe one of those situations where asking for > forgiveness is more productive than asking for permission. > >> Kenneth Waller > >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > >> - Original Message - From: "John" > >> Subject: Re: PESO: Seneca Mills Falls > >>> If there was actual security around, I'd have asked if it was Ok to > wade in far enough to get the shot I wanted. > >>> > >>> What's the worst they could do? Tell you "NO, you can't do that"? > >>> > >>> Sometimes it *IS* easier to get permission. > >>> > On 9/17/2019 15:26:51, Adam Montoya wrote: > Hi Stan, > > I set up kind of on the ruins of the structure on the north side. > Near the > google maps marker here https://goo.gl/maps/C6Xpqf1SpiyK1TUm7 . I > actually wanted to get in the water, but they had no swimming signs > everywhere and trail security was around. I wondered if wading could > be > interpreted as swimming. So instead I set up right on the edge of the > structure. > > -Adam > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:45 AM Stan Halpin < > s...@stans-photography.info> > wrote: > > > Very nice! > > I’ve been there a couple of times, haven’t yet figured out a > > view/composition that I was pleased with. This looks like you were > on the > > southern side? > > > > Stan > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On Sep 17, 2019, at 6:43 AM, Adam Montoya > wrote: > >> > >> Between Dresden and Penn Yan, NY there is a rail trail called the > Keuka > >> Outlet Trail. On that that trail (easily accessible from a parking > area) > >> are these falls plus some others farther down stream. Its a very > > pleasant > >> walk. > >> > >> https://www.mountainfort.com/2019/i-TZ6TbXR/A > >> > >> -Adam > >> > >> > >> -- > >> http://www.mountainfort.com/ > > > > > > -- > > 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. > -- http://www.mountainfort.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: British House of Cards (a bit political
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 10:10 AM John wrote: > On 9/19/2019 13:28:42, William Robb wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 11:11 AM Daniel J. Matyola > > wrote: > > > >> It's the most entertaining thing on the planet, until we realize that > these > >> clowns can actually cause us all a lot of harm (and money). A pox on > all > >> their houses! > >> > > > > At least you guys have the Second Amendment. > > > > Hijacked by lunatics. > I thought it was written specifically for times like this. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 08:08:13AM +, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: > I received this today from Pentaxforums and also from the Spanish > Pentax/Ricoh importer. > > Read more at: > https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/pentax-news/new-pentax-dslr-prototype-to-be-exhibited.html#ixzz603AzzCzi Hmm. It looks as though I'll probably be buying a camera next year ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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: British House of Cards (a bit political
On 9/19/2019 13:28:42, William Robb wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 11:11 AM Daniel J. Matyola wrote: It's the most entertaining thing on the planet, until we realize that these clowns can actually cause us all a lot of harm (and money). A pox on all their houses! At least you guys have the Second Amendment. Hijacked by lunatics. -- 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: British House of Cards (a bit political
On 9/19/2019 10:32:04, William Robb wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 7:27 AM Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I thought there was one sane place left on the planet, but now even Canada has to weather a weird political storm. If the worst I have to wake up to is an invented scandal over something that happened two decades ago, I can live with that. The sanctimony and hypocrisy coming out of all this is pretty incredible though. bill Yeah, that's politics as usual. -- 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: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited
So the sky isn’t falling. -Original Message- >From: Jaume Lahuerta >Subject: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited > >I received this today from Pentaxforums and also from the Spanish Pentax/Ricoh >importer. > >Read more at: >https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/pentax-news/new-pentax-dslr-prototype-to-be-exhibited.html#ixzz603AzzCzi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
CORRECTION - PARIS BOOK PRICES - yikes! embarrasment! regret!
I've already contacted a couple of you who not only ordered the book but paid me for it - for the rest, here is what happened. I was naive enough to believe that the book, which I can only get myself for $44.50 (thats with a coupon yet) i.e. the base price for the sales, was temporarily offered to me for $14.50. Ok Looks like a simple typo, right? the 4 is right near tie 1 etc.. but I called and said, really? and customer sevice gal at Create Photo Calendars assured me $14.50 was correct until October 1st. base Canard. SO I go to order ONE copy just to reassure myself the printing template was correct before I orderered all teh books people ordered.. THEN ) I go to CHECKOUT and the discounted price came up $$44.50. So I called and same aldy scratches head and says, gee, let me check into that. Finally I get to the higher-up guy who I knew over the last couple of years, who was helpful and smart etc and, alas, he confirmed that there was NO $14.50 price for a book that was more than 20 pages /There will be a staff meeting about this/. says he. OF course, he said, he really couldn't sell me the books for $14.50 each, too deep a discount by a lot and I had to agree. Given my financial status, I couldn't stick to the $25 I offered to sell the book for. If it had been a mistake that left me with a cost price I would have let it go and been glad people who wanted the book but also had pockets to thin to justify paying twice that got to have it. Sigh. The $14.50 price was sitting ther right under the thumbnail of my book on my (access by me only) project list. The "lifetime discount" prices for all my wall calendars are correct - because a 12 month calendar is the -included- number of pages on all. Phew. If you still want the book and we haven't talked you can either buy it on line directly from my "store" on creat photo calendars site or you can send me $50 for the book and I'll give you free shipping to make up a little for my not asking to speak to someone higher up at CPC earlier.. My calendar prices on the site itself are all $18 for the standard size (8 1/2 x 11") and $22 for the 11x14, but landscape orientation. There is one new calendar - Patterns in Nature - and 16 other older calendars that those of you who are devoted to gathering my wall calendars may or may not have that originall were on CAFEPRESS. NEWly added but previously published wall calendar is a selection of photos from the Paris book.. all lanscape oriented and all in Paris /per se. PLease let me know if you want me to scratch your name off the list of orders, (I won't be offended ) /or if you still would like THE FIRST TIME I SAW PARIS , signed and with free shipping .. but I need to know by Tuesday at the latest...(9/24). Here is the link to all things Ann Sanfedele books and calendars on cpc https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks If you are not getting the book and you want a calendar please just order one from the store whenever... If you are getting the book, I can include it in the shipment I get from cpc with the books that I need to get to sign. Your ditzy photographer, ann -- ann sanfedele photography https://annsan.smugmug.com https://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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 2019 - 104 - GDG
A simple scene with a normal lens. https://flic.kr/p/2hi7hwK enjoy! G — No matter where you go, there you are. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESOs For the Birds
All very nice, colourful and detailed photos, well done Dave On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:01 AM Paul Stenquist wrote: > It was a good day for bird shooting yesterday, with some warm light > spilling in under the trees. I worked at being more conscious of > composition rather than just striving to get the shot. I particularly like > the two sparrows. > > https://www.photo.net/photo/18559147/Nuthatch > https://www.photo.net/photo/18559146/Colorful-Jay > https://www.photo.net/photo/18559145/Posing-Sparrows > https://www.photo.net/photo/18559144/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.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.
New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited
I received this today from Pentaxforums and also from the Spanish Pentax/Ricoh importer. Read more at: https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/pentax-news/new-pentax-dslr-prototype-to-be-exhibited.html#ixzz603AzzCzi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
