RE: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-14 Thread jcoyle 
Years ago I went back to the UK and as part of the trip was showing my (second) 
 wife places where I used to live.
Outside one house I'd lived in as a teenager, I took a couple of frames with my 
Pentax, at which a woman came storming out telling me I had no right to take a 
picture of her house - fortunately, she calmed down when I explained why. I did 
not attempt to use the reasoning that, being in a public place, I could 
photograph anything ( but not necessarily a person) I wished.
Strangely, in the same trip, I visited my former RAF station and all I needed 
to do was to check with the MP on duty at the guardhouse, to get permission to 
wander around ad take as many as I liked!  It was, though, a medical unit, not 
an operational fighter or bomber unit.
In another thread, people on the small island where I lived are now saying that 
news outlets cannot publish photos taken at school events, because the kids are 
identifiable.  Has this madness gone too far?


John in Brisbane



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From: Steve Cottrell  
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2023 7:58 AM
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Subject: Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

Wow!

I guess we’re more fortunate in the UK. My whole ethos is about communicating 
with people and making them feel at ease. Not always convenient of course but 
without it people do feel threatened. Difficult with cityscape photography I 
grant you. Sheesh!

Cotty

On 14 Apr 2023, at 10:38, Ralf R Radermacher mailto:fotor...@gmx.de>> wrote:

Things have definitely taken a turn for the worse since Dutroux in Belgium and 
the accident of an estranged British housewife in Paris.
Today, we're the perverts trying to snatch pics of their kids.

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Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-14 Thread Steve Cottrell 
Wow!

I guess we’re more fortunate in the UK. My whole ethos is about communicating 
with people and making them feel at ease. Not always convenient of course but 
without it people do feel threatened. Difficult with cityscape photography I 
grant you. Sheesh!

Cotty

On 14 Apr 2023, at 10:38, Ralf R Radermacher mailto:fotor...@gmx.de>> wrote:

Things have definitely taken a turn for the worse since Dutroux in
Belgium and the accident of an estranged British housewife in Paris.
Today, we're the perverts trying to snatch pics of their kids.

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Re: PDML Gothic

2023-04-14 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi 
> On Apr 11, 2023, at 4:26 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi  wrote:
> 
> ...
> I'm off for another day and a half in Connecticut and then back home... 

Thanks for the comments and compliments!

Back home last night. I just went through the photos I made on this trip … It 
was not a photo-oriented journey and I wanted to carry the minimums, so I 
carried little other than my Light L16 and its charger. I made about 70 
exposures total in the course of the week, and have to say they are most all of 
excellent technical quality. Photographic art? Well, that remains to be 
determined. :)

The Light L16 proves to be enough. Too bad Light.co  decided 
that it was going to be a technology demonstration rather than an ongoing 
camera line, but such it is. 

G
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Re: a couple of PESOS

2023-04-14 Thread Daniel J. Matyola 
As I said on FB, both are fine images.  I think the location and posture in
"Punk" greatly enhances that image.

Dan Matyola
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 2:10 PM ann sanfedele  wrote:

> I actually took a camera with me today when I went out  to get a few
> steps in - so for you non Facebook pals
> here are two :   sorry, not Pentax - Had to take the light weight one  -
> NIkon cool Pix.
>
> St Marks Place between 1st and 2nd ave..
>
>
> https://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/2022-miscellaneous-snaps/i-34XjKCv/A
>
> Topkins square park Flora... I'm not sure what tree this is - but I
> should know.  The bokeh background is amde up of cherry blossoms
>
>
> https://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/2022-miscellaneous-snaps/i-P9v7ncW/A
>
> If you take these to full screen the title overlays  and the  buy
> thingy  disappear..
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a couple of PESOS

2023-04-14 Thread ann sanfedele 
I actually took a camera with me today when I went out  to get a few 
steps in - so for you non Facebook pals
here are two :   sorry, not Pentax - Had to take the light weight one  - 
NIkon cool Pix.


St Marks Place between 1st and 2nd ave..

https://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/2022-miscellaneous-snaps/i-34XjKCv/A

Topkins square park Flora... I'm not sure what tree this is - but I 
should know.  The bokeh background is amde up of cherry blossoms


https://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/2022-miscellaneous-snaps/i-P9v7ncW/A

If you take these to full screen the title overlays  and the  buy 
thingy  disappear..


ann

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Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-14 Thread John Francis 
On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:14:36AM +0100, Steve Cottrell wrote:
> 
> https://www.dpreview.com/news/2780405465/ricoh-announces-pentax-k-3-iii-monochrome-dslr

According to a post from ricehigh (there's a name I haven't seen in years)
Pentax are no longer accepting new orders for this, so presumably there are
a lot of people who want it.  Either that or they've given up on the idea ...
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Re: A few Easter PESOs

2023-04-14 Thread ann sanfedele 
Thanks for the back story... having known of it  mainly for its WWII 
historical signifigance  I thought of it as a sad place to visit.


I have always loved your night photos of that area .. without knowing 
exactly where you took them  - I dont' remembering you captioning
the Peso's with the geographical location.  (keyword phrase "i don't 
remember" :-) )


ann

On 4/14/2023 5:58 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:

Am 13.04.23 um 22:58 schrieb ann sanfedele:


May I ask,  what is your thing about going to Dunkirk each Easter?


Not only on Easter but also some time in autumn and over Xmas and the
New Year.

It has become a tradition and a kind of second home. We love the area
because it has a number of advantages. It's on the sea, we can be on the
Belgian coast in 30 minutes and in England in a little over 2 hours. We
can spend a day shopping and sightseeing in Kent and be back 'home' in
France in the late evening. We love the North Sea, especially when it's
rough and stormy. Did I mention the enormous steel mill and the sea port
full of great things to photograph?

If I could create the ideal place for me it would be just like that. We
might even have moved there, years ago, but with two elderly mothers,
things weren't as easy and now we're ourselves a little old for that.

In the meantime, things have changed. Our friend who used to take care
of our cats while we were gone hasn't survived her heart surgery, our
landlord in Dunkirk has fallen from the roof and most of all there are
the migrants, or rather the French police who think two guys in a car
with German numberplates hanging around at the beach or in the harbour
have got to be people smugglers.

Ralf

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Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-14 Thread Mark Roberts 
I just read through the comments section on DPreview. Reminded me of
why I haven't looked at DPreview for years.
 
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Re: A few Easter PESOs

2023-04-14 Thread Ralf R Radermacher 

Am 13.04.23 um 22:58 schrieb ann sanfedele:


May I ask,  what is your thing about going to Dunkirk each Easter?


Not only on Easter but also some time in autumn and over Xmas and the
New Year.

It has become a tradition and a kind of second home. We love the area
because it has a number of advantages. It's on the sea, we can be on the
Belgian coast in 30 minutes and in England in a little over 2 hours. We
can spend a day shopping and sightseeing in Kent and be back 'home' in
France in the late evening. We love the North Sea, especially when it's
rough and stormy. Did I mention the enormous steel mill and the sea port
full of great things to photograph?

If I could create the ideal place for me it would be just like that. We
might even have moved there, years ago, but with two elderly mothers,
things weren't as easy and now we're ourselves a little old for that.

In the meantime, things have changed. Our friend who used to take care
of our cats while we were gone hasn't survived her heart surgery, our
landlord in Dunkirk has fallen from the roof and most of all there are
the migrants, or rather the French police who think two guys in a car
with German numberplates hanging around at the beach or in the harbour
have got to be people smugglers.

Ralf

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Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-14 Thread Ralf R Radermacher 

Am 14.04.23 um 10:33 schrieb Steve Cottrell:


Interesting. I guess it’s an aspect of different cultures’ perceptions.


Different cultures and, most of all, different times. There was a time
when a photographer was the friendly guy with a camera who took nice
pictures and people were glad when someone photographed them.

Things have definitely taken a turn for the worse since Dutroux in
Belgium and the accident of an estranged British housewife in Paris.
Today, we're the perverts trying to snatch pics of their kids.

I've taken photos of the blast furnace plant in Seraing with a few
buildings behind me when a crowd emerged from those houses and almost
lynched me because they "knew what's going on with the houses and the
children and all that...".

Another time, some guy with a bad case of testosterone poisoning
followed me in his car all across Liège and insisted on seeing my ID
because I had taken photos in his neighborhood and my car had foreign
numberplates.

I won't mention the guy who stormed out of his house wanting to know why
I had taken pictures of it (I hadn't) or the woman who kicked my Zoom
audio recorder off a sea wall in Ostend because she thought I had
photographed her with it.

I've all but given up taking photos when there are people and, worse
still, children around. It's just not worth it anymore.

HCB would have a hard time nowadays and our museums would be a lot emptier.

Ralf

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Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome

2023-04-14 Thread Steve Cottrell 
Having to send this again as the previous attempt went over the 10Kb limit for 
size. 10Kb?!??


Interesting. I guess it’s an aspect of different cultures’ perceptions. 
Generally speaking I have no problems photographing in public. Mind you, I have 
been doing it with big video cameras for over 30 years! I find that 
photographing with a phone, nobody cares at all - so probably the best street 
camera is in fact a phone!! I do like a small camera for street though, all set 
up with a deep depth of field and pre-focussed ready to go so it just needs 
lifting to the eye or even shooting from the hip.

Years ago, a pap told me that it was getting ever more difficult to photograph 
celebs and royalty on holiday at the beaches of the rich and famous. They used 
to keep their DSLRs and long lenses hidden under towels until the last second 
to getb their sordid images. Security wisened up to this ploy and it became 
‘difficult’… One bright spark had a change of plan - he would take a more 
consumer -type camera with a fixed zoom lens with him, as well as his 
girlfriend. They would make a holiday of it themselves, and on the beach he 
would stand her between his camera and the subject, so it looked like he was 
snapping her instead of the lazing entourage beyond!

If one really wanted to be incognito on the street, just wander about with an 
Insta360 on a stick, recording video, and choose the still frames afterwards on 
a rainy day. But where’s the skill in that??

Cot

On 13 Apr 2023, at 22:07, Henk Terhell mailto:henk.terh...@gmail.com>> wrote:

This video puts the finger on the weak spot in that for street photography
a bulky DSLR nowadays upsets  a lot of people. [snip]
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