Re: 2024 North America Solar Eclipse
On 2/2/2024 5:58 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Feb 2, 2024, at 2:27 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I have confirmed reservations for San Antonio, TX April 6 - April 10 (plus reservations for 2 overnight stays going & coming). Excellent. My sister lives in Collinsville, North of Dallas. I'll be staying with her, we'll probably watch it from the place of a friend of hers about 120 miles away. 480 miles day 1, 452 miles day 2 & two days rest before & after the eclipse ... 452 & 480 returning. Made damn sure I printed out the confirmation emails and double-checked they have the correct dates (after the fiasco with that hotel in Albuquerque). I'll likely couch surf with friends in Albaquerque, it's about halfway. My most Banzai trip was Austin to San Francisco, solo, in 24 hours. Leaving Austin at midnight and napping in rest stops on the way. I've located a Texas Safety Rest area on of I-10, near Kerrville, that's approximately 12 miles off the center-line that I think I can set up in. I should get at least 4 minutes of totality from that location. You should plan on getting there very early. For the last eclipse, I scoped out a place a couple days ahead, and it was jam packed and had to find another. That's why my plan has me arriving in the area two days ahead of the eclipse. It'll give me time to scope out the area ahead of time. In 2017 I didn't settle on a location until the morning before & ended up driving all day & all night to get to Hopkinsville, KY. (weather predicted to be SEVERE CLEAR on the Saturday before ...) Didn't have any problems finding a place to set up. The small shopping center that had the JCPenney store was renting out spaces (about the size 4 parking spaces) for $20. Last October's trip was a practice run. Because it wasn't a TOTAL eclipse, I found most people I talked to didn't even know there was going to be an eclipse ... except for the people at the "National Museum of Nuclear Science & History" (where I bought a new pair of eclipse glasses because I'd left mine at home). San Antonio is right on the edge of the path of totality. All of the hotels I checked (Kerrville, TX) in the path of totality appear to be well aware of the eclipse ... the normally $90/night hotels have prices jacked up to $600-$800/night. The one I found in San Antonio DOES NOT have their prices jacked up. -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: 2024 North America Solar Eclipse
Make that 480, 452 & 480 outbound (April 4, 5, & 6) and reversed home-bound (April 10, 11, & 12). On 2/2/2024 5:27 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I have confirmed reservations for San Antonio, TX April 6 - April 10 (plus reservations for 2 overnight stays going & coming). 480 miles day 1, 452 miles day 2 & two days rest before & after the eclipse ... 452 & 480 returning. Made damn sure I printed out the confirmation emails and double-checked they have the correct dates (after the fiasco with that hotel in Albuquerque). I've located a Texas Safety Rest area on of I-10, near Kerrville, that's approximately 12 miles off the center-line that I think I can set up in. I should get at least 4 minutes of totality from that location. -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Thumb drive fart under pressure
Finding a thumb drive small enough it can be formatted FAT16 has been kind of problematic for a while. I'd ask the instructor what he/she exactly means by "MS-DOS-formatted" On 1/30/2024 11:59 PM, John Francis wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 07:57:30PM -0500, Rick Womer wrote: I???m taking a photography course at the Fleisher Art Memorial here in Philly. As per our first assignment last week, I brought in ten .jpg images on an MS-DOS-formatted flash drive, as did my classmates. Three different MS-DOS computers in the classroom did not recognize my flash drive =at all=. I don???t know what computers my 8 classmates use, but none of them had a problem. Any ideas? Rick MS-DOS? Really? I believe MS-DOS defaults to FAT16, while Windows went to FAT32 a long, long time ago (with, I believe, Win95). If they really are MS-DOS machines then there may be a reason why they can't read your "MS-DOS-formatted flash drive"; the FAT32 partition size limit is 32GB, and today's thumb drives are larger than that. Larger drives will probably use either NTFS or exFAT; Most modern systems can read and write either of these, but it's possible that the classroom computers can only read one of those formats, and your disks (but not, presumably, your classmates disks) are formatted using the other one. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: 2024 North America Solar Eclipse
> On Feb 2, 2024, at 2:27 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > > I have confirmed reservations for San Antonio, TX April 6 - April 10 (plus > reservations for 2 overnight stays going & coming). Excellent. My sister lives in Collinsville, North of Dallas. I'll be staying with her, we'll probably watch it from the place of a friend of hers about 120 miles away. > > 480 miles day 1, 452 miles day 2 & two days rest before & after the eclipse > ... 452 & 480 returning. > > Made damn sure I printed out the confirmation emails and double-checked they > have the correct dates (after the fiasco with that hotel in Albuquerque). I'll likely couch surf with friends in Albaquerque, it's about halfway. My most Banzai trip was Austin to San Francisco, solo, in 24 hours. Leaving Austin at midnight and napping in rest stops on the way. > > I've located a Texas Safety Rest area on of I-10, near Kerrville, that's > approximately 12 miles off the center-line that I think I can set up in. I > should get at least 4 minutes of totality from that location. You should plan on getting there very early. For the last eclipse, I scoped out a place a couple days ahead, and it was jam packed and had to find another. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
2024 North America Solar Eclipse
I have confirmed reservations for San Antonio, TX April 6 - April 10 (plus reservations for 2 overnight stays going & coming). 480 miles day 1, 452 miles day 2 & two days rest before & after the eclipse ... 452 & 480 returning. Made damn sure I printed out the confirmation emails and double-checked they have the correct dates (after the fiasco with that hotel in Albuquerque). I've located a Texas Safety Rest area on of I-10, near Kerrville, that's approximately 12 miles off the center-line that I think I can set up in. I should get at least 4 minutes of totality from that location. -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Taking aim at my pocketbook
Bwahahaha ... You KNOW you're gonna' buy it so why resist? On 2/1/2024 6:03 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Feb 1, 2024, at 2:16 PM, John Francis wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 01:16:05PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: I just found out that Samyang makes a 135 f/2 in K-mount. I don't have any specific need for that focal length and speed, though if it was autofocus it could be nice for photographing musicians. It's just about one stop between and 85/1.4 and a 200/2.8 in length and speed, so in reality I'd be better off just cropping down my 85/1.4. But, shiny! I'd guess you'd probably be better off putting a 1.4x TC behind your 85/1.4 than using a lens that sells for about the same price as the TC, no matter how shiny ... I'd be even better off saving my money, especially when I hardly have any chance to play with cameras these days. (Ricoh show the HD PENTAX-DA AF REAR CONVERTER 1.4x AW as being compatible with the HD PENTAX D-FA* 85mmF1.4ED) I picked up an FA* 85/1.4 on ebay for less than a third of what the dfa 85 costs. There's a long whinge to be had about how few new Pentax lenses there are, and that they seem to have been designed in conjunction with Gold's Gym and a consortium of finance companies. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret13est -- Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.