Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame
2010/2/24 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: The differences that I've heard are that film has the different colors on different layers, where with digital you need all colors to focus in the same plane. I've also heard that digital sensors are more sensitive to the angle of incidence of the light rays striking them. Then consider the register distance that 645 lenses are made for, and you'll see that the retrofocus angle is much less of a problem than for K-mount. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame
2010/2/23 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: If Pentax needs FF, we'll see Pentax FF, and they'll deal with the lens problem however they have to. Definately! Combine that with a mental separation of the con- and pro-sumer market on one hand, and the professional market on the other, and you probably have the Main Reason why Pentax does not pursue both a Fool's Format in K-mount and a digital 645. I say Fool's Format, because I perceive the arguments of 135 format over APS-C as mostly otherbrand penis envy. Sorry if this ignites someone's flames, it's just my opinion. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame
2010/2/23 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I know some people want to believe that, but I don't think Pentax has the resources to change horses in midstream. I agree. They've made a commitment to APS and 645, and I think they'll have to play in those arenas. Time will tell if those were wise choices. I suspect they were. I think that to defend the strategy chosen, the 645D will have to take on both the 135-format offerings from some brands and the existing digital medium formats. And that new Leica, of course. The 135-format offerings have the advantage of sharing lens lineup with the APS-C offerings of the respective brands, so a Pentax 645D system will be more expensive. To counter that they must have better image quality. OTOH, they won't gather a lot of customers if the entry price is like the existing digital 645 systems. So, question is, if the 645D will be both cheap and good enough to create a niche for itself in the market... I think it's a daring investment Pentax has made, launching this camera. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame
2010/2/23 William Robb war...@gmail.com: DPReview runs photo contests? They call them challenges. So they don't have to issue prizes, I guess... :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame
2010/2/23 Bob W p...@web-options.com: You make penis envy sound like a bad thing, but think about how you'd feel if you didn't have one. Ah, but if you had to go and get one, would it matter to you if it wasn't labeled Pentax? -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame
2010/2/23 Joseph Tainter jtain...@mindspring.com: It's curious also that they haven't dissed any of their 645 lenses. The 35mm f/3.5 hit the market after the rumors had first began leaking of a digital medium format. I tested it on the *istD, and found it better corrected for chromatic errors than the 31mm, and on par with regards to sharpness. I strongly believe that the 35mm is designed for digital. I suspect also the 45-85 zoom is, and possibly the 33-55 zoom. Then again, I'm not sure I discern the distinction between dissed and discontinued. Jostein, in dis-mode. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Tripod in carry-on luggage?
2010/2/22 gldnbearz gldnbearz.p...@gmail.com: I've looked on the TSA web site the airline's web site, but can't find anything re: carrying my tripod in my carry-on luggage. Here's the tripod in question: http://tinyurl.com/yas76je I agree with Paul. That thing is small enough to fit snugly into a containter that's inside the volume restrictions of carryon, so you'll probably be fine. I would not have hesitated to bring it in and out of London Heathrow, at least. In December I brought my ThinkTank Airport Security bag with a Manfrotto 055 tripod (http://turl.no/80b) strapped to its outside, and it didn't raise a brow. I had to remove the tripod from the bag to fit it into the overhead locker. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Silver K-7 (Limited 1000 edition) with nice focus screen IMO ;)
2010/2/22 William Robb war...@gmail.com: One does wonder why they bothered. For the same reason that brought us the multi coloured K-x, most likely. :-) Seriously, though, it's a collector's item. It says in the press release that only 1000 cameras will be produced. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Tripod in carry-on luggage?
2010/2/22 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: I've air traveled for years with a Bogen 3221 tripod and either a Kirk or Bogen head installed and have never had any issues - put it in the overhead. You'll be ok with yours (it appears smaller than the 3221) I'd be weary of the low-fare companies, but otherwise... :-) In the Bogen/Manfrotto case, it can be a good idea to pack the centre-column and ballhead apart from the legs. It reduce the total length of the item by 10 cm at least. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Testing
2010/2/22 John Francis jo...@panix.com: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:51:07AM -0500, Tom C wrote: 7, 8, 9 A, B, C D, E, F, 10. Cheers, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Testing
2010/2/22 m...@robertstech.com: 7, 8, 9 A, B, C D, E, F, 10. 10001, 10010, 10011 Time for the classic: There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary numbers, and those who don't. :-) Cheers, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PDML book 2010: One week to go!
2010/2/22 DagT li...@thrane.name: http://www.robertstech.com/pdmlbook/pdmlbook.php Hmmm, I'm not even allowed to enter your web page... Mark has blocked some IP ranges, so I guess it depends on which ISP you're connected through. I use NextGenTel and had no issues... Send him your IP and he'll open up for you! :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
Noticed that Margaret Atwood is one of the writers giving advice. Has anyone on the list read her Year of the flood? I'm wondering whether to put it on my reading list. Jostein 2010/2/21 Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com: Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. --Neil Gaiman Never ride a bike with the brakes on. --Geoff Dyer You see more sitting still than chasing after. --Jonathan Franzen Never complain of being misunderstood. You can choose to be understood, or you can choose not to. --David Hare http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one http://is.gd/8RGVK -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. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: plane crash
2010/2/18 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: It was violence directed against innocent third parties for the purpose of making a political statement and/or influencing government policies. That makes it terrorism in my book whether he was affiliated with any group or not. hmmm... The lone terrorist is more often a person suffering from mental illness. He/she may express disdain towards particular political issues, but mostly they're out of sync with the world in general. For reasons that has nothing to do with terrorism. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: plane crash
2010/2/19 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: Those policy makers should go back to watching Weapons of Ass Destruction and leave governmenting and democrating to others... I propose errorism. Defined as acts misconstrued as terrorism. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: plane crash
2010/2/19 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: It walks like a duck. It quacks like a duck. But it ain't a duck? Well... his flight resembled Daffy's, I guess... It depends on how much you're willing to dilute the term. Terrorist is a sort of word that makes great headlines and is very suitable for whacking someone over the head with. Like sexist, racist, communist, ... All of which are used widely outside their original meaning. But for the description of homicidal nutters, I absolutely see your point. We don't have any good name for them except terrorist, and Bin Laden opened a whole new avenue of means they can use for their deluded goals. It's a sorry state of matters, but I still side against labelling them terrorists as long as they do not have the ideological/religious connection usually bound to the term. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: Speaking of nutters...
2010/2/19 Drew d...@rileyelf.free-online.co.uk: Aren't guns in public hands a great thing? Flame baiting. Remember, if they bite, you gotta reel 'em in. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K7 firmware 1.03 (FA limited corrections for disto/CA added)
2010/2/18 Thibouille pentaxl...@gmail.com: No glitch: http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/k-7_s.html So it was a _timing_ glitch. Not the first time that has happened. :-) Nice to see colour corrections for the FA ltd. lenses. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - My New Computer Doesn't Suck
So now it's your USB hub that sucks. That's significant improvement! :-) Congrats on your new, and nicely working, machine! Jostein 2010/2/17 Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm: A postscript to the My New Computer Sucks thread To recap: I replaced my old Windows XP computer with a new all singing, all dancing, Windows 7 machine. First: my widescreen monitor wouldn't work (resolved by my friendly computer store manager, Dave, by connecting with a DVI cable) and second: I was unable to get the new system to recognise any USB mass storage device, unless it was plugged in via an (unpowered) USB hub. So. I packed up the beast this morning and headed back to the computer shop. What seems to be the problem now?, said Dave (with a little too much emphasis on 'now', I thought). The USB ports on this bloody thing won't recognise any mass storage device, I replied confidently. Oh, yes? Let's take a look then, shall we?, he said with a faint smile. He'd obviously had lots of experience dealing with technically incompetent customers. Dave plugged it in, connected a monitor and waited while it booted up. OK, he said, Let's see what happens with my usb flash drive. Windows is installing drivers for your new hardware was the message from the operating system. Slight pause. Your device is now installed and ready to use Er, ah, em, but, but, I stammered. It didn't work at home. Here, try one of my USB drives Windows is installing drivers for your new hardware was the message from the operating system. Slight pause. Your device is now installed and ready to use By this time the other staff members had gathered around to witness yet another incompetent reduced to a gibbering wreck. But then! A straw came into view and I clutched at it! At home, I said, I have a 4-port USB hub plugged into one of the system USB ports. Could this cause some sort of conflict with the other ports? Well , it shouldn't. said Dave reflectively. But I suppose it's possible (as in anything to get this technically challenged dickhead out of my shop) At this, I packed up the beast again with what little remaining credibility I had and made a hasty exit. I thought I heard some muffled sniggering as I left, but I could have been mistaken Home again, I reconnected the computer without the USB hub and, with both sets of fingers and toes crossed, plugged in a thumb drive . Windows is installing drivers for your new hardware was the message from the operating system. Slight pause. Your device is now installed and ready to use Woohoo!! OK. I have no explanation as to why the USB hub caused all of the other USB ports to malfunction, but I don't care!. I don't need the hub, the system is now working and . my computer no longer sucks!! Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: THE SCULPTRESS COMES TO TERMS WITH THE DEATH OF HER FATHER
2010/2/16 Bruce Dayton bkday...@daytonphoto.com: Ironically, I just had the ebook discussion with someone two days ago. Having started reading ebooks on my palm pilot some years back and continued it with readers on my phone, Bought a Sony reader in September. The only paper books I've read since then are ones unavailable in electronic format. The only gripe I have with eReaders are the aggressive DRM systems. I went for Sony over the Kindle for that particular reason. The Sony seems more generic and less tied-up. In fact, Amazon seem like a literature equivalent of Rockefeller to me. the conversation was just about like he brings up here. The tactile feel of the pages and curling up in front of the fire... As to curling up in front of the fire, I think the eReaders are just as nice. For more extensive novels, it's a lot easier to hold and curl up with in the first place. The tactile feel of the pages... well... Can't say I miss it, personally. And scent of paper can be anywhere on a scale from pleasant to nauseating. No books smell the same, and many fall short of pleasant. :-) In the end we agreed to disagree. Tastes differ, of course. Whatever the device, the content is still king. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: 1933 LaSalle with kit lens (K200D)
In case you already take to Frank's advice, here's from another source: Should be in the PDML book, indeed! Well done, that image. Jostein 2010/2/16 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: CheekyGeek wrote: I've been a bit bashful about posting work here, but I rather liked this one, if I do say so myself: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/4346411782/sizes/o/ Beautiful! Should be in the PDML book... :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: 1933 LaSalle with kit lens (K200D)
2010/2/16 CheekyGeek cheekyg...@gmail.com: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: How did you mount a kit lens on a 1933 LaSalle? Hurrumph! English majors! (I'm married to one.) : ) : ) : ) Beware of Her Majesty's Armed Forces regardless of rank! Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - My New Computer Doesn't Suck
2010/2/17 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: At that point, I would be rummaging in my pockets for a friendly-sized thermonuclear device. LOL!! Mark! -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K7 firmware 1.03 (FA limited corrections for disto/CA added)
Looks like a glitch from Pentax Sweden. Page is now withdrawn, and no news of it at Pentax Japan website. Jostein 2010/2/17 Thibouille pentaxl...@gmail.com: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/90655-new-firmware-pentax-k-7-1-03-a.html -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Lucky Moose
Oh, man! Gotta love that moose in the background! LOL. Looks like a disguised zebra. Great catch, Frank. I choose to believe the shop owner has a great sense of humor behind his choices... Jostein 2010/2/16 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: My favorite shop name in Chinatown, I've never been able to satisfactorily capture it on camera. This is far from perfect, but it's the best I've managed to do yet: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/02/lucky-moose.html East meets West? China meets Canada? Whatever the case may be, I hope you enjoy this signage as much as I do! Comments welcome! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: VEEEEEERY OT - The Shrinking Dave (A year on)
2010/2/15 David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com: Yet another Oh s^t moment for yours truly. Wow! Congrats mate! You're doing damn well. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Less than a month to wait...
2010/2/14 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: It comes with a lens with food =) I will code name it K de Ville That thing is going to be a 645 deVille, I'm afraid. :-) Jostein 2010/2/14 Margus Männik mar...@eol.ee: http://www.camera-pentax.jp/new/index.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Book advice please (Nude photography)
2010/2/12 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: So Dag, Stig Vidar, Jostein and other Norwegians, please look the other way. Look the other way? Get them to model for a calendar of Norewegian Pentaxians Har! That WOULD make you look the other way. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Precomputing lightroom previews
Not by a computer with LR installed, but iirc it's in the import dialogues. An option to choose the size of previews rendered at import that have at least to settings, Standard and 1:1. I think it will also help to reserve a lot of disk space for preview cacheing, but I don't recall exactly where that setting is tweaked. :-( Jostein 2010/2/14 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: One of the most time consuming aspects of sorting and rating my photos is waiting for the display to sharpen up while lightroom is rendering larger preview. Godfrey alluded to the ability to get lightroom to do all of that up front, but I can't find the button to make this happen, even poking around in the index of both books. It does seem to do a little bit of precomputing, but after a few shots I will have caught up, and will have to wait for it to catch up on each shot. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - Britain and snow
2010/2/12 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Just thought those of you under a few feet of snow would like to see how we deal with it :-) Charlie Brooker, Newswipe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO52SMQB7tE LOL! What a treat. That last comment summed it up oooh so nicely! Cheers, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT - My Blog
2010/2/11 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: No problems from work or home. Frank, recently Google introduced Buzz which might have put certain load on their servers. But generally, I don't find your blog to be any slower than other sites I frequent. I think the Blogspot servers are not fully integrated in the Google infrastructure yet, but rather reside on an infrastructure that was transferred as-is when Google bought Blogspot. BobW, I suspect your antivirus software. If you have all the preemptive scanning functionality enabled for your web browser, it means that all linked-in content is scrutinised. In cases of ad servers gathering statistics without really giving content back I think you will end up waiting for connection timeouts, which are fairly short as such, but quite annoying nonetheless. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Reports of New Gear
2010/2/10 Thibouille pentaxl...@gmail.com: Smell the BS. It might hint at a couple things to come though. Mark! Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Reports of New Gear
Image looks like the contour of a 645D. 2010/2/10 Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com: Anybody read Japanese? http://www.camera-pentax.jp/new/ On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Thibouille pentaxl...@gmail.com wrote: Those pages are bet from magazine, their take on what will happen (maybe based on actual facts). 10-16/4 is BS. If there's one it will be /2.8. K-m2 is BS as well, certainly with a fake body base on k20d and about 20/28mm both lens are same size and suspiciously compact one at that. Smell the BS. It might hint at a couple things to come though. On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, jtainter jtain...@mindspring.com wrote: From Dpreview: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036message=34485521 645D K-m2 DA*10-16 f/4 DA*20 f/2 DA*28 f/2 Maybe more than the usual rumor. There seem to be photos of the gear: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036message=34485615 which points to: http://www.dchome.net/viewthread.php?tid=827626extra=page%3D1 The DA* 20 F2.0 look very interesting, but it would have to be quite large? The DA 10-16 F4 is disappointing. It probably means that Pentax won't bring out a DA version of the excellent and very useful Tokina 11-16 F2.8. Still, I could live with F4 in such a lens if Pentax could improve high ISO performance. 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. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs -- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13 Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PDML Digest, Vol 46, Issue 119
2010/2/10 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: That's a very good price. I think it will sell at that number. Me too. At that price I could be enabled in 2012. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Blurb quality issues
2010/2/9 Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it: See here: www.dariobonazza.com/public/QualityIssues.jpg Blurb offered to reprint them, but I'm afraid to get more badly printed books. Has anyone experienced such problems? Is there another, reliable, book sourcing company you can suggest instead of Blurb? Ouch. I think some US PDML members have tried www.lulu.com. One European service that gets repeatedly good press is http://www.cewe-photobook.com/. They've got that TIPA price several times. I haven't got around to producing anything yet, but have their design client downloaded and installed, and that at least looks good. They'll probably be the first I try... They have no national office in Italy, but may operate through a proxy, like in Norway. I recently received a small book produced by the Swedish tour operator on the Antarctica trip which also was quite decent. It was produced by a Swedish small-scale prublisher. Will look up the name and website when I get home tonight. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Blurb quality issues
2010/2/9 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: I recently received a small book produced by the Swedish tour operator on the Antarctica trip which also was quite decent. It was produced by a Swedish small-scale prublisher. Will look up the name and website when I get home tonight. The site is at www.photohome.se but unfortunately the webpage is in Swedish only. Looks like a local enterprise. The product I received was pretty good, though. Hope you find something that works for you, Dario. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Where else...
hehe. That's cool. Wouldn't happen here, for sure. Jostein 2010/2/9 Margus Männik mar...@eol.ee: ...in the world you get your prints from the largest retailer in the paper bag like this? Even if you are a C*n*n shooter... http://home.uninet.ee/~margus02/peso/ BR, Margus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Reports of New Gear
2010/2/9 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: I might be interested in the 10-16 if it's got a better (closer) minimum focusing distance than the 12-24. Me too. Could be a perfect compliment to the 16-50 or 16-45 too. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: laptops again...
2010/2/8 Tanya Love tanyal...@bigpond.com: This is it: the Asus G73 - due for release in February! [...] So, what is the general concensus, do you think it will be able to do what I need it to? 3.25 kg? hmmm... What i need is a kind of thing very much up to personal expectations. Hard to tell from up here in the Frostpit if you'll be satisfied with it. However it's a very low weight for the specs. I suspect it will come with a rather large power supply and a rather modest battery. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: laptops again...
2010/2/8 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: 3.25 kg? hmmm... Correction; 3.52 kg. Doesn't alter my consideration, though. What i need is a kind of thing very much up to personal expectations. Hard to tell from up here in the Frostpit if you'll be satisfied with it. However it's a very low weight for the specs. I suspect it will come with a rather large power supply and a rather modest battery. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays? - correction
2010/2/6 Martin Trautmann tr...@gmx.de: Thanks for the corection. But the iPad will have IPS... Source or bust. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: airlines (was Re: Message from Henry Posner, Part I)
2010/2/6 Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info: [eloquence snipped] Air travel may be frustrating, but the airlines still have a lot of good service-oriented people working for them who try and make the experience as painless as possible. That's just _so_ true. Most of my travels are to and fro London Heathrow, where the ground crew has, occasionally, received a lot of pepper. In my experience, however, they are really just trying their best to keep the flow of passengers run through with as little turbulence as possible. I'll never forget the great and professional service I received when going home on the 21. July 2005, 12 hours after the terror attack on the London Tube. Those guy and gals there are really trying to make the best of a sometimes awful job. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: airlines (was Re: Message from Henry Posner, Part I)
2010/2/6 John Francis jo...@panix.com: I must admit I've stretched the rules myself - my Pelican 1510 case qualifies as a carry-on on most airlines, and I regularly flew with that and my computer bag. While technically within the rules, it does push them to the extremes. But I'm not really prepared to hand either pieces of equipment over to baggage handlers if I can avoid it. Sometimes it's unavoidable - the 250-600 has to go in the hold - but generally the one bag + one item such as a computer or camera is enough. hehe. You wouldn't believe the hand luggage I got away with to Argentina and back... It fit the volume restrictions, with a squeeze. This is what it contained: 1 K-7 1 K-7 w/grip DA 14mm, DA 21, FA 77, DA* 300, FA* 600, DA* 60-250, DA* 16-50, 14 laptop, 3 additional portable harddrives Sony eBook reader Chargers, cables mouse. A gore-tex jacket. I was damn lucky noone wanted to know the weight of the thing... Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/6 steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: On 2010-02-05 03:50 , AlunFoto wrote: 2010/2/4 Jim Kingjamesk8...@mac.com: Mark (and Jostein), things HAVE changed in the MacBook Pro lineup. All of the current offerings use an IPS screen with LED backlighting. Link to documentation of IPS? try wikipedia -- it's this cool site that explains things ;? Cheeky. Jim King got it right though. See his post. :-) Jostein Who's currently enjoying some S-IPS of nice cognac. or whatever... :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/6 Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info: Among other Apple laptops I have performed surgery on, I have swapped out the hard drive on a white iMac G3. Talk about an integrated system not designed for user upgrade! But iFixIt is a godsend, and the procedure can be done even by a semi-klutz like me. The most nervous I have ever been doing such upgrades was in upgrading my Mac+ from 1 to 4mb of RAM. The upgrade required cutting two wires that served as jumpers on the circuit board, and I rechecked the directions 10-15 times before I made the cuts! stan Hardly a consolation, I guess, but I don't think other PC makers are much better than Apple in this respect... We bought a series of about 100 Fujitsu-Siemens desktop computers at work one year, which need about 30 minutes of effort each, just to upgrade the RAM... :-( Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays? - correction
Thanks Martin! Much appreciated. Jostein 2010/2/6 Martin Trautmann tr...@gmx.de: Am 06.02.2010 14:06, schrieb AlunFoto: 2010/2/6 Martin Trautmanntr...@gmx.de: Thanks for the corection. But the iPad will have IPS... Source or bust. Watch the keynote. Or more easily: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Display * 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with *IPS* technology * 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi) * Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating * Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously - Martin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Enablement needed
2010/2/6 Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info: Options I am considering: a - move from my K20's to K-7's b - purchase the DA*60-250 Stan, I don't own the 50-135. Like Bill Robb, I held out for the 60-250. My experience with that lens has been all positive. OTOH, I've also gone from K10D + K20D, to 2x K-7, and don't regret it for a second. It's a tough choice to recommend only one, but I think i'd opt for the lens. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Why are they called hypersonic motors?
2010/2/5 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: yeah and next thing to come after the megapixel race they will advertise lenses based on hsm rpm and gear ratio or perhaps invent stick shift lenses... My bet is an ATP driven linear contraction engine. A true way for a camera maker to show some muscle, at last. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/4 Jim King jamesk8...@mac.com: Mark (and Jostein), things HAVE changed in the MacBook Pro lineup. All of the current offerings use an IPS screen with LED backlighting. Link to documentation of IPS? Please? Would love to know where Apple source those panels. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: current Mac laptops reportedly have TN displays (if someone has a reference to confirm they are IPS i'd like to know), but Apple claims 60% wider gamut and implies all models have the same display quality; i can report real satisfaction with casual use of my 13 MacBook Pro display, but i plug it into an older 24 IPS display when i edit photos IIRC, Aplle is accused of faking the 60% claim by doing some clever colour mapping in software. Dunno the substance in those claims, unfortunately, but I guess such speculation arises because the sales pitch lingo is not backed by any easily accessible tech spec. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: Sort of along the same vein, and a definite jab, for which I apologize, something I just wrote somewhere else on the net: If someone was standing in front of you, trying to slap your face repeatedly, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, would you just stand there? Yet you currently pay someone to stand between you and the deranged persons attacking you. Just one of the ways you would save money in the long run by getting a Macintosh! No one slapping, no one to pay to protect your face. Life is so much more pleasant. Why is it that Microsoft has been unable to write an OS for more than 20 years that has more fortitude than Windows does? I'll never understand it. Crazy love is what you got. Another definite jab which I too should apologise for: What a narrow-minded piece of drivel. Can we now go on? thanks, Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays? - correction
2010/2/5 Jim King jamesk8...@mac.com: Sorry, but I need to correct myself - evidently I was thinking of the latest iMac displays, which are said to be IPS. I can't find any credible source to support my statement above that the MacBook Pro displays use IPS. They do use LED backlighting, however, and they are gorgeous, IMO. Bugger. You had my hopes high there for a while. LEDs are a Good Thing, though, no matter what panel is stacked before it. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
LG ( == Philips) is one of the major panel manufacturers. I just had a look into their catalogue, and in their current lineup there's only _one_ panel with 8 bit colour depth. A 17,1 widescreen. The panel technology is not specified, but the backlight is described as RGB LED where all the others are white LED. It has about 34% higher power consumption than the other 17,1 alternatives. Here's the webpage: http://www.lgdisplay.com/homeContain/jsp/eng/prd/prd300_j_e.jsp The panel model number is LP171WU5. It's not listed on the webpage, only in the PDF downloadable from the webpage. It's terribly difficult to figure out which panels are actually inside any particular laptop unless the maker states it as part of the specs. Which nearly noone does. :-( Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: Most of Apple's desktop displays are LG/Philips, with Samsung making an occasional appearance. But I can't find out what kind of display is in anyone's laptop computer. Apparently, some of the more obsessed laptop geeks have a habit of picking their machines apart to find model numbers printed on the display assembly. That's how Dell was caught sourcing different displays in some laptop models at different production runs. It was that story that made me browse for the display manufacturers directly. I know I checked LG/Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Acer and Sony. I also checked a few Taiwanese and Korean factories whose names I can't recall. I sort of gave up when I couldn't find _any_ 14-15 screens specifying either IPS/*VA panel technology or at least 8 bit colour depth. To my knowledge, the 17 panel I mentioned in another post is actually the only one with documented 8 bit colour depth. I spent my lunch break today trying to find laptops carrying this display, and the only one I found was HP's 8730w with DreamColor display option (at a horrible price...). Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: The Apple iMac 20 was sold with both a Philips/LG TN panel and a Samsung S-PVA - *big* difference in quality between a TN and an S-PVA! If that's without informing the customer, it's pretty arrogant... :-( Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Green Briar Camera Club 1st impressions
2010/2/5 Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net: Last night I stopped by the Green Briar Camera Club: [...] Well told, Christine. :-) The GBCC seems to be just like most camera clubs here. For good and for bad... Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 Martin Trautmann tr...@gmx.de: You may obtain this info easily for the Mac. Just open the terminal and enter: ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed /[^]*/s/// | xxd -p -r | strings -6 ROTFLMAO. easily, eh? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 Martin Trautmann tr...@gmx.de: Some typical MBP displays are e.g. * B133EW07 V1 (AUO) * LTN133AT09 * LP154WP3-TLA1 * B154PW01 V0 So tell us, Martin! Are they 6 bit TN panels or something decent? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: 2010/2/5 Martin Trautmann tr...@gmx.de: You may obtain this info easily for the Mac. Just open the terminal and enter: ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed /[^]*/s/// | xxd -p -r | strings -6 ROTFLMAO. easily, eh? Duh. Hit send too early in my giggling. I mean, it's a nice thing that it's actually possible to extract such information, but easily in this context was very funny to me... It would be great if someone with a 15 or 17 macbook pro would do that magic on their boxes. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 Martin Trautmann tr...@gmx.de: I feel it's easier than to take the computer apart in order to find the model inside. :-) And not to mention less destructive to the unit. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I did it. If I can do it, anyone can do it:-). Well I can't. Don't have a mac handy. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
Okay, I did some googling myself. :-) 2010/2/5 Martin Trautmann tr...@gmx.de: * B133EW07 V1 (AUO) This one is apparently produced in Taiwan by http://www.auo.com . The panel model doesn't feature on their products page, but all the listed laptop screens are specified as TN panels. I checked both the 13, 15 and 17 models. So unless it's a very special and secret deal with Apple only, it's not likely to be anything but TN. * LTN133AT09 A Samsung panel. Specifications at Samsung website given only for part of the model number. I assume it means that the two last digits mean minor differences. TN panel. Maybe not surprising since the letters are part of the model name. http://www.samsung.com/global/business/lcdpanel/productInfo.do?fmly_id=611partnum=LTN133AT * LP154WP3-TLA1 An LG model, not a current one, but all its siblings are TN. http://www.lgdisplay.com/homeContain/jsp/eng/prd/prd300_j_e.jsp * B154PW01 V0 Another AUO model, also TN. It's a 15 panel, though, so if a 13 laptop reports that, I'd be very skeptical... -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
2010/2/5 P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: On Feb 5, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: paul stenquist wrote: On Feb 5, 2010, at 1:09 PM, AlunFoto wrote: 2010/2/5 Martin Trautmann tr...@gmx.de: You may obtain this info easily for the Mac. Just open the terminal and enter: ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed /[^]*/s/// | xxd -p -r | strings -6 ROTFLMAO. easily, eh? I did it. If I can do it, anyone can do it:-). Oh yeah? Get Dave Brooks to type that in accurately and I'll believe anyone can do it! I copied and pasted it. Dave can do that:-). Having dabbled with both grep and sed in their Windows incarnations, the expression was very amusing to me. Mostly because it requires a very intimate knowledge of what goes on under the hood in the Mac OS, and of how RegEx works. It's hardly an expression one can concoct from just looking at some beginner's tutorial... :-) While googling the display model numbers turned up by Martin, I noticed that the ioreg expression is posted around many mac user forums, in every language I'm able to guesscipher without assistance from translation robots. Panel substitution seems to be more of an issue for Mac users than I ever imagined. It seems to be at least on par with what Dell has been doing. It may be because of Apple's position, as Godfrey explained. With their kind of production volume, it makes sense to spread risk by having multiple suppliers for the parts. I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same with eg. hard drives and RAM. But it still sucks not to inform the customer. -And that goes for Dell just as much as for Apple, of course. Btw, I had an insider help me order my Dell to increase the likelihood of getting the best available panel for the model. but I still don't know for sure whether it turned out lucky... :-( Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Interesting discussion of flash sync speeds at Strobist.
I think that article was quite confusing.
The nominal sync time of a camera refers to the speed of the shutter
lamellae, doesn't it? The quicker the movement, the shorter the
interval can be for a fully opened shutter. The article describes the
_practical_ sync time which should also depend on how well the camera
synchronise the shutter and the flash blink. Many of the commenters
point out that it works at 1/200 when the flash is mounted in the
hotshoe, but not when off-camera. So to me it seems that Canon has a
sloppy implementation of sync speed rather than an unreliable shutter.
Maybe it's the flash that's sluggish rather than the camera?
Anyway, I'm quite happy with the way flash is controlled in K-7. The
hi-speed sync works fine with both the AF-540-FGZ and Metz AF-58 when
1/180 is not enough. If I absolutely had to pop a flash at high
shutter speeds as if working with conventional sync speed, I guess I'd
go manual and be done with it. I don't see the need for the article's
hype, really. Maybe I've missed something. :-)
Jostein
2010/2/3 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com:
There was a certian amount of Angst about the K-7 having a sync speed of
only 1/180 sec. Well at least Pentax seems to be honest...
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2010/01/know-your-sync.html
Os so it seems to me.
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Re: Laptop computers with good displays?
Mark, I researched this extensively a year ago before buying a laptop myself. My conclusion then was that no laptops with smaller than 17 screen has any of the higher quality panel types. That also included the offerings from Apple. The IPS-based FlexView series of screens from IBM/Lenovo ended with the T60 model. After researching the available panel types of all the screen mfg.s I could find a website for, I believe there are probably no reputable makers of high-quality panels in small sizes anymore. It looks like they are all waiting for OLED to happen, and in the meanwhile compete over TN panels with the least power consumption rather than colour accuracy. Even in the = 17 segment, I found only 4 laptops _claiming_ superior colour rendition; Dell precision 6400, Apple's 17 macbook, Lenovo's monster ThinkPad W700 (you'll need one heck of a lap to insist on it being a laptop), and HP EliteBook 8730w. I could find no in-depth information on the Apple, but the others appear to have PVA panels. Dell source their panels from different vendors all the time, and there are many reports of Dell screens with same model number but different panel types depending on availability at the moment of production. I found no direct reference to the Presicion 6400 in particular, though. I also found out that most glare-free laptop screens are actually glossy screens with a sheet of matting foil on top. My impression is that opting for a matte screen reduce reflections, but at the same time trade higher translucency for a smaller viewing angle. IOW, not really a good bargain. Anyway, things may have changed in the past year. From experience I strongly recommend you find one with LED backlighting whatever you do. LED has more even illumination towards the corners, does not require warm-up before colour rendition is stable, and consumes less power than do CCFL. However if you find you have to go with a CCFL based screen because of other model specifications, make sure you find one with at least two tubes to get decent brightness. The recent Lenovos like W400 for example, have rather weak illumination. Personally I ended up buying a Dell Precision 2400 (14 1440x900px matted LED-lit screen) which is no more than half-decent when calibrated. But it has a weight and bulk I can live with. hth, Jostein 2010/2/4 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: Anyone know of any laptop computers with good (IPS/MVA/PVA) displays? Particularly any reasonably sized ones? Last I heard there weren't any high quality displays under 17 and I'd prefer something smaller than that if possible. My current laptop just died. It's a total nothing lights up failure, so I have a sneaking suspicion that it's something very basic and not a prohibitively expensive fix. But if fate does bless me with an expensive repair that justifies ditching it and buying a new computer, I'd like to be prepared... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Question of English, American and otherwise
It's the curse of not being native English speakers. It _can_ be a source of misunderstandings, but in general I believe both brits and americans are more forgiving than your boss would have you think. Especially about business/science/problem-solving/etc. topics. That's my experience anyway. To me, smalltalk is where intonation suddenly conveys strange and unfathomable things.OTOH, that could speak more about the shortness of my social antennae than anything else, I guess. :-) Jostein 2010/2/1 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: Having returned from the trip to USA, my boss pointed out that I spoke rather harsh language. Here is an example. I would say something like I suggest that we do so and so and according to my boss I suggest was interpreted specifically as an order, not as a suggestion or as an indication of one option among several possible courses of action. My boss indicated that wording it something like Perhaps we could proceed like so or so would have been interpreted properly. Few questions: 1. Is indeed this is the case? To the point, my trip was to Maryland not far from Washington, DC, if that matters. 2. Is there any place where I could read about common phrases so that I would at least word things in exact way in which I want myself to be understood. As you realize, it is rather frustrating to say something and be understood very differently than originally intended... Thanks in advance. P.S. Replies off-list will be appreciated as well. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Question of English, American and otherwise
2010/2/1 Bob W p...@web-options.com: To me, smalltalk is where intonation suddenly conveys strange and unfathomable things.OTOH, that could speak more about the shortness of my social antennae than anything else, I guess. :-) Jostein It's been the sole topic of conversation here since your last visit... Bob Uhoh. That bad, eh? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: Good news bad news
2010/1/31 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: Be imaginative. But a slow moving sidewalk will never do. Frank, for some of us, explaining that we couldn't get the cleat loose from the pedal would suffice. Not for you though. :-) Those moving sidewalks are never risk free. Neither are shoelaces. Fingers crossed she mends well, Mark. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: Chimp threat to professional news-gatherers
2010/1/25 Bob W p...@web-options.com: At a zoo in Scotland chimpanzees have learned to make videos: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8472000/8472831.stm Chimping on both sides of the lens? Wow... Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Scott Bourne's Ego
2010/1/24 John Francis jo...@panix.com: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:00:40AM -0600, William Robb wrote: It's the place where those who have nothing useful to say go to do it. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Why Pentax?
2010/1/17 Margus Männik mar...@eol.ee: The most surprising part is, that we don't take any less GOOD pictures than C, N, O or S owners MARK! -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Call for iPhone owners
I need a volunteer willing to download a 22 MB file to their phone and test something for me. Takers please contact me off-list. This is not marked OT in header since it is not. However I'd like to be a little bit secretive yet. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Snowproofed
2010/1/15 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: The claim of any environment is the exaggeration. If one goes below -10C, what about that environment, or what about extremely hot conditions? Normally, electronic circuits work just fine at arbitrarily cold temperatures (not necessarily when they get too hot), so I'm wondering if there are mechanical issues that could come into play at very cold temperatures. Otherwise, why would they provide a low-temperature threshold? -T It _used_ to be due to (mainly) battery and/or lubrication issues. Since the advent of lithium (in all its flavours) for batteries and constructional plastics that have some lubrication qualities, reducing the need for grease, these issues have receded somewhat. That's the point, isn't it. We used to have cameras that were not guaranteed to work in even moderately bad weather. Then there was a lot of raving over images obtained under conditions that were outside warranty. Now that materials have approved, people go whining about the folly of taking the same risks. The only thing camera improvement seems to spawn is ever more demanding customers. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Snowproofed
2010/1/15 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: Now that materials have approved, improved, of course. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Snowproofed
2010/1/15 Tom C caka...@gmail.com: Don't blame the customer though. It's the camera manufacturer that 'weatherized' the product and then sold it on that basis. While I don't believe every word I read, I also think the customer has a right to at least heightened expectations. For heigthened expectations? Certainly not. For whining about not getting it like spoiled kids? Definately. The currently most purebred Pentax whiner runs a blog called RiceHigh, nicknamed RiceWhine. http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/ There's been preciously little of it around here for some time. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K-7 Review
2010/1/15 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Just a side note, has anyone had to fiddle with ant BF/FF on their K7's as they did on the K20/K10D's My two specimens are very similar. Have only bothered to tweak the tele lenses. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Why Pentax?
2010/1/15 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: PS. The obvious short response BS is not accepted. ;-) If I thought changing brands would make me a better photographer, I'd do it. If changing brands would promote you the same way, why hesitate? Jostein Who thinks all your crude premises BS. Sorry about that. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Snowproofed
Sorry to hear, Stig. I should perhaps add that a Canon D-7 succumbed to moisture at the particular landing where I took my photo. Fortunately it came back to life after roughly two days of drying out, but in principle it's a camera with about the same level of weather protection as has the K-7. So maybe I was lucky? At least I was deliberately pushing my luck... Jostein 2010/1/14 SV Hovland p...@heime.org: My K-7 stopped working after two hours in rain and is currently at Pentax for repair which I have to pay myself. I was told by Pentax that it is not meant to withstand normal autumn rain in Norway for two hours. The sealing was meant for withstanding light rain for a short time, I was told. So from now on I have to treat it like its not weather proofed at all. Stig Vidar Hovland Fra: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] p#229; vegne av Jim King [jamesk8...@mac.com] Sendt: 13. januar 2010 19:25 Til: pdml@pdml.net Emne: Re: PESO - Snowproofed A great example of K-7/DA* weatherproofing. You ought to send it to Pentax as a candidate for an advertisement. Regards, Jim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO - Snowproofed
Another tribute to Pentax weather protection. http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?pos=-226 One K-7 photographed with another K-7. Both cameras worked without a single glitch for the 4-5 hours we were ashore. Nor was there any hiccups after returning to the indoors. Oh, and the Metz performed impeccably too. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: A K7D for Fairygirl (Was Re: Fairygirl is in the house!)
2010/1/10 Tanya Love tanyal...@bigpond.com: How many of you have K20s/K7s and do you think the cost is worth the improvements of the latter over the former? That depends on your usage. I much treasure the functions beefed up; AF speed, multisegment light metering and fps. But then again I'm probably now the tailgunner mr. Robb mentioned prophetically last year. If you don't need those functions, the only lure of K-7 is some improvements in image quality. The noise floor may be ever so slightly lower, I doubt the measurbators are able to quantify it properly. It might as well be caused by the improved light metering. The K-7 tends to put the to of the histogram hump further to the right than do K20D. There's still a lot of leeway for picking down the highlights, though, so the net effect is that the noise floor seems to be lower. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Fairygirl is in the house!
2010/1/10 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: I'll always remember the medical photos... The 3D tattoos were the best part. Sadly, I managed to lose my copies. i have no clue what's going on, but it *is* nice to see old 'friends' doing their thing... :) Thet're just trying to keep abreast of things. I think you're just mi... No, wait that's your line. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Fairygirl is in the house!
2010/1/9 Tanya Love tanyal...@bigpond.com: I rejoined cause I was hanging out to know which of you rich old farts have got yourselves a K-7?? You rang, madam? Welcome back, Tan. Your prose hasn't changed much either, by the look of it. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: A K7D for Fairygirl (Was Re: Fairygirl is in the house!)
2010/1/9 Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com: To add to Paul's excellent review of the K-7... I've had one for the last 6 months and run up 2,750+ exposures. Just have to add my voice to Bob's and Paul's. I have two K-7. 6200 exposures combined. Excellent performers, and endures the weather at least as well as advertised. For AF in LiveView or video, you have three options. The first is traditional SLR AF, which implies that when you hit the AF button, the mirror pops down, does the AF, and pops up again to return you to LiveView. Naturally this doesn't work while shooting video. The other AF modes are tech from compact cams. One mode is called contrast, the other is face-recognition. Both are excruciatingly slow. In my experience, the light metering and AF speed for ordinary SLR operation is the hitherto best in any camera from Pentax. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Snow event
2010/1/7 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: What about chains? You are entirely correct. Chains are a much overlooked aid. I have a set in the back of the car all winter, and usually have to mount them at least once every season. My father tells me that in the fifties they used to mount chains permanently on the wheels for the winter. A practice that was replaced by studded tyres, eventually. :-) The worst accidents seems to happen with hard-pressed long-haul transport vehicles. Those poor people are on inhuman time schedules, drive poorly equipped trucks, and in some cases have little experience. Especially the ones coming from around the Mediterranean or the Eastern Europe countries. I'm a bit puzzled by that since they have snowy conditions in all the mountaineous regions of Southern Europe too... -But anyway, I don't envy them. Neither their job nor their accidents. I remember about a decade ago the authorities said their goal was to have about 80% of the cars drive on non-studded tyres. I think they recognised already then that some mashing up of the ice surface was necessary. I also recall there was a gap year in the fee regime last time the roads got too polished. :-) The fees apply only to cities, btw, not the country as a whole. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Anybody else planning on signing up for Godfrey's class this weekend?
I did, but missed the plane. :) Well, no, not seriously. But it would have been fun to pop over, of course. Jostein 2010/1/7 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: In the hopes of better success with lightroom, I'm planning on signing up for Godfrey's lightroom class this weekend. I was wondering if any other pdmlers were going to be there. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Snow event
2010/1/6 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: On 6/1/10, AlunFoto, discombobulated, unleashed: Make sure you have good tyres, mate. Drive save. BF Goodrich All Terrain T/A http://www.tyre-pictures.com/BFGoodrich/AllTerrainTAKO.jpg best in the business :-) I trust you to select well. Much better than I would anyway... :-) I just have this little pet anxiety over groove depth and tyre performance. That's what's in good for me... Over here, by the way, we are having a peculiar case with all-weather tyres and non-studded winter tyres. The studded tyres are frowned upon because they erode the tarmac, creating a dust and pollution problem. So if you want to use them you have to pay extra fees (£100 per season). The result is that most people have converted to non-studded tyres. However, where studs roughens the ice, the non-studded ones will polish it. And currently we see an increase in accidents caused by people losing the road grip. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Whingeing about workflow
2010/1/7 D. Glenn Arthur Jr. dgl...@panix.com: [...] Anyhow, I just felt a need to whine about how long this instant technology is taking me. Now to get back to editing instead of whining for a while ... -- Glenn D. Glenn, Maybe this could be a good starting point? http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Photography-Practices-Workflow-Handbook/dp/0240810953/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1262897515sr=8-1 jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Snow event
2010/1/6 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: I'm sick of the snow and it's only day 1. Been out since 7am driving with a reporter through 15 inches of the wretched stuff, got home at 5 after doing 123 miles at 30 mph with copious stops for a few quick shots. More of the same tomorrow. Well it's a living I suppose. Make sure you have good tyres, mate. Drive save. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Passion (and high-ISO K-7)
2010/1/5 William Robb war...@gmail.com: From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org http://www.komkon.org/~igor/PHOTOS/Mixed-2009/_IR_1424-2.jpg I'd just like to say that this is a terrific photograph. William Robb What he said! Powerful. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GFM NPW 2010 - head count
2010/1/4 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Does this conflict? It may not be an issue to you, but... :-) Yes. In so many ways. :-( Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Probably as OT as anything can be...
2010/1/5 Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com: I think it's a misspelling; and that the pedestrian tunnel under the Thames is being renamed the Royal Burrow of Greenwich. LOL. That must be it! -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: K10, K20, K7, and low light Konfusion
Rick, I used both K10D and K20D for over a year. one thing that really peeved me is that the K20 is marketed as an evolutionary upgrade to K10. That's very, very far from the truth. Especially when it comes to dealing with the images in post processing. The K10D is a CCD based camera, with an oversized A/D converter to sift out as much dynamic range as possible. The noise characteristic of this camera is very grain-like and reminiscent of film. Much in contrast with the CMOS-based K20D with its more reticular, gritty looking noise characteristics. I came to appreciate the K20D anyway, though, because its noise is easier to reduce in post processing than is K10D noise. I use NoiseNinja as plugin to Photoshop, btw, and for the record I think the DxO tests are measurbating BS. :-) The K-7 has essentially the same sensor as has the K20D. However the image quality is improved over K20D. Not much, but the devil is as usual in the details. Literally. :-) On my trip to Antarctica, I got the opportunity to compare my own files to raw files from various Canon cameras, and what struck me most was the amount of detail preserved in the K-7 raw files. The noise reduction with Canon is a lot more brutal, clipping quite a lot of detail in the shadows. It's a matter of taste whether the Canon look is plastic or clean, but I know for myself that I much prefer to have the detail recorded, and tweak the noise vs. detail ratio myself. Besides, the post-processing noise reduction software has a lot more data power to draw from than the in-camera processing, and I suspect the algorithms are more sophisticated as well. In comparison with K20D, I believe the K-7 is better at discerning between shadow detail and noise. No idea if the lab tests take this into account, but I find the K-7 raw files (I shoot DNG, btw) very pleasing to work with. I also think the K-7 is an improvement in exposure accuracy over K20D. I tend to get histograms leaning more to the right with K-7. Where I would lift the shadows in a K20D shot, I end up reducing the highlights with K-7. Yet I rarely get burned highlights, so the overall effect is one of less noise all together. So in short, don't get hung up on those tests. The K-7 is one heck of a performer, and the best tool out there for your K-mount glass. You'll need a few hundred shots to get used to the new sensor, but trust me that you won't look back afterwards. It's a significant step up from the K10D's strategy of masking noise as grain. Jostein 2010/1/3 Rick Womer rwomer1...@yahoo.com: Right now, I am not planning to replace my K10D with a K7, because the latter does not seem to have significantly better low-light performance. By reputation, the K20 is about 1 1/2 stops better than the K10 in low light, and the K7 is about a half-stop worse than the K20 (thus a stop better than the K10). That seemed simple, until I began looking into low-light performance test results. The noise testing on dpreview used only jpgs until their review of the K7, which compared RAW noise in the K7 and K20. For chroma noise, a score of 10 (y-axis) corresponds to an ISO of about 2800 for the K20, and about 2000 for the K7; this agrees with others' observations that the K20's low-light performance is about a half-stop better. When one goes to dxomark.com, things get confusing. Even though the low-light performance of the K20 is reputed to be about 1 1/2 stops better than the K10, the low light ISOs are 639 and 522, which is only about a 1/3 stop difference; and the overall scores (blending low-light ISO, dynamic range, and color depth) are almost identical. The K7 sensor has a lower overall score than the K10 by 5 points, having 1 stop less dynamic range and almost the same low light ISO. Which leads me to think that the K10 and K7 sensors' low light performance is almost the same, and only slightly worse thana the K20's. So where does the K20's reputedly better performance come from? Firmware? Comments or explanations? Cheers, Rick P.S. I am very intrigued by the dpreview results on the Kx sensor, which (in RAW) has a chroma noise score of 10 at an ISO of 6400. No dxomark testing yet. If a similar sensor found its way into a K7-like body, they'd have a sale. 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. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - New Years Eve at Bovine Sex Club
Frank wrote: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-years-eve-at-bovine-sex-club.html Fun pics. Enjoyed these. If you shot more, I'd like to see the udders. Mooove over a bit Paul and I'll sit with you and Frank can show them to both of us. I'll hoof-it over join you guys to see the udders as well. Fun set, Frank! Bet the List will ruminate over this one for a while. Awesome set of pics. Wish my new year's eve had been that amoosing. :-) I herd it needed more cowbell. As long as he doesn't steer us in the wrong direction. Not a chance. He's going to milk this for all it's worth. After all we need to keep a breast of things. All I want for Christmas is my two front teats. Why? Are they bust ed. No, no. I'm just playing tit for tat. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GFM NPW 2010 - head count
No GFM for me, I'm afraid. This year GFM has competition from the exhibition in Chicago. Jostein 2010/1/4 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Bit early but anyone got plans to attend from far and wide this year? I'm finally putting together some [video] material from last year in anticipation of attacking the networks for a commission. Just be interesting to see how far people might be traveling from. I had to laugh. I was explaining to a journalist mate about the PDML and its spiritual home, and how mesmerized acolytes flock from across the globe to be at this pinnacle of a photographic peak - literally and metaphorically speaking - and he said it sounded like 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'. This resulted in a sudden vision of dozens of PDMLers clawing away at mashed potatoes with forks to produce 8-foot high cormorants. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.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. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: The answer is 39
2010/1/3 Bob W p...@web-options.com: If all 39 are equally good then it doesn't matter which three you send. See if you can find some sets of 3 that work particularly well together, then try and rank the sets. 39 = 13 * 3 so that should slice the size of the problem by 66%, right? :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: The answer is 39
2010/1/3 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: On Jan 3, 2010, at 00:40 , Tim Bray wrote: I just know you're doing this too. I saw the email about next year's annual + gallery + trip to Chicago, bowed ritually in the direction of the God-like organizers, and later that evening, I had to take the quickest-possible trip through all the 2009 photos thinking Well, maybe and tossing those into a PDML-candidates folder/collection/whatever-your-workflow-calls-it. Then I took one pass through tossing the ones that were great concepts but lame photos and ended up with... 39. What's your number? And I was wondering if it'd be A Good Thing if we each posted a gallery of our Top X Candidates for PDML 09 and heaped praise on each others' winners (while throwing judicious dung at each others' Well-Meaning But Unfortunate Mistakes). Because getting down to 3 is going to hurt. -T So you suffer from ADD too? I would need ADHD, and a complete absence of the D-words to get through that exercise. A non-starter, really. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Sand patterns
Well done Chris! It's difficult to get those patterns right with the typical light brown sand. Magic light in this one. Jostein 2010/1/3 Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: Water draining across the sand on the falling tide has made this fractal-like pattern around a stone. http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/GuernseyChristmas09/slides/_IGP1629.html When we find the PDML physics professor, perhaps she or he will be able to tell us how it works... Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Sand patterns
2010/1/3 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I think it's the PDML maths professor you want though. However, you can expect some very different reactions to this picture - even though I failed O-level maths I think I'm correct in saying that fractal functions both attract and repel. You'd need a field mathematician. :-) If you stay a while at the beach you can actually see these patterns form before your eyes. Running water will flush out more sand where it finds an edge to begin with, because the water will speed up over the edge, and the edge grains will be more exposed to drag from the water. It may begin where there is a turbulence, like in the wake of the stone, for example. As to the treelike shape of the pattern, I don't know if it's just the decreasing force of the water as wave or tide retracts or that the force is gradually spread over a larger area, but I suspect both. It's a fairly standard erosion pattern. If you use Google Earth, you can see the same patterns on a larger scale in most mountaineous areas. Particularly in arid places that experience flash floods. The same kind of erosion patterns on Mars is convincing evidence for past existence of water there, according to NASA. I don't care much about the maths though. :-) Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - New Years Eve at Bovine Sex Club
2010/1/2 Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com: Frank wrote: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-years-eve-at-bovine-sex-club.html Fun pics. Enjoyed these. If you shot more, I'd like to see the udders. Mooove over a bit Paul and I'll sit with you and Frank can show them to both of us. I'll hoof-it over join you guys to see the udders as well. Fun set, Frank! Bet the List will ruminate over this one for a while. Awesome set of pics. Wish my new year's eve had been that amoosing. :-) I herd it needed more cowbell. As long as he doesn't steer us in the wrong direction. Not a chance. He's going to milk this for all it's worth. After all we need to keep a breast of things. All I want for Christmas is my two front teats. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Sand patterns
Different scale, but eerily similar: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8ll=36.538467,-112.510643spn=0.122889,0.198784t=hz=13 Just West of Kaibab national Forest, Grand Canyon. Jostein 2010/1/3 ann sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com: AlunFoto wrote: Well done Chris! It's difficult to get those patterns right with the typical light brown sand. Magic light in this one. Jostein 2010/1/3 Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: Water draining across the sand on the falling tide has made this fractal-like pattern around a stone. http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/GuernseyChristmas09/slides/_IGP1629.html When we find the PDML physics professor, perhaps she or he will be able to tell us how it works... Chris That's a Geology question :-) Did you remove the stone? or did you find it removed? It looks like a depression, not a rock or shell ... It looks like you are close to the water and the tide was ebbing and you removed the stone or shell just before you took the photo. 30 years ago I could have expounded on the process although fluviation was never my strong suit. Nice shot :-) ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.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.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
