Re: OT: Displaying Images on the Web and the Problem with Profiles
On 23/09/2007, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I've been playing around with Gran Paradiso (aka Firefox 3.0 alpha 1). It does support colour profiles. Here is a quick test I did comparing Firefox 2 3: Firefox 2.0.0.7 (~240kb) http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/FF2CMtest.jpg Firefox 3.0a9Pre with colour management enabled (it's off by default) (~250kb) http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/FF3CMtest.jpg The test .jpg's were made direct from ACR, 8 bit colour profile as indicated. Ah, very good, last time I checked V3 was just specs and the integrated colour management didn't seem to be too far up the list of to dos. So now anyone running a wide gamut monitor profile will actually be able to see what an sRGB image looks like straight off the web ;-) Might be time to change my Web work flow and start embedding the ICC. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Replace or repair a fogged lens?
On 24/09/2007, Debra Wilborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some nameless coward dropped my SMC 28-70 f4 for me and now it's all fogged up. (Shattered a perfectly good filter too but at least the body's alright.) Now I'm wondering if I should have it repaired or just get another one (or something else.) The lens still autofocuses and it zooms okay. I guess a seal got busted to cause the fogging. My experience getting stuff like this fixed is nil. Any advice? Hi Deb, The SMC 28-70 f4 isn't sealed in any deliberate fashion so the drop didn't let anything in. Assuming that it's just fogged and not completely unusable the jolt may have dispersed dust or lubricants on the internal lens surfaces otherwise the scenario you outlined is really difficult to explain. I would expect that the cost to clean or repair the lens would be close to the cost of a used lens so you might just be best off trying to find another used if you are overly attached to this particular model. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Replace or repair a fogged lens?
On 24/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could be the dreaded aspheric lens separation, the jolt of the drop may have caused it to happen... I agree, it could well be the result of inter element separation or de-lamination of a plastic aspheric element (though I don't recall if this lens has one of those). -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps
On 23/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You misread my comment, I am not saying that the Red Camera is not worth what it costs, but that compared to an ENG (Electronic News Gathering) Camera it is not a complete camera, hence the seemingly low price. It is only one module of a modular system, buy the time you add all the modules you will have a lot more money into it than you would think at first. I don't think it should be compared to an ENG camera, that's why I compared it to the cheap Arri which would be it's film peer earlier on, it's only US$150k or so. Overall I'd say production costs would be so low that people could afford to actually buy their cameras rather than rent. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Film/slide scanning
On 21/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wait, if you could decrease the distance between the sensor and the film, would the average be more accurate? What if pixels were a different shape, like hexagons? Would it look better? The little device bellow may ease the grain pain: http://www.scanhancer.com/ I'm having one customized for my LS-8000 -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO Pope on concrete
Hi Team, I've started on my next series project (between nappy changes and hair styling that is), Saturated Abstract Found-object Sub-macro Landscapes: http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO/photo#5112558970543468546 For EXIF details see more info, lens was the trusty A50/2.8 macro: Comments, questions and criticisms welcomed. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps
On 22/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the things that folks may not be realizing is that except for its high resolution this thing is more like a security camera than an ENG camera. You can buy a color security camera the size of a pack of cigarettes these days for $50-100. That kind of puts the $17,500 in perspective. In concept maybe but to house the somewhat larger and more complex opto-electronics and associated drivers, clocks, ADCs, LUTs, buffers and compression ASICs I'm sure it's still pretty good value. ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: Virgin, Creative Commons Flickr Lawsuit
On 22/09/2007, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like a photographer rather than a lawyer, but he's definitely right about this: *Intent* is crucial. Unless the plaintiffs can prove that, Virgin is pretty safe. (At least in Australian courts, I'd wager: If the truly frivolous action against Virgin U.S. is allowed to continue there'll be a big out-of-court settlement. Which is the goal of the whole exercise, really.) Indeed and the International divide makes it oh so more attractive. The really interesting part of the thing will be seeing if they can con the judge into keeping Creative Commons and the U.S. arm of Virgin in the suit, because that's where the money lies and the plaintiffs know it. Can any of our Aussie list members tell us if the Australian legal system make losers pay the costs of lawsuits, like in the UK? The inclusion of Virgin's US division in this suit makes me suspect the answer to that question... :) Yes. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO Pope on concrete
On 22/09/2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exquisite. Wherever did you come up with the concept? Thanks Godfrey, I've been toying with the concept since about age 11 when I got my first Kodak 126 Instamatic, the one with the mechanical flash cubes that you could fire with the sharp end of a small screw driver. I've been shooting images of the ground on and off ever since. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Film/slide scanning
On 22/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you had a chance to try that on someone else's scanner? That looks interesting No, only on my scanners to date. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Film/slide scanning
On 22/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, only on my scanners to date. oh I didn't realize you had more than one...hmm I have three currently in fact, I'm just not strong willed enough to actually hook them up and start ploughing though my film backlog. Apart from a distinct lack of contiguous free time there always seems to be one or two little issues to contend with that allow me to say oh well not just yet. Though once I have a Scanhancer for each of my scanners I can then calibrate them, after that I've pretty much run out of excuses. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Film/slide scanning
On 22/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL!! Procrastinating can be fun. Why do you have three scanners? Are they each for different things, or are they different models as you've accumulated them? They are all for different purposes, it's no accumulation over time, I've already owned and sold a Polaroid Sprintscan 35+ and 4000 and an Agfa DuoScan film scanners. Like Godfrey each of my current units have fairly specific uses. I have a Konica Minolta AF-5400 II for 35mm film scanning, a Nikon LS-8000 ED for medium format film scanning up to 6x9cm and like Godfrey an Epson Perfection V700 Photo flatbed with which I hope to scan some larger transparencies. What I want to do however is scan my neg sheets to generate rough positive digital proofs using the V700, that's primarily why I bought it. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO Pope on concrete
On 22/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beautiful! Ah thanks, beauty is definitely in the eye of the bee holder. that's quite a specific category. Well you have to set your bounds and stake your place these days. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News
On 20/09/2007, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the generic rule is no announcements. This applies to new product as well as discontinued and also includes changes in specification. Sometimes word leaks out but I'm fairly sure that it is either accidental or as a result of industrial espionage. It's one of the reasons I like the company. You like surprises? ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News
On 20/09/2007, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm out of digestives. Got the plain and dark chocolate topped ones here if you're in the area ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News
On 20/09/2007, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the case mentioned earlier the information seemed to coincide with the removal of the lens from the lists at the Pentax Japan website, however. And their statement that the 1.4 variant was still current also coincided with that version *not* being removed even though people were saying it had been discontinued, to put it that way. Map Camera in Japan list the AF 1.7 TC at 21,800.00 JPY (189.410 USD) but there is still no indication that it's actually available: http://www.mapcamera.com/sho/search.php?MODE=M_VIEWACT=A_DETAILmap_code=4961333023325class=01 -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps
On 21/09/2007, Charles Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answer: Because no individual DSLR owner wants to pay what it would cost, nor carry what it would weigh! (That's my best guess anyways) I didn't read the article, but what does equipment with that kind of capabilities cost? Not too bad in the scheme of things, US$17,500 sans accessories: http://www.red.com/store An Arricam lite 35mm film body lists at only US$151,500 -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps
On 21/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can't be as compact as it appears, the camera itself may be small, but I'll bet reasonable storage and power will have you tied down with anchors. No more so than a pro 35mm movie cam or a pro video tape cam set-up IMO, Cotty? -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: An oddity
On 21/09/2007, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run a photo mini-lab. I've mentioned that before. I had a customer come in yesterday, wanting re-prints from some negatives. They'd been processed by another store in our chain, and she had the index print. I wrote down the frame numbers from the index print and how many of each she wanted on the inside flap of one of our 4x6 print wallets and left it for my relief to print. Got to work today, and there's a note that there's no numbers so the lab operator didn't know what to print. Before I started making a fuss, I looked at the negatives, and lo behold, there's no edge print whatsoever; no frame numbers, no film identifiers ... NADA! Had to have been C-41 film, 'cause that's all our labs do. Looked like regular 35 mm, but there's nothing on the negative except the customer's images. Anyone have thoughts on this? May it have been a cheap film containing 35mm movie film stock? -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News
On 20/09/2007, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did get a pretty firm the f/1.7 variant has been discontinued when I asked the local distributor about the availability of normal lenses before I bought the one mentioned earlier. I'm not sure, however, that such responses are the rule, or if Pentax themselves would say it. (The distributor in question is an independent company, as far as I know.) My local distributor claimed that the LX had been discontinued as new models were made available in Japan, so don't believe all they tell you. They may just mean they they have ceased to sell and support the particular item. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: The Cult of Leica
On 20/09/2007, John Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about that..I have an M4...the last of the bench built Leicas. It also is a fantastic machine as well as a great camera. The sound of a Leica going off is delicious just by itself. I think that bringing any Leica to your eye changes your viewpoint because the emphasis is seeing what the lens sees rather than just looking into a slr viewport. I love my M4, I've thought about selling it a few times as it's rarely used these days but I just can't bring myself to do it. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT (somewhat) - 12MP that'll do 60fps
On 20/09/2007, Brendan MacRae [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at the quotes on the home page. One of the guys is inter-cutting film with digital. Everything is changing. Of course they've been doing this for a while just not at this type of res. I visited their page in Oct 06 and all that was available were low res movies and some still samples, seems like they've actually got it out there now, that's pretty good. Regardless of the initial cost of the machine and storage I'm sure it wouldn't take long production for it to be more economical than film. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: K10D RGB histograms in the instant review
On 18/09/2007, Derby Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't recall reading this manual, and found it accidentally when shooting a show one night. Set the K10D to digital preview, and take a preview shot. Then use the up/down button to toggle between full histogram and RGB histogram. That setting will be used for all instant review shots (if you have the histogram on, of course). One of the many little things I love about the K10D. Hi Derby, The digital preview is a great tool and it appears to be pretty widely used by members of various Pentax fora at least. The discussion these days centre around what the in-camera jpg settings should be set to to provide the most accurate histogram view for RAW shooters as the histogram is apparently based on a low res jpg interpretation of the scene. BTW your film is (in the) safe. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News
On 19/09/2007, Tim Øsleby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now he quotes some pretty obscure material with no links. Nobody knows the real source. He could be making it up, for all we know. I'm not saying it is all BS, but it sure can be. I have the source documents, what he has posted are verbatim quotes, it's not made up. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News
On 19/09/2007, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've said this many times before (it's a pet peeve of mine around here you, may say), but it seems to me that the rumours of the death of the old Pentax line-up are highly exaggerated. If you check the Pentax Japan website you'll find that a large proportion of the lenses people say are discontinued, are in fact listed as current. Or you might just have a look at the BH photo or Adorama web pages. Not only do they have many discontinued lenses in stock, but it also seems evident that they are able to get more of them once they run out. If the lenses that are visible on the Pentax Jp site were redily available to the rest of the world AF 1.7 TCs wouldn't be selling used for US$470 -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Hoya-Pentax Future - News
On 19/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With eBay I wouldn't bet on that, when LX accessories were still available at BH photo, used FF1 viewfinders regularly sold for more than twice what BH was asking for them... Actually it was the other way around, the used prices were consistently about half the BH new prices from my recollection. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: 3200Tmax
On 13/09/2007, Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To anyone familiar with 3200TMax - is this just the effect of a high speed film being ultra sensitive to expiration, or is the D76 a poor choice as a developer? I'm wondering if it might be better to try the other roll in either Rodinol or HC110. It really should be kept refrigerated and preferably frozen. I used to use it a lot in conjunction with T-Max dev, I never experienced too much fogging but I did keep my stock in the fridge. The negs were always pretty thin though. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Kenny Boy does MTF
On 17/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that about what he make in advertising fees every time a bunch of you look at his website? I find it amusing that you guys laugh at him while you are helping him make money. I suspect he finds that amusing as hell too. My visits to his site are a form of therapy ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Nikon D300 sample photos
On 15/09/2007, Carlos Royo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems an excellent ISO 3200 sample, but if you look at the face of the girl closely, it has the typicla plastic look that results from applying heavy noise reduction. Perhaps it has something to do with the CMOS image sensor. I think it's got more to do with the distinct lack of source photons than what family type of sensor it uses. What I'm pretty sure of is that it's streets ahead of the K10D (which of course doesn't even have a ISO 3200 option), it kills the *ist D at ISO 3200 and it would probably put to shame the best quality 645 !SO 3200 film scan. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Nikon D300 sample photos
On 14/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm wondering about is when anyone is going to manufacture a sensor that actually capture sharp images Indeed, I think it's appalling that people will have to put up with ISO3200 images of this quality: http://chsv.nikon-image.com/jpn/products/camera/slr/digital/d3/img/sample/pic_004.jpg -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Nikon D300 sample photos
On 15/09/2007, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing that's sarcasm, although I did get a crick in my neck trying to turn sideways to actually look at it. Gotta get me one of them monitors that has the swivel arm so you can rotate it for vertical shots. Sarcasm? Indeed, at its height. You don't have to bother with the monitor, just get an image viewer that respects the EXIF rotation tag ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO Why..
On 15/09/2007, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a good chuckle out of that one! Thanks for the comments guys, glad it got a few chuckles, that validates my amusement ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO Why..
On 15/09/2007, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SbVFxl64A LOL, methinks you watch way too much YouTube Bob, you know what it'll do to your eyes ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: K10 as all purpose travel camera
On 15/09/2007, MikeM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the K10 be recommended as an all purpose travel camera? It depends what you deem as all purpose I suppose. The W series Optios are far better under water or if size is an issue so I often take one to complement my K10D when I'm traveling. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Price of Pentax Lenses in Australia
On 13/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those prices don't seem so out of line, if I assume that the Australian price includes a 17% VAT. Maybe it's your government you should be complaining about. In the US sales taxes are on the order of 4-10% and are assessed by a State Government and sometimes by a City or County Government in addition to the sales price. When I take that into account the prices for the lenses seem downright reasonable. We have a GST (goods and services tax) at 10% flat including shipping with an AU$1000 threshold under which GST is waived for goods imported by individuals via post. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: A few more images....
On 13/09/2007, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those who upload photos are looking forward to comments. Tastes vary, obviously, and it's with that variable in mind that reactions are sought. As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, if the posting photog has the result they like, all they must be looking for is a preference 'score'. Also, of some interest is the performance of their system relative to that of a group with common interests. Expressing preferences doesn't assign 'right' or 'wrong'. In the original post Pål complained that the image lacked contrast and in his subsequent posts it's still not plain that he and other on-line viewers are seeing his images as he is seeing them himself. Without calibration being applied on the part of the author we are all guessing how they are supposed to look. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Price of Pentax Lenses in Australia
On 14/09/2007, Peter McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A one-time charge, thankfully. Although don't say that too loud - our government might hear you and decide they like the idea... Then again, it's election time, so this would probably get buried. For now. Oh no, sales tax was once off but if a used lens (which has previously attracted sales tax or GST) is sold by a business it will now be subject to GST once again. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Price of Pentax Lenses in Australia
On 14/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly enough I do not believe any state here in the US taxes service, only goods. That was one of the reasons that after my first attempt as a commercial photographer I changed my rate structure to a pure service one of time + a service charge for obtaining materials which I bought retail. The time not wasted dealing with the Bureaucracy was substantial. Any way you can avoid dealing with them without getting in trouble is a good way, and usually a profitable way. Well ours is a good and services tax and as it's written even services proffered for free or in exchange for other services also attract GST (for the equivalent value of the work), not that this ever actually is applied. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: A few more images....
On 14/09/2007, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly, and suggested changes really have no reference. It seems most people have missed this rather less than subtle point. Ohhh, is that a booger on my screen! -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Pentax Gallery
On 14/09/2007, Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I say is art, IS art. If it has a frame around it. I say a dog shit with a frame around it is still a dog shit. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO Why..
..did you brush my hair like this dad? http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/Thomas/photo?authkey=pzmnlsD2ZJI#5109850268572191650 Before school this morning. evil grin -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Pentax Gallery
On 14/09/2007, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People keep confusing the question of is it art? with is it any good?. They're separate issues. Of course it can concurrently be art and a dog shit but practically I'd tend towards labeling it the latter if that's what it is. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Pentaxian.com Contest
On 13/09/2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gads, Tom. How could they make such an egregious error? Sheesh. It seems you always something to be critical about, even when someone has been gifted with a very nice prize unexpectedly. I guess for some people the glass is always half empty. Yeah Tom, get excited man! -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: A few more images....
On 13/09/2007, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the impression they're supposed to look like that to give an accurate rendition of the light. I'd love to know what everyone else is using to view these images or whether it's just the expectations that images like this have to be over-saturated? We have a very successfully Landscape photographer here, all his prints are completely over the top with saturation too and I've been to a lot of the spots where he has made shots (in good light) and they just don't look like he prints them; http://www.kenduncan.com/gallery.php Confused. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: A few more images....
On 13/09/2007, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those look like typical Velvia, or as I like to call it Velveeta, (Kraft Corporation's processed Cheese Food, since it has the same relationship to natural color that Velveeta has to natural cheese), to me.. I still have a hard time believing that this stuff actually displaced Kodachrome as the saturated slide film of choice. Kodachrome may have been highly saturated but it still had some relationship to the colors of nature. Kodachrome has a strange colour palette, it's notoriously difficult to scan and it not due to the density of the slides. I gave up Velvia a long time ago, I mostly use Provia 100F with my 67 gear I find it provides a great palette and realistic saturation whilst retaining detail. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: A few more images....
On 13/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have not been touched! Only the new images are and two of the old ones. If you have a different reaction to them, its you, not the images I have not boosted saturation on the images displayed now. So if you aren't working on a calibrated system (on the scanner side or the monitor) how can you assess if the scans deviate from neutral (ie that neither the scanner or software enhance or reduce the saturation of the original slide)? -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: A few more images....
On 12/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After all, they are supposed to look colorful and vibrant. Thats why I shot them! They are mostly shot under spectacular lighting conditions with very vibrant colors. Velvia helps as well. Whatever you are trying to acheive it's not working, the degree of saturation that I'm seeing really detracts from what are otherwise a spectacular set of landscape images. They just do not look remotely realistic. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: A few more images....
On 12/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean apart from the Velvia look? :-) I'm not due much with the scans. Some level adjustments; perhaps a slight contrast and brightness adjustment; rarely any saturation adjustment. So is your scanner calibrated to a reference Velvia film target such as the one below? http://www.targets.coloraid.de/ http://www.computer-darkroom.com/it8cal/it8_page_3.htm Anyway, the light was in most of the images pretty weird! A couple of them are landscapes lit by a blood red sun. It is supposed to have a red hue. Well there's saturated and saturated to the point that all subtle detail is lost, I suspect that some of your images fall into the later category. If that's your aim more power to you, they are a great set of images regardless but I just think that some of your presentation techniques are letting them down. Using better sharpening techniques is another area where you really could substantially improve their appearance. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: A few more images....
On 12/09/2007, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admit I am a novice when it comes to photoshop. I hate it! I really don't know how to help you there, I think it's great but then I've made sure that I understand what it's doing so that I have full control of it. Anyway, many of the original slides look more vobrant and saturated than the images posted at Photo.net. That's fine but it really indicates very little, transparency is a very different medium from video display. In order to make a valid and useful comparision to your screen your slides should be viewed using a back light source that emulates the 100% white colour and level of your screen. Also the view that you see will depend on the calibration of your monitor as well as the colourspace/browser interaction. There are too many variables, all I can say is that on my pair of calibrated monitors they look pretty severely over saturated and I'd be very surprised if they didn't look as saturated to anyone else with similarly calibrated equipment. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Don't shoot me! Adaptor?
On 09/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: crazy stuff. Nikon cameras confuse me; every time I've ever held one I couldn't figure out where various buttons were, and if I did find them, I couldn't understand the logic behind their placement. They get my hands all contorted and my brain much more muddled than usual. I feel bad for my friend, who's stuck with the starter lens, which doesn't really compare to the lenses for his Pentax camera. Try a Nikon FM2n if you ever get a chance, it a real camera and is very intuitive and usable. I don't think he needs that. At what distance do you suppose focus would be lost? It depends on the lens, the wider the closer the maximum focus distance will be. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO: You too can improve road safety ;-)
On 10/09/2007, Ralf R. Radermacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just put an old Vectra estate, a 6x17 camera, two microphones, and a WAV recorder next to the most notoriously accident-prone stretch of a road and watch hordes of dangerous speed junkies instantly turn into law-abiding citizens. ;-) Hi Ralf, Nice mics, they look like U87s but I suspect Behringer B2 ;-) How are you finding the Zoom H4, I've been deliberating getting one (I sold my Tascam DA-P1 a few years back and have nothing portable now) but have been a bit put off by some user reports of clicks and other introduced noise. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Metering Question
On 08/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whoa, bad idea! It's hard to start eating spicy stuff because you don't want to feel the burn when you come off the endorphine high...if choclate was included, you'd get so fat so fast...man...I think it's capsicum by the way... I've had chocolate/chili fudge, it was interesting, the heat snuck up fast after the rush of sweetness. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Metering Question
On 08/09/2007, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds delicious! If you have the recipe, will you send it to me off-list please? I add a bit of cayenne pepper powder to my hot chocolate, it heats things up pretty fast ;) I've never actually made a fudge, not my thing really, the one I had was made by a boutique candy shop, it was pretty good. Looking up some recipes it doesn't seem at all difficult, there is one on the page following, check out The Fireman's Balls at the end too ;-) http://www.harpercollins.com.au/jackiefrench/news_0405.htm -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: More eBay Madness -- an observation.
On 08/09/2007, Paul Ewins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe they're nutjob collectors that want the perfect *used* specimen and are buying every one they can just to make sure. Are they selling any of these lenses (i.e. the rejects)? There are a multitude of reasons why someone might be doing this, maybe he's putting together an artwork composed of lenses, grants free you to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Got my 67
On 08/09/2007, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wait 'til one of them needs to go in for repair ... I don't know exactly what's wrong with my FA* 80-200, but it's going to cost $380 to fix it so it focusses at the wide end of the zoom range :-( That's value, it sounds like a screw is loose. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO: Pink Sun Banding
On 06/09/07, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This AM my wife told me there was a pretty pink sun rising. I shot it as a lark, really, but am surprised to see the degree of vertical banding accross the frame. Thought that was dealt with through a firmware download some time back. This is likely a supreme test, however. Opinions? No that's the VPN that you shouldn't worry about because some people with K10Ds haven't experienced it ;-( -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT - Cat Stew
On 03/09/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feral animals are merely animals returned to the natural wild state in which they once belonged before so-called 'domesticating' took place. The pejorative is applied by humans, who have little bragging room, truth be known. Just that it's the wrong continent, cats are not part of the natural fauna here, nor are the wild fox, rabbits horses and camels and they are all wreaking their own forms of devastation on the fragile local ecologies. Tasmania is the eye opener for Aussies, they have no foxes and the visible the volume of small fluffy native animals compared to the mainland is patently obvious. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT - Cat Stew
On 03/09/07, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently it's quite difficult to keep kangaroos down. It's not too hard if the kill and cook them first ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT - Cat Stew
On 03/09/07, Digital Image Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/09/07, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently it's quite difficult to keep kangaroos down. It's not too hard if the kill and cook them first ;-) Try again, It's not too hard if you kill and cook them first ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: Latest Enablement
On 01/09/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day All, I picked up a package from the post office today that contained (largish page ~ 880kb): http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/V125/V125.htm I have to say I'm very impressed. LOL., it looks so, don't forget to try it wide open, and at night ;-) It's nice to own a good lens. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT Interesting concept in image enhancement
On 01/09/07, keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Impressive, except it hasn't been written for the Mac yet. I guess I should have been more specific in that I don't believe that the concepts are new but more so the idea of combining all these processing systems in one tool. For the Mac a similar outcome could be achieved by averaging several images that have been aligned and re-rendered over-sized using a tool such as Hugin. It's just a damn sight more convoluted to acheive essentially the same end. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: SD and CF
On 02/09/07, John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked about that when I bought my K10D, thinking I could use the adapter for my *ist-D. The guy at the camera store told me they weren't very reliable. And I wonder if they'd work with SDHC cards? Mine certainly hasn't been unreliable though I don't use it continuously, I wonder if he confused compatibility with reliability? I doubt many would be SDHC compatible. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: AOVCalculator
On 02/09/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately you can't vary the input for focal length in your formulas, which is the whole point to comparing different AOVs of particular focal lengths on different formats. It's complicated by the fact that different nominal focal lengths in fisheye lenses give equivalent results. Just in Pentax we have 3 full frame 35mm format fisheye lenses with different focal lengths, (M42 Takumar 18mm f11, [K]17mm f4.0 A 16mm f2.8, not to mention the fisheye zooms), each delivering ~180º diagonally, and ~110º horizontally. The image mapping is anything but linear, which makes AOV calculations for different formats approximate at best. However based on experimentation and known lens focal lengths You can compare lens coverages on other formats, (but not AOV). For example, a 17mm lens is the equivalent of a 35mm lens on 6x7 and behold Pentax made a 17mm fisheye for 35mm and a 35mm fisheye for 6x7, 16mm on 35mm is the equivalent of a 10mm lens on the Pentax APS-C sensor digitals, and loh Pentax makes a 10-17mm fisheye zoom for APS-C. Indeed, I left out a crucial parameter in that it was is relevant only for a fisheye lens that produced 180degrees diagonal coverage on a full frame. I pulled it out of my pano spread sheet where it worked a charm. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: eBay Madness, Sometime you get lucky!
On 02/09/07, Perry Pellechia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was starting to get a little nervous when I did not receiver it after ten days. I thought the seller figured out he could have gotten a lot more for it and was not going to complete the deal. However it arrived today via US mail in fine condition. It was a little dusty, had some finger prints on the optics but $35 (including shipping) for a SMC-F 1.7x AF teleconverter has to be my best eBay purchase. Nice find, I bought one of mine at a similar price, the current prices that they often acheive at auction these days seems absurd as compared. Interestingly the current Pentax lens catalogue from Japan indicates that they are still a current product. BTW, Any recommendations for a inexpensive 200mm lens to mate up with the TC? Cheap no, it loves f2.8 lenses, anything slower and the AF may become a bit flaky in anything but great light. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Pentax Gallery rules
On 01/09/2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean by creative framing, Jack? I assume he means boarders/virtual frames. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Small SDHC Reader?
On 01/09/2007, John Celio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a small, fast SDHC card reader? My ex-gf got me a 4gb SDHC and naturally it won't work with my older readers. What I'd like is something very small that I can carry around in my camera bag. I've already got a multi-card reader for other formats I might encounter, so this just needs to be SDHC-only. Since I'm no longer involved in the camera industry, I don't know what's good anymore. :( The SanDisk MicroMate™ Readers look pretty compact: http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1193)-SanDisk_MicroMate_Readers.aspx -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: I Hate My *ist D - Eclipse Photos
On 31/08/2007, Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it's actually Uranus. Which reminded me of this clip I saw recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qIg3gzcCxw -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO Through the magnolia
On 01/09/2007, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very striking and unusual! Strange to see buds on trees, but of course it's spring there in Oz! Thanks Rick, it wasn't meant to be a work of art but I found it unusual too. I looked at the tree earlier this morning and there are no flowers left now but surprisingly a lot more leaves. We have had quite warm weather over the last few days, summer is on its way ;-) Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
OT Very clever
A fun tee shirt: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/78c6/ -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
OT Interesting concept in image enhancement
http://www.photoacute.com/studio/index.html -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: AOVCalculator
On 01/09/2007, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Just out of curiosity, what's the formula for fisheye lenses? It would be neat if there was a check box for that) From a spread sheet I wrote a while back: VAOV (in degrees) =image height /(image width^2 + image height^2)^0.5x180 HAOV (in degrees) =image width/(image width^2 + image height^2)^0.5x180 It was my own derivation so be warned ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: SD and CF
On 01/09/2007, Jim Apilado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard that you can get an adapter that will take SD cards and place the adapter in a camera (*ist D) that only takes CF cards. If true, does it affect the write speed to a SD card. I have one and it slows them considerably, however it's still usable in my *ist D. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO Through the magnolia
Hi Team, Last night well after the lunar eclipse had finished I went out to retrieve my tripod and noticed how bright the moonlight was and I thought it would make for some interesting low light SR tests. I mounted my A50/1.2, set the camera to ISO1600 and opened up the lens and ran around like a bit of a lunatic shooting under the moonlight. The following shot was made at 1/3s looking almost straight up. It's amazing how difficult it is to allay the sway when sooting upwards but the SR seems to have done a reasonable job. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/BigVdub/Pics/IMGK02141.jpg I later tried the same using my *ist D and to my surprise I found it considerably easier to focus than the K10D, time to consider another screen I guess. Comments, questions and criticisms welcomed. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Viewfinder Free Zone
On 29/08/2007, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent. It's actually almost the same plane as mine. A slightly newer year, but the same basic model. I've found fisheyes about the only way to really get wide enough to get a feeling for flying in a small plane like that. Looking at the design of the overhead console I knew it was similar. That flight I took my A15/3.5 too, it looked positively tele compared to the FE, though neither are so great these day when they are in front of a cropped sensor. Still I do tend to shoot in close quarters quite a bit with my FE, it's easier to get a decent shot blind with a WA too ;-) : http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/Visit2007/photo?authkey=eRpqXJLYqXo#5048643274138234114 -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: FIND
On 30/08/2007, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I leave the review function off as a consequence and review what I've achieved at appropriate times after a moment of shooting passes. I might shoot one or two exposure tests prior to a moment to test my ideas on exposure, however, or use the Digital Preview function to check an idea on DoF and focus point. The above pretty much describes how I shoot these days too, my mission is to capture the most usable data with which to post process. It's far removed from the days I was shooting slide, it's a completely different concept and the digital work-flow I far prefer. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: PESO: Moon Eclipse Composite
On 29/08/2007, Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all My attempts at photographing last night's eclipse seem to have struck similar problems to others - noisy images that, in my case, looked abysmal at full totality. The only answer was to reduce the size of the images and make a composite. All told I took about 50 photos from start to finish of the eclipse - the composite is made up of 20. I used a Tamron SP 300 mm lens plus 2x converter at shot at ISO 800 to try to keep movement of the moon during the exposures to a minimum. If that was a failure then you made an impressive recovery, it looks like it should be on one of those astro photo of the day pages ;-) Nicely done. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Viewfinder Free Zone
On 26/08/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day All, Just for chuckles: http://picasaweb.google.com.au/OzSavage/ViewfinderFreeZone (all shot with the K10D DA 16-45) Show 'em if you've got 'em. Shots made with cameras with live LCD view don't count. I made a few overhead shots at a recent party, stuffed up focus as I had it set to the centre point however it was technically OK otherwise: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/BigVdub/Pics/IMGK01945.jpg K10D ISO800 1/13s SR on, 14/2.8 @ f2.8 -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Sheesh
On 28/08/07, Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I spent the entire day getting one of the 320 gig drives working. As usual it turned out the problem was my skipping a step in the reinstall. Then Just after I got it to working the darn $12 ebay workstaion video card goes by-by, so here I am typing this on the laptop. Since I am singing the end of the month blues, there is nothing I can do until I get my SS check. Maybe I should buy the new video card at Staples here in town, but there is no way I can afford one. Of course I have a couple of cards laying about but I need PCI-Express and the old ones are AGP. And I just put up a photo of the dual monitor setup on my blog. SIGH! Hmm, do I detect a slight tendency towards impatience ;-) Missed a few eBay auctions myself over the last few days, the kick always comes when the closing price ends up far less than you were prepared to pay ;-( Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: FIND
On 25/08/07, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think a calibration target is going to help as much as a scanner with a longer range and higher bit depth. My LS-8000 and AF-5400 II both have problems with Kodachrome, particularly in the really dense areas. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Pentax or Bust
On 24/08/07, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 15mm is a superb piece of optical engineering as many of you will know. On a 1.3 crop camera it still gives a very usable wide image, and with no vingetting due to said crop. I don't even focus it - set it to f8, set the focus accordingly and just get lost in the framing with the camera set on aperture priority. It's not the brightest view at f8 on stop-down metering but entirely do-able. It definitely appears to be underrated by some owners, I'd hope it's not sample variation but like you I've found it quite a pretty good performer on my APS crop bodies, it's only real failing is that it tends to flare more than later lenses in areas of high contrast. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Viewfinder Free Zone
On 29/08/07, Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On of my favorite fisheye self-portraits. http://filebox.ece.vt.edu/~papenfuss/PESO/7/ Definately viewfinder-free. LOL, I can identify with that: http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/BigVdub/Pics/EDDIE2.jpg -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: What sort of caterpillar is THIS???
On 29/08/07, Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So there we were, minding our own business by the lake in New Hampshire, when this critter started marching across our picnic table. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6357916size=lg None of us had ever seen anything like it before. I ran to get my camera and immortalized it. Does anyone know what kind of caterpillar it is? Various identification web sites have been no help. Lymantriidae or Tussock Moths I believe, we have them here too. http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO/photo#5054409184461880674 Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: I Hate My *ist D - Eclipse Photos
On 29/08/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quit your whining. Just be glad you got to see it. There was solid overcast here during the eclipse. About an hour after it was all over, the sky cleared. We actually had pretty clear skies here, I made a few shots, nothing that I'm too impressed with though. To do it well you would really need an equatorial mount or a D3 ;-) The following pic is an HDR composite of five images shot two stops apart, using my K10D with A*300/2.8 and 1.7AF TC. They had to be manually aligned as the moon moves surprisingly quickly across the sky. I've not settled on the best tone-map settings for the LDR output file and I'd also like to try to manually mask out some of the flare from the longer exposures at some point. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/BigVdub/Pics/IMGK02116-IMGPK02120.jpg -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed
On 24/08/07, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the ISO rating (of the sensor) directly linked to the signal-to-noise ratio? Indirectly. Isn't wanting a lower ISO like wishing the sensor was noisier? No, the sensors effective native ISO has more to do with its saturation level, the noise floor controls how far you can artificially raise the effective ISO before the noise becomes objectionable. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
News: Pentax: 645 Digital 'no longer priority'
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Pentax_645_Digital_no_longer_priority_news_139145.html -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: News: Pentax: 645 Digital 'no longer priority'
On 24/08/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't this like the third time that this has been reported... Wasting bandwidth or your time am I? -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed
On 24/08/07, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, Wikipedia says: ISO Standard 12232:2006 http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=3 (Photography — Digital still cameras — Determination of exposure index, ISO speed ratings, standard output sensitivity, and recommended exposure index) defines ISO speed in terms of the amount of light needed to achieve a certain quality in the sense of a per-pixel signal-to-noise ratio. but also However, this standard ISO speed rating for a digital camera is not necessarily very related to the ISO setting or exposure index used on the camera. As I suggested earlier, I always thought that what was referred to the native ISO of the camera was the actual rating according to the ISO spec, and that selecting another ISO value in reality only meant that the signal from the sensor was amplified by (setting/native ISO), but perhaps it's not quite as simple as that... The actual ISO standard is not available for free, of course. The problem is that the strict definition of ISO film speed can't be directly applied to direct digital image capture. They record light levels in a completely different fashion, film being non-linear and digital very linear. The ISO bestowed on a digital sensor is an ISO that mimics the sensitivity of a film of the same speed for a middle gray based on the absolute white point (just before saturation) a black point (before noise becomes the larger signal) from what I have read. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: News: Pentax: 645 Digital 'no longer priority'
On 25/08/07, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Digital Image Studio wrote: http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Pentax_645_Digital_no_longer_priority_news_139145.html Hey, in May they announced that the 645D had been scrapped! No longer a priority is an improvement! ;-) The board back then couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery so it's no surprise really. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed
On 25/08/07, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, doesn't the real point still remain? Doesn't a lower native ISO mean that you have to amplify the data more at a given higher ISO setting? If it does, asking for a lower ISO is in reality asking for more noise at higher ISO values, since when you amplify the data, you also amplify the noise... Yes for a lower base ISO the system would have to apply more amplification to reach a higher ISO. But considering ISO and predicting noise performance without considering the systems latitude is impossible. For instance if a small sensor of 200ISO base sensitivity and 4 stop latitude (let's say a mobile phone cam) is amplified to acheive an equivalent ISO800 sensitivity vs a sensor with an 100ISO base sensitivity but 8 stop latitude (poor DSLR) pushed to ISO800 discounting pixel count which sensor do you think will have the best SNR at ISO800? -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed
On 23/08/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a facetious response to the familiar SOS. LOL, I'm sticking around for the 645D, should be here for a while ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: need 1.5V button cells? Nice hack :)
On 24/08/07, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you got cheated by the seller. Rechargeable D cells are now up to 5000mah to 15000mah (why are they still using milli-amp-hours when such capacities are better expressed in amp-hours?), no way you will get that out of a AA cell. You can by those collars to use AA or AAA cells in place of C or D cells however. Or 40A continuous discharge per cell! -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: FIND
On 24/08/07, Norm Baugher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Godfrey, nice to meet you... Brad :-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: DPR Nikon D3, Full-Frame, previewed
On 24/08/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it's better than the Canon 6D he reviewed last week based on a online forum rumor. Poor sod, he seems to be getting some slaps from the Nikon forumites and he's Nikons biggest flag waver, it's just not fair. I must confess after his name was uttered I did visit his site, it's a great way to help you feel good about yourself. Have you checked the Ryan links lately? Poor little dude, you can't help but feel sorry for him. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: Cleaning Mirror and viewscreen
On 22/08/07, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This'll make some purists puke here, but I got fed up with dust spots on my Darkside 1D so I just wiped the sensor a few times with clean cotton buds and all my stubborn dust blotches disappeared in one go. This the first time in nearly three years. I wouldn't hesitate in doing it again. But then again, I'm like that. I'd do the same, but I also use a 100PSI filtered air blast to clear the dust from my mirror box/sensor :-) Front silvered mirrors however I would be very careful with. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT - Fiberoptics, anyone?
On 22/08/07, AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a question for the technically curious. Do you think it will be worthwhile to use fibre optics to lead light from an ordinary flash (eg. Pentax 540 FGZ) into various configurations for macro flash purposes? I can't get the idea out of my mind, and probably need some healthy counter-arguments... :-) The pros I can see are: Probably quite feasible these days, there are plenty of cheap polymer solutions, like the TOSLink optical cables for interconnection digital audio equipment, it comes on big rolls. Or maybe something like this? http://www.opticfibrelighting.com.au/product13.htm -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: OT: Content Aware Image Resizing
On 22/08/07, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who frequent DPReview: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0708/07082201seamcarvingimageresizing.asp I thought it was pretty neat. Mmm, I don't know if I like that, much like some systems I had to deal with in broadcast that made up and collapsed audio delays (required for public live to air broadcasts). -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Dream Cruise Photo Contest
On 23/08/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm one of ten winners in the Detroit News Dream Cruise Photo Contest. My winning entry is a pic of my own '55 Chevy in front of a diner on Woodward. It's been seen here before. I shot it several years ago with the 6x7 and Pentax SMC 300/4. You can access all the contest winners here: http://info.detnews.com/joyrides/index.cfm Congrats Paul, that is a great shot and it was first up on the page too ;-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: Some quick monitor info
On 23/08/07, Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The more and more I think about it, the more it becomes apparent that regardless of how things look on my monitor I can be almost guaranteed it won't look the same on someone else's, regardless of calibration, etc. If contrast is adjustable, doesn't this compensate for the contrast the monitor is spec'd to have? Calibration using fixed black and white luminance points fixes the contrast ratio, if you are aiming to emulate the sRGB as your monitor device space then the value you should be setting for white luminance is about 80 cd/m2. At that luminance the better CRTs will be able to manage around 0.2 cd/m2 and most TFT will manage around 0.4 cd/m2 or 0.2 cd/m2 for the better high contrast models. A luminance range of 0.2 to 80 cd/m2 is 1:400. It a pity stuff all people seem to appreciate these fundamentals. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: need 1.5V button cells? Nice hack :)
On 23/08/07, Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.wisebread.com/the-40-hidden-inside-a-12v-battery That one is funny.. even usefull for some, maybe ;) LOL, not quite groundbreaking. I was doing this to power my little projects in my early teens, when the alkaline 9v cells become more popular and affordable. Strangely just the other day I had a need to use a signal injector I built almost 30 years ago, I had integrated some of these cells into it and be damned the thing still works (with the original cells). -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Re: LED rings (was Re: OT - Fiberoptics, anyone?)
On 23/08/07, AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably what I'll do eventually, but I have serious problems getting rid of the fibre optics idea... :-) Have you seen this? http://www.ringflash.cz/ -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
