Re: PESO 2023 - Walking (262-268) - GDG
I get it. Except for the macintosh and trilby part. 浪 ——— > On Oct 8, 2023, at 10:24 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > Okay okay, you can wear your Superman cape and that neoprene balaclava. > > Cot > >> On 5 Oct 2023, at 14:20, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> I dunno about the macintosh and trilby, but the rest works for me! :-) > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Lightroom requires a TB??
> On Jul 17, 2023, at 2:04 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > You can book it with various amounts of cloud storage, icluding a 1 TB > option. Thanks, Ralf. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Lightroom requires a TB??
> On Jul 17, 2023, at 5:10 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > > I’m using LR Classic on a MacMini with 8 GB of RAM and 494 GB on its SSHD. > Everything runs fine. That’s about what I have. 8 GB ram/512 GB SSHD. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Lightroom requires a TB??
> On Jul 17, 2023, at 7:05 PM, Bill wrote: > > Are you sure they aren't trying to set you up with a terabyte of cloud > storage? That’s what it was. A TB is $10 more a month. I went with 20 GB. Probably won’t use it. The website seemed biased toward their cloud-based services. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Lightroom requires a TB??
Finally getting around to signing up for Lightroom. The website indicates a TB of memory is required. A whole TB? Really? I only have 512 GB on my new MBA. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "Our world is a human world." - Hilary Putnam -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: What Adobe product?
> On Jun 10, 2023, at 10:36 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > 'm most impressed with RAW Power used in conjunction with Photos … I could > actually make that my only image management system for macOS, iOS, and > iPadOS, and dispense with the Adobe, Affinity, and Snapseed software > entirely. There's no real issue with doing that, just a bit of work to > re-organize my photographic storage and learn fully the use of Photos and RAW > Power, but the cost of the Adobe and other software is low enough that I've > been too lazy to be bothered doing that thus far. :) … It is, however, a > good alternative app suite for my needs, should I decide to go that way. I’m gonna go with the Lightroom Classic option, at least for the time being. But curious, could you manage your older images Photos with Raw power? Would you loose your processing? -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net “...permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” - Carlo Rovelli -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: What Adobe product?
> On Jun 10, 2023, at 10:07 AM, Bob W PDML wrote: > > I don’t do much post-processing. I don’t either. The minor tweaking I do to get Images that are a bit more vibrant that what the iPhone cameral produces. Realistically could be dispensed with. I do frequently want to crop images, though. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before." - Richard Feynman -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: What Adobe product?
First, thanks to everyone who responded. All very helpful. > On Jun 10, 2023, at 10:36 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > - Photos is pervasive throughout Apple's OS ecology, provides excellent image > management capabilities, and RAW Power is a companion app that gives much > greater access to user control of Apple's image management underlying > frameworks. It's also available on all Apple OS platforms. > > I'm most impressed with RAW Power used in conjunction with Photos … I could > actually make that my only image management system for macOS, iOS, and > iPadOS, and dispense with the Adobe, Affinity, and Snapseed software > entirely. There's no real issue with doing that, just a bit of work to > re-organize my photographic storage and learn fully the use of Photos and RAW > Power, but the cost of the Adobe and other software is low enough that I've > been too lazy to be bothered doing that thus far. :) … It is, however, a > good alternative app suite for my needs, should I decide to go that way. That said, this almost convinces me to go with Photos, which I have been using exclusively in processing my iPhone photos. And I will continue to do so going forward, at least for my iPhone photos, and possibly even with photos created with a camera. (I still have two, both Fuji, And I’m tempted by the X-E4, for which I have one excellent lens.) But I still have tons of photos—well, not tons compared to you guys 浪—that have been processed and organized with Lightroom. I would want local storage, which means the Classic bundle, though it’s very unlikely that I’d use anything but Lightroom. But I believe it is $20 month. Again, thanks to everyone who responded. ————— Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net “...permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” - Carlo Rovelli -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: What Adobe product?
> On Jun 10, 2023, at 2:35 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > 'healed' Adobe user What do you use, Ralf? ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "The invincible shield of caring Is a weapon sent from the sky against being dead." - Tao Te Ching 67 -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
What Adobe product?
I’m going to be upgrading to a new Mac, silicon not Intel. I own a copy of Lightroom.I will need to upgrade. Sticking to Adobe there are three options: Elements, Lightroom, and Lightroom Classic. I have never used Photoshop. Don’t see myself using it down the road. Would Lightroom, i.e., without with Photoshop be equivalent to the copy of Lightroom that I own and itself probably has more power features that I need/will use? What about Elements? My photography for some time now has been iPhone photography. I’ve considered just relying on Apple’s Photos app for editing. But with ought Lightroom I assume I’d lose access to the catalogue of photos that have been edited and managed with Lightroom. Interested in experience and thoughts of others that would help me decide. thanks, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "Our world is a human world." - Hilary Putnam -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO: Our just-completed Pennine Way walk
“Liked” a couple. Then quit. There were too many. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald > On May 26, 2023, at 2:43 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Finishing up (finally) in Scotland a couple of weeks ago. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/166715344@N04/albums/72177720308386495 > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO Silver in silver
Nice, Toine. I took a peek at some of the other images in the album. Wonderful collection. ——— > On May 23, 2023, at 1:17 AM, Toine wrote: > > A white heron or locally known as silver heron in backlight: > > https://repiuk.nl/new/#pid=_1007764-Enhanced-NR.jpg > > Toine > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax Film Camera News
> On May 16, 2023, at 12:34 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > …. > I have noticed that when there is something that doesn’t appeal to a > particular person, they tend to pronounce that it is useless, without > considering that it could be a perfect fit for someone else. > > I think that it is kind of silly for someone to buy a brand new film camera > when perfectly servicable ones are practically being given away…. Hmm. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Slide scanners
Have you thought about paying a scanning service. I can’t say I have experience, but I looked into it once. And I may use it yet, though I don’t have anywhere near your number of slides. I don’t know about quality or cost. I do know that they let you decide after scanning which slides you want to pay for. Or at least they did when I checked into a few years ago. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald > On May 1, 2023, at 10:11 AM, Rick Womer wrote: > > Good day, all, > > I have 20-odd binders of 35mm slides in slide pages, plus some carousels. > > It’s time to digitize these. > > So, I’m looking for a scanner that can automatically feed and scan a stack of > slides. Any recommendations (or warnings)? > > Rick > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: a couple of PESOS
> On Apr 14, 2023, at 2:10 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > I actually took a camera with me today when I went out to get a few steps > in - so for you non Facebook pals here are two : sorry, not Pentax - Had to > take the light weight one - NIkon cool Pix. > > St Marks Place between 1st and 2nd ave.. > > https://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/2022-miscellaneous-snaps/i-34XjKCv/A > It’s not the camera but the photo that matters. Nice. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax K3-iii Monochrome
> On Apr 14, 2023, at 5:57 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > I guess we’re more fortunate in the UK. My whole ethos is about communicating > with people and making them feel at ease. Not always convenient of course but > without it people do feel threatened. Difficult with cityscape photography I > grant you. The best plan these days, not only in photography? Photography as metaphor? ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OS 11 --> Weird problem
> On Jan 30, 2023, at 7:10 AM, Toine wrote: > > Maybe try vuescan. 浪 ——————— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Asahi Pentax commercials
> On Jan 30, 2023, at 1:28 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > > I’m guessing about 1971, I also love the Honda 600, Toyota 2000 GT and > Fairlady (240Z) in the second commercial. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxlPw038MiQ Sweet. No camera has ever felt so good as a K1000. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: De Kersttram
> On Dec 25, 2022, at 7:19 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > For a number of reasons we have yet again not been able to spend the end > of the year at Dunkirk. > > Instead, I'm again showing a virtual holiday with photos from the same > dates in earlier years. > > Here's the first one from this year's series: > > https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/de-kersttram-2012-fotoralfbe/46988676 Mostly occasional lurker here these days. Always grateful for the education I’ve gotten here. And always impressed with the way you find beauty in settings and subjects in which I’m inclined to overlook it, Ralf. And Merry Christmas to all. Stay warm if you ca. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO x3 from my run today
>> On 22 Aug 2022, at 10:05, David Mann wrote: >> >> It was foggy at home this morning. The fog cleared but I managed to find >> some more up on the hills. >> >> Harry Ell Track: >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1189/#peso >> >> Bowenvale Valley: >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1190/#peso >> >> Obscured Transmitter: >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1191/#peso >> >> All taken with my phone. The last two were taken quite close to each other, >> facing in different directions. Nice, David. I especially liked “Bowenvale Valley. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: UK OK?
> On Aug 11, 2022, at 4:08 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Earth won't mind. We have developed into some kind of nasty infection > and it will be better off without us. Amen. Mother Earth provides for us, and the rest of life, generously. Beyond our pitiful capabilities of imagining. Ungrateful, we decided she needed improving. We see who was the wiser. Still we refuse to learn The main cause of problems? Solutions! Literally! ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT: UK OK?
> On Aug 11, 2022, at 10:17 AM, Toine wrote: > > Very strange times... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/james-lovelock-obituary “The planet we live on has merely to shrug to take some fraction of a million people to their deaths,” Lovelock wrote in 2006. “But this is nothing compared with what may soon happen; we are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back into the hot state it was in 55m years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die.” ——————— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Exmoor ponies
> On Jan 3, 2022, at 1:06 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: >> On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:58 AM, Henk Terhell wrote: >> >> On my daily walk in the dunes I saw the (semi-wild) ponies at a small >> pool. Fortunately there was just a bit of sunlight. >> https://flic.kr/p/2mUZKni >> >> Henk Wonderful, Henk. Where are you? I’ve assumed Britain, but guessing maybe the Netherlands. In either case, didn’t know there were wild horses there. Checked out your Exmoor Ponies Flickr album. Also impressive. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax or Olympus?
> On Nov 17, 2021, at 6:12 PM, Bill wrote: > > Check out this guy's stuff. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/klatuu13/albums/ Ooh, wow! Love it. All of it. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Pentax or Olympus?
> On Nov 17, 2021, at 6:01 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > Switch to an iPhone 13 Pro Max. It will provide excellent 11 megapixel photos > with wide, normal and short tele lenses. Lots of nice features like portrait > and panorama modes. Excellent video too. Good in camera editing as well. Oh, > and it has phone and web browser functions, When you need big glass or higher > res use your Pentax, Experience with the amazing—to me, of course—Fuji XQ1 compact, which I purchased to keep my kit light for a 2015 bike tour in Italy, caused me to start graduating away from Pentax. I kept the XQ1, purchased a Fuji XM1 and a Fuji XF 27/2.8 lens, and gradually sold off my Pentax bodies and lenses. Subsequently, when on a month spent on the Blue ridge Parkway I found myself without batteries for the Fuji equipment when both of the battery chargers purchased for the trip failed to work, I resorted to my iPhone 6s as my backup camera and was stunned at the quality of the images I got. On three trips to the Big Bend area since then the iPhone has been my only camera. I have one photo from those trips enlarged and framed on my wall now. There could be more. The only thing I longed for with the 6s was a telephoto lens to bring some of the distant landscape scenes of Big Bend up closer. Recently I upgraded the 6s to an iPhone 12 Pro, mainly for the telephoto lens it provides. I find it helpful in other settings but it won’t meet the need I feel in Big Bend landscapes. Should I get the opportunity to return to Big Bend I will consider going back to Pentax for this: https://us.ricoh-imaging.com/product/vm-6x21-wp-monocular/ It’ll perhaps be admitting my lack of technical sophistication, but I find the editing capabilities of iPhone cameras and Apple’s Photos app fully adequate to my needs. I will hang onto LightRoom as a way of preserving the editing I did with my Pentax and Fuji photos but rely on Photos from here on out as my primary photo editing and organizing software. What were you referring to, Paul, when you mentioned the 13 Pro Max’s “phone and web browser functions”? ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO Fall colors
> On Nov 4, 2021, at 3:44 AM, Toine wrote: > > aka Fall colours. I wanted to capture some birds on branches. No birds found: > > https://www.repiuk.nl/albums/new/#=1=006-352-kp22761 > https://www.repiuk.nl/albums/new/#=1=006-353-kp22757 > https://www.repiuk.nl/albums/new/#=1=006-351-kp22767 Love the entire album, Toine. The relentless focus on nature. We need more of it. And to learn from it. At least I do. Thanks for inspiring me. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Travel tripod
> On Sep 19, 2021, at 9:11 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > > I seem to have lost my Velbon Maxi343-E tripod (the model Herbert Keppler > recommended a few decades ago). > > It is no longer made. What lightweight travel tripod would people recommend > in the (say) $150 range? MeFoto Backpack. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: I need to change my email address
Thanks, Doug. Updating my address with all the folks I want to hear from is onerous. Often not clear how to do it. My new address is eew...@comcast.net And thanks again.- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net On Thursday, July 1, 2021, 01:33:29 PM EDT, Doug Brewer wrote: *if you wish. On 7/1/21 1:31 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > Hi Eric, > > That's certainly not the PDML site. Might want to clear your browser > cache, scan for viruses, and restart your comeputer. > > If you'd like, I can change your email address. Send it to me offline of > you wish. > > Thanks > > Doug > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
I need to change my email address
As the subject line says. But I find no way to do so. When I go to pdml.net I get a webpage from an unrelated website. This is what's displayed: Welcome to nginx! If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required. For online documentation and support please refer to nginx.org. Commercial support is available at nginx.com. Help would be appreciated. Thanks- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT a bit of personal news
> On Mar 25, 2021, at 9:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > The good news is that I’ll be driving up to the Oregon coast tomorrow, a > place that I’ve found very rich in photographic opportunities. > > The fraught news is that I’m doing so to bury my mother who passed away this > morning. She was 90 years old, and over the past few years there was less > and less of her there. In short she had a critical case of time to go. My > emotions are a mixture of pain and relief, but I’ve basically said goodbye > for the last time every time I’ve seen her for the past four years. > > I also got fired today. I’ve been hating my job more every day for a while > now, so this also isn’t entirely bad news. Finances may get a bit tricky for > a bit, but with luck I’ll be able to get a new job that is actually in my > career. Even light construction is nowhere near as much fun at 60 as framing > houses was when I was 20. > > One bit of unequivocal good news, my Pentax 18-270 lens arrived today. It’s > been a bit awkward carrying both the 16-50 and the 55-300 on my bike, plus > I’d invariably have the wrong lens mounted for whatever photo presented > itself. A few days ago I found it on Ebay for $200 and I decided that buying > it would be one of my better mistakes this week. We’ll see how the IQ works > out. If it is as good as my Tamron 18-250 was it should definitely be > adequate. I do wish it were weather sealed, but I’m less likely to ride my > bike in the rain. Sorry for your losses, Larry. Your mother looks like an interesting woman. Bet she had an interesting life. Regarding the job, sometimes losses, perhaps especially painful ones, open the door to other opportunities. Go for what calls out to you. Be kind to others. It’ll work out. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before." - Richard Feynman -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Via Dolorosa | Psyche Films
Thanks for the link, Bob. As for my question, I was transfixed by the video, which I viewed through to completion before reading the accompanying article. I kept asking myself, “What is this? What’s going on?” I expected at some point the answer would be revealed, but it never was. Not in the way I expected anyway. In that sense the video is not representational. But in another sense it is. Whatever is going on, we see that it involves a huge coordinated effort. Those focused on are intensely engaged. They strain, they grimace, they sweat. Some seem almost to be in pain. Others are caught up differently, as witnesses, some apparently in awe. The only indication that the occasion is a religious one is that a few times people are seen crossing themselves.The subject is not the activity, nor the meaning it has for the participants, neither of which is revealed, but simply the fact that it has meaning, intense meaning, that people are transported. Rodero’s project, which on the surface might seem more conventionally representational, seems to have a similar dual aspect. The context is obviously Christian, and the photos are captioned, but the scenes and the dress of the people portrayed are strange, puzzling, unexplained. Yet whatever the occasions, they are obviously engaging and meaningful to those portrayed. Explanations are not needed to see that. My own religiosity, if it can be called that, is eclectic. I have around among agnosticism, Quakerism, Episcopalianism (Anglicanism), Buddhism, Hinduism. Lately drawn to a vague, noninstitutional Christianity for which I get support from Richard Rhor’s Center for Action and Contemplation. Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald > On Mar 27, 2021, at 5:16 AM, Bob Pdml wrote: > > Not sure what your question is, but if you enjoy that kind of intense > religious/cultural event, which I (even as an atheist) do, have a look at the > work of Cristina Garcia Rodero. I have three of her books. Espana Oculta is > the one that made her name and is stunning. > > She recently published Lalibela, about the town/village in Ethiopia, but I > found it rather disappointing. I’ve been there and photographed the same > things and although her photos are much better than mine I don’t think they > really bring much fresh insight to a very highly photographed culture. This > may be because she is not part of that culture, whereas with the Spanish work > it is clearly something from the heart. > > You can see her work on Magnum. > https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/cristina-garcia-rodero-espana-oculta/ > > Abbas also did a lot of work covering religion and I have one of his books > called Children of Abraham which is very good. > >> On 26 Mar 2021, at 19:02, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> Representation? Or not? >> https://psyche.co/films/close-ups-on-the-faces-of-spanish-holy-week-convey-the-rapture-of-group-ritual >> ——— >> Eric Weir >> Atlanta, GA USA >> “It has all been combustion.” >> - W.G. Sebald >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Via Dolorosa | Psyche Films
Representation? Or not? https://psyche.co/films/close-ups-on-the-faces-of-spanish-holy-week-convey-the-rapture-of-group-ritual ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Aaron Rose, Photographer Whose Work Long Went Unseen, Dies at 84 - The New York Times
Fascinating story of a fascinating photographer. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/aaron-rose-photographer-dead.html Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: iPhone Fun
> On Feb 19, 2021, at 12:25 PM, Bulent Celasun wrote: > > If these are shot with a "phone", who needs a proper camera! I sold mine. (Actually I still have a Fuji MX-1 and a Fuji XQ-1, but I can’t remember when I used them last.) ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: 3D pop?
> On Sep 26, 2020, at 2:53 PM, Toine wrote: > > I read a lot about primes vs zooms and old designs of primes. That > should result in something like 3D pop. Never noticed it until today: > > https://www.repiuk.nl/albums/new/#=1=005-899-20200926-imgp3095-edit > > I find myself lugging the DA*300 around on a daily basis. Maybe because it > pops. I can’t contribute anything to the discussion of bokeh, but using the above link I took a look at your website, Toine. I LOVE everything I saw. You have a collection called “favorites.” If I had a collection of photos like those on your site I would be hard-pressed to select any favorites. There’s so much that’s so good. One thing I especially liked, though far from the only thing. is the way you make striking images by focusing in on the fine details of a scene. You reminded me how much there is to see—if we look, and are able. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Lucky shot
> On Sep 24, 2020, at 8:37 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > >>>>> On 23-Sep-20 09:31 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> I was trying to do some night time photos of the fire damage and this >>> happened >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50373723243/in/album-72157716081661841/ > > Spectacular, Larry. Great composition. Also wondering if this was hand-held. Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- 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: Lucky shot
>> On 23-Sep-20 09:31 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I was trying to do some night time photos of the fire damage and this >> happened >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50373723243/in/album-72157716081661841/ Spectacular, Larry. Great composition. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- 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.
Behold Vermont, From Above - The New York Times
“ Finding ongoing sources of creative inspiration is a challenge for any artist, and aerial photography has helped broaden the scope of my work. More than anything, though, making drone photographs has become a daily practice for me — one that often feels like a form of visual meditation.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/travel/vermont-drone-photographs.html Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "It has all been combustion?” - W.G. Sebald -- 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: Mac Catalina and Epson Drivers
The problem you’ve encountered is why I plunked down $100 for a VueScan license. But mine was a problem just with a scanner. Others have said they prefer the Epson software. In my limited amateurish experience I have always used been frustrated by it. ——— > On May 23, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > I had to go to Catalina OS 10.15.4 to enable PhotoShop on the cloud and some > other software. I like the way it performs, but I can’t find any Epson driers > that work with my 850 Pro scanner and my 2880 printer. Epson offers them on > their site, but they don’t work. Does anyone know of a fix or are new driers > in the works? I can print from my laptop which is still High Sierrra, but I > do all my work on my iMac and would rather scan and print there. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Scanning slides
> On May 7, 2020, at 1:59 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Lightroom has tools that make spot removal extremely easy and fast. It's not > quite as good on scratches as some of the tools in Photoshop, but I rarely > have scratches to worry about. Thanks to everyone who responded—Ralf, John in Brisbane, and especially Godfrey and Larry about spot removal in light room. A progress report: I’m proceeding slowly. I did four slides yesterday and four today. Just getting familiar with the mechanics, e.g., defining the crop in the preview for the scan. I tried color correction on a couple slides turned out well on one, horrible on the other. Am I correct in taking it that “Infrared clean” in VueScan is dust and scratch removal? Since John suggested doing sharpening before dust and scratch removal, I think I’ll try sharpening in the scan and save dust and removal for LR. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net “This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” - Carlo Rovelli -- 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: Scanning slides
> On May 5, 2020, at 7:36 PM, jco...@iinet.net.au wrote: > > I've recently scanned many scores of slides, negatives, and prints from both > my own work and others: some were shot on crap cameras and on slide film that > lost all it's colour after some years of poor storage. Others were more than > 100 years old, and in very poor condition. > From my own experience: > I prefer Epson software for 35mm and MF: I found the interface easier to use > and it has most of the adjustment options that VueScan does. > VueScan has a small menu selection of the film used to shoot the original, > Epson only allows choices between slides, and B or colour negative types. > VueScan is the only choice, between the two, for APS film, as it finds the > frame borders accurately, whereas the Epson does not. Neither is very good > with the sub-APS formats. > I haven't noticed a lot of difference between scanning emulsion side down or > up, to be honest. With both slides and negatives, I put the shiny side down, > as the texture of the emulsion *might* affect sharpness at high scan > resolutions. > Scan at a resolution high enough to give you a reasonable print capability: > for example, if you want a 10x8 inch print from a 35mm slide, scan at 2400 or > 3200 dpi. > All dust and scratch elimination software tends to soften the image scanned: > I prefer to use PS (or software of your choice) for post-process sharpening. > The ICE technology in the Epson software I find useless in that regard. > In post-processing, sharpen first then deal with dust and scratches: if you > do it the other way around, the sharpening will reveal yet more flaws! > Both programs will restore faded colour quite effectively, but may generate a > bad colour cast if the original is really badly faded: slight fading is > recoverable. > There is not much you can do with a really awful shot! Very helpful, John. I take you to be saying you prefer Photoshop for sharpening and dust and scratch removal. Could that be done in Lightroom as well? My experience with Epson Scan has mostly been frustrating. Not so VueScan. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net “This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” - Carlo Rovelli -- 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: Scanning slides
> On May 5, 2020, at 2:49 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Silverfast is good software, but costs a lot and doesn't do anything any > better than VueScan. It *might* have a slightly easier user interface for > some things. It is also licensed as specific to a particular scanner, rather > than able to be used with as many different scanners as it can support like > VueScan does. > > The dust and scratch elimination tools are useful but aren't always perfect > and sometimes cannot work. They work best on dye emulsions like E4 slides and > C41 negatives; they are poor when operating on traditional B film and > Kodachrome 25 because the silver grains and pigments in these films are not > transparent to IR. (In E4 and C41 films, the silver grains have been replaced > by dye blobs.) > > Used in a flat bed scanner, the emulsion side of negative or positive images > should face the scanning element. Of course, with any useful image processing > software, you can flip images on both axes any way you want so it really > doesn't matter much: just adjust them until you get right side up and left to > right correct if you scan them in the wrong orientation. Thanks, Godfrey. On all points. I’m pretty certain the film I used was Fuji Velvia. How would your dust and scratch removal comments apply to it? Thanks, ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Thumbs up or down?
> On May 3, 2020, at 2:56 PM, Toine wrote: > > What's the wisdom of the list on this: > https://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/ > > I think some or most are overdone in post editing. Most if not all are hdr’s. Didn’t check em all. Most of what I saw I was, “Yuck!” I liked these two: https://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/Portfolio/i-J7LLt2B/A https://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/Portfolio/i-DRGqgTV/A -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net “Look deep into nature, you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein -- 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: Scanning slides
> On May 5, 2020, at 11:13 AM, John wrote: > > Vuescan does all that - dust/scratch elimination, color correction and will > scan to raw (DNG) > > I'm pretty sure the side that says "This Side Toward Screen" goes down. > That's the emulsion side and if it's up the scan image ends up reversed. > > I found the VueScan interface easier to set up & use. Thanks, John. Guess I’ll stick with VueScan. It’s sure a lot easier than Epson’s software. Thanks especially for the comment on orientation of the slide in the scanner. Sincerely, ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz -- 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: Scanning slides
> On May 5, 2020, at 11:05 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Am 05.05.20 um 16:47 schrieb Eric Weir: > >> That said, yesterday I watched a video demonstrating scanning with >> SilverFast and was impressed. Among other things, It can eliminate dust and >> scratches, do color correction, and scans to a Raw file. > > Nothing Vuescan can't do. > > There isn't much of a point in converting scan data to a Bayer matrix > and then de-matrix them again. > >> And the price is reasonable. > > That price only includes this particular version for one scanner model. > Other scanners or later updates aren't free. With Vuescan they are. Thanks, Ralf. Especially on points one and three. I had to do a web search regarding the second. Way over my head. Was it a comment about SilverFast? About scanning to RAW. Does it have relevance to scanning with VueScan? Sincerely, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz -- 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.
Scanning slides
Emerging from lurking to ask for help. A couple days ago I got out a shoebox of slides from a trip to Russia 20 years ago. A few were shown to the group I traveled with a month or so after we returned home. Other than that I have done nothing with them. As a result I am unable to identify many of the subjects and scenes. Nevertheless, some are interesting, if not good photography. (They were shot with a Pentax K1000 and a fast 50mm lens, the only lens I took on the trip. Not sure of the film. Best guess is Fuji Velvia 100.) I would like to start scanning a selection of the slides. I have an Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner. I have always found the Epson scanning software difficult. I recently forked over $100 for a VueScan license and have found it much easier to work with. That said, yesterday I watched a video demonstrating scanning with SilverFast and was impressed. Among other things, It can eliminate dust and scratches, do color correction, and scans to a Raw file. And the price is reasonable. I’d appreciate opinions on SilverFast vs. VueScan I have no experience scanning slides. one question is how to orient the slides in the scanner, i.e., which side of the film should be up and which down. My slides have the date and frame number on one side and “this side toward screen.” should that side face up or down on the scanning table? Random comments or advice about scanning slides would be welcome too. Thanks, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@comcast.net "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz -- 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: I’m Immune Compromised & High Risk COVID19, Mutual Aid is What’s Saving My Life
Glad you liked it. I was afraid the bashing of capitalism—to which I’m sympathetic but don’t believe essential to the basic suggestion, i.e., mutual aid—would turn folks off. > On Mar 17, 2020, at 1:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Good article, good message. Thanks for posting it. > > G > — > No matter where we go, we go there together. > >> On Mar 17, 2020, at 9:14 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> >> Yeah, I know, it’s off-topic. You can ignore it, of course. You’d ne missing >> out if you did. >> >> https://medium.com/@itswalela/im-immune-compromised-high-risk-covid19-mutual-aid-is-what-s-saving-my-life-97da187aa8e9 >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Portfolio
> On Mar 17, 2020, at 2:53 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:50 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> http://webster26.epizy.com/Portfolio/index.html > > And “Prayer Service at St. Michaels” caused me to go shopping for a *ist DS, > my first digital camera, which, as I recall, was what you shot this with. I.e., when I first saw it, many years ago now. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Portfolio
> On Mar 16, 2020, at 8:50 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > Well with everything in Connecticut being closed... > > I spent the day building a small portfolio using jAlbum and a bunch of > previous PESOs. > > In case anyone is interested you can look a test cut of the same. > > http://webster26.epizy.com/Portfolio/index.html Agree with Ralf. “Great stuff. The lot of it.” But one I especially liked was “Pines.” And “Prayer Service at St. Michaels” caused me to go shopping for a *ist DS, my first digital camera, which, as I recall, was what you shot this with. (I was not disappointed in my *ist DS.) -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- 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.
I’m Immune Compromised & High Risk COVID19, Mutual Aid is What’s Saving My Life
Yeah, I know, it’s off-topic. You can ignore it, of course. You’d ne missing out if you did. https://medium.com/@itswalela/im-immune-compromised-high-risk-covid19-mutual-aid-is-what-s-saving-my-life-97da187aa8e9 Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "It has all been combustion?” - W.G. Sebald -- 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 Covid-19
> On Mar 15, 2020, at 4:27 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > I guess it just goes to show that People as individuals are smart, but people > in groups can very stupid. Perhaps it’s the other way around. I vaguely recall a report to the effect that online giving to people financially distressed, e.g., through Patreon, has spiked recently. But this could be “wishful remembering.” ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "It has all been combustion?” - W.G. Sebald -- 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 IG handles
> On Dec 1, 2019, at 9:44 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: > > Larry it's definitely a pain to share pics that don't originate from > the phone cam or the app directly, they really don't want desktop > access Try Flume. Desktop only. But as they say, a “beautiful Instagram experience. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "He is the Picasso of pettiness, the Shakespeare of shit." - Nate White -- 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.
Extreme landscape photographer Thomas Cooper
Interesting article in this weeks New Yorker (10/7/19) about the landscape photographer Thomas Cooper and his “Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity” project. A quote that gives a sense of the character of his project and way of working: “In setting the parameters of his project, Cooper made a series of vows: to work exclusively outdoors, to make only a single exposure in each place, and to pursue his vision at the expense of all else.” Merely a hint at his extremity. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- 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: 600 f/4 first fruits
> On Sep 17, 2019, at 5:16 PM, John wrote: > > I was finally able to get out with the 600 f/4 to take a few photos. I've > still got a lot to do before it will be fully usable. I've got to find a > better folding cart with bigger wheels than the one I have now ... or maybe a > wagon. > > Anyway: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/48751160586 > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/48751351652 Nice, John. Especially the kingfisher. I don’t envy you lugging a lens like that around. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- 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: Metaskills Part 1
> On Sep 15, 2019, at 11:48 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > > One big reason for my hanging out here is that with 46 years, I’m still one > of the less experienced members of the list. I like to say, and I think it’s true, that I’m the rankest amateur here. Not only do I owe almost everything I know to what I’ve learned here, I have never been ridiculed for the naivety of my questions. To the contrary, the group has always been supremely helpful and amazingly patient with me. I am grateful to all. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 7, 2019, at 6:31 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> >> On Sep 6, 2019, at 11:50 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> I'll just jump in here and confuse things a bit. You'll always get the same >> number of pixels from any given camera, but the quality of the pixels count >> too. Higher ISO will have an effect. >> >> Usually all things being equal higher noise which will degrade image quality >> in any give size print. www.imaging-resource.com has a section of their >> reviews dedicated to how large a picture you can print based on the sensor's >> maximum pixels and ISO. >> >> You might want to check out if they have a review of your model and see what >> they have to say. > > Thanks. Appreciate the reference. I’ll check it out. Do you have a specific reference, P.J.? This article is somewhat relevant but doesn’t strike me as what you were referring to. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "The invincible shield of caring Is a weapon sent from the sky against being dead." - Tao Te Ching 67 -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 7, 2019, at 3:24 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > > On the other hand, you might want to not worry overmuch about the theory of > things. Knarf had an interesting quote in his signature about sharpness. > > Nine years ago I went to burning man for my 50th birthday. I shot about > eight rolls of film in my Argus and about ten times as many frames with my > DSLRs. The photos taken with the DSLRs were significantly sharper, and > cleaner in pretty much every measurable way than the photos with taken with > the Argus, but one thing I realized was that artistically they weren’t any > better. > > There are times when a lack of sharpness can negatively impact a photo, > however if that is because the print is too big, then just display the photo > someplace that people can’t leave nose prints on it from looking at it that > closely. A couple of my favorite photos, e.g., a shot into Grand Canyon on a rainy day with lots of foggy haze in the canyons; a blurry shot from behind of a five year old granddaughter joining the adult line dance at her aunt’s wedding, are distinctly fuzzy. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “Man has been a murderer forever.” - Peter Matthiessen. -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 6, 2019, at 11:50 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > I'll just jump in here and confuse things a bit. You'll always get the same > number of pixels from any given camera, but the quality of the pixels count > too. Higher ISO will have an effect. > > Usually all things being equal higher noise which will degrade image quality > in any give size print. www.imaging-resource.com has a section of their > reviews dedicated to how large a picture you can print based on the sensor's > maximum pixels and ISO. > > You might want to check out if they have a review of your model and see what > they have to say. Thanks. Appreciate the reference. I’ll check it out. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 6, 2019, at 7:04 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> On Sep 6, 2019, at 10:39 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> >>> On Sep 4, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Sep 4, 2019, at 1:54 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: >>>> >>>> Flickr uses Bay as one of them and Bay is very good. I have traditionally >>>> gotten my prints done at Costco. >>> >>> Thanks to Larry and Ken for comments/suggestions regarding printing >>> services. If Flickr uses Bay I think I’ll give them a try. >> >> Ordered my first print from Bay. It might be more convenient than via >> Flickr. I won’t always be printing photos posted to Flickr. > > It is almost a certainty that your bits will flow through some cable that I > installed. II had to think about that. 浪 -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before." - Richard Feynman -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 4, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > >> >> On Sep 4, 2019, at 1:54 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: >> >> Flickr uses Bay as one of them and Bay is very good. I have traditionally >> gotten my prints done at Costco. > > Thanks to Larry and Ken for comments/suggestions regarding printing services. > If Flickr uses Bay I think I’ll give them a try. Ordered my first print from Bay. It might be more convenient than via Flickr. I won’t always be printing photos posted to Flickr. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >>> On Sep 5, 2019, at 8:57 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >>> >>> What determines the size of the image I get with my camera, i.e., my phone? >>> Is it always the same? Is iso a factor? >> >> The number of pixels in a full frame capture will always be the same. > > ... ISO will affect how much noise is apparent in the image. With the teensy > little sensors in a phone camera, the lower the ISO the better the noise > behavior and the better the tonal scale. With camera apps that allow you to > control ISO on the iPhone. It's best for good photos to keep the ISO under > 100 whenever you can. > > But of course, too long an exposure can cause camera movement which also > kills image quality. So you have to work to the limits of the device's > capabilities. :-) Thanks again, Godfrey. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “Man has been a murderer forever.” - Peter Matthiessen. -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 12:01 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> On Sep 5, 2019, at 8:08 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> The camera was my phone, an iPhone 6s. The 72 dpi/ppi result was with iso at >> 25. Is what I should expect? Will I ever be able to get good large prints >> with this camera? > > An iPhone 6s image at ISO 25, presuming a good exposure with the camera held > steadily enough, can net a beautiful print to the limits of the number of > pixels. Thanks. > For instance, this is made with an iPhone 8 Plus (similar number of pixels) > and prints to a beautiful 13x13 inch print, or maybe larger: > > https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48625474017_8258d4fa1d_c.jpg Very nice. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” - Carlo Rovelli -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 11:58 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2019, at 8:08 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> So now two questions: (1) My image is 72 dpi/ppi, far short of 240 dpi/ppi. >> What can I do with that, i.e., what’s the largest print I could get? (2) The >> camera was my phone, an iPhone 6s. The 72 dpi/ppi result was with iso at 25. >> Is what I should expect? Will I ever be able to get good large prints with >> this camera? > > Where are you obtaining the 72 ppi number from? Probably the display you're > looking at. :-) > > When it comes to printing and sizing an image, the number of pixels is > everything. If you want to find out how large an image area can be printed at > a reasonable quality, divide the horizontal and vertical dimensions by 240 to > give a dimension in inches. > > For instance, say you have a 2400 x 4800 pixel image. Divide by 240 nets a 10 > x 20 inch print. :-) > > Ja? Ja! And thanks. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 11:50 AM, John wrote: > > On 9/5/2019 11:08:33, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> So now two questions: (1) My image is 72 dpi/ppi, far short of 240 dpi/ppi. >> What can I do with that, i.e., what’s the largest print I could get? (2) The >> camera was my phone, an iPhone 6s. The 72 dpi/ppi result was with iso at 25. >> Is what I should expect? Will I ever be able to get good large prints with >> this camera? > > No, your image is 4032 x 2268 pixels. > > 72 dpi is the display resolution. Has nothing to do with printing. > > Printed at 240 ppi, 4032 x 2268 pixels will give a print 16.8" x 9.45". > > A good "printer" (i.e. service bureau like Bay Photo) can probably work with > 200 ppi to give you a print up to 20.16" x 11.34" which could be cropped to > the 20x10 print you wanted. > > ... although the guy in the back actually doing the printing is probably > going to call you bad names. They much prefer at least 300 ppi. > > But, when I was running the mini-lab I could get an "acceptable" result with > as little as 150 ppi (C-type on Kodak Endura glossy paper). OK, now I understand. (I think.) One last question. (I hope.) What determines the size of the image I get with my camera, i.e., my phone? Is it always the same? Is iso a factor? -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "The invincible shield of caring Is a weapon sent from the sky against being dead." - Tao Te Ching 67 -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 4, 2019, at 10:32 PM, John wrote: > > Generally, "72 dpi" is screen resolution. You don't want to print at "72 dpi" > because it will look like crap. > > At the 240ppi Godfrey mentioned 4032 x 2268 pixels gives you 16.8 x 9.45 > inches. > > To get a 20" wide print, 4032 pixels is going to give you around "201 ppi", > suggesting a crop to 2016 pixels high (for a 10 x 20 print). > > A good "printer" should be able to give you an adequate 10x20 C-Type print if > the JPEG quality is high enough (2.5MB file size suggests it might be just > barely), although you're going to have to crop it to get that aspect ratio. Thanks, John. I’m confused. Not that you’re confusing, just that the limits of my knowledge are again being tested. So the 72 dpi figure has nothing to do with the size of print that can be obtained? The latter is a function of the available pixels and the dimensions of the print? In your third paragraph I don’t understand “suggesting a crop to 2016 pixels high (for a 10 x 20 print).” I can increase the ppi for a given dimension of print, e.g., 10 x 20, by cropping the image? My assumption would be that the only way to increase the ppi would be to reduce the size of the print. Your last paragraph: You think I can get a decent 10 x 20 print from the image I described? -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 1:09 AM, l...@red4est.com wrote: > > Check prices, there may not be any reason other than convenience to use > Flickr rather than Bay directly. Download the bay roes software and process > your photos specifically for printing. Thanks again, Larry. I did a superficial check of Bay. It seemed a little more complicated than going through Flickr. But as I say, based on a superficial comparison. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” - Carlo Rovelli -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 4, 2019, at 5:52 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Can’t give you much advice on print services since I always do my own prints. > But be aware that that pixel count on the long edge nets a max print area > length of about 17” @ 240ppi which is as low as I’d want to go for best > detail on a landscape shot like that. > >> I have never printed a single photo. I'd like to give it a try. With this >> image, just as a test: >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/48678438307/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/> >> It’s 2.5 MB, 4032 x 2268 pixels So now two questions: (1) My image is 72 dpi/ppi, far short of 240 dpi/ppi. What can I do with that, i.e., what’s the largest print I could get? (2) The camera was my phone, an iPhone 6s. The 72 dpi/ppi result was with iso at 25. Is what I should expect? Will I ever be able to get good large prints with this camera? -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” - Carlo Rovelli -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 4, 2019, at 10:39 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: > > I haven't posted to the group in several years, but I've been following. On > this topic, maybe I have some information to offer. I recently had reason to > try the "Fracture" service that most of you (in North America, at least) have > probably already seen advertised (https://fractureme.com). I had reason > recently to try them out. Unfortunately, the original I had to work with was > less than optimal. The best I could do after cropping was about 6" x 8" at > 100 dpi. I must say that I was impressed with what they were able to do with > that. I'm not sure I could've done better with a local high quality photo > printer on paper. I'm looking forward to trying them again with a better > (higher resolution) original. I will admit that ICC profiles weren't an > issue for that print (I didn't have them), but (a) the result was as color > correct as I could've asked, lacking the profile and (b) it will be something > I'm looking hard at on the next one. But there will definitely be more. > From my limited test, 9/10, would buy again. Thanks, Doug. I checked it out. Seems they print only on glass and significantly costlier than other options. Or am I mistaken. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA "Giving is an essence of existence….” - David Whyte -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 4, 2019, at 5:52 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > Can’t give you much advice on print services since I always do my own prints. > But be aware that that pixel count on the long edge nets a max print area > length of about 17” @ 240ppi which is as low as I’d want to go for best > detail on a landscape shot like that. Thanks, Godfrey. Guess I’ll adjust the size of the test print downward. WIAI, I take it “ppi" is "pixels per inch.” Data on this image as displayed in Dropbox indicates 72 “dots per inch.” is that the same as "pixels per inch”? This image was shot with an iPhone 6s using the default camera app, which saves JPG files. If I we shooting RAW with the same camera would I be able to do larger prints? ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- 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: Printing
> On Sep 4, 2019, at 1:54 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: > > Flickr uses Bay as one of them and Bay is very good. I have traditionally > gotten my prints done at Costco. Thanks to Larry and Ken for comments/suggestions regarding printing services. If Flickr uses Bay I think I’ll give them a try. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." - Chief Seattle -- 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.
Printing
I have never printed a single photo. I'd like to give it a try. With this image, just as a test: <https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/48678438307/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/> It’s 2.5 MB, 4032 x 2268 pixels I’ve checked out printing services via this review: <https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/353850/the-best-photo-printing-services> AdoramaPix and Nations Photo Lab appealed. But I see printing is now available via Flickr. Thought I’d give it a try. Wondering about a 10 x 20 or 12 x 24 paper print, lustre finish. With an image this size, what do you think? Also interested in comparison of Flickr to other printing services, e.g., AdoramaPix, Nations Photo Lab, or other. Thanks, ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "(I)t is important that awake people be awake... the darkness around us is deep." - William Stafford -- 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 Geso: York plowmen final year
> On Sep 1, 2019, at 9:39 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > > The York plowmen association has been participating in plowing matches for > the past 189 years but this year is the last one. Lack of private land and > sponsorship has closed the door. Thusly, i wanted ot make sure i attended > this final session > > http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2019-yorkplow/album/index.html Thanks for sharing this, Dave. Love the images, especially of horses at work. A shame it was the last year. I experienced the very end of my grandfather’s horse farming. I remember the sound of the horses munching their grain in their stalls in the barn after a day’s work. I wish it could have continued. Maybe it will return. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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 Last Supper
> On Aug 21, 2019, at 10:14 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > Thanks, Larry. It’s the last because the bee balm is almost gone and the > hummingbirds will leave as the season changes. Nice, Paul. Fitting title. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: I'm Getting Married...
> On Aug 7, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > In the morning. Well, it’s actually early afternoon this Saturday, but that > spoils the alliteration. We didn’t hire a wedding photographer. Too expensive > for a couple of septuagenarians. So we’re counting on the small number of > friends and relatives present to shoot a lot of cell phone pics. Should be > fun. I know my bride is always entertaining in addition to being a great > partner. We both lost our partners to the afterlife following long, happy > marriages, so we’re looking forward to life, part two. Congratulations and best wishes, Paul. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Well that was interesting.
> On Jun 29, 2019, at 12:49 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > >> Am 29.06.19 um 17:17 schrieb P. J. Alling: >> I just spent the last three days dealing with a scammer who was >> impersonating my lawyer by e-mail. > > Is this "Microsoft Technical Department" nonsense as bad in the rest of > the world as it is here in Germany? They're driving us mad. Several > calls per day. > > Until recently, we could at least blacklist them, but now they come in > with regular German phone numbers which change with every call. I’ve installed Malwarebytes on my phone. (As well as MacBook and iPad.) It flags incoming calls from known scammers. Really don’t need it though, as I never answer calls from anyone not in my contacts list. If they leave a voicemail and they are legitimate I call them back. Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: It looks like we'll have a Peak Designs tripod.
> On May 21, 2019, at 12:48 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > Which one? Mefoto tripod? Backpacker S with their least expensive smartphone adapter ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "(I)t is important that awake people be awake... the darkness around us is deep." - William Stafford -- 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: It looks like we'll have a Peak Designs tripod.
I see I forgot to include the link to the Kickstarter video about the Peak Designs tripod: <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peak-design/1289129165?mc_cid=10e06c5e27_eid=ea9e84e746=loistj_campaign=10e06c5e27-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_06_COPY_01_medium=email_source=Peak+Design+Newsletter_term=0_2c6e2fe5bc-10e06c5e27-69057029=n_3_0> > On May 21, 2019, at 12:45 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > > I just bought a Mefoto travel tripod similar to this one a couple months ago, > and I probably wouldn’t be able to afford this one, but it sure is a beauty. > With two months to go they’re already almost 300 percent to their goal. > > ------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "(I)t is important that awake people be awake... the darkness around us is > deep." > > - William Stafford > > > -- > 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.
It looks like we'll have a Peak Designs tripod.
I just bought a Mefoto travel tripod similar to this one a couple months ago, and I probably wouldn’t be able to afford this one, but it sure is a beauty. With two months to go they’re already almost 300 percent to their goal. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "(I)t is important that awake people be awake... the darkness around us is deep." - William Stafford -- 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: Passing of Phoenix 2006-2019
> On May 4, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Alan C wrote: > > A sad day today. My 13 year old trusty companion succumbed to a virus which > hit his liver & kidneys. He fought hard till the end. Phoenix was rescued > from the Phalaborwa rubbish dump where he had been abandoned as a puppy. It > took some months to nurse him back to health. He has been my walking mate for > 12 years - we walked over 6000Km together. An image of Phoenix a few years > back: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/33895607268/ Handsome fellow, Alan. Having just fallen in love with a tiny little dog, a Miki, I can understand your loss. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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.
Who Says Old-Fashioned Street Photography Is Dead? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/style/street-photographer-jean-andre-antoine.html Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Baxter
> On Mar 11, 2019, at 7:57 PM, John wrote: > > https://flic.kr/p/xtqGRY > > https://flic.kr/p/HPPRDh > > I had to take Baxter to the vet tonight Beautiful cat, John. Sorry for your loss. I've recently fallen in love with a rambunctious little Miki dog—Japanese breed; about the size of an average cat—so I can easily imagine your loss. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Stoopid iPhone
> On Jan 15, 2019, at 3:53 PM, John wrote: > >> On 1/15/2019 15:32:55, Eric Weir wrote: >> If you're not gonna use email on the phone, why don't you just deactivate >> the email account on the phone? > > That's why I'm taking my iPhone back to the Verizon store, to find out how to > do that. > > If that doesn't work, I'll follow Paul's suggestion and take it to the Apple > store and have > *them* help me with it. When I don’t know how to do something, I find utilizing support available on the Apple website, especially support communities, or Googling, gets me the information I need pretty quickly. Go to > Settings > Passwords and Accounts > Your Account > Mail > Tap the button so it shows grey instead of green. Or delete your account altogether. It's not "stoopid" iPhone. It's not "stoopid" anybody. You just don't know how to do it. Most of the time that's the case. At least in my case. I don't understand why you’d purchase an expensive phone and the deactivate one it's most convenient functions. If you switched your account to IMAP you could get mail on both your devices. Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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 brits on this list treat us Yanks with the greatest respect
> On Jan 15, 2019, at 4:29 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > Churchill was half American, so it would be quite appropriate for him. Genetically. Culturally, much less, if any. ——————— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- 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: Stoopid iPhone
> On Jan 15, 2019, at 3:10 PM, John wrote: > > It's a POP server. Not that it matters. It matters. There may be an option allow you to keep messages on the server. Otherwise, which is the case most of the time, messages downloaded to one device will not be available on other devices. > I don't want the email going to the iPhone whether they stay on the server or > synchronize or whatever. I want my email to come to this computer or to my > laptop when I'm traveling. If you're not gonna use email on the phone, why don't you just deactivate the email account on the phone? ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Stoopid iPhone
> On Jan 15, 2019, at 12:15 PM, John wrote: > > When I got the iPhone, the guy at Verizon set it up so that it was linked to > my earthlink email address. Unfortunately, whenever it connects to wi-fi (or > to my Ethernet at home) it downloads mail to the iPhone, but anything it > downloads to the iPhone doesn't come to my inbox on this computer. > > I left it hooked up overnight while it updated iOS and it downloaded 76 email > messages from Earthlink. Took a quick glance at the inbox and then over to > this computer to see which ones went there instead of here, then back to the > inbox to see if there was some way to forward them ... > > But when I got back to the inbox on the iPhone, *NOW* it says it's empty. I > don't know where the messages went. They're just gone. Do you know what kind of email account you have, i.e., POP or IMAP? If POP, after messages are downloaded to a device they are deleted from the server, and this are not available to other devices. IMAP synchronizes mailboxes between devices. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- 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: Boris 2019-01
> On Jan 13, 2019, at 2:09 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > > Take a look if you please: > https://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2019/01/2019-01-street-corner-stories.html I like it as it is, Boris. It reminds me of similar scenes in Italy. I could focus on particular aspects of the image. I choose not to. Eric -- 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: To our British Pentxians
> On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > > It's a game in the mathematical Game Theory sense. I wonder. ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Salgado on Display
> On Jan 4, 2019, at 11:51 AM, Stanley Halpin > wrote: > > On our recent trip we spent a day in Cartagena Spain. It was a Saturday, > sunny day, sidewalk cafes were full of people enjoying the sun and > conversation with friends. We walked up to an old fortress, nicely > transmogrified into a small history museum, then back down past the Roman > amphitheater into the main pedestrian area. Where I was stunned to see a > large display of images from Sebestiao Salgado’s Genesis project. Amazing > work, amazingly displayed out there on the street for all to enjoy. > > The five images in the gallery linked below are not intended to provide > copies of the Salgado images themselves, but rather to show what the public > display was like. You can find Salgado's work online or in your local > fine-art photobook store... > > https://photos.stanhalpin.com/p618485978/hC1ED78EB#hc1ed79f1 Wonderful, Stan. Thanks. Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Posting to instagram from a desktop
Sorry, didn’t cross my mind that anyone would use anything but a Mac. > On Dec 25, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Richard Klein wrote: > > Requires a Mac: > https://flumeapp.com/ > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 11:54 AM Eric Weir >> >>> On Dec 24, 2018, at 6:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone figured out a convenient way to post to instagram from a >> desktop computer? More and more people ask about my photos being available >> on instagram. >> >> Check out Flume, Larry. I haven’t been on Instagram much for a while now, >> but when I was I much preferred Flume on my notebook to Instagram on any of >> my devices. Much cleaner. Easier to post to. And, as I says, it’s >> beautiful. IMHO, that is. >> >> >> -- >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> eew...@bellsouth.net >> >> “This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” >> >> - Carlo Rovelli >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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: Check out “Winter's Watch” from Brian Bolster on Vimeo
Glad you liked it, Bulent. - > On Dec 26, 2018, at 9:15 AM, Bulent Celasun wrote: > > Thanks Eric, that was perfect for me... > > Bulent > - > http://patoloji.gen.tr > http://celasun.wordpress.com/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ > http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun > > Eric Weir , 26 Ara 2018 Çar, 16:20 tarihinde şunu yazdı: >> >> >> A beautifully filmed photographer's life. >> >> Check out “Winter's Watch” from Brian Bolster on Vimeo. >> The video is available for your viewing pleasure at >> https://vimeo.com/248249215 >> >> If you like this video, make sure you share it, too! >> Vimeo is filled with lots of amazing videos. See more at https://vimeo.com. >> >> >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> eew...@bellsouth.net >> >> "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" >> >> - Mary Oliver >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
Check out “Winter's Watch” from Brian Bolster on Vimeo
A beautifully filmed photographer's life. Check out “Winter's Watch” from Brian Bolster on Vimeo. The video is available for your viewing pleasure at https://vimeo.com/248249215 If you like this video, make sure you share it, too! Vimeo is filled with lots of amazing videos. See more at https://vimeo.com. Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: Posting to instagram from a desktop
> On Dec 24, 2018, at 6:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > Has anyone figured out a convenient way to post to instagram from a desktop > computer? More and more people ask about my photos being available on > instagram. Check out Flume, Larry. I haven’t been on Instagram much for a while now, but when I was I much preferred Flume on my notebook to Instagram on any of my devices. Much cleaner. Easier to post to. And, as I says, it’s beautiful. IMHO, that is. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.” - Carlo Rovelli -- 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: Lightroom... Darktable... what else?
> On Dec 17, 2018, at 1:43 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > > I have been fiddeling around with ON1 and find it quite similar to LR/ Have you used the algorithm for importing Lightroom data? ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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 reason to want the 150-450
> On Dec 12, 2018, at 11:07 PM, Alan C wrote: > > The local Green Wood Pigeons are very sensitive to human movement & will > explode out of a tree at even as far as 30m. Amazingly, they are not fazed by > cows or dogs. Of course! It's the humans who dangerous. <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html> ---- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- 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: photo editor on android phone - question
> On Nov 22, 2018, at 4:18 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > > You can also download apps that let you do some basic adjustments, like +2 Ev > on the exposure. I know nothing about Android, but in the Photos app on an iPhone you can do some of the same basic editing that can be done in Lightroom. Perhaps in the corresponding app on Android that can also be done. ——— Eric Weir Atlanta, GA USA “It has all been combustion.” - W.G. Sebald -- 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.
GESO: Favorites from Lake Superior's Painted Rocks
Four favorites from an album from a cruise along Lake Superior’s Painted Rocks lakeshore. All were taken with an iPhone. https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/31038291608/in/album-72157701480452674/lightbox/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/29974806787/in/album-72157701480452674/lightbox/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/43998983825/in/album-72157701480452674/lightbox/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/29974820907/in/album-72157701480452674/lightbox/ In not being faithful to it, I’m mindful of Cotty once suggesting that I identify the one image from a large set that told the entire story. I aspire to that. It will take more practice. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “The poetry of earth is never dead.” - Keats, On the Grasshopper and Cricket -- 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 2018 - 095? - GDG
> On Sep 1, 2018, at 2:52 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > I liked this balance, but I can see a tighter framing. I thought it WAS tight. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "The invincible shield of caring Is a weapon sent from the sky against being dead." - Tao Te Ching 67 -- 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 2018 - 096? - GDG
> On Sep 8, 2018, at 5:41 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > What the vociferous pros and antis don't seem to realise is that there is no > gain without some pain (for the benefit of the whole thing). Moderates > realise this and we knuckle down and make best of it. Amen. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before." - Richard Feynman -- 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: Getting photos of iPhone
> On Jul 4, 2018, at 10:48 AM, Stanley Halpin > wrote: > >> On Jul 4, 2018, at 6:56 AM, ATT wrote: >> >>> On Jul 2, 2018, at 3:29 PM, Stanley Halpin >>> wrote: >>> >>> I use these, 64GB capacity. If you have your images organized in folders >>> within Photos, you can Select at the folder level, don’t have to use >>> individual one-at-a-time picking. >>> Works well. >>> >>> http://dmlife.cc/productshow.asp?id=1032=234 >> >> I was tempted by this device, Stan, but became concerned on reading the >> uniformly negative reviews of the app in the Apple Store. I suspect you’ve >> had a different experience with it. > > OK, you made me look. > The reviews are "interesting". And the app update history is weak > > But for what I want, it works. I travel. As I’ve mentioned, when I travel, I > dump the jpeg version of my images to my iPad as a form of backup and for > immediate use. But the iPad storage is limited (128GB in my case). So what I > needed was a way to move some those “backup” jpegs to another place, thus > freeing up internal memory for more. Hopefully I never have to take those > files off the DM Aiplay device, if I do it would be because of a loss or > failure of my RAW files. If I needed to, I could. > > So, it works in the following respects: >- it identifies and sorts images on my iPad, recognizing Photos > folders the system and I have created to organize stuff. > - it allows the Copy (or Move) of those files to the thumb drive. > - the copied/moved files look like any other batch of files on any > other USB Drive when plugged into the computer. > I haven’t and won’t use it to take a video with me to watch on my iPad. I > haven’t and won’t use it to take an expanded music library on my iPad. So > those sorts of functionality are irrelevant to me, and that is where most of > the bad reviews seem to come from. And then there was the guy complaining > that this device, made for iOS and OS-X, does not format the files so that > they can be viewed on a PC. > > What does impress me, aside from the fact that the device + app just do what > I need, is that the device is nicely built. Thanks, Stan. I might have noted that the negative reviews concerned features that would not interest me, either. I sensed that the device was well maid, and that was what attracted me. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “...we are a form of invitation to others and to otherness..." - David Whyte -- 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: Getting photos off iPhone
> On Jul 3, 2018, at 12:25 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > > > >> On Jul 2, 2018, at 9:21 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >> Again, if the goal is to get the photos onto your notebook and into >> Lightroom, use the iPhone connected to your computer and Lightroom directly >> to do it. That makes the most sense. > > Again, that is my goal. I’ll be checking it out. Works great. I think it will be my default solution. ------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net “The poetry of earth is never dead.” - Keats, On the Grasshopper and Cricket -- 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.
