RE: Ground Cover Question
Hi Marnie I always carry a large white plastic sack folded in my photo bag outside pocket. I use it for wet ground and could probably use it to add a little light reflection for macr shots as well. I have it also as a backup if the photo bag breaks or as a rain protection for the K10D. Light and very useful IMHO Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:13 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Ground Cover Question I have some pics in mind that I'd like to take close to the ground. Like with me laying flat. I am an old lady with sort of bad knees, so crouching is out. Laying down isn't. So I've been thinking of putting a blanket in the car. Well, yes, its partly a clothing issue -- not get them all messed up. But is also partly a comfort issue -- some places very soon here in California will have dry grass, prickly grass. I want some padding. Has anyone ever made a sort of blanket that can fold up small into a small duffle with a shoulder strap? There must be something like that somewhere, I would think. Input welcome. Marnie aka Doe ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Size Sells?
Thanks Mark, that was very interesting. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Cassino Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:19 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Size Sells? Mike Hamilton wrote: My past experience has told me that 8x10 or smaller prints are easier or more desireable for people to hang on their walls because it does not dominate the whole wall. My prints were mostly 8x10, with 3- 5x7 and one 11x14. What is your experience with regard to this? Depends on the image, the venue, and the audience. I used to participate in a local artist co-op around the holidays, where we would lease a storefront and turn it into an art gallery for a month. I had photo note cards with 6x4 inch photos on them, 5x7's, 8x10's and 11x14's. I did this for 4 years, about 1,000 of the cards sold - lots of them were put into frames. (People would come back and tell me about framing the cards, or even come back to the store to show me how the card looked in a frame.) At $3 a pop, the cards were more or less a waste of time from a business perspective, though. The 5x7's were the least popular - I was aiming at the impulse buyers and priced them at about $20 - a handful sold each year. The 8x10's, matted to 11x14, were the best - 35 to 50 would go the door at $35 a shot. The 11 x 14's (matted to 16 x 20) were not far behind, but when I nudged the price up from $45 to $50 I saw a big drop off in sales. These were single matted, glycine bagged prints - no frames. For exhibits, it depends. I did a collaborative exhibit with some friends who own a frame shop where I provided the prints and they did the framing - quite elaborate framing at that. We did a mix of huge prints - about half a dozen 24 x 30 inch landscapes and a mix about 30 12 x 15 to 10x10 prints. That's the print size - the framed sizes were more on the order of 32 x 40 for the large prints, and 24 x 18 for the mid sized. We had a great opening reception and next day follow up, with 3 of the huge pieces (each priced in the $1,000 neighborhood) selling, and a good number of the mediums and smalls going. But the economics of it basically worked out that we recouped the investment in materials in the first few days, made a small profit on the sales over the next few weeks, and now jointly own a bunch of nicely framed but 'old stock' images. The real profit from the venture was the fun in doing it (don't think there's a ferengi rule that covers that.) In other shows, I've had the best luck with 16x20 inch framed shots, priced at $125. Hell- it's Kalamazoo, not NYC. People do sometime take the attitude that I could print a photo that size. A friend of mine makes avant guard steel furniture, powder coated in outrageous bright colors. People pick up her pieces, look at the wields, and say I could make something like this. Being a somewhat in your face type her response is often Yeah - so are you saying you THOUGHT of something that looks like this or just that you could assemble it if you had instructions? Bitchy works for her. But she has a point - it's not the technical execution (though I personally love executing technique) it's the vision, the energy. I'd take a 5x7 of Derrière la Gare Saint-Lazare in a heartbeat, but probably pass on every 5x7 in every Walmart in every country in the world. Lastly - subject matter and format go hand in hand. This shot: http://www.markcassino.com/galleries/lighthouses/0204l01.htm took first place in Harbour LIghts' l;ighthouse photography contest, and as a note card sells like hotcakes in the winter. But I doubt that I've sold more than 2 16x20 prints of it. No one wants a violent cold shot on their wall. Good image for a magazine and great image to send on a card to your friends in Hawaii, coupled with a note about how cold Michigan is! - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Ground Cover Question
Hi Marnie An even better light weight and universal solution would be one of those survival reflecting aluminum foils which keep you warm in case as well. Of course it's still uncomfortably hard if your on the ground :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Francis Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 7:16 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Ground Cover Question On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:46:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 4/20/2007 12:56:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Marnie I always carry a large white plastic sack folded in my photo bag outside pocket. I use it for wet ground and could probably use it to add a little light reflection for macr shots as well. I have it also as a backup if the photo bag breaks or as a rain protection for the K10D. Light and very useful IMHO Greetings Markus == What a good idea, Markus. While I think I want more padding, that would work in a pinch in situation where I unexpectedly want to get down. And I like the idea of using it as a light reflector too. Marnie aka Doe :-) I have some white garbage bags the right size. If you ask your local Brownie troop, I'm sure you will find somebody who will show you how to weave strips of newspaper into a sit-upon. They are usually made such that a tall kitchen garbage bas is used for the waterproof covering over the newspaper padding, but I'm sure you could work out how to make one a little larger. The weaving is important; the final product offers more padding than just covering newspapers with waterproof plastic. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
FW: PESO:Sechselaueten - Tamron SP 17mm on K10D
I feel a little stupid to bother the list again with boring PESO photos looking at some of the embarrassing and never ending pseudo discussions here but I try it once again before I give up finally :-( Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: Markus Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:04 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: PESO:Sechselaueten - Tamron SP 17mm on K10D Hi Pentaxians I made some nice photos during the historical Sechselaueten march with the burning of the Boegg in Zurich Monday. I mostly used the Tamron SP 70-150 mm but tried the SP 17mm for the first time on the K10 as well. I flares badly in direct sunlight but under normal conditions I got some good exposures. I prefer unstaged photos showing children and don't mind if they are not technically perfect if the content is fine here :-) An example with the Tamron SP 17mm slightly cropped: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/sechse1.jpg An example with the Tamron SP 70-150mm slightly cropped: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zuenfte1.jpg The burning Boegg just for the curious: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/boegg1.jpg (more background information on Wikipedia) According to the burning time of the Boegg of 13 minutes we will have a beautiful summer this year :-) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: FW: PESO:Sechselaueten - Tamron SP 17mm on K10D
Thanks Fernado for looking and commenting. It was indeed some camera movement, maybe due to false SR setting of factor 1.5 as well) on both children photos but I still like the natural expression on the faces a lot. I prefer softer to oversharpened photos. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fernando Terrazzino Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:30 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: FW: PESO:Sechselaueten - Tamron SP 17mm on K10D Hi Markus, I would like the second one if I didn't have this feeling that is not totally on focus, or maybe there was some camera movement. I applied my usual sharpening action (http://www.photon.me.uk/PS/sharpenomatic.htm) and it looks better (but just a tad oversharpened) if it not were for that I think you captured some nice face expressions and colours. Hope that helps Fernando PS: Please don't say this was a soft focus lens 'cuz me gonna look like an idiot On 4/20/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel a little stupid to bother the list again with boring PESO photos looking at some of the embarrassing and never ending pseudo discussions here but I try it once again before I give up finally :-( Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: Markus Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 1:04 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: PESO:Sechselaueten - Tamron SP 17mm on K10D Hi Pentaxians I made some nice photos during the historical Sechselaueten march with the burning of the Boegg in Zurich Monday. I mostly used the Tamron SP 70-150 mm but tried the SP 17mm for the first time on the K10 as well. I flares badly in direct sunlight but under normal conditions I got some good exposures. I prefer unstaged photos showing children and don't mind if they are not technically perfect if the content is fine here :-) An example with the Tamron SP 17mm slightly cropped: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/sechse1.jpg An example with the Tamron SP 70-150mm slightly cropped: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zuenfte1.jpg The burning Boegg just for the curious: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/boegg1.jpg (more background information on Wikipedia) According to the burning time of the Boegg of 13 minutes we will have a beautiful summer this year :-) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
Unsubscribing for quite a while
I'm going to unsubscribe for quite a while in favor of more photo oriented and moderated lists in Germany and on www.photo.net . I would like to say thanks to all for the fine readings and advice I saw and got here in the last 2 years and the nice international contacts. I will be on my Swiss mountain tours next week with the K10D for my panorama calendar 2008 project .. Greetings to all the PDML members - I'm off list tomorrow Sunday Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: a flower for Shel - GDG
Getting a dozen responses for a non existent PESO is not what I would call being ignored Shel. Real PESO (and not only the lower quality ones) often get no response at all here. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:39 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: a flower for Shel - GDG Sheesh! Most people usually ignore me, now I'm getting flowers. I'm deeply troubled by this recent turn of events Shel [Original Message] From: David Savage ...and another: http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/IMGP3390.jpg My, isn't Shel a popular fellow ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: OT - for those of you who have DVD equip that canplayPAL systemDVD's
It's legal in Switzerland to buy and use code free DVD players, you get them everywhere, it's the norm here . But, there will be DVD's with a copy protection that does not let them be played on code free players. It's (still) legal in Switzerland to circumvent copyright schemes of software and DVD's. It's not anymore legal to do so in Germany! Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. C. O'Connell Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:30 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: OT - for those of you who have DVD equip that canplayPAL systemDVD's It is illegal to buy, sell or own non-region 1 DVD players in or to north america from everything I have ever heard. Ever wonder why you cant just go buy one at Circuit Shitty? jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Norm Baugher Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:08 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - for those of you who have DVD equip that can playPAL systemDVD's Illegal? How? I can do anything I want to my frickin' DVD player. Some Hollywood prick going to show up at my door and tell me I can't play the DVD's I bought in Europe? Norm J. C. O'Connell wrote: Those are out there but they are illegal. jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Norm Baugher Well, thanks to the internet, I have a region code freebDVD player - looked up the hack to get rid of the region code lock. Norm graywolf wrote: Not only that, Ann, even if a DVD is the right type it may not work. If a DVD is coded for a region your player is not, it will not play. The DVD needs to be coded for North American distribution, unless you bought a DVD player with some other region coded in it as may happen if you ordered it from somewhere else. Buying things on the internet can be fun. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: OT - for those of you who have DVD equip thatcan playPAL systemDVD's
Hi Ann Search the internet for the exact DVD model description + code free. Some of the players can be made code free or changed to another region setting with a certain key combination on the remote control. Greetings Markus - Shel, I HAD NO IDEA I ws buying one from a foreign source - I just saw the price, BIN etc - read that the cast was right - they said it was NIB... My bad for not scrolling down to see the note that said it wouldn't work on USA made stuff... I didn't decide - just pounced on the listing when I was talking on the phone for my friend who wanted the film I was told by local DVD places it was out of print in US The DVD apparently was never prssed for USA distribution. check out the details in the listings on what you sent me ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:Sechelaueten - Tamron SP 17mm on K10D
Hi Pentaxians I made some nice photos during the historical Sechselaueten march with the burning of the Boegg in Zurich Monday. I mostly used the Tamron SP 70-150 mm but tried the SP 17mm for the first time on the K10 as well. I flares badly in direct sunlight but under normal conditions I got some good exposures. I prefer unstaged photos showing children and don't mind if they are not technically perfect if the content is fine here :-) An example with the Tamron SP 17mm slightly cropped: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/sechse1.jpg An example with the Tamron SP 70-150mm slightly cropped: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zuenfte1.jpg The burning Boegg just for the curious: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/boegg1.jpg (more background information on Wikipedia) According to the burning time of the Boegg of 13 minutes we will have a beautiful summer this year :-) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: On the Beach
Thanks Bob, I learned again something here :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob W Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:31 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: On the Beach Thanks. The buildings in the water are the Thames Barrier, which is supposed to keep London from flooding, built in response to the flood of 1953. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Flood_of_1953 http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/regions/thames/323150/335688/3417 64/ -- Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Maurer Sent: 15 April 2007 04:49 To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: On the Beach I like it too Bob. Maybe loosing some parts of the sky with a different crop would make it even better? The man really adds to the mood . What are those tube buildings in the water for? Greetings Markus Hi, this is the only shot I've taken today that I quite like: http://www.web-options.com/_4145152.jpg I've been using curves in Lightroom again, just to bring the blacks more to the left on the histogram, and make the midtones a little less flat. Please let me know if it looks unnatural, ok, whatever. Thanks, Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Lights in the tunnel HDR
Hi Rob, Marnie and Boris Thanks for looking and commenting first. I did not try to achieve the same result with Photoshop Rob but since the information is in the raw file it should be possible with enough experience which I probably still lack. I use shadows and highlight tools often but burning down highlights seemed easier with HDR for this kind of photo. On the other side HDR produces uneven lighted and completely unnatural gray skies sometimes here... Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Digital Image Studio Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 1:51 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:Lights in the tunnel HDR On 15/04/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: K10D, Pentax A50mm macro, ISO 400, F5.6 1/2 sec. With the very welcome help of SR and the Monostat monopod. HDR made out of 1 raw file with 3 different exposures. The shot has nice illumination but my question is; before applying the single file multiple exposure output to HDR file did you attempt to achieve a similar outcome by processing the RAW file then applying curves and/or the highlights/shadows tool? Cheers, -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Two questions
I set SR at X 1.5 for my M/A lenses and no correction for the polarizer is needed. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David J Brooks Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:07 PM To: Pentax Discuss Subject: Two questions Hi gang. --Setting SR with an A lens. Do you use the actual or the 1.5 FL. I used the A 28 in Vegas for a few shots and set it at 28. --Polerizers. Do you add EV to make up for the lost light or shoot what the meter gives you.I used it a bit in Vegas and the +.3 shots look good, even though the histogram was still quite a wasys from the right.I used the Tav mode for 99% of shots. Asking as i rarely use filters and i wound up bracketing a lot. Dave -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Two questions
I did it wrong then so far by telling SR 77mm for a A 50mm macro and 42 for the 28mm? Did I overlook that in the manual or was it a simple stupid assumption from my side? Could anybody tell me if that misunderstanding (if it is) would make a difference in the effectiveness of shake reduction? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:36 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Two questions --Setting SR with an A lens. Do you use the actual or the 1.5 FL. I used the A 28 in Vegas for a few shots and set it at 28. At the optical focal length. It's a DSLR ... they've taken the focal length into consideration, not some ridiculous equivalence factor. --Polerizers. Do you add EV to make up for the lost light or shoot what the meter gives you.I used it a bit in Vegas and the +.3 shots look good, even though the histogram was still quite a wasys from the right.I used the Tav mode for 99% of shots. Asking as i rarely use filters and i wound up bracketing a lot. Usually you can use what the meter says but polarizers can be funny... G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Two questions
That was me Charles, thanks for the correction. Thinking too much or too little sometimes :-) Greetings Markus -- Focal length is focal length. Don't get hung up on the relative image size compared to what you get on a 35mm camera. If the focal length of the lens is 28, set the SR to 28. I think someone later on states that he's setting it for 1.5x FL - that's a mistake. -Charles -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Film scanner dillemma
According to German CT magazine around 1800 is realistic for the best flatbed scanners. None reaches the real resolution of even the cheapest real filmscanner. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:47 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Film scanner dillemma On Apr 18, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Adam Maas wrote: A V700 costs as much or more than a dedicated 35mm scanner and delivers less quality. Flatbeds are by and large not a good choice for 35mm stuff. They come into their own for MF or (especially) LF use. The lowest price I can find from a reputable seller for a Nikon Coolscan V ED (LS-50) is about $605 delivered and about $995 for the Super Coolscan V ED (LS-5000) model. Since I just bought one, the Epson V700 cost $465, shipping included, from BuyDig.com. I paid $200 or so for the LS-40 last summer, with everything but the APS film carrier ...which cost me a whopping $190 by itself, new. Well, that latter is worth it to me as I have a lot of APS film and a couple of very nice APS cameras still (Canon ELPH Jr and Contax Tix). I will be comparing the Nikon Coolscan IV (LS-40, 2900ppi) resolution against the V700's today. The Epson's resolution is a bit perplexing to evaluate from their spec sheet: --- Optical Resolution Epson Dual Lens System, 4800 dpi and 6400 dpi Hardware Resolution 4800 x 9600 dpi, 6400 x 9600 dpi with Micro Step DriveT technology --- VueScan gives me the option of 3200 or 6400 ppi with it. ?? On the other hand, the Nikon is a heck of a lot more convenient to handle 35mm film compared to a flatbed scanner. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: 85mm Takumar
The most valued seems to be the M42 SMC Takumar 85mm F1.8 and not the F1.9 Jens. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Bladt Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:21 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: 85mm Takumar Asahi Pentax, Takumar, Super Multi Coated 85 mm / 1,9 med UV filter, modlysblande og original taske. Is this one of sought after, excellent 85mm lenses, please? It seems to be for sale at 150 USD: http://www.dba.dk/asp/soegning/detail.asp?annonceid=49054086 Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.2/766 - Release Date: 04/18/2007 07:39 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Two questions
Hi Bruce Thanks for the clarification. Speed does not seem to be such an issue with most of the photos I see from you to let those fine A lenses go? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Dayton Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:59 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Two questions Yes, I suspect an assumption on your part. No need to do mental conversions in your head. You put in the actual focal length of the lens. In my simple testing I found that for the A 35-105/3.5 and A 70-210/4 zooms, that SR worked markedly better when the correct focal length was input to match the shooting focal length. The downside to that is, using zooms with SR is not as easy and quick as I would like. It sort of pushes me towards considering more modern ones. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 8:47:04 AM, you wrote: MM I did it wrong then so far by telling SR 77mm for a A 50mm macro and 42 MM for the 28mm? MM Did I overlook that in the manual or was it a simple stupid assumption from MM my side? MM Could anybody tell me if that misunderstanding (if it is) would make a MM difference in the effectiveness of shake reduction? MM Greetings MM Markus MM -Original Message- MM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MM Godfrey DiGiorgi MM Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:36 PM MM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List MM Subject: Re: Two questions --Setting SR with an A lens. Do you use the actual or the 1.5 FL. I used the A 28 in Vegas for a few shots and set it at 28. MM At the optical focal length. It's a DSLR ... they've taken the focal MM length into consideration, not some ridiculous equivalence factor. --Polerizers. Do you add EV to make up for the lost light or shoot what the meter gives you.I used it a bit in Vegas and the +.3 shots look good, even though the histogram was still quite a wasys from the right.I used the Tav mode for 99% of shots. Asking as i rarely use filters and i wound up bracketing a lot. MM Usually you can use what the meter says but polarizers can be funny... MM G MM -- MM PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List MM PDML@pdml.net MM http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:Lights in the tunnel HDR
Hi Pentaxians First thanks to Boris and Rob and Alastair for the nice comments on my lake Zurich HDR. Boris, the real masters this time are the programmers of software like Photoshop and others. This is a just wonderful piece of software IMHO even if I will never use and discover it's full power. Now for the third try: Lights in the tunnel below the freeway nearby. The old man with the bike was really surprised to see me there photographing early today in the morning :-) K10D, Pentax A50mm macro, ISO 400, F5.6 1/2 sec. With the very welcome help of SR and the Monostat monopod. HDR made out of 1 raw file with 3 different exposures. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/tunnellights.jpg (240 KB) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:little snail
Hi Pentaxians Just a little snail that crossed my way this morning, K10D, Pentax 50mm macro, cropped about 40%, converted to bw in Photoshop. I like the unusal view here, that's all :-) http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/littlesnail.jpg Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Lights in the tunnel HDR
Thanks Boris. Been out today already taking some photos? I'm proud that I managed to get out at 6 today for some morning light shots. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Liberman Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:00 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:Lights in the tunnel HDR Tough I don't care much for the subject, the execution is impressive again. Boris On 4/15/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pentaxians First thanks to Boris and Rob and Alastair for the nice comments on my lake Zurich HDR. Boris, the real masters this time are the programmers of software like Photoshop and others. This is a just wonderful piece of software IMHO even if I will never use and discover it's full power. Now for the third try: Lights in the tunnel below the freeway nearby. The old man with the bike was really surprised to see me there photographing early today in the morning :-) K10D, Pentax A50mm macro, ISO 400, F5.6 1/2 sec. With the very welcome help of SR and the Monostat monopod. HDR made out of 1 raw file with 3 different exposures. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/tunnellights.jpg (240 KB) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: On the Beach
I like it too Bob. Maybe loosing some parts of the sky with a different crop would make it even better? The man really adds to the mood . What are those tube buildings in the water for? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:34 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: On the Beach Great shot. I like the way you crushed the blacks. And the monochromatic look suits the mood. Excellent. Paul On Apr 14, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Bob W wrote: Hi, this is the only shot I've taken today that I quite like: http://www.web-options.com/_4145152.jpg I've been using curves in Lightroom again, just to bring the blacks more to the left on the histogram, and make the midtones a little less flat. Please let me know if it looks unnatural, ok, whatever. Thanks, Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: On the Beach
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:34 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: On the Beach Great shot. I like the way you crushed the blacks. And the monochromatic look suits the mood. Excellent. Paul On Apr 14, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Bob W wrote: Hi, this is the only shot I've taken today that I quite like: http://www.web-options.com/_4145152.jpg I've been using curves in Lightroom again, just to bring the blacks more to the left on the histogram, and make the midtones a little less flat. Please let me know if it looks unnatural, ok, whatever. Thanks, Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: K10D or SD-card error - please help/offer advice!
Hi Jens The faked Sandisk cards miss the serial number on the backside, the front looks identical to the original. (source CT computermagazine) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Bladt Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 10:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: RE: K10D or SD-card error - please help/offer advice! You ar of course right, Godfrey. The faulty card was a brand new Sandisk Ultra II card. Or is it realy ? :-) Regards Jens Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Godfrey DiGiorgi Sendt: 13. april 2007 21:58 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: K10D or SD-card error - please help/offer advice! Transcend 150x SD cards in 2G capacity are now $21 in the US. Sandisk Ultra IIs are about $28, Extreme IIIs about $39. At least in the US, there's no sensible reason not to buy the best there is. Godfrey On Apr 13, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: Yes, your are right, Godfrey. No problems with my old card. The dealer has already agreed to send me annother sample - hopefully much better. I really should stop buying discount cards. I guess I still remember the time, when we had to pay 1000 USD for a 1GB CF card! That's just 3-4 years ago! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/759 - Release Date: 04/12/2007 19:58 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/759 - Release Date: 04/12/2007 19:58 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Samples from my first commercial slideshow
Hi Fernando Thanks for looking. Swissair isn't anymore and the new Swiss belongs mostly to the German Lufthansa. The river is the Limmat which you see on one of the photos. The prices are indeed very high here but Zurich just won an award again for the city with the highest life quality whatever that means :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fernando Terrazzino Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:18 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:Samples from my first commercial slideshow Nice pictures you have there Markus. I remember staying in Zurich for 8 hours waiting for a Swiss-Air flight when we went to Thailand. I couldn't really see too much of the city because I met my brother there, who traveled from France to meet me (and his swiss girlfriend..) . I do remember the train station and a river that cross the city. Nice city, expensive though. Congrats for the commercial work. On 4/11/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pentaxians I'm quite proud to just have finished my first commercial work in form of a slideshow on DVD made of 150 photos with my old Pentax film cameras and lenses equipment and about 20% photos are made with the K10D. The DVD contains a film about all the Switzerland tours my friend Gabriela offers beside my slideshow and will be presented to all her international guests during the bus travels. I show you 3 samples made with the K10D of typical tourist attractions in the city of Zurich and before you ask, the scenes have to be colorful and quite cliché too. I used a B+W polarizer for the deep blue sky and mostly the Pentax-F 50mm 1.7 and the M 28mm 3.5 and the 18-55mm Kit lens here. I will produce a slideshow again for every tour I visit in the next weeks as a side product of my panorama calendar 2008, the first destination will be the Rhine falls and later Mt. Rigi http://www.swisswebcams.ch/deutsch/webcam_rigi_kulm_(6410_rigi_kulm)_101060 8984.html. Zurich city samples with the K10D: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zhsample1.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zhsample2.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zhsample3.jpg I hope you can still enjoy photos from Zurich :-) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO: fire spitter
I like what I see here, You got the right moment of full action and the fire is well exposed. It looks like he sets the ceiling in fire since the photo looks a little flat (2 dimensional), did you use a larger tele for that? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toine Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:55 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: fire spitter Fire spitter: http://leende.net/peso/20070409 Toine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Protection glass / filters
Hi Dough Are you interested in all Pentax lenses/hood combinations or only for the newest DA lenses? I use the Pentax A24mm with a metallic Vivitar wideangle hood 52mm, I have the same looking hood as no name brand too. The manual Tamron 90mm 2.5 macro and the Pentax-F 1.7 50mm are fitted with old Takumar metallic hoods (1:1.8 55mm written on it) filter size 49mm. It would be interesting as well IMHO to know which polarizer filter size works with what lens on the DSLR's. The B + W polarizer 52mm size works well with the Pentax A24mm on the K10D without vignetteing here, on film bodies at 24mm it did not. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Franklin Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:25 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Protection glass / filters Cotty wrote: Well, here's a combo that works for me: a 6X7 hood on a 35mm lens. PH-SB on the A*85mm 1.4. Looks like this: http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/mods/a85ineos.html OK, added. Here's the beginnings of the page http://NutDriver.org/hoodxref.html -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO - Another family snap
A touching moment, I like it. But the web JPG photo is a bit too low in quality to really enjoy it, did you try a b/w conversion as well? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Coyle Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:53 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - Another family snap Not great photography, but a subject I like a lot - and the print looks terrific! http://tinyurl.com/2kcu7d Details on the page John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
K10D review
A good review of the K10D and it's pro and cons at: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/K10D/K10DA.HTM Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:Tamron SP F2.8 70-150mm SoftFocus test shots on the K10D
Hi Pentaxians Against a uniform background like the blue sky or grass the Tamron SP 70-150mm Soft Focus portrait zoom produces a nice dreamy look at F2.8-4.0. If the background is too busy it shows quite a harsh rendering. Two uncropped photos for you to show the soft focus effect on the K10D at F4. ISO 100 and 1/500 and 1/90 sec + B+W polarizer and soft focus ring setting 2 of 3: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/tamronsoft1.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/tamronsoft2.jpg As a normal very fast zoom the Tamron + KA adaptall2 adapter produced again some wonderful photos in the last days on the K10 for me. Despite the weight I can really recommend this lens. Comments welcome Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:sunrise over lake Zurich (surreal HDR)
A lovely sunrise over lake Zurich got me a (natural) panorama made out of 5 photos. I converted another raw single photo from the same series using Photomatix to a somehow surreal scene. It would have been impossible for me to get a natural look with that image in Photomatix as a HDR as far as my knowledge of that software goes... I wonder if you like/dislike this artificial kind of look here. Please enjoy: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/sunrisehdr.jpg (172 KB) K10D, Pentax A24mm, ISO 100, 1/60 F4 Comments welcome Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:sunrise over lake Zurich (surreal HDR)
Thanks Jack for looking and commenting. I need to get up more often very early in the morning or work until then to get views like that. The morning light near the lake is just wonderful and somehow new for me because I'm more used to take photos in the later afternoon. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Davis Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:34 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:sunrise over lake Zurich (surreal HDR) I like its monochrome feel and quiet light. Jack --- Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lovely sunrise over lake Zurich got me a (natural) panorama made out of 5 photos. I converted another raw single photo from the same series using Photomatix to a somehow surreal scene. It would have been impossible for me to get a natural look with that image in Photomatix as a HDR as far as my knowledge of that software goes... I wonder if you like/dislike this artificial kind of look here. Please enjoy: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/sunrisehdr.jpg (172 KB) K10D, Pentax A24mm, ISO 100, 1/60 F4 Comments welcome Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO - Yosemite Color (Redux - Real Photo)
Hi Marnie I agree with Tom regarding the trees. The exposure is fine here on my monitor, I would not change that. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom C Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:52 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO - Yosemite Color (Redux - Real Photo) I definitely like the colors and of course the subject. Having taken many tree shots I'll give you a dose of my own self-criticism. Don't take it personally as a severe critique. OK. :-) I always have a problem with trees that are cutoff at both ends, top and bottom. For some reason, to my eye, aesthetically one should always be able to see the tops or the bottoms of the trees, unless it is a total abstract shot or an extreme closeup. My feeling about this is about the same as if you showed me a people shot with their heads and feet out of the frame. I always strive to somehow have at least a total tree in my shots and if I can't, I'll generally opt for showing the entire trunk and losing part of the top as opposed to showing the top(s) with cutoff trunks. It may just be my own personal aesthetics, but I've gradually come to these conclusions. Tom C. From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO - Yosemite Color (Redux - Real Photo) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Very well seen and I think you hit the shadows exactly right. Good contrast, yet adequate detail. I'd probably not, however, be able to resist pumping the yellow slightly...but then, I'm weak. ;) Jack --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking over my photos from Yosemite, taken last October, and some are a bit better than I thought. Nothing super great, nothing Ansel Adamish, nothing near as good as I really wanted... Hey, this no disclaimer thing is tough. :-) Anyway, at the time I was suffering a bit from high altitude, wanted to see everything, felt a bit rushed, and just over all didn't feel I did that well photography-wise. So nothing super fantastic, BUT I sort of like this. :-) I have used significant highlight/shadow on this because the trees were pretty dark. This is very typical of Yosemite in the fall, lots of dark pines, interspersed with brightly colored yellow-leaved trees (not sure what they were). Mainly right next to the road, and about 1/4 of the road in does have trees right next to it. So, what I am trying to say, it was incredibly beautiful, dark, yellow, dark, yellow... Typical Yosemite color anyway, this time unartified, unmucked with. If you think I should bring up the shadows more, just say so. http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/leaves.htm Comments welcome. Marnie aka Doe :-) ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net ___ _ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO - Yosemite Color (Redux - Real Photo)
Since I agreed with Tom regarding cutting off trees in photos I have to say that I prefer this one by far Marnie. Greetings Markus But maybe you'll like this better: http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/yellowtree.htm Very quick edit in response to your post, I might play with a bit more if I was posting it as the original PESO. Maybe lighten it a tad and tone down the highlights in the left corner. Although I did lighten up the pine boles. And I had about four shots this way, and maybe I didn't pick out the best one. But... I like the other better. HTH, Marnie aka Doe :-) == I definitely like the colors and of course the subject. Having taken many tree shots I'll give you a dose of my own self-criticism. Don't take it personally as a severe critique. OK. :-) I always have a problem with trees that are cutoff at both ends, top and bottom. For some reason, to my eye, aesthetically one should always be able to see the tops or the bottoms of the trees, unless it is a total abstract shot or an extreme closeup. My feeling about this is about the same as if you showed me a people shot with their heads and feet out of the frame. I always strive to somehow have at least a total tree in my shots and if I can't, I'll generally opt for showing the entire trunk and losing part of the top as opposed to showing the top(s) with cutoff trunks. It may just be my own personal aesthetics, but I've gradually come to these conclusions. Tom C. This is very typical of Yosemite in the fall, lots of dark pines, interspersed with brightly colored yellow-leaved trees (not sure what they were). Mainly right next to the road, and about 1/4 of the road in does have trees right next to it. So, what I am trying to say, it was incredibly beautiful, dark, yellow, dark, yellow... Typical Yosemite color anyway, this time unartified, unmucked with. If you think I should bring up the shadows more, just say so. http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/leaves.htm Comments welcome. Marnie aka Doe :-) ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO 2007 - Cotton Cafe - GDG
These negatives seem to be in quite good shape despite 2 scratches and some dust spots if you did not clean up the scan. I got more dust on mine (even fresh from the labs sometimes) and the fix up was quite a lot of boring work in Photoshop due to the missing ICE in the Minolta Dual scan II. They still get quite good prices on auctions here btw. I'm really glad that I do not have to scan again every photo I take! But I do miss the Spotmatic F and the full metal lenses, I must test drive the M42 SMC 85mm 1.8 and the 35mm 3.5 next week on the K10D... Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:05 PM To: DUG; PDML List; PAW; SeePhoto Talk; Submini-L List Subject: PESO 2007 - Cotton Cafe - GDG I bought a used Nikon LS-40 (Coolscan IV ED) scanner last summer but hadn't gotten around to evaluating it until this past couple of weeks. Well, the more I explore it, the more I feel it's time to switch to it and pull out some of my older film work, rescan it and edit it into my portfolio properly ... and sell off the older Minolta Scan Dual II film scanner. But I couldn't do that until I ascertained whether I could scan my subminiature film from Minox and other cameras with the Nikon properly. With the Minolta, I found I was able to just lay the Minox film across the 35mm film strip carrier, center it in an aperture, and scan. The optics and illuminator didn't have any flare to speak of, unlike my previous Polaroid SprintScan 35E/S for which making a mask to carry the negative was essential. I wondered if the Nikon would work the same as the Minolta. The FH-3 strip holder is a lot more sophisticated than the holder for the Minolta in most ways but it is definitely designed for strips of up to six 35mm negatives .. the cross pieces are incomplete, which always make me think my ten frame strip of Minox 8x11mm film might get caught or damaged as I move the carrier into and out of the scanner. To solve this lack, I just cut a couple of post-it notes and made bridges so that the ends of the Minox film strip would be supported in something. I then carefully laid the film across the carrier such that the frame I wanted was properly centered in a scan aperture. The carrier was inserted into the scanner, Vuescan fired up, and I clicked the preview button. A rotation, some tweaks to the scan settings for white point and gamma, turn OFF the infrared cleaning (my, does it make a mess to traditional silver-grain film!) set 2900 ppi scan density and output file destination, scan. Voila! My first Minox 8x11 negative scan in about 6 years! http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/17a.htm This was a negative from my 1999 Thanksgiving trip to North Carolina. The day after T-Day, I rented a car and drove from Raleigh to Hendersonville to visit with one of my best photo buddies, whom I hadn't seen for almost 16 years at that point. I can see that my camera had a nasty hair stuck in the film gate for this entire roll but, other than that, the quality is really very nice to my eye! Couple of minor scratches, etc. No edits whatsoever have been done to this photo other than using my usual scripts to size and render a web-display photo, same for the larger version ... that large version when you click on it is just about exactly the full size as it comes out of Vuescan. I guess I can retire the Scan Dual II finally. enjoy, Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: April in Milwaukee
Incredibly, we have more than 20 degrees in the next days and had a very sunny easter weekend. For photographic reason only (my calendar 2008 project) I would have liked some more snow days in the city . But I do like the coming sunny days for my Swiss mountain tours finally starting next week! Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sorenson Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:17 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: April in Milwaukee A quick snap of Milwaukee weather... http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/quickpage.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:Samples from my first commercial slideshow
Hi Pentaxians I'm quite proud to just have finished my first commercial work in form of a slideshow on DVD made of 150 photos with my old Pentax film cameras and lenses equipment and about 20% photos are made with the K10D. The DVD contains a film about all the Switzerland tours my friend Gabriela offers beside my slideshow and will be presented to all her international guests during the bus travels. I show you 3 samples made with the K10D of typical tourist attractions in the city of Zurich and before you ask, the scenes have to be colorful and quite cliché too. I used a B+W polarizer for the deep blue sky and mostly the Pentax-F 50mm 1.7 and the M 28mm 3.5 and the 18-55mm Kit lens here. I will produce a slideshow again for every tour I visit in the next weeks as a side product of my panorama calendar 2008, the first destination will be the Rhine falls and later Mt. Rigi http://www.swisswebcams.ch/deutsch/webcam_rigi_kulm_(6410_rigi_kulm)_101060 8984.html. Zurich city samples with the K10D: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zhsample1.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zhsample2.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/zhsample3.jpg I hope you can still enjoy photos from Zurich :-) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:sunrise over lake Zurich (surreal HDR)
Hi Kenneth, Marnie, Peter, Bong, Subash, Godfrey and everybody I forgot :-) I'm glad that you liked my attempt for a HDR. Maybe I'm just influenced because I know how the scene really looked like but for me, the HDR adds a kind of silver-blue metallic cast to the water. Without a skylight filter I expect some bluish tint early in the morning but here it does look too artificial for me. Maybe I'm just not tolerant enough yet for that kind of computer manipulation ;-) Thanks a lot for looking and commenting. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Waller Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:57 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:sunrise over lake Zurich (surreal HDR) I like it. It doesn't have an unnatural feel to it IMHO. I've gotten up several hours before sunrise to capture light such as this. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:28 PM Subject: PESO:sunrise over lake Zurich (surreal HDR) A lovely sunrise over lake Zurich got me a (natural) panorama made out of 5 photos. I converted another raw single photo from the same series using Photomatix to a somehow surreal scene. It would have been impossible for me to get a natural look with that image in Photomatix as a HDR as far as my knowledge of that software goes... I wonder if you like/dislike this artificial kind of look here. Please enjoy: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/sunrisehdr.jpg (172 KB) K10D, Pentax A24mm, ISO 100, 1/60 F4 Comments welcome Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO - A Chilly Afternoon
Hi Russell I agree with William here. Just curious: Why did you not choose landscape mode here? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:47 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO - A Chilly Afternoon - Original Message - From: Russell Kerstetter Subject: PESO - A Chilly Afternoon http://www.avocadohead.com/piclinks/IMGP2959.html There are several types of comments I am looking for: 1) The typical 'good, bad and ugly' comments as well as constructive criticism. Does nothing for me. 2) Is big enough, or just right? It could be a bit bigger, though you would have to lose the navigation links 3) Is it bright enough? Perhaps a bit flat. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
JIM KING please read this! - I need help and the understanding from the list
Sorry PDML members! I'm really unable to reach Jim King privately since my mails get bounced back with an undefined network error: error message--- [EMAIL PROTECTED]; - Failed Fehlgeschlagen Échec Error-Code; 5.3.0 (other or undefined mail system status) (anderer oder nicht definierter Mailbox-Systemstatus) (état du système de messagerie différent ou non défini) Remote MTA : Entferntes MTA : ATM à distance : gateway-r.comcast.net network error Netzwerkfehler erreur du réseau ---end of error message Jim, I sent you two mails at your private address and one public over the PDML. I hope that you see this message now since I do not want you to believe that I simple do not answer your inquiries. Again my apologies to the list but I have no way to contact Jim otherwise. Maybe this damn gateway-r.comcast.net does not like Switzerland :-( Could anybody please forward this email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for me? I quote again what I wrote: - Mail 2 -- Hi Jim I already tried twice to send you an answer but got an undefined sent error message yesterday. I think I'll pass, it does not sound like a good deal for both of us if I take everything into account. sorry, but if I see such a lens in full working condition in an auction I will let you know. greetings Markus Mail 1 -- -Original Message- From: Markus Maurer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:36 PM To: 'Jim King' Subject: RE: PESO:Tamron SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots Hi Jim I honestly don't know what collectors expect from the condition of a lens, I suspect you would like a mint or near mint one to be of value for you. This lens shows slight signs of use on the rubber bands, especially the middle rubber band does not fit 100%, it overlaps just a tiny bit on parts of the metal which you can feel with your hand. The optics are fine as far as I can see and I made good photos with it in normal mode. If you consider the shipping (which I would have to ask for a the post office and need your location for that) and the repair cost it was maybe not such a good idea to offer it to you even if I would give it for a low price like maybe US $50. What do you think? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: Jim King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:Tamron SP F2.8 70-150mm Soft Focus lens Hi Marcus. I haven't heard anything back from you after my last note concerning my possibly buying your broken copy of this lens from you. Have you decided not to sell it? I'm still interested, depending on your price, of course. Please let me know. Regards, Jim James G. King 1344 Westboro Birmingham, MI 48009 Phone: 248-645-9388 Mobile: 248-895-4357 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:sunrise over lake Zurich (surreal HDR)
Thanks Russ, it has a silver blueish metallic cast for me best seen on the foreground water part but otherwise I like it too :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell Kerstetter Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:39 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:sunrise over lake Zurich (surreal HDR) nice! it looks natural to me... Russ On 4/11/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lovely sunrise over lake Zurich got me a (natural) panorama made out of 5 photos. I converted another raw single photo from the same series using Photomatix to a somehow surreal scene. It would have been impossible for me to get a natural look with that image in Photomatix as a HDR as far as my knowledge of that software goes... I wonder if you like/dislike this artificial kind of look here. Please enjoy: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/sunrisehdr.jpg (172 KB) K10D, Pentax A24mm, ISO 100, 1/60 F4 Comments welcome Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Legacy Air, Inc. 11900 Airport Way Broomfield Colorado 80021 (303) 404-0277 fax (303) 404-0280 www.legacy-air.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO: Who's afraid of red, yellow and ... green
Your old Takumar M42 50mm macro does very well Jan !? I prefer that one to the previous PESO because of the warmer colors. You should clean up the spots btw but otherwise I like it. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan van Wijk Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 12:51 PM To: Pentax discussion forum Subject: PESO: Who's afraid of red, yellow and ... green Title derived from the Newman painting :-) Another daffodil, that was on our easter breakfast table ... http://www.dfsee.com/gallery/index.php?id=229 Comments welcome! Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Protection glass / filters
Hi Bong and Roman I use old Takumar and a Vivitar wide metallic hoods on all of my lenses and often B+W polarizers. No other filters with digital yet. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bong Manayon Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 11:33 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Protection glass / filters Thanks for posting your question, Roman. It is helping me a lot too...am in this debate with myself to filter or not to filter...? My hunch is to take off all the filters in shooting digital, but have not gotten over the protection issue. Somehow wanting to be ready in case Murphy strikes. My lenses have a UV of various brands and quality on them (I forget now which is which, I should take inventory...). Bong On 4/9/07, Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What protecting glass / UV filter brands do you use on DSLR. I've good experience with Sigma UV EX DG (for digital). Hoya UV Pro1 Digital I recently purchased had hard dirt stuck to the glass from the inner side that has been contacting with porolone in the filter case, so cleaned it with ethanol first, but the image passing through the glass is good. You? -- new photos ever so often... http://roman.blakout.net/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Protection glass / filters
Hi Mark There are lots of errors in this list with the filter sizes for the A lenses? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 4:41 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Protection glass / filters BTW: http://www.robertstech.com/filters.htm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Intro
Hi Andy Welcome here and enjoy your Pentax :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of drew Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:01 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Intro Hi all, Just a quick intro... Just bought my first DSLR, one of the vast number of NOS istDL with 18-55 lens on Ebay right now. Been taking photos for years, but mainly with Russian 35mm gear and a precession of point and shoot digital. I have always wanted the flexibility of my 35mm gear with the convenience of digital, now it appears I have it!. Until recently DSLRs have been beyond my reach, but with the recent price reductions I can finally afford it. I was very happy to find my old K mount lenses and Russian M42 lenses work well with the Pentax. Anyway, I live in East Sussex, UK have two kids and one wife. Some of my pictures are on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Only a few from the Pentax so far, but will take more this W/E. Comments always welcome (don't expect to much, I enjoy photography, I am just very good at it ;-) ). Cheers, Andy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: WebGallery:Barrett-JacksonCollectorCarAuctions2007WestPalmBeach...
Hi Jco This turns into one of the communications I don't want to participate in. You must have the eyes of an eagle or a mole. Just a last puzzle for you: What does T in an Eizo's monitor name stand for? I'm back to Pentax topics and will not respond to that thread anymore. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. C. O'Connell Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:58 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: WebGallery:Barrett-JacksonCollectorCarAuctions2007WestPalmBeach... Secondly you post makes no sense, 1280x960 cant EVER have the sharpness of good 1600x1200 image, no matter how good the CRT. You know how sharp this particular sony is?, I saw things on FONTS that I never even knew existed with this CRT for the first time in many years of computing, and that was with normal size fonts displayed at 1600x1200. Thats SHARP. its way better than all previous monitors I have ever owned, none of which were trinitrons I will admit and I thought they were all good until I got this one, only now I know they were all garbage compared to this oneThis monitor is so good that I bought two of them ( they were being closed out brand new in box, super cheap) , one is a spare, not even being used at this time jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Maurer Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:32 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: WebGallery:Barrett-JacksonCollectorCarAuctions2007WestPalmBeach... An 19 Crt is optimized for a maximum resolution of 1280x1024 pixel and not more JCO, ask the manufacturers. Your Sony can't display 1600x1200 absolutely flicker free and without reduced sharpness in the edges. If you use anything else than a Matrox graphic card at such high resolutions I would not want to work with that setup even for a short time. I use Eizo/Nanoa monitors with Matrox cards which are among the highest quality you can get and could easily display 1600x1200 85 hertz pixel on the 21 but for my eyes 1280x960 at 100 hertz is much more comfortable for text reading. I use 2 monitors to have quite a large working space in Photoshop. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. C. O'Connell Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:00 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Web Gallery:Barrett-JacksonCollectorCarAuctions2007WestPalmBeach... huh? I bought my video card for $35 new and got the Sony 19 CRT monitor for $135 new old stock on ebay. This stuff THAT I USE isn't state of the art or expensive, your stuff is just very out of date. I suggest you upgrade to higher resolution if you are into digital photography as its NOT expensive to go to 1600x1200 today by any standards, especially if you compare to the cost of digital SLRs and lenses, etc. I cant recommend it high enough, especially if you are still using 1280x960 or less, as it really makes a big difference in viewing and editing photos The reason I dont post the photos any smaller than 1200 pixels wide is I DONT LIKE THE WAY THEY LOOK reduced any smaller. Thats not elitest, thats called artistic integrity. ( although these particualar phots are more documentary than artistic, they still benefit from a minimum image quality to be appreciated IMHO). jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Celio Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:39 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Web Gallery :Barrett-JacksonCollectorCarAuctions2007WestPalmBeach... JCO wrote: I guess I didnt make this clear enough, I dont do lowest common denominator web photos, if your screen cant show them fully as I want them to be seen, then you simply dont GET to see them. Even reducing them to 800 pixels wide ruins them IHMO. Don't you think that's being rather elitist? Hell, why share photos at all if the only people who can view them are those with large and expensive monitor setups like yours? If this is how you always operate, I don't think I'll bother viewing your photos, even though, as I said, the ones I looked at were very nice. John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: K10D ISO50
I see, thanks Adam. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:03 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K10D ISO50 Leftover from a pre-release firmware. Some of the test bodies had ISO 50 and 3200 available. -Adm Markus Maurer wrote: Hi Pentaxians In the german manual of the K10D is an ISO setting of 50 shown on page 155 under exposure warning. Any comments on that? Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: JunkEmail: RE: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light
Hi Jan That could well be but maybe a person sitting or standing somewhere would have given a bit of life to that photo. BTW, why does your email program add JunkEmail: to your response, that does not sound very inviting ;-) Greetings Markus PS: please don't delete the links in your messages The solist: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/waterchurch1.jpg The waterchurch: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/waterchurch2.jpg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan van Wijk Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:28 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: JunkEmail: RE: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light Hi Markus, and Bill On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 04:44:48 +0200, Markus Maurer wrote: Glad you liked the first one. Photography ist a lot about emotions for me , the second one just seems not to touch you. I looked back at the image when reading Bill's comment, it may be the clipped window arches (at the top) that are a bit distracting. I feel something is 'missing there' :-) Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:HDR Federal
Hi Boris I appreciate that you had a look despite your previous experiences. Maybe if not overdone HDR can help with certain scenes, but I agree that most photos I saw so far just looked unreal and more like paintings. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Liberman Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:30 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:HDR Federal Markus, with great reluctance :-) I should admit that this one is among the very few very select shots that look totally natural to me. Thus, you really succeeded applying HDR this time ;-). Well done! Boris On 4/2/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pentaxians The light in the Zurich main rail station is extremly contrasty and it's hard to get the big blue windows well exposed and the hall not to dark. I used a raw file with a photo of the restaurant Federal and some reflections in it's windows for a first try with HDR made out of 3 exposures -3,0,+3. Could you please tell me honestly if HRS works for that kind of photos or if it is to artifical. Without HDR the ceiling inside the restaurant would not be visible if I expose the signs and the blue reflections right. I wonder if I should invest some time in this technology to use it for the coming mountain panorama shots or just forget about it. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/federalhdr.jpg (300 KB) Thanks for any comments Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light
Hi Bong That is indeed a very good observation and I'm quite sure your proposal holds the key to success. I was taking the photograph from the entry stairs and not from the ground and I will need the 17mm Tamron to get the ceiling that way. I will try again from the same distance but from the ground to see if the result is more divine. Thanks a lot, that makes me think a bit for future church and other historic building takes. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bong Manayon Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:00 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light My take...the 2nd photo should be vertical and taken from the ground level (well not really maybe when you use the Tamron 17mm...). It seems you were on the balcony or the choir loft at the back. Old European cathedrals were designed to pull you up to the divine, that is what I feel is missing. Bong On 4/2/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi William Glad you liked the first one. Photography ist a lot about emotions for me , the second one just seems not to touch you. I know that (missing) feeling with photos, there is no need to explain it :-) Thanks for the comment and looking. Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 4:29 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light - Original Message - From: Markus Maurer Subject: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/waterchurch1.jpg Wonderful photograph. The waterchurch: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/waterchurch2.jpg I want to like this one, but I can't quite do it. I'm not sure why. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light
Hi William I found Bongs comment very useful and clever and I will try again with the Tamron 17mm from the ground to see if the photo get's more divine. The A24mm (36mm) is not wide enough there. Greetings Markus - My take...the 2nd photo should be vertical and taken from the ground level (well not really maybe when you use the Tamron 17mm...). It seems you were on the balcony or the choir loft at the back. Old European cathedrals were designed to pull you up to the divine, that is what I feel is missing. Bong - Hi Markus, I tried a few different crops of it, and can't get anything that sticks. I think you should have included more ceiling at the expense of the pews, which aren't doing anything for the picture. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:HDR Federal
Thanks Godfrey. It's called Hauptbahnhof so you where really close ;-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 4:02 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:HDR Federal From: Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] The light in the Zurich main rail station is extremely contrasty and it's hard to get the big blue windows well exposed and the hall not too dark. I used a raw file with a photo of the restaurant Federal and some reflections in it's windows for a first try with HDR made out of 3 exposures -3,0,+3. Could you please tell me honestly if HRS works for that kind of photos or if it is to artifical. Without HDR the ceiling inside the restaurant would not be visible if I expose the signs and the blue reflections right. I wonder if I should invest some time in this technology to use it for the coming mountain panorama shots or just forget about it. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/federalhdr.jpg (300 KB) Wow, been too long since I enjoyed the Zurich rail station (Hauptbahnhoff? ...?). I think I have a bunch of exposures of it somewhere in my film archive. You've done a subtle, artful job with HDR: very nice. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:HDR Federal
Hi Cory Thanks. If I or the programs default setting set brightness too high and try to recover too much detail in Photomatix the photos look like you described them. So, less is more here and maybe I was kind of lucky with that scene too :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cory Papenfuss Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 3:06 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:HDR Federal Markus, with great reluctance :-) I should admit that this one is among the very few very select shots that look totally natural to me. Thus, you really succeeded applying HDR this time ;-). Well done! My sentiments exactly. Usually, HDR images I've seen look like weird, pastel caricature pictures of the subject. This one works. -Cory -- * * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA * * Electrical Engineering* * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * * -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
For the attention of Jim King
My apologies to the list but I have no way to reach Jim King privately per email, because I got the following email with 3 attempts: --- These recipients of your message have been processed by the mail server: Diese Nachrichtenempfänger wurden vom Mail-Server verarbeitet: Ces destinataires ont été traités par le serveur de messagerie : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; - Failed Fehlgeschlagen Échec Error-Code; 5.3.0 (other or undefined mail system status) (anderer oder nicht definierter Mailbox-Systemstatus) (état du système de messagerie différent ou non défini) Remote MTA : Entferntes MTA : ATM à distance : gateway-s.comcast.net network error Netzwerkfehler erreur du réseau SMTP protocol diagnostic : - My second mail was: Hi Jim I already tried twice to send you an answer but got an undefined sent error message yesterday. I think I'll pass, it does not sound like a good deal for both of us if I take everything into account. sorry, but if I see such a lens in full working condition in an auction I will let you know. greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Peso: Still More Birds
I like that one Jack. Nearby we have some trees where these birds sleep and make lots of noise talking -:) I made different tries to photograph them but your photo is a lot nicer than my attempts. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Davis Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:56 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Peso: Still More Birds This image would have been up during the recent Hitchcock/Birds banter had I not had an uploading link problem. Late, but link now, hopefully, fixed. http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=220 Jack Shot at local Gray Lodge Wildlife Area. A* 300 f/2.8 w/1.4L t/c on Provia 100F. Comments welcome. Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO: Wild geese
Very good for such an unusual combination of teleconverters, I'm surprised :-) Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan van Wijk Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:09 PM To: Pentax discussion forum Subject: PESO: Wild geese Two new images, wild geese in the Oostvaardersplassen refuge which is just arround the corner from my home (6 miles) Two birds in a perfect formation: http://www.dfsee.com/gallery/index.php?id=218 And one landing, just before touch down: http://www.dfsee.com/gallery/index.php?id=220 Shot today with the 300 f/2.8 and stacked 1.4L and 1.7 AF converters Comments welcome! Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO: Meeting The Moms
It's not the first time I notice that you have an eye for the photogenic mom's Paul ;-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:23 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO: Meeting The Moms One of the benefits of working from home is that I get to take Grace to the park quite often. One of the benefits of taking Grace to the park is that I get to talk to all the moms. Last week, Grace befriended a girl named Maria. I snapped a few pics of Grace and Maria, and one or two of Maria's mom. Here's Maria's mom: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5793287 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO - Field
Hi Bruce It does not work for me. I would love a really full field of flowers here and more of them in DOF. Maybe you could have concentrated on the middle part leaving out the top and bottom green and use another angle. Can't explain it better... Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Dayton Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:44 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - Field I'm trying to decide what I think of this shot. I would appreciate your opinions on it. Pentax K10D, Sigma 100-300/4 EX @ 110mm, Handheld ISO 280, 1/250 sec @ f/8 http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4616.htm -- Bruce -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO: A funny thing happened...
Hi Bong A great photo and a wise decision to carry a MX as backup. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:26 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO: A funny thing happened... Excellent photo. Great BW rendering. Paul On Mar 31, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Bong Manayon wrote: I was supposed to cover a friend's recital in and in a case of overpreparedness I made sure to download the photos in my SD cards onto my computer. Which was a redundant exercise because I already did that, but I wanted to make sure anyway. In the subsequent rush to get to the venue, I found I left the SD cards in the computer! I eventually had it sent over but in the meantime, the recital was about to begin. So, I pulled out the Pentax MX which had a half used roll of Tri-X 400 loaded (and I had an extra Fuji Superia 400) and began shooting. The film ran out just when the SD cards arrived so by then I switched to the DS. But in the meantime the good shots were already taken... http://www.bong.uni.cc/gallery -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO - Fairy Bower Falls
Hi James I would love to see it at printing size, it's a beautiful place. Did you use a normal tripod or special panoramic head gear for that? I have never done a panorama with more than 1 row, will have to try that too :-) Thanks for showing it and greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J and K Messervy Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 12:24 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - Fairy Bower Falls This is a 30 (!) shot panorama (5 rows of 6 shots). Each shot was taken at 55mm focal length and the stitched image was a little over 1gb and equivalent to 123 megapixels! This has been heavily resized obviously but I'll be printing this about 60cm by 35cm when I've got the money. These falls are in Morton National Park in the NSW Southern Highlands and last Sunday I had them all to myself. It's a 1.1 km walk one way to the base of the falls and it is very steep...basically steps cut into the cliff. The effort was worth it though, what a beautiful place it is. http://tinyurl.com/2tp8jh Cheers James -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Flash Snoots
But what is a Pentax 5000AF for the FX-1? And which Pentax flashes does it fit beside the AF500FTZ with the FX-5? Greetings Markus ...or this one which is similar: http://www.synvis.com/FlashXtender.htm Doh!!, they're the same thing!!! That's it, I'm going to bed. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Toy museum
Hi Marnie I agree that it is a weak shot by itself. I just showed it as some kind of appetizer for the coming hopefully better photos from the inside of the toy museum. But still, it's not *that* blurry for a handheld shot at 1/8 second :-) Thanks to Paul and Bruce as well for the honest comments, I will try and give my best after that encourage Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 4:49 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO:Toy museum In a message dated 3/31/2007 3:56:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Pentaxians Franz Carl Weber is the most famous and oldest toy seller in the old city part of Zurich at the Rennweg near Bahnhofstrasse. I saw some days ago that they have a toy museum but was to late to go in so I just took a snapshot through the window. I will visit it as soon as possible and hope they don't mind cameras :-) SR worked again very well here on the K10D and the DA18-55mm kit lens at 40mm F 6.7 ISO 400 1/8 sec handheld! http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/toymuseum.jpg (290KB) BTW what was your most loved toy as child and do you have any photos of it? Greetings Markus = Uh, this is blurry and that is distracting. Also it's not really framed very well. I think actually going in and visiting the museum would help a great deal. :-) Shots through windows often don't work out well. Marnie aka Doe :-) ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: JunkEmail: PESO:Welder
Hi Jan, Bruce, David, Fernando, John, Marnie and everybody I forgot :-) I seem to have landed a hit with that Welder photo since all of you liked it, thanks! I really was careful to not look directly into of the bright light for longer than maybe half a second for framing. The welder had an eye protecting shield David. The construction workers I see usually forget to take caution against noise and dust and carry much too heavy weights :-( Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan van Wijk Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 1:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: JunkEmail: PESO:Welder Hi Markus, On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:27:53 +0200, Markus Maurer wrote: This welder did not take notice of me so I could use the Pentax A50mm macro from about 2 meters distance here. Early in the morning at 2 o'clock after computer work on my way home in the industrial quarter of Zurich with the K10D, ISO 200, F.2.8 1/90 handheld. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/schweisser.jpg Nice shot. I used to do some welding as a holiday-job years ago :-) (as my father was a welder too) Two meters is a bit risky for your equipment though, you can see the little droplets of molten metal flying arround. I know from experience that they will attach and melt right into anything glass. Would give some unusuall bokeh after that :-) Regards, JvW -- Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: GESO - Pura Nature Reserve
Hi Boris Why don't you use your Tamron 90mm macro, it's a good and fast lens on the K10D and surely better built (but heavier) than any DA macro? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Liberman Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:28 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: GESO - Pura Nature Reserve Thanks, Kenneth. In fact, after this shot I realized that I want a 100 mm macro lens, probably newest DFA variety 'cause it is lightest and smallest and because it has standard 49 mm filter thread. Having that wide enablement suggestion by Cotty from earlier work I presented makes me think real hard about my wallet :-). I shall keep your suggestion for eliminating the sky though. It is a matter of (probably wrong and bad) habit for me to leave a piece of sky as of some kind of visual anchor. I shall be sure to un-anchor myself ;-). Thanks! Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Web Gallery : Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions 2007 WestPalm Beach...
Nice photos JCO but not being able to see a photo full size without scrolling annoyed me too much to watch them all. As much as I like it when people show photos as large as possible, there must be better solutions for the presentation than yours. These Tokina lenses did quite well as far as I can see. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:25 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Gallery : Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions 2007 WestPalm Beach... In a message dated 3/31/2007 11:29:03 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I went to the 2007 West Palm Beach Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction Event yesterday 3/30/2007. Incredible cars all over the place. Of course I took a bunch of photos. If your into vintage cars, especially American Muscle Cars, Here's a web gallery I made you might want to peek at ( first time I used this feature in Photoshop, not too bad really). Most of the cars sold between $30 and $60 grand on Friday's Auctions... http://www.jchriso.com/temp/BJWPB2007/index.htm Tech Info: Camera - Pentax istDS Lenses - Tokina SD 28-70 F3.5/4.5 and Tokina SD 80-200 F2.8 Outdoor ISO 200, Tents ISO 400, Indoor ISO 800 JCO === Aha, I used to have one of these, and now it's a collector's item. BJWPB2007-063.jpg Same colors and everything (power blue/white two-tone convertible 1957 Ford, at least I think it was a Ford). Drove it my last two years to high school, then sold it to a girl friend and it ran for her for about four more years. Brings back fond memories. Marnie aka Doe ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Why does Adobe Bridge keep trying to connect to the Internet?
Hi Mark Look under services for the Adobe ones and disable them if you really want too. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Why does Adobe Bridge keep trying to connect to the Internet? Just curious. My firewall software won't let it , of course - I don't let any software phone home. And now that I think about it, I also have Adobe.com listed in my Hosts file, because I don't trust them. Anyone know if there's a way to stop this behavior, rather than block it? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: GOSE: My first soccer game
Hi Jens You did very well and have catched the real action! You must have been tired after that :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Bladt Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:48 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: GOSE: My first soccer game My home town is going to build a new football stadium. So, the planning department (that's where I work) wants photographs from the old one - for a public meeting on the subject. I haven't photographed a real soccer game since the early 1980'ies - before Auto Focus was common. I was surprised how difficult it was :-) Hopefully I'll do a little better next time... http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72157600041128273/show/ Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: 03/31/2007 20:54 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:The Whisky cellar
Hi Pentaxians Last week I used some spare time for a stroll in the old city part of Zurich with the K10D and the Pentax A24mm when I saw a bottle of Single malt Scottish Whisky labeled Jungfrau (a famous Swiss mountain) In a small shopping window so I had to stop. Just when I tried to get a shot trough the window with a polfilter attached the owner came out of the shop asking what I was doing. She said: If you really want to take photographs of my Whisky bottles you have to see my cellar. She lead me to one of the oldest cellars in Zurich with over 200 different and very fine old limited bottles of Scottish single malt whisky and even gave me 2 different sips to taste. What a pleasant surprise! She asked if I would come to take photographs at events too. Sadly she moves her shop next week so I have no more opportunity to take photos with a tripod or to try some HDR exposure combinations because of the very high contrast there in this historic place. Anyway, the pictures are far from perfect but the story is! All taken with the A24mm handheld in very low light (sadly) 2 sips of Whisky for the photographer: http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky1.jpg The cellar: http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky2.jpg http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky3.jpg I hope you enjoy my little adventure. Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO - Harriman Reservoir
Hi Russ A nice landscape but I could live well without that thing in the water and would lighten up the green middle part of the photo as well a bit. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell Kerstetter Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:52 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - Harriman Reservoir This is a reservoir/lake near my mother-in-law's house. Also this is the first photo I have processed with iPhoto. I was using Lightroom beta, iPhoto definately has less features and some irritating limitations, but it does have the 'touch-up' tool, which is pretty handy. http://www.avocadohead.com/piclinks/IMGP2882.html Honest comments please, thanks for looking. Russ -- Legacy Air, Inc. 11900 Airport Way Broomfield Colorado 80021 (303) 404-0277 fax (303) 404-0280 www.legacy-air.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Flash Snoots
Hi Jack I have no idea. I was only wondering about the unclear website descriptions for Pentax flashes. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Davis Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:11 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: RE: Flash Snoots Markus, do you have a different recommendation for the 540? Thanks, Jack --- Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what is a Pentax 5000AF for the FX-1? And which Pentax flashes does it fit beside the AF500FTZ with the FX-5? Greetings Markus ...or this one which is similar: http://www.synvis.com/FlashXtender.htm Doh!!, they're the same thing!!! That's it, I'm going to bed. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Web Gallery : Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions 2007WestPalmBeach...
Hi jco Even in kiosk mode (F11) I would have to scroll at 12980x960 monitor resolution. I prefer the way Godfrey for example chooses in his galleries to show a smaller image with max 600 pixel height with the option to click on it to enlarge it to it's full beauty. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. C. O'Connell Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:42 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Web Gallery : Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions 2007WestPalmBeach... Hi, sorry about the larger photos for you, but I didnt want to spend a lot of time with multiple photo sizes and I have always believed in sending largest size that still works on my current computer for quality reasons. I know that using smaller is more compatible but the lowest common denominator approach limits quality way too much when only using one size photo. ( I am using 1200x1600 at this time ). Did you try using F11 function key on the IE browser application? That gives you a slightly larger window for photo viewing... jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Maurer Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 5:48 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Web Gallery : Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions 2007WestPalm Beach... Nice photos JCO but not being able to see a photo full size without scrolling annoyed me too much to watch them all. As much as I like it when people show photos as large as possible, there must be better solutions for the presentation than yours. These Tokina lenses did quite well as far as I can see. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:25 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Web Gallery : Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions 2007 WestPalm Beach... In a message dated 3/31/2007 11:29:03 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I went to the 2007 West Palm Beach Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction Event yesterday 3/30/2007. Incredible cars all over the place. Of course I took a bunch of photos. If your into vintage cars, especially American Muscle Cars, Here's a web gallery I made you might want to peek at ( first time I used this feature in Photoshop, not too bad really). Most of the cars sold between $30 and $60 grand on Friday's Auctions... http://www.jchriso.com/temp/BJWPB2007/index.htm Tech Info: Camera - Pentax istDS Lenses - Tokina SD 28-70 F3.5/4.5 and Tokina SD 80-200 F2.8 Outdoor ISO 200, Tents ISO 400, Indoor ISO 800 JCO === Aha, I used to have one of these, and now it's a collector's item. BJWPB2007-063.jpg Same colors and everything (power blue/white two-tone convertible 1957 Ford, at least I think it was a Ford). Drove it my last two years to high school, then sold it to a girl friend and it ran for her for about four more years. Brings back fond memories. Marnie aka Doe ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:The Whisky cellar
Hi Bong Exactly my thoughts when I noticed it :-) But it's only one , apart. 2 sips of Whisky for the photographer: http:/www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky1.jpg The cellar: http:/www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky2.jpg http:/www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky3.jpg Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bong Manayon Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:04 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:The Whisky cellar I can see the effect of the whisky on how you typed the URL :-D Bong On 4/2/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 sips of Whisky for the photographer: http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky1.jpg The cellar: http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky2.jpg http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky3.jpg I hope you enjoy my little adventure. Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:The Whisky cellar
Sorry for the typos in the links folks, even repeated ones ! 2 sips of Whisky for the photographer: http:/www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky1.jpg The cellar: http:/www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky2.jpg http:/www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky3.jpg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Markus Maurer Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:59 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: PESO:The Whisky cellar Hi Pentaxians Last week I used some spare time for a stroll in the old city part of Zurich with the K10D and the Pentax A24mm when I saw a bottle of Single malt Scottish Whisky labeled Jungfrau (a famous Swiss mountain) In a small shopping window so I had to stop. Just when I tried to get a shot trough the window with a polfilter attached the owner came out of the shop asking what I was doing. She said: If you really want to take photographs of my Whisky bottles you have to see my cellar. She lead me to one of the oldest cellars in Zurich with over 200 different and very fine old limited bottles of Scottish single malt whisky and even gave me 2 different sips to taste. What a pleasant surprise! She asked if I would come to take photographs at events too. Sadly she moves her shop next week so I have no more opportunity to take photos with a tripod or to try some HDR exposure combinations because of the very high contrast there in this historic place. Anyway, the pictures are far from perfect but the story is! All taken with the A24mm handheld in very low light (sadly) 2 sips of Whisky for the photographer: http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky1.jpg The cellar: http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky2.jpg http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky3.jpg I hope you enjoy my little adventure. Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light
Hi Pentaxians For the price of some sharpness I got these two photographs from the little waterchurch in Zurich with the K10D + A24mm + monopod at ISO 400 F 2.8 and 1/10 seconds in low natural light. While I took the photos a wonderful classical music concert with organ and violin started :-) I corrected the distortions in Photoshop, sharpened and toned down the highlights a bit. The solist: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/waterchurch1.jpg The waterchurch: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/waterchurch2.jpg Neext week I will test the Tamron SP17mm 3.5 on the K10D. Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:The Whisky cellar
Hi Brendan Thanks, I would love to take some photos at events for her and taste some more of the finest stuff. She works with real Scottish organizations in Zurich, I imagine they have some wild parties :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan MacRae Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 3:53 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:The Whisky cellar Those pictures make my mouth water, Markus. Also, I think you did just fine without needing to combine exposures. -Brendan --- Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pentaxians Last week I used some spare time for a stroll in the old city part of Zurich with the K10D and the Pentax A24mm when I saw a bottle of Single malt Scottish Whisky labeled Jungfrau (a famous Swiss mountain) In a small shopping window so I had to stop. Just when I tried to get a shot trough the window with a polfilter attached the owner came out of the shop asking what I was doing. She said: If you really want to take photographs of my Whisky bottles you have to see my cellar. She lead me to one of the oldest cellars in Zurich with over 200 different and very fine old limited bottles of Scottish single malt whisky and even gave me 2 different sips to taste. What a pleasant surprise! She asked if I would come to take photographs at events too. Sadly she moves her shop next week so I have no more opportunity to take photos with a tripod or to try some HDR exposure combinations because of the very high contrast there in this historic place. Anyway, the pictures are far from perfect but the story is! All taken with the A24mm handheld in very low light (sadly) 2 sips of Whisky for the photographer: http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky1.jpg The cellar: http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky2.jpg http:/www.m,ypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/whisky3.jpg I hope you enjoy my little adventure. Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light
Hi William Glad you liked the first one. Photography ist a lot about emotions for me , the second one just seems not to touch you. I know that (missing) feeling with photos, there is no need to explain it :-) Thanks for the comment and looking. Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 4:29 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light - Original Message - From: Markus Maurer Subject: PESO:Waterchurch - K10D + A24mm in low light http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/waterchurch1.jpg Wonderful photograph. The waterchurch: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/waterchurch2.jpg I want to like this one, but I can't quite do it. I'm not sure why. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:HDR Federal
Hi Pentaxians The light in the Zurich main rail station is extremly contrasty and it's hard to get the big blue windows well exposed and the hall not to dark. I used a raw file with a photo of the restaurant Federal and some reflections in it's windows for a first try with HDR made out of 3 exposures -3,0,+3. Could you please tell me honestly if HRS works for that kind of photos or if it is to artifical. Without HDR the ceiling inside the restaurant would not be visible if I expose the signs and the blue reflections right. I wonder if I should invest some time in this technology to use it for the coming mountain panorama shots or just forget about it. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/federalhdr.jpg (300 KB) Thanks for any comments Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Web Gallery:Barrett-JacksonCollectorCarAuctions2007WestPalmBeach...
An 19 Crt is optimized for a maximum resolution of 1280x1024 pixel and not more JCO, ask the manufacturers. Your Sony can't display 1600x1200 absolutely flicker free and without reduced sharpness in the edges. If you use anything else than a Matrox graphic card at such high resolutions I would not want to work with that setup even for a short time. I use Eizo/Nanoa monitors with Matrox cards which are among the highest quality you can get and could easily display 1600x1200 85 hertz pixel on the 21 but for my eyes 1280x960 at 100 hertz is much more comfortable for text reading. I use 2 monitors to have quite a large working space in Photoshop. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. C. O'Connell Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:00 AM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Web Gallery:Barrett-JacksonCollectorCarAuctions2007WestPalmBeach... huh? I bought my video card for $35 new and got the Sony 19 CRT monitor for $135 new old stock on ebay. This stuff THAT I USE isn't state of the art or expensive, your stuff is just very out of date. I suggest you upgrade to higher resolution if you are into digital photography as its NOT expensive to go to 1600x1200 today by any standards, especially if you compare to the cost of digital SLRs and lenses, etc. I cant recommend it high enough, especially if you are still using 1280x960 or less, as it really makes a big difference in viewing and editing photos The reason I dont post the photos any smaller than 1200 pixels wide is I DONT LIKE THE WAY THEY LOOK reduced any smaller. Thats not elitest, thats called artistic integrity. ( although these particualar phots are more documentary than artistic, they still benefit from a minimum image quality to be appreciated IMHO). jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Celio Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:39 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Web Gallery :Barrett-JacksonCollectorCarAuctions2007WestPalmBeach... JCO wrote: I guess I didnt make this clear enough, I dont do lowest common denominator web photos, if your screen cant show them fully as I want them to be seen, then you simply dont GET to see them. Even reducing them to 800 pixels wide ruins them IHMO. Don't you think that's being rather elitist? Hell, why share photos at all if the only people who can view them are those with large and expensive monitor setups like yours? If this is how you always operate, I don't think I'll bother viewing your photos, even though, as I said, the ones I looked at were very nice. John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
K10D ISO50
Hi Pentaxians In the german manual of the K10D is an ISO setting of 50 shown on page 155 under exposure warning. Any comments on that? Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO: Crossing swords
A good and well seen action shot for me. Your old Vivitar seems to be a bit heavy but useful on the K10D. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:01 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: Crossing swords In a message dated 3/30/2007 9:00:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I went to see my first hockey game last Sunday (I'm kind of lame, three years in Canada and this is the first hockey game I go and I'm not even talking about NHL, I know...). Shooting conditions were not the best, I had a longer zoom than needed (didn't know my seats were so close to the rink), my fastest zoom is a beaten-up copy of the good'ol Vivitar S1 70-210/3.5 version 2 and I had to shoot through the protective glass (so you can see the scratches if you pay attention). An f/2.8 would've help, I shot wide open with a shutter speed of 1/180, I was expecting to get a 1/250 and I didn't want to push process later (I regret it know, but well, live and learn). So this is the one that I like the most: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=437250330size=o Technicalities: Pentax K10D+Grip, ISO 1600 Vivitar S1 70-210/3.5 ver2 @70mm f/3.5 Raw, developed with CS2, some curves, web sharpening slight cropping PS: BTW it was Marlies game (Toronto vs Hamilton). Toronto won W HOOO!!! :-) I think that is a pretty darn good shot, actually. Sure one of the players is a bit blurred, but he is moving. The dark gallery of watchers behind and the white and action in front makes a nice contrast. Marnie aka Doe :-) ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Tamron SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots
Hi Jim Are you looking for the soft focus feature or just for a fast Tamron SP zoom? The soft focus ring settings 1-3 are nice for full portrait shots or flower close-ups with uniform backgrounds. If the background is too busy the bokeh with the soft focus ring engaged is harsh and unpleasant . I will have to experiment a bit with that feature on the K10D, I last used it on film and only liked about 1 out of 10 soft focus shots :-( The slower non SP 70-150mm 3.5 Tamron is very inexpensive here but I can't say anything about it's quality and if it is similar to the SP one. The same is true for the SP 70-210 3.5/4 zoom lens. Again a heavy but well built lens. Greetings Markus the missing links to the Tamron SP 70-150mm test shots: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/boote.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/shiplions.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/swan.jpg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim King Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:22 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO:Tarmon SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots Markus Maurer wrote on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:59:52 -0800: (snip I hope you enjoy my test photos and agree with me that this is a great fast zoom lens to watch out for. I agree - I've been trying to locate one for several months now. Should any PDMLer know of one in decent condition which is for sale, I'd appreciate a shout. Tamron SP glass is great stuff! TIA. Regards, Jim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO: Almost
Hi Paul I too find the bokeh quite pleasant here. There is a dust spot on top of the flowers head btw. Content wise this photo does not a lot for me but I think you just wanted to show what the zoom is capable of? Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 2:26 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO: Almost Interesting. In truth, I posted it mainly because I liked the bokeh:-). But the eye and subjectivity takes us all in different directions. Thanks for looking. Paul On Mar 31, 2007, at 12:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/28/2007 2:37:37 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The first of the year -- almost. DA 50/200 on the K10D. Gotta love that lens. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5782277 Paul = I like the flower, but I find the brokeh in the background is pretty distracting. HTH, Marnie aka Doe :-) ** See what's free at http:// www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:Welder
Hi Pentaxians This welder did not take notice of me so I could use the Pentax A50mm macro from about 2 meters distance here. Early in the morning at 2 o'clock after computer work on my way home in the industrial quarter of Zurich with the K10D, ISO 200, F.2.8 1/90 handheld. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/schweisser.jpg Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Tamron SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots
Hi Jim I have a second Tamron SP 70-150mm F2.8 in quite good condition but the soft focus ring is broken somehow. If I engage the ring the zoom only produced a blank exposure with my film cameras. With the ring set to off position the lens works fine . I don't know if that can be repaired easily? The seller did not tell me that and when I noticed it was too late. If you are able to fix that fault and would not mind the shipping cost from Switzerland you could have it for a low price or in exchange for some other photographic equipment like Tamron KA adaptall2 adapter. I have a spare 2x Tamron SP tele converter as well and a manual Pentax adaptall2 adapter with it. I will make some tests with the Tamron 70-210 SP 3.5/4 zoom + SP 2x teleconverter on the K10D for bird shots and hope for a usable Background rendering, the SP 500mm Tamron mirror lens was just not good in this regard. Do you have any experience with the Tamron SP 28-80mm 1:3.5-4.2 27A zoom? How well it does on the Pentax DSLR at 28mm? Thanks and greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim King Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:30 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: PESO:Tamron SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots Markus Maurer wrote on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:02:55 -0800: Hi Jim Are you looking for the soft focus feature or just for a fast Tamron SP zoom? I collect Tamron SP Adaptall-2 lenses and already have most of the zooms. I'm quite interested in this specific lens, partly because of its reputation as a very sharp fast conventional optic and also because I'd like to experiment with the progressive variable softening feature (I already have all of the Pentax soft focus lenses). Unfortunately I've never seen one for sale - either it was rare to begin with or those who own one like it too much to sell it! ;) The soft focus ring settings 1-3 are nice for full portrait shots or flower close-ups with uniform backgrounds. If the background is too busy the bokeh with the soft focus ring engaged is harsh and unpleasant . I will have to experiment a bit with that feature on the K10D, I last used it on film and only liked about 1 out of 10 soft focus shots :-( Thanks for this info. It's consistent with my results using the Pentax soft focus lenses as well. But there are certain images where the spherical aberration (I think that's what it is) of a soft focus lens adds just the right dreamy/foggy look. The slower non SP 70-150mm 3.5 Tamron is very inexpensive here but I can't say anything about it's quality and if it is similar to the SP one. The reports on the regular version are not as good, and of course it's slower. The same is true for the SP 70-210 3.5/4 zoom lens. Again a heavy but well built lens. Yes, I already have this one, as well as the even more highly regarded SP 70-210 f3.5 constant aperture version which I recently found on eBay. The latter is said to be the best MF zoom ever made in this range. I'm looking forward to comparing it with my Pentax A 70-210 f4 when I get the time. It's amazing how inexpensive most of these lenses are - it seems that nobody is interested in MF zooms any more. Ah well - the joys of collecting are even greater when the cost is reasonable. Regards, Jim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Tamron SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots
I know, that's how I use my Tamron SP 70-150mm and the Tamron SP17mm 3.5, for the others I got manual Pentax adapters :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. C. O'Connell Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:40 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: PESO:Tamron SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots The nice part of it all is you can get KA type adaptall-2 adapters to maintain autoexposure on the current crop of pentax DSLRS. jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim King Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:30 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: PESO:Tamron SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots Markus Maurer wrote on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:02:55 -0800: Hi Jim Are you looking for the soft focus feature or just for a fast Tamron SP zoom? I collect Tamron SP Adaptall-2 lenses and already have most of the zooms. I'm quite interested in this specific lens, partly because of its reputation as a very sharp fast conventional optic and also because I'd like to experiment with the progressive variable softening feature (I already have all of the Pentax soft focus lenses). Unfortunately I've never seen one for sale - either it was rare to begin with or those who own one like it too much to sell it! ;) The soft focus ring settings 1-3 are nice for full portrait shots or flower close-ups with uniform backgrounds. If the background is too busy the bokeh with the soft focus ring engaged is harsh and unpleasant . I will have to experiment a bit with that feature on the K10D, I last used it on film and only liked about 1 out of 10 soft focus shots :-( Thanks for this info. It's consistent with my results using the Pentax soft focus lenses as well. But there are certain images where the spherical aberration (I think that's what it is) of a soft focus lens adds just the right dreamy/foggy look. The slower non SP 70-150mm 3.5 Tamron is very inexpensive here but I can't say anything about it's quality and if it is similar to the SP one. The reports on the regular version are not as good, and of course it's slower. The same is true for the SP 70-210 3.5/4 zoom lens. Again a heavy but well built lens. Yes, I already have this one, as well as the even more highly regarded SP 70-210 f3.5 constant aperture version which I recently found on eBay. The latter is said to be the best MF zoom ever made in this range. I'm looking forward to comparing it with my Pentax A 70-210 f4 when I get the time. It's amazing how inexpensive most of these lenses are - it seems that nobody is interested in MF zooms any more. Ah well - the joys of collecting are even greater when the cost is reasonable. Regards, Jim -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: April PUG is open
I agree Dan, this is really the surprise photo for me too and thanks to Adelheid/Jostein for the work as well. greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel J. Matyola Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:37 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: April PUG is open Thanks a lot, Adelheid, for all you great work in putting together another fine PUG. Several interesting submissions, but I think that Why Did the Salmon Cross the Road?, by Harald Rust is not only a great photograph, but also best fits the theme of the month. Dan M On 3/31/07, AvK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, the April PUG is open, it can be viewed at http://pug.komkon.org Have Fun - I like the salmon shot. :-) Best Adelheid -- Feel free - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:Welder
Hi Mark Thanks! Getting unusual photographic moments like that is of the benefits of working at unusal night hours for me :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:51 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:Welder Markus Maurer wrote: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/schweisser.jpg Lovely! Wouldn't change a thing. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:Toy museum
Hi Pentaxians Franz Carl Weber is the most famous and oldest toy seller in the old city part of Zurich at the Rennweg near Bahnhofstrasse. I saw some days ago that they have a toy museum but was to late to go in so I just took a snapshot through the window. I will visit it as soon as possible and hope they don't mind cameras :-) SR worked again very well here on the K10D and the DA18-55mm kit lens at 40mm F 6.7 ISO 400 1/8 sec handheld! http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/toymuseum.jpg (290KB) BTW what was your most loved toy as child and do you have any photos of it? Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:Tarmon SP70-150mm 2.8 on the K10D 3 test shots
Hi Pentaxians While I'm not convinced with the soft focus feature of the Tamron SP 70-150mm F 2.8 portrait lens, I'm extremly happy with the first test results on the K10D With a KA adaptall2 adapter for A-lens automatic functions I made 2 days ago at lake Zurich. The lens is heavy and with the K10D freehand handling makes tired soon. I therefore used this combination mostly with the little help of the excellent Monostat monopod at ISO 100 and F 6.7 around 120-150mm (200mm) raw. Slightly cropped and sharpened in Photoshop, 1024 Pixel wide and around 260KB size each. I hope you enjoy my test photos and agree with me that this is a great fast zoom lens to watch out for. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/boote.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/shiplions.jpg http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/swan.jpg Comments welcome. Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO: Dublin House, New York (repost)
Hi Rick It's a B + C for me. With this shot I would have liked ISO400 on a monopod or handheld with a bit of underexposure and closer to the sign as well. But then I really dislike digital ISO 1600 noise so far as well on my own test shots even after the use of denoising software. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Walters Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 4:10 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO: Dublin House, New York (repost) What about F. So overwhelmed by PDML posts that I missed it. Anyway, I've seen it now. Nice and colourful but the wires running across the sign detract a bit (you didn't have wire cutters handy, I take it.) Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia Quoting Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Posted a few days ago with no feedback at all. Since I sulk when I don't get attention, I'm posting it again: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5782865 Taken on a nocturnal stroll in Manhattan's upper west side a few weeks ago. Choose one: A. So boring that I fell asleep before I could comment on it B. So burdened with gross defects that tactful comment was impossible C. So ordinary that I just moved on to the next PESO D. So ravishing that I was paralyzed and couldn't comment on it E. All of the above Rick http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW -- Click to consolidate debt and lower month expenses http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/CAaCMPJklAm222HYTPUv06JNwKSDQL9i/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Battery life on K10D
Thanks Godfrey. Battery loading in the car could be handy sometimes... Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 5:43 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Battery life on K10D On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Markus Maurer wrote: Is this third party charger only for the Pentax K10D accu or does it work with other accu brands as well? It's a CTA charger for the NP400 battery: here's a link to it on CompUPlus.com. http://tinyurl.com/38sag3 I usually stick the battery on charge and leave it sit on the power for a while after the charge light goes out. Typically, the charge light goes out when the battery has achieved 85-90% charge on most of these types of chargers. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: A disastrous farewell to film.
I'm sorry for you Peter but wonder what kind of insurance would cover such an accident. At least here in Switzerland there exists no insurance for that since it was your own camera equipment and no third party was involved. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Jordan Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:33 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: A disastrous farewell to film. Yesterday was sunny and springlike in Scotland, so I decided to burn up some of my last rolls of Velvia. I had some film in my PZ-1 and an LX with a partly used roll in it, so I packed a bag and headed into the hills. There is a lovely glade with photogenic waterfall near us and I set up the tripod at the top to take some shots. The PZ-1 was loaded with some 400 ASA stuff and I snapped a few shots with that ahead of doing some slow speed shots of the water. I was about to reload the PZ-1 with Velvia when I decided that I'd rather use the slow exposure settings of the LX, so put the PZ-1 down, opened the LX back and stared blankly at the half finished roll of Velvia that was already in it. Doh!! I reloaded the LX, set up the tripod, put my F28mm f/2.8 on it and started shooting. I then decided I wanted to go a little wider, so went back to the bag and picked up the FA* 24mm f/2. I walked back to the tripod, slipped, kicked the tripod with LX and lens attached towards the waterfall, made a despairing grab for the assemblage and only succeeded in sending the 24mm after it. Trying not to cry, I looked down and saw that both lends and tripod / body / lens were stuck against rocks in the water, so I waded out across the slippery rocks above the waterfall and managed to retrieve all the kit. By this stage my appetite for photography had vanished, so I went home, put the soaking bits on the central heating boiler to dry out and went to read my insurance policy. I've just looked at the kit and the damage report isn't as bad as I thought. The LX looks fine, and the shutter is working in both manual and electronic modes, and although I got nothing out of the meter this morning, much to my amazement it seems to be working perfectly now. The finder is still a bit misty inside, and I need to check the alignment, but this 25 year old body seems to have survived a 20 foot fall plus partial immersion in a mountain stream for 5 minutes very well. Even more amazingly, the 28mm also appears to have escaped unscathed! I put it on the PZ-1 this morning and it stopped down and autofocused perfectly. No damage to any glass either. The 24mm is slightly less well off. Mechanically and optically still perfect, stops down OK, but autofocus is not functioning and my istDL can't get any sense out of it in terms of aperture readings etc. My initial despair has receded somewhat, and it seems that all the insurance company has to do is cough up for a repair job on the 24mm. Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO - old car but fresh air
Hi Alastair Well seen! I can't help I only have some photos of good looking (red) cars :-) Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alastair Robertson Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:40 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - old car but fresh air Hi been very busy at work lately so little time to post images. Anyway, this is my latest PESO http://www.pbase.com/kiwibiologist/image/76297366 taken in the carpark at work. Not a very carefully constructed picture but one I thought you guys in the North might like. This pic says two things about New Zealand: 1. We hang onto our cars for a long time - this looks to be about a 20 year old car (Ford Laser aka Mazda 323) 2. The air is pretty clean and we don't use salt on the roads. Not sure that you would get lichens to grow in most of the Northern Hemisphere - or perhaps you do? Let's see your lichenmost car shots! Alastair -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:A24mm+K10D tests
That's good to know Paul. So maybe I just was not patient enough to wait for the acclimatization. I will therefore try it at the botanical garden in Zurich, it's less tropical than the Masoala hall in the zoo. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:57 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:A24mm+K10D tests I've frequently taken cameras and lenses from a dry air conditioned house into a steamy 95 degree F garden. Yes, the front element fogs up. I just let the camera rest until the fog clears before shooting. Never saw any evidence of lasting damage. Paul On Mar 28, 2007, at 4:11 AM, mike wilson wrote: From: Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007/03/28 Wed AM 01:11:26 GMT To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: PESO:A24mm+K10D tests Hi Bruce Thanks, it's a bit your style, not :-) I was too afraid to go into the tropical rooms inside the botanical garden because of the high humidity of the air but would have loved to take more photos of exotic plants and flowers. I once tried in the Masoala hall in the Zurich zoo -- http://www.zoo.ch/index.php?id=967L=3but but my eye glasses and lenses where immediately very wet and I didn't want to put my photo equipment at risk. While the K10D should stand a sudden change in tropical climate I wonder if there is a good way to protect unsealed lenses against humitity? Greetings Markus Even unsealed lenses would only be affected if you expanded their volume, pulling the warm, moist air into the cold interior. If the lens is one that remains dimensionally stable in zoom and focus, you only have the front element to worry about. - Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:A24mm+K10D tests
Thanks David The SR surely gives me much more photo opportunities in low light than I ever had with a film body. Still a monopod is a good addition and less to carry than a tripod. I liked the Takumar-A 28mm on the K10D too so far but the A24mm wider angle will be better for suited for street photography for me. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David J Brooks Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:06 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO:A24mm+K10D tests Very nice. I don't have the A24, just the A28, but i'll be taking that lens to Vegas next month. Several of the hotels have very nice gardens and i'll need the extra stop or two. The SR on the K10D should helpa aswell. Dave On 3/27/07, Markus Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pentaxians A first sample with the A24mm in low light on the K10D handheld at F 2.8 1/30 sec ISO 400. I will reshoot these photos in the botanical garden of Zurich with the A50mm macro and a monopod soon but still like this one so far. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/botan24mm1.jpg (270KB) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: SDHC cards
Hi William I use a normal 4GB SDHC sandisk card with the K10D and it is slower than the 2GB sandisk ultra but works fine. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:30 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: SDHC cards I am wondering if anyone has used the 4 gb Sandisk ExtremeIII SDHC card in their K10 (firmware 1.10)? If so, what's it like? Thanks William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: Peso: 4 more dogs
Hi William It seems that I got influenced somehow by your lovely dog portraits because 2 days ago I took this scene in the mail rail station of Zurich. But frankly I prefer dogs in a natural environment... K10D + 18-55mm kit lens ;-) http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/hotdogs.jpg Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Øsleby Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:06 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: Peso: 4 more dogs A mighty fine photograph of a mighty fine bunch. I'm impressed. Tim Typo Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: 26. mars 2007 07:28 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Peso: 4 more dogs We had some more fun today. Enjoy http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/dogportraits/beagles.html William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:botanical garden in Zurich
Hi Pentaxians The Pentax A24mm works wonderfully on the K10D, it will be one of my most used lenses. Gladly the 52mm circular B+W pol filter does not vignette with it and I fitted a vivtar wide metal 52mm hood with it. I tested the Pentax M 200mm as well that day and sometimes had to press the green button twice to not get overexposed photos in M mode, I will soon show you some photos with these lenses. One of the photos I took 3 days ago with the K10D and Pentax-F50mm was at the botanical garden in Zurich: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/botanisch.jpg (280KB) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
PESO:A24mm+K10D tests
Hi Pentaxians A first sample with the A24mm in low light on the K10D handheld at F 2.8 1/30 sec ISO 400. I will reshoot these photos in the botanical garden of Zurich with the A50mm macro and a monopod soon but still like this one so far. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/botan24mm1.jpg (270KB) Greetings Markus -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
RE: PESO:A24mm+K10D tests
Hi Shel Why can't you access the photo, because of it's size for dial up users? Here is a smaller more compressed version for you: http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/botanisch_s.jpg (87KB) http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/prediger.jpg (68KB) Remember that both shots are handheld in very low light at F 2.8, the one of the Noah's Ark in the church Predigerkirche in Zurich at an amazing 1/6 second. Of course it is not sharp but when I compare that to what I could do with my film cameras :-) It's uncropped and not distortion corrected btw. I find the built quality of the A24mm fine and agree with everything Ralf said about it. Greetings Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shel Belinkoff Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:51 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: RE: PESO:A24mm+K10D tests Hi, I've not been able to access the page, still, I'm wondering how you like the A24/2.8. How is it's build quality - is it plasticky or more like the K lenses? I'd love to get my hands on one and compare it to the K24/2.8, which I really like. Shel Why in Hell should I have to Press 1 for English?!!! [Original Message] From: Markus Maurer A first sample with the A24mm in low light on the K10D handheld at F 2.8 1/30 sec ISO 400. http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/solicom/botan24mm1.jpg (270KB) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
