Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-27 Thread Bulent Celasun
John, thank you for your description of your portrait subjects.

I can say that I am not surprised. There must have been something
between you and the cats that can be (somehow) captured
using a camera.
I thought Anthony and Alex were looking distant, if that is a correct
word in this setting.
For Eve, I was sure it would be my cat if I were to choose one based
only on these images.
Ella looked beautiful but for some reason (or for no reason at all) we
could not make a connection.
And, Spot was my next candidate for a serious relationship.
:)

I have recently lost my friend Pebble (a pointer, see:
https://celasun.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/communication/ and
https://celasun.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/cakil-ve-ben/ ) .
My wife and I are now looking for one or two friends (perhaps, a cat
and a dog) to live with us.
This probably makes my antenna more sensitive these days.
Have a nice time with all those companions.

Bulent

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John Francis , 27 Ağu 2018 Pzt, 01:37 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 09:03:37AM +0300, Bulent Celasun wrote:
> > What a show!
> > I wonder if the images reflect their personalities fairly.
> > Some soft, some curious some tough...
>
> That's a tough question - I know the cats too well, so I see
> what I expect to see.  I'll give you a potted biography for
> each of them, and see if that matches your impressions.
>
> Anthony is an old cat (16). He is one of a litter of 4 kittens
> that we fostered.  Unfortunately they were almost three months
> old when we got them, and had been living a semi-feral life.
> By that age they are pretty much set in their ways.
> When he was a kitten he was always hiding somewhere - behind
> a box, in between the cushions on the sofa, under a chair, ...
> For most of his life he didn't really interact much with us.
> In the last year or so, though, he's been having some digestive
> issues, and needs to be fed a special diet.  He's got used to
> coming up and demanding food, and seems to have forgotten that
> people were scary - he will lie beside me on the bed, and has
> even settled down on my lap on a few occasions. He still has
> more than a few doubts about my wife, though.
>
> Alex is my wife's cat.  He will allow me to stroke him, but
> makes it very clear that this is a poor substitute for the
> real thing.  He spends most of the day asleep waiting for my
> wife to come home so he can leap up on her desk to greet her.
> He also supervises her when she gets up every morning.
>
> Eve was a cat we didn't plan for.  I had just taken one of
> Anthony's siblings to the local humane society for her last
> trip - while there wasn't anything medically wrong with her
> she'd stopped eating, had difficulty walking, etc.  She'd
> decided she had come to the end of her time, and was just
> waiting for the inevitable.  Rather than prolong her pain
> and suffering I gave her a peaceful ending.  Even so it's
> a hard thing to do, so I sat for a while in the cat area
> before driving home.  There were only a couple of cats out
> at the time, and I was told that one of them wasn't really
> sociable - she hardly interacted with any of the volunteers.
> The cat, however, obviously had othe plans.  Almost as soon
> as I sat down she leaped up onto the bench beside me, then
> head-butted my arm out of the way to climb onto my lap.
> Apparently she had decided she was going home with me.
> Other than that she's a fairly typical tortie - she can
> go in a trice from accepting all the attention you can
> give her to biting the hand that dares to disturb her fur.
> And what fur it is!  Long and silky, but maintenance free!
>
> Ella was a cat returned to a local shelter when her owner
> went off to college. She's taken a while to accept us as her
> new staff.  Unfortunately she seeks a cure for her insecurity
> in the food bowl, and could really do with losing some weight.
> But with multiple other cats in the household (who all want
> to eat on different schedules) there's always food available.
> Sadly, her fur isn't maintenance free, so we do sometimes
> have to make her suffer the indignity of being brushed.
>
> Spot was one of the fosters we had last year (a mother and
> her five kittens). The mother was, unusually, a ginger tabby.
> (that's far more common in males than in females).  All of
> her kittens were boys, and all of them were ginger tabbies.
> The mother was semi-feral (she eventually got a placement
> as a barn cat), so even though they were used to the presence
> of humans (we got them when they were a couple of days old)
> they weren't particularly demonstrative, and were always a
> little withdrawn when interacting with people.
> Spot (named after Data's cat on Star Trek) didn't 

Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-26 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 09:03:37AM +0300, Bulent Celasun wrote:
> What a show!
> I wonder if the images reflect their personalities fairly.
> Some soft, some curious some tough...

That's a tough question - I know the cats too well, so I see
what I expect to see.  I'll give you a potted biography for
each of them, and see if that matches your impressions.

Anthony is an old cat (16). He is one of a litter of 4 kittens
that we fostered.  Unfortunately they were almost three months
old when we got them, and had been living a semi-feral life.
By that age they are pretty much set in their ways.
When he was a kitten he was always hiding somewhere - behind
a box, in between the cushions on the sofa, under a chair, ...
For most of his life he didn't really interact much with us.
In the last year or so, though, he's been having some digestive
issues, and needs to be fed a special diet.  He's got used to
coming up and demanding food, and seems to have forgotten that
people were scary - he will lie beside me on the bed, and has
even settled down on my lap on a few occasions. He still has
more than a few doubts about my wife, though.

Alex is my wife's cat.  He will allow me to stroke him, but
makes it very clear that this is a poor substitute for the
real thing.  He spends most of the day asleep waiting for my
wife to come home so he can leap up on her desk to greet her.
He also supervises her when she gets up every morning.

Eve was a cat we didn't plan for.  I had just taken one of
Anthony's siblings to the local humane society for her last
trip - while there wasn't anything medically wrong with her
she'd stopped eating, had difficulty walking, etc.  She'd
decided she had come to the end of her time, and was just
waiting for the inevitable.  Rather than prolong her pain
and suffering I gave her a peaceful ending.  Even so it's
a hard thing to do, so I sat for a while in the cat area
before driving home.  There were only a couple of cats out
at the time, and I was told that one of them wasn't really
sociable - she hardly interacted with any of the volunteers.
The cat, however, obviously had othe plans.  Almost as soon
as I sat down she leaped up onto the bench beside me, then
head-butted my arm out of the way to climb onto my lap.
Apparently she had decided she was going home with me.
Other than that she's a fairly typical tortie - she can
go in a trice from accepting all the attention you can
give her to biting the hand that dares to disturb her fur.
And what fur it is!  Long and silky, but maintenance free!

Ella was a cat returned to a local shelter when her owner
went off to college. She's taken a while to accept us as her
new staff.  Unfortunately she seeks a cure for her insecurity
in the food bowl, and could really do with losing some weight.
But with multiple other cats in the household (who all want
to eat on different schedules) there's always food available.
Sadly, her fur isn't maintenance free, so we do sometimes
have to make her suffer the indignity of being brushed.

Spot was one of the fosters we had last year (a mother and
her five kittens). The mother was, unusually, a ginger tabby.
(that's far more common in males than in females).  All of
her kittens were boys, and all of them were ginger tabbies.
The mother was semi-feral (she eventually got a placement
as a barn cat), so even though they were used to the presence
of humans (we got them when they were a couple of days old)
they weren't particularly demonstrative, and were always a
little withdrawn when interacting with people.
Spot (named after Data's cat on Star Trek) didn't originally
have that name.  We were working on names for the kittens,
and had got as far as "ginger" for the one that didn't have
Any white fur. One of the others was, as is typical, somewhat
smaller than the rest. At one point I referred to him as the
baby cat. That gave me an idea, and the other three were from
that moment Sporty (who became Spot), Scary & Posh.


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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-26 Thread Bulent Celasun
What a show!
I wonder if the images reflect their personalities fairly.
Some soft, some curious some tough...

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John Francis , 26 Ağu 2018 Paz, 06:45 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 04:23:17PM -0400, John Francis wrote:
> >
> > I realised that I didn't actually have pictures of most of our
> > cats. Expect a gallery soon ...
>
> A gallery is going to take a little longer - I haven't installed
> a gallery creator on my current machine :-(
>
> In the meantime, here's a collage of the residents, arranged in
> order of seniority (I couldn't decide which picture of Eve to use).
>
> http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/Collage.jpg
>
> Enjoy!  (unless you're MJ, of course)
>
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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-25 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 04:23:17PM -0400, John Francis wrote:
> 
> I realised that I didn't actually have pictures of most of our
> cats. Expect a gallery soon ...

A gallery is going to take a little longer - I haven't installed
a gallery creator on my current machine :-(

In the meantime, here's a collage of the residents, arranged in
order of seniority (I couldn't decide which picture of Eve to use).

http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/Collage.jpg

Enjoy!  (unless you're MJ, of course)


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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-25 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 03:35:57PM -0400, John Francis wrote:
> 
> The USPS just dropped of a package from Canada containing
> the FA 50/f1.4 that Bill Robb offered for sale recently.
> 
> It appears to be working ...
> 
> http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg
> 
> I'm going to have to get used to thinking about DOF again ...

Thanks to all who have commented.

I'm sure the new 50/f1.4 is a far better lens, but I'd never use
it enough to justify the cost.  I'm just glad that Bill decided to
upgrade his system, and parted with the old lens at a price that
garnered me nothing more than a resigned look from the household
accountant (and, nowadays, sole wage-earner).

Getting it has prompted me to actually pick up the camera again - 
I realised that I didn't actually have pictures of most of our
cats. Expect a gallery soon ...

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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-25 Thread Ken Waller

I don't sell lenses often ...


but when I do they're mostly Pentax

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Subject: Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens



On 24/8/18, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:


I don't sell lenses often.


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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-25 Thread Bob W-PDML



> On 25 Aug 2018, at 01:00, "l...@red4est.com"  wrote:
> 
> I often go that long without saying anything noteworthy, that doesn't stop 
> people from quoting me.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used 
against you.


> 
>> On August 24, 2018 10:43:17 AM PDT, Bill  wrote:
>>> On 8/24/2018 2:48 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
>>> On 24/8/18, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
>>> 
 I don't sell lenses often.
>>> 
>>> MARK
>>> 
>> 
>> Drats. I was hoping to go a full year without saying anything
>> noteworthy.
>> 
>> bill
>> 

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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread Paul Stenquist



Paul

> On Aug 24, 2018, at 7:59 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote:
> 
> I often go that long without saying anything noteworthy, that doesn't stop 
> people from quoting me.
> 
MARK!


>> On August 24, 2018 10:43:17 AM PDT, Bill  wrote:
>>> On 8/24/2018 2:48 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
>>> On 24/8/18, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
>>> 
 I don't sell lenses often.
>>> 
>>> MARK
>>> 
>> 
>> Drats. I was hoping to go a full year without saying anything
>> noteworthy.
>> 
>> bill
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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread lrc
I often go that long without saying anything noteworthy, that doesn't stop 
people from quoting me.

On August 24, 2018 10:43:17 AM PDT, Bill  wrote:
>On 8/24/2018 2:48 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
>> On 24/8/18, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
>> 
>>> I don't sell lenses often.
>> 
>> MARK
>> 
>
>Drats. I was hoping to go a full year without saying anything
>noteworthy.
>
>bill
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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread John

On 8/24/2018 13:43, Bill wrote:

On 8/24/2018 2:48 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:

On 24/8/18, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:


I don't sell lenses often.


MARK



Drats. I was hoping to go a full year without saying anything noteworthy.

bill



It's not that hard to do. I've managed it several times.

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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread Bill

On 8/24/2018 11:53 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:

On 24/8/18, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed:


I was hoping to go a full year without saying anything noteworthy.


MARKMARKMARK


DammitDammitDammit.

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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 24/8/18, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed:

>I was hoping to go a full year without saying anything noteworthy.

MARKMARKMARK

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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread Bill

On 8/24/2018 2:48 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote:

On 24/8/18, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:


I don't sell lenses often.


MARK



Drats. I was hoping to go a full year without saying anything noteworthy.

bill

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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread Jostein

MARK squared.

Jostein

Den 24.08.2018 10:48, skrev Steve Cottrell:

On 24/8/18, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:


I don't sell lenses often.


MARK



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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 24/8/18, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:

>I don't sell lenses often.

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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-24 Thread William Robb
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 5:43 PM Paul Stenquist  wrote:

> Nice shot. Sharp, good detail. It’s a great lens, eclipsed perhaps only by
> the new much more pricey 50.


It’s definitely eclipsed by the new 50. I don’t sell lenses often.

Bill


>
> > On Aug 23, 2018, at 3:35 PM, John Francis  wrote:
> >
> >
> > The USPS just dropped of a package from Canada containing
> > the FA 50/f1.4 that Bill Robb offered for sale recently.
> >
> > It appears to be working ...
> >
> >http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg
> >
> > It's not quite my first auto-focus prime - I was given an
> > SF1 with F 50/f1.7 by a neighbour when he abandoned film
> > and switched to a Nikon compact point-and-shoot digital.
> > But I gave that outfit away, and have been relying on my
> > trusty old A 50/f1.4 when I needed something beyond f/2.8
> >
> > I'm going to have to get used to thinking about DOF again ...
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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-23 Thread Ken Waller
Aw that's purrfect.


-Original Message-
>From: John Francis 
>Subject: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens
>
>
>The USPS just dropped of a package from Canada containing
>the FA 50/f1.4 that Bill Robb offered for sale recently.
>
>It appears to be working ...
>
>http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg
>
>It's not quite my first auto-focus prime - I was given an
>SF1 with F 50/f1.7 by a neighbour when he abandoned film
>and switched to a Nikon compact point-and-shoot digital.
>But I gave that outfit away, and have been relying on my
>trusty old A 50/f1.4 when I needed something beyond f/2.8
>
>I'm going to have to get used to thinking about DOF again ...


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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-23 Thread Paul Stenquist
Nice shot. Sharp, good detail. It’s a great lens, eclipsed perhaps only by the 
new much more pricey 50.

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 3:35 PM, John Francis  wrote:
> 
> 
> The USPS just dropped of a package from Canada containing
> the FA 50/f1.4 that Bill Robb offered for sale recently.
> 
> It appears to be working ...
> 
>http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg
> 
> It's not quite my first auto-focus prime - I was given an
> SF1 with F 50/f1.7 by a neighbour when he abandoned film
> and switched to a Nikon compact point-and-shoot digital.
> But I gave that outfit away, and have been relying on my
> trusty old A 50/f1.4 when I needed something beyond f/2.8
> 
> I'm going to have to get used to thinking about DOF again ...
> 
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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-23 Thread J.C. O'Connell

you gave away a smc pentax F 50mm F1.7 ???

thats a highly rated, fast, lens.

jco


On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:35:57 -0400, John Francis  wrote:



The USPS just dropped of a package from Canada containing
the FA 50/f1.4 that Bill Robb offered for sale recently.

It appears to be working ...

http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg

It's not quite my first auto-focus prime - I was given an
SF1 with F 50/f1.7 by a neighbour when he abandoned film
and switched to a Nikon compact point-and-shoot digital.
But I gave that outfit away, and have been relying on my
trusty old A 50/f1.4 when I needed something beyond f/2.8

I'm going to have to get used to thinking about DOF again ...





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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-23 Thread ann sanfedele

oh what a nice portrait!
ann

On 8/23/2018 3:35 PM, John Francis wrote:

The USPS just dropped of a package from Canada containing
the FA 50/f1.4 that Bill Robb offered for sale recently.

It appears to be working ...

 http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg

It's not quite my first auto-focus prime - I was given an
SF1 with F 50/f1.7 by a neighbour when he abandoned film
and switched to a Nikon compact point-and-shoot digital.
But I gave that outfit away, and have been relying on my
trusty old A 50/f1.4 when I needed something beyond f/2.8

I'm going to have to get used to thinking about DOF again ...




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Re: PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-23 Thread William Robb
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 1:36 PM John Francis  wrote:

>
> The USPS just dropped of a package from Canada containing
> the FA 50/f1.4 that Bill Robb offered for sale recently.
>
> It appears to be working ...
>
That's a relief. It arrived in good condition.

Bikk

>
> http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg
>
> It's not quite my first auto-focus prime - I was given an
> SF1 with F 50/f1.7 by a neighbour when he abandoned film
> and switched to a Nikon compact point-and-shoot digital.
> But I gave that outfit away, and have been relying on my
> trusty old A 50/f1.4 when I needed something beyond f/2.8
>
> I'm going to have to get used to thinking about DOF again ...
>
>
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PESO - First shot with a new (to me) lens

2018-08-23 Thread John Francis


The USPS just dropped of a package from Canada containing
the FA 50/f1.4 that Bill Robb offered for sale recently.

It appears to be working ...

http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg

It's not quite my first auto-focus prime - I was given an
SF1 with F 50/f1.7 by a neighbour when he abandoned film
and switched to a Nikon compact point-and-shoot digital.
But I gave that outfit away, and have been relying on my
trusty old A 50/f1.4 when I needed something beyond f/2.8

I'm going to have to get used to thinking about DOF again ...


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