Hi,
Mike Johnston wrote:
I disagree. Sometimes, it CAN hurt. Trivial but common example: a
photographer makes the decision to throw the background in a portrait out of
focus. Less information; better picture.
I disagree, too. _Not_ less information - the same amount of
information presented
Whatever you think shows off your printer. Since the comparison is to
mini-lab prints 4x6 is OK. So far everyone has sent bigger prints. One
fellow from overseas made an A2 size print and physically cropped it to fit
in the envelope he was using. It works.
--graywolf
Hi,
Michael Beacom wrote:
On the subject of scanners.
Does anyone have any experience with the Canoscan FS2720U or FS2710.
Only the previous model, which I am not enamoured of..
If they have some software called Scancraft bundled with it, use
the CD as a coaster - it will be less
The deadline is only for the contest for the rating of PDML 2001 Master
Digital Printer. Anything received after 15/12/01 will be considered for
2002 if I am still doing the challenge. However, all prints received will be
used for the printer quality rating which I will publish on the list once a
I changed ISPs. Need to make sure the mail is working.
Len
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SH Last time I looked, a year ago or so, my Yashicamat meter was just fine.
SH Does the deterioration depend on how much light exposure it receives? Would
SH one last much longer if usually cased and in a bag and/or closet?
SH Stan
Well, I am no expert, but IIRC humidity is not good for selenium
[...]
KW speed and fstop you used. Ballet can be a difficult subject for
KW photography, I rate it alongside Rock'n'Roll photography for
KW degree of difficulty.
If I remember some of the amateur venues and clubs I shot in, the
lighting man must have been drunk. Punks don't need light, maybe,
WR I've always been a voice in the wilderness regarding HC:110. I
WR like the stuff. It does well with TMZ. Truthfully, so does D-76
WR if you give it long enough. T-Max developer gives one of the
WR flattest characteristic curves I have seen with TMZ, but I find
WR it a rather expensive
Sorry, wrong address.
Paul, did you get it?
As you can see I'm still alive and reading the PDML.
Ciao, Flavio
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Does there exist a cross reference of Pentax camera and lens tests conducted
by Modern or Popular Photography? I'm particularly interested on tests of the
Pentax 645 camera and lenses!
Thanks.
Alex
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Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
[Image file formats with color management data included.]
I believe the PNG graphics format does that. I'm not sure because I don't
use that format (pretty much no one does) and, like GIF, it's supposedly
not very well suited to photographic images.
Collin Brendemuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The discussion of image size usually revolves around resolution.
There's another advantage to larger formats that's more
important (to me, anyway) and which is often unrecognized.
Tonal quality.
Larger negs give more even distribution of tonal scale
mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Johnston wrote:
I disagree. Sometimes, it CAN hurt. Trivial but common example: a
photographer makes the decision to throw the background in a portrait out of
focus. Less information; better picture.
I disagree, too. _Not_ less information - the
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:29:32 -0800, you wrote:
I've not examined this little trove of software and information, but you
might find something of interest or value here:
http://www.digitaltruth.com/software.html
The first download on this page is f/calc, which is a nifty calculator
for
Hi,
Mark Roberts wrote:
We're looking at different meanings of information here. In the technical
(computer) sense, there's just as much information in out-of-focus parts of an
image as in the sharp parts, but as far as a human being looking at it is
concerned, there's less information
I sent Tom two prints,one 8x10 and 2 on
a single sheet,1 a 4x5 and 1 a 4x6.
All three prints were done a different way
to show different resolutions etc.
The 4x5 was made by changing image size to 4x6(ish)
then croped to 4x5.(res about 300)
The 4x6 was croped from a 8x12.(res about 164)
The 8x10
I guess I'm not sure... I'd speculate that it does not matter how far
away
from the subject the flash is, but the manual does specify that the RTF
and
wireless AF360 will both fire test flashes to determine metering, and then
go off together, so maybe they have to be within 4 meters of the
Finally made it back home. Almost made it all the way home with the
top down. Finally had to put it up with 50 miles to go :-( At least I
drove around Miami yesterday with it down ;-)
Finally have my MX in hand and can address this issue.
I have a chrome model, bought
Love your Iceland shots.Nice.
Welcome to the list
Dave Brooks
Pentax User
Stouffville Ontario Canada
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I've found that the lens tests are listed in the computerized index of
magazine articles at the public library. I don;t know the exact name of
it, but I'm sure other public libraries use something comparable. Put in
the lens name and the tests pop up. Of course, I always wonder when no
Playing e mail tag with my sister over this Yashica-
Mat and trying to get a model number.
All she can give me is:
Yasical copal-mxv on or near the front of camera.
On the top is MT 2xx which i assume is the serial
number.
Do any of these make sense as to a model of Yashica Mat?
I have found
On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 10:04 PM, Rob Geraghty wrote:
The eX and 1270 aren't part of the current crop. You really want to
look
at output from the 1290 and C80. I'm shocked the 1270 rated lower than
the eX, because the 1270 is altogether a better printer.
We had an EX,
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From: Kevin Waterson
Subject: push 1600 to 3200
I have a very low light situation and was going to use an
ilford 3200 but then I though, why not use some of this
Fuji 1600 color film I have in the fridge and set the MZ-S
to 3200 manually?
Any pitfalls of
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From: Delano Mireles
Subject: Bulk film
Can someone explain how a bulk film loader works and when do
you think it is
worth it to use?
You put a long roll of film into the loader, and then attach a
film cassette to the end of the film and close the thing. You
Looks like I'll have a long wait to see if the photo I submitted is shown in
PUG. I missed the deadline for December. :( By January I may be
incommunicado in Japan...
I'll just have to find the time to upload some more photos to my website!
Rob
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Sorry this is late but i meant to comment on this shot
earlier,busy with my yearbooks.
This pictureThe Bunker by Phillippe Trottier was
the one that first caught my eye Nov 1.
The contrast between the white snow and brown building
is great.It ozzes peace and tranquility.
Also it reminds me of
In a message dated 11/28/01 11:05:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I too wondered about the lack of the swivel head and the vertical grip. I
hope to do some test shots in the next couple of days.
OK, I know this is subjective, but how many times does the ~AVERAGE~
In a message dated 11/28/01 11:05:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That does suck. Is there an option on the camera to lock the aperture? The
CP990 has a variable aperture, but there's an option to lock it so it
simulates a constant aperture zoom. The Pz-1p has the
You mean you still don't know after two years?
Frits Wüthrich
tom wrote:
Okee dokee, moving on...I bought an FA 85/1.4 about 2 years ago. Can
anyone tell me if it's any good?
tv
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I'll drop a line off list Aaron just not sure when i
can do this,Xmas stuff and all and 2 horse shows over the
next 3 weekends.What would you need?
Just the file.jpg on a disk?? and let your PS or
equivilant do its thing.
I realize it would not look to great but Tom's tweaked
my interest.
Dave
Norton hasn't detected any on my machine in that time frame. but I've seen
several posts on the Meade list by different people in the last several days
who were sent viruses.
Tom C.
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To: Pentax List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Frits J. Wüthrich wrote:
You mean you still don't know after two years?
Yeah, I've only shot about 8 or 9 hundred frames with it.
While we're at it...what's a good filter?
tv
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Len Paris wrote:
Of course, I'm
only a hack, so what would I know. ;-)
You and me both, buddy. I guess that would make us Buddy Hacks.
Har!
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tom wrote:
While we're at it...what's a good filter?
h ? -- bigdayphoto.com HAR! !8^D
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The Challenger or Prints (for it is he) wrote:
The deadline is only for the contest for the rating of PDML 2001 Master
Digital Printer. Anything received after 15/12/01 will be considered for
2002 if I am still doing the challenge. However, all prints received will be
used for the printer
Well, hey - it's nearly December. I figured the PDML would like a smile
before you head off for the weekend doing your own things, and hopefully
burning some film...
I've posted a December update to my Pentax Mods, with particular
reference to a brand new product, inspired fairly recently
As one of the participants in the discussion, I would have to say that if bad
advice or mis-information is bandied about on any topic that arises, it is hard
to let it go past. However, I think it reasonable to stop after one correction
and one refutation!
I tend not to want anyone to
As one of the participants in the discussion mentioned, I would have to say
that if bad advice or mis-information is bandied about on any topic that
arises, it is hard to let it go past. However, I think it reasonable to stop
after one correction and one refutation!
I tend not to want anyone
Sorry this is so late but I didn't know that Facit = Fabio Cittadini. Makes
sense NOW though :)
SO...
Whirls
By Facit
It looked like a man-hole cover at first :) Could easily have been the top
of a hot air balloon as well. But it's a building. Looks like it was
really close but then I
Thanks! My next $75 is going towards 384mb RAM to upgrade my PIII. Maybe
Photoshop will run reasonably fast then.
BTW, it's an HP Pavilion. Currently has 64mb RAM, Win98 V2, PIII 500, 8mb
video ram, 20gig hard drive. I have never seen a machine access the hard
drive so often as this one
Okee dokee, moving on...I bought an FA 85/1.4 about 2 years ago. Can
anyone tell me if it's any good?
tv
Well, how much did you pay for it?
Better yet, send it to me and I'll tell you if it's good or not in a year or
so :)
Cory Waters
always needs more lenses
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I'm a Frontier fan too, after getting some amazing results from stuff I shot in
London and Paris earlier this year, developed in London.
And the provision of an index print makes my filing much more consistent and
timely!
Hey, is this OT and at risk of being censored?
John Coyle
Brisbane,
Shel,
Were they in attachments or embedded in HTML? I'd just like to know
what to watch out for.
Regards,
Anthony Farr
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From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know about you all, but in the last three days I've received
eleven email messages that
I had a major computer crash last night. My copies of the PDML Digital
Printer Challenge info are lost.
If anyone has a copy of the last post (PDML Digital Printer Challenge
(REPOST)), I would appreciate it very much if they would send me a copy of
it. Hard to run a contest when the guy running
I've stumbled across a few other users the last few years as a Rank
(and, btw,
growing Ranker --- Mother Superior won't meet with me unless I'm hosed
off by
the Fire Department with Raid - And I have formative observations:
Olympus, by an large, are kinder gentler better photographers.
John Mustarde wrote:
My standard monopod outfit is the 600/4 and Wimberly on the 3249B. It
is a good combination. I have tried other monopods - some heavier,
some with fewer sections. But I like the 3249B best of all, and it
seems to easily support the weight of the 600/4 and Wimberly.
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
The foam seals around the back door of one of my MX bodies and one of my
ME S bodies needs replacement. It's sticky and gooey in some spots.
How difficult a job is this? Where might I get appropriate foam? Is
there a special type of foam for this situation.
If I
There is now a Grand Prize for the best print submitted by 15 December 2001.
I will go by postmark so those farther away have the same chance as those
who are closer. Donated by a Pentax Rep, the Grand Prize is a rare and
collectable piece of Pentax memorabilia. It will never even be unwrapped (I
I think my computer crash last night might have been due to a virus. Norton
is no help. The system was getting a little flaky so I ran Norton Antivirus.
It said the MBR had been changed so I selected Replace MBR and continued
to run Norton. It showed no other problems.
When it finished a You
Mick Maguire wrote:
Seriously I think that the epithets given to most products these days are
purely designed by marketing to tap into consumer perceptions: like adding
GTI or GTE or X to a car name, it's not so much what it stands for (eg. GTI
was supposed to mean Grand Tourer Injection), as
The one that got me was, I think, a script embedded in an e-mail. When I
selected the e-mail to delete it, it ran. It gave me a script cannot
complete message. Norton did not detect it.
--graywolf
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From: Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
I've not seen anything embedded in HTML, but, in all honesty, I'm not
sure what to look for. What I received were attachments sent, in part,
through mailing list messages.
The ones that came my way were blank messages, the sender of which had
an odd aspect to his/her email address. The
Is the +1 gone yet? If not, I want it.
Ken
On Thursday 29 November 2001 10:02, you wrote:
Hello,
I have two Asahi Pentax SMC correction lens adapters available to
anyone who can use them: a -3 for K (and ES, I believe) cameras and a
+1 for the M series.
I'll send them for the cost of
The problem with that Mike, is that those kind of responses very quickly
turn any list into hell.
A few years back I was running my own newsserver. When there were a lot of
complaints about off topic posts, I checked. There were about ten times as
many posts complaining about off topic posts
I could sure use the +1, Joe. Be glad to pay shipping or even a few bucks
for it. I suppose someone has beaten me to it though.
--graywolf
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From: Joe Wilensky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:02 AM
Subject: Diopter
but the point was about standing or something acronymicly. the X in LX MX
etc is a good example of my point, whilst it may mean top of the series or
suchlike, I haven't seen a claim that it stands for something. I guess it's
the same with the S too.
Regards,
/\/\ick...
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Here's an interesting article about traditional vs digital photography by
Pedro Meyer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/zonezero/2.htm
It includes an interesting example of how you can alter digital images
with software. If you click on the picture top right, it brings up
the
At 10:27 AM 11/29/01 -0500, Mafud wrote:
In a message dated 11/28/01 11:05:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That does suck. Is there an option on the camera to lock the
aperture? The
CP990 has a variable aperture, but there's an option to lock it so it
simulates
That is why, except for a tie breaker, I am using the objective criteria of
the halftoning. So far I have been able to seen it with a 4X Fuji loupe on
all of the prints I have received. By doing it that way it is more of a
hardware rating than a operator rating. There is of course no way to
No, it just means someone is putting forth their own agenda. They don't even
recognize the real pros. You know what some pros still make house calls,
unlike doctors.
About the lens. No it is not any good. Unless you kept it frozen it is
probably spoiled after 2 years.
TV, what are you drinking?
I looked at your corner of the room photo ... eerily neat and
organized ... gave me the willies*.
Dan Scott (* not the PDML Willies)
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Cotty wrote:
Well, hey - it's nearly December. I figured the PDML would like a smile
before you head off for the weekend doing your own
This must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays
chris
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Dan Scott wrote:
Yes. We've been celebrating Thursday all day long.
Dan Scott
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Aaron wrote:
p.s. is it like a national holiday in the States or something?
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Lon Williamson wrote:
John seems to be our Long Lens Artist In Residence. I, for one,
listen to what he says on such matters.
I dunno... Ol' Bill Stack-'em'-high Casselberry could probably give him
a run for his money with teleconverters...
chris
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Greetings from Portland everyone...
The recent discussion about Robert Payne's Arrest photo started me
thinking about the legal implications of street photography. Are there
locations and/or subjects that are just off-limits to uninvited photography?
Has anyone ever been asked for their roll of
In Stuttgart, Germany near Koenig Strasse I shot a group of young men who might
be described as skinheads. They quickly surrounded me and began chanting zwei
mark, zwei mark. I gave them zwei mark , and they allowed me to continue, but
tossed a few small rocks at me as I hurried off down the
Hello all...
I ran across this website built by a guy that likes to take interesting
pictures of abandon industrial and commercial buildings. There's some great
stuff in there. Very gritty. I don't know if he uses Pentax, but I find the
site interesting all the same.
Interesting site, as an extremely painfull interface though.
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From: Timothy Sherburne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:18 PM
Subject: OT: Industrial site pix...
Hello all...
I ran across this
Chris Brogden wrote:
John seems to be our Long Lens Artist In Residence. I, for one,
listen to what he says on such matters.
I dunno... Ol' Bill Stack-'em'-high Casselberry could probably give him
a run for his money with teleconverters...
I dunno -- hard to match those big
I ran into this site a while ago. I was compelled to look at EVERY picture
in the site. I has a blast trying to imagine the people who had been in
those places and circumstances that lead the locations demise.
Cory Waters
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