Ha Ha, LOL!
Have you got the names and addresses of the people who bought those
'white elephants'? I wonder if they want to buy a nice bucket of pure
Bristol water for a lot of money?
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From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 2003 19:56
To: pentax
On 13/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
And I had mentioned I wanted to pull A Cotty ;-) and put some Pentax
screwmounts on my Canon for future PUGs.
Be advised that a standard M42/EOS adapter like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2957595450category=4687
*may*
I have thought about it, honestly, for many years - but it just seems
like too much of a pain in the a**e. I really like the look of the 645,
didn't really like the 67 (sorry brothers), especially the finder. Its
been a constant should I, shouldn't I situation. I think what has
ultimately
I've got a copy of the answers if you need to see it first - do you a
good deal Cotty!
-Original Message-
From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 2003 22:13
To: pentax list
Subject: Re: test
On 13/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
It was a simple test so I
Hi, Tom,
I think that Chrysler (sorry, I just can't call them Daimler-Chrysler, even
though I know that's what they are) bought shares of only the motor vehicle
division of Mitshibushi, not the entire conglomerate.
I do recall that when the deal was announced several years ago, it was
Hi,
Rob Brigham wrote:
I have thought about it, honestly, for many years - but it just seems
like too much of a pain in the a**e. I really like the look of the 645,
didn't really like the 67 (sorry brothers), especially the finder. Its
been a constant should I, shouldn't I situation. I
Hi, Vic,
I'm sort of in the same boat as Ann. The page loads on my 'puter, but it
takes those thumbs forever, and I really don't have the time to wait about 5
minutes for them all to load.
But, also having said that, I didn't notice the request for comments or the
url being posted when you
William Johnson:
Yeah, GM owns SAAB now, but I know looking at the new models that the key is
still between the seats! :-)
Yes, but it's electronic, and you don't have to put it in reverse to
take the key out!
anders
-
http://anders.hultman.nu/
Vic-
Have you ever heard of Spif. It's the extra money the sales person gets for
selling that (day's, week's, month's) featured item.
I wonder if you were paying the Spif penalty. Many salespeople will
over-push whatever is paying them spif in that period. It may help the
seller's income, but it
- Original Message -
From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GM does own Isuzu, much like they own Saab and a number of other
companies. But they don't build Isuzu cars or Saab cars. Nor do they
build the transmission Bill is complaining about. They do make GM cars,
which have scored
Hi,
The following equipment is still available. All lenses have front and rear caps,
although they may be generic.
Everything comes with a 10-day inspection period.
Prices include insured UPS shipping in the US. I will consider overseas offers on a
case-by-case basis. Prices are fairly
Well I've got the cape, and I did feel the force of the dark side (oops
sorry, you said dark slide!) for a long while, but then Pentax brought
out a DSLR called the Yoda*ist, which saved me from the evil Canon Trade
Federation for now!
I love the mechanics of some of the LF cameras, from an
Alex,
I have question about this photo - there are several spines on that flower
that are completely blown out for long stretches. I've downloaded it and
checked it out with the Curves tool in Photoshop. Have you noticed that
this is a problem with the camera? I could imagine a few specular
Regarding RAW shots on the *ist D, Rob wrote:
RAW only gives 70 shots even on 1Gb.
[snip]
Rob, promise me you'll do one little test:
1. Take a RAW shot of a nice landscape.
2. Now switch to large/fine jpeg mode and take another shot of same.
3. Extract RAW shot later on computer, have it
- Original Message -
From: Dario Bonazza 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
That's not the case with the *ist D: when you apply enough USM to let
pictures look acceptable when smaller than 1:1 on video, when you enalarge
them 1:1 angled lines such as hair or grass are so much saw-toothed.
On 13/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
I mean, from Cotty's POV, wanting to put M42's on a digital camera, he'd
have to modify (being a pre-*ist D endeavor for him). But, you're using a
film camera anyway, so is it really necessary to mutilate your Canon for
that purpose? Not that I have
--- josvdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Ramesh Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is a scenario. Assume you are shooting a
reflection of sunlit tree; reflection is occupying
full frame. Water is dark except for the
reflection.
When I spot
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Bucky wrote:
I have question about this photo - there are several spines on that flower
that are completely blown out for long stretches. I've downloaded it and
checked it out with the Curves tool in Photoshop. Have you noticed that
this is a problem with the camera? I
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Cotty wrote:
Regarding RAW shots on the *ist D, Rob wrote:
RAW only gives 70 shots even on 1Gb.
[snip]
Rob, promise me you'll do one little test:
1. Take a RAW shot of a nice landscape.
2. Now switch to large/fine jpeg mode and take another shot of same.
3.
I don't believe anybody here thinks you ought to buy an istD. Or any
other camera. None are perfect, and obviously you will be unhappy with
an imperfect cameras.
For the rest of us, we live in the real world where hardly anything is
perfect and are glad when something meets most of our
http://hometown.aol.ca/pentxuser/page15.html
Hi Vic,
Whenever I've gone to have a look, the page had been very slow loading and
when I've clicked to get a bigger image then nothing has come up. This
time, I just waited and something eventually popped up.
Maybe that's the reason people haven't
Have you changed the sharpness in the camera to maximum from medium?
Bill
- Original Message -
From: Dario Bonazza 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: I got my *ist D and I LOVE IT !!!
Jostein,
I always apply USM at 100%
Hello Dario,
I would also be interested in the quality in regards to being printed
on both an inkjet and a digital lab (Agfa, Fuji, Noritsu). I have
found in my own digital endeavors, that many times, the printed output
is better or worse than what I view on screen.
Thanks,
Bruce
Monday,
You would gain P-TTL metering and lose considerable power changing to the
360FGZ.
Bill
- Original Message -
From: Bucky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax Peepl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: *ist D flash
I gather that the new *ist D also has a new flash
OK, now we're getting to the part where my analysis has to be spot on.
Shooting motorsports, I'm not going to have time to review in camera.
Not something you want to do, in any case, with large heavy objects
whizzing by at 200mph. Not that I haven't seen people doing that;
sitting on the
Hi, Vic.
Images load a bit slowly for those of us w/dial-up connections. I think
that's why I gave up on them initially.
These are nice, and you've obviously put much work into them. One
doesn't often see animals done this way. Except for pet portraits, good
animal photos have some actual, or
The buffer on the *ist D is pretty big
What is the buffer?
Thanks,
Joe (whose resistance is cracking)
It's the amount of data the camera can handle before it has to write some of
it to the Flash memory. You take one shot at a time and buffer size isn't
relevant but take 6 quick ones and you'll see why it's an issue...
Cory Waters
- Original Message -
From: Joseph Tainter [EMAIL
At 11:44 AM 10/10/03, you wrote:
What's going on here. I have a new camera that came with a strap with no
pocket to hold the flash shoe cover. Why have they dropped compatibility
with previous models of camera straps? For people like tv that don't use
straps, its a minor problem. For those
MZ-3 = ZX/MZ-5n (+ 1/4000 - 2s)(on dial). Great camera but then so is the 5n.
At 11:51 AM 10/10/03, you wrote:
Hi Joe...
What's an MZ-3? Must be a European designation?
Discontinued now?
Never mind. I always do this. Visit Google.com, and find out all I need
to know...
The MZ-3 is not available
and faster flash sync
Peter Alling wrote:
MZ-3 = ZX/MZ-5n (+ 1/4000 - 2s)(on dial). Great camera but then so is
the 5n.
At 11:51 AM 10/10/03, you wrote:
Hi Joe...
What's an MZ-3? Must be a European designation?
Discontinued now?
Never mind. I always do this. Visit Google.com, and find out
The *ist will give you superior autofocus, and a slightly better light meter
if I remember the specifications correctly. It is smaller and lighter and the
battery grip has a vertical release, (a nice touch). To get that you get
slightly
more difficult manual focus, (air prism, not glass so the
I've answered two of my questions ---
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
(1) can't find the tool for adding a boarder. In
photo deluxe it was under the effects
menu.
answer (just to share with others --
use the marquee tool then use, of all things, STROKE
in the edit menu,
now why in the world couldn't
all i need is a better autofocus and better metering. when shooting a family
gatherings, i dont have the time for the camera to hunt for focus, by the
time its done i missed the shot. and i dont have the time for doing all the
manual settings, or compensation. i need to be able to shoot and get a
...and a good thing too.
At 08:41 PM 10/10/03, you wrote:
Hey, Jerome,
I've never claimed that ~I~ was a productive member of society!
cheers,
frank
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: jerome [EMAIL
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:33:36 -0600, William Robb wrote:
I can't actually verify it with my own little eyes, is that the
fine JPEG save is pretty much indistinguishable from RAW.
As long as I can still do the manipulations I can foresee needing to
do, without going nuts, or spending more time
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:55:56 +1000, Paul wrote:
I find shooting with my 10D i cant really see any different between
Large Jpeg and RAW, except for the flexability of white balance
correction. So i only shoot raw when i know i'll have make white balance
corrections.
I know myself better
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:57:50 +1000, Rob Studdert wrote:
Will this high speed shooting be out of doors? If so set the white
balance to a fixed value and get it right all the time instead.
It will, and if a fixed value or the presets is close enough for this
usage, that sounds great (can you
It accepts a 2 frame per second motor drive, something you better not try on
your average K2.
At 04:37 AM 10/11/03, you wrote:
Not a camera I have ever seen before, until I saw one on sale in eBay - I've
waited for the auction to finish before I mentioned it, and I didn't see the
final result
Hi John,
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:36:27 -0400 (EDT), John Francis wrote:
Not that I haven't seen people doing that; sitting on the Jersey
barrier, back to traffic, paying no attention.
I don't even stand around with my back to traffic when I'm flagging
(unless I'm the yellow flagger). And I'm
Since we don't have a Native SLR industry, (or for that matter camera
manufacturers)
they can't be accused of dumping. Pentax want's to recapture the US
market, it might
help if they advertised...
At 08:54 AM 10/11/03, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: David Mann
Subject: Re: Has
The main times I would need to do
something different would be in the garages and the dusk/night portions
of the Petit le Mans. Occasionally some other shots, too, but they'd
be under much less stressful circumstances.
TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
Under these circumstances you would PROBABLY get
I have the Beattie screen in an LX and PZ1 and notice no difference in
exposure..
Vic
It's not much; I believe it's around 1/3 stop in centre-weighted (and who
knows what using multi-segment metering). If you're using print film you'll
never notice the difference. Even on slide film (with
I agree to a point. I've seen mass media ads for Canon and Olympus, but
few, if any, for Nikon, and very, very few, and then only PS for Pentax.
Bill
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From: Peter Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: Has
Commission usually comes from the store, they get more work out of an employee
by tying some of their compensation to production. When I was selling cameras
the big money was Prize money, usually but not necessarily paid by the
manufacturer
or importer. Even then Pentax didn't offer much extra
Well that surely explains a few things. It's time to change this darned AOL
site. I'm getting ready to do a real web site with Frontpage that will
hopefully solve these problems. Anyways thanks for the comments. Wendy...
Vic
Hi Vic,
Whenever I've gone to have a look, the page had been very
Tim: just a few emails up from this one is an e-mail from someone selling
some zooms for the PZ1. I would grab the 28-105 in a second. I have two and love
them. Also the 70-200 for sale is worth considering. Those two lenses woould
give you everything you need for a long time and they are good
Thanks Ken. I know I'm a little close with the ears. The images were taken in
a zoo several years ago and I was trying to get in real close so that the
ugly backgrounds would not be so noticeable. Little did I know then that I
would be scanning the images and literally eliminating the
Hi Joe thanks for your comments. Most of these shots were taken at smaller
zoos where you can get a little closer to the animals. I went often, had a lot
of patience and would have used the Pentax 400 5.6 for most of these shots. It
focuses incredibly close...
Vic
Not sure how you got such
Thanks Virgil I appreciate your comments. I really have a good time taking
many of my older photos and working with them to make them better. Most of the
work in these portraits are really made possible with a program called Painter
which has a cloning tool. Painter is to fine artists what
Is there any way I can unsubscribe from this list? My emails keep being
returned.
Tony Gieske
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Dario Bonazza 2 wrote:
Good point. The 24mm should become a 36mm, while depth-of field must be
conidered one stop less, hence pictures taken with the 24mm f/4.5 are
like
those taken at 36mm f/3.5, while 24mm f/11 is like 36mm f/8.
However, I was expecting some
Auto-tranny, no way, I like to have control over my machines, not the other way
around. Ten years and 230,000 miles and the damned thing just came apart.
Then don't build them like they used to, and its a good thing too...
At 02:00 PM 10/12/03, you wrote:
Automatic tranny?
I only have 1/10 the
The sensor could, (I don't know if it does), actually adjust it's
sensitivity on
the fly to insure a better exposure. I'm not sure I'd like that.
At 02:10 PM 10/12/03, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Peter Alling
Subject: Re: Old lenses and *ist D
Unless the new users might just
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Peter Alling wrote:
The sensor could, (I don't know if it does), actually adjust it's
sensitivity on the fly to insure a better exposure. I'm not sure
I'd like that.
There is a custom function to select that feature. It is called
Sensitivity Correction. The manual says
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:57:50 +1000, Rob Studdert wrote:
Will this high speed shooting be out of doors? If so set the white
balance to a fixed value and get it right all the time instead.
It will, and if a fixed value or the presets is close enough for this
usage, that sounds great
The problem with the *ist D, as far as I know, is that if it doesn't sense that
the lens is in A position it locks the lens aperture wide open but leaves the
meter on. With Stop down metering lenses, i.e. those without the K stop
down lever
such as a M42 lens using an adapter the Camera cannot
My main question is, how important is auto-focus in this situation?
I think it's quite important, for me any.
And is the auto focus on PZ-1p fast enough to give the benefit?
The problem of Z-1p's AF is not speed, but it can focus at the centre only.
Just when you need it fast and snap, you have
- Original Message -
From: Peter Alling
Subject: Re: Has Pentax missed again?
Since we don't have a Native SLR industry, (or for that matter camera
manufacturers)
they can't be accused of dumping.
Well, not quite.
Dumping is classified under GATT as selling a good for less than the
- Original Message -
From: Tony Gieske
Subject: unsubscribe
Is there any way I can unsubscribe from this list? My emails keep being
returned.
Nope.
Yer stuck in this hell forever.
Just try to get away.
We'll find you.
Now suffer.
You brought this on yourself.
You subscribed to this
- Original Message -
From: Peter Alling
Subject: Re: Old lenses and *ist D
The sensor could, (I don't know if it does), actually adjust it's
sensitivity on
the fly to insure a better exposure. I'm not sure I'd like that.
It does. Or at least it can.
It's one of the custom
They relaxed that a couple of years after the Japanese banking system began
to melt down.
At 11:40 PM 10/12/03, you wrote:
Hummm? The guys working at Hydromatic in Ypsilanti might argue about
GM not building automatic transmissions with you, Paul.
However, I will note that unless the
If it's designed to allow updates it probably loads software through the
same port you'd download pictures through. You would need software to
to do the uploads from a computer.
At 08:43 AM 10/13/03, you wrote:
Well, we may start a plea to Pentax to make open source of *istd
code. Then found
GM owned enough of ISUZU to dictate design and production decisions to them
in the 70's.
GM at one time imported Opel Kadets from Germany and sold them through
Buick dealerships
of all places. When it became too expensive to get the Opels from Germany
they had ISUZU
build them and imported
What interests me is how the hell you clean the sensor when the inevitable
happens and something gets stuck to it - a piece of eyebrow dander, etc. It
won't take much residue to seriously screw up your images. I would gather
that you can use a mild breeze, but that canned air stuff that's not
It's still a mechanical linkage. It would take statistical measurement of
thousands of
lenses to make a determination. In a perfect world the electronically
controlled system
should be more accurate. However it isn't a perfect world.
At 01:03 PM 10/13/03, you wrote:
- Original Message
Asuna?
At 10:16 AM 10/13/03, you wrote:
Maybe GM didn't own Isuzu, but wasn't there a marketing agreement between
the two, maybe 10 years back? I can't remember, but I'm sure that GM
rebadged some Isuzu product for US sales. Much like they rebadged Toyota
Corollas as Novas (that wasn't a
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