Re: Cameron this will tickle you

2003-12-17 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 13:15 America/New_York, John Francis wrote: Exactly my feelings when I saw the original posting. You know what they say about who blames the tools ... I don't see anything in the article that blamed the tools. They blamed it on an over-reliance of PowerPoint

Re: Color correction software

2003-12-17 Thread Juey Chong Ong
On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 16:46 America/New_York, Andre Langevin wrote: Are there any Photoshop plug-ins to correct color balance due to a difference between color temperatures of film lighting. For example 2700 oK (bulbs) to 5500 oK (film). I read that PhotoShop CS comes with this

Re: Why P-TTL?

2003-12-17 Thread Sylwek
on 16.12.03 17:51, Joseph Tainter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone who owns the AF360FGZ confirm that P-TTL has given you better exposures than ordinary TTL? Yes, P-TTL is significant upgrade to plain TTL. It usually tries to expose picture so as the flash would be as weak as possible to

Re: *istD North America Warranty

2003-12-17 Thread mike.wilson
Hi, Dave B wrote (regarding repair work of cameras bought outside the country): Actually Nikon will not do any work let alone warranty. H. So you turn up with their product, hand full of hot little dollars, and they say No, thank you? Sounds to me like they have both little business

Re: Lens Tests

2003-12-17 Thread Bruce Dayton
Compare the Quantaray models with Sigma. They have been the main manufacturer for Ritz on those. If you can find a match, then look for reviews on the Sigma version. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 6:48:58 AM, you wrote: MWMK Hey gang, MWMK I'm trying to research

Re: Color correction software

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
I've just looked thru PS CS but can't seem to find the function, JC.. Suggestions from anyone, most welcome. There is though, the option with the supplied Camera Raw plugin where it's as simple as a slider or an auto correct dropper tool, but my attempts to find a way to use it with a simple jpg

RE: Australian alternative to GFM??

2003-12-17 Thread Bob Rapp
Since we are all scattered from Central Queensland to Melbourne and perhaps Perth, it does not make much sense to try and organise a meeting/outing on short notice. For the US mob, Australia has the land mass of the continental United states with the population of California. Canberra is

Re: artefacts

2003-12-17 Thread mike.wilson
Hi, Arnie wrote: any idea what it might be? dirt on the sensor? Looks like dirt. Even more interesting, I cannot decide if the bright spots are hot pixels or stars. Probably the former, as the sun appears to be quite high. Do digiastrophotographers use extra high quality sensors to stop

Re: Cosina 55mm 1.2

2003-12-17 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Ryan Lee wrote: Fascinating, Mark.. yet another curious lens (to me).. I can't find much info on the Rikenon either. tongue-in-cheek Did you check the archive? /tongue-in-cheek I had seen a Porst on sale at some point and had a look at the archive.

Re: Cameron this will tickle you

2003-12-17 Thread David Mann
William Robb wrote: Interesting take, blaming the misuse of software for a problem, rather than those who misued the software. Well said. I get to see quite a few ppt presentations at work and they never impress me. It has nothing to do with ppt itself - they're just bad presentations.

Re: Update on website status, plus sample page....

2003-12-17 Thread David Mann
Stan Halpin wrote: See http://home.earthlink.net/~smh645/A_20-2.8.html for a sample page. None of the links are active, this is a one-page sample. Let me know if you have any comments. The only thing I don't really like is the table borders. Have you tried getting rid of them? Main

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-17 Thread Anders Hultman
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, frank theriault wrote: Now, certainly, only a few of my posts on various lists' archives come up on a Google search, and I have no idea how they choose what comes up or not. Partly it depends on the webmaster of the list archive site. The webmaster can prohibit Google

Re: Enabled

2003-12-17 Thread Anders Hultman
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Ryan Lee wrote: Just had to drop something about Bjork (sorry about my OT tendencies!) (her music more than her, Frank.. I once saw this clip of her arriving in Thailand, a reporter went up to her and said 'Welcome to Thailand!' and just as she raised her mic for a brief

Re: Cosina 55mm 1.2

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
Actually Kostas, I did not. I think I depend a bit too much on Yahoo, and my use of PDML has been confined to my (bursting) mailbox. Apologies. But courtesy of Ollen Mullis and Paul Fox (fellow PDMLers, tremendously assistive I attest) I've been elucidated on this lens. I wasn't even aware of

Re: Australian alternative to GFM??

2003-12-17 Thread Eactivist
Why is Australia referred to as Oz? I thought that was Kansas. I have the feeling I am missing something... Marnie aka Doe (Who is an Oz fan, having read all of the Baum-written books -- about four times each.)

Re: Australian alternative to GFM??

2003-12-17 Thread Chris Stoddart
Why is Australia referred to as Oz? 'cos the Aussies like to abbreviate. Aus = Oz. I thought that was Kansas No, no, no :-) In fact Dorothy even says as much (This ain't Kansas anymore, Toto or something like that) Chris (a pommy)

Re: Australian alternative to GFM??

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
Well, maybe because Aussie is similar to Ozzie, so Aus Oz.. But when over here 'afternoon' is 'arvo' and 'sandwich' is 'sanga', Oz might just mean we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto! ;) Cheers, Ryan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Cosina 55mm 1.2

2003-12-17 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Ryan Lee wrote: Apologies. Apologies? Humbled, Humbled? There must be something wrong with my posts. They don't just help, as I intended... Sorry. Kostas

Re: OT: Fantasy about New HD from Toshiba

2003-12-17 Thread Herb Chong
there are MP3 players with builtin hard drives of that size. the 1.5GB MP3 players are these type. i don't see anything important about the Toshiba announcement other than that there is now a second, independently developed source for drives of the same general capabilities of the MicroDrive.

Re: Cosina 55mm 1.2

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
Sorry? You should be! :) vbg Just kidding.. It helped, Kos, really! Ta! Ryan PS. About weird Aussie phrases, 'Ta' is another one.. It mean 'thanks' instead of 'goodbye'.. strange.. - Original Message - From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

*Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
Hi all, Regarding the Aussie GFM (I'm aware of the incorrectness of this term, but it's catchy.. we can give it a name of its own when we know where it is!), there doesn't seem to be much of a plan as yet. As such, I've decided to compile the relevant info, hopefully in a format slightly more

Re: Cosina 55mm 1.2

2003-12-17 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Ryan Lee wrote: PS. About weird Aussie phrases, 'Ta' is another one.. It mean 'thanks' We have it here (UK) too; usually associated with Lancashire/Cumbria I think. Being easier than thanks, the nursery teaches that to my daughter (up in Scotland). Kostas

Re: Another ebay scam!

2003-12-17 Thread Cotty
On 16/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Not mine. Just one of those things that gets passed around the Internet. probably has several authors. No idea tho originated it, though. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-17 Thread Cotty
On 16/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: If one were silly enough to Google my name, the first item one would see is my PDML Self Portrait (the famous bunny ears! g). The next bunch of entries are a few of my posts to PDML and the LUG. I Googled myself and here's a couple of interesting

OT: Ta! (was Re: Cosina 55mm 1.2)

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
Only association I could think of was an abbrieviation for 'thanks a lot' (though that should be t-a-l, even if 'a lot' can sound like a single word when you say the phrase). First time I heard it I was quite confused a la hmmm you said goodbye..hmm.. you're still talking to me, but these days I

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-17 Thread Cotty
On 16/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Lon, Cotty didn't crap out -- Tanya did (unless Imissed soemthing.) Yeah, I was kinda wondering there. I think he got the names mixed up :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps

Powerpoint

2003-12-17 Thread Chaso DeChaso
Interesting take, blaming the misuse of software for a problem, rather than those who misued the software. Well said. I get to see quite a few ppt presentations at work and they never impress me. It has nothing to do with ppt itself - they're just bad presentations. Well, this

Re:(2) *istD North America Warrany

2003-12-17 Thread brooksdj
As far as I know Nikon is the second worst offender at that. Mamiya USA is the first. I have not heard of any other major brands refusing to work on gray market cameras, though many will not honor the warranty. I only realized this when i called Nikon

Re: artifacts

2003-12-17 Thread arnie
well i tried cleaning the sensor, however because i can only see the spots on the sky, i'm going to have to wait to test it. we are supposed to get around 2 inches of rain today here in nyc. thanks for all the help arnie - Original Message - From: Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Color correction software

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Studdert
On 16 Dec 2003 at 16:46, Andre Langevin wrote: Are there any Photoshop plug-ins to correct color balance due to a difference between color temperatures of film lighting. For example 2700 oK (bulbs) to 5500 oK (film). PC based http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm Rob Studdert

Re: Sensors noise

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Studdert
On 17 Dec 2003 at 16:30, Ryan Lee wrote: Thanks kindly for the link. It's a good overview, though I think it helps illustrates the question I posed (under 'system noise', the article identifies CCDs to have 'low' while giving CMOSes 'moderate to high'). Ergo, I find the dpreview *ist D/10D

Re: artefacts

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Studdert
On 17 Dec 2003 at 9:18, mike.wilson wrote: Do digiastrophotographers use extra high quality sensors to stop people discovering new heavenly objects? Given my TIC and skeptical posts on the subject of digicams, I suppose I had better state that this is a serious question. The link following

Re: Australian alternative to GFM??

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Studdert
On 17 Dec 2003 at 6:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is Australia referred to as Oz? It a classic Australian (Aussie) colloquialism and a lot faster to type than Australia... I thought that was Kansas. I have the feeling I am missing something... Yep, Oz is a real place, the Oz in the

Re: Color correction software

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Roberts
Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Dec 2003 at 16:46, Andre Langevin wrote: Are there any Photoshop plug-ins to correct color balance due to a difference between color temperatures of film lighting. For example 2700 oK (bulbs) to 5500 oK (film). PC based

Re: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread Pieter Nagel
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:27:38PM -0600, William Robb wrote: From: Pieter Nagel Oh, I wasn't hoping to get any more quality out of the tiny APS sensor with 2/3 faked colour. I presume you have an ist D? If so, you know how wrong this statement is. I did not mean that as a slur on

Re[2]: *istD North America Warranty

2003-12-17 Thread Bruce Dayton
I buy from my local store quite often. However, there are times, when the price difference is not a few bucks, but hundreds. If the difference is less than $50, pretty much I use the local store. The other problem with the local store is selection/availability. I just bought an FA*24/2 from NY

Re[2]: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello Pieter, One thing you are not factoring in to this issue is the output side. When the output is digital, you have the same basic problem. Each pixel is only one color. What you are really referring to is a dithering pattern. All inkjet printers do this, monitors do this and I believe

Re[2]: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Bruce Dayton wrote: One thing you are not factoring in to this issue is the output side. When the output is digital, you have the same basic problem. Each pixel is only one color. This is not true. All photographic file formats store R, G and B values for each pixel.

Re[2]: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, alex wetmore wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Bruce Dayton wrote: One thing you are not factoring in to this issue is the output side. When the output is digital, you have the same basic problem. Each pixel is only one color. This is not true. All photographic file

RE: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Bob Rapp
Ryan, I am in Terrigal NSW. 1 hour from the hunter valley, Blue mountains, Sydney, Barrington Tops etc. Actually the Hunter Valley area offers heaps of photographic opportunities from Wollombi to the Barrington including rural towns. Settled in the early 1800 and is peppered with heaps of

Re: *istD North America Warranty

2003-12-17 Thread graywolf
On the other hand I have gone into camera stores a spent an hour showing the salesperson how to use a particular camera. He sure as hell didn't buy it from me. (grin) If your salesperson does not use that opportunity to sell the guy some high markup accessories and film he is a pretty poor

Re[3]: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello alex, My mistake. I do believe that it is true of the printer though. That is why the resolution of an Epson is 1440 dpi but the resolution that we really think of is 300 dpi. This is due to dithering. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, December 17, 2003, 10:18:57 AM, you wrote: aw

Re: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread Bill D. Casselberry
Bruce Dayton wrote: My local labs no longer do analog. That means that my film is at a disadvantage. It is subject to their scanner/software limitations. The only alternative is to scan and manipulate the images myself. Same here - and to make things even worse, they have their

Re: (2) *istD North America Warrany

2003-12-17 Thread graywolf
Of course you could ship it to Nikon USA for repairs. There should be no duties involved. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know Nikon is the second worst offender at that. Mamiya USA is the first. I have not heard of any other major brands refusing to work on gray

Re: Powerpoint

2003-12-17 Thread graywolf
Then we can look at it another way, a person who makes a possibly life threatening multi-million dollar decision from a twenty minute PowerPoint presentation certainly fits my definition of a fool. Of course, the adviser who presents it that way fits my definition of incompetent. -- Chaso

Konica Minolta?

2003-12-17 Thread Bill Owens
I saw an ad on TV last night for a camera and the logo on the ad was the usual Minolta globe, but the name was Konica Minolta. Who bought who? Bill

Sigma Zoom Telephoto 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF

2003-12-17 Thread Ramesh Kumar
I am thinking of buying Sigma Zoom Telephoto 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF. I have read this lens is better than Tokina Tamron. I would like to hear from the users of this lens. Buying Pentax is ruled out because of the hefty price. Thanks Ramesh __ Do you

Re: A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you

2003-12-17 Thread Pat White
Thanks for the Christmas wish and interesting image, Don. A Happy Christmas and a great New Year to you and yours! Pat White

Re: Another ebay scam!

2003-12-17 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Christian wrote: - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, there's much more: Route 666 - Way of the Beast There used to be a real US HWY 666. This year it was renamed to US 491 Christian And I travelled it - to the Bisti Badlands and between (roughly)

FS: Black MX user, wonky meter

2003-12-17 Thread Joe Wilensky
I'll probably post this again on Friday, but here's an early opportunity: I have a bargain condition black MX for sale. The meter started behaving erratically and I found it was not worth repairing the meter. It works beautifully otherwise, and I had it CLA'd early this year. It does have some

Re: Konica Minolta?

2003-12-17 Thread Sylwek
on 12/17/03 8:51 PM, Bill Owens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw an ad on TV last night for a camera and the logo on the ad was the usual Minolta globe, but the name was Konica Minolta. Who bought who? Konica bought Minolta. -- Regards Sylwek

Re: Konica Minolta?

2003-12-17 Thread Ramesh Kumar
Konica bought Minolta --- Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw an ad on TV last night for a camera and the logo on the ad was the usual Minolta globe, but the name was Konica Minolta. Who bought who? Bill __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity

Re: Powerpoint

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Desjardins
Another problem is that some problems cannot be simplified beyond a certain point. If the decision makers don't have enough technical literacy to make the decision or the sense to give it to someone that does then problesm will occur. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee

Re: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread Robert Gonzalez
Bruce Dayton wrote: Hello Pieter, One thing you are not factoring in to this issue is the output side. When the output is digital, you have the same basic problem. Each pixel is only one color. What you are really referring to is a dithering pattern. All inkjet printers do this, monitors do

Re: FS: Black MX user, wonky meter

2003-12-17 Thread Mat Maessen
What exactly is wonky about the meter? Did they tell you the problem when it got CLA'ed? Unfortunately, my last experience getting an MX CLA'ed resulted in the camera coming back nonfunctional. *grumble* must do something about that one of these days... -Mat I have a bargain condition black MX

Re: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread Pieter Nagel
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:11:19AM -0800, Bruce Dayton wrote: One thing you are not factoring in to this issue is the output side. When the output is digital, you have the same basic problem. Each pixel is only one color. Just because, at the output side, printers need to dither dots on

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-17 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
ROFLOL - Cotty, when did you find the time to model for that?!!?!? and my favourite - a character in a poster: http://vintage-art-posters.junglewalk.com/Cotty-Poster-398868.asp tan.

Re: Powerpoint

2003-12-17 Thread Chaso DeChaso
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:43:41 -0500 From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Powerpoint Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Then we can look at it another way, a person who makes a

BreezeBrowser 2.8

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Eriksson
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Re[3]: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Bruce Dayton wrote: My mistake. I do believe that it is true of the printer though. That is why the resolution of an Epson is 1440 dpi but the resolution that we really think of is 300 dpi. This is due to dithering. It is true of inkjet printers, but printer resolution

Re: Sigma Zoom Telephoto 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF

2003-12-17 Thread Cotty
On 17/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: I am thinking of buying Sigma Zoom Telephoto 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF. I have read this lens is better than Tokina Tamron. I would like to hear from the users of this lens. Buying Pentax is ruled out because of the hefty price. I used to have this

Re: Need photo printer recommendation

2003-12-17 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Mark E posted this and other stuff about printers -- all very interesting but Epson 2200 $650 --- (snip) Suffers from metamerism (colors look different under different light sources), ^ Huh? Um - don't all things look different under

RE: Powerpoint

2003-12-17 Thread Jeff Geilenkirchen
Don't hold back now...tell us what you really think! ;-) -Original Message- From: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Powerpoint Then we can look at it another way, a person who makes a

Re: Cosina 55mm 1.2

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Cassino
I bought it on eBay a few years back. I like the heft and feel of the lens on the LX. The Rikenons are hard to come by. I had planned to sell mine, but it turns into an effective 82mm f1.2 on the *ist-D. While you loose metering, it's an ideal lens for studio work (when the metering is done

Re: Sigma Zoom Telephoto 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF

2003-12-17 Thread Jostein
Ramesh, I own the sample that used to be Cotty's... It's good value for the money. I don't know how it compares to Tokina and Tamron, but if I ever upgrade to the Pentax lens, it will be for two reasons; close focus range, which is 1.8 meters on the Sigma, 1.4 meters on the Pentax.

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-17 Thread frank theriault
You bet TPB's rule!! At least they did. I just read yesterday that Salter Street Productions in Halifax went under. Didn't they do Trailer Park Boys? I know they did This Hour has 22 Minutes. I heard that TPB's is doing very well selling abroad, so maybe someone will pick them up. Hope

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-17 Thread frank theriault
Dude, What are you doing walking around with that nekkid boy in the little bathtub? There's a Whacko Jacko joke in there somewhere, but this is a family list... cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-17 Thread Keith Whaley
Rue Gravel? Oh no! Precious indeed! keith Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: ROFLOL - Cotty, when did you find the time to model for that?!!?!? and my favourite - a character in a poster: http://vintage-art-posters.junglewalk.com/Cotty-Poster-398868.asp tan.

Re: OT:Weird place names-was: GFM Attendees (updated)

2003-12-17 Thread Anders Hultman
Dag T: Don't forget Sheshatshit, Labrador! :) ...or Hell, Norway It finally happened: http://irc.evtek.fi/urllog/2003/12/12/It_finally_happened.jpg anders - http://anders.hultman.nu/

Re: Enabled

2003-12-17 Thread frank theriault
I'm clearly not Hip enough to like Bjork's music. I just like weird women, is all... And she fits the bill! (swan bill, that is...) vbg cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Ryan Lee

Re: Sigma Zoom Telephoto 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF

2003-12-17 Thread Ramesh Kumar
I forgot to say HSM. Did you use HSM version or non-HSM version? I read reviews at photo.net. Few people said that HSM facility will be used incase of Minolta body. Is HSM going to work on MZ-5n *istD(for future)? Thanks for detailed review. Ramesh --- Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

RE: FS: Black MX user, wonky meter

2003-12-17 Thread frank theriault
Grumble, grumble, grumble... And this, with Christmas around the corner, lots of shopping yet to do, and the inevitable post Chrismas bills - not to mention a Leica CL that's recently had the lens CLA'ed, and is ready for pickup. What I wouldn't do for a black MX, even w/o a meter! Sigh...

Re: Re[2]: artifacts

2003-12-17 Thread arnie
well bruce, i've tried that. it only seems to show up in the sky. - Original Message - From: Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:23 AM Subject: Re[2]: artifacts Hello arnie, Any light colored relatively uniform surface

Re: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread John Mustarde
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:16:56 +0200, you wrote: snip ... then concludes that any higher resolution scan of the film is therefore fruitless. They don't seem to realize there's smaller grains yet to be resolved, after the first big one's they thought you saw. Wow. More grain. Just what I wanted.

Re[4]: artifacts

2003-12-17 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello arnie, Have you tried looking at the sensor itself? I could see the dust speck on mine. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, December 17, 2003, 3:45:37 PM, you wrote: a well bruce, i've tried that. it only seems to show up in the sky. a - Original Message - a From: Bruce

RE: Sigma Zoom Telephoto 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO IF

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Brigham
HSM wont be built into any Pentax mount lenses, because the mount does not support it. I tested both the 70-200 f2.8 and the 100-300 f4.0 a year and a half ago. Both were pretty similar in terms of performance and the size difference was surprisingly not much at all. Both VERY good performers.

ZX-L and old lenses

2003-12-17 Thread Greg Lovern
I've been using a Super Program, and I'm considering getting a ZX-L. I see on Pentax's web site for the ZX-L specifications that it only takes FA, F, A lenses. I have some old screwmount lenses and an M, as well as two A's. Does the ZX-L really not work with M, K, screwmount lenses at all, or

Re: FS: Black MX user, wonky meter

2003-12-17 Thread Joe Wilensky
It worked fine for a while, then suddenly seemed at least three stops off, although it wasn't consistent. My repair guy didn't have any MX meter parts or parts MX bodies and would have had to send it out to someone else he knows, which would have been nearly $100, so I figured it wasn't worth

Re: Color correction software

2003-12-17 Thread Herb Chong
these are standalone, not plugins. makes them less useful. Herb - Original Message - From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:11 AM Subject: Re: Color correction software On 16 Dec 2003 at 16:46, Andre Langevin wrote: Are

Re: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-17 Thread Pieter Nagel
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:52:13PM -0700, John Mustarde wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:16:56 +0200, you wrote: snip ... then concludes that any higher resolution scan of the film is therefore fruitless. They don't seem to realize there's smaller grains yet to be resolved, after the first big

Re: Fantasy about New HD from Toshiba

2003-12-17 Thread Herb Chong
so far, it's been OK. it does draw more battery power than solid state and it's not usable above 10,000 feet or at temperatures too low. however, i have 2G of ordinary solid state CF for cold conditions. i haven't yet run out of battery power before running out of storage. speed seems adequate. i

RE: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Bob Rapp
I am actually leaving on Sunday for Steamboat Colorado. No need to take or buy colour film - it will be waist deep white and cold. Because Australia is such an old land mass, all of the photographic features have eroded long before man hit the continent. Bob -Original Message-

Re[2]: *istD North America Warranty

2003-12-17 Thread Chris Brogden
The issue of availability is a bit of a sore point with me. People who buy mail-order for high-end items to avoid a waiting period contribute to a vicious circle. Customers buy mail-order because they can't get it locally, but the local stores don't see the point in carrying it if no one ever

Re: *istD North America Warranty

2003-12-17 Thread Chris Brogden
The type of people who buy digital cameras from electronics companies like Future Shop, or from Walmart, aren't the least bit interested in buying high markup accessories from us. They've already bought their genuine Viking brand memory card from Costco and their Power-tron 1600 mAh batteries

Re: Re[2]: *istD North America Warranty

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Studdert
On 17 Dec 2003 at 21:47, Chris Brogden wrote: Sure, in an idea world your small, local, family-owned camera store would have the money to be able to keep high-end products from every manufacturer in stock at all times, but the unfortunate reality is that this is horrendously expensive. And

Re: Need photo printer recommendation

2003-12-17 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Mark Roberts wrote: Ann Sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark E posted this and other stuff about printers -- all very interesting but Epson 2200 $650 --- (snip) Suffers from metamerism (colors look different under different light sources),

RE: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread tom
-Original Message- From: Bob Rapp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] As large as OZ is and the closeness of our Kiwi friends, I would not rule out the South Island - now that place is stunning. I've been thinking about a trip down there (Oz and/or NZ) for a while. If someone were to

RE: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Bob Rapp
Tom, If you do, plan an spending more that a week or two. New Zealand could be done in 7 days - 10 if you include the North Island. Australia that time of the year would probably limit you to the southern portion and the northern area would be too hot and humid (90s and 100% humidity). The

RE: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Bob Rapp wrote: If you do, plan an spending more that a week or two. New Zealand could be done in 7 days - 10 if you include the North Island. A 7-10 day trip of New Zealand, including both islands, would be a terrible shame. I've spent 7 weeks there over two trips

Re: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Paul
Hi, I may come along depending on the date, probaly near Brisbane or in Victoria are the best options for me. Paul (Melb) Ryan Lee wrote: (Some corrections from the original.) Hi all, Regarding the Aussie GFM (I'm aware of the incorrectness of this term, but it's catchy.. we can give it a

Re: OT:Inkjet printer recommendations

2003-12-17 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Juey Chong Ong wrote: On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 11:34 America/New_York, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Dunno. But I do get irked when the ink is low and it won't let me clean the head, even though there really is plenty of ink in the bucket . Ionly use Epson inks myself. Me too, and I

Re: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Anthony Farr
Ryan, You may as well add my name to the list of Aussie PDMLers (Anthony Farr, Sydney, NSW). As for being a potential attendee at OZGFM, and to quote FU*, I couldn't ~possibly~ comment. regards, Anthony Farr * Francis Urquhart, fictional British prime minister (the House of Cards trilogy.)

Re: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
Hi Paul, Is this a different Paul from the Paul Ewins (also in Melbourne) in this list? If not where ya at? Kevin Waterson (Port Macquarie, NSW) Trevor Bailey (Grafton, NSW) Rob Studdert (Hurtsville, NSW) Bob Rapp (Terrigal, NSW) Anthony Farr (Sydney, NSW) Paul Ewins (Melbourne, VIC) Leon Altoff

Re: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
Oops, I forgot you put Melbourne down.. :) - Original Message - From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:32 PM Subject: Re: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)* Hi, I may come along depending on the date, probaly near Brisbane or in

RE: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Bob Rapp
Hi Alex, Like you, I have a facination with New Zealnad - particularly the South Island. My comment was relating to a 4 week trip. I have been to the South Island 6 times and only one of those times Milford Sound was clear. I think, as legend has it, every visitor to the South

Re: *Australian GFM (Abridged/Consolidated)*

2003-12-17 Thread Ryan Lee
lol! Well I'm sure the wife would want to come along too.. Or if that's not it, extend federal parliament an invitation too, and perhaps we can make use of their electric cars? Rgds, Ryan - Original Message - From: Anthony Farr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: BreezeBrowser 2.8

2003-12-17 Thread Frits Wüthrich
What are the advantages of Breezebrowser versus other solutions, like the Pentax software? Is it worth the money? Any experience? On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 22:46, Paul Eriksson wrote: BreezeBrowser 2.8 was just released, now with support for raw from our ist D's. Paul