Re: Semi OT: Anyone do a big print yet

2004-01-03 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography Subject: Re: Semi OT: Anyone do a big print yet Bill, does this mean that Mark works at, or runs/owns a lab? Don't know. Mark is one of the people I would like to know personally, not one of the ones that I do know personally. Come

Re: Today, I feel as though I have achieved something....

2004-01-03 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
OMG!! I have a wedding in Airlie Beach on Friday (did you visit the Reef via Airlie? It is the hub where most of the ferries leave for the islands and the Great Barrier Reef. Or did you go there via Rockhampton/Yeppoon?)! Imagine the fun I could have if I could get my hands on one of these

Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?

2004-01-03 Thread John Coyle
I guess if I wanted to minimise the weight and size of the kit, and maximise the flexibility I would buy a laptop and a second monitor, which could be plugged into it. I've used that setup to demo programs to clients, and it works well, as you can sit anywhere and drive the program while they sit

Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?

2004-01-03 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
That's a great suggestion John, and one that in fact I am in the process of doing. I will be purchasing a laptop by the month's end hopefully, for the express purpose of burning cds on the run and showing slideshows to clients immediately following their shoot. I am also aiming to purchase a

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread Dr E D F Williams
Ten days ago I awoke to find the thermometer down to -29C; quite cold, but not near the coldest we have around here. *But* within 24 hours it was +1C and got a little warmer before cooling off again. Right now it's -14C. We've had it very cold in Toivakka from time to time. The lowest in my

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread David Mann
Tanya wrote: I am a real baby - I hate the cold and I would be quite happy to hibernate right through our winter, during which times temperatures generally range from 3degrees celsius during the night, and sit at around the 20 degrees celsius during the day. I'm curious to know what you'd

Zone Alarm PUG was: (Re: PUG January is open)

2004-01-03 Thread Ryan Lee
Hi Len, I'm using ZA 4.0.123.012, and it's been wonderful. I'll just hazard a guess here, but under 'Privacy', try enabling all cookies and turning off ad control. In the past I've had nothing but trouble with any kind of ad blocker (often blocking everything but the ads), and cookie blockers

Re: Battery grip FG/ battery life

2004-01-03 Thread Ryan Lee
Boris: Yep me too. About testing other brands and not too sure which conditions to replicate. graywolf: I gather.. so says Chris. If it was, it's my first dud from a reputable manufacturer.. Cesar: Thanks for saving me the trouble of testing!! There's one for the archives :-) Good stuff. I

Re: why trailing-curtain-sync is useful

2004-01-03 Thread John Coyle
Frankly, I would have binned those night shots and gone back to the manual to learn how to do it! The day shots are OK, but nothing spectacular: the best one is the Porsche 911 in 'classic' framing, IMHO. I get no sense of dynamism or speed from these shots - surely an essential element of motor

RE: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread Malcolm Smith
Tanya Mayer wrote: *eek*, it's a wonder that people aren't sick all the time with colds and flu with temperature fluctuations such as those... Tan, I don't know how you cope with the heat ;-) Some of my best holidays (visiting family) have involved wandering around Perthshire (Scotland) in

RE: Zone Alarm PUG was: (Re: PUG January is open)

2004-01-03 Thread Adelheid v. K.
Hmmm the PUG website doesn't use cookies, it is pure and simple HTML code. No frames nothing fancy. So I thnik it has something to do with the setting for handling pictures. When bandwidth was a bigger issue than today and the makers of websites where not as sophisticated as today, there have

Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?

2004-01-03 Thread John Francis
This is assuming of course that you are comparing them next to a CRT with has a high reflectivity phosphor mask and isn't hooded (or otherwise protected from direct lighting). Using a CRT under ideal conditions can provide a 10x contrast advantage over LCDs. If not more - I think Barco

RE: Photodisks Failing

2004-01-03 Thread Adelheid v. K.
Other manufacturers of CD-Rs have made the same tests and also guarantee a lifetime of about 100 years. The bigger problem for longtime storage is the format the pics are stored on the CD. If it is a propretiary format like a Photoshop format or even jpeg it might not be readable some decades

Re: Nick's pics

2004-01-03 Thread Nick Clark
Thanks Tanya That bee picture has done quite well for me with the slide winning the internal Club Natural History trophy, and the print being exhibited nationally as part of the East Anglian Federation of Photographic Clubs entry. I've always found the baby part of the picture more difficult,

Re: Zone Alarm PUG was: (Re: PUG January is open)

2004-01-03 Thread Ryan Lee
Len, in your IE window, where the pictures don't load, if it shows a small red cross in the corner of the image placeholder, or not even placeholders, it's most likely a cache or firewall issue. If it shows a small icon (the one that indicates a picture), it could be a browser issue, like

Re: Zone Alarm PUG was: (Re: PUG January is open)

2004-01-03 Thread Ryan Lee
Just a thing I forgot to add in my previous post, apologies.. Curiosity got me researching Zone Alarm configuration, and I found this thread on Yahoo http://forum.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?t=1590 'thresholdprod' said: The issue lies with the higher security setting and original images being

PUG idea..

2004-01-03 Thread Ryan Lee
Being on the other thread about Zone Alarm got me thinking about PUG. Wouldn't it be interesting if there were something like a friendly 'Best of Show' for each month, where perhaps each contributor gets to vote for their favourite picture? Just an idea, I'm guessing someone's going to slap me on

Vs: Carl Zeiss Lenses

2004-01-03 Thread Raimo Korhonen
There are many kinds on Carl Zeiss lenses - the current made in Japan ones and made in Oberkochen, Germany are excellent but some Carl Zeiss Jena (German Democratic Republic) were mediocre - to put it mildly - but even some of those were very good. So which one do you have in mind? All the

Re: Semi OT: Anyone do a big print yet

2004-01-03 Thread Mark Cassino
I'm using an Epson 2000P (really should upgrade to the 2200 someday.) Epson makes several models - from the 1280, 2000p, 2200 - many more I'm sure - that can do 12 x 18 on a 13 x 19 Super B / Super A3 sheet of paper. Some models of HP's printers can handle the same size - don't know about

Re: Semi OT: Anyone do a big print yet

2004-01-03 Thread Mark Cassino
Hi Tanya - The trails are still there but very faint - I guess because last year they had been covered in snow for a while and got tramped down a bit. As I was walking away yesterday a guy came ripping along on a small 4 wheel ATV, appearing in what would be the upper right of the shot - so

RE: LX MLU

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
Hi, Alan, Vic reminded me that when he sold me the camera, he told me that a few clockwise rotations of the button of the multi-function lever with the fingertip will solve the problem (at least in the short term). If it ever does become a chronic problem, I'm glad to know that it's a

RE: OT: Photographer-Spies (was: OT: Best photography novel?)

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
Hi, Cesar, She? Thus proving my point in an earlier point. Lock up yer daughters, Cesar's comin' to town! g -frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Cesar Matamoros II [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: Elliott Erwitt at the LEica Gallery

2004-01-03 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Frank ... A couple of years ago I visited a nearby gallery that had an exhibit of WES prints, and there were quite a number of prints in the bins that were also for sale. Relatively inexpensive works of art ... amazing print quality. I highly recommend that everyone interested in

RE: Semi OT: Anyone do a big print yet

2004-01-03 Thread Len Paris
I shot a baptismal ceremony and had Ofoto (www.ofoto.com) do a 20 x 30 print. I shot the whole ceremony with the D60 in RAW mode. I and the whole family were very happy with the results. I did some minor work in Adobe Camera RAW and sized the resulting image for 20 x 30 in jpeg format. Made

Re: Semi OT: Anyone do a big print yet

2004-01-03 Thread Mark Roberts
Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, do you have a printer at home that is capable of printing 12x18?!?! Or do you have a lab nearby that is able to make one quickly? Or do you run a business yourself? Sorry for the barrage of questions, I was just amazed that you said you

Re: Regarding Legal Proceedings

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
Bill, It was obvious that whoever composed that hilarious post had some intimiate knowledge of the legal system! OTOH, a good lawyer (or a bad one, for that matter), must take responsibility for their secretary's faux pas. And, the two R version of Theriault is actually quite common in those

Re: LX MLU

2004-01-03 Thread Steve Larson
It is an easy fix. The problem mine had was that the grease had hardened on the shaft, making it very difficult for the MLU to lock in. I cleaned and lubed it and it has been fine since. Steve Larson Redondo Beach, California - Original Message - From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Elliott Erwitt at the LEica Gallery

2004-01-03 Thread Bob W
Hi, a press photographer I know was given (given!) a stack of Larry Burrows prints that he found in a cupboard in a press room. For an investment in photographs, journalism is likely to be your best long-term bet. Look at the record - very few of the greats in photography are trying to be

Re: Elliott Erwitt at the LEica Gallery

2004-01-03 Thread Bob W
Hi, I met Elliott Erwitt a couple of years ago and got him to sign my copy of 'Museum Watching'. I rather cheekily asked him to sign it in Russian to my friend Sasha, which he did, so I promptly gave it to her as a present. He is a very fine man indeed. That book inspired me to become a museum

Re: Today, I feel as though I have achieved something....

2004-01-03 Thread Christian Skofteland
I got a boat from Cairns and we basically went straight out (due East) to the reef. I spent two nights on the boat out on the reef. Christian Skofteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January

Re: diy light table

2004-01-03 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
I should clarify a little, I mean a product table, the type able to be lit from underneath. Kind regards Kevin Hi Kevin, if you can get the material, it might not be that hard. I don't know how flexible that plastic is, if it's simply bent or molded at higher temperature. However,

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread Cotty
On 2/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: From: Tanya Mayer Photography Subject: Re: It's Stopped Raining 8 degrees celsius!?!?!? .. Going outside to photograph at 8 degrees celsius, well, lets just say, you won't have anywhere left to warm your films next time you remove them from the

Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?

2004-01-03 Thread Cotty
On 2/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] World Goes Mad - Official. Not a very long journey for me, Cotty. -frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer Get in line behind me,

Re: Semi OT: Anyone do a big print yet

2004-01-03 Thread Cotty
On 3/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Nonetheless, I am disappointed with the large print from the *ist-D. The tree trunks have a plastic look to them - they do not have the rich detail that they have in the film version of this shot. Also, there are several places in the digital image

Re: why trailing-curtain-sync is useful

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
Hi, John, I suppose you're right. However, in addition to the 911 shot (why do you say it's classic framing, BTW?), I quite like the two Miatas cornering, and the bunch lead by the yellow RX 7 at what looks like the same corner. At least those shots show the cars with a bit of body lean, and

Re: PUG idea..

2004-01-03 Thread Fred
Wouldn't it be interesting if there were something like a friendly 'Best of Show' for each month, where perhaps each contributor gets to vote for their favourite picture? No. Trying to combine Friendly and Best of Show competition gets you an oxymoron. Fred

Re: laptop question...

2004-01-03 Thread Cotty
On 3/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Just a quick question guys and gals... I have been looking at second-hand (used) laptops, and my only prerequisite really is that it can run a slideshow program, such as IrfanView, check and send emails and burn cds. I am not going for anything high tech

Re: PUG idea..

2004-01-03 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Ryan Lee Subject: PUG idea.. Being on the other thread about Zone Alarm got me thinking about PUG. Wouldn't it be interesting if there were something like a friendly 'Best of Show' for each month, where perhaps each contributor gets to vote for their

Re: diy light table

2004-01-03 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Kevin Waterson Subject: Re: diy light table I should clarify a little, I mean a product table, the type able to be lit from underneath. Sign plastic sheet supported by a stand. If you want to be fancy, get a sheet big enough to make a sweep. Toss a head

Re: diy light table

2004-01-03 Thread Cotty
On 3/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Was thinking about Tan's product photo's and got to thinking about my old light table and how much fun it would be to have another. Has anyone ever built there own? From what I can see it is simple some white acrylic bent into a table. Many years ago I

Re: PUG idea..

2004-01-03 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
Yeah, I tend to agree with Fred on this one Ryan - it is much nicer to keep it friendlyand besides that - everyone is so subjective, and photography is really a matter of opinions rather than something that can be given an overall scale. This is why I detest the photo.net rating system, as it can

Re: laptop question...

2004-01-03 Thread Ryan Lee
lol Cotty.. from the time I saw the topic I was counting down the seconds til you'd post that message! :-) Ryan - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] For God's sake Tan, buy an Apple iBook with a Superdrive (DVD burner) - this computer was made for you, you just don't

Re: laptop question...

2004-01-03 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
Cotty said: You buy it. You take it out of the box. It works. Yeah, but my credit card won't if I went out and bought that thing! I have so much that I need to buy at the moment, and the laptop is one of the things that I feel I can scrimp on a little, I really don't need anything with the

January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
Hi, I've determined that I'll comment on each entry this month. I'll likely do it 1/2 dozen or so at a time, over the course of the next day or so. So, in order of appearance, here goes: Mushu by Robert Gonzalez: I like this tight shot very much. Really emphasizes the different patterns

Re: Elliott Erwitt at the LEica Gallery

2004-01-03 Thread Ann Sanfedele
frank theriault wrote: (snip stuff about Erwitt and HCB..._ I read a recent interview of [HCB], where he became quite agitated when asked about that photograph, and almost yelled words to the effect: I hate that photograph. But, he'll glady accept money or it, apparently g. I know, I

Re: laptop question...

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
One of this month's photo mags has an article by a photographer about the world of professionals shooting at National Football League games in the US. Only the best of the best get press passes for those games - maybe 15 or 25 a game; the NFL is very stringent about giving out photo passes.

Re: January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread Herb Chong
if you can, check the image out in Adobe RGB color space, what it was shot in. Herb... - Original Message - From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:19 AM Subject: January PUG Comments Part I Unidentified Marine Anemones by Herb

Re: PUG idea..

2004-01-03 Thread Ryan Lee
Don't be silly- no offense taken Tan :-) I thought more or the lines of, if everyone voted their one favourite of each month's gallery, at the end of it, one image would be the most popular (like a viewer's choice award)..and it's not like anyone's going to be really disappointed he/she didn't get

New to list

2004-01-03 Thread Jasmine
Hello! I am new to this list and new to photography. I have a feeling this is not the list for me - from the messages I've been reading you all seem very experienced. Maybe I need to find a list for beginners? Well, first, let me introduce myself - my name is Jasmine and I live in Portland,

Re: PUG idea..

2004-01-03 Thread Fred
[serious content with thoughtful explanations and suggestions snipped] Ryan (deviously and insidiously scheming another way to take over the world..) Heh-heh Yes, Ryan, believe I do see the merits of what you describe, but I do think that there are plenty of other places for competition,

RE: Photodisks Failing

2004-01-03 Thread Anders Hultman
Adelheid v. K.: If it is a propretiary format like a Photoshop format or even jpeg it might not be readable some decades later. If you want to be on the save side, either copy a program which can read the files on the CD or use the tiff format, which is a far as possible approved to be supported

RE: laptop question...

2004-01-03 Thread Amita Guha
I wondered if there's something about Macs that make them good for that application, ie: quickly editing then sending jpegs back to the paper/magazine immediately after the game. I doubt it. There's really nothing a Mac can do that a Windows machine can't do just as well. Maybe years ago

Re: New to list

2004-01-03 Thread Fred
I have a feeling this is not the list for me - from the messages I've been reading you all seem very experienced. Bad assumption, Jasmine. Here on the PDML we demonstrate quite regularly that most of us are beginners in one way or another. (Actually, we ~all~ are beginners here, in my opinion,

January PUG Comments part 2

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
Again it's mild today, so I was about to pop out with the camera for a few hours, just to see what's up. But, it's dark grey and pissing rain - I know there are lots of great opportunities in the rain, but I just don't feel like rain today. So here I am, back in front of the computer, with

Re: laptop question...

2004-01-03 Thread Bob W
Hi, Saturday, January 3, 2004, 5:41:20 PM, you wrote: Mac's are great for the computer illiterate (like Cotty) GRIN. Yes, those idiots at Mac are stupid enough to think computers should be people-literate rather than the other way round. Bob

RE: New to list

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
Oh yeah, Jasmine, One more thing. Look at photographs. Lots of them. By everyone, but especially good photographers. Go to the library or a bookstore and get or look at books by the best photographers in the world. See what they do. It will give you inspiration, and once you have a good

Picture Window Pro v Photoshop

2004-01-03 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi gang, It was suggested I try PW Pro. Right now I'm using PS 7.0 and IrfanView. Anyone using PWPro care to comment on the capabilities of the software, maybe how it compares to Photoshop? I've DL'd the trial version of PWPro, yet it would be nice to get some feedback from those who've used

Re: New to list

2004-01-03 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Frank, that's a great opening tutorial. Kudos for a job well done. frank theriault wrote: Hi, Jasmine, Welcome to the list.

Re: January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread Herb Chong
you need to use a viewer that respects builtin color profiles. i don't know what free ones out there do it. the ones that i use are moderately expensive. if you have some verson of Photoshop, any one of them will do it. have to save the file from the PUG site and then load in the viewer program.

Re: January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread Herb Chong
if it is calibrated at all, it will be a lot like mine. Herb - Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 12:39 PM Subject: Re: January PUG Comments Part I And on a monitor calibrated like Herb's monitor .

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Brogden
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Brogden Subject: Re: It's Stopped Raining It's about -24C right now, but the windchill makes it feel like -30C. Takes a while to scrape the ice off the car every time it's parked, but we're used to it I

Re: Semi OT: Anyone do a big print yet

2004-01-03 Thread Jostein
Cotty, I can bring a couple of prints of the largest size I can muster. Currently I have an A4, but there's always the labs. Mark, I have also noticed what you describe in some circumstances. Notably when the scene contains finer detail than the *istD can resolve, such as grassy fields, canopy,

free software

2004-01-03 Thread Frits Wüthrich
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/ This includes Photoplus5.5, I don't know if it is any good, perhaps someone can comment? -- Frits Wüthrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Brogden
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did i like the winter work. Lets see, no black flies,no salty sweat in the eyes.Hot tea felt better.gHung over,take a deep breath and the world is better again.g Boy i miss those days now. It's a beautiful feeling to walk around on a -40 day.

Re: January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Brogden
...with precisely the same colour temperture of ambient light as in Herb's workspace. :) Teasing aside, does colour space really make that much of a difference in how a PUG photo will look? What will change? What is the default colour space for most monitors? chris On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Shel

Thanks for the Welcome!

2004-01-03 Thread Jasmine
Hi again, Thanks for the welcome. Frank, that was helpful, thanks. The needle doesn't move! Is that the light meter? Where can I get a battery? Can I go to a drugstore or camera store? I love this camera! I took a roll of film when I first got it (about a month ago), but haven't

Re: January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Sh!t yes! Get a copy of Photoshop or something else that allows color spaces to be viewed and try it. The difference between sRGB (the default standard) and Adobe RGB is substantial, providing, of course, you have a decent monitor and video card. I've an older card on the email machine, and,

ZX-L - No Flash Confirmation w/ AF-280T

2004-01-03 Thread Greg Lovern
I've been using a Super Program, and recently got a ZX-L. When I use my Pentax AF-280T flash in TTL mode on the Super Program, the lightning bolt in the viewfinder flashes to confirm that there was enough light for the exposure (or doesn't flash, if there wasn't enough light). On the ZX-L, it

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread mike wilson
Hi, Dag T wrote: I like this type of cold. It is easy to get sufficient clothing (usually around here there is no wind when the temperature creeps below -20), the air is dry and extremely clear and there is this crunching sound when you walk on the snow. Combinations of wind, snow and

Re: January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread Herb Chong
until recently, just about everything anyone posted assumed sRGB because that is what digital cameras put out. scans might be all over the place depending on the source, but i worked in sRGB for scans for quite a while because that is all that the software supported. i forgot to convert color

How to Tighten Super-Takumar 200mm/f4

2004-01-03 Thread Greg Lovern
I picked up a very worn Super-Takumar 200mm f4 (for pocket change) on which the glass looks good but the barrel seems to need tightening somewhere inside. The barrel moves up and down a millimeter or so relative to the mount, and also moves in and out a millimeter or so, again relative to the

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread mike wilson
Hi, Jostein wrote: Quoting Dag T [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I like this type of cold. It is easy to get sufficient clothing (usually around here there is no wind when the temperature creeps below -20), the air is dry and extremely clear and there is this crunching sound when you walk on the

Re: Thanks for the Welcome!

2004-01-03 Thread Jostein
Hi, Jasmine First, a warm welcome from me too. If you place your skylight filter over a white sheet of paper, You'll see a faint pinkish colour. The filter is meant to take away excess blue colour when shooting outdoors in bright light. The colour is so faint, though, that you can safely leave

RE: New to list

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Brogden
Excellent post, Frank! chris On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, frank theriault wrote: Hi, Jasmine, Welcome to the list. To re-inforce what Fred said, don't be scared off by thinking yourself a newbie. We're all learning new things all the time, and I think you'll find us a very patient bunch. One

Re: New to list

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Brogden
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Jasmine wrote: I am new to this list and new to photography. I have a feeling this is not the list for me - from the messages I've been reading you all seem very experienced. Maybe I need to find a list for beginners? Welcome to the list! Don't worry about the level of

Re: Re[2]: OT: why trailing-curtain-sync is useful

2004-01-03 Thread Chris Brogden
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah! I didn't realize the second curtain had significant motion outside the frame. Thanks. Now I see how to do this and it becomes simply a matter of finding room to attach a wire without getting in the way of something else, and determining the

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread Dag T
På 3. jan. 2004 kl. 20.53 skrev mike wilson: Hi, Jostein wrote: Quoting Dag T [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I like this type of cold. It is easy to get sufficient clothing (usually around here there is no wind when the temperature creeps below -20), the air is dry and extremely clear and there is this

Re: January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread Herb Chong
the new Adobe Photoshop CS RAW converter allows you to look at the histogram as you are converting an image and to choose a color space. it doesn't support the PEF format yet, but i have a lot of Nikon NEF files lying around to try it on. one of the advantages of the converter is that, for

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread Herb Chong
i wouldn't. put it inside a camera case or a plastic bag before bringing it in. Herb - Original Message - From: Dag T [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 3:12 PM Subject: Re: It's Stopped Raining ME Super, Super A and LX also handles this

Re: Thanks for the Welcome!

2004-01-03 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Let's get more specific here ... it reduces the bluish tint in bright light and the blue in shadows for color film. Jostein wrote: Hi, Jasmine First, a warm welcome from me too. If you place your skylight filter over a white sheet of paper, You'll see a faint pinkish colour. The filter is

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread Dag T
I used it outside in the cold, but left it inside the bag for half an hour after I came in. That worked OK, but the kids wanted to see the pictures right away... DagT På 3. jan. 2004 kl. 21.15 skrev Herb Chong: i wouldn't. put it inside a camera case or a plastic bag before bringing it in.

Shift Lens With Converter

2004-01-03 Thread Charles Kinghorn
I discovered recently, on the Mamiya web site, that the Mamiya 645 Tele-Converter 2x works with their 50mm shift lens as well as their telephoto lenses from 150mm to 500mm. This permits a more normal perspective when photographing buildings while correcting for the verticals, assuming in both

Re: January PUG Comments part 2

2004-01-03 Thread Dag T
På 3. jan. 2004 kl. 18.20 skrev frank theriault: Fly by Dag Thrane: Allow me to join the swelling chorus of those who've already voiced their amazement and pleasure from viewing this shot. As I've already read how you acheived that surreal almost 3 D effect of the background, I won't ask.

Re: Photographic New Years Resolutions?

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Studdert
On 3 Jan 2004 at 5:09, John Francis wrote: If not more - I think Barco claim around 10k:1 for their top-of-the-line systems. Sure Barco's products are very capable as are LaCie but most top line CRT monitors that are within the average consumers $$$ will out-perform comparably priced LCD in

RE: Photodisks Failing

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Studdert
On 3 Jan 2004 at 11:16, Adelheid v. K. wrote: I work for a software comany which sells archiving software and we recommend tiff or pdf as a longtime format. For my private use I copy a jpg version and a big tiff version on my CD and add irfanview as the reader program on the CD. Not to be

Fuji S2 (was OT: Bunch of OT stuff)

2004-01-03 Thread Derby Chang
Butch writes: As the title says: Does anyone have any experience with the Fuji S2? any comments for or against? I use the S2 at work. We use it as a part of the body imaging system for our skin melanoma analysis (shameless plug: http://www.polartechnics.com.au). Fine camera. Skin tones

Re: Extension tube K

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Studdert
On 3 Jan 2004 at 21:12, Andy Chang wrote: If you remember, I have asked about losing F stops using teleconverter. I'm just wondering if it also applies on the extension tubes. By adding extension tubes behind the lens, do I have to adjust the exposure accordingly? Yes, consider the way the

Re: January PUG Comments Part I

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Studdert
On 3 Jan 2004 at 9:39, Shel Belinkoff wrote: And on a monitor calibrated like Herb's monitor . ...or mine :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer

Sharpest Normal AF Zoom

2004-01-03 Thread Greg Lovern
What's the sharpest normal-range, autofocus, consumer, used zoom I can put on my ZX-L? From what I've read, it might be the FA 28-70 f4. Are there others I should consider instead? What about 3rd-party lenses? I would be looking for a used one and I don't mind patiently monitoring the used

Re: Extension tube K

2004-01-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob Studdert said, about extension tubes: You can calculate the losses but it's difficult and lens dependent to an extent, this is one of the areas where TTL meters reign supreme. Not difficult really, so much as _annoying_. But yeah, this is one place where having TTL metering is soo

Re: Sharpest Normal AF Zoom

2004-01-03 Thread Heiko Hamann
Hi Greg, on 03 Jan 04 you wrote in pentax.list: What's the sharpest normal-range, autofocus, consumer, used zoom I can put on my ZX-L? The SMC-FA 28-105 Powerzoom, I would say. Cheers, Heiko

Re: Sharpest Normal AF Zoom

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Studdert
On 3 Jan 2004 at 14:13, Greg Lovern wrote: What's the sharpest normal-range, autofocus, consumer, used zoom I can put on my ZX-L? From what I've read, it might be the FA 28-70 f4. Are there others I should consider instead? What about 3rd-party lenses? Are you aware of the SMC PENTAX-FA

Re: laptop question...

2004-01-03 Thread frank theriault
John, I think that you likely hit upon the higher ratio of Macs (whether as extreme as indicated in the article I read, or not) among NFL PJ's. Probably provided by their employers. The article did mention that basically, the only way to get a photo press pass anywhere in the NFL is to be

RE: Photodisks Failing

2004-01-03 Thread Adelheid v. K.
I agree concerning pdf, but it seems that the professionals dealing with these questions see this differently. And we have to do what our customers want. grin :) Adelheid -Original Message- From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Samstag, 3. Januar 2004 22:44 To: [EMAIL

Vs: Sharpest Normal AF Zoom

2004-01-03 Thread Raimo Korhonen
I did get excellent results with the 4/28-70 Pentax - and it is not expensive. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Greg Lovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopio:

Re: It's Stopped Raining

2004-01-03 Thread P Kong
At 10:39 AM 1/2/2004, Frank wrote: It's stopped raining. The sun is now out. It's 8 degrees celsius. It's about that cold here in San Francisco. It's something in the 40's Fahrenheit. We've just gotten about 4 inches of rain since last Monday. I see blue skies today. Woo hoo. Time to bundle up

Vs: Sharpest Normal AF Zoom

2004-01-03 Thread Raimo Korhonen
I´d second that - but it is a bit expensive. All the best! Raimo Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Päivä: 03. tammikuuta 2004 23:23 Aihe:

OT Histogram tutorial

2004-01-03 Thread Rob Studdert
A good histogram tutorial for those listers new to digital imaging: http://www.bayphoto.com/Instructions/Histogram.htm Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since

Re: Photodisks Failing

2004-01-03 Thread Herb Chong
i consider Photoshop sufficiently likely to be in business for long enough to be extremely well documented in public. Herb - Original Message - From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 4:44 PM Subject: RE: Photodisks Failing Not

*ist D finder magnification

2004-01-03 Thread keller.schaefer
I had a discussion with a friend the other day, who is much concerned about finder quality. He basically says that the way an image is displayed in the viewfinder has a lot to do with how good the photographer can assess it and how good eventually the final picture will be. I think this is a bit

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