Well - it is back to the dark side for me
I'm taking the DS back to Brooklyn tomorrow -
I would wreck this camera so fast - and I can't afford that.
among my problems - handling the teensy weensy SD disk,
holding the camera up - it weighs twice as much as my PRo-1
I didn't even open the
Actually they're not that bad if you don't view them as photographs.
They looked to me like some 1930's maybe 1940's calendar art. The fact
that they are photographs just shows that the photographer didn't think
his work would stand on it's own.
Don Sanderson wrote:
they remind me quite a lot of a certain type of poster I've often seen
on the walls of African cafes and bars. I don't know where these
posters come from, or how to describe them in such a way that I can
google some examples. But they are composites of somebody's fantasy of
an ideal landscape.
On 28/6/06, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
The f-stop is a mathmatical calculation of actual aperture size vs. focal
length.
It says nothing about the transmissive abilities of the glass.
Some like their rods dyno'd at the wheels, I prefer the flywheel. Gives
me a bigger willie ;-)
Well, it's back to street photography for me ...
While driving to a friend's house I saw this little scene. I stopped the
car, turned the camera in the direction of the kids, and snapped one shot
through the open window.
http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/kidsinstreet.html
This is essentially
I know that June is almost over, but I have had a hectic schedule
lately, and haven't been able to watch the PUG gallery until today.
Anyway, I would like to congratulate all the entrants for their
submissions, and particularly Kostas for his Feeding the pigeons and
Patrick for his Steam. Both
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Toralf Lund wrote:
keith_w wrote:
The M version 50mm/1.7 is known to be a very sharp performer. Has a
reputation
for excellent resolution. Sort of an unknown lens except aficionados...
What they call a sleeper.
I already have one of those, of course. And an A-50/1.7,
It's a problem with wanadoo.fr ?
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Date: 2006/06/28 Wed PM 06:01:23 GMT
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On 6/28/06, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Certainly was. Frank's not that bad.
Huh?
Go back to sleep, fluffy
From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/28 Wed PM 04:57:11 GMT
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Subject: Re: Cartoon effect
Looks over-saturated to me, otherwise, v nice.
On 28/6/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed:
There you have it. I metered off the greenery,
Now why in the world would you compare an f1.4 with an f2.0?
I would compare a high-quality, sharp, high-resolution lens with
another
high-quality, sharp, high-resolution lens. Maximum aperture isn't
everything.
I agree with Shel. If I were looking to compare pricing of
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/28 Wed PM 10:01:30 GMT
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Subject: RE: Re: Cartoon effect
Looks over-saturated to me, otherwise, v nice.
There you have it. I metered off the greenery, it was a
nicely overcast day.
The Pentax 50mm f/1.4 lenses are known to be very high quality for
their price and highly desireable. It was/is rumored that they were
discontinued ...
There definitely *is* such a rumour. It's even mentioned several places
on this thread that they were produced until 2004. I doubt that
From: Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/29 Thu AM 12:14:00 GMT
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Subject: Re: Cartoon effect
That is exactly my point. It doesn't have to be digital capture to
be able to post process and make something look 'digital' or way over
the
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: Cartoon effect
they remind me quite a lot of a certain type of poster I've often seen
on the walls of African cafes and bars. I don't know where these
posters
Some custom labs will now work with RAW.
For the photographer, other than time, what advantage would that offer?
You'd be giving away the control inherent in the process.
If you are going to give away the control in any case, I'd say it's
better to give away the full power of
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Well - it is back to the dark side for me
Sorry to hear that. You might try looking out for an Optio from the era around
2002 which is light, not
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/28 Wed PM 11:23:54 GMT
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Subject: Re: Seen on eBay
Well, that was kind of the point. F/4 is always supposed to be f/4.
But if one lens had more losses in the optical path (poor coatings,
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Carlos Royo wrote:
I know that June is almost over, but I have had a hectic schedule
lately, and haven't been able to watch the PUG gallery until today.
Anyway, I would like to congratulate all the entrants for their
submissions, and particularly Kostas for his Feeding
My rod goes nowhere near any dyno's.
Dave
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Some like their rods dyno'd at the wheels, I prefer the flywheel. Gives
me a bigger willie ;-)
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, mike wilson wrote:
Sorry to hear that. You might try looking out for an Optio from the
era around 2002 which is light, not too small, uses CF cards and AA
cells and should be available used for a very low price or maybe
even new for about $150. Plus the bonus of an
I never use UV filters for protection. I can't see buying good glass
and then putting a piece of not-so-good glass in front of it. However,
I can tell you that my IR filter is a standard width, and it doesn't
vignette. The filter thread is considerably larger in diameter than the
front
My point was that a TTL meter solves the problem of variation between
light transmission in lenses of the same aperture. I didn't say all TTL
meters are accurate. Obviously, they are not. But it's easy to
determine the variation from what one considers an ideal exposure.
Paul
On Jun 29, 2006,
On Jun 29, 2006, at 4:19 AM, Toralf Lund wrote:
Yes, they are slower, but
Pentax does not seem to offer a slow 50 - besides the 50 macro, i.e.
the
FA50/1.7 appears to be gone.
Really? Who did you try to purchase one from that refused to buy a new
one from Pentax for you?
-Aaron
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On Jun 29, 2006, at 4:34 AM, Toralf Lund wrote:
There definitely *is* such a rumour. It's even mentioned several places
on this thread that they were produced until 2004. I doubt that none
have been manufactured after that when the model is listed on the
distributor's list and several shops
Yes, they are slower, but
Pentax does not seem to offer a slow 50 - besides the 50 macro, i.e.
the
FA50/1.7 appears to be gone.
Really? Who did you try to purchase one from that refused to buy a new
one from Pentax for you?
So you are saying that Pentax's own price-lists
It depends on your mail client. I'd rather have bogus attachments
rather then having an attachment display as embedded text. Picture
images don't look very good as embedded text.
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Subject: Re: This mail has an attachment:
No it doesn't, that at all. Think about it. The system as a whole
transmits less light than expected. However the f stop changes the
amount of light transmitted by a known percentage. TTL metering systems
only have to know how much light is being transmitted at maximum
aperture and how
That's not a test, it's a question!
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No, I'm saying that there's new, existing stock that no one is attempting to
buy -- if people want them, they can get them.
At the current level of demand, there's enough in the warehouse in this country
for a decade.
This fussing about availability by people who don't intend to buy strikes me
Makes sense.
My brain was barely on simmer last night. ;-(
Don
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No it doesn't, that at all.
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
No, I'm saying that there's new, existing stock that no one is attempting to
buy -- if people want them, they can get them.
You mean the 1.7? Not the 1.4?
I just mentioned the former as an aside in any case. I do want the 1.4,
but I would prefer to get a used one if
On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Bob W wrote:
I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but when I opened this
webpage and saw the pictures I actually flinched, and I don't think
that's happened to me before looking at photos:
http://www.jturnerphotography.com/
These seem to me to be at
On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:13 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
It is interesting to note that he is using Pentax 645 with Velvia -
not a digital capture at all. Shows you can do just as shocking work
with film as digital. All that is needed is a little desire grin.
...and a lot of Photoshop.
Some time
On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Tom C wrote:
There's plenty that can be done post scanning as well, so I don't
believe
this is straight Velvia.
It's not. This is straight Velvia, 6 X 7, from an early batch. Shot
with Fuji GW670 II. (Nude warning!)
http://www.bobshell.com/bss/roxy089.JPG
On Jun 28, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I've seen some portfolios from working pros with similar highly
saturated work. Some of them are making a lot of money. It's
different,
it's not realistic, but it's not necessarily bad. It's just a
different
way of looking at the
On Jun 28, 2006, at 7:23 PM, John Francis wrote:
Well, that was kind of the point. F/4 is always supposed to be f/4.
But if one lens had more losses in the optical path (poor coatings,
internal reflections, etc.) it might end up only letting through as
much light as a better lens at f/4.5
Today on my portfolio photo journey through the old town I was grateful
to have high ISO speed on my istDL. Shooting at ISO 1600 with very
little noise at all natural light is truely a gift for a photographer. I
wanted to share portraits from handicraft workshop.
On Jun 29, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Toralf Lund wrote:
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
No, I'm saying that there's new, existing stock that no one is
attempting to buy -- if people want them, they can get them.
You mean the 1.7? Not the 1.4?
I absolutely do, yes.
I just mentioned the former as an aside
Me to.
Dave
Quoting P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It depends on your mail client. I'd rather have bogus attachments
rather then having an attachment display as embedded text. Picture
images don't look very good as embedded text.
William Robb wrote:
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From:
Or, maybe, Ted Turner?
Didn't think I'd ever be defending Velvia. LOL
Jack
--- Bob Shell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Bob W wrote:
I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but when I opened
this
webpage and saw the pictures I actually flinched, and I
Hi!
I've bought Philips 17P50 CRT monitor. For some odd reason it really
hurts my eyes. I've run Adobe Gamma and profiled it. Yet, after 10-15
mins in front of it my eyes start to hurt real badly. My wife also
complains.
Now, I went to the service shop. Guy there offered to lower the
brightness
Hmm...you did set the refresh rate to at least 75 Hz?
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Hi!
I've bought Philips 17P50 CRT monitor. For some odd reason it really
hurts my eyes. I've run Adobe Gamma and profiled it. Yet, after 10-15
On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
But they claim that CRT is in perfect order, and it
really hurts my wife's and my eyes...
What's the refresh rate? Can you set it higher?
-Aaron
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No, you won't go bankrup catering to the tasteless masses. Yet those who are
certain that specific techniques are categorically tasteless are frequently
captive to their own narrow thinking. Almost any style of representation can be
done in an artful way, including a high saturation cartoon
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
Thanks for commenting and thanks for the (extremely rare, you
understand :-)) accolade.
I really liked Feeding the pigeons, the expression on the boy's face
is wonderful.
And I also want to thank you Adelheid for her work, keeping the gallery
running month
You probably tried it but just in case...
Did you set the screen refresh rate?
It should be above 75Hz for a CRT and sometimes, if
you don't install the device specific drivers, the
Windows generic ones won't allow reaching such rate.
I've always heard that a low rate can be annoying for
you
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/29 Thu PM 01:30:02 GMT
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net
Subject: Help me!
Hi!
I've bought Philips 17P50 CRT monitor. For some odd reason it really
hurts my eyes. I've run Adobe Gamma and profiled it. Yet, after 10-15
G'day Boris,
Did you try increasing the refresh rate?
Dave S
At 09:30 PM 29/06/2006, you wrote:
Hi!
I've bought Philips 17P50 CRT monitor. For some odd reason it really
hurts my eyes. I've run Adobe Gamma and profiled it. Yet, after 10-15
mins in front of it my eyes start to hurt real badly.
Or, it might be the refresh rate! ;-) ;-) ;-)
D
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Boris Liberman
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:30 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Help me!
Hi!
I've bought Philips 17P50 CRT monitor.
On 29/6/06, Bob Shell, discombobulated, unleashed:
He should not be allowed to use the name Turner. There was an actual
landscape painter by that name.
Mark!
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Bob Shell wrote:
On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Bob W wrote:
I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but when I opened this
webpage and saw the pictures I actually flinched, and I don't think
that's happened to me before looking at photos:
http://www.jturnerphotography.com/
These
Well this weekend (July 1 ) is Canada's birthday, and for once i don't
have a show to do, so i can attend Stouffville's annual Strawberry
Festival.Last time was probably around 1990.
The main drag is closed, so its bike and backpack day.Not to far away
from the house, about 2 miles or so.
This fussing about availability by people who don't intend to buy
strikes me as ridiculous.
Or maybe I might want the 1.7 after all, if it is sufficiently cheaper
than the 1.4. Now, you do agree that I shouldn't have to order one in
order to find out what the price is, or if it
I've heard this complaint with screens when the refresh rate was set
close to, but not exactly at, the frequency of the room lighting.
Here where the AC power is at 60hz I usually set screen refresh to
85hz to solve the problem.
Having the refresh near the room light frequency causes a strobe
hi
I'd like to see a bit more of what the kids are actually doing.
which would mean zooming in...
otherwise, fine :-)
Sridhar
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From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PDML PDML@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:35 PM
Subject: PESO - Kids in the Street
On 29/6/06, Roman, discombobulated, unleashed:
http://roman.blakout.net/?blog=20060629144432
First that lil hostess who literally took me by the hand and dragged 6
floors to the top of the tower with her mom weaving new carpet. Met a
nice girl on 4ourth floor by the window, dreaming of
work ?
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Sure, but my point is that in a not-small country, no one had checked on
availability in five years -- so why should people be upset if it's no longer
in the catalog? They never made any serious attempt to buy it.
-Aaron
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From: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technically perfect, realistically rendered work, when supported by a
worthy scene, is my, likely unreachable, fantasized goal.
Screaming, repulsive, over saturation is simply driven by a crass reach
for the fringe market.
Not original, but cleansing to write.
Jack
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, what I and others have been trying to say is that judging from
the
used prices the demand would seem to be very high, i.e. there is
something here that just doesn't add up. Could it be that nobody asks
the warehouse because everyone believes the lens is discontinued?
More
No! ;-)
D
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Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:21 AM
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Subject: test sorry !
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Yes, Tom.
I set it to 100 Hz.
On 6/29/06, Tom Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm...you did set the refresh rate to at least 75 Hz?
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From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I've bought Philips 17P50 CRT monitor. For some odd
A hyper-saturated photo of a nude woman standing in a grotesquely unnatural
position in a place she'd probably never stand, looking less than
comfortable while doing so.
I believe you said it best when you said:
It's all a matter of taste. Some people have it, some
don't. Those who don't will
From: Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/29 Thu PM 02:12:52 GMT
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Subject: RE: Help me!
Or, it might be the refresh rate! ;-) ;-) ;-)
D
I'm not sure we are getting through. Anyone else?
-Original Message-
From:
Hi!
Saying that a monitor has 16 million colors is inaccurate, that is
a function of the video card.
Don, my video cart is simple Gigabyte Radeon 9200 or 9250... I don't
remember exactly. It suffices to say that my previous monitor worked
properly and did not hurt my eyes.
As a matter of
People pay too much on eBay every day. I was watching 10 auctions from the
same vendor for identical items. They went for:
$4
$7
$3
$19
$54
$25
$10
$7
$5
$5
Also, people may have heard that the lens was discontinued and paid more for
it without checking.
I am honestly not lying about this
Don Sanderson a écrit :
No! ;-)
Yes, works now
:-D
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Yes!
Dave
At 10:20 PM 29/06/2006, you wrote:
work ?
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Aaron Reynolds wrote:
Sure, but my point is that in a not-small country, no one had checked on
availability in five years -- so why should people be upset if it's no longer
in the catalog? They never made any serious attempt to buy it.
Yes, That's a good point, of course ;-)
-Aaron
From: Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/29 Thu PM 02:36:11 GMT
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Subject: RE: test sorry !
No! ;-)
D
Play!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Michel Carrere-Gee
Sent:
People pay too much on eBay every day. I was watching 10 auctions from the
same vendor for identical items. They went for:
$4
$7
$3
$19
$54
$25
$10
$7
$5
$5
Also, people may have heard that the lens was discontinued and paid more
for it without checking.
Yes, that's one of
I'm not familiar with the Phillips LCD screen, but I'm very fond of my Apple
Cinema Display LCD. I find it much more restful than the Sony trinitron CRT
that I use at work. The resolution, color, brightness and contrast are the best
of any monitor I've ever had. However, I must point out that
What is your mains electricity frequency? It might be worth trying a different
refresh rate.
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/29 Thu PM 02:45:50 GMT
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Help me!
Yes, Tom.
I set it to 100 Hz.
On 6/29/06, Tom
mike wilson wrote:
From: Ann Sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/06/29 Thu AM 06:04:02 GMT
To: PDML@pdml.net
Subject: Can't cope - sick transit DS
Well - it is back to the dark side for me
Sorry to hear that. You might try looking out for an Optio from the era
The Philips 200W6CS is a fine screen, I'm still partial to CRTs though,
I feel they are still a better value.
I use a Colorvision Spyder to profile my screen, the very first step is
to set brightness and contrast.
Having this changed will most likely make it impossible to properly
profile the
Going to have a hole put in my foot to remove some calcium deposits.
See y'all this afternoon and you'll see how well I handle pain! ;-(
Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Mike,
My mains are 50-60 Hz... Could it be that 100 Hz refresh rate gets in
some kind of resonance with mains???
On 6/29/06, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is your mains electricity frequency? It might be worth trying a
different refresh rate.
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL
Don,
The Philips 200W6CS is a fine screen, I'm still partial to CRTs though,
I feel they are still a better value.
I also prefer CRTs because they're proven technology known to work.
I use a Colorvision Spyder to profile my screen, the very first step is
to set brightness and contrast.
This is a good point, it should NOT be a multiple of your local power
frequency.
100hz refresh on 50hz main will give a 2hz strobe.
This would = major headache.
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
mike wilson
Sent: Thursday, June 29,
Take pictures
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Don Sanderson
Going to have a hole put in my foot to remove some calcium deposits.
See y'all this afternoon and you'll see how well I handle pain! ;-(
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AC power is 50Hz in Israel. Setting the monitor up to 100 could cause
your problem. Set the monitor to 85 ans see if it helps.
Perry.
On 6/29/06, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike,
My mains are 50-60 Hz... Could it be that 100 Hz refresh rate gets in
some kind of resonance with
Sort of.
The white wall as background for the table is nice. How come the chair
on the right seems to have motion blur to it.
BTW any temperature that starts of with a + sign is to hot for me.
Dave
Quoting Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi!
In Eilat it is +41C today. In Tel Aviv it is
Quoting Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 29/6/06, Roman, discombobulated, unleashed:
http://roman.blakout.net/?blog=20060629144432
First that lil hostess who literally took me by the hand and dragged 6
floors to the top of the tower with her mom weaving new carpet. Met a
nice girl on 4ourth
Nice Rick.
The people in the forground add to the peacefullness of the shot i think
Dave
Quoting Rick Womer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Another of yesterday's shots. It lost a good deal in
the translation from RAW file to JPG, alas.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4603376
ist D, DA
On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:57 AM, keith_w wrote:
Absolutely so, Bob.
I don't recall where I last saw a Turner in person, perhaps at the
Getty, but
it was huge, and I recall standing transfixed, looking at this wall
covering
painting and wondering how he went about painting that monstrosity
Great shot Ken.
Dave
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Check out
http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html
Comments - yea/nay/otherwise.
Why it pays to get up early.
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Didn't think I'd ever be defending Velvia. LOL
Jack
Wonders never cease!
Tom C.
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On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:09 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I never use UV filters for protection. I can't see buying good glass
and then putting a piece of not-so-good glass in front of it.
Agree 100% with Paul on this.
Godfrey
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Technically perfect, realistically rendered work, when supported by a
worthy scene, is my, likely unreachable, fantasized goal.
Screaming, repulsive, over saturation is simply driven by a crass reach
for the fringe market.
Not original, but cleansing to write.
Jack
Got it all out now? :-)
Tom
Sorry to ask this question, as I think it was discussed before,
but I cannot find it.
Which lenses are compatible with the 2x-s converter? (besides that they
should be within 300mm)
Are zoom lenses ok?
All pointers, including why I shouldn't buy it, are appreciated.
Igor
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Hi,
Is it not enough just to know the youngsters are playing some kid's
sidewalk game? Is it important to the image to know exactly what they're
doing? Or is it just your curiosity? Could you not use your imagination a
little and relate this scene to one from your childhood, playing with your
We are going to visit California Central Coast area (north of Santa
Barbara) this (long) weekend.
We are planning to see nice sceanery and to go to some wineries.
Are there any suggestions for the places to see/visit there -
with nice views and otherwise. Any food places recommendations?
We are
Still have 'dry heaves', but I think it's slowing. :)
Jack
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Technically perfect, realistically rendered work, when supported
by a
worthy scene, is my, likely unreachable, fantasized goal.
Screaming, repulsive, over saturation is simply driven by a crass
KEH got my business
I have my darkside twin to my beloved PRO-1 ordered
By chance, I stumbled on it before others did
I feel like I should by two - like shoes they stop making
when you love them.
I got mine for under $400
much relieved
Fortunately I have lots of potential PEntax shots
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:55:04AM -0400, Bob Shell wrote:
He should not be allowed to use the name Turner. There was an actual
landscape painter by that name. This turkey should have to use the
name DisTurner.
I think stomach turner would be closer to the mark.
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Pentax normally has a pdf manual online for these. I get a not found on the
link from the Pentax USA site, haven't looked at other countries.
I have a 2-xs. I haven't played with it much, but I've used it on a 28-300
Tamron zoom and even on a 500mm f/8 mirror lens. I sense it will take a
Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi!
But, to other question of mine - is this LCD screen worth any consideration?
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Boris
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Boris -
when MY CRT totally died a few months ago I replaced it with
a PROVIEW LCD
My eyes have been saved
I think it is spectacular and I had been prevously
Hello pdml,
Pentax *istD, A 70-210/4, Handheld
ISO 200, 1/500 sec @ f/6.7
http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_3175.htm
Comments welcome
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Hello pdml,
Pentax *istD, Sigma 100-300/4 EX @ 180mm, Monopod
ISO 200, 1/500 sec @ f/5.6
http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/nationals_0176.htm
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