RE: K1D aperature simulator survey, part Deaux

2006-10-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
Ok, Whatever. When your operating manually like that, I just Call it manual or bracketing, not instant exposure compensation. jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:13 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: PESO - Valley morning fog

2006-10-19 Thread Jostein Øksne
I have an issue with the blueness too, Godfrey. After some consideration I left it in since it is more or less real. The sky overhead was totally cloudless, and I expect the clouds took colour from it. High humidity in the air may have contributed too. I remember watching sunrise over the Blue

Re: PESO - Valley morning fog

2006-10-19 Thread Jostein Øksne
No, I haven't considered any crops. I wanted the sunlit bit in for the spark. After considering Godfrey's comments, I think it balances the blue in the valley fog. Jostein On 10/19/06, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/06, Jostein Øksne, discombobulated, unleashed:

Re: raw therapee for linux

2006-10-19 Thread Jostein Øksne
Been away from Linux for very long. Are there any 16-bit image editors for Linux yet? I remember this was one of the main features absent from GIMP back when. Jostein On 10/19/06, SJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, for those of you on linux, raw therapee-1.1-pre5 is available for linux

Re: Black thingy

2006-10-19 Thread Cotty
On 18/10/06, Bob Shell, discombobulated, unleashed: It's a Mark VII Veeblefetzer. DO NOT attempt to operate the computer without it, as dire events may unfold. Don't be ridiculous Bob. Everyone knows it's a Mark VI. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche

Re: PESO - Valley morning fog

2006-10-19 Thread Cotty
On 19/10/06, Jostein Øksne, discombobulated, unleashed: No, I haven't considered any crops. I wanted the sunlit bit in for the spark. After considering Godfrey's comments, I think it balances the blue in the valley fog. It's excellent. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People,

Re: Remedial film photography. :)

2006-10-19 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:29:37PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: Your example is extreme, but most films seem to be slightly overrated in regard to ISO. Hardly. The ISO testing procedure is well-defined, and rigorously followed. If a film says ISO 400 on the box, you can be darn sure that

RE: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Bob W
How did you get so close? It doesn't seem to have been shot through bars or through glass? I have similar close-ups of the tigers in London Zoo, taken with a 400mm lens, but in mine you can still see that I'm shooting through a fence. In zoos where there has been a pit separating the tigers and

Re: BSI - film speed system etc

2006-10-19 Thread Privé
Op Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:13:30 +0200 schreef graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BSI was, I believe, the same as Weston. If so, it is 1/3 stop off from ASA, I forget which way. According to wikipedia, Scheiner-Grad is DIN minus 10. That'd make SCH33° equivalent to DIN23°, or ASA 160. Indeed 1/3 of a

Re: raw therapee for linux

2006-10-19 Thread SJ
hi, yes, currently there are two. one is the relatively old Cinepaint, which was a fork of gimp (www.cinepaint.org). right now it uses gtk+-1.x but they are in the process of shifting to fltk. the other one is the relatively new Krita (www.koffice.org/krita) which is a part of the Koffice

Re: Thoughs on lenses for K100D

2006-10-19 Thread Leon Altoff
Hi John, I will have some bargaining power when I buy it. I'm also buying a K10D and a 12-24 Pentax lens. I wanted to find out about the Sigma offerings first before I tried any of that, but from the sounds of things they aren't good enough to worry about. Tomorrow I will have time to

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Cotty
On 19/10/06, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: How did you get so close? It doesn't seem to have been shot through bars or through glass? I have similar close-ups of the tigers in London Zoo, taken with a 400mm lens, but in mine you can still see that I'm shooting through a fence. In zoos where

Re: OT: Netscape 7.1 - ann's new computer blues

2006-10-19 Thread John Coyle
I haven't found a way yet Ann, but I did send them an email complaining about it, and also about the fact that it changes my settings in the Delete folder from Hide read messages to Show all messages! I have speakers in my screen, which are surprisingly good, but I leave an earphone set

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread David Savage
At 03:39 PM 19/10/2006, Cotty wrote: On 19/10/06, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: How did you get so close? It doesn't seem to have been shot through bars or through glass? I have similar close-ups of the tigers in London Zoo, taken with a 400mm lens, but in mine you can still see that I'm

Re: Samsung 50-200 [Was: Re: Thoughs on lenses for K100D]

2006-10-19 Thread Leon Altoff
I'm waiting for the DA*60-250. I would have preferred a 60-300, but I haven't been happy with the results I've seen from any of the 300mm zooms. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon Toine wrote: After reading all the positive comments on the pentax 50-200 and

Re: Black thingy

2006-10-19 Thread Vid Strpic
Bill Owens wrote: Tom, The long side of this thing is about the same length and the wide end makes it about the right size for a PCMCIA slot. However, inside the computer there are contacts only where the long side fits, and I can't figure out what's inside the computer where the short end

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 19/10/06, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did you get so close? It doesn't seem to have been shot through bars or through glass? I have similar close-ups of the tigers in London Zoo, taken with a 400mm lens, but in mine you can still see that I'm shooting through a fence. In zoos where

RE: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Bob W
Big wooses, in 'Stralia' they put the visitors in the cages with the big cats :-) The land where man are men, and so are women. My little sis (shot by her boyfriend): http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/100_1369.jpg That's great. The cheetah should have a bell round its

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread J and K Messervy
The meet a cheetah tour at the Canberra zoo and acquarium? It's a great zoo that one. - Original Message - From: Digital Image Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:51 PM Subject: Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger On

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Jostein Øksne
Bruce, I agree that a crop from the left might work. There is a small white field below the lower eye, and I think I would have cropped to just exlude that. There is still a bit of paper left, but it looks doable to remove it then. Leaves the remaining eye in a nice position too, I think. Jostein

Re: PESO: Re: Fungi on dead wood, reprise

2006-10-19 Thread Jan van Wijk
Then you'd better see a doctor :-) Regards, JvW On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:53:48 -0500, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: They are growing on me . . . On 10/18/06, Jan van Wijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:22:03 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Shell
On Oct 19, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote: I would appreciate any suggestions with this one. There is some shredded paper in the lower left corner that would be very difficult to clone out. One option is to crop it somehow to remove most or all of it - without weakening the picture

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Shell
On Oct 19, 2006, at 1:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a mate telling me a high res drum scan of a 6x7 neg would only be 10MB in TIFF format. Surely it would be in the hundreds of MB neighbourhood wouldn't it? About 70 MB. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: larger digital -v- film comparison

2006-10-19 Thread Paul Stenquist
The film image is second generation. It's a drum scan of the film -- probably the most accurate way of representing what's on the film. Certainly more detailed than an optical print. The first generation of negative film is useless. On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:23 PM, graywolf wrote: Welcome to the

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, William Robb wrote: Truthfully, it's like asking Pentax to put an aperture cam follower onto a DSLR. The big difference between Canon and Pentax regarding this is that it's recent history with Pentax. I cannot see how an aperture cam removal is the same as a register

RE: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Based on my experience, which is based on the work and tutoring of Katrin Eismann and others, that's a *lot* more than 10-15 minutes of work. Of course, you may be a lot better than I at making such a repair I love tigers and all cats, big and small, but from a photographic standpoint I

Re: Black thingy

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Shell
On Oct 19, 2006, at 3:01 AM, Cotty wrote: On 18/10/06, Bob Shell, discombobulated, unleashed: It's a Mark VII Veeblefetzer. DO NOT attempt to operate the computer without it, as dire events may unfold. Don't be ridiculous Bob. Everyone knows it's a Mark VI. I believe you are confusing

Re: Remedial film photography. :)

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
And, of course, with BW film, there's a lot more control on the processing end, so one can over expose the film, or expose for the shadows, and develop for the highlights, so that there are no blown highlights. So, for a QD example, you can rate TX @ 200, cut back the standard processing time by

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
I think you're way off, Bob. I get a bit more than twice that size from a 16-bit scan of a color 35mm negative, and about 40-50mb from a 16-bit scan of a BW negative, both @ 4000ppi You must be basing your scan on a lower ppi or perhaps an 8-bit scan, or both. Shel [Original Message] From:

Re: Remedial film photography. :)

2006-10-19 Thread J and K Messervy
And if you don't process film yourself? I will be taking film to the local pro lab for processing. - Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Remedial film photography. :)

RE: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Your mate is grossly mistaken.. Rob Studdert has given you some more realistic figures. Just to put those figures in perspective, I've some 8-bit scans of BW 35mm done @ 4000ppi that are more than twice that size. I suppose one must define what high res is LOL Here's a chart that provides the

Re: PESO - Valley morning fog

2006-10-19 Thread Jostein Øksne
um... Did I come across as biting your head off there? That certainly wasn't my intention... I think I see what you mean, too. Letting the road trail off the frame in the upper left corner, for example... Will look at it at home tonight. :-) Jostein On 10/19/06, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread J and K Messervy
Thanks mate. I've set my mate straight. :) - Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:41 PM Subject: RE: File size of scanned 6x7 neg Your mate is grossly mistaken.. Rob Studdert has

Re: Remedial film photography. :)

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Use a lab that does custom processing and run some tests first. Shel [Original Message] From: J and K Messervy And if you don't process film yourself? I will be taking film to the local pro lab for processing. - Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff And, of course, with

PESO - Long forgotten

2006-10-19 Thread J and K Messervy
This is an old shack by the side of the Monaro Highway between Canberra and Cooma in NSW Australia. I'd driven past this a number of times and thought I should take some shots, so back in April, I did just that. This one was my favourite. I used the channel mixer in PS CS2 to get this black

Re: Remedial film photography. :)

2006-10-19 Thread David Savage
If you can source the chemicals, home processing of BW is quite easy. Dave On 10/19/06, J and K Messervy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if you don't process film yourself? I will be taking film to the local pro lab for processing. - Original Message - From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread David Savage
To do a really good job takes more time, but I managed this...: http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/sfzoo_0248_std%5b1%5d.jpg ...in 10-15 during my lunch break at work today. With more time effort the lighting in the repaired area could be improved. Dave On 10/19/06, Shel Belinkoff

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread John Forbes
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:07:27 +0100, J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting a simple $5 part back into the current DSLRs Is not something impossible like FD or M42 DSLRS which use totally different very old lens Mount. Why are you so sure its gone forever? I suspect it may be to

Re: OT: Netscape 7.1 - ann's new computer blues

2006-10-19 Thread Carlos Royo
David Weiss wrote: What is the difference between SeaMonkey and Firefox? (I am a happy Firefox user). Just cosmetics? SeaMonkey includes the web browser, mail, html composer and chatzilla. For my taste, it offers more configuration options, and looks less toyish. It is a matter of

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 19/10/06, J and K Messervy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks mate. I've set my mate straight. :) It's very easy to illustrate if need be, see the PS open dialogue following: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/67_new_dialogue.gif -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Shell
On Oct 19, 2006, at 7:32 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: I think you're way off, Bob. I get a bit more than twice that size from a 16-bit scan of a color 35mm negative, and about 40-50mb from a 16- bit scan of a BW negative, both @ 4000ppi You must be basing your scan on a lower ppi or

Re: K1D aperture simulator, part Three (III)- NOT

2006-10-19 Thread Cory Papenfuss
You guys must be better than I at using plain matte screens. The best thing I've ever done with my -DS was *add* a split-prism focus screen. Probably about 1/10th as many missed focus shots since I've done that. I agree that micproprism aids suck with lenses slower than 2.8

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Would 20x24 be considered a mural? Shel [Original Message] From: Bob Shell I was just giving an average size of the 6 X 7 scans commonly used for repro. You can make the file size much bigger, but it has no real practical value unless you're printing murals. -- PDML

Re: raw therapee for linux

2006-10-19 Thread Cory Papenfuss
yes, currently there are two. one is the relatively old Cinepaint, which was a fork of gimp (www.cinepaint.org). right now it uses gtk+-1.x but they are in the process of shifting to fltk. the other one is the relatively new Krita (www.koffice.org/krita) which is a part of the Koffice

Re: OT - Jack Davis - Email Bouncing

2006-10-19 Thread Jack Davis
You can do it, Tom! Just apply yourself and don't get discouraged. You have the potential to make it to the next cyber level eventually. PC YES!! =)) Jack --- Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CRAP MS WINDOWS XP CUTPASTE NONSENSE :-) Tom C. Original Message Follows From:

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Jack Davis
:-)) Jack --- William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Bruce Dayton Subject: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger I would appreciate any suggestions with this one. There is some shredded paper in the lower left corner that would be very difficult to

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Jack Davis
:-)) Jack --- William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Bruce Dayton Subject: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger I would appreciate any suggestions with this one. There is some shredded paper in the lower left corner that would be very difficult to

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Well, there y'go. You're clearly a lot better than I at making such repairs. I'd have probably struggled for hours on that. How'd you do it so well and so quickly? Shel [Original Message] From: David Savage To do a really good job takes more time, but I managed this...:

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread Mark Roberts
John Forbes wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:07:27 +0100, J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting a simple $5 part back into the current DSLRs Is not something impossible like FD or M42 DSLRS which use totally different very old lens Mount. Why are you so sure its gone forever? I

Re: PESO - Long forgotten

2006-10-19 Thread Jack Davis
Old weathered shacks and barns are some of my favorite targets. I, for some reason, regard this shot as incomplete. Needs a setting or, as it's often stated, a sense of place. Being in shadow, the shack sort of looses its strength..so to speak. Jack --- J and K Messervy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: larger digital -v- film comparison

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Sullivan
Very Interesting site... 9 inch by 18 inch film camera taking landscapes Equivalent to a 4,000 megapixel digital capture. ...and some pretty serious dudes involved in the venture. Thanks for the link. Regards, Bob S. On 10/18/06, Digital Image Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/06,

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Mark Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a mate telling me a high res drum scan of a 6x7 neg would only be 10MB in TIFF format. Surely it would be in the hundreds of MB neighbourhood wouldn't it? Depends on the scanning resolution. If you're an Imacon Flextight at 3200 dpi (its max resolution)

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Shell
No, 20 X 24 is not a mural, but you certainly can print 20 X 24 from a 70 MB TIFF file. You can print that size from considerably smaller files, for that matter. Bob On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Would 20x24 be considered a mural? Shel [Original Message] From:

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread David Savage
On 10/19/06, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Forbes wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:07:27 +0100, J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting a simple $5 part back into the current DSLRs Is not something impossible like FD or M42 DSLRS which use totally different very old

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Shell
FWIW, I print my 13 X 19 gallery prints from TIFF files that average about 15 MB for color and about 6 MB for grayscale. Bob On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Bob Shell wrote: No, 20 X 24 is not a mural, but you certainly can print 20 X 24 from a 70 MB TIFF file. You can print that size from

Re: raw therapee for linux

2006-10-19 Thread SJ
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:32:08 -0400 (EDT) Cory Papenfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I use cinepaint for manipulation of color-managed digital photos. Unfortunately, monitor calibration is still more or less nonexistant. Since I rarely do any adjustments other than

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread David Savage
I cheated of course ;-) Basically I mirrored the exposed part of the face and placed it over the obstructed side. This is how I did it. - Using the measure tool draw a line through the centre of the tigers face. Then ImageRotate CanvasArbitrary, to align the centre of the face to the horizontal

Re: Black thingy

2006-10-19 Thread kwaller
Everyone knows it's a Mark VI. I thought the Mark VI had a simulator. Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Black thingy On 18/10/06, Bob Shell, discombobulated, unleashed: It's a Mark VII Veeblefetzer. DO NOT attempt to operate the

Re: Remedial film photography. :)

2006-10-19 Thread pnstenquist
If you're shooting color neg film, C-41 process is fairly standard. However, I still find that most color films process better when rated a half to a full stop slower than the indicated ISO. In other words, shoot Portra 160 at about 100 to 120. Shoot Portra 400 at about ISO 300. You'll get

Re: raw therapee for linux

2006-10-19 Thread Cory Papenfuss
about the monitor calibration, perhaps you know this already, but have you tried lprof? http://lprof.sourceforge.net/ Yeah... I know of it. When I first started to get interested in color management a year or so ago, lprof had pretty much died on the vine. It's great that

Re: raw therapee for linux

2006-10-19 Thread Adam Maas
Cinepaint, which has been around for a while, does 32 bit and 16 bit editing. Very obtuse interface. -Adam Jostein Øksne wrote: Been away from Linux for very long. Are there any 16-bit image editors for Linux yet? I remember this was one of the main features absent from GIMP back when.

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread Adam Maas
Mark Roberts wrote: John Forbes wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:07:27 +0100, J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting a simple $5 part back into the current DSLRs Is not something impossible like FD or M42 DSLRS which use totally different very old lens Mount. Why are you so

Re: K1D aperture simulator, part Three (III)- NOT

2006-10-19 Thread Adam Maas
They suck with any lens faster than f2 or slower than f4. They black out with the latter, and with the former, your depth of field is too shallow wide open to focus and recompose accurately with subjects that are within 10'-15' of you. -Adam Cory Papenfuss wrote: You guys must be

Re: Black thingy

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Shell
On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone knows it's a Mark VI. I thought the Mark VI had a simulator. Another common misconception. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread pnstenquist
I assume then that you're not printing on inkjet or that you interpolate the file up before printing.. A 15 meg file would yield only about 90 dpi on 13 x 19. Ideal dpi for most inkjet printers is around 300 dpi. If I print a 13 x19 from a 15 meg file on my Epson 2200, I can count almost count

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Shell
I'm printing primarily on an Epson 2200. One of my 15.6 MB files opens in Photoshop as 13 X 19 inches at 300 dpi. I just opened one to verify. Bob On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume then that you're not printing on inkjet or that you interpolate the file up

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Kostas Kavoussanakis Subject: Re: The JCO survey On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, William Robb wrote: Truthfully, it's like asking Pentax to put an aperture cam follower onto a DSLR. The big difference between Canon and Pentax regarding this is that it's recent

Re: Remedial film photography. :)

2006-10-19 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: J and K Messervy Subject: Re: Remedial film photography. :) And if you don't process film yourself? Then you should.. I will be taking film to the local pro lab for processing. Colour negative film doesn't respond to increases in development time,

FS - MZS, LX, 300A*, 15mm ...

2006-10-19 Thread Vic MacBournie
I know it's a little early but here goes I've decided to lighten my load still further I'm selling my MZS with grip - Excellent plus condition. Hardly used One LX body with winder - I have two ... one slightly better than the other... take your choice... Both come with winders and

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: J. C. O'Connell Subject: RE: The JCO survey Putting a simple $5 part back into the current DSLRs Is not something impossible like FD or M42 DSLRS which use totally different very old lens Mount. Why are you so sure its gone forever? I'm sure because a

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, William Robb wrote: Had Canon so desired, they could have left the register distance alone, and it should have allowed adapting FD lenses to EOS cameras, though the lenses themselves may have needed modification. It's a pretty simple concept to get ones head around.

RE: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
Only time will tell with respect to higher end bodies I think its pure speculation as to what will happen with Those at this point. jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Forbes Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:00 AM To:

Re: OT: Netscape 7.1 - ann's new computer blues

2006-10-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/18/2006 11:34:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (1) Can I get that or older versions as a free download? Someone wrote (on our list) I could download 7.1 and I can't find that email now I want to start using my road runner email account but

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread pnstenquist
Then you must be opening it with the RAW converter, which is interpolating it up. How big does PhotoShop say it is once it's open? Should be around 60 meg if it's 13 x19, 8 bit at 300 dpi. Paul -- Original message -- From: Bob Shell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm

RE: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
Pros don't care because they are cheap ( need to turn Profits like whores ) and they will use whatever Makes money. I want something better. jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:56 AM To:

RE: High ISO Images

2006-10-19 Thread Doug Brewer
Joe, Don't take it personally. I certainly didn't mean it that way. You just happened to provide the post that made me want to reply to =all= the worriers. I consider you a valuable member and am always glad to see your photos, especially the ones featuring decaying structures. But you do

RE: K1D aperture simulator, part Three (III)- NOT

2006-10-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
I find that not only is the speed of the lens important, But the quality of the lens wide open is Important when Using split image rangefinder screens. I can tell right Away with how good a lens I am dealing with by the split Image behaviour. With the best optics, the split image is Knife edge,

Re: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Sheesh! I can't believe this thread is still going. I even put it into my kill file yet it surfaces once again. Shel [Original Message] From: Kostas Kavoussanakis On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, William Robb wrote: Had Canon so desired, they could have left the register distance alone, and

RE: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
Companies put out stories to fit the current Condtions all the time. I wouldn't believe The engineers anyway, its up to marketing. jco -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:05 AM To:

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Shel Belinkoff
What's this RAW converter got to do with the subject. The discussion was about the file size for a scanned 6x7 negative. This isn't a fruit stand where we're comparing apples and oranges. Shel [Original Message] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you must be opening it with the RAW converter,

RE: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
No one ever answered my question - what is the default Status of the aperture on a canon FD lens when not Mounted on a camera? ( Stopped down like PK, or wide Open like M42?) As far as the registration change, I do not know For sure why it was done, there may have be Technical advantages to do so

RE: K1D aperture simulator, part Three (III)- NOT

2006-10-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
Your argument doesn't make sense in that with fast lenses, You have so much speed and such shallow DOF that the Standard surrounding ground glass (not in the center) on just about Any finder will allow you to get correct focus. What Youre saying is that you don't like the split image in The

OT: Epson Printer Profiles

2006-10-19 Thread Eactivist
I've ordered and received the Epson R1800 and want to take it for a test run. With my old Epson 925, I never successfully used Epson's printer profiles. I had a hard time matching print color to my monitor color. But I also have a Spyder now and will calibrate my monitor (again). Is there a

Re: PESO - The Eye of the Tiger

2006-10-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/18/2006 9:51:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would appreciate any suggestions with this one. There is some shredded paper in the lower left corner that would be very difficult to clone out. One option is to crop it somehow to remove most or all of

RE: The JCO survey

2006-10-19 Thread J. C. O'Connell
There is one thing I don't understand about your pro Statement, to pros, cameras are just tools. There is Nothing worse than not having the right tool for The job and sometimes AE **IS** the right tool, just Like **AF** or any other automation is. Its just Another option to have and a possible

Black thingy, I think I found out what it is!

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Owens
From what I found on a Google search shows it is apparently an express card slot. Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread Brendan MacRae
Depends on on dpi. I can get 550M sized file sizes at 4000dpi from a 6x7 scan. -Brendan --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a mate telling me a high res drum scan of a 6x7 neg would only be 10MB in TIFF format. Surely it would be in the hundreds of MB neighbourhood wouldn't it? --

Re: FS - MZS, LX, 300A*, 15mm ...

2006-10-19 Thread Kostas Kavoussanakis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Vic MacBournie wrote: K100 f2.8 K105 or M100? Kostas -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: PESO - Season's End

2006-10-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/18/2006 12:59:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5092852 Leaves and Ice Tom C. I like that much better than the last one. The jagged edges of the ice and the leaves complement each other, so do the

Re: File size of scanned 6x7 neg

2006-10-19 Thread pnstenquist
The RAW converter has everything to do with the subject at hand. It's impossible to get a 13 x 19, 300 dpi image from a 15 meg file without interpolation. When you open a digital file in the RAW converter, you have the option of interpolating to a larger size. Thus, I asked Bob if that's what

Re: PESO - Valley morning fog

2006-10-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/18/2006 2:37:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.oksne.net/paw/garmo.html Thanks for looking. Jostein === Very nice! Marnie aka Doe :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: PESO - Golden Gate

2006-10-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/18/2006 9:38:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fog rolls into the bay... Pentax *istD, A 70-210/4, Handheld ISO 400, 1/250 sec @ f/8 http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_3433.htm Comments welcome -- Bruce === Nice, Bruce. I love the upper tree

Re: OT: Epson Printer Profiles

2006-10-19 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
It is very simple to use the profiles supplied, and they're generally quite good. Here's how. Assuming you are using Photoshop CS2 on Mac OS X (CS' and Windows nomenclature is a little different but you should be able to translate without too much difficulty), are working with a calibrated

Re: Samsung 50-200 [Was: Re: Thoughs on lenses for K100D]

2006-10-19 Thread Toine
If build quality is the same as Pentax, I probably never need service and warranty. If I do need it: in europe the reseller handles warranty. If Samsung=Pentax, I want to keep it forever ;) I won't touch Samsung DSLR's. Probably the pentax firmware doesn't work in Samsung which could be a major

Re: OT: Your first camera

2006-10-19 Thread Sandra Hermann
My first camera was a $50 buck camera from k-mart. I dont recall what it was but I was 13 yrs old and I begged my great uncle to give me a job so I could buy myself a camera. I made just enough money by the end of the school year I could buy that camera and one roll of film for the end of the

OT: Epson Printer Profiles

2006-10-19 Thread Walter Hamler
Marnie, I too am thinking about the 1800. A friend has one that he really likes as well. Last evening our camera club had a meeting, and one of the members was discussing a recent problem he is having with his older 1800 (2 yrs old). It refuses to recognize 8.5x11 paper all of a sudden.

Re: OT: Epson Printer Profiles

2006-10-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/19/2006 8:53:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last evening our camera club had a meeting, and one of the members was discussing a recent problem he is having with his older 1800 (2 yrs old). It refuses to recognize 8.5x11 paper all of a sudden.

Re: PESO - Season's End

2006-10-19 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 10/18/2006 3:17:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually I should ever have let on I collected the leaves and froze them in a 1/2 or so of water in translucent cookware. No light box. I turned the pan on end and leaned it against the rails of an

Re: High ISO Images

2006-10-19 Thread P. J. Alling
Unfortunately there is something there, The whites aren't pure white. Shel Belinkoff wrote: Are you viewing them @ 100%? I DL'd one of the images that people said contained moire, but viewing @ 100% I didn't see any. Shel [Original Message] From: Joseph Tainter Links here:

Re: OT: Netscape 7.1 - ann's new computer blues

2006-10-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got 4.8 - seems to be the same as 4.6 - ages ago I heard bad things about 6.0 being buggy. I just did a cc here to show you guys my new address -but it didn't seem to take on the automatic stuff to update PDML I gave myself another handle and now I'm kinda sorry I didn't just do annsan.

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