Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-16 Thread Thibouille
Mmm if you look at the girl's nose just next to her left eye, the details are actually quite grainy (is that English?). I don't know if it is the in-camera processing or the CMOS processing but there's defenitely heavy noise reduction here, and sometimes (where I hinted at) it doesn't work too

Re: 3200Tmax

2007-09-16 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 13/09/2007, Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To anyone familiar with 3200TMax - is this just the effect of a high speed film being ultra sensitive to expiration, or is the D76 a poor choice as a developer? I'm wondering if it might be better to try the other roll in either Rodinol

Re: Sydney PDML

2007-09-16 Thread Brian Walters
Hi Dave I'm back from my touring around New South Wales. It doesn't seem as if many Sydney PDMLers will be available to meet during your Sydney visit. Pity, but I'm not even sure how many list members there are in and around Sydney. Anyway, I'm available on the 26th (or 27th) and happy to

Re: Boris - Week 37 [PESO]

2007-09-16 Thread Bob Sullivan
Boris, Composition is pleasing. It could even have more foreground. Regards, Bob S. On 9/14/07, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! As per suggestions of one of my friends I had re-edit this image: http://not.contaxg.com/document.php?id=18804full=1 Have your say. Thanks. Boris

Re: Boris - Week 37 [PESO]

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Stenquist
Nice one. I like the horizon placement with just a bit of the deep shadow in the foreground. Paul On Sep 16, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Boris, Composition is pleasing. It could even have more foreground. Regards, Bob S. On 9/14/07, Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

2007-09-16 Thread David J Brooks
I figure he owes me.:-) Dave On 9/16/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be a very bad think, I'm ashamed of you :-) David J Brooks wrote: Thats quite the screen capture.:-) Wonder what woul dhappen if i sent him $-0.01 in Paypal. Dave On 9/15/07, Peter

Re: Back From Paradise...

2007-09-16 Thread David J Brooks
On 9/12/07, Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paradise, Michigan that is... Anyhow - several months after Grandfather Mountain the Tony Sweet effect finally settled in, and I wound up spending a fair amount of time shooting controlled motion blurred shots (bouncing the camera around or

Re: PESO Eastmain Rapids, James Bay

2007-09-16 Thread David J Brooks
On 9/15/07, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great scenery complimented by your well chosen composition. Tiny nit; So many of the trees appear to have a mauve tone. I wonder if my monitor is displaying their true color.(?) I did it late at night on the laptop. Could be that. Thanks for the

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-16 Thread David J Brooks
On 9/16/07, Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmm if you look at the girl's nose just next to her left eye, the details are actually quite grainy (is that English?). I don't know if it is the in-camera processing or the CMOS processing but there's defenitely heavy noise reduction here, and

Re: PESO Eastmain Rapids, James Bay

2007-09-16 Thread David J Brooks
Thanks Ken. It was a small bridge, and traffic is very light, so i could park on the bridge and quickly move around to look at angles. I felt this the best. I was glad the sun camew out momentarily. Dave On 9/15/07, Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice one Dave, I especially like the

Re: PESO Eastmain Rapids, James Bay

2007-09-16 Thread David J Brooks
Thanks. I',m glad to.:-) Dave On 9/15/07, Rebekah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice picture! I'm glad to hear your first trip went well :o) rg2 On 9/15/07, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang Well, i';m back from my oversize load escort trip to Radisson Quebec. All i can

Peso One more Rapids, James Bay

2007-09-16 Thread David J Brooks
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6423731 Trying out a stich program for Mac, so their water mark is on this, sorry. This is the big one in the area. From what i hear, after Hydro Quebec finishes with their construction up at the bay, this will be gone. They have a suspension bridge over

Sturdy advice, please!

2007-09-16 Thread Mike Hamilton
I'm looking to buy a decent tripod and ballhead. I've selected a couple of Benro legs, but I'm unsure which would be most appropriate. Their C-027 legs support up to 5.5lbs, and the C-228 legs support 17.6 lbs. My heaviest setup will be K10D (1.7lbs) and DA 14mm (1.0lb). Will the C-027

Re: Sturdy advice, please!

2007-09-16 Thread P. J. Alling
It depends, are you planning to use them in the studio are carrying them in the field. You'll curse every extra pound if you're going far afield. On the other hand you can't have too heavy a tripod if it's not being moved much. Mike Hamilton wrote: I'm looking to buy a decent tripod and

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

2007-09-16 Thread Rebekah
That would be a very bad think, I'm ashamed of you :-) give it up with the spell check man rg2 On 9/16/07, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figure he owes me.:-) Dave On 9/16/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be a very bad think, I'm ashamed of you :-)

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-16 Thread P. J. Alling
Actually the image looks surprisingly film like. David J Brooks wrote: On 9/16/07, Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmm if you look at the girl's nose just next to her left eye, the details are actually quite grainy (is that English?). I don't know if it is the in-camera processing or

Re: Sydney PDML

2007-09-16 Thread Rebekah
Pity, but I'm not even sure how many list members there are in and around Sydney. You could check the frappr map, there seems to be several of you guys in australia. ;) rg2 On 9/16/07, Brian Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave I'm back from my touring around New South Wales. It

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

2007-09-16 Thread P. J. Alling
I dunno think is sort of appropriate here... Rebekah wrote: That would be a very bad think, I'm ashamed of you :-) give it up with the spell check man rg2 On 9/16/07, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I figure he owes me.:-) Dave On 9/16/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL

Re: Sturdy advice, please!

2007-09-16 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I've seen the Benro line at the local store and find them pretty nicely made. But look to see how much elevation you'll get without the column extended ... that was the kicker for me with most of the legs I saw from Gitzo and Manfrotto. I would have had to go with a larger, heavier set of

Sturdy Advice, Please!

2007-09-16 Thread Mike Hamilton
On 16-Sep-07, at 9:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen the Benro line at the local store and find them pretty nicely made. But look to see how much elevation you'll get without the column extended ... that was the kicker for me with most of the legs I saw from Gitzo and Manfrotto. I

Re: Sturdy advice, please!

2007-09-16 Thread Tim Øsleby
You probably know this, but It is not only about weight. You also need to concider the focal length you are going to use. An 14mm one pund lens is an easy load, but a one pound 300mm demands a lot more. I don't know all the different Benro models, but my C-458 takes a lot of abbuse and are

GESO - Explorations fo Sudbury

2007-09-16 Thread Adam Maas
I've put together a gallery of my landscapish work from Sudbury, ON. It's mostly MF stuff, but some 35mm and some digital. All shots have been taken within 5 minutes drive of the downtown core except for the creek and the billboard, which were both shot in the New Sudbury commercial area.

Re: Sturdy Advice, Please!

2007-09-16 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sep 16, 2007, at 9:21 AM, Mike Hamilton wrote: The C-228 legs have a max height of 51 w/o center column. The C-027 sit at 46. Seems kind of low! I stand 68. Heads typically add 2.5-3.5 inches to the static height of the tripod up to the head seat, and the camera adds another increment

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-16 Thread mike wilson
David J Brooks wrote: I still have no plans on buying any more Dslr's anyway. Mark! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-16 Thread Mark Roberts
mike wilson wrote: David J Brooks wrote: I still have no plans on buying any more Dslr's anyway. Mark! I have no plans on putting any more quotations into the annual PDML quote list solely for the purpose of embarrassing people. evil grin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread John Sessoms
Still don't have Photoshop installed, may get to that later today. I hope. The computer I was using for email and newsgroups died. I'm pretty sure it's a CPU/Motherboard problem, and I may be able to fix it eventually. Anyway, I've spent the last 6 hours trying to configure this laptop -

Re: PESO Eastmain Rapids, James Bay

2007-09-16 Thread graywolf
I once drove the front arrow truck for a highway department line painting crew. You do not know what fun is until you have to drive down a heavily traveled two lane road at rush hour straddling the center line and forcing traffic onto the shoulders so the paint truck behind you can repaint the

Re: OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread Mark Roberts
John Sessoms wrote: Still don't have Photoshop installed, may get to that later today. I hope. The computer I was using for email and newsgroups died. I'm pretty sure it's a CPU/Motherboard problem, and I may be able to fix it eventually. Anyway, I've spent the last 6 hours trying to

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

2007-09-16 Thread graywolf
Isn't that about what he make in advertising fees every time a bunch of you look at his website? I find it amusing that you guys laugh at him while you are helping him make money. I suspect he finds that amusing as hell too. P. J. Alling wrote: That would be a very bad think, I'm ashamed of

September PUG -- Toralf's shoes

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
It is an interesting gallery, and I enjoyed all the potographs. I thought of Toralf's shot of the shoes on the wire when I saw this article in our Sunday newspaper: http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1189917390313570.xmlcoll=1 Snopes has also looked into the practice of

Re: OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread graywolf
Having just done 3 installs, I can sympathize. The very first thing I do is turn off the balloons and shut down Window Security Center. Like I need it telling me my computer is not safe because I do not have windows firewall active when I am behind a hardware firewall, and that I do not have

Re: GESO - Holiday snaps + Lemk video

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Nice video, and great music. Thanks for posting it. Dan M On 9/13/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just some stuff from a recent visit to Krakow. Mainly sprog pics but not all. More to come. http://home.fotocommunity.com/mike.a.wilson/index.php?id=529253g=330667s=0 Specially

RE: PESO Eastmain Rapids, James Bay

2007-09-16 Thread Bob W
I used to be one of the crew on a truck which delivered nitro-glycerine to high-street chemist stores and school science labs. Because of budgetary constraints it wasn't possible to fit the trucks with pneumatic tyres, so we had to make wooden ones ourselves. My job was to stand in the back

OT: Life will never be the same again

2007-09-16 Thread Bob W
We're probably not supposed to laugh at stuff like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/6958580.stm Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread Steve Sharpe
Apple.com At 3:58 PM -0400 9/16/07, graywolf wrote: Having just done 3 installs, I can sympathize. The very first thing I do is turn off the balloons and shut down Window Security Center. Like I need it telling me my computer is not safe because I do not have windows firewall active when I am

Re: OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread mike wilson
John Sessoms wrote: Anyway, I've spent the last 6 hours trying to configure this laptop - turning off and un-installing all of the pre-installed CRAP. Think yourself lucky - at least you can do it. My networked work machines assume that everyone only knows how to press the On button and

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-16 Thread mike wilson
Mark Roberts wrote: mike wilson wrote: David J Brooks wrote: I still have no plans on buying any more Dslr's anyway. Mark! I have no plans on putting any more quotations into the annual PDML quote list solely for the purpose of embarrassing people. evil grin It's not for

RE: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-16 Thread Bob W
I still have no plans on buying any more Dslr's anyway. Mark! I have no plans on putting any more quotations into the annual PDML quote list solely for the purpose of embarrassing people. evil grin It's not for embarrassment, it's to demonstrate how easily we can fall

Re: GESO - Holiday snaps + Lemk video

2007-09-16 Thread mike wilson
Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Nice video, and great music. Thanks for posting it. Dan M I think it was actually for Bruce D but I'm glad you enjoyed it anyway. Are you of Rusyn descent? On 9/13/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just some stuff from a recent visit to Krakow.

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

2007-09-16 Thread Digital Image Studio
On 17/09/2007, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't that about what he make in advertising fees every time a bunch of you look at his website? I find it amusing that you guys laugh at him while you are helping him make money. I suspect he finds that amusing as hell too. My visits to his

Re: Sydney PDML

2007-09-16 Thread Brian Walters
Last time I looked there were only three or four in the Sydney area. Seems I've forgotten to bookmark the URL of the Frapper map. Do you have it? Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/

Re: OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread John Sessoms
From: Mark Roberts John Sessoms wrote: Still don't have Photoshop installed, may get to that later today. I hope. The computer I was using for email and newsgroups died. I'm pretty sure it's a CPU/Motherboard problem, and I may be able to fix it eventually. Anyway, I've spent the

Re: OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread John Sessoms
From: graywolf Having just done 3 installs, I can sympathize. The very first thing I do is turn off the balloons and shut down Window Security Center. Like I need it telling me my computer is not safe because I do not have windows firewall active when I am behind a hardware firewall, and

RE: OT: Life will never be the same again

2007-09-16 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bob W We're probably not supposed to laugh at stuff like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/6958580.stm Just enough information to be totally useless. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread Scott Loveless
John Sessoms wrote: So, before I un-install the McAffee, can I get recommendations for GOOD working anti-virus/anti-intrusion software? AVG has a free version for home use. Considering the resource hogging bloatware that McAfee and Norton have become, I'd use AVG even if I had to pay

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

2007-09-16 Thread Cotty
On 16/09/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: I have no plans on putting any more quotations into the annual PDML quote list solely for the purpose of embarrassing people. Mark! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|

Re: OT: New Laptop

2007-09-16 Thread Mark Cassino
--- John Sessoms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a lot of work ahead of me tweaking the software so it'll work like I want it to - e.g. I've got to go into preferences on Thunderbird (my email/newsreader client) and find the setting to make send in plain text the default. Not 100%

Re: Test

2007-09-16 Thread Tim Øsleby
Hah. You don't fool me Peter Tim Typo Mostly Harmless - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 6:36 AM Subject: Re: Test Nope, I didn't see this. Adam Maas wrote: testing my other SMTP

RE: Pentax Gallery

2007-09-16 Thread Rod Connan
Very, VERY true. I have watched this in a number of situations - applies in commentary and in notice given. Rod -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of graywolf Welcome to the Camera Club, Frank. If your photos don't look like everyone else's

Re: Trains [was: Metering Question]

2007-09-16 Thread Adam Maas
Nice story. I grew up in a couple places heavily shaped by rail. The first being the Okanagan Valley (I hiked Myra Canyon and other parts of the Kettle Valley Railway as a Boy Scout as well as with my father) and Sudbury, ON, which was a railroad town long before the nickel (My mother's back yard

GESO - Tour of Missouri (pro cycling race)

2007-09-16 Thread Stan Halpin
The six-stage Tour of Missouri ended today with an overall victory by George Hincappi of Team Discovery. When it began Tuesday, the first stage passed 3 miles from my home. Twice. But I was in Virginia. Got back in town Friday night, Saturday my wife and I drove to see Stage 5. We saw the

Re: Boris - Week 37 [PESO]

2007-09-16 Thread Boris Liberman
Thanks, Paul, Bob! Paul Stenquist wrote: Nice one. I like the horizon placement with just a bit of the deep shadow in the foreground. Paul On Sep 16, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Boris, Composition is pleasing. It could even have more foreground. Regards, Bob S. On 9/14/07,

GESO - Ford Roadster

2007-09-16 Thread Gabriel Cain
Comments welcome. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielcain/sets/72157601967404614/ Gabriel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net