Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Subject: Re: Sensor cleaning So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Please, no lectures. Likely yes. Everyone else who's done that has shortly thereafter sent their camera in

Re: a couple of small announcements ...

2008-07-24 Thread Brian Walters
Congratulations, Godfrey I don't recall seeing the badges previously but I enjoyed looking at them now. Were they photographed with a flash fitted with some sort of diffuser or maybe using a light tent? I'm interested because I plan to photograph my wife's pottery and minimising reflections

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread David Savage
2008/7/24 William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Subject: Re: Sensor cleaning So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Please, no lectures. Likely yes. Everyone else who's done that has shortly

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread Brian Walters
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:24:18 -0600, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Well, I don't use it routinely but I have used it on occasions. The DS is still functioning. I know the experts claim that using

RE: a couple of small announcements ...

2008-07-24 Thread Bob W
Congratulations - I remember you posting the photos, which are very impressive. Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Sent: 24 July 2008 06:00 To: SeePhoto Talk; DUG; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PDML List; PAW

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Brian Walters Subject: Re: Sensor cleaning I know the experts claim that using canned air is dangerous but, is there any documented evidence of sensor damage from using it? I asked this very thing on neuroticforums and got spanked for my troubles, but

RE: DA* 16-50 f2.8 hood cap missing?

2008-07-24 Thread John Whittingham
Hi John Would that be the FA 28-105/4-5.6 Power zoom? I've yet to try it on digital. Regards, John From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 July 2008 22:25 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re:

Re: a couple of small announcements ...

2008-07-24 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Thanks to all who've written! :-) On Jul 23, 2008, at 11:47 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Congratulations, Godfrey I don't recall seeing the badges previously but I enjoyed looking at them now. Were they photographed with a flash fitted with some sort of diffuser or maybe using a light tent?

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
2008/7/24 William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Please, no lectures. No, You're not. Here comes the lecture. :-) Not really. :-) But I have developed a certain routine (IE. set of compulsory behaviours). When

Re: Two external HD's or stay with CD's

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
2008/7/23 Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A backup battery will keep it going during a power outage, but doesn't help protect against a direct lightning strike. (A house two streets over from ours suffered a hit two summers ago. I suppose I could tell myself that it's on higher ground and so

Re: Perhaps Cotty prefers Salsa on his hat.

2008-07-24 Thread Cotty
On 23/7/08, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: I don't know if anyone saw this or posted it but I was looking for something else entirely and stumbled across this. Perhaps Cotty will have a filling meal in the relatively near future... http://tinyurl.com/57uhql Bring it on baby. --

Monitor calibration

2008-07-24 Thread William Robb
Today I took delivery of a Gretag-Macbeth eye-one calibration tool to replace my old colorvision Spyder that just never seemed to work well with these newfangled LCD screens, and would not support dual monitors. I am happy to report that the tool works as advertised, and my old LCD screen now

Re: Two external HD's or stay with CD's

2008-07-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: AlunFoto Subject: Re: Two external HD's or stay with CD's However, the power companies are as negligent here as anywhere else, HAR!! A friend of mine once mentioned that everyone she knows at SaskPower owns a portable generator. Shortly afterwards, I

Re: OT: Blurb QC issues?

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
2008/7/24 David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://forums.blurb.com/forums/5/topics/3292#posts-15411 Now I have another book that was made through Blurb (8x10 softcover) the quality is outstanding. But the images in that book were almost all colour, so maybe it's just a problem with

Re: Pentax K10D Hotfilter info needed.

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 01:27:41 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Re: Pentax K10D Hotfilter info needed. 2008/7/23 mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] He might do a good hands-on job himself,

Re: Pentax K10D Hotfilter info needed.

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
Don't we all? From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 01:47:14 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Pentax K10D Hotfilter info needed. You need more than just sleep... mike wilson wrote: From: AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] He might do a good

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 02:19:01 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Subject: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift Hi! The idea of controlling DOF with the lens tilt starts to tickle my fancy... It turns out that Pentax only has shift lens

Re: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread Cotty
On 23/7/08, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: You're out-nerding Mike Wilson! Mark! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

RE: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread Anthony Farr
In your neck of the woods, the sensor is probably frozen already. Regards, Anthony Farr -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2008 3:24 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Sensor cleaning So,

RE: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread Anthony Farr
Soon after the D came out, one of our listers had a sensor delaminate from its antialias / hot filter in this circumstance. Forgotten who, unfortunately. Regards, Anthony Farr -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Walters Sent:

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread Cotty
On 23/7/08, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Please, no lectures. I used to. Still do sometimes. The I discovered Pec Pads :) I find I don't clean the sensors half as often as I used to. --

RE: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 06:58:00 GMT To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: PESO: What is the middle Object? It's the birth of a parallel universe. The TARDIS returning after destroying the Daleks, again. -Original Message-

Re: DA* 16-50 f2.8 hood cap missing?

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: Frank Wajer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 07:20:42 GMT To: pdml@pdml.net CC: Frank Wajer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DA* 16-50 f2.8 hood cap missing? Hi all, my DA* 16-50 f2.8 just arrived, but when I looked at the hood I noticed the missing cap. I mean the cap

Re: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 09:21:35 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: What is the middle Object? Walter Hamler wrote: I shot this back in June 1978. It is a close conjunction of Saturn and Mars. I shot 5 frames and one

Re: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 10:09:09 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: What is the middle Object? Cotty wrote: On 23/7/08, drew, discombobulated, unleashed: (where's Avon?) Continuity announcer for Jack FM.

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/24 Thu AM 05:24:18 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Sensor cleaning So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Please, no lectures. I use it to suck.

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread Boris Liberman
Hmmm. The mechanical engineering bit is what I sorely lack. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:16 AM, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One set of bellows, a shift lens, some effort in a bit of mechanical engineering to produce a tilt mechanism and you are home and dry. Might be cheaper to buy

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
2008/7/24 mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Please, no lectures. I use it to suck. I always found that the mirror would make this weird, flapping sound each time I used the vacuum cleaner to remove

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
Lensbaby, as Scott suggested. or maybe the T/S bellows from Novoflex with a cheapo Kiev MedF lens, for example: http://www.novoflex.com/english/html/co_ema5.php Jostein 2008/7/23 Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! The idea of controlling DOF with the lens tilt starts to tickle my

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/24 Thu AM 09:34:44 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift Hmmm. The mechanical engineering bit is what I sorely lack. Even for this?

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: AlunFoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/24 Thu AM 10:22:21 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Sensor cleaning 2008/7/24 mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Please,

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/24 Thu AM 10:29:04 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/24 Thu AM 09:34:44 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Same Book, Different Opinions

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
great shot, Frank! What Christine said. Jostein 2008/7/23 frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Haven't been able to be on-list since Friday. I'm back on the road (messengering) three days a week for the rest of the summer and I'm really enjoying it, but it means I'm not online very much during

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
Did not Rob Stoddart use compressed gas, not from a store bought can, but from a big compressor he had. He seemed to be ok with that. I just do a once a week blow with my bulb blower, especially during dust season.(horse shows) Dave On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:30 AM, mike wilson [EMAIL

Re: OT: Blurb QC issues?

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Roberts
David Savage wrote: Given Marks high praise of the quality of his Blurb published book, my positive response from what I had seen the fact that others were thinking of using them too, I'm posting this FYI. A local photographer I know had an exhibition in this years Foto Freo Photographic

Re: a couple of small announcements ...

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
Congradulations Godfrey I remember seeing those badges. Well done. Dave On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I discovered this evening that a good number of photos of classic California police badges I made for a client two years ago have been

Re: PESO - Same Book, Different Opinions

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
2008/7/23 Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just looked up the book on Amazon. I'm with the dog on this one. LOL Me too. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

OT Asking for a friend, web site hostings

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
One of the barn owners that have students show on the CE Trillium zone, that I shoot, has a web site, but the host is never around to add photos or update data tables etc. She wanted to know if there is some one or some thing out there, that they could transfer a site to, and when needed, send a

Re: GESO: She

2008-07-24 Thread Doug Franklin
David Savage wrote: [White man's disease is] genetic Yup, /definitely/ genetic, at least in my case. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and

Re: OT: Blurb QC issues?

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
God to know. I was thinking of a book of my photos taken around Whitchurch-Stouffville and about 1/2 or more would be BW. Dave On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:55 AM, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given Marks high praise of the quality of his Blurb published book, my positive response from

Re: OT: Blurb QC issues?

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Savage wrote: What I find most surprising was that Blurb said they couldn't see the problem!!! I find it more disturbing than surprising, I'm afraid. Sometimes i get back prints from the lab i use with big

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Roberts
William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor cleaning with canned air? Please, no lectures. Likely yes. Everyone else who's done that has shortly thereafter sent their camera in for an

Re: OT Asking for a friend, web site hostings

2008-07-24 Thread Doug Franklin
David J Brooks wrote: She wanted to know if there is some one or some thing out there, that they could transfer a site to, and when needed, send a photo or two, and some information on riders scores and winnings and they could add that for them. I don't know of a generic ISP that offers that

OT - Odd name changes

2008-07-24 Thread Cotty
This is LOL territory http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7522952.stm -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread P. J. Alling
Na, looks like the Enterprise saucer section entering atmosphere a tad too fast... mike wilson wrote: From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/23 Wed PM 06:58:00 GMT To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' pdml@pdml.net Subject: RE: PESO: What is the middle Object? It's the birth of a parallel

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread P. J. Alling
I do seem to remember Rob talking about that in a post or two. However I assume he does some kind of work that requires having clean compressed air and cleaning his personal camera equipment is a side benefit. David J Brooks wrote: IIRC Peter, Rob used this gas for other home projects, so i'm

Re: Pseo Cutting corn

2008-07-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Bob Sullivan Subject: Re: Pseo Cutting corn Dave, In general, I find these interesting pictures. This one I don't like so much. The barn in the background is confusing me. Bob, sometimes a barn is just a barn. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread Adam Maas
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:42 PM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Boris Liberman Subject: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift Hi! The idea of controlling DOF with the lens tilt starts to tickle my fancy... It turns out that Pentax only has shift lens

Re: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread mike wilson
From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/24 Thu PM 12:58:44 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: What is the middle Object? Na, looks like the Enterprise saucer section entering atmosphere a tad too fast... Enterprise is not meant to enter

Re: PESO: Locked Out

2008-07-24 Thread David Savage
Thanks to Christine, Brian, Godfrey, Dave, Bruce Frank for your comments. Much appreciated. Thanks also to everyone else that looked. Time for me to come clean. This wasn't a scene I just stumbled upon. I was out with a bunch of other photographers were were taking turns modelling. She was

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread David Savage
I believe Rob got his from a camera store/lab that was closing down. I think he also said once that he used bottled nitorgen for a time?? Cheers, Dave 2008/7/24 P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If all you own is a couple of cameras then one of those compressors would be very expensive, (and

Re: a couple of small announcements ...

2008-07-24 Thread David Savage
Congrats. Dave 2008/7/24 Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I discovered this evening that a good number of photos of classic California police badges I made for a client two years ago have been incorporated into a book by James C. Casey called Badges of America's Finest: A Pictorial Guide

Re: a couple of small announcements ...

2008-07-24 Thread Brendan MacRae
Very cool, Godfrey! Way to go! -Brendan --- Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I discovered this evening that a good number of photos of classic California police badges I made for a client two years ago have been incorporated into a book by James C. Casey called Badges of

Re: Monitor calibration

2008-07-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi Subject: Re: Monitor calibration I went with the Eye One Display 2 on the advice of the folks in Apple Engineering who create the monitor specifications and the other group who write the ColorSync system components. I've veen using it

Re: OT: Blurb QC issues?

2008-07-24 Thread David Savage
2008/7/24 Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fascinating. Thanks for posting that, Dave. When I put together my original book I made a conscious decision *not* to include any BW stuff, precisely because I knew from experience how difficult they are to get right on a color print setup. I was

Re: PESO: Yummm

2008-07-24 Thread Jack Davis
OH YEAH!!! Those are beautiful. Nice photo adds to the mouth watering. Jack --- On Thu, 7/24/08, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: Yummm To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 7:28 AM Nice.

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
heh... We have very different memories about Rob. I thought it was an old oxygen tank for scuba-diving that he got refilled time and again. Jostein 2008/7/24 David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I forget what Rob used, or had in the tank. It may have been oxygen for welding. Sorry, i just

Re: a couple of small announcements ...

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
Congrats, Godfrey! That's cool. :-) Jostein 2008/7/24 Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I discovered this evening that a good number of photos of classic California police badges I made for a client two years ago have been incorporated into a book by James C. Casey called Badges of

Re: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread Walter Hamler
Actually, in one of the Star Trek Next Generation movies the saucer section did crash on a planet surface. In the TV Voyager series the ship actually made a couple surface landings. It's amazing what we can do on the silver screen! Walt On 7/24/08, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From:

PESO: BW Fall

2008-07-24 Thread Jack Davis
Am disassociating this image from the earlier distracting Finger Painting fun POST. This was taken in the area of Dallas Divide, CO. a few years back. A 35mm Pentax vertical color version is in the Pentax Gallery. Shot with a Mamiya 6, 50mmf/4L, Fuji Provia 100. Comments always welcome. Jack

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Professional technicians use filtered dry nitrogen gas with a pressure- regulated nozzle for cleaning purposes. Propellant based canned air is a bad idea for any delicate optical surfaces... G On Jul 24, 2008, at 6:32 AM, David J Brooks wrote: I forget what Rob used, or had in the tank. It

Re: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread Gonz
its a plane. See the 4 dots evenly spaced behind it? Those are the flashes of the plane lights. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Walter Hamler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I shot this back in June 1978. It is a close conjunction of Saturn and Mars. I shot 5 frames and one frame had the object

Re: PESO: Yummm

2008-07-24 Thread Jack Davis
I'll be fine once the residue of Vicodin has been completely flushed from my brain. Thanks for the 'comment', Marnie. Jack --- On Wed, 7/23/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PESO: Yummm To: pdml@pdml.net Date: Wednesday,

Re: DA* 16-50 f2.8 hood cap missing?

2008-07-24 Thread John Francis
That's the one. I've used it for a good number of the shots on my picture-a-week gallery: http://www.jfwaf.com/PAW/ You wouldn't exect to be able to see problems with a web image, but I've made 8x10 prints from at least one of those shots. The most recent image

Re: I found me a dead alien

2008-07-24 Thread Christine Aguila
Big thanks to Frank, Ann, Marnie, Bob for you kind feedback. Marnie, good to see you back!!! Hope all is well. Big cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:38 AM

Re: Two external HD's or stay with CD's

2008-07-24 Thread Bob Sullivan
Jostein, Interesting, your peaks are in winter while ours are summer air-conditioner loads. We have had an underground transformer fail (explode) twice under load. And it died once from a lightening strike. (and cost me a TV set!) I don't have the external drives plugged in unless using them. Most

RE: DA* 16-50 f2.8 hood cap missing?

2008-07-24 Thread John Whittingham
Hi John Thanks for that, I used the lens for years with my MZ-3 until I finally bought a Tamron 28-75/2.8 but kept the 28-105 because I liked the coverage it offered. I was having a clear out the other day and thought I might sell it, but it's still here, I really must try it on digital before

Re: a couple of small announcements ...

2008-07-24 Thread Fernando
I remember those shots; Congratulations!! On 7/24/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I discovered this evening that a good number of photos of classic California police badges I made for a client two years ago have been incorporated into a book by James C. Casey called Badges of

Re: PESO: Hot Air

2008-07-24 Thread D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
Glen: Truth be told, I don't really have a clear understanding of all the mechanics you explain here (not really knowing anything about telescopes or guns), but the details don't matter: what's impressive is your inventiveness--good luck with whatever it is you're trying to build, but

Printer/Paper question

2008-07-24 Thread P. J. Alling
Perhaps someone on the list has an answer, (besides the obvious), to this. Let me start by stating that I've been using Ilford Smooth Gloss Paper (250 GSM) for quite some time in my HP Photosmart 7350 with what I've considered good results. I've printed using the settings that Ilford gives

RE: Pseo Cutting corn

2008-07-24 Thread Bob W
You can tell they're an old breed - they're in black white. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David J Brooks Sent: 24 July 2008 14:08 To: Pentax Discuss; Harry Bolton; Barbara Brooks; Sarah Bedford-James Subject: Pseo Cutting corn

RE: Printer/Paper question

2008-07-24 Thread Bob W
Maybe you got paper from a bad batch. Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: 24 July 2008 19:37 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Printer/Paper question Perhaps someone on the list has an answer, (besides

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread Joseph McAllister
I no longer have my old 20 gal. compressor, but when I did, it was fine for cleaning camera equipment as long as the air went through one or two in line filters to trap the moisture and oil that the compressor creates. If you have or had one of the blow up air beds, or a child's swimming

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread Lucas Rijnders
Op Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:19:01 +0200 schreef Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The idea of controlling DOF with the lens tilt starts to tickle my fancy... It turns out that Pentax only has shift lens (28/3.5 in K mount) and there are some 3rd party lenses. Any thoughts, ideas, etc on the

RE: OT - Odd name changes

2008-07-24 Thread Bob W
At a company I used to work for your email address was formed from the first 4 letters of your surname + your first initial, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] We had a lot of Indian contractors working for us, including one Surinder Anu, whose email address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob -Original

Re: OT: Blurb QC issues?

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Roberts
David Savage wrote: 2008/7/24 Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fascinating. Thanks for posting that, Dave. When I put together my original book I made a conscious decision *not* to include any BW stuff, precisely because I knew from experience how difficult they are to get right on a color

Re: Printer/Paper question

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
Or, maybe the heads were damaged by running out of ink in the middle of the print.??? Just a thought. Dave On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you got paper from a bad batch. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Blurb QC issues?

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
I;m trying to put a small book together of my favorite rural shots and will include some from the two years of shooting the plowing. By the time i get around to sending it in, i'm sure this will be solved.:-) Dave On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David

Re: OT - Odd name changes

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a company I used to work for your email address was formed from the first 4 letters of your surname + your first initial, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] We had a lot of Indian contractors working for us, including one Surinder

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Mark Roberts Subject: Re: Sensor cleaning Hmmm. Five years and three DSLRs later, I have yet to have a problem. You mean a problem with your *cameras*, right? ;-) The Calgary Stampeders do bother me a bit at this time of year. And the Flames bother me

Re: OT - Odd name changes

2008-07-24 Thread Cotty
At a company I used to work for your email address was formed from the first 4 letters of your surname + your first initial, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] We had a lot of Indian contractors working for us, including one Surinder Anu, whose email address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would imagine

Re: Monitor calibration

2008-07-24 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I went with the Eye One Display 2 on the advice of the folks in Apple Engineering who create the monitor specifications and the other group who write the ColorSync system components. I've veen using it since 2004 on a huge variety of different monitors ... it always does an excellent job.

Re: OT: Blurb QC issues?

2008-07-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Re: OT: Blurb QC issues? How they miss that i'll never know. They aren't looking at what they print. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: PESO: What is the middle Object?

2008-07-24 Thread David Savage
2008/7/24 mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/07/24 Thu PM 12:58:44 GMT To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO: What is the middle Object? Na, looks like the Enterprise saucer section entering atmosphere a tad too fast...

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread P. J. Alling
If all you own is a couple of cameras then one of those compressors would be very expensive, (and unless you have a place to leave it set up a PITA to setup and store every time you wanted to use it. I know people who use one for their business and it's constantly at the ready, even though

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Waller
Might check the web too. I remember a while back visiting a web site that would make a tilt shift for Pentax mounts, among others. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread Fernando
here is one http://www.hartblei.com/lenses/lens_35mm.htm On 7/24/08, Ken Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might check the web too. I remember a while back visiting a web site that would make a tilt shift for Pentax mounts, among others. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f -

Re: Printer/Paper question

2008-07-24 Thread P. J. Alling
The joy, and curse of HP is that the printing heads are built into the ink cartage. If it prints correctly on the HP paper it should print correctly on the Ilford paper. You get a new print head every time you buy ink, (it's a bit more expensive but I've never had a head clog). I'd lean

Re: Pseo Cutting corn

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:16 AM, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: David J Brooks Subject: Pseo Cutting corn Let me know when you've seen enough of these. Watch it Dave, the thread police are going to come down on you for filter avoidance..

Re: OT Asking for a friend, web site hostings

2008-07-24 Thread Paul Sorenson
Dave - Not to transfer a site to, but for the other stuff like occasional photos, scores, updates, etc, how about one of the free blog sites? http://wordpress.com/ Google free blog Keep the existing site and trim the stuff off it that is variable then post all the stuff they want to announce

Re: OT - Odd name changes

2008-07-24 Thread P. J. Alling
Ya, gotta watch out those jike buts can be painful... David J Brooks wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a company I used to work for your email address was formed from the first 4 letters of your surname + your first initial, for example [EMAIL

Re: OT - Odd name changes

2008-07-24 Thread P. J. Alling
Usually in upper, or would that be lower management... Cotty wrote: At a company I used to work for your email address was formed from the first 4 letters of your surname + your first initial, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] We had a lot of Indian contractors working for us, including one

Pseo Cutting corn

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
Let me know when you've seen enough of these. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7597592 These are the Clyde's. D2H, 80-200 f2.8 Dave -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Mostly tilt and somewhat shift

2008-07-24 Thread AlunFoto
Actually a 67 - K adapter would make more sense because of the wider image circle, but I too wish they had one for 645 because that's the medF system I happen to own... :-) A German company called Zörk (http://www.zoerk.com/index.htm) makes T/S adapters for any combination of mounts you can think

Re: OT - Odd name changes

2008-07-24 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT - Odd name changes At a company I used to work for your email address was formed from the first 4 letters of your surname + your first initial, for example [EMAIL

Re: Printer/Paper question

2008-07-24 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Sorry, I don't really have a solution for you. I only use HP Premium Glossy in the HP 7960 printer. But your description is confusing ... I presume you are using bona fide HP ink cartridges. Are you using the same settings from the Ilford website you were using in the past? or are you

Re: Pseo Cutting corn

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave, In general, I find these interesting pictures. This one I don't like so much. The barn in the background is confusing me. Regards, Bob S. Its a farm Bob. VBG I have some others with no barn, i just though this one

Re: OT Asking for a friend, web site hostings

2008-07-24 Thread David J Brooks
Ah. Thats an idea. I';ll run that by. They would still need some one to do the blog. I'll see them this weekend at the next show. Maybe they have a student at the farm that could do that for them. Dave On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Paul Sorenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave - Not to

Re: PESO: Yummm

2008-07-24 Thread David Savage
Nice. Looks tasty. Reminds me of the zucchini cheese muffins Mum makes: http://flickr.com/photos/disavage/448064109/ M...zucchini cheese muffinsom nom nom nom. :-) Cheers, Dave 2008/7/24 Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Freshly backed Zucchini bread. (still warm) Jack Comments

Re: Sensor cleaning

2008-07-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
Yes. Too risky. I use an ear cleaning bulb. Provides a blast of surgically clean air that is almost as powerful as that which emanates from that can of nasty stuff. Paul On Jul 24, 2008, at 1:24 AM, William Robb wrote: So, am I the only person in the world who routinely does sensor

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