Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
2010/3/10 Miserere miser...@gmail.com: OK, so how many people are going to order one (apart from Jostein)? My commitment yet is not to order one. Just to start saving up. If it's still the same model, or even still on the market, when I've scraped enough together... Well, that's anyone's guess.

Re: 655D no kidding

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
2010/3/10 Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com: er six FORTY five Who cares. The truth is somewhere around 443 anyway. :-) -- 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

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Dario Bonazza
Where is Paal when one needs him? ;-) Dario -- 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 follow the directions.

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
2010/3/10 Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it: Where is Paal when one needs him? ;-) Haven't heard from him in a good while. Maybe he realised his dream of buying a sailboat and circumnavigate? -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: 655D no kidding

2010-03-10 Thread David Mann
On Mar 10, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Tim Bray wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/pentax-gets-official-with-40-megapixel-645d-medium-format-camera/ I'm drooling. Is Cotty salivating? I don't remember if medium format counts in the hat-eating stakes. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
2010/3/10 jtainter jtain...@mindspring.com: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp A thought just occurred to me regarding the Japan-only availability... Bet it's a matter of throughput on the assembly line more than anything else. This is the sort of camera that's more of a

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Cotty
On 9/3/10, jtainter, discombobulated, unleashed: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp Looks like you have to supply your own winding handle on the left: http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/1003/pentax/645D_cross_back.jpg -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People,

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/03/2010, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/10 Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it: Where is Paal when one needs him? ;-) Haven't heard from him in a good while. Maybe he realised his dream of buying a sailboat and circumnavigate? He poast on DPR a bit, last post 1 week ago

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread David Mann
On Mar 10, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: I'm wondering what the files sizes are that come out of this thing? They must be huge. Even if you have some 645 lenses hanging about AND you can afford this camera, you'll most likely need to upgrade your storage just to save all of your

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Cotty
On 9/3/10, jtainter, discombobulated, unleashed: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp One thing confuses me. It's a 645D - yet the sensor size means that it's really a 433D or thereabouts. So existing 645 lenses will be crippled by the same 1.5x crop factor that the K-7 and

Re: 655D no kidding

2010-03-10 Thread Cotty
On 10/3/10, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed: Is Cotty salivating? I don't remember if medium format counts in the hat-eating stakes. Not at all. I would be interested in a 36X24mm sensor K mount body. In terms of self-preservation, my hat is happy with the current lineup. -- Cheers,

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
2010/3/10 Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com: He poast on DPR a bit, last post 1 week ago though, he's still a cheerleader for the 645, someone has to do it! Great to hear he's still active. No fault of Paal's, but I can't bear the noise level over at dpreview anymore... :-( Bet he'll beat

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Dario Bonazza
Cotty wrote: One thing confuses me. It's a 645D - yet the sensor size means that it's really a 433D or thereabouts. So existing 645 lenses will be crippled by the same 1.5x crop factor that the K-7 and it's earlier siblings have? Perhaps it's more of a 1.2x crop factor over 645 film. The new

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
2010/3/10 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Sure, things open up in the telephoto end, but for 'MF' digital, surely the wider end is more important? I agree. The first lens to be launched with the new cam is a 55mm, a focal length that was never ported to AF in the film days. I bet the next lens will be

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/10 jtainter jtain...@mindspring.com: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp A thought just occurred to me regarding the Japan-only availability... Bet it's a matter of throughput on the assembly line more than anything else.

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: I think it will attract pros moving up from full frame. Pros need the kind of pro service that Hoya have just closed down, all over Europe. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog :

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
Tomek Machnik tru...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 March 2010 22:23, Doug Franklin jehosep...@mindspring.com wrote: I really _must_ particpate in one of your escapades, one day. I volunteer to join in - Germany isn't that far, so when you go, let me know - we could have a PDML mud meet!

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
2010/3/10 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: For a pro-level camera a manufacturer needs a pro-level service. They had this pro-level service for decades until last year when Hoya decided they'd make more profit by outsourcing it. In Norway, it's the same people doing it under a different

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Cotty
FWIW regarding hardware support for cameras, if my Sony TV camera breaks down (not happened yet in over three years) I take it to be repaired at a private company specializing in same, my dealer. I have insurance cover that allows me a replacement (hire cost for similar gear is about 150 GBP per

Re: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest,

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
Tomek Machnik tru...@gmail.com wrote: tm, 22 (and glad) when they left. But... they built you that lovely palace! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Culture_and_Science,_Warsaw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Fwd: IRS to Track Online Sellers' Payment Transactions Beginning Next Year

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
2010/3/10 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: And so the screws are tightened. yeah and even tight ends are screwed... -- 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: FS Friday - *istD plus accessories

2010-03-10 Thread Leon Altoff
Hi Adam, This is good to know. I have plans of my K10D becoming an IR camera once it is retired from active use. I have 2 *istD's which one day will become a stereo camera setup. I have no idea what I will do with my old digitals after that. I may need to stop buying new ones. Leon On 7

Re: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest,

2010-03-10 Thread Tomek Machnik
On 10 March 2010 12:08, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: But... they built you that lovely palace! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Culture_and_Science,_Warsaw Little jealous, aren't you :) Sadly, they forgot to take the thing back, with their tanks and nukes. tm -- PDML

645D has got its own website

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
Found the link on the teaser page: http://www.camera-pentax.jp/645d/top.html -- 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 the PDML, please visit the link

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread Tomek Machnik
On 10 March 2010 11:03, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: I will gladly take a few days off to help arrange a meeting here. I'm in Krakow, some say it's THE destination in .pl USED to be.  Until all those foreign tourists turned up. Rrright. Bloody foreigners. :)) A few more won't

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: David Savage Subject: Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon) LOL Pentax is onto a money maker. This is kinda the conundrum with camera makers these days. They put as nice a camera on the market as they

Re: 645D has got its own website

2010-03-10 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: Found the link on the teaser page: http://www.camera-pentax.jp/645d/top.html More a construction site than a website. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio :

Re: 645D has got its own website

2010-03-10 Thread Rob Studdert
On 10/03/2010, Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de wrote: More a construction site than a website. I guess they were a bit rushed? -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread paul stenquist
On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:08 AM, David Savage wrote: More a case of being concerned that the path is coming to an end. I doubt that it will. The investment says otherwise. Furthermore, there's already a strong lens lineup for the camera. It's good to go without a lot of support down the line.

Re: 645D has got its own website

2010-03-10 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: I guess they were a bit rushed? With a mere 5-years' notice... Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web :

Re: PESO - Cellist on Augusta - wider crop

2010-03-10 Thread frank theriault
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:04 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: No brainer! Go with this one. No problems around the cig area and plenty of crop options..it would seem.(?) Going to agree here Frank. Opinions

Re: FS Friday - *istD plus accessories

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
Well I'll need a month or two to raise the necessary funds but I may buy if it is still there (please don't hold it for me though, it is a firm MAY) Cheers Ecke 2010/3/5 Steve Sharpe d...@eastlink.ca: I'm selling my *istD, battery grip, CF cards, NiMH batteries and charger. Beautiful condition,

Re: PESO - Cellist on Augusta

2010-03-10 Thread frank theriault
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Paul Sorenson allarou...@earthlink.net wrote: I messed with this a little with the burn dodge tools based on some of the suggestions and came up with this.  Scroll down for the original.  Will remove in 24 hours unless you request sooner, Frank.  Bob W's right

Re: PESO - Cellist on Augusta

2010-03-10 Thread frank theriault
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: frank theriault wrote: http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/03/cellist-on-augusta.html What a disappointment! I was expecting a photo of a cellist on an MV Augusta F4 (motorcycle) :( (Nice shot, Frank.) Thanks,

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
2010/3/10 Tomek Machnik tru...@gmail.com: [...] A few more won't make a difference. Come on :) [...] OK let's all buy stormtrooper K-xen and invade Poland right back =) HYPER HYPER (in case you know Scooter... rotfl) Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: 645D has got its own website

2010-03-10 Thread AlunFoto
2010/3/10 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: I guess they were a bit rushed? With a mere 5-years' notice... Don't believe everything you read in a google-translated web page. Notice that the availability says mid-october 5. Use numbers for

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: From my perspective, I would never try and deal direct with the manufacturer, just too much time wasted. Under UK law the manufacturer could tell you to go run up a shutter, anyway. Your contract is with the retailer to provide goods of merchantable

Re: 645D has got its own website

2010-03-10 Thread Jack Davis
That gives folks a long time to save, thus stifling some interim sales. Too much for sustained salivation. ;) Jack --- On Wed, 3/10/10, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: From: AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: 645D has got its own website To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Cotty
On 10/3/10, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: Under UK law the manufacturer could tell you to go run up a shutter, anyway. Your contract is with the retailer to provide goods of merchantable quality, which has always been taken to mean fit for purpose. Equipment bought as being of

Re: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest,

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
Tomek Machnik tru...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2010 12:08, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: But... they built you that lovely palace! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Culture_and_Science,_Warsaw Little jealous, aren't you :) I think every town should have one.

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
Tomek Machnik tru...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2010 11:03, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: I will gladly take a few days off to help arrange a meeting here. I'm in Krakow, some say it's THE destination in .pl USED to be.  Until all those foreign tourists turned up.

Re: Always on-topic: What the Duck

2010-03-10 Thread frank theriault
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: For Sunday, March 7th: http://www.whattheduck.net/strip/174-sunday I don't get it. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Steven Desjardins
I'd take the weight if I had the money. Studio and Nature stuff, with a a Kx in your pocket for the occasional rock star. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:04 PM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: It'll be to big and heavy for most PDML'ers. On 10/03/2010, jtainter jtain...@mindspring.com wrote:

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Larry Colen Subject: Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon) I wonder, however, what it would take for Pentax to make a mirrorless, short register, EVIL, version of the the 645D, that could use either K- mount or 645 mount lenses. A rewrite of the laws of

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Steven Desjardins
I'll get right on it. Would you prefer quantum mechanics or relativity to be violated? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:21 AM, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Colen Subject: Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon) I wonder, however, what it would take for

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/10 Tomek Machnik tru...@gmail.com: [...] A few more won't make a difference. Come on :) [...] OK let's all buy stormtrooper K-xen and invade Poland right back =) That's KXs banned on at least transAtlantic flights, now. -- PDML

Re: Always on-topic: What the Duck

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: For Sunday, March 7th: http://www.whattheduck.net/strip/174-sunday I don't get it. It's about measurbating. You wouldn't and that's a good thing. -- PDML

Re: 645D has its own website

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
--- On Wed, 3/10/10, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: From: AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: 645D has got its own website To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 5:01 AM 2010/3/10 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: Rob Studdert

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
2010/3/10 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: That's KXs banned on at least transAtlantic flights, now. you must be talking of a plastic explosive of the same name... ]=) I'll just say I'm a k-xen buddhist and it is a meditative aid... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Cellist on Augusta

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
2010/3/10 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: Now it's a John Deer tractor.  With no cellist in sight. and no grandpa either... what a bummer :( -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the

Re: Always on-topic: What the Duck

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
010/3/10 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: I don't get it. gearfaggotry. (word from an image linked in a post here some time ago) some or often times gets in the way of photography cheers ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
No but isn't this ironic... next thing you know you'll have a CD player with a built-in vinyl effect preamp... 2010/3/10 Tom C caka...@gmail.com: Over the past several years I've scanned and reviewed earlier scanned images I've made.  There is something about them that's undefinable and draws

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Cotty
I make the 'crop factor' (if you will) on the 645D to be 1.36x - can anyone confirm this? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread John Sessoms
From: Tom C @ what price? I think the target has been under $10,000 all along and somewhere I think I saw $9400 mentioned. -- 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: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Maas
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: On 9/3/10, jtainter, discombobulated, unleashed: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp One thing confuses me. It's a 645D - yet the sensor size means that it's really a 433D or thereabouts. So existing 645

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread David Savage
I like shooting film (BW, in the LX with the FA 31mm f1.8), I even like developing it. It's the scanning of film that I hate with a fundamentalist passion. On 10 March 2010 11:11, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: Over the past several years I've scanned and reviewed earlier scanned images I've

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Cotty
On 10/3/10, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: It's a 1.3x crop factor, pretty much standard for MF Digital. Thanks Adam. There's only one 645 Full-frame sensor on the market, the 60MP sensor in the PhaseOne P65+ back and the last I'd heard that was a custom job for PhaseOne and not

Re: 645D has got its own website

2010-03-10 Thread CheekyGeek
I believe Jostein is correct. Mid-May 2010 would be the correct translation. -- 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 follow the directions.

Re: 655D no kidding

2010-03-10 Thread Steven Desjardins
I love this line: ...unlike similar options from Hasselblad, this one won't actually destroy your hopes of sending four generations of offspring to college. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote:

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread John Sessoms
From: Tom C Respectful question. When I buy a used GM, Ford, or Chrysler automobile, how much does that help the manufacturer today? Aftermarket parts are profitable, I agree. But if I can purchase a used camera/car at 1/2 price, will I ever make up the difference in parts? I can't say for

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread Tomek Machnik
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:02 +0100 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/10 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: That's KXs banned on at least transAtlantic flights, now. you must be talking of a plastic explosive of the same name... ]=) I'll just say I'm a k-xen buddhist and it is

Re: PESO - By the Window

2010-03-10 Thread John Sessoms
From: Christine Aguila I like it very much too, Frank. I don't know why, but your picture makes feel think it was taken in France years ago--though the woman's hair doesn't quite fit that time period--the color streak in her bangs. But hey, I like it. Good rendering too. Cheers, Christine

RE: Fwd: IRS to Track Online Sellers' Payment Transactions

2010-03-10 Thread John Sessoms
IRS to Track Online Sellers' Payment Transactions Beginning Next Year http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y210/m03/abu0258/s03 Anyone running an eBay store doing more than $20,000 a year ought to be paying their taxes. Don't see where this is really going to affect the occasional eBay

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Steven Desjardins
It would be funny if Pentax just hung there with the MF and DX sensors. Funny in the sense of PDML threads, that is. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: On 10/3/10, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: It's a 1.3x crop factor, pretty much standard for MF Digital.

Re: PAW9 - Monopoly

2010-03-10 Thread Rick Womer
Dag, I like everything about this pic except the big, black center of it, which could use some digital dodging. One might also brighten the boys' faces a bit. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sun, 3/7/10, DagT li...@thrane.name wrote: From: DagT li...@thrane.name Subject: PAW9

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: On 10/3/10, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: Under UK law the manufacturer could tell you to go run up a shutter, anyway. Your contract is with the retailer to provide goods of merchantable quality, which has always been taken to mean fit for

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread mike wilson
Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: It would be funny if Pentax just hung there with the MF and DX sensors. Funny in the sense of PDML threads, that is. Not so much fun for Wheatfield. He could end up being Canada's first nuclear accident. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:29 AM,

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Change one you'll change the other, we're just not quite sure how that connects yet. On 3/10/2010 8:33 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I'll get right on it. Would you prefer quantum mechanics or relativity to be violated? On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:21 AM, William Robbwar...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
I came up with 1.27x but my math may have been off. On 3/10/2010 9:07 AM, Cotty wrote: I make the 'crop factor' (if you will) on the 645D to be 1.36x - can anyone confirm this? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 4:24 AM, Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: paul stenquistpnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: I think it will attract pros moving up from full frame. Pros need the kind of pro service that Hoya have just closed down, all over Europe. Ralf That of course is a valid point. --

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 2:55 AM, AlunFoto wrote: 2010/3/10 Mark Robertsm...@robertstech.com: David Savage wrote: On 10/03/2010, jtainterjtain...@mindspring.com wrote: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp It'll be to big and heavy for most PDML'ers.

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 3:27 AM, AlunFoto wrote: 2010/3/10 jtainterjtain...@mindspring.com: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp A thought just occurred to me regarding the Japan-only availability... Bet it's a matter of throughput on the assembly line more than anything

Re: 655D no kidding

2010-03-10 Thread Sam L
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:26 AM, David Mann dm...@bluemoon.net.nz wrote: On Mar 10, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Tim Bray wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/pentax-gets-official-with-40-megapixel-645d-medium-format-camera/ I'm drooling. Is Cotty salivating?  I don't remember if medium format

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Tripod mount for horizontals, err verticals err, well I don't know how the sensor is oriented, it could go either way On 3/10/2010 3:32 AM, Cotty wrote: On 9/3/10, jtainter, discombobulated, unleashed: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp Looks like you

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Roberts
paul stenquist wrote: On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:08 AM, David Savage wrote: More a case of being concerned that the path is coming to an end. I doubt that it will. The investment says otherwise. It looks like part of Hoya's reasoning in bringing the 645D to market is to emphasize their support

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 3:48 AM, Cotty wrote: On 9/3/10, jtainter, discombobulated, unleashed: http://www.dpreview.com/news/1003/10031002pentax645d.asp One thing confuses me. It's a 645D - yet the sensor size means that it's really a 433D or thereabouts. So existing 645 lenses will be crippled

Re: FS Friday - *istD plus accessories

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Sharpe
Sorry, I've changed my mind! All this talk about IR photography has decided me to buy an infrared filter and to give it a try with the *istD. At 1:52 PM +0100 3/10/10, eckinator wrote: Well I'll need a month or two to raise the necessary funds but I may buy if it is still there (please don't

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread Dario Bonazza
P. J. Alling wrote: I never seriously thought that a medium format camera could be sensor stabilized, but now we have something else to moan over. Good job! But that could make it a shift camera, sort of a first. BTW, I've just tested the Sony A850 and its FF-sensor stabilizer works,

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Naa, it would be a purely chemical explosion, but it would level half of Western Canada. On 3/10/2010 10:50 AM, mike wilson wrote: Steven Desjardinsdrd1...@gmail.com wrote: It would be funny if Pentax just hung there with the MF and DX sensors. Funny in the sense of PDML threads,

Re: peso, I stand corrected

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 2:49 AM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Various inaccuracies in a previous photo have been brought to my attention. My apologies. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4418614177/in/set-72157623583965056/ A friend's comment: The only way

Re: PESO - Cellist on Augusta - wider crop

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 7:51 AM, frank theriault wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:04 PM, David J Brookspentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Jack Davisjdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: No brainer! Go with this one. No problems around the cig area and plenty of crop options..it

Re: UK: Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest,

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Too bad you can't figure out a way to send it. I'm sure Putin has room on his mantel. On 3/10/2010 7:04 AM, Tomek Machnik wrote: On 10 March 2010 12:08, mike wilsonm.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote: But... they built you that lovely palace!

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Sometimes I'll overlay a grain pattern, supposed to be TMAX but with a bit of play with the layer it can look kind of like Tri-X, on my BW conversions. It's funny but it seems to bring out detail where it's been minimized by the digital process. Sometimes I miss film,. but don't feel like

Re: FS Friday - *istD plus accessories

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
No biggie as long as you let me know next time you change your mind! 2010/3/10 Steve Sharpe d...@eastlink.ca: Sorry, I've changed my mind! All this talk about IR photography has decided me to buy an infrared filter and to give it a try with the *istD. At 1:52 PM +0100 3/10/10, eckinator

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Darkrooms take up a lot of space, scanners not so much. (I miss bW printing, I'm not sure I'm still good at it though). On 3/10/2010 9:24 AM, David Savage wrote: I like shooting film (BW, in the LX with the FA 31mm f1.8), I even like developing it. It's the scanning of film that I hate with

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 9:37 AM, Tomek Machnik wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:02 +0100 eckinatoreckina...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/10 mike wilsonm.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: That's KXs banned on at least transAtlantic flights, now. you must be talking of a plastic explosive of the same

Re: Fwd: IRS to Track Online Sellers' Payment Transactions

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
The IRS is known for going after the little guys. Easy to intimidate. On 3/10/2010 10:22 AM, John Sessoms wrote: IRS to Track Online Sellers' Payment Transactions Beginning Next Year http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y210/m03/abu0258/s03 Anyone running an eBay store doing more than $20,000

Re: 655D no kidding

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 11:07 AM, Sam L wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:26 AM, David Manndm...@bluemoon.net.nz wrote: On Mar 10, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Tim Bray wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/pentax-gets-official-with-40-megapixel-645d-medium-format-camera/ I'm drooling. Is

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
2010/3/10 Tomek Machnik tru...@gmail.com: - BZZ (an onomatopoeia for being electrocuted) w00t! you got the vocab... means you get to choose the poison when I get there ]=) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

Re: OT Viewer discretion advised

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
2010/3/10 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: You forgot the mention the lingering body cavity search. I know there are dentists for cavities in your mouth but who closes the others if any are found? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Fwd: IRS to Track Online Sellers' Payment Transactions

2010-03-10 Thread eckinator
2010/3/10 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: The IRS is known for going after the little guys. Easy to intimidate. back to is my governmant crazy? I know my local court is. a mother who put up 40 listings of outgrown kids stuff now has to register a business and pay taxes and present a

Re: FS Friday - *istD plus accessories

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Sharpe
At 5:33 PM +0100 3/10/10, eckinator wrote: No biggie as long as you let me know next time you change your mind! Sorry...I didn't realize that you were interested, up until this point! -- Steve Sharpe d...@eastlink.ca • http://earth.delith.com/photo_gallery.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: 655D no kidding

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Somehow I think that Pentax is aiming this at well healed amateurs, I don't think that there are that many pros who need this kind of resolution. The weekend wedding shooter can get by with a 6mp camera, even now., and that's what maybe 90% of the pro market. Those photographers who need

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Bruce Dayton
Well I can vouch for that! I have been scanning for the last week and I hate it! Vuescan/Minolta Scan Dual II and batch mode helps some, but it is still painful. At this point, I have zero interest in film. I look back on my stuff and find that I have improved my skills quite a bit over the

Re: 645D Exists (Or Will Soon)

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 11:10 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: paul stenquist wrote: On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:08 AM, David Savage wrote: More a case of being concerned that the path is coming to an end. I doubt that it will. The investment says otherwise. It looks like part of Hoya's

Re: 655D no kidding

2010-03-10 Thread Bob Sullivan
It's a sales took for the wedding photographer with a snobish customer base... Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:01 AM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Somehow I think that Pentax is aiming this at well healed amateurs, I don't think that there are that many pros who

Re: Longing for Film

2010-03-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I'm making my way through this huge repository of photos ... negatives made in the '50s and '60 by my grandfather, uncle, mother and father ... and they're captivating, delightful photographs. I can't wait to be done capturing them so that I can forget about film forever. What makes them special

Re: Fwd: IRS to Track Online Sellers' Payment Transactions

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
But somehow I expect that of Germany, all rules must be followed, efficiency demands it, even if it causes inefficiency. At least in Germany it leads to clean streets and working mass transit. So some good comes of it. On 3/10/2010 11:55 AM, eckinator wrote: 2010/3/10 P. J.

Re: Always on-topic: What the Duck

2010-03-10 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
A reminder for us all. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com wrote: For Sunday, March 7th: http://www.whattheduck.net/strip/174-sunday -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: 645D has got its own website

2010-03-10 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/10/2010 7:06 AM, AlunFoto wrote: Found the link on the teaser page: http://www.camera-pentax.jp/645d/top.html I just find it amazing how flash happy Pentax is, if there was ever a web page that didn't need flash... --

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