Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread David Mann
On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: As I discussed with some friends yesterday, I think any reactors built in the future should be situated uphill from the ocean, and downhill from a gazillion gallon water source, like a lake or man-made reservoir, that could gravity feed

Re: SMC 15mm f3.5 how rare is rare??

2011-03-17 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/16/2011 6:34 PM, John Francis wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 07:28:32AM +0100, mike wilson wrote: On 16/03/2011 07:34, Boris Liberman wrote: Darn. Misspelled my own name... Oh, Mark!. Shouldn't that be Mork!? (or possiblly Mrak!) Mrak, fwiw means total darkness is Russian.

Re: Seeing purple, equipment torture test?

2011-03-17 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/15/2011 10:53 PM, Larry Colen wrote: A couple weeks ago, I was using my purple fedora as a prop in a photo shoot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5530289998/in/set-72157626149351563/ When I looked at the camera LCD it just looked blue, rather than purple. On the home computer it

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Mar 16, 2011, at 23:12 , David Mann wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: As I discussed with some friends yesterday, I think any reactors built in the future should be situated uphill from the ocean, and downhill from a gazillion gallon water source, like a lake

PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Bulent Celasun
From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent - http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - 1 out of ~995

2011-03-17 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/16/2011 5:16 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: The thing I mentioned that I consider changing is the tilt. I am thinking if I should rotate it just slightly (CCW). This would make the female dancer mostly vertical, and would accent the back-bending of the guy. Unfortunately, that would cut off some

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread AlunFoto
Very cool! :-) Honestly, no pun intended for once. Really like the graphic effect. How did your camera cope with the temperature gradients? Jostein 2011/3/17 Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Bulent Celasun
Thanks Jostein :) I have used a nylon bag to protect he camera and tried to keep it covered most of the time. However, the weather was a lot better than I feared and that has also helped. Bulent -

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Derby Chang
On 17/03/2011 6:19 PM, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent - http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread drd1135
Excellent shot. --Original Message-- From: Bulent Celasun Sender: pdml-boun...@pdml.net To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List ReplyTo: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake Sent: Mar 17, 2011 3:19 AM From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey.

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread eckinator
well you could take it one step further and use the reservoir as a pumped storage plant to compensate the fluctuation of the whirly things =) 2011/3/17 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: On Mar 16, 2011, at 23:12 , David Mann wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: As

OT finally a chance to get even with those f***ers at PayPal

2011-03-17 Thread eckinator
PayPal Germany adds 50% to all donations for Japan. money goes to the German Red Cross. probably there are similar offers for other countries. time to punish them for messing with Wikileaks! Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

couldn't get the 540 to work as a wireless slave

2011-03-17 Thread Larry Colen
Tonight, I was trying the K-5 out with flashes. I was mostly trying to use the pop-up and the AF540 as fill flash with the stage lighting. I was having an expected amount of difficulty, when I tried to set the pop up to control, rather than master, and all it would do is fire the 540 as

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Cotty
On 17/3/11, Bulent Celasun, discombobulated, unleashed: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Incredible shot! Love it! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread David Mann
On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 I like that a lot. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the

K-5 dynamic range

2011-03-17 Thread Larry Colen
Here are two examples of the AF540 not firing, when shooting at ISO 200: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626159745171/ One each as it came out of the camera, and after auto-tone in lightroom. Color me impressed. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML

Re: More films going the way of the dodo ?

2011-03-17 Thread Derby Chang
On 16/03/2011 8:32 AM, Thibouille wrote: Maybe someone could check if he has insider informations ? My reseller told me that although not official yet, Fuji is stopping Neopan 400/1600 (100 still around for now). Fuji APS-C (ouch, I meant APS) film is dead. Kodak still left with APS but at

RE: K-5 dynamic range

2011-03-17 Thread Krisjanis Linkevics
Here are two examples of the AF540 not firing, when shooting at ISO 200: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626159745171/ One each as it came out of the camera, and after auto-tone in lightroom. Color me impressed. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est You

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread David J Brooks
Very nice, loved it Dave On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent -

Re: OT finally a chance to get even with those f***ers at PayPal

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Stenquist
Huh??? On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:04 AM, eckinator wrote: PayPal Germany adds 50% to all donations for Japan. money goes to the German Red Cross. probably there are similar offers for other countries. time to punish them for messing with Wikileaks! Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Stenquist
Great concept. Fascinating photo, well rendered. Paul On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:19 AM, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent -

Re: Bruce, Bob, David RE: Need you to contact me about blue sky

2011-03-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Paul Sorenson allarou...@earthlink.net wrote: I opened the file in Photoshop Elements 9 Camera Raw and got the same results as John.  Didn't see any banding in the sky. -p Same here. I see no indication of any banding or mottling Dave On 3/16/2011 9:16 PM,

Re: Effects of quake on Japan photo industry

2011-03-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Jeffery Johnson jefferytjohn...@bellsouth.net wrote: I know I am not the best speller in the world but this is one of the reasons for spell check or at least a good editor. I'm pretty sure he was one of my graduates Dave However, due to possible meltdowns at

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Walter Gilbert
I have to say, I really love this shot! -- Walt On 3/17/2011 2:19 AM, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent -

Re: PESO - Skyline

2011-03-17 Thread David J Brooks
I like the colour version for the pop, but i like the mood in the BW version. Dave On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:59 PM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: A week or two ago I showed a night shot of this lovely old sign - a BW one, which may someday may be shown in colour (I just have

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Larry Colen
On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Nice shot. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Yowayowa! Explanation from one lurker

2011-03-17 Thread eckinator
On 08/03/2011 17:55, Morris Galloway wrote: Don't believe it.  No sign of a remote and, as anyone who has used one knows, the chances of getting even one of those shots with a self-timer is slim. May Miss Yowayowa thrash me mercilessly if I'm wrong.  Or right. could it just be a case of a

Re: OT finally a chance to get even with those f***ers at PayPal

2011-03-17 Thread eckinator
what I was really saying is, donate for Japan. and if you can get the PayPal offer in your country, why not make three bucks out of two. of course I was also saying I don't like PayPal for a plethora of reasons, Wikileaks being only the latest one or rather one before latest... just had fun with

Re: K-5 dynamic range

2011-03-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:39, Larry Colen wrote: Here are two examples of the AF540 not firing, when shooting at ISO 200: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626159745171/ One each as it came out of the camera, and after auto-tone in lightroom. Color me impressed. Impressive!

Re: OT finally a chance to get even with those f***ers at PayPal

2011-03-17 Thread Sandy Harris
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Huh??? Paypal were one of a number of companies which withdrew services to WikiLeaks, for debatable reasons. Quite a few people, including me, see this as despicable behaviour and deserving of retribution. Others see

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Jack Davis
Beautifully strange! Jack --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com Subject: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 12:19 AM From a recent trip to

OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread David J Brooks
I had Vuescan running on my PC, and i just looked at Ed's site and i see that version 9.32 will work on macs with OS 10.3 plus. Anyone using it on a Mac. I suppose i have to buy another license as my old program was on the PC.?? I';m sending him an email about this. Dave -- Documenting

Re: Bruce, Bob, David RE: Need you to contact me about blue sky

2011-03-17 Thread David Parsons
Same here with LR3, and converted to JPG. It's a little underexposed, but that's about it. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:20 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Paul Sorenson allarou...@earthlink.net wrote: I opened the file in Photoshop Elements 9

Re: OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I had Vuescan running on my PC, and i just looked at Ed's site and i see that version 9.32 will work on macs with OS 10.3 plus. Anyone using it on a Mac. I've been using Vuescan on a Mac for the last decade. I suppose i have to buy another

Re: Yowayowa! Explanation from one lurker

2011-03-17 Thread Eric Weir
On Mar 17, 2011, at 1:13 AM, Tanya Love wrote: You boys are incorrigible! FWIW, I LOVE this shot: http://yowayowacamera.com/banana/20110223093829.html And this one: http://yowayowacamera.com/banana/20110131222319.html And this: http://yowayowacamera.com/banana/20110227114454.html Me,

Re: OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread David J Brooks
2011/3/17 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I had Vuescan running on my PC, and i just looked at Ed's site and i see that version 9.32 will work on macs with OS 10.3 plus. Anyone using it on a Mac. I've been using Vuescan on a Mac for the

Re: Yowayowa! Explanation from one lurker

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
It's a well composed and executed image, but silly. Dan On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Tanya Love tanyal...@bigpond.com wrote: You boys are incorrigible!  FWIW, I LOVE this shot: http://yowayowacamera.com/banana/20110223093829.html And this one:

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Charles Robinson
On Mar 17, 2011, at 2:19, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent Yow! I like this quite a bit. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Steven Desjardins
You know, maybe submit this to the Pentax Gallery. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Beautifully strange! Jack --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com Subject: PESO: Black Cat on

Re: OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I'll have a look. I have to find were i wrote that number down now. There's something on Ed's website where you can ask for an automatic re-send of your serial number by entering the email address you had been using for purchasing the software. Ralf

Re: K-5 dynamic range

2011-03-17 Thread Steven Desjardins
Wow. A beautifully detailed shot. I would think about not using the flash. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:39, Larry Colen wrote: Here are two examples of the AF540 not firing, when shooting at ISO 200:

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Great shot! Very expressive with a real sense of place. Dan On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Bulent -

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Eric Weir
On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:19 AM, Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Wow! Cool. Did you put that cat out there? -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA

March 17 PDML book update

2011-03-17 Thread Mark Roberts
I've got all the page layouts done. This year I'm making an individual page layout design for each photograph (though not radically different). It's a little extra work but worth it, I think. So now all the pages are done and I'm working on the order in which the photos will go into the book (and

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Bob Sullivan
Yes, beautifully strange. Did you bring the cat with you? Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Beautifully strange! Jack --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com

Re: OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Stenquist
Yep. Vuescan works fine on a Mac. When Epson's driver for the 3200 scanner would no longer work on my 10.6 Mac, Vuescan solved the problem. Paul On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:00 AM, David J Brooks wrote: I had Vuescan running on my PC, and i just looked at Ed's site and i see that version 9.32 will

Re: K-5 dynamic range

2011-03-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:39, Larry Colen wrote: Here are two examples of the AF540 not firing, when shooting at ISO 200: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626159745171/ One each as it came out of the

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Bulent Celasun
Thank you all for watching the image for telling that you liked it. I believe the source of the cat anonymus should remain as a mystery! B :)) - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/

Digital Holga

2011-03-17 Thread Eric Weir
Digital Holga at Japan Exposures. [They sell Pentaxes.] There's a link to a video review. http://www.japanexposures.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=349 -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA

Re: OT finally a chance to get even with those f***ers at PayPal

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Stenquist
Well aware of all that. Just found it bizarre that giving to Japan in this way was equated with punishing Paypal, which is obviously being generous in this case. In regard to the Wikileaks termination, I certainly wouldn't trust Assange in any kind of financial deal. But to each their own Paul

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Cotty wrote: On 17/3/11, Bulent Celasun, discombobulated, unleashed: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 Incredible shot! Love it! -- Cheers, Cotty I have to me too someone , It might as well be Cotty What a sky! Did you make friends

Re: OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Yep. Vuescan works fine on a Mac. When Epson's driver for the 3200 scanner would no longer work on my 10.6 Mac, Vuescan solved the problem. Paul Thankfully, I am a bit of a hoarder.:-) Found my info on the

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Ann Sanfedele
IF you put it in in photoshop you will NOT be forgiven. OTOH.. If it's your cat, I hope you gave it lots of loving warmth after the shoot . ann Bulent Celasun wrote: Thank you all for watching the image for telling that you liked it. I believe the source of the cat anonymus should remain

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Eric Weir
On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Bulent Celasun wrote: I believe the source of the cat anonymus should remain as a mystery! Ah! As I suspected. Still a cool shot. -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA

Re: More films going the way of the dodo ?

2011-03-17 Thread P. J. Alling
Pull quote: the best way to ensure long-term availability of film is to continue shooting it! I stopped shooting film because reasonably competent processing disappeared. The chemicals to process the film will be unavailable before your stocks are depleted. On 3/17/2011 6:47 AM, Derby

Re: Bruce, Bob, David RE: Need you to contact me about blue sky

2011-03-17 Thread P. J. Alling
I opened it in I saw what looked like blocky mottling in the sky at camera settings, it was pretty subtle. However when I changed to Daylight balance, and natural that disappeared. I think there may be a problem with the way the image processing software is rendering in camera settings. I

Re: couldn't get the 540 to work as a wireless slave

2011-03-17 Thread Igor Roshchin
Larry, I haven't played much with the wireless flash myself. But let me share what settings I can think about. I hope you did it, but just in case (I refer to K-7, but expect that K-5 has it done very similarly): You want to set the camera flash setting (dial button down) to W-flash. Then you

Re: Digital Holga

2011-03-17 Thread P. J. Alling
At current conversion rates that's just $126, maybe four times the price of a film Holga. A bargain!, if you're into that sort of thing, (and I'm not being sarcastic for once). On 3/17/2011 10:10 AM, Eric Weir wrote: Digital Holga at Japan Exposures. [They sell Pentaxes.] There's a link to

Re: Bruce, Bob, David RE: Need you to contact me about blue sky

2011-03-17 Thread P. J. Alling
I really should read these before I hit send Software, Pentax Camera Utility. (insert that after I opened it.) remove the in after camera settings. Instead of a period after I could be wrong change that to a comma and add the word but Carry on. On 3/17/2011 11:11 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: I

Re: GESO - Capital Espresso

2011-03-17 Thread frank theriault
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Cotty cotty...@mac.com wrote: I have to confess I find coffee house shots of people sat in seats about as boring as it gets. I tend to agree with you, for the most part. That's why I thought this would work a bit better as small gallery, so that it's not just

Re: PESO - Skyline

2011-03-17 Thread frank theriault
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:28 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I like the colour version for the pop, but i like the mood in the BW version. Fence sitter! ;-) Well, as a straight document of the scene, I guess the colour tells us more, but as a subjective interpretation (dare I say

Re: OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread steve harley
On 2011-03-17 07:00 , David J Brooks wrote: I had Vuescan running on my PC, and i just looked at Ed's site and i see that version 9.32 will work on macs with OS 10.3 plus. Anyone using it on a Mac. i've been using it since about 1998 on Macs; great program -- i never install the drivers

Re: OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread David J Brooks
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:00 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2011-03-17 07:00 , David J Brooks wrote: I had Vuescan running on my PC, and i just looked at Ed's site and i see that version 9.32 will work on macs with OS 10.3 plus. Anyone using it on a Mac. i've been using

Re: couldn't get the 540 to work as a wireless slave

2011-03-17 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 02:46:11AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: Tonight, I was trying the K-5 out with flashes. I was mostly trying to use the pop-up and the AF540 as fill flash with the stage lighting. I was having an expected amount of difficulty, when I tried to set the pop up to control,

St Patrick's Day

2011-03-17 Thread Don Guthrie
Some places, every day is St Patrick's Day - like this local oasis for the thirsty. http://donspix.posterous.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 directly above and follow the

In and out and round-about

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
I've been running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get temporarily established back here in Raleigh for my internship therapy. Part of it is trying to get some work done to get two computers running again. One a power supply failure and the other a hard-drive that's

Re: Bruce, Bob, David RE: Need you to contact me about blue sky

2011-03-17 Thread steve harley
On 2011-03-16 19:58 , Jeffery Johnson wrote: Bruce suggested I add the photo to Dropbox so here is the link to one of the photos that has blue sky. I am not sure why the JPEG version looks way better than the DNG/RAW version of the file. I am beginning to think it is perhaps my monitor and if it

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because ofrollingblackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread steve harley
On 2011-03-16 18:18 , David Parsons wrote: It's called X10. It's been around for a long time. X10 is not the automobile protocol that i was talking about; i have a small pile of unused X10 equipment; it runs at 20 bits per second which would be insufficient to do things like send the data

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread steve harley
On 2011-03-17 01:19 , Bulent Celasun wrote: From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey. http://500px.com/photo/437321 very eye-catching; i think a print with a sharper outline of the cat would be even more attractive, since the cat at the size you show doesn't have enough pixels to be as

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of, rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Joseph McAllister On Mar 16, 2011, at 17:00 , eckinator wrote: I would kind of think that all this pumping of water onto fuel rods glowing at somewhere between 800 and 2500 ?C would cause instant evaporation and the corresponding shock waves of pressure rises; AFAIK water expands

Re: OT Vuescan

2011-03-17 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I've been using Vuescan on Mac OS since about 1999. It's the only software I use to drive scanners and has about the best algorithms I've found. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:00 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: I had Vuescan running on my PC, and i just looked at Ed's site and i see

Re: OT Mac users only

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Eric Weir On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Cotty wrote: On 16/3/11, Eric Weir, discombobulated, unleashed: My needs are pretty basic and simple, though. Eric, we should have a drink sometime. Gosh, Cotty. I don't know what to say. Do you think it might solve my problems with Mail?

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of, rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:05 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I'm wondering how the water got out of the storage pool. The ones I'm familiar with are massive reinforced concrete structures with walls many feet thick set below ground level. These are said to be on a floor above

RE: Bruce, Bob, David RE: Need you to contact me about blue, sky

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Jeffery Johnson LOL no the monitor is not dirty. I am still working out what the issue might be with blue sky. I am not sure yet if it could be an issue with my monitor or not. This has become an interesting puzzle to try and figure out what is causing the issue. Something that hit me I

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of, rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread Bob Sullivan
John, Thanks for the perspective. You have a lot on your plate right now. Save some energy to deal with the therapy. Hope your computer problems resolve soon. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:05 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Joseph McAllister On Mar 16, 2011,

Re: Digital Holga

2011-03-17 Thread Darren Addy
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RE: Effects of quake on Japan photo industry

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Paul Sorenson Per Adorama News... http://tinyurl.com/4zjzdoc* *Hoya/Pentax info about half way down the page. Couldn't get to it from your link. Tries to take me to some site listed in my HOSTS file that I use to block intrusive adware malware. I was able to get to the article

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread steve harley
On 2011-03-16 19:57 , Joseph McAllister wrote: So the helicopters that are currently (as I write this on Thursday morning Japan time) dumping water on the hot (burning at times) spent fuel rods would have to dump a lot in a short period of time to prevent it being boiled off instantly. when

Re: Digital Holga

2011-03-17 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I heard recently that Holga is also making their lens available (probably Nikon and Canon mounts) for around $30. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Digital Holga at Japan Exposures. [They sell Pentaxes.] There's a link to a video review.

Re: Digital Holga

2011-03-17 Thread steve harley
On 2011-03-17 11:14 , Darren Addy wrote: For $19 there's CameraBag Desktop: http://www.nevercenter.com/camerabag/download/ and if you have an iPhone or Android phone, a couple of dollars will get you similar tools with a similar resolution to the Digital Holga -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: couldn't get the 540 to work as a wireless slave

2011-03-17 Thread Dario Bonazza
.. .and the flash must be set onto wireless (halfway between Off and On). Dario - Original Message - From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org To: PDML@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:18 PM Subject: Re: couldn't get the 540 to work as a wireless slave Larry, I haven't played

Re: OT Mac users only

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Eric Weir On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Your service provider is bellsouth.com. Talk to them. Thanks, Godfrey. Bellsouth doesn't exist anymore. It was bought out by ATT several years ago. I'll see if I can get any help from them. Less than you would have

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of, rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: David Mann On Mar 17, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: As I discussed with some friends yesterday, I think any reactors built in the future should be situated uphill from the ocean, and downhill from a gazillion gallon water source, like a lake or man-made reservoir, that

RE: K-5 dynamic range

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Larry Colen Here are two examples of the AF540 not firing, when shooting at ISO 200: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626159745171/ One each as it came out of the camera, and after auto-tone in lightroom. Color me impressed. I've noticed with the AF540Fgz the AF200Fg

Re: Bruce, Bob, David RE: Need you to contact me about blue sky

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-03-16 9:58 PM, Jeffery Johnson wrote: Bruce suggested I add the photo to Dropbox so here is the link to one of the photos that has blue sky. I am not sure why the JPEG version looks way better than the DNG/RAW version of the file. I am beginning to think it is perhaps my monitor and if it

Re: In and out and round-about

2011-03-17 Thread Steven Desjardins
Just move to the front. We haven't done much lately. I've actually flown out of Raleigh-Durham (4 hours away) as an alternative to Dulles (3.5 hours away) for money reasons. My closest airport (Roanoke) is just expensive. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:40 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com

Re: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Ken Waller
Nice capture and very original. Was it captured in color? Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com Subject: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake From a recent trip to easternmost Turkey.

Re: OT finally a chance to get even with those f***ers at, PayPal

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Paul Stenquist Well aware of all that. Just found it bizarre that giving to Japan in this way was equated with punishing Paypal, which is obviously being generous in this case. In regard to the Wikileaks termination, I certainly wouldn't trust Assange in any kind of financial deal. But to

PESOS: Are these Proteas?

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Two more flower images from last month in Maui. I call these pincushion proteas, but I'm not sure that is the correct name? Any experts here who can identify them or point me in the right direction? http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12815729

Re: PESOS: Are these Proteas?

2011-03-17 Thread Ken Waller
Nice captures - I prefer the DOF shown in the first image. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Subject: PESOS: Are these Proteas? Two more flower images from last month in Maui. I call

Re: PESO: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Steven Desjardins
BTW, what lens? On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you all for watching the image for telling that you liked it. I believe the source of the cat anonymus should remain as a mystery! B :))

Re: Digital Holga

2011-03-17 Thread P. J. Alling
So it's it's marginally cheaper than buying a Holga, getting a third party body cap and a hot glue gun and building your own, thought probably not as much fun... On 3/17/2011 1:25 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: I heard recently that Holga is also making their lens available (probably Nikon and

Re: OT Mac users only

2011-03-17 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/17/2011 1:31 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Eric Weir On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:59 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Your service provider is bellsouth.com. Talk to them. Thanks, Godfrey. Bellsouth doesn't exist anymore. It was bought out by ATT several years ago. I'll see if I can get any

Re: pentax to close customer service center etc because of, , rolling blackouts in Japan

2011-03-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Matthew Hunt On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:05 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I'm wondering how the water got out of the storage pool. The ones I'm familiar with are massive reinforced concrete structures with walls many feet thick set below ground level. These are said to

Re: couldn't get the 540 to work as a wireless slave

2011-03-17 Thread Larry Colen
The one thing that I'm having trouble with is confirming that the camera is on channel 2. I have a vague recollection of having done so when I got the camera, and the Pentax book only said to mount the flash to the camera to set the wireless mode. Bourke's book doesn't say anything about it.

Re: OT finally a chance to get even with those f***ers at, PayPal

2011-03-17 Thread eckinator
2011/3/17 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: Just because they stuck a knife in the back of U.S. Government policy on Iraq and Afghanistan don't make Wikileaks good guys. Looking at their overall effect, they harmed a lot more innocents than they exposed any bad guys. In that case Wikileaks

Re: couldn't get the 540 to work as a wireless slave

2011-03-17 Thread Jack Davis
You mount the flash on the camera to conveniently set the flash on P-TTL and choose a channel. Wireless mode is done on the LCD display flash setting, and the back of the flash by selecting Wireless on the on off switch. You may be way past this, but.. Jack --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Larry Colen

Re: Yowayowa! Explanation from one lurker

2011-03-17 Thread Joseph McAllister
Several of the images on her website taken from a distance show a photographer shooting her. I don't know for sure as I don't read or speak Japanese, but I do not think she claims anywhere to be the photographer. She is just displaying photos taken of her, as a project, on her blog. She has the

Re: Black Cat on Frozen Lake

2011-03-17 Thread Bulent Celasun
Was it captured in color? Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller Yes, it was. (In fact, it was a raw file. The camera was a K5 and the lens was Sigma 10-20mm at, I believe, 20mm). However, the only noticeable color was the blue of the sky. The cat was totally black ;)

The way-back machine: 25 years ago

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Stenquist
Twenty-five years ago, I had an idea. I had been shooting cars for Super Stock Magazine for a year or two. The Chi-Town Hustler crew had just built a new funny car, and I was going to shoot it for the mag. While I would shoot plenty of pics in a safe and nicely lit parking lot, I wanted to try

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