How long until Cotty gets a hexacopter?
http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/21/drones-and-real-estate/
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they showed something even cooler than that on a TV programme here a couple
of weeks ago. They were intelligent drones, smaller than that,
On Feb 25, 2012, at 8:37 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree. Important photos. You recorded history in the making, and did so
very well.
Agreed.
Thanks for sharing them.
yes, thank you.
Cheers,
frank
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
On 25/2/12, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
How long until Cotty gets a hexacopter?
http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/21/drones-and-real-estate/
Nice idea - I wish I had the time and the money! There are a few guys
over here that specialize in them, but the operative word is
Very nice, Dan!
Jack
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Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:29 PM
Subject: PESO: Texting on the Beach
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15245872
Comments, Suggestions
Thanks, again, Frank!
Jack
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Subject: RE: PESO: Shadow Blossoms
And another beautiful photo. Sublime light.
Cheers,
Thanks Ann and thanks everyone who looked
Ann, I was just talking to my non-photographer best friend about this.
She still thinks it's about pretty girls, but senses there might be
something more. I don't know myself honestly, but I hope so.
Larry, I'm sure there was some sort of zombie walk
I was going to say that is a lovely BW conversion, but I zoomed, and
now will say, that's just lovely
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com
wrote:
Our snowstorm last night produced some spectacular scenery.
Nice
Dave
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Postmaster postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
Warning: Cat photo
http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7dc01535.jpg
The man and his dear, now-departed cat Duki.
From our visit to chez Cotty last month.
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Ah, the redconeious bunchious.
Dave
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:31 PM, David Mann d...@multisport.net.nz wrote:
I grabbed this photo off Facebook. It's not my photo, and probably wasn't
taken with a Pentax either. But I found it interesting.
The Flowers in Cones tribute I mentioned the
Nice job, Derby!
Others have mentioned the obvious, except the lady in blue, with the Diana
camera. It looks like someone has grafted a polaroid film back on the camera.
And it has a cute little flash.
It's an interesting combination. But, did they bother to seal up all the light
leaks?
Looks comfy.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:13 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
Nice
Dave
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Postmaster postmas...@robertstech.com
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Warning: Cat photo
http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7dc01535.jpg
The man and his dear, now-departed cat Duki.
Yes, Cotty forced his cat to SLEEP ON THE COMFY CHAIR! Oh,
Felinedom.
Cheers
Mike
On Feb 26, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
Looks comfy.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:13 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote:
Nice
Dave
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:55 PM,
Thanks Derby. The monochrome look is part of the fun. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote:
I was going to say that is a lovely BW conversion, but I zoomed, and now
will say, that's just lovely
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Bob
Thanks, Jack.
I was amazed at the number of people I observe on the beach with
iPhones and even iPads. Some were talking, but more were texting,
reading emails, or surfing the net.
On top of the volcano at sunrise, there were a number of people taking
images with their phones, and a handful
Dan, are actually trying to convince me that you were looking at her phone?
I initially missed that. ;-)
Jack
From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com
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Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: PESO:
In this case, it's all about the lighting. The more dense the surrounding, the
greater the desired effect.(to a point)
Jack
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Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 4:56 PM
Subject: Re:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
In lightroom (and I imagine PS camera raw), what is the difference between
the exposure slider and the brightness slider?
I expect that exposure is just a linear multiplier on the raw value, the
slope of the line as it
If you are familiar with PS, Exposure sets your White Point,
Brightness sets your gamma/midpoint, and Blacks sets your Black point.
They correspond to the three controls in the Levels tool.
If you hold the Alt key while adjusting the Exposure or Blacks
sliders, you'll see that you are trying to
No I hate him even more...
On 2/25/2012 10:29 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
Proving that we can hate you just as much with the K5 as with any other camera.
;-)
Very nice gallery!
Congrats on the new cam.
Cheers,
frank
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without
That said, I do employ a few bits and bobs now and again to get me an
edge if I can. I have a small RC copter for flying around the room ;-)
Cheaper than cocaine, I guess, but it must hurt when you snort.
B
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On 26/02/2012 09:12, Bob W wrote:
How long until Cotty gets a hexacopter?
http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/21/drones-and-real-estate/
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they showed something even cooler than that on a TV programme here a couple
of weeks ago. They were
Some people may be interested in this, others not. Your choice. Lucky you.
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Sam L samthegr...@gmail.com wrote:
I think its interesting/odd that when I click the auto develop
button in LR on my jpegs it always adjusts the Brightness slider but
not the Exposure slider.
*sigh*
Just retested and that is incorrect.
I really ought to buy
No, but that was my excuse for taking the photograph, as my wife was
nearby. G
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dan, are actually trying to convince me that you were looking at her phone?
I
On Feb 26, 2012, at 7:45 AM, David Parsons wrote:
If you are familiar with PS, Exposure sets your White Point,
Brightness sets your gamma/midpoint, and Blacks sets your Black point.
They correspond to the three controls in the Levels tool.
If you hold the Alt key while adjusting the
On Feb 25, 2012, at 10:23 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Actually I think I'd be less forgiving of Kennyboy, but lets face it, with
his ego I expect he already does.
That depends on the bikini
Mr. Rockwell, we're doing this little test at Bikini Atoll, and we'd like you
to be the on-site
I've already got the battery holders, that's the nice little plastic
case that holds 8 AA rechargeable batteries sitting here on my desk.
Right now, I just don't know what I did with the batteries that are
supposed to be *in* that case.
I'm not looking for them. I've learned enough about the
From: Larry Colen
How long until Cotty gets a hexacopter?
http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/02/21/drones-and-real-estate/
Nice reassuring bit of information from their website:
http://hexacopters.com/
No doubt that these will eventually be used for military
applications. That said, they
Derbs, if you can, try get hold of an X10 and give it a go on the street.
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http://www.thrane.name/Pictures/PAW/files/page7-1000-full.html
K-5, DA*50-135mm@50, 1/500s, f/10, ISO100.
DagT
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On Feb 26, 2012, at 1:34 PM, DagT wrote:
http://www.thrane.name/Pictures/PAW/files/page7-1000-full.html
Very cool!
K-5, DA*50-135mm@50, 1/500s, f/10, ISO100.
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on 2/25/12 5:53 PMLarry Colen wrote
One thing I do is that when they are charged, I put them in the case all facing
the same way (just like they come out of the charger) and when they are
discharged, I put them in the case facing alternating directions (just like
they come out of the camera or
just by name alone I would think exposure is the entire image
level and brightness would be midpoint gamma levels only.
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From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
David
Finally caved and bought myself an iPhone 4S. Neato gizmo.
I'm pretty happy with the dinky little camera in it. Yeah, it's still a
teensy-tiny-little-sensor camera, but it produces some of the feel that the
Polaroid SX-70 offers when the ISO gets cranked up. It's darn sharp in good
light with
Damn fine images.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi ramar...@mac.com wrote:
Finally caved and bought myself an iPhone 4S. Neato gizmo.
I'm pretty happy with the dinky little camera in it. Yeah, it's still a
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
I hadn't known about the alt (option?) button while adjusting the sliders.
I wish I could snag the output of that display as a separate image.
alt on Windows, option on Apple systems.
A timed grab of the screen would let
Went outside with the dog a short time ago, and noticed that the
crocus are already in bloom:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15249994
Comments, suggestions and criticisms are invited.
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On Feb 25, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Here's a blog article I wrote on how to use wireless tethering with
Pentax cameras. And for fast previewing, use an Automator script to
pop them up the images as they're received.
http://goo.gl/OeSsd
Excellent write up, thanks.
David Parsons wrote:
If you are familiar with PS, Exposure sets your White Point,
Brightness sets your gamma/midpoint, and Blacks sets your Black point.
They correspond to the three controls in the Levels tool.
As far as I can tell, this isn't true any more (I'm using Lightroom
3.4) - the
I haven't used PS since CS3, so you are probably right.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
David Parsons wrote:
If you are familiar with PS, Exposure sets your White Point,
Brightness sets your gamma/midpoint, and Blacks sets your Black point.
They
David Parsons wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
David Parsons wrote:
If you are familiar with PS, Exposure sets your White Point,
Brightness sets your gamma/midpoint, and Blacks sets your Black point.
They correspond to the three controls in
On 2/26/2012 2:36 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
With CS4 (or maybe CS5) they changed the generic Brightness and
Contrast tool in Photoshop, making it more sophisticated in how it
altered, well, brightness and contrast. I suspect the same kind of
change was made in Lightroom. It pisses me off,
Wonderful color tones, Dan.
Jack
From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 2:12 PM
Subject: PESO: Spring Has Sprung!
Went outside with the dog a short time ago, and noticed that the
For example, Radio Shack sells generic wallwarts with interchangeable
tips. I have a couple of those, if I could find out what tip and
setting to use, that would be a lot less expensive than buying a Pentax
branded powersupply.
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Great to see. Well done.
Paul
On Feb 26, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Wonderful color tones, Dan.
Jack
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Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 2:12 PM
Subject:
Thanks, Jack and Paul.
Dan Matyola
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Great to see. Well done.
Paul
On Feb 26, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
Wonderful color tones, Dan.
Jack
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
David Parsons wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
David Parsons wrote:
If you are familiar with PS, Exposure sets your White Point,
Brightness sets your
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
On 2/26/2012 2:36 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
With CS4 (or maybe CS5) they changed the generic Brightness and
Contrast tool in Photoshop, making it more sophisticated in how it
altered, well, brightness and contrast. I suspect
Bruce Walker wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
David Parsons wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
David Parsons wrote:
If you are familiar with PS, Exposure sets your White Point,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
You have a full Curves UI available. Or has it gone away in Lr 4?
I have the curves control that's available in Lightroom 3, but again
it's a rather neutered version of the curves control in Photoshop.
Another sore
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
On Feb 25, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Here's a blog article I wrote on how to use wireless tethering with
Pentax cameras. And for fast previewing, use an Automator script to
pop them up the images as they're
Welcome back to the 'hood, Dan
Looks like it was a bit windy when you took the photo...
nice geometry but a tad light. Go back and do some more shots in better
light :-)
ann
On 2/26/2012 17:12, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Went outside with the dog a short time ago, and noticed that the
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:58:08PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote:
Netpbm and Imagemagick are your friends.
I wouldn't call ImageMagick anyone's friend.
A reluctant servant who can most of the time be coerced into doing
what you want without too much violence, perhaps - especially if you
are
Thank you, Daniel!
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
Damn fine images.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi ramar...@mac.com wrote:
#029 - Keyboard
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdgphoto/6919246475/lightbox/
#030 - Seating
So, I took some snapshots at a wedding for some friends of mine
yesterday, which of course meant that I'd see a lot of mutual friends in
attendance. As it happens, one of them was my (young) old friend
Heather, who used to serve me beer at one of my preferred watering
holes. I got a few decent
Here I am, having just picked my 3 winners for submission to the PDML book
project (it's been a =very= busy month), and I can't find the instructions and
address.
I can't find it on robertstech.com, either.
Help!
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Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
You have a full Curves UI available. Or has it gone away in Lr 4?
I have the curves control that's available in Lightroom 3, but again
it's a rather neutered version of the curves control in
I shall try, but they don't last long!
Dan
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
Welcome back to the 'hood, Dan
Looks like it was a bit windy when you took the photo...
nice geometry but a tad
tl;dr: I'd improve the shot by doing nothing and accepting it as the
very lovely shot it is. :-)
Walt, that blur could be reduced/removed in Ps with very careful
cloning/healing etc. It would be a lengthy job for someone new at
retouching. I speak from some experience. :)
As an impartial
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:47 PM, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:58:08PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote:
Netpbm and Imagemagick are your friends.
I wouldn't call ImageMagick anyone's friend.
A reluctant servant who can most of the time be coerced into doing
what
Thank you, Bruce. That's very kind of you to say. :)
I am extremely new to retouching in that the extent to which I've done
it amounts to what can be done with Picasa. I do use GIMP for
manipulating the curves, saturation and a few other things that require
a more deft hand than Picasa allows
Very nice, Daniel!
I agree with Ann. I hope you get a chance to take advantage of some
nice, diffuse light soon. They're a really pleasant thing to look at
after a long, dreary winter.
-- Walt
On 2/26/2012 8:01 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
I shall try, but they don't last long!
Dan
Dan
A beautiful, cheerful and optimistic shot, Dan. Thanks for that!
(We're still a month away from seeing those lovelies.)
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
Went outside with the dog a short time ago, and noticed that the
crocus are already in bloom:
I have a (4) drawer vertical plastic organizer sitting on my table -
Target or Wall Mart - pretty low cost. Discharged batteries go into
one of the drawers. Charged batteries go into small zip lock pouches -
marked CHARGED with a permanent marker - batteries are always labeled
in sets of two with
Yep, there are third party suppliers at 1/3 to 1/4 the price.
Unfortunately a DIY with a generic 8.4 volt adapter is difficult as
Pentax uses a unique pin not found in the city electronic stores like
Radio Shack.
I just don't understand why Pentax does not use the generic Japanese
standard pins
On 26/02/2012 9:33 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote:
I just don't understand why Pentax does not use the generic Japanese
standard pins available all over the world?
They probably don't want to deal with warranty repairs from people
making their own power supplies
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Thanks, Walt and Bruce. I thought we were still a few weeks away from
seeing them here. I was surprised to see them, and I was afraid that
wind, rain or time might take them away before I could get a better
shot.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Sun, Feb 26,
The daffodils are growing like crazy down here in KY already. The
roadsides are covered in them in spots. I may try to get out and shoot
some of them tomorrow.
-- Walt
On 2/26/2012 9:47 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Thanks, Walt and Bruce. I thought we were still a few weeks away from
seeing
Are daffs are several inches tall, but no blooms or even buds yet.
Dan Matyola
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Walt Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote:
The daffodils are growing like crazy down here in KY already. The roadsides
are covered in
Just looked at the submissions list. Never saw the last three posters on the
list before?
Ted
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Just looked at the submissions list. Never saw the last three posters on the
list before?
Once upon a time, we asked the same question about you.
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It seems that the last photographer did not enter his or her name
properly, and instead entered the title of the image twice.
Dan Matyola
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Theodore Beilby tbei...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Just looked at the
On Maui, most people gather along the shore in the evening to watch
(and photograph) the sunset. Many bring a glass of wine. Another
tradition is the shellists who trumpet the event by blowing on
conch shells:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15252353
Dan Matyola
On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Cotty wrote:
You couldn't ask a natural history
cameraman to do a news shift, just wouldn't happen - he'd be completely
lost - and vice versa. There isn't any such thing as an all-round camera
operator who can work with every aspect.
Don't you have a manager?
From: Walt Gilbert
So, I took some snapshots at a wedding for some friends of mine
yesterday, which of course meant that I'd see a lot of mutual friends in
attendance. As it happens, one of them was my (young) old friend
Heather, who used to serve me beer at one of my preferred watering
holes.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Mark Roberts
postmas...@robertstech.com wrote:
Do you know about the Point control capabilities of the Tone Curve
panel? In LR3, it allows adjustment of Luminance only. In LR4 PB, it
allows not only luminance control but RGB curves independently.
I am entirely
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