RE: GESO - Roadtrip USA; Part 2

2015-02-09 Thread Malcolm Smith
Brian Walters wrote: Here's the gallery of the second half of our western USA adventure - from eastern Wyoming across to the Pacific North-west and back down to southern California. It includes a few photos taken by my wife and son. As in Part 1, there's a map of the route at the start of

PESO: Jelly

2015-02-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17963342size=md Comments are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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

Photoshop alternative: Affinity Photo

2015-02-09 Thread Attila Boros
http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/first-real-alternative-photoshop-launched-and-its-free-21514137 Currently there is a free beta version for Mac. Once the full version launches, it will be available exclusively through the Mac App Store for just £39.99/ €49.99/$49.99 (subject to App

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Feb 8, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Malcolm Smith rrve...@virginmedia.com wrote: BTW, I have and shoot with both film and digital cameras. They're much the same and they're quite different. So are their images. :-) A few years ago I looked on line and in magazines to get film when I last had a

RE: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Malcolm Smith
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: The vast majority of my film photography is with Polaroid cameras, using Impossible Project BW films for Spectra, SX-70, and 600 cameras. The reason is the same as above: each camera, each frame has its own unique look … a bit inconsistent, a bit special. You have to

Re: Full-Framer Coming

2015-02-09 Thread Mark Roberts
John wrote: Speaking of temptation ... ran across a Honeywell Pentax H3 at the flea market on Saturday. How much was it selling for? -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Pond Hockey

2015-02-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Welcome back Frank! That is an interesting image, as one would expect from you. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote: Great to see you back, Knarf, and I like the pic! I never played pond hockey,

Re: Full-Framer Coming

2015-02-09 Thread P.J. Alling
On 2/9/2015 2:57 PM, John wrote: On 2/8/2015 3:24 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Feb 8, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Bob W-PDML p...@web-options.com wrote: I was tempted to load my M3 with Tri-X for my day trip to Paris a few weeks ago, but when I thought through the hassle of developing and scanning

Re: PESO: Jelly

2015-02-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, PJ and Bruce! I consider it an abstract image. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:10 AM, P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: But where are the peanut butter fish? Then we need toast fish. Actually I like it. Don't know

Re: Photoshop alternative: Affinity Photo

2015-02-09 Thread David Mann
Thanks for pointing that out, I'm tempted to have a look at it. Cheers, Dave On Feb 10, 2015, at 5:36 am, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/first-real-alternative-photoshop-launched-and-its-free-21514137 Currently there is a free beta

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Feb 9, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: Yes, there is way too much little-used camera gear in the closet. :-| But if I were going to buy any 35mm camera at this point in time, it would be a Nikon F6 body. Still in limited production, solid and reliable as a rock:

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Ken Waller
Um... yes but did you use real film to do it? You scanned it and printed from the scan - correct ? Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Godfrey DiGiorgi godd...@me.com Subject: Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR Um, yesterday. I printed

RE: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread John Coyle
I still like to shoot film, but only BW, and Ken has really nailed the reason. For colour work, unless you can find a pro lab that still does E-6 processing, digital is the way to go. Colour neg is hopeless, just had one film processed by the only sensible lab around here and the colours and

Re: PESO 2015 - 016 - GDG

2015-02-09 Thread Ann Sanfedele
nice - would be interesting to kow what film those particular folk were queuing up for ann On 2/9/2015 14:56, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: At the movie theater on Saturday, I was enjoying the dynamics of the ticket line crowd... https://flic.kr/p/qQ8fEL Thanks for looking! G Mars is the

Re: New K-S2 Officially Released

2015-02-09 Thread P.J. Alling
The specifications look good, the body style looks too much like the K-S1, in if it's any color but black. I know how a camera looks shouldn't matter but... yea, it does. On 2/9/2015 5:33 PM, Brian Walters wrote: This looks like a winner. The built-in wifi with remote operation from a phone

Re: Easy on Cotty, folks

2015-02-09 Thread P.J. Alling
Well actually the Q was released as a crop frame camera, the Q-7 was full frame unless there's a larger sensor Q in the future... On 2/9/2015 3:50 PM, Larry Colen wrote: CollinB wrote: This is, after all, a forthcoming Ricoh body. Pentax is not a company. It is merely a trademark. That

PESO: Hula Dancers

2015-02-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Some of the finest hula dancers in Hawaii: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17963813 Comments are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the

RE: Easy on Cotty, folks

2015-02-09 Thread John Coyle
That's no excuse, Collin! If it says Pentax on the camera, Cotty has a moral duty to break out the sauce. John in Brisbane - Original Message - From: CollinB coll...@brendemuehl.net To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2015 9:10:11 AM Subject: Easy on Cotty, folks This

Re: PESO: Jelly

2015-02-09 Thread P.J. Alling
But where are the peanut butter fish? Then we need toast fish. Actually I like it. Don't know why. On 2/9/2015 4:27 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17963342size=md Comments are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola --

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Richard Womer
I've gotten so damned tired of sorting through dozens of very-similar digital shots of a subject, trying to find the one that's best, that I have cut way back on my exposures. Except, of course, when I went out shooting at twilight on Saturday… Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Mon, Feb 9,

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread steve harley
On 2015-02-08 21:59 , Bipin Gupta wrote: a) With 400 ASA film I would go down to 1/30 sec and f 2 to capture street scenes at night, with excellent translation on print. Using TAv mode on the the K20D or the K-5 IIs with the same settings the camera would choose 1200 ASA or more. I

Re: Full-Framer Coming

2015-02-09 Thread John
On 2/8/2015 3:24 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Feb 8, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Bob W-PDML p...@web-options.com wrote: I was tempted to load my M3 with Tri-X for my day trip to Paris a few weeks ago, but when I thought through the hassle of developing and scanning and filing the negs and the CD i

Re: PESO 2015 - 016 - GDG

2015-02-09 Thread Bob W-PDML
You never stray far from a Starbucks! It's a nice shot but I think it needs a bit more Marshall McLuhan. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY B On 9 Feb 2015, at 19:56, Godfrey DiGiorgi godfreydigio...@me.com wrote: At the movie theater on Saturday, I was enjoying the dynamics of

Re: PESO: Out Back

2015-02-09 Thread John
On 2/8/2015 5:49 PM, David Mann wrote: Now we're getting away from civilisation. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/861/#peso Cheers, Dave Put a beat-up old windmill in there with a stock watering trough it could be somewhere in southwest Texas. -- Science - Questions we may never find

Re: PESO: Out Back

2015-02-09 Thread John
On 2/8/2015 11:20 PM, David Mann wrote: On Feb 9, 2015, at 2:29 pm, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting David Mann dmann...@gmail.com: Now we're getting away from civilisation. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/861/#peso That looks familiar. We travelled along the

Re: Enablement: Bottom feeder purchases 43mm Limited SILVER (MIJ)

2015-02-09 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Congrats, Darren! I have 77/1.8 and 31/1.8 Limiteds. I am very happy with both of them (although in different ways: they have very different characters). While those are obviously faster lenses compared to what I have for that focal length, the rendering I get from both is much better than

RE: New K-S2 Officially Released

2015-02-09 Thread Malcolm Smith
Brian Walters wrote: This looks like a winner. The built-in wifi with remote operation from a phone or tablet is a first for Pentax - does this spell the end of the Flu card experiment? http://view.s6.exacttarget.com/?j=fec711727560037bm=fe9212737561007873

RE: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Malcolm Smith
Larry Colen wrote: But you then go on to look only at resolution. I can pretty much guarantee that any photo that I've taken in the past several years at an ISO of over 1600 is far better quality than I could have gotten with any 35mm film camera. You got me there Larry, I am always amazed

Re: PESO - Pond Hockey

2015-02-09 Thread Bulent Celasun
Really pleased to hear from you, Frank! I, for one missed your photos. Your last one reminded me of also my childhood; I was lucky to be found under 2 meters of snow! Bulent - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/

Re: PESO: Jelly

2015-02-09 Thread Bruce
Pretty cool looking! -- Bruce On February 9, 2015 1:27:32 AM PST, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17963342size=md Comments are invited. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse

Re: PESO 2015 - 016 - GDG

2015-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Thanks Ann! Well, I'd just come out of seeing Birdman … there are eight other movies showing there, so it's a bit hard to say for sure. G On Feb 9, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: nice - would be interesting to kow what film those particular folk were queuing up

Re: PESO 2015 - 016 - GDG

2015-02-09 Thread Ann Sanfedele
ah, cini-plexes spoil all the fun ann On 2/9/2015 20:21, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Thanks Ann! Well, I'd just come out of seeing Birdman … there are eight other movies showing there, so it's a bit hard to say for sure. G On Feb 9, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: nice

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Mark C
On 2/9/2015 10:05 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Yes, there is way too much little-used camera gear in the closet. :-| But if I were going to buy any 35mm camera at this point in time, it would be a Nikon F6 body. Still in limited production, solid and reliable as a rock: probably the finest 35mm

Re: New K-S2 Officially Released

2015-02-09 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting P.J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: The specifications look good, the body style looks too much like the K-S1, in if it's any color but black. I know how a camera looks shouldn't matter but... yea, it does. I'll hold off judgement until I see one in the flesh but, based on

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread John
I've got plenty of 110 film in the fridge. What I need is somewhere nearby that can process it. On 2/8/2015 9:14 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: Film was never difficult to get, around here, just the dirt common types and the really esoteric are hard to find, used to be just the latter for a long time,

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Larry Colen
Malcolm Smith wrote: In conversation with a neighbour today whilst I was out with my camera, I was asked if a 35mm DSLR produces better images than film does. But you then go on to look only at resolution. I can pretty much guarantee that any photo that I've taken in the past several years

Re: PESO 2015 - 016 - GDG

2015-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
LOL! Love that clip! :-) It's hard to stray far from a Starbucks—they are wall to wall around here. G You never stray far from a Starbucks! It's a nice shot but I think it needs a bit more Marshall McLuhan. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY At the movie theater on Saturday, I

Re: Enablement: Bottom feeder purchases 43mm Limited SILVER (MIJ)

2015-02-09 Thread steve harley
On 2015-02-08 20:02 , Darren Addy wrote: Friends don't let friend drink New Belgium Trippels and surf eBay. one of my favorite beers over a decade or more; stop by when you're in Denver sometime and i'll take you to a few excellent hyperlocal breweries with strong Belgian influences

Re: Easy on Cotty, folks

2015-02-09 Thread Larry Colen
CollinB wrote: This is, after all, a forthcoming Ricoh body. Pentax is not a company. It is merely a trademark. That brings up the question of whether he said If Pentax releases a full frame or if he said If there is a Pentax full frame. One could argue that if he said full frame

Re: Enablement: Bottom feeder purchases 43mm Limited SILVER (MIJ)

2015-02-09 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 9 Feb 2015, at 20:42, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2015-02-08 20:02 , Darren Addy wrote: Friends don't let friend drink New Belgium Trippels and surf eBay. one of my favorite beers over a decade or more; stop by when you're in Denver sometime and i'll take you to a few

35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Bipin Gupta
This is the best take away and a quick hit from our discussion I'm hoping that a 36 exposure roll of film will make me think more about the image I'm composing. Hopefully, this discipline will be there to transfer back to the DSLR. Maybe that is what I need to gain from film again, more than

New K-S2 Officially Released

2015-02-09 Thread Brian Walters
This looks like a winner. The built-in wifi with remote operation from a phone or tablet is a first for Pentax - does this spell the end of the Flu card experiment?

Re: Enablement: Bottom feeder purchases 43mm Limited SILVER (MIJ)

2015-02-09 Thread Darren Addy
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:42 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2015-02-08 20:02 , Darren Addy wrote: Friends don't let friend drink New Belgium Trippels and surf eBay. one of my favorite beers over a decade or more; stop by when you're in Denver sometime and i'll take you to a

Re: Full-Framer Coming

2015-02-09 Thread John
On 2/7/2015 11:56 PM, David Mann wrote: On Feb 8, 2015, at 1:17 pm, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: That was s promise made about a dozen years ago. Due to Pentax's indecision and pokey product planning, the statute of limitations has expired. And I think moths have beaten

Re: GESO - Roadtrip USA; Part 2

2015-02-09 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com: Been waiting for the sequel... I have a slight pref for part 1, because even thought I've been to all the places in part two and enjoyed myself, and your photos tell the tale truthfully, I'd rather look at photos of the southwest high-desert... No

Re: Easy on Cotty, folks

2015-02-09 Thread John
If some corporate entity owning the rights to Pentax trade dress produces a DSLR having a sensor the same size as a 35mm film frame with PENTAX on the front of the penta-prism housing, Cotty eats the hat. ... unless he decides he ain't gonna' do it. In the meantime all the barracks house

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Bill
On 09/02/2015 1:26 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: Brian Walters wrote: Film was dead for me as soon as I bought my first DSLR (an *ist DS). I carried a token film camera around for a few months after, but found it never came out of the camera bag. Occasionally in subsequent years I promised myself

Re: New K-S2 Officially Released

2015-02-09 Thread Bruce Walker
3 minute Adorama video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ_-s93PI5Q On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: This looks like a winner. The built-in wifi with remote operation from a phone or tablet is a first for Pentax - does this spell the end of the

Re: Enablement: Bottom feeder purchases 43mm Limited SILVER (MIJ)

2015-02-09 Thread Larry Colen
steve harley wrote: On 2015-02-08 20:02 , Darren Addy wrote: Friends don't let friend drink New Belgium Trippels and surf eBay. one of my favorite beers over a decade or more; stop by when you're in Denver sometime and i'll take you to a few excellent hyperlocal breweries with strong

Re: PESO - Pond Hockey

2015-02-09 Thread Rick Womer
Great to see you back, Knarf, and I like the pic! I never played pond hockey, but when we were kids we used to skate on a long pond on my grandmother's farm outside Albany, NY. The photo doldrums have affected me, too--I shot 7 (uninspired) frames the whole month of January; but went out

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Darren Addy
Ilford says that 30% of film users are under age 35. http://petapixel.com/2015/02/04/30-film-shooters-younger-35-says-ilford/ There are a few holes that could be punched in the conclusions reached but, still, it appears that film may be the vinyl records of the twentyteens. What goes around comes

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread P.J. Alling
Polaroid Type 55 film produces a positive and an enlargeable negative, I suppose he could have a stockpile of that, Production ended sometime before 2010, and the smallest size sheet was 4x5. Seems unlikely that Godfrey is carrying around a Crown Graphic with a 545 film holder, I'm not even

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread John
On 2/8/2015 2:42 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Which produces better photos and print quality, 35 mm film cameras or 35 mm DSLR cameras? I believe DSLR's produce better photos print quality for the simple reason you know on site, via the histogram, whether you have obtained the optimum exposure for a

Re: Full-Framer Coming

2015-02-09 Thread John
I can also see this replacing Jump the shark as a metaphor. On 2/8/2015 10:54 AM, Darren Addy wrote: I was not around to hear the original statement or conditions thereof, but I wish I was Cotty because it would be very easy to turn this into a viral fundraiser that would PAY for most, if not

PESO 2015 - 016 - GDG

2015-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
At the movie theater on Saturday, I was enjoying the dynamics of the ticket line crowd... https://flic.kr/p/qQ8fEL Thanks for looking! G Mars is the only known planet inhabited entirely by robots. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Ken Waller
Not entirely true. You can still get Polaroid film. I'm talking 'real film' - when's the last time you saw an enlargement from a Polaroid? Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: John sesso...@earthlink.net Subject: Re: 35mm film v

Re: 35mm film v 35mm DSLR

2015-02-09 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Um, yesterday. I printed two of my Polaroid shots to 9x12. G On Feb 9, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Ken Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: I'm talking 'real film' - when's the last time you saw an enlargement from a Polaroid? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net