Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

Yep. A must have. My Portrait lens is the smc Pentax 85/1.8. A nice piece but of another age. Paul > On Mar 25, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Bill wrote: > > On 3/25/2020 4:06 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: >> Nope. Too close to the 77 in length, when the 77 is already comprehensively >> magical. > > I'm

Re: PESOs Getting Outdoors

Thanks Rick. Good to get outdoors. We’re in lockdown but work has kept me locked up in the office for some time anyway. It’s all the same. All okay. Paul > On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:28 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > > These are very nice. I particularly like the lighting of the nuthatch, and > the

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

Has it been 21 years? Holy smoke. Still, when you get it right... Sent from my phone, which I’m staring at instead of doing actual work. > I'm thinking that they've learned a few things in the last 21 years. > > bill > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net >

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 3/25/2020 6:36 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy! Hey, that's spelled with a capital M. M -- 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

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

On 3/25/2020 5:49 PM, David J Brooks wrote: recently i started to copy over my pre 2005 CD's and DVD's to my external hd's. A surprising number of them could not be read by the player When I bought my first Drobo in around 2007 I transferred as many of my CDs as I could over to it. My oldest

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

Larry Colen wrote: >> On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Bill wrote: >> >> On 3/25/2020 4:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Bill wrote: On 3/25/2020 3:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 25/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >> I'll tell you what it's

Re: PESOs Getting Outdoors

These are very nice. I particularly like the lighting of the nuthatch, and the composition and background bokeh of the woodpecker. Rick > On Mar 25, 2020, at 5:42 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > Nicely captured. Saw the lady and the woodpecker on FB and enjoyed them > there. > > Dan

Re: Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

recently i started to copy over my pre 2005 CD's and DVD's to my external hd's. A surprising number of them could not be read by the player Dave On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:53 AM Igor PDML-StR wrote: > Hi all! > > Reading this prompted me to stick my (not-sneezing-yet) head in here... > >

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 5:28 PM Bill wrote: > > > What is sad is that we need legislation to keep people from acting like > retarded gerbils. > And what happens in the midst of a pandemic, Liz is finally cleared to start her chemo Friday. No thats whatt i fear the most. Hopsital visits

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 3/25/2020 4:48 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Bill wrote: On 3/25/2020 4:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Bill wrote: On 3/25/2020 3:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 25/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: I'll tell you what it's like. I

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 3/25/2020 3:42 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mar 25, 2020, at 5:43 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: For all you hunky K1 users, there's a stinking new D-FA* 85mm f1.4 lens coming out. I’m

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Bill wrote: > > On 3/25/2020 4:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Bill wrote: >>> >>> On 3/25/2020 3:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 25/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: > I'll tell you what it's like. I expect that, as

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 3/25/2020 4:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Bill wrote: On 3/25/2020 3:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 25/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: I'll tell you what it's like. I expect that, as always, I will get my copy before it's released. There's a name for

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 3/25/2020 4:06 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: Nope. Too close to the 77 in length, when the 77 is already comprehensively magical. I'm thinking that they've learned a few things in the last 21 years. bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 3:32 PM, Bill wrote: > > On 3/25/2020 3:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >> On 25/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >>> I'll tell you what it's like. I expect that, as always, I will get my >>> copy before it's released. >> There's a name for people like you. Take your

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 3/25/2020 3:33 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 25/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: I'll tell you what it's like. I expect that, as always, I will get my copy before it's released. There's a name for people like you. Take your pick. I like Messiah if it isn't taken. bill -- PDML

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

Nope. Too close to the 77 in length, when the 77 is already comprehensively magical. On 3/25/20 8:43 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: For all you hunky K1 users, there's a stinking new D-FA* 85mm f1.4 lens coming out.

Re: PESOs Getting Outdoors

Nicely captured. Saw the lady and the woodpecker on FB and enjoyed them there. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:26 PM Paul Stenquist wrote: > Took the afternoon off and visited my friends in the yard. I

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 5:43 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > For all you hunky K1 users, there's a stinking new D-FA* 85mm f1.4 lens > coming out. > > > I’m very interested in this. I’d love

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 25/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >I'll tell you what it's like. I expect that, as always, I will get my >copy before it's released. There's a name for people like you. Take your pick. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) | --

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 3/25/2020 6:43 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: For all you hunky K1 users, there's a stinking new D-FA* 85mm f1.4 lens coming out. I think I just wee'd in my pants. I'll tell you what it's

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

On 3/25/2020 12:51 AM, mike wilson wrote: On the other side of the coin, we are nearly all going to get this at some point. Maybe it's better to get it sooner rather than later for those who are likely to suffer excessively. That, or much, much later. Our stuff was planned long before

Re: PESOs Getting Outdoors

Am 25.03.20 um 21:25 schrieb Paul Stenquist: Took the afternoon off and visited my friends in the yard. I needed that. Really nice company you've got there. All we get to see here are crows, pigeons, magpies and the occasional blackbird. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany

Re: PDML meet-up in Britain? Early May...

That’s a shame. Next year maybe. Several of my friends have had to do the same thing. One of them was in Paris en route to Cuba when the trip was cancelled. He had a couple of days in Paris and returned to the UK while he still could. > On 25 Mar 2020, at 16:29, Stanley Halpin wrote: > >

PESOs Getting Outdoors

Took the afternoon off and visited my friends in the yard. I needed that. https://www.photo.net/photo/18590169/Nuthatch-Dinner https://www.photo.net/photo/18590168/Lady-Cardinal https://www.photo.net/photo/18590167/Red-Bellied-Woodpecker -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PDML meet-up in Britain? Early May...

On 25/3/20, Stanley Halpin, discombobulated, unleashed: >I was quite saddened each time I clicked the Cancel Reservation button Same here! Music venues, visits, sojourns, you name it. The party starts in 2021 !! :-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) |

Re: PDML meet-up in Britain? Early May...

The inevitable has happened - our trip in April-May of this year is officially cancelled. I have been spending the morning clearing out a number of auto and hotel and other bookings. And soon I will turn to trying to work out something for next year. I was quite saddened each time I clicked

Back up your CD-R's and DVD-R's

Hi all! Reading this prompted me to stick my (not-sneezing-yet) head in here... https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/16/18678447/9-11-ground-zero-world-trade-center-pictures-recovered I realized that the time flies so fast, and my earliest digital photos are more than 15 years old. Back in

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

On 25/3/20, John, discombobulated, unleashed: >Oo ... Cotty's gonna' have to buy a new hacksaw. Nh - no APERTURE RING !!! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) | -- _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

Oo ... Cotty's gonna' have to buy a new hacksaw. On 3/25/2020 08:43:43, Steve Cottrell wrote: For all you hunky K1 users, there's a stinking new D-FA* 85mm f1.4 lens coming out. I

Re: PESO 2020 - 034 - GDG

It looks like the tar has been carefully inlaid between the roots. I've been farming a couple of times as a result of tripping over roots like that on early morning runs in the half dark. Alan C On 25-Mar-20 03:57 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Photo from an exercise walk in isolation:

Re: OT Spam

Responding to that spam was probably a mistake as you have now I dentified yourself as a real person and not just an email address. -Original Message- >Sent: Mar 25, 2020 3:03 AM >Subject: OT Spam > >Is anyone else getting spam from xrite.macgroupus.com? I tried to remove >myself

COVID-19 - Information is power

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Re: PESO 2020 - 034 - GDG

>> I thought for a moment I was looking at an archeological dig ;-) >> >> - > >Or a selfie - he has lost a lot of weight... Can you put a bit of flesh on the bone here? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) | -- _ --

Re: PESO 2020 - 034 - GDG

> On 25 Mar 2020, at 14:38, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 25/3/20, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> "Reaching from the Roots", Santa Clara 2020 -- https://flic.kr/p/2iHzR4q >> >> Onwards! > > I thought for a moment I was looking at an archeological dig ;-) > > - Or a

Re: PESO 2020 - 034 - GDG

On 25/3/20, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > "Reaching from the Roots", Santa Clara 2020 -- https://flic.kr/p/2iHzR4q > >Onwards! I thought for a moment I was looking at an archeological dig ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) | --

PESO 2020 - 034 - GDG

Photo from an exercise walk in isolation: "Reaching from the Roots", Santa Clara 2020 — https://flic.kr/p/2iHzR4q Onwards! G — No matter where you go, there you are. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: PESO 2020 - 034 - GDG

Fascinating! Great textures and patterns. At first, I thought it was a b/w image, until I noticed the speck of green growth. That really makes it extraordinary. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 9:58 AM

Re: Happy Birthday, Paul

Am 25.03.20 um 14:32 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola: I tried to send an image of a Pentax cake, but the list does not allow such. And now all together: FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW... :-) Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio :

Happy Birthday, Paul

I tried to send an image of a Pentax cake, but the list does not allow such. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: OT Peso's Holden hotel

that would look so nice all spruced up Dave On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:24 PM Alan C wrote: > At least it is a respectable looking building, well worth restoring. My > GGFather & his younger brother emigrated from Ireland to > Kingwilliamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa in the late 1800's. The

Re: Pentax Announces New Lens

Wow. The lens, I mean, not the wee. We know you do that at your age. And dribble a bit. > On 25 Mar 2020, at 12:44, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > For all you hunky K1 users, there's a stinking new D-FA* 85mm f1.4 lens > coming out. > >

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

On 24/3/20, Bill, discombobulated, unleashed: >The point is, if you don't need to go out in public, don't go out. >Our paint guys had 400 transactions on Saturday in a 10 hour shopping >day, and the numbers indicated that virtually every one involved mixing >paint for people. >Sorry, but home

Pentax Announces New Lens

For all you hunky K1 users, there's a stinking new D-FA* 85mm f1.4 lens coming out. I think I just wee'd in my pants. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit || (O) |

OT Spam

Is anyone else getting spam from xrite.macgroupus.com? I tried to remove myself from the mailing list after the first one arrived out of the blue but got a reply that the address didn't exist. Blacklisted the address in my useless mail interface but it keeps landing. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: OT: Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stop the Spread

> On 25 March 2020 at 01:58 Bill wrote: > > > On 3/24/2020 3:10 PM, mike wilson wrote: > > > >> On 24 March 2020 at 14:31 Postmaster wrote: > >> > >> > >> Bill wrote: > >> > >>> We are selling record amounts of paint. Apparently that has become an > >>> essential product as people who are