Re: Back in the fold

2010-12-12 Thread AlunFoto
2010/12/12 Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com: Boy are you asking for it! :-) Welcome back super-shooter Seems like noone rose to the bait except Boris. Maybe something happened that nobody wants to talk about. Hmmm... Archives still online, aren't they? :-) Humble thanks for the welcome,

Re: Back in the fold

2010-12-12 Thread AlunFoto
2010/12/12 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: Then came the story of sensor stains. Then you had cold weather and now we do. Wind literally blows you off your feet. Had a rain with sand yesterday. Rare and unusual experience. Sooo you might end up being blamed for fanning sand into Pentax'

Re: Back in the fold

2010-12-12 Thread AlunFoto
2010/12/12 Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com: get ye to the archives - shuffle by subject line... if you really have to know :_) No I don't really have to I guess. :) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Lightweight bikes...

2010-12-12 Thread AlunFoto
Wonder if that applies to cameras and photographers alike... Jostein 2010/12/12 Bob W p...@web-options.com: ...don't necessarily get you to B any more quickly than heavy old clunkers. A reduction in the weight of the cyclist rather than that of the bicycle may deliver great benefit at reduced

Back in the fold

2010-12-11 Thread AlunFoto
Hi folks, Finally it looks like I'll have more time on my hands for a while. So what's been up lately? Jostein -- 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

Re: Back in the fold

2010-12-11 Thread AlunFoto
2010/12/11 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: Good to see you back, Jostein. Was thinking about you when that cruise ship got pounded down in the Drake Passage. Thanks Paul! I didn't know about that accident. After a quick google I found it to be the Clelia II. It looked hauntingly

Re: Back in the fold

2010-12-11 Thread AlunFoto
2010/12/11 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Oh bloody hell the Vikings have arrived. Spaam! -- 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

A beak... uh... heads up :-)

2010-09-29 Thread AlunFoto
Hi folks, Just thought I had to share a bit of news re: the penguin shot from the exhibition in Chicago. I submitted it to the Pentax Gallery, and it has been accepted into the Premier Collection. :-) Hope to join the list actively again once my life gets down to a more normal level of activity.

Re: OT: How much of the Bard is in each of us?

2010-06-22 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/22 Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm: There's not enough silliness in the world in my opinion. Agreed! Great fun, Dan! Thanks for posting. Here's another source trying to compensate, along the same vein: http://www.jir.com/ :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

Re: OT - Mac address?

2010-06-21 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/21 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Cheers, Macfanboy Bad apple. :-) -- 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 directly

Re: PESO: Zion Afternoon

2010-06-19 Thread AlunFoto
Jack, As presented, I think the tone scale looks too compressed. It has a look that verges on conspicuous HDR. Not overly conspicuous, but imo firmly in the realm of taste for tonemapping effects. The yellows pops very nicely, but the greens look very grayish and murky on my screen. It's a nice

congratulations, Sweden

2010-06-19 Thread AlunFoto
both the crown princess and her partner scored 100% on the quiz presented by the priest today. :-) May their marriage be long and prosperous. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

congratulations, Sweden

2010-06-19 Thread AlunFoto
both the crown princess and her partner scored 100% on the quiz presented by the priest today. :-) May their marriage be long and prosperous. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Noise with K7

2010-06-18 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/18 Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it: Another step back of the K-7 over the K20D is the button layout and operation on the back. Worst of all is the f*g LV button, always blinding the viewfinder and flashing the screen in my eyes as I try change the AF point at eye level.

Re: Comparison images K7, 645D

2010-06-18 Thread AlunFoto
From looking at the macro shots, I wouldn't place too much confidence in these results. Looks like the focus is screwed on both the Canon and the 645 shot. The 645 bokeh looks really delicious on both the macro and the cherry-tree shots though. :-) Look forward to see some shots from some more

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-17 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/17 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: There was some news recently that Neanderthals and modern humans may have been inter-fertile, and that the Neanderthals may not have gone extinct as such, but were just subsumed into the mix. Eg. what I linked to earlier in this thread:

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-17 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/17 Bob W p...@web-options.com: My point was that if you look at modern man's known history and tally the societies that have not resorted to the latter two, you get a pretty short list. The likelihood that what we are today has evolved from something both expansionistic and exceedingly

Re: Noise with K7

2010-06-17 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/17 William Robb war...@gmail.com: When I crank the magnification up to 200% I can see all sorts of things that I don't really like very much, noise being just one aspect. Fortunately, I either make prints or web sized images, neither of which show much of anything, other than how

Re: Noise with K7

2010-06-17 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/17 William Robb war...@gmail.com: I don't think there is any doubt though that the K7 sensor is somewhat noisier than the K20 sensor, whether by less aggressive NR or otherwise I have no clue. Wonder how sample variation influence this... From the way people keep iterating this, I must

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-16 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/16 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: But it's politically correct to assume that the nasty and violent humans caused the demise of the gentle and peace-loving Neanderthals. Don't see where political correctness came into this equation... Nobody knows if humans were more or less

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-16 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/16 Bob W p...@web-options.com: it's also entirely possible that modern people had nothing at all to do with the extinction of the Neandertals. They may have been on their way out anyway, as a result of changes to the environment to which they could not adapt. At the same time, modern

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-16 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/16 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I don't think there is much evidence to support the idea that modern humans are genetically determined to be homicidal maniacs eliminating all competition - I think that the type of violence described above is a result of cultural factors arising from the

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-16 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/16 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: I think you just described the Great Apes in general. Ohhh. that begs the comment speak for yourself... :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-15 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/15 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: The not so dussel (giggle) men managed to live on this dirt ball for 200,000 years, or at least this is what popular science TV program zombified me into believing of. Our kind (racial differences taken out of the account) is yet to beat that record.

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-15 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/15 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: I am not entirely certain that genetic connections between neanderthals and cro-magnons have been established as a scientific fact... Perhaps it happened recently and I missed the news. Or perhaps it was yet another news-item is you know what I mean.

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-15 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/15 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: I am not entirely certain that genetic connections between neanderthals and cro-magnons have been established as a scientific fact... Perhaps it happened recently and I missed the news. Or perhaps it was yet another news-item is you know what I mean.

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-15 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/15 Bob W p...@web-options.com: There are many other hypotheses which may explain the extinction of the Neandertals without modern humans as a contributory factory- the jury is still out on this question, and probably will be for a long time. Best to keep an eye on the literature and

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-14 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/14 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Mark! Yen! Drachma! Euro! While we still have it... ;-) Okay then. Kwacha. Free karma points to whoever knows where that coin is used without looking it up. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-14 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/14 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: 2010/6/14 Ralf R. Radermacher fotor...@gmx.de: Mark! Yen! Drachma! Euro! While we still have it... ;-) Just wait until Africa introduces a common currency... the coins will be fuzzy round the edges @;) Not to mention all the curly bits. --

Re: Taking Panoramics to the Next Level.

2010-06-14 Thread AlunFoto
Long in the coming. The article is dated September 2006. :-) 2010/6/14 William Robb war...@gmail.com: http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/10402/seitz_panoramic_camera/ William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-14 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/14 Bob W p...@web-options.com: re-introduces. The Maria-Theresa thaler was widespread in Africa for centuries. You can still see them used as pendants; I have one which I bought in Ethiopia in 1998, a lovely thing it is. The word 'thaler' evolved into the word 'dollar'. Way back when,

Re: The State of The List

2010-06-14 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/15 Bob W p...@web-options.com: My information about it didn't come from wikipedia, it comes from years and years of reading popular accounts of the evolution of humans by the scientists involved. And from studying languages and linguistics. Funny how even that sort of stuff precipitates

Re: More on LightRoom: sidecar files or no sidecar files

2010-06-08 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/8 Bob W p...@web-options.com: the metadata goes in the catalogue, not the picture files. If you use sidecar files I believe (but would have to check) that this is in addition to the metadata in the catalogue, not a replacement. Most file types except proprietary raw files support

Re: Lightroom catalogs chaining (a question really)

2010-06-08 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/8 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: But Godfrey, admit it - what you describe is a manner of working around the lack (I am not saying - deficiency) of certain convenience feature in LR probably similar to what I asked about in the first place. Is it so, Boris, that what you really want

Re: Lightroom catalogs chaining (a question really)

2010-06-08 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/8 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: On 6/7/2010 8:49 PM, Bob W wrote: You are trying to have your cake and eat it too. This is what programming is usually about, sir ;-). You know, that really goes a long way to explain the horrendous prices programmers charge for their services. :-)

Re: First the 645D now this

2010-06-08 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/8 Keith Whaley keit...@dslextreme.com: NOTHING is a steal aat $17,999. Brooklyn bridge? -- 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

Re: K-7 or K-x

2010-06-08 Thread AlunFoto
Barry, I brought two K-7 to South Georgia and Antarctica in December. Here's a bit of what they were exposed to: http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?pos=-226 It just kept working. And also important, it handled the change from this outdoor conditions to the warm interior of a ship

Re: K-7 or K-x

2010-06-08 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/8 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: 2010/6/8 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: Barry, I brought two K-7 to South Georgia and Antarctica in December. Here's a bit of what they were exposed to: http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?pos=-226 Just wondering, Jostein

Re: K-7 or K-x

2010-06-08 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/8 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: Mine is a RRS 55mm ballhead with a lever-clamped quick-release. http://reallyrightstuff.com/mmRRS/Images/gallery/BH55LR.png Which I feel very good about. Looks nice like it can hold its own. Like the double portrait cutouts. The winning point for me

Re: Lightroom catalogs chaining (a question really)

2010-06-07 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/6 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: Hi! Suppose I've a LR catalog A. Now, it is very big and I want to take part of it out and make a separate catalog (suppose it is all my family album pictures for sake of example). So I make catalog B that contains a subset of pictures from catalog

Re: Lightroom catalogs chaining (a question really)

2010-06-07 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/7 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: It is not the performance that I am worried about. My main catalog before I thought I'd start splitting was at 420 MB. That's a lot of info. Now, Jostein, what you suggest is offloading. But that's exactly what I want to do too. However, I still want

Re: PAW21 - Fell in a well

2010-06-07 Thread AlunFoto
Ouch. Hope his teeth are ok... Jostein 2010/6/6 DagT li...@thrane.name: Another accidental picture http://www.thrane.name/page3/page7/files/page7-1000-full.html K20D, DA*55mm, 1/60, f/2.8, ISO100 The previous PAWs are here: http://www.thrane.name/page3/page7/page7.html and four new

Re: Detroit PDML, It Began Nicely

2010-06-07 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/6 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: Good PDML Detroit. Bad trip home. Scaring story. Glad you got away unscathed except for the wheels. Sounds like you still have pretty good reflexes, man... Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML

Re: First GFM report

2010-06-07 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/7 Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com: The weekend was long, beautiful, grueling and rewarding. Nothing beats seeing old friends at such a fabulous place for such a great event. Every year since 2004, I read the reports from GFM, tag the week-end in next year's calendar and swear to go

Re: I got to play with a 645D yesterday!

2010-06-06 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/6 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I expect Pentax might delay US release until the bugs are worked out, but there's no way they'll ignore the market. Doesn't make sense in any way. IIRC, Ned Bunnell told The Online Photographer that they were still considering the import.

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-04 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/4 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: And not by osmosis, my friend, not by osmosis. :-) Certainly not. Especially if you consider what actually happens in osmosis; which is the passage of very small molecules across a passive membrane. In practice, only water molecules are small

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-04 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/4 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: Thank you for acknowledging my presence, Jostein! Did I hit anything? A 100% hit rate, I think. All messages threaded properly even in gmail. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-04 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/4 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: If you wish to flaunt your dictionary acumen by practically quoting it verbatim on me, save it. I looked it up before I wrote it, and decided it was too narrow a definition. I stand by mine in defiance! Sorry Joe. Used to teach aquaculture and

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-04 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/4 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: On Jun 3, 2010, at 04:40 , AlunFoto wrote: 2010/6/3 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I've restored from Time Machine on a number of occasions without difficulty. It seems to do an excellent job without my having to take any real action

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-04 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: don't know about elsewhere, but the U.S. monumentally botches driver education and testing; it considers a continuous massacre on the roads to be a necessity for preserving basic freedoms; little do the victims realize that they are martyrs for the

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-04 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/4 Bob W p...@web-options.com: There are more people out there than you might realise who haven't a clue, and don't care. And why should they? The computers should work more like the TV and the toaster, and so should the systems that we IT people make them use. And marketing try to tote

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-04 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/4 Bob W p...@web-options.com: I don't think you'd have much trouble with Adobe on LR. I originally bought v1 for my 32-bit Windows XP and have just installed LR it on the new 64-bit W7 box from the same installation media - now v2 - followed by all the upgrades online. The original

Re: 645D users moniker?

2010-06-04 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/4 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: 2010/6/4 Adam Maas a...@mawz.ca: Well, didn't the P645 users already get dubbed the Sisterhood? Wouldn't that make the 645D users the Little Sisters (as they have a smaller-than-645 sensor). The Sissyhood maybe? hehe. What ever that camera is, it's

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: Doesn't say a thing about the quality of the system, of course. But Apple will eventually find itself in trouble if they don't deliver to this group. They do. You can use your Mac (iMac, MacBook, Whatever) right out of the box. Just like you

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: On 3/6/10, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed: OMG it is a religion! I thought the concept was a joke. All Windows users will burn in hell - no joke. Sometimes it really gives a better perspective being atheist. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/2 steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: i think Apple attempts to address these needs with an appliance approach rather than study the user manual, practice, stress about it and maybe you'll get it right; i personally believe that simplicity is overrated, but i also see that Apple's (and

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/2 steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: however Macs are extremely configurable for those who learn how; for example Time Machine may not be the best solution for photographers; among other reasons, those who use Lightroom or Aperture may wind up storing versions of databases that store

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: That fact that Apple (seems to) attracts users least likely to be bothered with learning 'how' is far from a gripe - it is actually a big selling point, and indeed was such when the Mac was first launched. My comment was not about the quality of the _system_

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I've restored from Time Machine on a number of occasions without difficulty. It seems to do an excellent job without my having to take any real action. It even backs up my encrypted files and enables restoration of them if they're lost or

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm: Hmmm. I somewhaty innocently started this thread so I dip in now and then to try to understand how it's managed to develop into such a monolith. The trouble is, now I have no idea at all what any of you are talking about.. No worries,

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: I made a snide remark implying that Apple attract the most tecnologiacally ignorant users by marketing... Technologically, that would be. Fell under a spell, I guess... :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax

Re: Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
Original post didn't make it to my inbox, but thanks for posting, Dan! Got me curious about big it is in a historic perspective. There's a list of large spills on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill#Largest_oil_spills The Deepwater Horizon is definately a big one. It looks set to

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 William Robb war...@gmail.com: And I confirmed it with another snide remark. Don't forget about that Certainly not. Credits are due. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
Thanks Paul. It's the best testimony for Time machine I've seen so far. :-) Jostein 2010/6/3 P N Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: On Jun 3, 2010, at 7:40 AM, AlunFoto wrote: 2010/6/3 paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net: I've restored from Time Machine on a number of occasions without

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-03 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/3 Bruce Dayton bkday...@daytonphoto.com: Wow!  Mac fans have nipples?  And I thought they just had dual 'cores'...grin hehehe. Apple + nipples = napples? -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-02 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/1 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: In my experience, those who make a living from the tools they use make it a point to understand them and ensure they keep working, be that cameras, lenses or computers. In this respect, it will be the same for PC users and Mac users. Of course it should be the

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-01 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/31 steve harley p...@paper-ape.com: Anyway, during conversation, he mentioned some study or other where researchers had found that Mac users typically are somewhat less intelligent than PC users. citation please, or it's balderdash; best i can find is a 2002 study that says Mac users

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-06-01 Thread AlunFoto
2010/6/1 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: Your sample: they were nature photographers but were they professional nature photographers or were they from varied and different professional backgrounds? Varied and different professional backgrounds. Would you like to hazard a guess what the outcome might

Re: OT - Abobe Woes

2010-05-31 Thread AlunFoto
Sooo... The guy upgraded his OS, and an app stops working. snigger Then, what happens in Windows world is that Microsoft gets the blame for issuing a faulty upgrade. Interesting that the feline thingie from Apple is so totally off the hook. /snigger However OS upgrades and Adobe don't go well

Re: 645D

2010-05-28 Thread AlunFoto
Hi Jens, The video you refer to is the first documented physical appearance of 645D outside Japan, as far as I know. There are rumors it will hit Europe in autumn. I think it will be a couple of months before the magazines' tests begin to emerge too. So patience and savings-up is what we can do

Re: OT: Ping

2010-05-27 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/27 Bob W p...@web-options.com: another important contribution to the ongoing debate Congrats on your new submarine, Bob. Which colour? Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - A stunning picture from the Cassini spacecraft

2010-05-27 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/26 Miserere miser...@gmail.com: If I may be so bold, some more Art through Space Science: http://enticingthelight.com/2009/04/23/abstract-martian-photography/ I think you should continue that level of boldness. :-) Beautiful. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

Re: PESO - For all hoopy froods

2010-05-26 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/25 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: Don't even remind me. 40 is knocking on my front door real hard. Only 2 weeks to go and I am already starting to feel youth leaving my body... Well... Don't panic. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML

Re: The Minstrel

2010-05-26 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/26 Cotty cotty...@mac.com: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20%20theminstrel.html she probably gets all snappy and short-tempered before these festivals - women often get pre-minstrel tension. That's hysterical. glad to be of cervix... O vary clever!

Re: Definig good or bad photos around the viewer Was: What Makes a Good Photograph?

2010-05-26 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/26 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: On 5/13/2010 8:51 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Hell, no. I'd just raid a museum, steal all their Ansel Adams prints and sign my name to them. I had rather different impression of you having met you in Chicago ;-). In love and war... :-) --

OT - A stunning picture from the Cassini spacecraft

2010-05-26 Thread AlunFoto
To those who are interested in such things. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawimagedetails/index.cfm?imageID=216993 Saturn's moon Titan, with a section of Saturn's rings in front, and at the bottom a dark arc of moon Enceladus. Science and art. :) Jostein --

Re: PESO - Spring Snow

2010-05-25 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/23 Tom C caka...@gmail.com: Tried to send addtional photos but satellite internet blocked because of snow.  Went to town.  Internet at Starbucks not working either. Isn't it amazing how paralyzed society gets with even a small departure from the ordinary... :-) Nice shot. --

PESO - For all hoopy froods

2010-05-25 Thread AlunFoto
Today is International Towel day. http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?pos=-268 Jostein -- 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

Re: PESO - For all hoopy froods

2010-05-25 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/25 eckinator eckina...@gmail.com: Get yours here =) http://www.royal-plus.de/dna/shopE.html The pic is of my towel. Got it for my 42nd birthday, even. :-) 2010/5/25 AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com: Today is International Towel day. http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?pos=-268

Re: Artist Bios CVs from Exhibit

2010-05-24 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/24 Christine Aguila cagu...@earthlink.net: If you have NO objections to this idea, post to the list to let me know. One hand up here. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Bird watcher Maritimtim

2010-05-23 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/23 Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com: For some odd reason Christine said something about my birthday. I think she thought I just had it. Mea culpa, Tim. :-) Expect something to abruptly appear in your (snail)mailbox on Tuesday. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

Re: Sigma OS available for Pentax! [Scanned]

2010-05-23 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/22 Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com: On 22 May 2010 12:54, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: Ding ding ding! Care to elaborate? Hard to type with boxing gloves. :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: PESO - What's Jostein doing?

2010-05-20 Thread AlunFoto
yeah! What can a poor guy do among such a band of both mama- and paparazzos, eh? 2010/5/20, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: He is being unaware of being watched through the lens ;-). Boris On 5/19/2010 9:35 PM, Chris Mitchell wrote: (He's the one with his back to the camera) Another one

Re: Milton Keynes PDML meet

2010-05-20 Thread AlunFoto
Would love to see that one day, Chris Cotty. Can't make it this time. :( Jostein 2010/5/20 Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: On June 6, Bob W, Cotty and I are planning to meet in MK and go to Bletchley Park, the HQ of the WW2 Enigma code breaking facility and now a fascinating museum.

Re: Pentax 645D apparently introduced in Canada

2010-05-19 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/19 William Robb war...@gmail.com: My pusher is already working on getting me a demo camera to play with for a while. I have rather a love/hate relationship with him. LOL. Me too. Already a month ago he indicated he'd try to get one on hand just after the summer vacation. If I know him

Re: Pentax 645D apparently introduced in Canada

2010-05-19 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/18 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: Yeah, I want one too, but impulse control has become a lot easier since I paid off the Visa, closed the account chopped the card up. Well if that camera was within your credit ceiling... :-) Maybe someday. I'm still saving my pennies. Yes. And

Re: OT: Spaghetti Sauce

2010-05-19 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/19 Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm: Half a glass!! In my house there's no such thing as half a glass It's okay, Brian. Just always refer to the top half! :-) -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Spaghetti Sauce

2010-05-19 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/19 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: There's a lot about the EU that's a bit off.  I've eaten in France and come away wondering was that Beef or Horse?  I know what the menu said... I think there are some sayings about how to screw foreign tourists too. :-) --

Re: PESO - What's Jostein doing?

2010-05-19 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/19 Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: (He's the one with his back to the camera) Another one taken by Karin on her Optio S50. http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/PDML/IMGP1260.jpg LOL! Chimping this, IIRC: http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/displayimage.php?album=21pos=30#nav_pic --

Pentax 645D apparently introduced in Canada

2010-05-18 Thread AlunFoto
Youtube flick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd1V58LsKtcfeature=player_embedded -- 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: GESO - PDML Refusés

2010-05-17 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/9 Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com: Let's see yours.  -Tim Here's mine, a photo that marked a certain celebration for me: http://alunfoto.blogspot.com/2009/02/turning-100.html -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Used glass

2010-05-16 Thread AlunFoto
The world is a small place sometimes... :-) Jostein 2010/5/16 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: I picked up that Tamron 300/2.8 from my friend Chuck today. It turns out he bought it from some guy named John Francis. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML

Re: GESO - Saturday Evening at the Pond

2010-05-16 Thread AlunFoto
Beavers over here are extremely elusive. Those shots would have earned you a lot of cred in nature photo circles, since it's very ingrained with them that it's very important to find a human-tolerant specimen and make the most of it. :-) Jostein 2010/5/16 frank theriault

Re: GESO - Quality Human Hair

2010-05-15 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/15 Doug Brewer d...@alphoto.com: Larry Colen wrote: That is an annoyingly good collection of photos. I'm happiest when I'm annoying. LOL. Maaark! Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Free as a Bird (Chicago)

2010-05-15 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/15 Tom C caka...@gmail.com: But finally:  Free as a Bird http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11011691size=lg Well worth the wait! Great idea and execution. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Geso - Jostein's Chicago batch

2010-05-15 Thread AlunFoto
I probably take too few pics of people. :-) This is the lot that passed the first sifting: http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/thumbnails.php?album=21page=1 Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Jetlagged babble

2010-05-14 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/14 WILSON MICHAEL m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: On 13 May 2010 22:40, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I begin to think you are a bunch of Eplekjekke Små Nappetasser. Jostein Apple frat small button tassen? Google may be your friend, but quite clueless in this case. Fortunately

Re: My Chicago photos (slide show with music, pre alpha)

2010-05-13 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/13 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com: Well, I am uploading another version of this show, this time in .scr (screen saver) format. When I double click on this file on my computer, it simply opens and plays like a slide show with music.

Re: GESO - Chicago exhibit by Karin

2010-05-13 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/11 Chris Mitchell chris.mitch...@which.net: Here's a mini gallery from Karin (aka Mrs M). Included is a group shot where she pointed and shot while the experts were faffing around with the flash... Oh, it's Pentax too (Optio S50) http://www.mitch.myzen.co.uk/GalleryNight/ Great

Re: geso - Chicago

2010-05-13 Thread AlunFoto
2010/5/12 Sasha Sobol sa...@asobol.com: http://flickriver.com/photos/sobol/tags/chicago/ --Sasha Got a bit scared when looking at that first photo of me. Great collection Sasha! Thanks for posting. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML

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