Re[2]: Stereo Adapter

Hi, For my part I would think twice on buying a camera for a lot of money that was made with saw and srewdriver and some modified body-parts out of regularly cameras (may be prejudice). may be. Some of the best (mono) cameras in the world are made with saw, screwdriver and alien body parts,

Re: Photon Grease

Hi, Works a treat, Shel. You can make it at home from the lanolin in goat's wool. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, April 01, 2002, 8:21:05 PM, you wrote: Hi ... I just received this email and was wondering if anyone's tried the product: - This message is from the

Re[2]: Hey, you frequent Ebay SELLERS

Hi, This study done by a Professor of Marketing the University at Buffalo: [...] talks about herd-behavior bias why aren't I surprised that somebody from Buffalo is interested in herd behaviour? G --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To

Re: Results of Zapped Mail

Hi, gee thanks, Shel. Just when I'm expecting 67 rolls back from Kodak... --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, March 30, 2002, 7:23:30 PM, you wrote: From the current Smithsonian Magazine... Sending slides and other meltables through the mail:

Re: Contax filters?

Hi, I use Contax filters on all my Carl Zeiss lenses. They're very good, and very well made. Apparently they're made by Hoya, but they are very different, and much better, than Hoya's own-brand products. I'd rate them better than B+W, but that's a subjective rating. There is no noticeable

Re[2]: Ansel Adams at 100 postcards?

Hi, I think it was Elliott Erwitt who made the 'postcards' remark, but I can't find a source for it. Erwitt's jokes are all very serious. I'm not a great fan of St. Ansel, although I understand his significance in photo history, and in the US environmental movement. So I might be considered one

Celebrity photographers topless mud wrestling!

Hi, Elliott and Ansel strip down and get dirty: http://www.shermanhinesphotographymuseum.com/exhibits/2001/peter_adams/erwitt.html Cheers, Bob - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the

Re: How do you cope with multiple formats?

Hi, I went to a talk and slide show yesterday given by the UK photojournalist Tom Stoddart. I was surprised to learn that he uses 2 Leica M6s and an old Rolleiflex 6x6. As far as I could gather he carries them all at the same time. Some of his most famous photos were shot with the Rolleiflex.

Re[2]: LX user spotted in Canada

Hi, It was MUCH nicer than spending the day printing out of focus pictures of trips to Disneyland. I'm required to spend a day in Disneyland Paris in a couple of weeks. Is there something I should know? Will entering Uncle Walt's World of Lovely make my lenses cloud over all pink 'n' soft 'n'

Re[2]: F5.6 and Be There

Hi, Perhaps a better test would have been to focus on a one dimensional object is there such a thing? How would we see it? g --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunday, March 24, 2002, 2:58:55 PM, you wrote: I made some critical focusing tests at one time, using a 105mm lens @ f/5.6 on

Re[2]: UK PDMLers

of impressionists, what is in the Tate Modern simply is not art. For the most part, Bob's daughter is correct. Bob Walkden wrote: Hi, everyone's a critic! I like Tate Modern, although if you're really cool these days it's de rigeuer to say you prefer Tate Britain. Last time I went to Tate

Re[2]: pancake question

Hi, Do you think they are really buying the pancake because it is a collectable? It isn't, to my knowledge, a rarity. I think they were produced in pretty great quantity. I think the lens has gained an undeserved reputation of being an extremely sharp lens, collectible and rare are not the

Re[2]: UK PDMLers

Hi, everyone's a critic! I like Tate Modern, although if you're really cool these days it's de rigeuer to say you prefer Tate Britain. Last time I went to Tate Modern I was with a friend and her 6-year-old daughter. I asked the little girl what she thought of one of the exhibits. She replied It

Re[2]: UK PDMLers

Hi, I think Brighton's the place for that nowadays... Notwithstanding, I think Brighton's a better place than Duxford for a pdml bash, especially if one of our antipodean cousins is in the vicinity. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 10:38:05 AM, you wrote:

Re[2]: How Do You Set the Exposure for this.........

Hi, this is the type of situation where an incident reading would probably be better than a reflected reading. In general it would be better to point the meter at the camera, but an average or split reading would probably be ok too. Failing that, a reading off the grey card should be the same as

Re: Film ISO Speed Choices?

Hi, people's choice of film doesn't mean much unless you know what subjects they're shooting and why they choose their film for it. My preferred subjects are reportage / travel / street photography. Over the last couple of years I've been shooting mainly black white while here in the UK, and

M 120/2.8

Hi, there's one of these fairly rare lenses for sale in Kingsley Photographic in London. I think the price is £145.00. I haven't checked the lens or inspected it at all - just saw it today in the shop window. You can get in touch with them via their website if you're interested:

Re: OT: Yorkshire (which is almost English)

Hi, my family's from Yorkshire, and I lived and worked up there for a few years. One of my colleagues, who was very, very Yorkshire once told me the following story from his childhood. Those of you unfamiliar with the Yorkshire accent, think The Full Monty. He was about 4 or 5 years old, and

Re[2]: Here's a Spotmatic even I want

Hi, I'm fairly certain that Minox makes them. Minox was taken over by Leica a few years ago and that's when the first dinky little bijou mini Leica IIIf-ette appeared. http://www.minox-web.de/english/news/news_nr8_00_aug.html --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, March 18, 2002,

Re[2]: OT: eBay tale of woe

Hi, I tried that once. Walked into a bank and said 'Gimme a sackful of cash and no hassle'. Now my CV's got a 15-year hole in it, but I can sure as hell sew sacks...g --- Bob Dillinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, March 16, 2002, 10:10:09 PM, you wrote: The bank I use is a local,

Re: K 28mm f 2

Hi, carpe lentem! ('Seize the lentil!'). Buy it now. It's an excellent lens and I wish I still had it, or something as good. The price you mention in another email is also a great bargain, assuming the condition is good. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, March 15, 2002, 3:19:14 PM,

Re[2]: Link to bw shots taken in Romania

Hi, there was also a very good bw photo essay in National Geographic Nov. 1997 called Hutsul Village from the Ukrainian part of the Carpathians, which is culturally much the same as the Romanian part, as you might expect. When I was up there I was only 2km from the border with the Ukraine and

Re: OT: English (Re: Health Warning)

Hi, for those of you who are interested in English I can thoroughly recommend 2 excellent books: The English Language. A Historical Introduction Charles Barber Cambridge University Press, 1993 0-521-78570-7 It does exactly what it says on the cover. The English Language David Crystal Penguin,

Re[2]: OT: English (Re: Health Warning)

Hi, I have some photos I took in 1986 (I think) of a recreation of the battle staged on the actual battlefield. It's in a town called Battle, by a strange coincidence g. Bloody French won again :o( --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, March 15, 2002, 7:56:02 PM, you wrote: On

Re[2]: lens shades?

Hi, I'd have thought a lens hood could be arbitrarily long regardless of shape as long as it's based on a cone whose angle is not less than the angle-of-view of the lens. Imagine one of those diagrams that shows you angle-of-view. If you make a cone that matches that then it could be 200 metres

Re: Pentax AF 140C Ringlight

Hi, here is a reply I sent recently to someone who asked a similar question; in addition to the things mentioned, it also does ttl. I had an AF140C for a while a couple of years ago which I used with an A 100/2.8 macro I had. In contrast (!) with the AF080C and presumably many other

Re: OT: eBay tale of woe

Hi, perhaps you could get the US Govt. to apply to join the EC. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, March 14, 2002, 8:30:02 PM, you wrote: I think I outsmarted myself here. I found a lens on German eBay. The price was good, but the seller would ship to Germany only. So I

Re[2]: OT: eBay tale of woe

Hi Fred, I expect they'll work their way round to us eventually. --- Bob, from Airstrip One. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, March 14, 2002, 9:37:39 PM, you wrote: perhaps you could get the US Govt. to apply to join the EC. ...just as long as the US government then moved to Europe?

Re[2]: Steve McCurry on NPR

Hi, The famous photo is on the front cover of McCurry's book 'Portraits', published by Phaidon. On the back cover it shows what I assume is the next frame he shot. She'd obviously realised what he was doing, covered her face, and she looks to me as though she was giggling, embarrassed, proud

Re[2]: Giving up filters ?

Hi, I have several, as follows:- B+W 49mm circular polarizer B+W 52mm slim circular polarizer B+W 52mm unslim circular polarizer B+W 58mm circular polarizer B+W 77mm circular polarizer Hoya 49mm linear polarizer Hoya 58mm linear polarizer they all have their cases and are all in good

Re[2]: More image theft...

Hi, I've come late to this thread, and missed some of the altered images that people put up. Any chance of a repeat, please? Having said that, surely the www if it's anything is a document sharing system. Certainly that was what Tim Berners-Lee intended, according to his book 'Weaving the Web'.

Re: Link to bw shots taken in Romania

Hi, thanks for that link. It's an interesting set of photos, although her writing is rather clunky. It seems that she arrived there a matter of a few days after I left, so I can vouch for the accuracy of her photos. In fact, since arriving back from that area in 1999 I've been telling people

Re[2]: Steve McCurry on NPR

Hi, National Geographic have over-exploited that photo. I've seen it so many times that I'm just plain sick of seeing it, great though it is. Steve McCurry is giving a talk and showing some photos at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Friday 5th April, 7pm. I've got tickets and a whole

Re[2]: Interesting inkjet printer

Hi, Whats the deal with colour profiles? This page is a very good introduction to colour spaces and colour management which shows how and why profiles are useful: http://www.barco.com/display_systems/support/colorthe/colorthe.htm --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, March 11,

Re[2]: Rights and police behaviour. (Was: Hello and a lens question)

Hi, In any case, you were probably inappropriately hassled for what you were doing. If you want to make friends with these folks, drop by the precinct station house. If you can find the officers, apologize, explain your embarrassment, and show them you are just a regular human being. So

Re[2]: Wouldbee Weegee

Hi, A hundred years ago gentlemen wore hats, ruffians wore caps so there is a snobby distinction as well not quite as simple as that. A gentleman wears a cap for (strictly amateur) sporting use, eg, a cricket cap, a deer stalker or a yachting cap. Military officers, who are all gentlemen,

Re[2]: LX and slow-speed-flash-sync

Hi, I wrote that, and I have used LXs for many years. The original question was not about synching with TTL, but only about slow synching. Here it is: Is slow-speed-sync shooting possible when using the LX and the AF280T-flash? I would like to use the flash for exposure of the foreground

Re: LX and slow-speed-flash-sync

Hi, you can set the shutter speed to anything at or below the sync speed. The LX doesn't do rear-curtain sync though so any light trails may not be 'moving' in the direction you expect. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Love is fast, life a vest --- Ancient wisdom of the mysterious Orient

Re: Belt clip for cameras

Hi, I think it's unlikely that anybody in the UK will try to snatch your cameras while you're carrying them. I've travelled over large parts of the world, and I live in the UK, and nobody has ever tried to do this to me. When somebody decided to take my cameras they just came to my house and

Re[2]: APRIL LAUNCH FOR CONTAX N DIGITAL SLR

Hi, Contax/Zeiss prices have always been ridiculously high and they are still in the business. this is not true. When I replaced my stolen Pentax equipment with Contax/Zeiss equipment a couple of years ago my insurance company first offered me Nikon equipment. I didn't like what they offered

Re[2]: Heliopan multicoated filters--best source

Hi, One company that makes very good slide-in filters and high quality metal filter holders is Hitech. These are available from www.teamworkphoto.co.uk. Heliopan also make a similar metal filter holder for 3x3 and 4x4 filters, as well as graduated filters in rotating mounts. More info on their

Re[2]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

Hi, every f-stop has a hyperfocal distance. The reason why one of them, generally f/8, is marked differently from say f/11 or f/16, both of which will of course give you greater depth-of-field and are therefore better from the hyperfocal point-of-view, is that f/8 is the optimal aperture from

Re[3]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

Hi, every f-stop has a hyperfocal distance. The reason why one of them, generally f/8, is marked differently from say f/11 or f/16, both of which will of course give you greater depth-of-field and are therefore better from the hyperfocal point-of-view, is that f/8 is the optimal aperture from

Re[4]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

Hi, every f-stop has a hyperfocal distance. The reason why one of them, generally f/8, is marked differently from say f/11 or f/16, both of which will of course give you greater depth-of-field and are therefore better from the hyperfocal point-of-view, is that f/8 is the optimal aperture from

Re[2]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

Hi, Shel, Bob...the depth of field scale does not indicate the lens' sharpest aperture; it merely tells you hyperfocal info. The MTF program does NOT use hyperfocus, it uses the lens' sharpest apertures whenever possible. For instance, if a given lens was okay at f2, good at f4,

Re[2]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

brush and human torque) is pointless. On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:51:21AM +, Bob Walkden wrote: Hi, I've always thought of this as a classic example of pointless automation. On the older series of prime lenses the optimal aperture was marked in a different colour from the others

Re[4]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

a sequence of aperture values in descending order of MTF optimality. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, March 04, 2002, 9:40:12 PM, you wrote: On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 03:16 PM, Bob Walkden wrote: According to my information (Pentax users guide Z1 etc. by John Clements, Hove Books

Re[2]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

Hi, distance. It is also why the phrase 'f/8 and be there' specifies f/8 rather than f/64 or whatever. If it was just about getting as much in focus as possible they'd all do it with the smallest aperture. but what about a decent shutter speed then ? ...they'd all do it with the smallest

Re[4]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

Hi, comments interspersed: --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, March 04, 2002, 9:45:30 PM, you wrote: On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 03:25 PM, Bob Walkden wrote: Although several people have claimed that I've misunderstood the purpose of the marked aperture (and I've refuted

Re[2]: An Autofocus Automatic Lens Question

would be a good idea, ie also have the lens marked. However, on the modern lenses it's not marked, so you don't have it both ways. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, March 04, 2002, 9:04:24 PM, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:25:07PM +, Bob Walkden wrote: Hi, it's your

Re[2]: Manfrotto 352RC- Bogen 3262QR ballhead opinions?

Hi, well, here's how it was for me: right hand to hold the camera and fire the shutter, left hand to focus, and middle hand to hold the tripod grip while I pan. Because I don't have a middle hand (I was born that way) I dumped the #222 for the 352RC. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: Manfrotto 352RC- Bogen 3262QR ballhead opinions?

Hi, I have a Manfrotto 352RC, a Manfrotto 168, a Manfrotto 029, a Manfrotto 222, a Leitz ballhead and the fixed head on a Tiltall. Of these the best and most useful for my purposes are the Leitz and the 352RC in that order. I only shoot 35mm, so I don't know how good or bad these are for larger

Re[4]: OT: Suffering for your art

Hi Alin, nice to hear from you again - you've been a bit quiet recently. So you can get some perspective, the train from Cluj to Bucharest cost me about 20 (twenty) times less than a journey of equivalent distance in the UK. That would not be first class in the UK either, although I admit that

Inge Morath

Hi, apparently Inge Morath has died. I can't find much information other than the following link, unfortunately:- http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,643856,00.html I met her very briefly a couple of years ago at a book launch. She was absolutely charming - the kind of person who

Re[2]: OT: Suffering for your art

Hi, Perhaps he means that travelling in air-conditioned comfort (or, discomfort as you suggest) is hardly the way my great hero Capt. Sir Richard Francis Burton would have done it...:o). In Sunderland where Mike comes from men are men and sheep are worried. Even in the depths of the coldest

Re: Film at airports, again

Hi, this time next week I'll be in India g. It has more or less always been impossible to get through Heathrow without having your film x-rayed, but fortunately I've never had any problems with it, even with ISO1600 film. I used to carry everything through in ziploc bags, out of the film cans,

Re[2]: India (was: Film at airports, again

Hi Carlos, thanks for your offer. I won't be in Madras for long enough to get a trip to either of the places you mention I don't think. I may reconsider when I'm there and I've got a better sense of the scale of the place and how long it takes to cover particular distances. I'm taking 70 rolls

OT: Digital puddings (was Digi- SLRs

Hi, we're a nation of many puddings, some good, some bad - which ones did you have in mind? Some of them are digital. Are you sitting comfortably? http://www.grovepublishing.co.uk/index/page5e.htm PUMP UP THE VOLUME: http://weblog2000.com/barneyskidspag/music/jackhorn.htm --- Bob

Re[2]: Why Pentax ? WARNING: long message alert

Hi, Contax don't have them in their lineup. It goes: 35/1.4 to 35/2.8 and 85/1.4 to nowhere, although there is a 100/2 (discontinued, and a lot bigger than eg the SMCP M 85/2). I agree with Mike about this. I have both the 35/1.4 and the 85/1.4, but they're both very big and it would sometimes

Re: English English speakers--OT

Hi, it's a bed/sitting room. When young people first leave (their parents') home they often rent a bedsit. Generally it's one room with a bed in it and a couple of chairs. Shared bathroom kitchen with other people in the same house. Hell on Earth. Many towns have areas where a lot of the

Re[2]: OT: How far can you see with that lens?

Hi, Journalism at its finest. :-( Does the BBC have a letters to the Editor address? I don't see how this is any different from the normal and accepted newspaper practice of using agency work unattributed. If you've never followed the same story in several newspapers for several days I'd

Be there. Subscribe to 'eight' - revive photojournalism

a puff piece about a new photojournalism magazine, with links to its website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1782000/1782111.stm Bob - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the

Re[2]: K1000 with autofocus

Hi, sorry, not good enough. This is also the way the MX winder works. I've used it, don't like it. It's not the same as the function I described. I want to be able to put the camera in my bag, or leave it hanging from my shoulder without having advanced the film. I then want to decide when to

Electro-spot the Pentax

Hi, there's a short interview in today's Independent with Pennie Smith, whose photo of the Clash (Paul Simonon smashing a guitar) was just voted best rock roll photograph of all time. Here are some highlights: enthusiasm is the key. I'm not technically grounded [...] I didn't know equipment

How far can you see with that lens?

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Re: LX winder and remote cords.

Hi, I think what you have is the remote battery pack, which is a power source for the Winder LX or ME II, It's used for keeping the power source warm during cold weather. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, January 25, 2002, 7:05:36 PM, you wrote: I am hoping to solve a

Re[2]: Pirelli Calendar (I'm a lucky guy)

Hi, they won't give you the budget unless they know you can take the pictures. It's not the budget that gets the photographs, it's the photographer, and Peter Lindbergh is exceptionally good at it. Of the hundreds of photo books I have exactly 4 are by fashion photographers, and he's one of

Re[2]: K1000 with autofocus

Hi, The whole idea of the built-in motor drive is to have the shutter cocked and the film advanced to the next frame *before* you are ready to shoot the next picture. this lack of choice about when the winder winds is something I became aware of a couple of years ago when I was shooting in a

Re[2]: Which ringlight, AF-080C or AF-140C?

Hi, I had an AF140C for a while a couple of years ago which I used with an A 100/2.8 macro I had. In contrast (!) with the AF080C and presumably many other ringflashes, it has 2 semicircular flash tubes which you can switch on off independently. This means you're not limited to full-on

Re[2]: Which of you screw-heads is going to buy this one?

Hi, nah, a screw on it's own isn't good enough. You've gotta have head as well... --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, January 24, 2002, 11:29:05 PM, you wrote: Bob Rapp wrote: Say, have you ever had a Spotmatic? If not, you can not refer to us a screw-heads and get away with

Re[2]: How many lenses do you want to own?

Hi, The Independent has (or had) quite a few staff photographers. I can't remember the full story, but Harris, who'd been with the paper since it started, and the editor had a falling out during the Independent's lean years and they fired him, I think. They recruit from colleges and offer

Re[2]: Cleaning Micro-Fibre Cloths

Hi, I have mine shipped to a small valley in Bhutan where they're hand-washed by Bon nuns on rocks eroded by the crystal headwaters of the Brahmaputra. After that they're transported by semi-wild dzos to Mount Kailash then wind-dried on prayer poles. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Kodachrome processing

not to do it by post. Have you had this pleasure since processing moved to Switzerland/Timbuctoo? mike Bob Walkden wrote: it may be. They've been using plastic mounts for at least 7 years, probably quite a bit longer. They've never quibbled about sending them back unmounted either, and have

Re[2]: Didn't someone want a 135/1.8?

Hi, I wonder what Freud would say. The people bidding on these lens are keen to own one of the best fast 135mm lenses ever made :-) No, no, no. Nothing Freud ever said was empirically testable. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To

Re[2]: OT -- sort of -- What makes a photographer?

Hi, er, half dead? Elliott Erwitt shoots, develops and prints his own! But he's an amateur, he says so himself. In fact so does HCB. So of those 8 you mention, 4 are dead, 2 are self-confessed amateurs and Nachtwey has Salgado's ration of hair! Really, Shel, you must come up with better

Re: Of course, anything Erwitt does is by definition right....

Hi, W E Smith used to use exactly one gazillion at a time, of several different formats (but look what happened to him...). Then again, there's the often-quoted comment from Bob Capa to George Rodger when they saw a photographer struggling under a ton of cameras, lenses, flashguns, bags, meters

Re[2]: Out on a limb...new LX?

Hi, 'cut and sleeved' is the phrase I use when I send in the Kodachrome, and that's how it comes back, sleeved in 6-frame strips. Kodachrome mounts are now plastic, and you can break them, but then they're broken... So you have to remount the slide. In my experience of Kodak Photo CD, unmounted

Re: Mangling English (Papped)

Hi, the one that really makes me grind my teeth is architect. Not the noun, the verb. To architect something is what a systems architect is hired for. any noun can be verbed... --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to

Re[2]: How many 35mm lenses do you own?

Hi, you've spoiled my fun, Mike. I was about to butt in and be the guy with the least: 4 K-mount lenses, one of which is a broken Hoya 135mm, another is in a shop window trying to be sold (A 28-50), the 3rd is the abominable A 35-135 which I haven't used for at least 2 years and the 4th is the

Re[2]: What Have You Learned Here?

Hi, I expect to learn a lot more in the near fututre as I explore my newfound BW obsession and combine it with my love of nature photography. you'll be shooting a lot of penguins, zebras and skunks then...:o) --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss

Re[2]: Where no light has gone before

Hi, if you've got one of the famous Pentax dental lenses and you need a photo of the back of your teeth it's the only choice. Novocaine please, nurse! --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, January 14, 2002, 11:05:25 PM, you wrote: Bob lets not give anyone the wrong idea, you never

Re[2]: Metering (WAS: RE: getting LX - worth it? (repairs,...))

Hi, Pål is being rather mischievously equivocal. He knows perfectly well what people mean when in a normal conversation they say 'the meter is wrong'. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunday, January 13, 2002, 4:00:10 PM, you wrote: ... and that's the kind of comment that makes me

Metering (was Re: getting LX - worth it? (repairs,...)

Hi, Frantisek wrote: **: BTW, I have never had good luck with spotmetering faces of dark to black skinned people - what is the best zone to put the spot reading on? I hesitate to get involved in this thread, but I wrote this reply before the thread sort of spiralled down a little, so I'd

Re: Metering system

Hi, there was a company a while back selling dome things that you can fit over your lens. iirc Fred has/had one and may still have the url of the suppliers. It always seemed like a good idea to me. Apparently you can frig it by using a white aerosol cap provided you calibrate it. Carrying a

Re[2]: getting LX - worth it? (repairs,...)

Hi, BTW, that's another question - any members had their LX fail them in any way during shooting? E.g. in India, or even plain studio at home :) ? I bought my 1st LX after I'd been using 2 MXs and one of them repeatedly failed on me in Ethiopia. When I got back to the UK I traded it

Re: Too old for a futon?

Hi, waking up stiff and sore... that's a sign of youth vigour, not age :o) --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, January 10, 2002, 4:06:01 PM, you wrote: I've been sleeping on a futon for 15 years, which I got approximately when I became too old to sleep on the floor. Keep

Re[2]: What did we shoot this weekend?

Hi, Just how many stops is grossly? ;-) 144. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, January 07, 2002, 12:20:35 PM, you wrote: I guess that if ISO 800 was grossly overexposed, then ISO 400 should just be overexposed, right? It's only one stop less, isn't it? Just how many stops

Dream Street again

Hi Shel, the London Independent newspaper, which is excellent for photojournalism, has today just started a feature about WES's Pittsburgh project. This coincides with the publication of the book 'Dream Street', which is a version of his unfinished symphony. I bought the book about 2 weeks ago

Re[2]: Some buying advice

Hi, another common problem with MXs is that they can develop just a tiny bit of play in the shutter release. This is often just enough to switch on the metering circuit and force it to stay on, so if the camera is stored with a little bit of pressure on the shutter release the batteries will

Re[2]: VAT on imports (was: Re:FS: Soliglor CD 100/2 PK in England)

Hi, the VAT on used items is calculated differently from the VAT on new items, so a purchaser exporting an item from the EU who buys used goods (price usually includes VAT) from a VAT-registered business has to figure out how much VAT to deduct. Whether or not you can claim the VAT back may

Re[2]: inported film?

Hi, I have seen a similar claim that Europeans prefer unsaturated film whereas Americans prefer saturated film, but the statistic was based on sales figures of identical films. Afaik US Velvia and European Velvia (and all other big-name films) are the same as each other, but Europeans buy

Re: FREE SMC Pentax 28/2.0

Hi, where did you get this information about 2 versions? I have a lenses accessories catalogue (06771) which features only one version of the K lens, which is the one I used to have, and has this to say: SMC Pentax 28mm f/2 This lens utilizes a deluxe lens construction of 9 elements in 8

Re: Square Format

Hi, Never been to the Met, so I can't help you there. But you might like to consider artists such as Vermeer, Kandinsky, Bridget Riley: these are just three examples of people using a square frame picked at random from books within arm's reach of where I'm sitting. Certainly the square is less

Re[2]: Square Format

Hi, there is quite an interesting web site here which gives an overview of the use of geometry in art: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/ This section has a brief discussion of frame shapes and a couple of examples of square framing from classical art:

Re[2]: Med Format Quandry

Hi, Michael Freeman's book The Medium-Format Manual is quite useful but perhaps a bit out-of-date these days (it predates the Mamiya 6 (modern version) and Mamiya 7s). I found it useful a couple of years ago when I was thinking of medium format. I never got beyond buying the book. However, if I

Re: A, K , F , FA

Hi, I used to have a 400mm A f/5.6 lens. I paid about that price for it just about 4 years ago, in mint condition. I used it quite a lot - I was rather surprised by how much. In particular, I used it to photograph wildlife in South Africa, frequently with a T6-2X extender and later with an A2X-L

Re: European mail order

quite awhile ago about some place in Germany (I think that Bob Walkden did some comparisons with UK prices???) Who offers the best Pentax and fikm prices - are there savings to be had in buying larger quantities of Velvia by mail order? regards, Pat - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Snow!

Hi, if you're going to have a roll in the snow you might want to put some clothes on first... You must be very excited indeed, coming at the PC. :o) Enjoy! --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not go 'Click! Click!'. I go 'click!' - Henri Cartier-Bresson Monday, December 17, 2001,

Re[2]: 50mm/f1.2

Hi, this site shows a Carl Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 lens for a 35mm movie camera, bought by Stanley Kubrick so he could shoot 'Barry Lyndon' in candlelight alone: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm I remember a documentary recently in which the price was mentioned, but I don't remember

OT: Mid 20th century look (was Re[2]: 50mm/f1.2

Hi, I've developed an interest in producing BW photos with a look from the mid-20th century, and have been experimenting with film that may contribute to that look, along with giving consideration to lenses that may also enhance such imagery. Interesting idea. Any particular photographers'

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