Bulb shaped grip

amita I use one of these with my voigtlander 12mm [stops me getting my fingers in the picture] Buy from www.photovillage.com in NYC for $25 [cheaper than cameraquest] Clive Antibes France

FS Friday- Pentax flash clearance

Hi All Have following for sale: AF 280T Battery grip Hot shoe lead for grip Screw in sync lead for grip [can never remember numbers for these] AFT1 tele adapter Sunpak 422D with PT-1D [LX] module AF 400FTZ AF 240FT I do paypal, contact me if you're interested and we can haggle. Clive Antibes

Air transport strategy

Hi tan I fly a lot and use a pelican 1600 for air travel: holds 2X LX 1X MX 8 pentax lenses 2 converters 1 voigtlander body 2 lenses 1 xpan body 2 lenses 1 vivitar 283 1 vivitar 2500 no way to carry this lot on board with room for film too! I use a hefty combination pelilock and the case is

Moving to PZ-1p

Anthony Interestingly I have just been going through the same thought process. for me to it has also been whether to stay with Pentax or go Nikon [for some reason Canon stuff is not for medon't know why?] Diiferent reasoning however,I don't think I want to [or can afford] to replace

OT whisky

Surely the only thing to drink whisky [either single or blended ] with is more whisky [or failing that a blonde?] Clive [a welshman] Antibes France

1600 B/w film

Frank Re;your band pics My b/w printer here works with some well known European Photogs. [including Helmut newton who died recently] One of his other clients is working on a book project on European and US high society , all shot at parties etc. on Leicas with available light [darkness?]. Alain

fast b/w film

Frank [and others] So I was at chambre noire in Nice today [dropping a roll of Pan F 6x9!]and checked the paramters with Alain. My mistake it's Tmax 3200 not Delta 3200 pulled to 1600 [ developed in TmaX RS developer?] The guy who is shooting this book has a nice site www.damion berger.com, he

FS Friday

Hi all FA 28-80 f£.5-4.5 macro zoom exc. condition [ex Rob Studdert!] $ 80 49mm rectangular clip on hood for 35mm and 28mm wide angles [case] $ 20 Me super winder , works great, batter tray won't stay in $ 20 mx/me super diopters +1 +2 +1.5

FS Frday/Dome F803

ShelShel Yes, couldn't wait for real one, and found a REALLY NICE copy here in Paris, they are labelled MEKKO and are much nicer than the ones I have seen on Ebay, it comes complete with a hard bottom padded insert that takes three lenses or MX/Leica size bodies with lenses mounted, I initially

FS Friday/Diiopters

Whoops I've just looked, these are +1 +2 and+3 $ 10 apiece! Clive Antibes France

kmount/leica 39 adapter

Hi all Thanks for the input on this. Two points: Focussing not a problem as long the register is correct as it will be only wide angles [sp.17mm fisheye and poss. 28mm] so zone focussing etc. is no problem. I actually have a spare t6 converter [the aperture linkage jammed and it seemed cheaper to

AF 280 mod/ LX fill flash

Cotty, Fred Thanks for the link Cotty, I couldn't open it, I do remember having alook though when I was modifying an A grip ala LX 2000 last summer. Good thinking but I am scared stiff of opening electronic things...! Fred took my preferred route of buying the solution

Polaroid back for LX

JCO Will use it for flash tests in the main, can't quite see how a canon digital will a]accept my Pentax mount lenses or b] sync with my flashes, I already have a Polaroid 195 which does b] not a], of course I could buy *st D.. I figure a used NPC proback will be a LOT

AF 280/Sunpak 422/433

Graywolf Thanks I have just found a nice 422 with Pentax module,as my 280 seems to have become unreliable, as theshoehcontacts will be the same I should be able to use it on the battery grip and get round the cable incompatibility? Now if some one can give me fooolproof method for

LX polaroid back

JCO so when i'm doing an interior with six slaved 283s and my 18mm or 28mm shift I will be able to see on a digital camera exactly how the final picture will look? Clive

AF 280T

Hi All I seem to remember seeing a post that the AF280T flash was/is made by sunpak and in fact has identical specs to a sunpak 4??? flash. Can anyone remind me which one it is? Clive Antibes France

LX polaroid back

I really am looking for a Polarid back for LX [how luddite can you get] if anyone has/knows where to source one... Clive Antibes France

Thrre months later

Frank [ Co.] I guess I'm only superficially interested in the *st D scenario , I was in Paris last week and went to Boulevard Photo[Boulevard BeauMarchais] which has about ten camera stores selling mostly used but some new equpment, and got to see/handle one for the first

pentax-discuss-d Digest V04 #6

Hi People Back after 3 months. What's happening? Is there a D*st 2 yet? Are they bringing back the LX? Clive Antibes France

OT Leni Reifenstahl

Hi All There has been a week of discussion on this subject on the Leica Users Group, however most;ly consisting of ill-informed bigoted [in either direction] stuff, so much so that I unsuscribed! Conversely here at PDML we have balanced thoughtful comments...[Frank I know you are

LX service

Hi All Seen some traffic on LX service/CLAs. I have just received my second LX back from service at: Asahi Photo in Wembley UK. I can report that contrary to the reports I seem to see of horror stories elsehwere, these people seem to really care. Both bodies were returned not just CLAed but with

Four lenses

Hi All In one of his books Galen Rowell said that 60% of his best images were made with either a 20mm or a 180mm. of the remaining 40%, 60% were with a 35mm or 85mm.[This is all pre-zoom] OK these are Nikon focal lenghts but its an interesting exercise..especialy

Sto-Fen/AF280T

I think I saw a thread recently concerning the correct st0-fen omnibounce for the AF 280T .? Did anyone come to a final conclusion on which one fits? Clive Antibes France

FS Friday

Hi folks Still available, anything that doesn't sell by Friday 12th will go on Ebay Pentax MX chrome no.9181680, user condition, slight ding on prism housing,body cap, strap, grid screen [comes with sapre microprism/split screen] owned by me from new$125 Pentax F

Domke jacket

Hi Just posted that I am looking for a Domke F803 bagwhich made me think. I am also trying to buy an XL size Domke PHOTOGS jacket [It's like a vest with zipout sleeves] BH list them for USD 105, however they will only ship via UPS which is not only expensive

Red 911

John Red...Oh gosh no, I have always had black cars since the age of 25...it had biscuit leather seats with black piping too! Clive Antibes France

Re: FS saturday

..] Price sounds right, can you get a shpping cost [USPS is best] to me, and is paypal OK? best Clive Clive Evans IFA Galerie du Port Rue Lacan 06600 ANTIBES FRANCE Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

All round good guy

Hi all I just want to say a public thank you to Jose of Texas who in spite of Pentax USAs original denial to an Englishaman calling extremely long distance that such parts existed has sent me 3 LX winder battery trays and LX strap posts [now I can do the Lx2000 grip thing!]

LX grips

Cotty I know you had page up showing a modified LX grip [so it will hang a la LX 2000] but I have lost the URL , as I now have some LX strap posts [Thanks to Jose see below] I am finally in a position to have a go.can you give me the URL please? Clive Antibes France

What do you use?

My photography splits into: Specific photo trips where the primary aim is photography and I'm on my own , often working from a nearby car and I will be shooting a lot of tripod work. 2 Lxs/winders, 17mm fisheye,18 f3.5, 24mm f2.8, 35mm f2,50mm Macro 100mm f2.8, 200mmf4, 300 f4, 1.4X and 2x

OT Beer

None of you know how bad beer can get until you've drunk the stuff here Best to just save the middleman and pour the stuff directly down the toilet. Clive Antibes France

Lx winder battery trays/ Nicad pack/LX strap post

Jose Many thanksyou are a real gentleman. Peter/Cotty Coincidentally one of my LXs is at Asahi Photo this week for a service. Whilst the guys there are really nice they don't accept any work on motors or winders [they say they can't get the parts] I have also asked them

OT:voigtlander

Frank and Steve Thanks for the quality endorsements, I have always hamkered after Leicas but can't justify the expense! Albano Thanks for the steer to Lumonous Landscape, I had already seen the review, and the comaprison between 14mm sigma, 12mm Heliar and 30mm Xpan

LX winder battery trays

Jose Many thanks...I will call them this PM [about 8hours difference I think] and see what can be donemaybe they have a replacement tray for my ME super winder too! Best Clive Antibes France

LX winder problems

Hi all Does anyone have any experience with the feeble battery trays in LX winders? I have two [neither from new] and they are both coming apart at the outer end. I can probably fix them with epoxy, but as it is under continual internal pressure [from the batteries] will probably go again. I think

LX winder battery trays

Jose et al I DID get through to Pentax US yesterday after all.presumably the employee event that stopped them answering the phones in the AM was *st D related! Well the person that answered the phone in parts was absolutely delighted to tell me that they wouldn't ship

Cotty

Cotty Many congratulations.. The lovely Teresa two years ago last September [rode from Antibes to back on my Harley with ten days touring beautiful Scotland..great!] Then Barcelona for your first anniversary would be an excellent

Cotty

Should have said this! -Forwarded Message- From: Clive evans, 101335,1564 To: INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED], INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 31/07/2003 11:19 PM RE: Cotty Cotty Many congratulations.. The lovely Teresa

HCB exhibition Paris

Had to fly up to Paris yesterday for a meeting, as I had the morning free I decided to take in the Henri Cartier Bresson retrospective at the Biblioteque Nationale. Only one word to describe it:FABULOUS. We have probably all seen many of these pictures in print, but seeing the real thing is

Optii-clean

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Also stocked by speedgraphic in the UK who are happy to ship abroad. www.speedgraphic.co.uk +44 8453305530 Fax +441420543544 Ask for their catalogue , very good! Best Clive Antibes France

good things come in threes

Harry Why not buy three lotttery tickets? Clive Antibes France

Incident light meter

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Polaris digital which is a combined incident/reflected ambient/flash meter, actually it's omostly just used as an incident meter, lightweight, accurate and CHEAP! Clive Antibes France

Moronism

Irrespective of nationality a moron is a moron! Interestingly enough, as a Brit living in France for over ten years , I have discovered that many French, like Americans, do not travel well, if at all , in fact only around 10% have passports [a statistic shared with the USA, ] which produces a

Tripod collars

Hi folks I have a 300m f4 M*, great lens but really needs a tripod mountespecially if I use it witha X1.4 converter. Same problem as when I use my 200m F4M with a short tube for closeups There must be a 3rd party tripod colar that you can use on a lens, tube or extender

Coatpocket camera

Of couse I forgot my Olympus XA [35mm f2.8 auto with rangefinder] The Ricoh GR-1 is the same sixe..but packs in autofocus, flash [with autofill] and will fit in SHIRT pocket! Best Clive Antibes France

Coatpocket camera

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] two solutions: CHEAP 40mm f1.9 pancake lens attached to [well part of really] Canonet G111 rangefinder, $50-$100 on Ebay or $50 more for a black one like minefast quiet super lens takes your Pentax 49mm filters with a 48/49 stepup

Lens hood for 100mm

Alan Thanks! Obviously the obvious isn't so obvious or else everyone would be doing it! I'll start looking. Clive Antibes France

http://www.luminous-landscape.com

Thanks to the several of you who pointed me in this direction for a review of Voigtlander UWs, great site, and I like the look of the vdeo journal [an english speaking photo pogramme-cool!] Is anyone out ther subscribing? Any comments? Best Clive Antibes France

Meters

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have recently bought and like a POLARIS ambient/flash meter,digital redaout similar to Minolta but MUCH cheaper...comes with sliding incident/reflected dome and there is an optional 10 degree spot

Voiglander sytstem

Yes I know we all use Pentaxes and are therefore SLR people , however I am thinking of supplementing my kit with a small RF selection and of course the Voigtlander kit looks good pricewise, I'm paticularly taken with the superwide 15mm and 12mm which seem to me to be a different panoramic option

Incident/Reflected light metering

Ok , what I was taught doing my city and guilds commercial photography in 1969 was that the goal is to meter for the end result..therfore if the finished product is a print [viewed by reflected light ] then to calcualte exposure using areflected light method [grey card,

Meters

With the current interest in handheld meters I would be remiss not to point out my cuurent eaby auction for a calculight-X incident/reflected light meter [well two actually!] Have a look at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=29982item=2918679 885rd=1 Clive Antibes France

Russian tilt/shift 35mm

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] These are listed on ebay just put tilt/shift and photography into search and you'll get one that says nikon/minolta mount, he does it in K too! About USD 400 i think, therew's also a shift version aroundcat about USD 220. OK? Clive Antibes

France vs Florida

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually in both cases the major downside is the native population... Clive Antibes France

Political *stD

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter What a great offer, you already have my name down, does this mean if I make some insensitive and illinformed satement about aother nationalities [in other words behave like total w***er I'll get it free? Clive Antibes France

MACBURT

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What a wanker! Clive Evans Antibes France

Tilt/shift.............Russian lenses

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enough political bollocks... Has ny one out there any experience of the 35mm tilt/shift russian k mounts that appear on ebay. or ibdeed the 16mm fisheye zenitar kmount? CIive Evans Antibes FRANCE

Sreet Photos

get a loooking into camera version] and THANKYOU which also usaually gets another smile! Load any of these with TriX or CN400 and off you go! Clive Evans Antibes France

Unsubscribe

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Having a week away, don't wan tobe knee-deep on return! Clive Evans Antibes France

pentax-discuss-d Digest V03 #13

enntertainment...is this legal? Clive Evans Antibes, France [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pentax-discuss-d Digest V03 #14

Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Rob Yep the lug bit, you shouldn't have sent me those pix, I just can't get on with the sideways strap thing... Clive