Re: Just bought a 35mm 2.8 - any good?

2002-06-13 Thread Creature's Comfort
, please! --- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

Re: Pentax WILL produce a digital SLR!

2002-03-29 Thread Creature's Comfort
people would stay with Pentax, and try to duplicate what they have now, if every piece of their gear disappeared and was replaced with an equivalent sum of money. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe

Re: Black limited lens coating - does it wear?

2002-03-20 Thread Creature's Comfort
Ys, satin - sort of like the latest LX compared to the earlier ones - that's the word for which I was looking. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They appear satin rather than gloss. I have no idea how they wear. Kind regards from sunny Brighton -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT 510-235-7648

Re: Mz-M, basic Photography and some questions ..

2002-01-07 Thread Creature's Comfort
when it comes to image quality. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT 510-235-7648 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http

Re: Angenieux Zoom Pentax K mount on eBay

2001-12-22 Thread Creature's Comfort
/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1311880669 -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

Re: Angenieux Zoom Pentax K mount on eBay

2001-12-22 Thread Creature's Comfort
, it could replace three lenses in the light travel kit. Paul Creature's Comfort wrote: That's an amazingly good lens, and the kit offered is superb. It's one zoom amongst a few very select zooms, that I'd like to have in my collection. Fred wrote: Well, your URL is still

Re: One airline bans all carry-on luggage

2001-10-02 Thread Creature's Comfort
at their destination - it just depends on the film choice and the destination. I know that Bob has been to places where many types of film are unavailable, as have I. While I don't unequivocally advocate shipping film, there may well be times when it's a good choice. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S

Re: One airline bans all carry-on luggage

2001-10-01 Thread Creature's Comfort
importantly, the confusion, will soon settle out, as a standard set of rules and regulations will take effect. Then we'll all know what's possible and what the best options are for each of us. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss

Re: More Yipping from the PUG Guy

2001-08-31 Thread Creature's Comfort
. We will no longer be publishing submissions taken with non Pentax cameras and lenses. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: More Yipping from the PUG Guy

2001-08-31 Thread Creature's Comfort
not, of course, preclude one from showing their work here, via links to web sites and home pages, made with other equipment. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow

Re: What is Pentax equipment?

2001-08-31 Thread Creature's Comfort
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What's Your Shooting Style?

2001-08-30 Thread Creature's Comfort
. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

Re: MZ-S vs. LX

2001-08-29 Thread Creature's Comfort
to Pentax.) My S/N starts with 523 - not the earliest but still in the mid '80s I think. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget

Re: One Sentence

2001-08-28 Thread Creature's Comfort
. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

Re: Completely OT: gripe of the day

2001-07-25 Thread Creature's Comfort
tom wrote: Life's rough. I'm drinking kirsch, and I pour some for the PDML! Get yourself some single malt and all your troubles will go away. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http

Re: record priced K105/2.8

2001-07-25 Thread Creature's Comfort
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Pentax Photos at National Geographic

2001-07-25 Thread Creature's Comfort
Here's a fun way to spend some time: Go to http://www.nationalgeographic.com and type Pentax in the SEARCH OUR SITE box at the top of the page. This returns links to NG pages with Pentax pictures. Also interesting to compare the number of hits when searching for leica, contax, nikon, etc. -

Re: What lens for an LX?!

2001-06-24 Thread Creature's Comfort
. A camera, no matter how cheap or expensive, no matter how common or how rare, is little more than a place to hold the film flat while the lens, whatever its value, goes about the job of creating the image on the film. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from

Re: MZ-S and Others

2001-06-18 Thread Creature's Comfort
to put everything in proper perspective vbg -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http

Re: Pentax Spotmeter V

2001-06-18 Thread Creature's Comfort
complete with manual and zippered case? -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http

Re: OT: Darkroom Horror

2001-06-18 Thread Creature's Comfort
dots. I agitate regularly. Any ideas? -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http

Re: Portrait lens wanted

2001-05-31 Thread Creature's Comfort
$$, are worth less when converted to U.S. values gdr) -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http

Re: EB: misleading auction

2001-05-01 Thread Creature's Comfort
to offer me $75 for my steller example of the apparently rare non-A Takumar Bayonet 135/2.5? *L* -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget

PUG Commentary - John Mason's Night Train

2001-05-01 Thread Creature's Comfort
, this one just doesn't cut it for me. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .

PUG Commentary - Take Ueda's Tomorrow

2001-05-01 Thread Creature's Comfort
to be growing out of the woman's right shoulder - another distraction. This is the kind of photo where less detail would offer more impact. Here's a simple, quick crop without the light pole. http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/tomorrow2.jpg What do you think? -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S

Re: PUG Commentary - John Mason's Night Train

2001-05-01 Thread Creature's Comfort
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Re: PUG Commentary - Take Ueda's Tomorrow

2001-05-01 Thread Creature's Comfort
would have improved things, maybe not. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Takehiko Ueda wrote: Hi Shel, Thank you for your comment. First there's the motorcycle that shows in the distance between the two people. Did you notice it when making the shot

Re: LX's viewfinder brightness

2001-04-30 Thread Creature's Comfort
I went out shooting with another Pentax owner some months ago. I was using the LX with an SA-23 screen and an A28/2.0 lens. Raph was using a PZ-1p and a Tokina 2.8 zoom. He was startled at how bright the LX finder was. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Subject: RE: Agfa APX 25

2001-04-30 Thread Creature's Comfort
Why don't you change the topic of this thread ... it's no longer got anything to do with Agfa APX25, or even photography. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tanya Russell Mayer wrote: Well, you're not supposed to eat it with a spoon, silly. IMNSHO little

Re: Way OT :Re: PUG Themes

2001-04-30 Thread Creature's Comfort
to a family of newcomers, who had recently moved to NYC in search of a better life. When they saw how well we'd done, their spirits were bolstered, knowing they'd made the right choice. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Scott wrote: You win-the only flood I've ever

Re: Limited camera (WAS: Good bye LX...)

2001-04-29 Thread Creature's Comfort
to see wether this will be the MZ-4, 2 or 1.] Pål - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT

Re: Lens shade

2001-04-24 Thread Creature's Comfort
are, however, correct that the other hoods will fit. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery at http

Re: Fast, Clean Glass* (200/2.8A*, 300/4A*, 300/2.8A*) at RitzCamera online

2001-04-24 Thread Creature's Comfort
and up. I have the insurance level for that lens at $700. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users' Gallery

Re: Film improvement question (rhetorical)

2001-04-24 Thread Creature's Comfort
enlargements than ever before? Sure, that would be wonderful, but for how many people? And how many rolls of film? The world ain't what it used to be, Chris. Mediocrity rules. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Old Cameras, Old Lenses, Old Emulsions

2001-04-23 Thread Creature's Comfort
you got it at a better price than I did ... those can be spendy items. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users

Re: Lens shade

2001-04-23 Thread Creature's Comfort
want to buy the lens, case, and hood as a unit (the items are to be sold) and then resell the lens and case ... seems like a lot of work, and i certainly don't expect you to do all that, but that's the best I can do at this time. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kodak Portra 400 BW Images

2001-04-21 Thread Creature's Comfort
I just want to be clear that the photos made with the new film are not mine. I just posted the URL so those interested could see some results the film can produce. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Kodak Portra 400 BW Images

2001-04-20 Thread Creature's Comfort
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dkieltyka/Portra400BW.htm -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 Pentax Users