Re: OT: Christchurch Cathedral

2012-03-03 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 11:16:19PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: From: David Mann On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Brian Walters wrote: I'm not sure that Councillor Keown's comments are at all helpful. Our esteemed city councillors are about the biggest bunch of squabbling brats you could

Re: LR Question: exposure vs. brightness

2012-02-26 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:58:08PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: Netpbm and Imagemagick are your friends. I wouldn't call ImageMagick anyone's friend. A reluctant servant who can most of the time be coerced into doing what you want without too much violence, perhaps - especially if you are

Re: OT Mary Ellen Mark on iconic images

2012-02-24 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:09:28PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: Speaking for myself, I find that disabling the LCD simply removes that distraction, and so encourages me to focus on the action (I'm somewhat ADD, so removing distractions helps me focus). It also speeds up shot-taking quite a bit

Re: Lens advice

2012-02-24 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:24:57AM -0800, Theodore Beilby wrote: Diane has given the ok for a new tele lens. I am torn between a DA * 300 and the 60-250. Anyone have any thoughts on them? Remember, I shoot a lot of airshow work and so the 300 would be nice for the reach, but, the 60-250

Re: NPR story on Yosemite waterfall photo (wow)

2012-02-21 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:41:10PM -0600, Darren Addy wrote: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/02/21/147206195/from-waterfall-to-lavafall-yosemites-fleeting-phenomenon Yep. I picked up his Photographer's Guide to Yosemite last year, and he (of course) mentions it there - in fact it's

Re: Instant JPEG from RAW utility

2012-02-14 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 07:30:04PM -0500, Christine Nielsen wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Yes, I'm not really sure just how often I'd use it... But the other day I had an oops moment shot a track meet full of jpegs before I realized

Re: Adobe market research?

2012-02-14 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:11:43AM -0600, Darren Addy wrote: Why in the world would they think that they can find any non-professional photographers in the San Francisco area? As Larry and I both shoot using Pentax, I think we qualify; everybody knows that professionals only use [insert brand

Re: Adobe market research?

2012-02-14 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 01:04:23AM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: I haven't check the veracity of this, but it could be interesting if it's for real: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/etc/2849892966.html Maybe I'm just a cynic, but I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot lightstand. It sounds like an

Re: OT - OM-D - WOW

2012-02-09 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:20:04AM -0700, steve harley wrote: on 2012-02-08 01:44 Cotty wrote http://www.dpreview.com/previews/olympusem5/ Very cool. It's a viewfinder Jim but not as we know it i am impressed by the promised functionality and the straightforward design; the live

Re: OT: Cadillac Cue Infotainment System

2012-02-09 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:09:02PM -0700, steve harley wrote: my laptop does about 100,000 mips (without considering the GPU) Are you sure you didn't add an order of magnitude there? A quad-core, 3GHz processor has 12,000M core-cycles a second. I find it hard to believe that even modern

Re: K-01: This is called damning with faint praise...

2012-02-09 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:44:18PM -0600, Walt Gilbert wrote: On 2/9/2012 10:22 PM, Darren Addy wrote: Headline: Pentax K-01 mirrorless camera doesn't feel as cheap as it looks by the powerful engadget:

Re: OT - OM-D - WOW

2012-02-08 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:44:03AM +, Cotty wrote: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/olympusem5/ Very cool. Hmm. I could see one of these joining the E-PL1 (assuming the price isn't totally unreasonable). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Nice

2012-02-08 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:05:28PM +1100, Rob Studdert wrote: On 8 February 2012 10:42, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: The colour noise that the D800E an produce is something I don't want to have to deal with. The D800E looks like a good landscape tool, despite the ridiculous

Re: Comments on the new lenses and Optio WG-2

2012-02-08 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:31:54AM -0800, John Celio wrote: 3. smc PENTAX-DA 50mm F1.8 I'll probably sell my FA 50mm 1.4 to get this lens. Why? I'd rather have the FA 1.4, myself. 6. Adapter Q for K mount lens This product was inevitable, but I'm glad they're releasing it relatively

Re: GFM 2012

2012-02-08 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 03:59:59PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Cotty wrote: On 8/2/12, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: Would there be any interest in a left coast, too poor to go to GFM, photo/camping trip? Hell I'd fly out for that! Yosemite!

Re: K-01 is here...

2012-02-05 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 07:28:32PM -, Bob W wrote: I dislike marmalade, but the best is Frank Coopers . . . Hardly. It's not bad (and certainly a cut above Golden Shred, let alone the high-fructose corn-syrup laden abominations perpetrated on the American publc by the likes of Smuckers),

Re: K-01 is here...

2012-02-05 Thread John Francis
Another successful campaign by the Toast Marketing Board! On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 07:41:04PM -0500, Steven Desjardins wrote: The ultimate disrespect for the K-01: it lost the battle for the hearts of the PDML to toast. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: K-01 is here...

2012-02-05 Thread John Francis
and depth of the arcane pedantry on this list is truly impressive. On 2/5/2012 4:07 PM, John Francis wrote: On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 07:28:32PM -, Bob W wrote: I dislike marmalade, but the best is Frank Coopers . . . Hardly. It's not bad (and certainly a cut above Golden Shred, let alone

Re: OT question for electronics geeks

2012-02-03 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 04:16:53PM -0700, steve harley wrote: on 2012-02-03 14:49 Mark Roberts wrote steve harley wrote: so Yamaha apparently has a tradition of indicating volume in dB; They aren't really indicating volume in dB, they are, as you noted, showing the amount of *attenuation*

Re: Lens road map

2012-02-02 Thread John Francis
Nope - the shots of the roadmap show the 50mm lens positioned right at the join of the 18-50 and 50-135, at a real 50mm. On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 06:04:57PM +0100, DagT wrote: DA standard 50mm? I guess someone is confusing with equivalents. Maybe a DA*31mm 1.8? :-) DA zoom Limited sounds like

Re: Lens road map

2012-02-02 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:17:15PM -0500, Igor Roshchin wrote: Thu Feb 2 11:45:31 EST 2012 Miserere wrote: 2013: - DA AF RC 1.4x teleconverter What does RC stand for besides Radio Control? I'd bet on something like range converter. With in-body SR, and zoom lenses, a

Re: K-01 is here...

2012-02-01 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 08:21:33AM -0800, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: ...and it is indeed ugly (IMHO): http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-k-01-forum/173674-k-01-leaked-photos.html I concur. But the product shot with it shown in front of an array of lenses does seem to suggest that it works

Re: K-01 is here...

2012-02-01 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:03:25PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: Who cares if the K01 looks like carp? Where I think it will really shine is in making use of M42 lenses. That's assuming it works with them, of course. IIRC, Pentax released at least one low-end body that just plain didn't work

Re: Two days until K-01 announcement

2012-01-31 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 01:11:55PM -0500, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:49 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2012-01-31 10:40 Darren Addy wrote Sorry. That should have read Newson-inspired design, not Newton. He invented physics. a design inspired by

Re: PDML Photo Annual - who's been in all 3 books so far?

2012-01-31 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:20:36AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: According to my records (let me know if I've missed anyone) the following photographers have contributed to all three books so far: [ . . . ] John Francis I suspect the string will be broken this year. When I look back at what I

Re: Perseverance in the face of adversity

2012-01-31 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:02:08PM -0500, Steven Desjardins wrote: Wow. I can only defer to your hyperpunousity. If you enjoy good (bad?) puns, I offer the one of which I was most proud. Several years ago I was the go-between setting up a meeting between two of my friends who each had an

Re: OT - Life of a wedding photographer

2012-01-28 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:19:06AM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:37 PM, David Parsons wrote: She is just as off-base as the dude that itemized his gear for a landscape shot. She actually sounds whinier than the CL poster. Nothing whiny about it. All too

Re: OT - Life of a wedding photographer

2012-01-28 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 02:24:11PM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: She's also entering some of her living expenses, which is a bit odd . . . More than simply a bit odd. She assigns costs for her house and car over the full year, rather than for just the four months she claims is her working

Re: Why Not RAW Format on ALL Digital Cameras?

2012-01-28 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:36:37PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: Interesting. Then why is it that if you photograph something like a white table, or snow, using normal metering, it comes out grey rather than white? Because the meter is dumb. That is exactly my point. There's no need

Re: Waaaayyyyy OT: Stereo receivers

2012-01-27 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:04:04PM -0400, Steve Sharpe wrote: The only decent experience I have had with Pioneer was a car deck, [. . .] I, like thousands of other students at the time, owned a Pioneer PL-12D (complete with a lightweight headshell and a Shure M75EDII cartridge). For the

Re: OT: largest digital camera in the world

2012-01-24 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:18:39AM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: On Jan 24, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Sensor arrays are used on large format backs. I watched a shooter work with a 4 x 5

Re: New Pentax EVIL rumor, with specs

2012-01-21 Thread John Francis
My guess would be that the new lens will have in-lens electronic aperture control, rather than a mechanical actuator. The body will presumably still work with (at least some of) the current lenses. As for the other points raised: the reason I'm not going is because the idea of a week of

Re: New Pentax EVIL rumor, with specs

2012-01-20 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:54:03AM -0700, Tom C wrote: If true, does anyone else have a bit of a problem understanding this strategy? Assuming I had a K-5, what would induce me to buy a mirrorless system that is essentially in all other respects, a K-5? And likely without the

Re: OT: Costa Concordia image from space

2012-01-19 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:38:00AM -0500, Evan Hanson wrote: The AIS replay of the ships route doesn't look good for the crew. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw4pVWYeplU It's not quite that simple, though. While the path taken by the ship was different from the one on the previous cruise

Re: So wrong

2012-01-19 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 04:01:11PM -0600, Darren Addy wrote: I think they are extremely well done. The color palettes she has used appear to be very right for the time periods. That was about my opinion, too. I first saw (most of) these a few days ago when they were posted somewhere else (not

Re: New Pentax EVIL rumor, with specs

2012-01-19 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:42:13PM -0500, Mark C wrote: For me, all of the mirrorless systems are still too big for the times when I need a small camera to slip into my pocket. You obviously need bigger (and deeper?) pockets. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: Canon DSLR vs Rolleicord

2012-01-18 Thread John Francis
There are special grips for vice? I gotta get me a pair ... On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:42:35AM -0500, kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: Actually, I'd take the vicegrips - more versatile. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Larry

Re: Testing...Testing... (again)

2012-01-16 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:56:17PM +1100, Brian Walters wrote: Hmmm Well this is getting odder and odder. Just for kicks, I set up a second Fastmail account for PDML mail and, hey presto, it received my reply to Doug. But the original Fastmail account hasn't. It's a mystery. I'll

Re: Fuji X Pro 1 (X100 + interchangeable lenses)

2012-01-12 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:25:52AM -0500, David Parsons wrote: Because M43 has the same registration distance as the K mount. You'd need an optical adapter to use M43 lenses properly. You're confusing Four Thirds with Micro Four Thirds. The 4/3 register distance is about the same as that of

Re: Fuji X Pro 1 (X100 + interchangeable lenses)

2012-01-10 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 07:41:54AM -0500, Steven Desjardins wrote: IMHO, the EVF is probably the best actual route to provide accurate framing and information in non-reflex cameras. The optical one looks nicer, but it's not as useful a tool in terms of information provided. Of course, we're

Re: 1st K-5 Glitch

2012-01-10 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:39:32AM -0800, Jack Davis wrote: While shooting, with some intensity, the K-5's shutter suddenly refused to release. I turned the camera off, but the LED remained frozen. Turned the camera off and on a couple times, but no change. Having read of such incidents

Re: Fuji X Pro 1 (X100 + interchangeable lenses)

2012-01-10 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:52:24AM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 9:47 AM, John Francis wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 07:41:54AM -0500, Steven Desjardins wrote: IMHO, the EVF is probably the best actual route to provide accurate framing and information in non-reflex

Re: size comparison

2012-01-02 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:47:11AM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: In another forum, there was a discussion about what kit people take on spontaneous photo walks. Several people mentioned how their primary camera (Nikon D2x and the like) was too big and heavy got me thinking about how my K-5

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-31 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 06:11:54AM +, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't assume anything John, I was giving a worst case scenario, an extreme example to prove my point, which was that there's a difference between legally right (and wrong) and morally right (and wrong). I wasn't

Re: K-5 Battery Grip DBG-4

2011-12-30 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 08:43:59AM -0600, Charles Robinson wrote: On Dec 30, 2011, at 7:05, David J Brooks wrote: I like the size of the K-10D, and will be looking at the K-5 either today or Saturday, depending on when this frezzing rain goes away. I found the istD a bit to small, so

Re: Photos of Children

2011-12-30 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:42:27PM -0500, David Parsons wrote: People get a special kind of psycho when it's their own spawn. You really can't reason with them, even when the law is on your side. Oh, it doesn't have top be their own spawn. There's knee-jerk reaction to the combination of

Re: K-5, WOW

2011-12-28 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:20:52AM -0600, Christine Aguila wrote: Very cool! Congrats on the K-5. I used the grip on the K-10 20, but never got around to buying it for the K-75. I'm finding I really don't have the urge to use it. I really don't want to add the weight. I always advocated

Re: Happy Holidays! The PDML Quotations Archive 2011 is open!

2011-12-25 Thread John Francis
Great content, timely delivery, and an accurate title. Pick two. (The HTML Title tag claims this is the 2010 quotations list). Seriously, though - thanks, Mark! And 2012 is off to a good start ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: FILM shot wins Pop Photo contest

2011-12-24 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 09:52:56AM -0600, Darren Addy wrote: http://www.popphoto.com/gallery/18th-annual-readers-photo-contest 8x10 film And a $2700 lens that is the equiv. of the Pentax 15mm rectilinear on a full frame 35mm. And clearly post-processed (very well). Still, I'm happy to

Re: Shooting through glass

2011-12-22 Thread John Francis
On initial outlay, maybe. But the cost-per-use is what bites. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 03:44:48PM -0500, Steven Desjardins wrote: A brick is even cheaper. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Bet ya could make one for a lot less than $49.00 The

Re: OT - Photographic Oasis

2011-12-19 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 07:39:21PM +, Cotty wrote: On 19/12/11, Dario Bonazza, discombobulated, unleashed: Main improvement suggested: get rid of that optical viewfinder and replace it with a good EVF a la Panasonic. That would kill it for me Dario. The best EVF in the world is still a

Re: 3 for 3

2011-12-16 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 06:56:31PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: John Francis wrote: Now that iPads and the like are becoming more common, assuming landscape orientation for the display is becoming a riskier proposition, but it is still probably good enough for 99% of the users (Occupy

Re: How are your older color negatives holding up?

2011-12-15 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:45:56PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: From: Evan Hanson I've recently been going through some negatives from the early 80s and I'm shocked by hold well some of them held up and how poorly others did not. I was a kid so most of the times I'm sure I was buying the

Re: 3 for 3

2011-12-15 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 02:27:04PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: David Parsons wrote: The dimensions requirement is screwy. I had to resize some landscape orientation pictures to be 900 pixels tall. Who codes a viewer exclusively by how tall a picture is? Anyone who expects viewers to be

Re: I blame Savage

2011-12-14 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:27:09PM -, Bob W wrote: Who's to say it isn't? Larry's showing us his bosons interacting with oddly-flavoured quarks. The uncertainty of the spin is a bit strange. What's strange is that this is the first time any body has told me that my

Re: OT: Most surprising Pictures of the Year

2011-12-13 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:48:26AM -0500, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Re: I blame Savage

2011-12-13 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 04:25:35PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: On 12/13/2011 4:02 PM, Peter Loveday wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6503305225/ For some reason, given the subject, I was expecting this to

Re: Could you do an SDM adaptall?

2011-12-12 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:55:59PM -0500, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote: I even suggested a business idea for a photoshop/LR plugin that would draw a large format frame around your photo, making it look as if it was shot that

Re: Lens optimized for nonexistent camera

2011-12-12 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:44:09AM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:40 AM, Larry Colen wrote: On Dec 11, 2011, at 10:24 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: I take it that it's specially designed for the MZ-D, (or K-1 as it was rebranded by Pentax marketing in Japan or maybe somebody

Re: Lens optimized for nonexistent camera

2011-12-12 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:45:46AM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: From: P. J. Alling On 12/12/2011 8:44 AM, John Sessoms wrote: On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:40 AM, Larry Colen wrote: On Dec 11, 2011, at 10:24 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: I take it that it's specially designed for the MZ-D, (or K-1 as

Re: Lens optimized for nonexistent camera

2011-12-12 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:48:26PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: John Francis wrote: My PZ-1p has exactly the same set of contacts as my K-5. The digital signals flowing over the signal path may be different, but the physical electrical interface is the same. Are there digital signals

Re: OT: Duet of Bagpipes Harmonica

2011-12-12 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:53:17PM -0500, David J Brooks wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi ramar...@mac.com wrote: It isn't actually off topic except that it has no Pentax content in it. http://gallery.me.com/godders#100418 Oh Cotty! Godfrey (I tested this

Re: Another doorway

2011-12-07 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 11:02:56PM -, Bob W wrote: -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Don Guthrie Sent: 07 December 2011 22:23 To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Another doorway Another Door to Nowhere The store

Re: OT: Zoespokes

2011-12-05 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 07:09:22AM +0100, mike wilson wrote: On 02/12/2011 18:27, Bob W wrote: Much better than pink shiny tassles: http://www.photoweeklyonline.com/awesome-bicycle-animation/ I wonder if they actually work as you view them in real life. Even zoetropes had a rudimentary

Re: Before there was Lightroom...

2011-12-05 Thread John Francis
Oh, I remember Silicon Graphics - I worked for them for four years on the Octane2 product (last of the desktop workstations). I worked in the buildings that were sold to Google. My wife used to work for the Computer History Museum, which bought the building which housed SGI's main marketing

Re: K-5 is shipped off to CRIS

2011-12-05 Thread John Francis
Original Message from: Larry Colen l...@red4est.com Mind you, I've got a bunch of folks coming over to play with cameras on the 17th, and it would be really nice to have a working K-5, but that's not looking too likely. So if it's absolutely essential that you have a K-5 for that day, why not

Re: OT: For the Cat lovers on the list

2011-12-01 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 09:58:12PM +1300, David Mann wrote: On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Brian Walters wrote: On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:59 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: A French designer cat carrier:

Re: New electronic version of old Kodak footprints available for USNational Parks

2011-12-01 Thread John Francis
Yeah. It's just a tool in the photographers arsenal. When I see photographs taken by PDML members I'm often prompted to try and do something similar (that doesn't necessarily mean slavishly recreate the image; just produce something comparable). Seeing the other photograph lets me know the

Re: OT: Best option for travel storage?

2011-11-26 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 01:30:59PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: Turned out I didn't use the backup hard-drive at all. We had such a tight itinerary I didn't even manage to fill up all of my cards. I copy to some other form of storage (normally my laptop - I put a 500GB drive in it just for that

Re: Up Mount Washington

2011-11-26 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 03:14:00AM +, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: ~Very~ cool pic. Literally. ;-) Since you hiked up, does that mean you didn't get the ubiquitous bumper sticker? ;-) Hah! I've got one of those bumper stickers. Mind you, kids today get it easy; they get a paved

Re: The one true book

2011-11-23 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:16:30AM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: From: Bipin Gupta Bob, that's the right thing to do. We don't want clutter in the house. And books invite worms too. What with plentiful resources on the net, who wants books anyway? Bipin. They're a handy backup when the

Re: Questioning the DA* 50-135

2011-11-23 Thread John Francis
That was my take on the bent stem issue. But I'm not sure that is what we're supposed to be looking at. There are pronounced circular artifacts visible in the image. The most obvious are the ones centred in the frame (concentric with the circle added in the second, cropped, image), but there are

Re: What are you working on to improve your photography?

2011-11-22 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:50:22PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: What I think is a much more productive question to discuss, is what you are doing, or have you done, to improve your own photography? To be honest - nothing with that as an explicit goal. My photography is a hobby, not a driving

Re: Aaargghh!! More stupid K-5 tricks

2011-11-19 Thread John Francis
I think Larry must be one of these guys that emit invisible fields that affect cameras (or make digital watches run slow). To my recollection he's had problems with his K20D, an AF540, and the K-5 (and that doesn't count damage from dropping any other camera). That's definitely more than one

Re: Stupid K-5 Trick

2011-11-18 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:03:01PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: From: Paul Stenquist I have noticed on both the K10D K20D with battery grips that when the camera is set to use the battery in the grip first, it does not automatically switch over to the battery in the camera when the battery

Re: OT 11/11/11 11:11

2011-11-12 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:00:34PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: On 11/11/2011 7:41 PM, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Walter Hamler wrote: http://walthamler.smugmug.com/Photography/Micro-Four-Thirds-Gallery/16211247_xdtsCW#1578967129_9wLqnCP-XL-LB Where were

Re: OT 11/11/11 11:11

2011-11-12 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:31:52PM +0100, mike wilson wrote: On 12/11/2011 19:23, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:00:34PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: On 11/11/2011 7:41 PM, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Walter Hamler wrote: http

Re: OT - well not really OT but officially OT - Grandfather Mountain

2011-11-11 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:02:01PM +, Cotty wrote: On 11/11/11, Cotty, discombobulated, unleashed: Indeed. I was filming her as she worked, it's in the video... http://vimeo.com/9087452 oops sorry, correct: http://vimeo.com/user2607591/review/9087452/203d039142 While you're doing

Re: OT 11/11/11 11:11

2011-11-11 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Walter Hamler wrote: http://walthamler.smugmug.com/Photography/Micro-Four-Thirds-Gallery/16211247_xdtsCW#1578967129_9wLqnCP-XL-LB Where were you and what were you doing :-) I could tell you, but you probably wouldn't want to know. Suffice it to say

Re: Need a little help from my friends

2011-11-05 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 09:41:56PM -, Bob W wrote: just for a change I sometimes have Soylent Green Pop-Tarts. http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/wacky-edibles/e9aa/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the

Re: OT: Does anyone know what this is called?

2011-11-05 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 08:56:01PM -0400, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Ever seen one before? Need to know about it. http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/1568589808_wZQrwxR/Large T I A ann Looks like a German Christmas Pyramid (missing the fan

Re: Luminous Landscape mentions Pentax in their Photoplus show roundup

2011-11-04 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 12:56:22PM -0400, Ken Waller wrote: I'd say the vast majority of potential camera buyers are not near enough to a trade show like this to attend, so from that standpoint this issue is a non starter. It's Pentax's availability at retail outlets that should be a concern

Re: OT: Lytro...STUNNING technology

2011-11-01 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 04:47:38PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: What follows is a post about Lytro technology from another list I subscribe to... (informative, so thought I would share). Yes - that's the research paper out of Stanford, when they were using a 16MP Contax camera. When I saw their

Re: PESO: A Real Sports Car

2011-11-01 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 05:37:11AM +0100, mike wilson wrote: On 31/10/2011 23:25, Paul Stenquist wrote: Nope. That's not a real sports car. It's an Excalibur ?? a reproduction of a 1929 Mercedes roadster body on a Pontiac chassis. But it's a nice photo of an unreal sports car:-). Paul

Re: Everyone's a photographer, take three

2011-10-31 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:55:42AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: When I saw Paul joining the bandwagon, I had to jump on with this shot from the PDML outing on Saturday. No, she wasn't one of the PDML crowd. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6299046803/in/set-72157627896447265/ And, of

Re: Everyone's a Photographer, Take Two

2011-10-31 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:56:36AM -0700, Keith Mosier wrote: Paul, ? Great snap.? I never could resist taking the photos of everyone else taking photos.? If I could just find the negative of an early 70's East Coast surfing championship model being snapped by every young man on the

Re: Everyone's a photographer, take three

2011-10-31 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:27:33AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: On 10/31/2011 10:58 AM, John Francis wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:55:42AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: When I saw Paul joining the bandwagon, I had to jump on with this shot from the PDML outing on Saturday. No, she wasn't one

Re: Everyone's a photographer, take three

2011-10-31 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 01:19:06PM -0500, Charles Robinson wrote: On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:55, Larry Colen wrote: When I saw Paul joining the bandwagon, I had to jump on with this shot from the PDML outing on Saturday. No, she wasn't one of the PDML crowd.

Re: Everyone's a photographer, take three

2011-10-31 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 02:50:49PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: On Oct 31, 2011, at 2:48 PM, John Francis wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:27:33AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: On 10/31/2011 10:58 AM, John Francis wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:55:42AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote

Re: Everyone's a photographer, take three

2011-10-31 Thread John Francis
. ;) On 10/31/2011 2:03 PM, John Francis wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6299046803/in/set-72157627896447265/ As I mention in another post, the colour balance here makes that a slighlty easier mistake to make than it was at the scene. But at the time I did wonder if she

Re: Aperture Size Question

2011-10-30 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 03:55:21PM -0400, Mark C wrote: Thanks - I just checked Wikipedia and got the equation for the area of an f-stop: Area = PI x (focal length / f-stop)^2. Comparing 50mm and 100mm confirms that the size of a 100mm f-stop is the same as the f-stop two stops lower in

Re: Buy early and buy often.

2011-10-28 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:09:11PM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: Taiwan? Does he know anything about Thailand? stan All i was sent, sorry Stan. Nothing about Pentax , just Nikon and Canon items. You miss the

Re: peso - cube 2.0 (NSFW)

2011-10-28 Thread John Francis
For you, maybe. Is my case, when I click on the Sasha Sobol's Gallery tab, I get to a page showing 30 albums. The 2nd one on the top row is an album from Oct 9 2011 entitled flowers containing one image (of a purple flower). Maybe you see something different if you have a Picasa Web account?

Re: peso - cube 2.0 (NSFW)

2011-10-28 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:31:26PM -0700, Sasha Sobol wrote: Second photo (his peso): https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9vvEVkjWG1IZOACnrrDth5Rr_EHRn2XKJGQ2o3vSKfo?feat=directlink First photo (I posted it before):

Re: Egg, bacon, Dobo and Spam

2011-10-26 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:50:28AM +0200, mike wilson wrote: On 25/10/2011 15:22, Bob W wrote: I received a junk email earlier with a link to some crap (didn't try it) purportedly from Frank and copied to some other current and former PDMLers, including the famed Dobo. Somebody's address book

Re: OT: Query for the cyclists

2011-10-26 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 01:39:14PM -0400, Sam L wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 3:03, Bob W wrote: think about getting a saddle bag rather than a rack panniers. Saddle bags are well out of fashion but they are far more practical than a rack panniers, and much better than using a backpack.

Re: Help Fill the Gap: 12-24mm and 77mm

2011-10-25 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 08:04:19PM -0600, steve harley wrote: on 2011-10-24 17:37 Larry Colen wrote On 10/24/2011 4:31 PM, Michael Beacom wrote: The Pentax Forum review of the FA 50mm 1.7 looks pretty interesting, any opinions? The M version is a really sweet lens, and I wouldn't be

Re: PPG relaunched...

2011-10-24 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:29:30AM -0700, Tim Bray wrote: That web site is, to use a technical term, b0rked. Various flavors of breakage in various browsers. Given the huge number of competent Web design/staging shops everywhere in the world, it puzzles me how it's possible to produce such a

Re: Pentax and Ricoh launch a new company.

2011-10-23 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 05:02:59PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: I was amused last night, when I was looking to see when the PPG would be updated (tomorrow?) I stumbled across a link to http://pentaxian.com which features Godfrey and his K10D on it. And Mark Dimalanta - another name long-time

Re: Help Fill the Gap: 12-24mm and 77mm

2011-10-22 Thread John Francis
Quite. The 43mm is the ideal lens to fill the 24-77mm gap. (The crop factor from 24 to 43 is as close to exactly equal to the crop factor from 43 to 77 as you could hope to get). On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 01:11:12PM -0400, Stan Halpin wrote: Or the 43mm Limited which would cost less and possibly

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