Re: It's here (was: Another pre-PMA rumour...)

2006-02-23 Thread Pål Jensen
The camera seem quite large. It could in fact include in-body stabilizer. If it does this will be my first digital camera. The 645D have the green button. It seem to mimick the K-mount cameras interface. Pål

Re: *IST-D / DS & High speed action!

2006-02-23 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, you can. If you have enough time. Pre focusing at the point where you GUESS the athelete will be in 10 secs. But when the action actually happends, using a 2.5 FPS camera is like going to Las Vegas with just 10 USD in

Re: Another pre-PMA rumour...

2006-02-23 Thread Pål Jensen
Dario wrote: The supposed early announcement of the D2 (or whatever they're going to call it) is approaching. Just a couple of days to go for the PMA to begin... Is this supposed to be the good one, the semi-pro thing, or is it just another of the endless permutations of the 6Mp *istD? P

Re: Another pre-PMA rumour...

2006-02-23 Thread Pål Jensen
Dario wrote: The supposed early announcement of the D2 (or whatever they're going to call it) is approaching. Just a couple of days to go for the PMA to begin... REPLY:Is this supposed to be the good one, the semi-pro thing, or is it just another of the endless permutations of the 6Mp *istD?Pål

Re: Pentax Has Finally Admitted..

2006-02-20 Thread Pål Jensen
Joseph wrote: These lenses, if I understand correctly, are produced to meet individual orders. I've never understood that. The metal parts have to be stamped in advance and sitting around, don't they? Or are the metal parts hand-machined and painted for each order? Are the optics produced when

Image quality in Photoshop

2006-02-11 Thread Pål Jensen
Why is it when I open a scanned image saved as TIFF files in Photoshop the quality is much deteriorated compared to the original scan. That is, if I open the file in Nikon Scan 4.0 the image is great. In Photoshop sharpness is reduced and there are noise artefacts as well. Any idea? Pål

Re: The Sacrifices

2006-02-11 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For me, the harshest environment is whale watching. I own one of these: http://www.zodiacmarine.com/uk/bombard/familles/fiche.cfm?num_modele=29 I use my camera equipent all summer in this boat and keep it in an ordinary camer

Re: Lenses for 645D?

2006-02-11 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oh, this is about Pentax MF stuff - as opposed to Pentax 35mm. Why is that an issue? You want to use MF lenses for 35mm cameras or DSLR's? Pentax MF lenses (645) should be excellent if Pentax wants to be compeditive in

Re: Lenses for 645D?

2006-02-11 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 35mm lenses sharper than MF-lenses? No way. The DOF is greater due to the smaller format. That's all. The rest is a question of polishing glass. Of course the 35-mm lenses are smaller, thus smaller tolerences - in order to o

Re: Lenses for 645D?

2006-02-10 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Bob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This whole thing about MF lenses being less sharp is largely mythical. Nothing mythical about my lenses. I have the 645 - K adapter and compare the lenses with K mount lenses of similar focal lenght on a K mount body. Both

Re: Lenses for 645D?

2006-02-10 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "jtainter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But if MF lenses are less sharp than 35 mm. lenses, I wonder if existing MF lenses will be good enough for a digital sensor? As we know, some lenses that do well (or okay) in 35 mm. do not perform so well on APS-C. Will 645D

Re: Digital darkroom frustrations!

2006-02-10 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You shouldn't be scanning your negative at 360 dpi. You do want to END UP with a ready for the printer image that's sized at 360 dpi. For example, an 11 x 17 image area at 360 dpi would be about 72 megabytes. To arrive at that kind of r

Re: Digital darkroom frustrations!

2006-02-10 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Scott Loveless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Turn off fast printing if it's on. If you're using glossy paper, don't use the "best photo" setting. Drop it to "Photo RPM" if it's an option. It turns out that it can be done after all. Aparently it isn't enough to

Re: Digital darkroom frustrations!

2006-02-10 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You shouldn't be scanning your negative at 360 dpi. You do want to END UP with a ready for the printer image that's sized at 360 dpi. For example, an 11 x 17 image area at 360 dpi would be about 72 megabytes. To arrive at that kind of

Re: Digital darkroom frustrations!

2006-02-10 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Scott Loveless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you're using glossy paper, don't use the "best photo" setting. Drop it to "Photo RPM" if it's an option. It won't let me do that! I can select Photo RPM. After I've pressed the OK button and go back and check agai

Digital darkroom frustrations!

2006-02-10 Thread Pål Jensen
Aaaargh...Just got the replacement Epson R2400 printer just to experience that this one also give horizontal stripes (paper in portrait position), although not as pronounced as the first one. Everything is different from when I had the first sample: the software is new, printer driver is new, th

Re: Two high-end Pentax DSLR this year

2006-02-09 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wonder which body concept they finally settled on for the 645D. It is a cross between all of them. I suggested such a cross in detail in a post on PDML at that time. When we finally see the final body I'll dig out my post and how cl

Re: New High End DSLR Speculation

2006-02-09 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "dick graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Let the speculation start now. This site thrives on second guessing upcoming Pentax products. It seems very likely that it will be an 8 meg camera with image stabilization, seeing that the new point & shoot A-10 offers t

Re: Two high-end Pentax DSLR this year

2006-02-09 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Note that the BJP article says the *645* digital is being introduced at Photokina. 35mm-class DSLR could certainly be sooner. Not really. The article do say that "as like the 645D, it is hoped that these products will g

Re: Two high-end Pentax DSLR this year

2006-02-09 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Mishka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this is a very disppointing news. How is it dissapointing that pentax will show a high-end body at Photokina? Would it be better if they didn't? I assume the camera will be competitive at the release date, not competitive by

Re: Two high-end Pentax DSLR this year

2006-02-08 Thread Pål Jensen
This is particularly interesting: "He also predicted that Pentax would introduce a new lens range to go with the new DSLRs: 'I can foresee us bringing out lenses of focal lengths and maximum apertures that we haven't seen before, which is very exciting.' He added: 'Having more lenses is quite

Re: Two high-end Pentax DSLR this year

2006-02-08 Thread Pål Jensen
" "'We showed a number of prototypes a short while ago, all of which were conceptually based on the 645 film camera. One particular design has been chosen, which is basically a mix between the best bits of all of them." About the 645D. I suggested exactly such a mixture. It will be fun (for

Two high-end Pentax DSLR this year

2006-02-08 Thread Pål Jensen
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=315495

Re: Bloomburg on Pentax financial woes

2006-01-28 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Pål Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ""We'll shift focus to more profitable single-lens reflex digital cameras, to offset price declines in compact types," Urano said. Pentax plans to raise the pace of new model intr

Re: Bloomburg on Pentax financial woes

2006-01-28 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Bob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Interesting analysis: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/19/bloomberg/sxpentax.php This part is quite interesting: ""We'll shift focus to more profitable single-lens reflex digital cameras, to offset price declines in

Re: Analog enablement

2006-01-27 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks. Good for me then ;-) I should shortly have FA 120/4 macro then I will look for something longer, perhaps 150-300 which you like very much. Both these lenses are among the best in the line-up. Pål

Re: Analog enablement

2006-01-27 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was referring to the sweeping statement made in the 1st sentence... :-) "The zoom lenses are as good or better than the primes." The only exception I can think of is the FA 35/3.5

Re: Analog enablement

2006-01-27 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Sylwester Pietrzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pål, what about FA 45-85 that I bought? I read it is a good performer, but I'd like to hear from you :-) It is excellent. Pentax loaned me one for 9 months. It is significantly better than the FA 45/2.8 except for

Re: Analog enablement

2006-01-27 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Gasha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would like to hear about quality of zoom lens. The zoom lenses are as good or better than the primes. All of the zooms flare less than the FA 45/2.8 lens. Pål

Re: Analog enablement

2006-01-27 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wonder if this is the same everywhere? No Pål

Web Page

2006-01-27 Thread Pål Jensen
I plan to set up my own web page dedicated to my photography. I am a novice in web page design and everything associated with it. I need to know it all! Any tips you may have from design, software, web page provider, selling images over the net... whatever..will be welcomed. Pål

Re: Analog enablement

2006-01-27 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Sylwester Pietrzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just arrived: very nice 645n with FA 45-85/4.5! What a nice piece of pro equipment. Too bad Pentax doesn't make something similar for K-mount... So now my film photos will be rather only 6x4.5 ;-) Digital shmigital

Re: lens around to buy?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'll be the first to admit that Pentax moves in mysterious ways. Not having product available for sale when people want it is a strange way to run a business. Pentax needs to get their act together this year. This means

Re: lens around to buy?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are kidding, try and buy something other than a consumer zoom, an FA200/4 macro perhaps? I wonder how many of the FA* 200/4 Macro they have sold. 50 perhaps? Pål

Re: lens around to buy?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have to say that I'm more interested in the availability of good second-hand lenses. In the past couple of years I've enabled myself with all the Limiteds (bar the new DA), and 20mm, 50mm 1.4 and 1.7, 100mm 2.8 macro, 2

Re: lens around to buy?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, there's a lot of demand for exotic Pentax glass. Have you checked out the prices on ebay? That doesn't mean that the demand is high. Only that the demand is higher than the supply Pål

Re: lens around to buy?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pentax still sells several film bodies. The MZ-M, *ist and MZ-70 and MZ-50. Sell? Well, I doubt they sell a lot. Besides, hardly anyone buy these camera for use with 200/2.8 lenses. A 200/2.8 isn't exactly exotic glass ei

Re: lens around to buy?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Exactly! And the thing is these relatively inexpensive lenses should never be 'off the shelf' if there is a demand. Pentax shooting themselves in the foot again. They're likely creating a continous cycle of customer frustrat

Re: lens around to buy?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Either a mfr. is producing a given lens a and it's widely available for purchase at numerous vendors, or it's been discontinued. The fact that there have been numerous shortages and wait times to get what are presumably lenses

Re: lens around to buy?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ¨ Either a mfr. is producing a given lens a and it's widely available for purchase at numerous vendors, or it's been discontinued. The fact that there have been numerous shortages and wait times to get what are presumably lense

Re: Which lens do you use most?

2006-01-26 Thread Pål Jensen
Pentax FA645 33-55/4,5. - Original Message - From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:44 AM Subject: Which lens do you use most? Gang, This is not really meant as a survey, but it would be interesting to hear other people's preferences. Cou

Re: P645D

2006-01-25 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yep, the 31 is not exactly petite. That depends on perspective. If it had been a Canon lens it would have been among the most compact available in the EF mount. Pål

Re: *ist DL2

2006-01-25 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patents aren't products. Realizing and optimising a sensor which is of a different technology type and size than they have previously delivered will take time. But for all we know they may already hace realized and opti

Re: *ist DL2

2006-01-25 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Someone mentioned on this list that Samsung has not made the type of CCD required for a DSLR... If this is true and they decide to start making them now (or Pentax decides to make them, which they have shown no intention of

Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax

2006-01-24 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 3:30 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax Pål Jensen wrote: - Original Message - From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax

2006-01-24 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They may sell to a handful of crazy Pentax enthusiasts and equipment collectors but beyond that who do you really expect would be interested? Everyone who want better image quality that can be provided by a Canon and d

Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax

2006-01-24 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At this stage are you guessing as to the component basis of and development costs for the 645D or have you been privy to information direct from Pentax engineering sources? Also marketability is highly dependent on cost, y

Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax

2006-01-24 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's the timing that's crazy. Three years ago it might have swept the board. Now, many MF users will have bought into FF Canon, or gone to Hasselblad. I've found the assumption that Pentax is a brand one can only switc

Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax

2006-01-24 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This reply has to be made publicly. Why would you say such a thing knowing full well Pentax is off on a tangent pouring funds into a digital 645 body which will be extremely costly to develop and have very limited appeal

Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax

2006-01-24 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't know. It seems crazy to you, and I have to say it seems crazy to me, too. I am sure it would have been a good thing to have done three or four years ago, but now it seems too late. Whats crazy about making a cam

Re: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax

2006-01-24 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Which is what Herb has always said. Of course he guessed whether the company would close down the loss-making division, but of course all anyone can do about that is guess. Closing down 50% of your business is p

RE: Fwd: Re: Financal Condition of Pentax

2006-01-23 Thread Pål Jensen
Tom wrote: I tend to sense Pentax/Samsung edging towards and being deeply entrenched in mediocrity, or the Pentax camera division becoming Samsung altogether. REPLY: Highly unlikely. The Samsung deal may make Pentax able to set into production a lot of their patented technology like image s

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-14 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think, perhaps, you should just sell your Pentax gear and buy something that will relieve you from having to think about your photography. You obviously don't understand how the camera works. There is *something* in foc

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-14 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "DagT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apart from superior image quality, reason good enough in my opinion, a "full frame" FA D lens may be able to utilize in body image stabilization. My guess is that IS won't work with DA lenses. Why not? Because the sensor is

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-14 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There would be little point in producing a 50-220 f4 when there is already a 50-200 f4-5.6. Nor would such a lens merit the term "high performance". Apart from superior image quality, reason good enough in my opinion, a

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your comparison is not very well chosen, Pål. Ther's only 1 pro dog photographer for every 1000 sports photographers. And he dosn't really need the speed. I was attempting to adress the tendency of equally the needs of t

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED problem?

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and browse through this section: http://www.nikonians.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID 81&conf=DCConfID9 or http://tinyurl.com/c8u5s Thanks Shel. I found someone with exactly the same proble

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED problem?

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Pål Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The main problem: Grain removal function (digital GEM) do not work with Medium Format (work well with 35mm). I get an error message when using this function when scanning (preview works) saying &qu

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What I'm saying is, that sports photography IS professional photography. The same can be said about dog photography or any other kind of photography imaginable because somebody somewhere certainly do it for a living. Anyw

Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technically no, the first camera to do these things was the Pentax Electrospotmatic which was similar to but actually a different earlier model than the ES. Wasn't the Electro Spotmatic just the prototype of the ES?

Re: Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED problem?

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Tim Sherburne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No experience to offer with this scanner in particular, but you didn't mention the brand of scanner software. You may want to try VueScan if you're not using that already (http://www.hamrick.com/). You can download and t

Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> I though we were speaking of when cameras gained both, shutter and aperture priority in both bodies. That was Minolta with the XD-7.

Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's - Original Message - From: "Pål Jensen" Subject: Re: Recent thread on 85's and

Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Canon pioneered Shutter Priority Automation while Pentax was investing in aperture priority automation, pretty much contemporary IIRC. I think Konica pioneered shutter priority. Canon wasn't someone to be reconed with

Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Canon was the first to market a successful aperture priority AE camera, but both Nikon and Mamiya had working (albeit crude) versions several years before. ? When was that? The first Canon aperture priority camera

Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED problem?

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
Anyone on this list using this scanner? Some observations: This scanner is excellent. The MF film holder is close to useless - you need the glass holder which incidentally cost a fortune and must be the most profitable item in the history of manufactured goods. The highlight/shadow adjustment

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe that Pentax needs to improve AF-speed in order to even begin to compete with Canon and Nikon. Speed - or rather - the lack of speed (not only AF, but also write speed) - would certainly be my main reason for cha

Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's

2006-01-13 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Canon was next and I can't remember if Nikon beat Pentax or not. Nikon was years behind the other four big manufacturers in the 70's technology wise. Pentax was the first to apply aperture priority auto (ES) and was a

Re: Recent thread on 85's and 77's

2006-01-12 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They were well behind Nikon, which had a Shutter-priority version of the F2 in 1974 or so. Did the F2 have shutter priority? I thought it was strictly manual

Re: Continuing to Accessorize Bertha

2006-01-12 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "jtainter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Can anyone comment on the optical quality obtainable by combining the A 2X-L converter with a Pentax long lens? Just as importantly, is it feasible to focus manually at F8? Forget it. I have the 2X-L converter and have tri

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-11 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The 35-350 is a beast of a lens, as is the FA* 600/4, neither is going to be as fast as a smaller lens, you should really pick a more reasonable comparison than a pair of lenses that only a handful of people will ever use. A

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-11 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pal, have you shot with a USM or AF-S lens? There's no comparison in AF performance. USM absolutely blows screw-drive AF out of the water unless you have either an ultra-light lens (like a 50mm) or one of the very few camera

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-11 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Thibouille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:34 PM Subject: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)? http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=1807 Any thoughts? "Reason for this is that the heavy optics

Re: new AF system soon (when D2 arrives)?

2006-01-11 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There would be little point in producing a 50-220 f4 when there is already a 50-200 f4-5.6. Nor would such a lens merit the term "high performance". Huh? Why wouldn't it merit the term high performance? Performance has

Re: A* 200 F4 Macro flaw? (was RE: The Decline of KEH? Long...)

2006-01-10 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Mark Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have to believe that Cal Precision gets their parts from Pentax USA. It does, however, sound like the $137.37 was extremely low. I recently had my FA* 300mm F4.5 repaired for a lot more (that was a lens element, howe

Re: A* 200 F4 Macro flaw? (was RE: The Decline of KEH? Long...)

2006-01-09 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jack Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I recently called Cal Precision and asked about their replacing the dented hood on a Pentax-A* 300mm f/2.8. After some checking, I got a call back that the hood would be $200 and the labor would be unknown until they had a ch

Magnification has everything to do with it (WAS: Re: A10: Pentax Image Stabilization is here)

2006-01-09 Thread Pål Jensen
"Sorry Steve, I dont believe this is correct. Magnification should have nothing to do with it. " REPLY: Magnification has everything to do with it. All IS patents I've read so far include focal lenght data in order to function. Magnification matters for the same reason you need a very sturd

Re: [Fwd: Re: Samsung GX-1L?]

2005-12-23 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Pål Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schneider-Kreuznach market value must be limited indeed as 99% have never heard about it. Come to think of it; Schneider-Kreuznach sounds like a nasty incurable disease! Pål

Re: [Fwd: Re: Samsung GX-1L?]

2005-12-23 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Patrice LACOUTURE (GMail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Samsung GX-1L?] Joseph Tainter a écrit : But now should we worry that Pentax will become a Schneider-Kreuznach? A maker of things branded u

Isn't this by a Pentax shooter?

2005-12-22 Thread Pål Jensen
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810959461/ref=pe_snp_461/103-1614411-5977422?n=283155

Re: OTS Metering?

2005-12-21 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Bob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I do consulting work on patents. This patent was a Canon patent, but traded to Olympus. Are you sure? It has been very widely stated as a Minolta patent even in litterature. Minolta actually used the patent as well in Min

Re: OTS Metering?

2005-12-21 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Bob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TTL OTF metering that would correct during the exposure was a Canon patent. Surprisingly, Canon never used it in a camera but licensed it to Olympus instead in an exchange for an Olympus patent they wanted. Such patent s

Re: OTS Metering?

2005-12-21 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Nikon F3, Canon New F1 and several Olympus OM models all do TTL-OTF ambient metering. The unique feature of the LX is that it does so down to -6.5EV, a range which is unheard of. No. Only the Olympus OM-2 and OM-4. PÅ

Re: Zeiss lenses for Pentax, etc.?

2005-12-19 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Bob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Note that the word "Millions" is specifically used, both in the English and the German versions. Zeiss tends to be very precise in their choice of words. I wonder if they have listened to countless voices and will

Re: Pentax 645N & NII

2005-12-18 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jack Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You used the reference "It" and then proceeded to explain the MLU operation. May I assume you meant "they" in that both the "N" and the "NII" operate in a similar way? No. The N does not have MLU in any form. MLU and mirror

Re: Pentax 645N & NII

2005-12-18 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - How is the MLU activated with the 645N and 645NII? Pre-lock or separate lever requiring cable release? It has both mirror lock and mirror prefire. No need to use remote releases for either. Set via the switch around the release level. One position is mirror p

Re: Pentax 645

2005-12-18 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Sylwester Pietrzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But anyway both 645N/NII have so greatly damped mirror, that MLU under normal circumstances gives nothing. And that was proved by Michael Reichmann (who loved 67II/645 a few years ago) in short test here: http://

Re: Pentax 645

2005-12-18 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Dario Bonazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No it doesn't, and the 645N demonstrated that there is no difference between using the MLU or not using it with a well damped mirror like the one of the 645. MLU on the 645N was only added for marketing reasons, since s

Re: Pentax Stock Sale

2005-12-18 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Tainter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=16312496 Maybe someone who knows more about corporate stuff can than I do can tell us what this means. It does mean what it says - somebody thinks Penta

Re: Galen Rowell (WAS: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas)

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Inner Game of Outdoor Photography" is effing brilliant. Haven't read the other one. Yet. Then you would certainly find "vision" equally brilliant as it is exactly in the same vein... PÅL

Re: Pentax 645 system site???

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Pedro Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Another link: http://www.chrysis.net/photo/pentax/pentax645n.htm One lens is missing on that page; the 150-300 ED IF zoom lens. An excellent optic BTW. PÅL

Re: Galen Rowell (WAS: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas)

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'll have to go to the library and find some old OP issues then. Better read his book "Mountan light". Incidentally, his OP columns are published in book form as "Galen Rowell's Vision: The Art of Adventure Photography" and "

Re: Galen Rowell (WAS: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas)

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "E.R.N. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ah yes, Dewitt "I shoot for National Geographic" Jones. Way more mentions of shooting for NG in his columns than there are mentions of him in NG's index. Dewitt Jones was the one who "gave" Rowell his first National Geog

Re: Galen Rowell (WAS: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas)

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't think he was a pompous twit. I think he was a darn fine photographer with a unique vision and style. Someone not easy to dismiss and someone who will be long remembered by many people. I don't understand why anyone would find

Re: Galen Rowell (WAS: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas)

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sh*t - Galen Rowell died? If someone posted this as a title before today it never hit my mail box - He died in a plane crash the summer of 2002. I still remember coming home from a mountain trip and reading on photo.n

Re: Galen Rowell (WAS: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas)

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Bob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Galen was a good friend of mine. He really didn't think of himself as much of a writer, more as a visual artist whose subject was the grandeur of mountains. Maybe. But I stll think he was the greatest writer on nature p

Re: H1 Blad - some gains, some loses

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Kevin Waterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This looks very promising, but the date of this is March. I wonder where they are up to now? I would be _very_ interested in seeing any sort of protype or report to be able to make purchasing decisions for the coming yea

Re: AA bis

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Besides that if you were to put your camera right there in the same spot every day and take a photo, everyone of them would be different. Sometimes it seems that people who are not creative get too tied up into the general

Re: Galen Rowell (WAS: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas)

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Getting past the prose was always my problem. I have no problems with his prose but then English isn't my first language... Pål

Re: PESO: Velvia example for Kostas

2005-12-17 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: "Jack Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> He had a swaggering literary style and was a Nikon bigot. I pointed that out to him in a letter years ago. So whats wrong with being a Nikon bigot? I'm a Pentax bigot. I think Rowell states several times that his experie

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