Re: Pentax lenses I want

2019-11-02 Thread P. J. Alling
Ah, yes, a gentle Scottish mist, when the heavens open up and the fish swim up out of the rivers and into the sky... On 11/1/2019 8:01 PM, Pat Temmerman wrote: Have the DA21... would love if it were fully WP (I live in Scotland. Rain is real.) On 01/11/2019 23:39, John Francis wrote: On Fri,

Re: A cat

2019-10-31 Thread P. J. Alling
That is one serious looking cat. On 10/31/2019 7:22 AM, Bob Pdml wrote: I'm not really a cat photo person, but it is Halloween and this presented itself as an opportunity for me to see how my Olympus E-M1 would be with the four-thirds converter and the Oly 50-200/3.5 lens. That's the equivalen

Re: PESO at the piano

2019-10-29 Thread P. J. Alling
I'm glad you clarified that. On 10/23/2019 11:53 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 23, 2019, at 8:42 PM, Ken Waller wrote: So you will photograph for food ! What part of starving artist don’t you understand? Other than calling me an artist that is. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- America

Re: Which laptop for Lightroom and how to test?

2019-10-29 Thread P. J. Alling
What I'm thinking is that AMD has faster more efficient processors than Intel at the moment.  As to laptops, I custom built myself a desktop a few years ago and it still meets my needs so I don't have any suggestions about that. I will state for the record that my desktop is built around an AM

Re: OT PESO: Seagull

2019-10-28 Thread P. J. Alling
PESOs and GESOs can be shot with any camera brand and any lens brand.  The PUG must be shot with at least a Pentax Camera or Lens.  Other than that there are no rules. On 10/28/2019 11:36 PM, Juan Buhler wrote: Not sure what the policy regarding non-Pentax photos is... This is also not my usu

Re: MX-1

2019-10-27 Thread P. J. Alling
He calls it a cheap camera review.   I think it would have been subject to less derision if it had actually been inexpensive.   I also think that it would have been more valuable if it could accept an external EVF that it shared with the Q series cameras thus making it part of a system, among o

PESO -- Ewing.

2019-10-25 Thread P. J. Alling
Tis the season. https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO--ewing.html Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/smc Pentax F 70-210mm f4.0~5.6 Notes: B&W rendering by DxO Filmpack 3 Yellow Filter, Kodak Tri-X film tones and Ilford Pan F plus Grain applied. Comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- Ame

Re: I guess you'll just have to imagine it.

2019-10-14 Thread P. J. Alling
Some of the best photos I take have to be imagined... On 10/14/2019 7:33 AM, John wrote: The little doggy woke me up at quarter to six this morning with an urgent need to go out ... an hour later when he finally satisfied that need (and I had cleaned up after him) we're walking back to the hous

More photos of new APS-C Flagship.

2019-10-12 Thread P. J. Alling
In case anyone missed this. https://pentaxrumors.com/2019/09/21/more-pictures-of-the-upcoming-flagship-pentax-k-dslr-aps-c-camera/ I must say I like the looks of this camera.   The function dial on the right of the Pentaprism has only three positions which seems like a waste of a dial but stil

Re: help with making a PDF file from a doc file

2019-10-08 Thread P. J. Alling
Ann, I've got Openoffice 4.1.6 installed on my machine and under the file menu there's an option to export as PDF. On 10/7/2019 9:36 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: Thanks , II'll send it -- I don't have WORD.. that's the problem and Open office doesnt give me the option of saving as a PDF. Feel free

Re: Pentax Photo Gallery

2019-10-06 Thread P. J. Alling
Oh, but that would be extra work. On 10/6/2019 8:09 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: On October 6, 2019 4:53:31 PM PDT, jco...@iinet.net.au wrote: Data integrity, Larry! Once an item is in the database and linked to, you just don't allow it to be removed. But you could have a field for that lens

Re: Pentax Photo Gallery

2019-10-03 Thread P. J. Alling
That bad? On 10/3/2019 3:42 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Oct 3, 2019, at 12:10 PM, John wrote: Just a SWAG, but maybe they won't let you delete a lens from your gear list if that lens was used on one of the photos that are already in your gallery. You still "own" it as long as an image made wit

Re: High ISO questions

2019-10-03 Thread P. J. Alling
I actually add film grain to some images to give them more character.  I found an image of a blank exposed and developed 35mm film, posted somewhere on the internet, and add it as a layer to an image that I like the composition of but seems to lack "something" and every once in a while get a re

Re: Peso: The photographer

2019-10-02 Thread P. J. Alling
There was a butt there too... On 10/1/2019 10:35 PM, Ken Waller wrote: What photographer? I only see LEGS ! -Original Message- From: ann sanfedele Subject: Peso: The photographer a beautiful day in NYC - I brought my little P&S with me when meeting friends and by gum I did a bit of

Re: Pentax Photo Gallery - Revived?

2019-09-27 Thread P. J. Alling
On the PPG I never joined so I don't exist, but I do identify as Fox Talbot. On 9/24/2019 2:37 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: On the PPG, I am Ansel... Ansel Adams. :- Daniel J. Matyola Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:44:10 -0700 wrote: John: On the PPG, I am Daniel J. Matyola.  You can find me by searchi

Re: October PUG Countdown

2019-09-27 Thread P. J. Alling
I got mine in ahead of time for a change. On 9/26/2019 5:47 PM, Brian W wrote: G'day all Sorry - a bit late with this memory-jogger this month. A couple of submissions so far. Theme: "Silhouette". Submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Submission Guidelines here: http://pug.komkon.org/g

Re: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited

2019-09-21 Thread P. J. Alling
So the Pentax 100 years meeting is/was to be held today, or yesterday based on your understanding of the international date line. The New Flagship DSLR was/is to be exhibited there so I figured I would do a search to see if there was more information on the new camera. Instead I found this:

Re: OT: British House of Cards (a bit political

2019-09-20 Thread P. J. Alling
Not for long based on the Democrat party's prexy hopefuls... On 9/19/2019 1:28 PM, William Robb wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 11:11 AM Daniel J. Matyola wrote: It's the most entertaining thing on the planet, until we realize that these clowns can actually cause us all a lot of harm (and money)

Re: New Pentax Flagship DSLR Prototype to be Exhibited

2019-09-20 Thread P. J. Alling
Moore's law has been broken for about 5 years now. However I was really hoping that they hadn't gone crazy on the UI since changing between cameras is getting to be more of a pain as I get older.  That looks like it might not be true since the top plate controls kind of look like those on the

Re: I'd like to see a circle of confusion graph

2019-09-16 Thread P. J. Alling
but it wouldn't closely match all lenses or even most lenses. I don't think anyone could design such a tool because it would be nothing but exception coding based on empirical observations, or analysis of particular lens designs and execution. On 9/16/2019 1:23 AM, Larry Colen wrot

Re: I'd like to see a circle of confusion graph

2019-09-15 Thread P. J. Alling
once you take into account the way CoC is designed to be used, there can't be any difference, in the point you arrive at on the curve. On 9/15/2019 8:49 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Sep 15, 2019, at 5:42 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: You also have to take into account viewing distance, and the r

Re: I'd like to see a circle of confusion graph

2019-09-15 Thread P. J. Alling
You also have to take into account viewing distance, and the resolution of the viewing device.  The higher the resolution of the viewing device the more accurate you assessment of DOF will be when printed. On 9/15/2019 3:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Bruce Walker commented on facebook about how wi

Re: Will Sigma stop making lenses for K-mount?

2019-09-13 Thread P. J. Alling
At this point I'm thinking that there may not be a successor to the K-3. Ricoh made a misstep with the K-P, it's not really any better in any measurable way than a K-3 or a K-70.  The User interface is enough different from those cameras and the K-1 to give you hives when switching between it

Re: OT: British House of Cards (a bit political

2019-09-10 Thread P. J. Alling
casionally a wheat penny or a silver quarter will still show up in it. Since those coins have been recalled and are no longer valid for use in commerce, I do my duty and remove any I find from circulation. On 9/9/2019 20:34:14, P. J. Alling wrote: The "Pound Sterling" is Britain&

Re: Will Sigma stop making lenses for K-mount?

2019-09-09 Thread P. J. Alling
Well, Tokina had an agreement with Hoya to co-develop lenses and not produce any in K mount.   Tamron currently has such an agreement with Ricoh.  Sigma doesn't, but they made noises several years ago about how difficult it was to engineer lenses for multiple incompatible lens mounts. I suspec

Re: OT: British House of Cards (a bit political

2019-09-09 Thread P. J. Alling
The "Pound Sterling" is Britain's monetary unit, thought I don't know if it's still Sterling as it's no longer convertible to specie. On 9/9/2019 3:46 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: What does "Poundland" mean? Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at

Re: OT: British House of Cards (a bit political

2019-09-09 Thread P. J. Alling
The supernova that could end all life in the solar system could happen at any moment, or might have happened already.   We'll only know when the wavefront gets here. On 9/9/2019 10:49 AM, Alan C wrote: Why worry? According to some pundits the 6th Extinction is only 3000 days away. Alan C On

Re: PESO: Shaky Bridge

2019-09-07 Thread P. J. Alling
This could be fixed with signage.  There's a low underpass on the former NY, NH, and Hartford, tracks where it crosses US1 in Madison CT, where tractor trailers used to regularly get their trailers either scalped or stuck.  Signs were place at several locations to warn of the impending doom, an

Re: Printing

2019-09-07 Thread P. J. Alling
On Sep 6, 2019, at 11:50 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: I'll just jump in here and confuse things a bit. You'll always get the same number of pixels from any given camera, but the quality of the pixels count too. Higher ISO will have an effect. Usually all things being equal higher noise

Re: Printing

2019-09-06 Thread P. J. Alling
I'll just jump in here and confuse things a bit.  You'll always get the same number of pixels from any given camera, but the quality of the pixels count too.  Higher ISO will have an effect. Usually all things being equal higher noise which will degrade image quality in any give size print.  w

Re: September PUG is up

2019-09-05 Thread P. J. Alling
This doesn't have much to add to location, but it seems to be the appropriate place to compared to anywhere else to add this comment. The range of equipment is quite varied, but there seems to be a preponderance of K-5 variants, seven in fact, with the K-1 following with three,  two *ist-D cam

Re: September PUG Countdown

2019-08-31 Thread P. J. Alling
Larry, there's been a 800 pixel limit for ages. On 8/31/2019 7:34 PM, Larry Colen wrote: In the department of WTF, I saw this and had a fairly recent photo so I posted it. I was a bit surprised by the 800 pixel limit, but I guess that’ll do wonders for hiding all the suck in my photo. On Au

Re: OT: England in the Dark?

2019-08-22 Thread P. J. Alling
I always thought that the names of those Islands were part of a medieval Norse land scheme to keep newcomers from coming to Iceland, and sell them worthless property in Greenland, but I was wrong about that.  When it was named parts of Greenland were actually green and probably as inviting as s

Re: OT: England in the Dark?

2019-08-22 Thread P. J. Alling
The UK has either the third or fourth largest economy in Europe. Larger than most other economies in the world.  Their leaving the EU would be like California or Texas leaving the U.S.  Unless their governments screw things up they wouldn't suffer all that much. Scotland leaving the the UK? E

Re: OT: England in the Dark?

2019-08-19 Thread P. J. Alling
Actually it was that despicable Moose and Squirrel. On 8/18/2019 11:02 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: On August 18, 2019 2:47:12 PM PDT, Bob Pdml wrote: On 18 Aug 2019, at 20:18, John wrote: On 8/18/2019 12:44:36, Bob Pdml wrote: On 18 Aug 2019, at 13:39, John wrote: On 8/17/2019 11:30:41

Re: OT: The Life of Riley

2019-08-19 Thread P. J. Alling
Unfortunately it doesn't help if the cause is a chip failure. On 8/19/2019 3:18 AM, mike wilson wrote: Also https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm On 19 August 2019 at 00:03 Paul Sorenson wrote: Knoppix has saved my bacon several times when Windows fails to recognize a drive... https://www.

Re: PESO: Prince

2019-08-19 Thread P. J. Alling
Actually there are a few that look a bit like that.  Lhaso apso come to mind.    If he is that size keep him away from the eagles. On 8/19/2019 9:31 AM, John wrote: He's a Shih Tzu or possibly a Shih Tzu mix. If there's another breed in there, I don't know what it would be. He's a well mannered

Re: On the subject of data recovery

2019-08-19 Thread P. J. Alling
You might want to try this, https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download It's free it works most of the time, if your computer can actually see the storage device, and you can throw the author a couple of bucks if you think it was worth it or not if you don't. The only problem is the UI

Re: SD card plastic strips

2019-08-14 Thread P. J. Alling
Some cards have them, some cards don't.  I don't think they're very important but they can when bent out of position keep the card from functioning correctly.  The may also be able to damage the reader if they're bent out of position, though I've never actually seen a reader damaged... On 8/1

Re: More critters from Moss Landing

2019-08-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Welcome to the age of the location limited internet.  This will only get worse, Governments, secular pressure groups, corporations, religions, all want to control what you see on line.  So they do their best, not as bad as the great firewall of China...  Yet. On 8/10/2019 9:45 AM, John wro

Re: August PUG is up!

2019-08-08 Thread P. J. Alling
Behold the Pug: https://tinyurl.com/y44wonx2 On 8/8/2019 2:55 AM, Henk Terhell wrote: Being a non-native English reader pug means for me only one thing (up till now). Henk Op 2019-08-08 om 03:48 schreef Mark Roberts: Given the theme this month I'm very disappointed that no one submitted a p

Re: More critters from Moss Landing

2019-08-08 Thread P. J. Alling
I wouldn't call a straight banana the enemy, but it is a heresy. On 8/8/2019 3:39 PM, Bob Pdml wrote: This is the enemy: https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0I532ODWGrCKVN;BCACDDC2-2793-4F67-B945-F11E6B0D9C4F On 8 Aug 2019, at 19:54, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Don't worry; the British are

Re: I'm Getting Married...

2019-08-08 Thread P. J. Alling
Congratulations Paul.  Wish you many happy years together. On 8/7/2019 9:58 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: In the morning. Well, it’s actually early afternoon this Saturday, but that spoils the alliteration. We didn’t hire a wedding photographer. Too expensive for a couple of septuagenarians. So we

Re: August PUG is up!

2019-08-07 Thread P. J. Alling
Somehow I think there should be a Pug in the PUG this time. On 8/7/2019 2:59 AM, Brian W wrote: ..here ya go, Cotty! View the August gallery here: http://pug.komkon.org/ (you may need to refresh your browser if you see the previous gallery there). Note: The automated submission process usual

Re: August PUG is up!

2019-08-07 Thread P. J. Alling
He's an American Cocker Spaniel, I'm not sure that I can recommend one.   The breed can be quite active, (kind of an understatement).  On the other hand it is one of the breeds that you can find fairly easily as a rescue.  He is a great friend, and now that he's older had mellowed quite a bit. 

Re: Paul's NYTimes piece

2019-08-05 Thread P. J. Alling
More wishful thinking, much like fusion power is only 10 years away.  There seems to be a hard stop for humans at about 115 years.   The oldest person in the world is usually a woman 114 years old, and that stays constant, while the individual holding that record changes every couple of weeks t

Re: Geso: Hot Rod

2019-08-05 Thread P. J. Alling
I was being ironic about the camera and lens. On 8/5/2019 5:30 AM, Alan C wrote: Not sure if you mean the car of the camera. Rich man's & poor man's toys. The car is worth a fortune, the camera not. Both are beautiful to behold. Alan C On 04-Aug-19 07:57 PM, P. J. Alling wr

Re: Geso: Hot Rod

2019-08-04 Thread P. J. Alling
Those are very nice, especially for such ancient and inadequate equipment. On 8/4/2019 1:36 AM, Alan C wrote: Some of you may be interested in this: https://web.facebook.com/groups/606970746122355/permalink/1357767571042665/ Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa Taken by Etienne Stass

Re: OT: possibly politics

2019-08-02 Thread P. J. Alling
If you're counting Macron has serious Autocratic tendencies as well, he's just kind of a mamma's boy about it. On 8/2/2019 3:08 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 02.08.19 um 19:42 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola: American foreign policy under the current administration defies logic. I fear the UK wi

Re: OT: possibly politics

2019-08-02 Thread P. J. Alling
The circumstances of the "Assault" are bizarre from any standpoint.  There's video evidence being ignored by the Swedish state that the "Victim" actually is the perpetrator.   It is unusual for the Federal Government to actually get involved in such a case, but, I feel better about the fact tha

Re: OT: Otherworldly landscapes—created by whisky

2019-08-01 Thread P. J. Alling
io=vanishing-spirits-the-dried-remains-of-singlemalt-scotch P. J. Alling wrote on 7/31/19 5:48 PM: Nat Geo want's me to sign up to see the photos, I guess I'll pass.  I don't need to be on yet another email list. On 7/14/2019 1:53 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: &

Re: Developing old film of complete strangers

2019-08-01 Thread P. J. Alling
I think it's been a thing for a while.  It's just taken the mainstream till now to notice, or maybe it was a slow news day. On 7/22/2019 12:32 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Apparently it's a thing now. Buy old, undeveloped rolls of film on eBay and get them processed. https://www.theguardian.com/glo

Re: OT: Otherworldly landscapes—created by whisky

2019-07-31 Thread P. J. Alling
Nat Geo want's me to sign up to see the photos, I guess I'll pass.  I don't need to be on yet another email list. On 7/14/2019 1:53 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >From the recent Nat Geo Magazine https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/07/these-pictures-look-like-planets-but-they-are-w

Re: OT: Computer Speakers

2019-07-31 Thread P. J. Alling
ard 1/4 photo plug. and to tie into Dan's current series of photos: d'Oh! Dale H. Cook wrote on 7/13/19 9:26 AM: On 7/13/2019 11:59 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: If they are simple tip ring ring interface speakers ... In electronics service we refer to them as tip-ring-sleeve plugs. That de

Re: PESO: migrant hawker in flight

2019-07-30 Thread P. J. Alling
Nicely done, not easy to catch a dragon fly in air like that. On 7/27/2019 3:28 AM, Henk Terhell wrote: Catched in flight yesterday what I think is a southern migrant hawker (Aeshna affinis). https://flic.kr/p/2gHiwSt Buzzing around me on the trail close to a pool, so fairly easy to catch. Hen

Re: Paul's NYTimes piece

2019-07-29 Thread P. J. Alling
There might be more discuss if Ricoh released something new more often.   Sure they've jumped on the bandwagon of ultra corrected primes, but a new improved body?  Ricoh: Nah, we're good bro. On 7/12/2019 6:18 PM, John wrote: Maybe Ricoh could undertake a joint venture with Toyota? On 7/12/20

Re: PESO: Balloons Three

2019-07-28 Thread P. J. Alling
Odd juxtaposition.  Too bad you couldn't convince the king of the beasts to look in your direction... On 7/28/2019 8:28 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >From the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, at Solberg Airport, about a mile from my home: http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/

Re: OT: Computer Speakers

2019-07-13 Thread P. J. Alling
If they are simple tip ring ring interface speakers that's not surprising.  USB speakers on the other hand can be difficult... On 7/12/2019 6:07 PM, John wrote: No big deal. I just thought y'all might enjoy hearing about something in my life that is NOT a minor disaster. At the same time I wa

Re: OT: Test Message

2019-07-09 Thread P. J. Alling
It appears to have gotten to the list. On 7/9/2019 5:50 AM, John Sessoms wrote: Still trying to sort out my email problems. Can't tell for sure if only PDML is affected. -- America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well ple

Re: I HATE G*%$##! Stupid Email

2019-07-09 Thread P. J. Alling
Far be it that I recommend gmail, because they are evil, and Evil as well, but once set up properly they do work the way they're supposed to.  If I were you I'd just set up a gmail account to use with the PDML and be done with it.  There's noting you'll be likely to say here that the world won'

Re: DFA* 50 F1.4

2019-07-09 Thread P. J. Alling
It looks like a very sharp lens, but then it better be at the price and bulk. On 7/8/2019 10:03 AM, jtainter wrote: Here are some images showing what this lens can do at F1.4: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/62855075 This lens is truly remarkable. Joe -- America wasn't founded so th

Re: Sharper lenses

2019-07-09 Thread P. J. Alling
If it weren't for tweaking systems, and breaking specified behavior at the same time, some members of development teams would have no purpose at all.   BTW, I haven't tried putting the regular reply button back on Thunderbird since they broke it's behavior, is it still broken?  Not important, t

Re: Sharper lenses

2019-07-06 Thread P. J. Alling
It's PetaPixel, two sentences in and I want to take an ax to the author.  Read the first comment and I want to hunt down and slowly torture the commenter to death.  What a great way to start my Saturday. On 7/6/2019 4:31 AM, Larry Colen wrote: Mathematical discovery of a solution to spherical a

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-07-03 Thread P. J. Alling
Am 03.07.19 um 04:56 schrieb P. J. Alling: It may not be an engineer's fault. To me, the trouble appears to be that too many technical design decisions are nowadays made in marketing or controlling departments. I still insist that if ever there is a feature in which those Epson printers have

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-07-02 Thread P. J. Alling
Only if he passes the state exam. On 7/2/2019 5:10 PM, Postmaster wrote: Igor PDML-StR wrote: "C-grade students also get a job." Q: What do you call the guy who graduates medical school at the bottom of his class? A: Doctor. -- America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. Americ

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-07-02 Thread P. J. Alling
It may not be an engineer's fault. I was once given an assignment to create a utility to display some stored information.  The specified query could have returned, in fact was likely to return, multiple hundreds of "pages" of information that the user would then have to page through to find th

Re: Another Printer Question

2019-07-02 Thread P. J. Alling
You could try letting the printer manage color, that solved a myraid of problems back when I was still using HP printers.  The Canon gives much closer results to the screen image when I do that since I don't have a dedicated profile for any of my common printing papers.   I sometimes get the fe

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-07-01 Thread P. J. Alling
I found that the break even point for prints is about 8x10, especially using the bargain Illford Gallery paper I picked up a few years back, it worked out to about 10¢ per sheet, which even with ink costs made an 8x10, or, 8 1/2 x 11 really, considerably less expensive than any of the local pri

Re: Printer reccomendations

2019-06-29 Thread P. J. Alling
I've been using a Pixma ix6520 which I believe is the model that your printer replaced.  Probably uses the same ink set just lacking wireless support.  Ink's can be expensive to put it mildly, but,  I haven't found an inexpensive printer that has better image longevity, using good quality paper

Re: GESO (7) - Toledo Procession

2019-06-29 Thread P. J. Alling
Because they're a**h***s, because it represents something they'll never be, which is creative, because it makes them feel small, because it represents something outside themselves that might be greater and more powerful than they are, and because it gives others comfort and/or enjoyment, but yo

Re: OT: Well that was interesting.

2019-06-29 Thread P. J. Alling
Yes, but no one is going to ban me for spelling out what I really mean.  The asterisks are just funnier IMHO. On 6/29/2019 2:56 PM, mike wilson wrote: On 29 June 2019 at 16:17 "P. J. Alling" wrote: I used asterisks not because I had to, this is a private mailing list after all, but

Re: OT: Well that was interesting.

2019-06-29 Thread P. J. Alling
I just threaten them with erasing their servers.  It seems to have happened enough that it might be a creditable threat.  A YouTube search on that will get some pretty amusing results if you've got some time to waste. On 6/29/2019 3:07 PM, John wrote: On 6/29/2019 13:59:54, Ralf R Radermacher

Re: OT: Well that was interesting.

2019-06-29 Thread P. J. Alling
d the perpetrators got his address book.  He's a sole practitioner so it's not like he has a huge IT staff, in fact sometimes I'm his IT staff. On 6/29/2019 12:49 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 29.06.19 um 17:17 schrieb P. J. Alling: I just spent the last three days dealing wi

OT: Well that was interesting.

2019-06-29 Thread P. J. Alling
I just spent the last three days dealing with a scammer who was impersonating my lawyer by e-mail.  Tried to get me to buy $500 worth of iTunes cards so he/she/it could pay for a "legal" document that, let's just abbreviate this, that "hshit" needed to download and was out of town on and didn't

Re: 50mm differences

2019-06-28 Thread P. J. Alling
According to Boz's site all the 50mm f1.4s, except for the new high tech DFA have the same optical formula. On 6/28/2019 3:11 PM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: My KX has he older "M" 1.4 (as opposed to the later "m" version). Were they optically the identical? https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item

Re: Pentax Medium Format

2019-06-26 Thread P. J. Alling
. On 6/26/2019 2:53 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 26/6/19, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: The only images that came out of that session were from my MX. Both his Bronica body's failed, in different ways.  The first had a shutter malfunction, and the second curtain was releasin

Re: Pentax Medium Format

2019-06-26 Thread P. J. Alling
I wish him luck, back in the day, Bronica had the reputation of being the most mechanically unreliable of the makers of Medium Format, film gear.  Their saving graces were that they were supposed to be easily repaired, they were inexpensive to acquire, and Nikon lenses were available for them.

PESO -- Pseudo Egyptian Lotus.

2019-06-22 Thread P. J. Alling
Separated this image from a room decorated to resemble an Egyptian Temple.  I doubt the actual Egyptians would have used quite this color scheme... I don't usually post recorded folk art, but I haven't been getting out to do much photography lately, so this is what you get.    As an aside, I

Re: PESO - confluence of circumstances

2019-06-18 Thread P. J. Alling
I was thinking Union Duck; Sailing Gear... On 6/18/2019 1:39 PM, mike wilson wrote: There are two answers to this: 1 Band name, not brand name. or 2 Sailing Gear is not as resonant as Union Duck. Yes is already taken. On 18 June 2019 at 17:59 "P. J. Alling" wrote: Sailing

Re: PESO - confluence of circumstances

2019-06-18 Thread P. J. Alling
Sailing Gear.  Yes. On 6/18/2019 7:08 AM, Doug Brewer wrote: "Union Duck" is a great band name. On 6/17/19 3:23 PM, David J Brooks wrote: must be a union duck. Dave -- America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please

Re: Gimmi... Collector's camera from Pentax/Ricoh

2019-06-15 Thread P. J. Alling
Well two things, at least when Ricoh recycles a camera they don't lie about it quite as much as Canon, and the link for more detail at "The New Camera" website goes to a Pentax Japan page entirely in Japanese, which would be very helpful I suppose if I spoke, or more importantly read Japanese.

Re: fuji black and white

2019-06-14 Thread P. J. Alling
I guess you could argue that Kodak abandoned existence, but the film division continued as a subsidiary of it English division's pension management company.  You really cannot make this stuff up. On 6/15/2019 2:35 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: i always preferred the old style films from Koda

Re: fuji black and white

2019-06-14 Thread P. J. Alling
i always preferred the old style films from Kodak and Ilford to Fuji, and neither of those organizations ever actually abandoned the B&W film market.   I don't expect there to be much price differentiation so I think I'll stick with Tri-X and Ilford Pan-F,  though my taking film photos with any

pdml@pdml.net

2019-06-11 Thread P. J. Alling
That may be reading too much into it. However, I have noticed that the demand for the K-3 and K-3II, is unabated.  One appeared on KEH.com just a few days ago.  I thought seriously about buying it, and by the time I decided to pull the trigger, it was gone.  Less than an hour.  They are not ea

Re: Stupid iPad

2019-06-11 Thread P. J. Alling
I'd never say anything about your taste, mostly because I haven't tasted you, and probably wouldn't want to. On 6/10/2019 8:02 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: I almost never lack for inspiration, sometimes skill, often taste, but rarely for something to photograph. On June 10, 2019 4:41:45 PM PDT

Re: Will Ricoh sell *Pentax* cameras after 2020?

2019-06-11 Thread P. J. Alling
it is of course DPReview, they have a long history of Canikon bias, no one except the big two made digital cameras that they had to care about, for about 10 years.  It would simplify their jobs, possibly into non existence, though I doubt they realize that, if there were only one or two camera

Re: Stupid iPad

2019-06-10 Thread P. J. Alling
Sadly the level of documentation for just about everything has reached the level of UNIX' original Man pages, which ran the gamut from obscure to impenetrable.  Useful perhaps if you already knew what you were doing, but needed a hint for an operation not normally used, but not much else. On

Re: Stupid iPad

2019-06-10 Thread P. J. Alling
I remember when using Mac OS was easier than Windows, and certainly easier than DOS.  Now, you plug your device into a USB port on the computer, and if it is recognized, and damn few devices aren't, it defaults to storage, and you just copy the files back and forth using whatever method you ple

PESO -- Crescent Moon

2019-06-06 Thread P. J. Alling
Nothing very special, just caught my eye, and I had the camera with me. https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO%20--%20crescentMoon.html Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/Sigma DC 17-70mm f2.8~4.5 As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- America wasn't founded so that we could all be

Re: OT Geso Otter greenhouse

2019-06-06 Thread P. J. Alling
The flowers are pretty, but where are the Otters? On 6/5/2019 10:12 AM, David J Brooks wrote: A 50 odd shot photo gallery of flowers at a local greenhouse our photo club attend yesterday. Last flower work i used the K-5 and FA 100 macro so ti used the D7200 and Tamron 90 yesterday just so it wou

Re: Pentax sighting

2019-06-06 Thread P. J. Alling
It's nice that the MX is associated with quality. On 6/6/2019 7:31 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: MX w/ Rolex and knock-off. Or should I say RoleX. https://gizmodo.com/modern-manufacturing-has-made-it-nearly-impossible-to-s- 1835267932 -- America wasn't founded so that we could all be

Re: Pentax sighting

2019-06-06 Thread P. J. Alling
I thought the reviewer was more than a bit pretentious. On 6/6/2019 11:00 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I don't understand why people are so enamored of Rolex, especially in the US. In Switzerland, I noted that the ads and stores were featuring and promoting other quality Swiss timepieces. I ha

Re: Stupid camera tricks

2019-06-06 Thread P. J. Alling
KEH.com advertises repairs with the same basic price.  I haven't checked today, but when I was contemplating getting my K-5II repaired it was about the same, actually a little less, at $300. I think they actually care about customer service because it does look like you can contact them.  Ultim

Re: Noisy K-3??

2019-06-05 Thread P. J. Alling
It looks pretty noisy, but, you get that kind of result when you highly manipulate an image.  It does look like the noise you'd get at 6400 ISO or higher on a K-5II when recovering shadows.  The K-3 is supposed to be a little worse due to the packing of more pixels into the same real estate, bu

Re: Stupid camera tricks

2019-06-04 Thread P. J. Alling
I've never dealt with that particular little slice of hell. However, there are two possibilities.  1.) The latch is broken, you have little or no choice there, since I expect the actual action is part of the reader, it will have to be replaced.  2.) Something, dust or oil or a combination of bo

Re: SD cards

2019-06-02 Thread P. J. Alling
That more or less reinforces the impression that I got from this article, https://www.cameramemoryspeed.com/pentax-k-3-ii/fastest-sd-card-comparison-test/ You really need a card with a write speed of about 40MB/s to cover the K-3* and K-1 bus speed, and a fast read speed if you're using an ext

Re: PESO: please do not disturb

2019-05-31 Thread P. J. Alling
It doesn't really take a lot of luck, just the right equipment in the right place.  I remember swimming in a fresh water lake and the Damselflies were sitting on pretty much every surface and protuberance mating.  I found myself wishing I had my SLR and a waterproof housing to record some image

Re: Pentax convert

2019-05-29 Thread P. J. Alling
It is in line with the interview, posted a few days ago, with the Ricoh engineer predicting the resurgence of DSLRs, after the novelty of mirrorless wears off, that received such derision in the comments. On the other hand based on this guy's voyage of discovery he seems a bit, flighty, so may

Re: Photo Every Few Years Or So - Pentax Content

2019-05-26 Thread P. J. Alling
I hardly noticed she had a camera. On 5/26/2019 1:23 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: Thought you guys might enjoys this, from a session yesterday https://dougbrewer.tumblr.com/post/185152189411/amanda -- America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anyt

Re: OT: iPhoto

2019-05-26 Thread P. J. Alling
Well, they didn't really tell me how it worked, but they did tell me how to use it.  (Pedantic, but then again, I am a recovering engineer). It looks like a nice idea once in a while. On 5/26/2019 12:50 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: My wife and I went into The City yesterday to see a play. On

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