Cotty wrote:
Ack I've just wet meself.
*Canned laughter*
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Bong Manayon wrote:
Just curious, has anyone accidentally detached their lens from the body?
I once lost a lens belonging to my father that way - it fell off the
body halfway up a mountain and was last seen bounding down towards the
glacier far below. I comforted my father with the reflection
John Whittingham wrote:
I guess it's just a matter of waiting then, I hope they do finally release it
before they move on to K1D or whatever.
It's a real pain - I need to shoot some long stereo timelapse sequences
for work, and I was all set to buy a pair of K10Ds until I discovered
that the
John Whittingham wrote:
No, don't do it, not C***n, the darkside, get a good used pair of *ist D's 8)
Much as I'd love to, they just don't have the resolution I need...
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David Savage wrote:
I've noticed their absence, the fact that DPReview is inaccessible.
The roads and trains have been a bit crazy, but the Internet's fine...
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Bob Shell wrote:
This is pretty incredibly weird:
http://www.stephenhawkingsings.co.uk/
See also http://www.mchawking.com/multimedia.php?page_function=mp3z
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Mark Erickson wrote:
If you really want to go cheap (and by all accounts really good), take a
look at Paul Roark's solution for a truly low-cost A4 solution: The Epson
C88 and MIS EZ inkset.
I use a C82 with those inks, and I have to say, the results are nice.
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David Weiss wrote:
I figure, hey, I have a few extra lenses, might as well put them on ebay
today for $0.15 deal. So I pull out my k10d, flash up, with kit lens,
and push shutter button, and POP!, like an old flash bulb sound emits
from camera. Camera shutter stuck, camera won't turn off,
Bob Shell wrote:
Well, I sure don't want to do that! Besides, I need the final
product to be a searchable Word file.
If your criteria are that you want the final document to be a Word file
with exactly the same formatting as the original document, I'm afraid
that the nature of
Cotty wrote:
http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/spare6.html
Have you been nicking stuff from the Torchwood set, Cotty?
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Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:
On 04.10.2006, at 12:56 , Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Lots of companies use Hoya glass, even Leica. I'm sure Pentax is
using
Hoya glass where appropriate.
But SMC is Pentax own, isn't it? ;-)
SMC was revolutionary 30-odd years ago, but these days anyone with the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not quite true. Canon lenses will flare in situations Pentax lenses won't.
Not all Pentax lenses flare less, but a lot do. It wasn't just hype.
Ah, now just because any idiot can design coatings as good as SMC, it
doesn't mean that they do. ;-)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not quite true. Canon lenses will flare in situations Pentax lenses won't.
Not all Pentax lenses flare less, but a lot do. It wasn't just hype.
Ah, now just because any idiot can design coatings as good as SMC, it
doesn't mean that they do. ;-)
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Scott Loveless wrote:
On 9/29/06, Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blessed are the postmakers.
What's so special about the postmakers?
They shall have posts.
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Cotty wrote:
On 30/9/06, Steve Jolly, discombobulated, unleashed:
They shall have posts.
But what have the postmakers ever done for us??
Well, apart from posts and posts - posts of course, and posts, nothing
really.
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Martin Trautmann wrote:
Frictionless sounds like some kind of magnetic levetation. This would
mean, that when powered on the CCD will lift of the zero-position for a
minimum amount of space. This lifting would shift the projection area.
AF needs a different focus adjustment.
They could
Toine wrote:
I can buy an Asahi ghostless filter. Are these filters SMC coated?
They're not SMC, they're ghostless, which is an even higher
performance coating. (Probably with more layers.)
While searching with google someone claimed these filters are curved
to prevent flare...
I have
Bob W wrote:
That site includes a rather worrying story:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/diginews.html#gatech
Don't throw your film cameras away yet, folks.
I saw that a while back, and tbh I really can't see the point. It makes
the crazy assumption that all digital sensors reflect IR
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
This one, taken a couple of months ago, appealed to me strangely ...
it seems to be in a new aesthetic vein. I'm not entirely sure how
successful it is by itself.
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW6/23.htm
It's a curiously interesting image, Godfrey -
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Ah I see someone beat me to this. ;-)
;-)
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Hi folks,
Probable list-member Billy Abbott was kind enough to carry an AF-360FGZ
back from B+H for me, and this is my favourite photo from my first shoot
with it.
http://www.elvum.net/gallery/v/misc/pdml/paw/gameboy_training.jpg.html
Context: UK computer-game shop Game were holding a
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I just did a very QD test of extending the protective area of the 16-45
hood, and there appears to be plenty of room for a hood that's either
deeper or narrower, or both. So, IMO, a better hood may be available - the
standard hood can certainly be improved upon. Film
Steve Jolly wrote:
You could try the paper hood at
http://www.lenshoods.co.uk/hoods/Pentax-SMC-16-45mm-f-4-DA-ED-AL.php as
a starting point for experimentation - the template alone gives an extra
5mm or so over the plastic one.
My own experimentation suggests that you can't do much better
Steve Jolly wrote:
My own experimentation suggests that you can't do much better than that. :-)
Not without dramatically widening the entrance aperture, anyway...
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Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Cools stuff ... I've got an Ansco box camera around here somewhere ;-))
Maybe my pics will improve ...
I think you'll have to smash it up a bit first...
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chuck wrote:
The Pentax 28-105 on my ZX-5n got banged by an
errant child. Seems to work OK, except the results
have gotten darker, less bright, then they used to be.
Could this be a damaged lens?
In any case I am up for an upgrade. What are suggested
lenses for this camera? Either Pentax brand
Joseph Tainter wrote:
Brian, the duration between the pre-flash and the flash is very short --
microseconds. If you are looking through the viewfinder you won't notice
it.
Isn't that because the mirror's up?
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Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
The only way to know what order the posts were made in with this list at
present is to switch to digest mode and read the digests.
Or use a mail client like Thunderbird and browse the list in threaded
mode. That's what I do.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to enter a photo contest at photolife magazine. They say
you can email a digital file, but it has to be under 3 megs. That is
fine execept they also say it has to be a tiff at 300dpi and 9x12. I
can't get a colour tiff at those specs to be
Jostein wrote:
Apologies for eventual duplicates...
Yep, got them both. :-)
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Juan Buhler wrote:
I still have my Polaroid SprintScan 4000, and I'm happy with its
results. It is SCSI though, which means I have to use it from my old
PC--this is the only reason that PC hasn't been discarded yet.
Far be it from me to discourage enablement on this list, but have you
Jack Davis wrote:
Haven't seen this on list. Will keep sending and hoping.
It appeared on list. Twice so far, that I can see.
Has anyone any experience with, or information about, either the Epson
Perfection V700 or V750 scanners?
Sorry, no - I have a 3170 Photo and find it adequate for
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I've been running four Yahoo groups for three years. No spam, an
excellent record of service (3 downtimes in three years for 1 day each,
scheduled), and the only intrusion is that Yahoo puts a trailer on
each message post like so:
Yahoo!
Paul Stenquist wrote:
My youngest daughter graduated from college today. HOO ROO!! Four kids
and half a million dollars later, I'm a free man. Twelve years of paying
college tuition every semester is no but a memory. No more college home
equity loans. No more fall move ins and spring move
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Because of problems like these, another list I'm on recently moved to
being a Yahoo group. All the delivery problems have disappeared.
Leaving only the Yahoo problems. ;-)
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Boris Liberman wrote:
Congratulations, Mark! Getting a degree is always great achievement and
a milestone. This year it's going to be 10 years since I got mine. I
still think that those years that I spent studying were absolutely the
best of my life... Consider it a friendly warning ;-).
Cotty wrote:
I love you and want to have your babies.
Call the cops.
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Doug Brewer wrote:
So yesterday I'm staring at the screen, and it comes to me. The server
=is= sending out spam. The script I have to reject HTML/enriched
text/etc sends back a bounce message. Many of you have seen these
messages-- please send your message in Plain Text..-- so you'll know
Tom C wrote:
Well THAT'S STUPID! One would think the software would be smart enough
to see that the header line had changed and start a new thread.
Sometimes you want to change the subject line but keep to the old thread
- eg I sometimes add OT: to the start of the subject if my reply is
Thibouille wrote:
I thionk it didn't pass through so here it is again.
It got through the first time. Email isn't a guaranteed delivery system
- you shouldn't assume that your email didn't get to the list just
because you don't see it come back to you.
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Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I love how photography has become a numbers crunching exercise for some
people. Pick up the camera, focus, press the shutter, and see what
happens, see what you get.
Perhaps an advantage of digital photography is that it can satisfy both
kinds of people. :-)
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David Savage wrote:
BTW, I have no idea what Gonz is on about either :-)
Approximately, he's saying that if you deliberately underexpose, you
lose shadow detail. This shouldn't really come as a surprise...
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Gautam Sarup wrote:
The legendary Steve Gibson has an interesting story of his own
experiences.
Legendary he may be , but it's worth pointing out that there are many
other internet security experts out there with a very low opinion of him.
http://grcsucks.com/
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Gonz wrote:
Let me try to explain it non-mathematically.
I still prefer underexpose and you lose shadow detail as an
explanation ;-)
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William Robb wrote:
--
Note: Information of the article is things such as when writing or
when publishing, under present conditions there is a possibility of
differing.
What replies individually concerning the contents of the article, is
unable to do.
Copyright of the article, the
mike wilson wrote (regarding static IP addresses):
An advantage in some ways but it makes it easier for hackers to target you.
It makes it slightly easier for hackers to target you *specifically*,
but most hacks are the results of randomised IP address scanning these
days - a dynamic IP
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I've been quoted a price of $60/mo for HS access. That seems awfully high
to me. How does that compare with what you're paying?
I'm looking at a quote of £30pcm (about $50?), but that's for 8Mb
downstream, 448kb up and a low (20:1?) contention ratio...
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Juan Buhler wrote:
A question for you PDMLers: I had the chance to see books made by
fastbackbooks.com today, and I'm thinking about self editing one with
some of my photographs. Their quality is very nice, they are
hardcover, cloth bound little books.
lulu.com also offer a number of
Powell Hargrave wrote:
It should be easy for you to add a Pentax option to the selection menu
which uses the TIFF recovery and changes the file extension to .pef.
Likely the easiest option addition you ever make. Thanks for you
consideration and the fine program with does work almost perfectly
Dave Brooks wrote:
What was the matte paper suggested.Just a regular Matte.??
I use Epson Enhanced Matte with the MIS inks and it comes out nice.
Except when some of the nozzles are blocked, which happens quite
regularly, but cleaning the heads before printing usually solves that.
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John Forbes wrote:
I'm around at Easter and Mayday. Probably away mid-May.
I'm away for Easter and Mayday, but probably around mid-May... and other
times. :-)
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mike wilson wrote:
So How are permanent electrical connections made in cameras that
conform?
With lead-free solder.
http://www.europeanleadfree.net/
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Pål Jensen wrote:
If USM is included
it means that it won't AF on older bodies.
Couldn't Pentax use an automatically-disengaging clutch (like they use
for manual focus on most of their newer AF lenses) to couple the
old-style mechanically-coupled AF to a new USM system? That way it
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Peter Fairweather wrote:
The kind chancellor of the exchequer has raised the limit in goods
that can be imported tax/duty free from outside the EU to 1000!
Thanks for the heads-up.
Effective from when? Does it apply to used mail-order?
Bob W wrote:
Here is the most dramatic. It shows my nephew Rob (16), who is an awesome
boarding dude:
http://www.web-options.com/Robjump.jpg
The shot's perfect, but whatever you used to resize it for the web has
messed it up a bit - the diagonals (especially the edge of the
snowboard) are
Cotty wrote:
On 8/3/06, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed:
Careful, you'll have Cotty writing in Klingon again!
ghuH Daq Hegh DaH !!
That's not Klingon, that's drunk... ;-)
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Juan Buhler wrote:
Please use this as further material for more speculation. :)
The viewfinder eyepiece looks further back to me, and the pentaprism
housing is larger - anyone fancy an even-higher-magnification
viewfinder? :-)
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Derby Chang wrote:
New version out. Hooray, they've fixed the red bug (255,0,0 used to get
converted to green in the previous versions). And it's still free
http://www.pixmantec.com/purchase/downloads.asp
Bibble 4.6 is also out - now with Noise Ninja built-in. I just upgraded
- they made
Mark Erickson wrote:
The newly-announced Panasonic DMC-L1 looks like it would be the perfect
complement to the limited lens set. too bad it doesn't have a K mount!
Looks like a rangefinder. Now I want a K-mount digital rangefinder,
damnit...
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Glen wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks this is reckless paranoia at work?
I'd have described it as condescending - I wouldn't presume to give
basic personal safety advice to near-total strangers, and I'd expect the
same from them...
If he/she genuinely thinks that there's a particular
Adam Maas wrote:
How the heck to you pronouce *ist? Pentax is easy to say, *ist isn't (I
normally just call it an ist, but that asterisk is a little confusing)
According to Pentax, it should be pronounced ist. But I reckon any
pronunciation is fair game, given how silly it is... :-)
S
Interesting - I just stuck a 16-45 on my DS body and waved it around
until I got approximately the same perspective as the press-release
photo of the new 10MP body. Looks like it's going to be a fair bit
bigger - I reckon maybe 40% more volume. I wonder what they'll use the
room for?
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Thibouille wrote:
Thgouht I would tell ya what I think about my microdrive, maybe some
will find that it'll be useful.
I'll have to wait for the SD card version ;-)
S
Paul Stenquist wrote:
If they shot the camera with a relatively long lens, say a 135, the
body would appear larger in respect to the lens than it would through
the naked eye. Your experiment is inconclusive at best.
Depends how far away you hold the camera, of course. And I was mostly
Bob Sullivan wrote:
Now if somebody could point me to an A28/2.0?Regards, Bob S.
And I'll have an M35/1.4, while we're about it... ;-)
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William Robb wrote:
- Original Message - From: dick graham
Subject: New High End DSLR Speculation
Let the speculation start now. This site thrives on second guessing
upcoming Pentax products.
Now we also thrive on second guessing Pentax's business practices and
ethics.
'tis a
Thibouille wrote:
That being said they suspect that the Schneider-Kreuznach serie lenses
would be manufactured by Tamron (and they guess the actual Pentax
18-55 could be too - I don't beleive this one). It would be
interesting to know more about that.
Well there's that 6,700sqm (soon to be
Adam Maas wrote:
Wonder how they're going to do live LCD preview, although it's a
brilliant idea given the number of new DSLR users who complain about the
lack.
I don't see it claiming that the preview will be live. My guess is that
you'll be able to preview the photo by pressing a button -
Bob Shell wrote:
Funny you should ask that, Scott. Alien Skin Software today introduced
Exposure. Part of this Photoshop plug-in is a suite of filters that
emulate the look of specific films. Kodachrome 25 is there. They even
have a filter to emulate the old GAF 500 slide film from the
Dario Bonazza wrote:
And then you can put on sale your Jollyplays plug-ins.
Heh, you don't think that people might be more tempted to pay me to
delete the plugins and then burn the hard disk to ashes? ;-)
S
Cotty wrote:
'For the Cotty you don't yet know'
Argh, there's more than one?!!
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P. J. Alling wrote:
Can't you convince your employer that you should cover it as a news
segment?
Only if they move GFM to Oxfordshire ;-)
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E.R.N. Reed wrote:
Seems my children's school has some of those floppy-using cameras
available for the teachers to use.
I've had the occasional request from some of the teachers to take
pictures for them (with my ever-present camera) -- can't think why ...
They are (or were) great for
Micah Kleit wrote:
I bought it in an
impulsive fit with some other photographic equipment
You'll fit right in here, mate ;-)
S
(currently enjoying his recent FA35/2.0 enablement)
Rob Studdert wrote:
If only it were that simple. If you put an F, FA or any other new lens behind
any on of Pentax's current or past TCs you will find that the lens name/focal
length is not registered. Plus some of the current lenses are still only A
series, including the fast teles.
So
Bob Shell wrote:
I just tested it in my studio this afternoon with a view camera.
Focused on a wall and marked the location of a picture on the wall with
a grease pencil on the GG. Moved the back laterally 10mm. Lo and
behold, the picture was now exactly 10mm from the grease pencil
Gonz wrote:
Sorry Steve, I dont believe this is correct. Magnification should have
nothing to do with it. Its simple geometry. Imagine a line right down
the center of the focal area, now move that line in a parallel way some
distance, i.e. 1mm. The entire line, being parallel, by
Gonz wrote:
Another way to think of it Steve, is this: (again I'm talking about
moving the whole lens/sensor combo) imaging an infinitely long parallel
assembly holding a camera perpendicular to an infinite wall with a
varying image, as you move the camera/lens along the assembly, if
Tim Øsleby wrote:
Knowing the FL makes it lot easier to make a IS system. But I do believe it
is possible to make a more intelligent solution.
My idea is something like this:
First it measures the camera movements, and makes a rough guess. Then a
feedback system (based on data from the image
Bob Shell wrote:
Maybe I am missing something, but I would assume that a 1mm
displacement of the camera body would produce a 1mm shift in position
of the image on the sensor, regardless of lens focal length.
No unfortunately it's not that simple.
OK, so elaborate on why it isn't. Seems to
Bob Shell wrote:
I still do not think this is correct. A point projected on the sensor
by any lens will move 1mm if the camera body moves 1mm. (Equivalent to
moving the sensor 1mm).
If that were the case, then moving the camera 24mm (or so) in any
direction would result in a total change
Gonz wrote:
If the lens/body was moved in a perfect parallel manner, then you are
right, 1mm of body/lens movement == 1mm of subject movement.
Nope, I'm afraid that's only true at 1:1 magnification. See my
explanation in my most recent reply to Bob for a simple test that you
can perform
Cotty wrote:
I've invited Ken to the GFM NPW 2006.
Feed him to the bears!
S
Bob W wrote:
Please keep the ideas and thoughts coming in. I have a friend who made a
living from mountain photography for 20 years, and I plan to discuss this
with him soon, but I'm grateful for any information and advice from
experienced people.
I've done a fair amount of combined skiing and
Jens Bladt wrote:
PErhaps RAW files aren't submited to the on board sharpening in the camera,
I don't know, but others may be able to answer this.
RAW files are the raw sensor data, plus some shooting information. No
in-camera processing occurs.
S
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I just discovered Adobe's User-to-User Photography Forum this evening.
Looks like there are some topics that would be of interest to PDMLers.
Where are the threads on beer, cars, guns and GW Bush? :-)
S
Bob Sullivan wrote:
It is really quite slick. I popped the SD card out of the *istDs and
into the viewer and volla!, there are my pictures. Think of it as a
digital version of 'Grandma's Brag Book'.
Bet it can't read RAW tho'...
S
Charles Robinson wrote:
This fall I decided to go for it and got the Delkin RCR-V3 batteries.
Well, after a few months, I am less than delighted.
First the good points:
1. Camera is snappy and responsive (autofocus motor is definitely
quicker)
Quicker than NiMH or regular CR-V3s?
S
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Do you feel you understand the histogram?
Yes.
2. Do you ever look at the histogram while you are shooting? When? Under what
situations?
After every shot - I have it set to pop up with the preview image on my
DS. (I also find myself trying to chimp on film
Dario Bonazza wrote:
First, I agree that blown highlights can just be another way to show the
right part of the histogram. However, that's not always true: just think
of a bright sky in a corner of a backlit building almost filling the
picture: the histogram could well describe the light
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Blown highlights are evidenced in the histogram as values off the right
side of the scale.
By definition, blown highlights are clipped to the highest value on the
histogram. So you should start worrying when you see a sharp peak there.
However, the histogram (and
Kenneth Waller wrote:
I wish that the histogram was like the one in CS - Raw, i.e. broken
out into RGB
Why? What possible adjustment can you do in the camera that affects the
RGB curves?
I don't know about in-camera adjustments, but I'd definitely like to
know when which of the channels
Cesar wrote:
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to how Pentax will 'acknowledge' the
30th anniversary of the K100?
I vote for either a gold-plated 30th anniversary edition, or another
DSLR that's really a slightly-modified *istDS. ;-) A digital
equivalent of the MZ-M, perhaps? I guess they
Took this one a couple of months back when I was out for a walk in
Derbyshire with my grandparents. They're both in their eighties, so I
get plenty of time to run round taking photos... ;-) I found the high
contrast between bright sunshine and long winter shadows quite
challenging, but
Scott Loveless wrote:
Somewhere between 10 and 30 listers would be great. Who's interested?
Any suggestions? Who wants it first?
Count me in! :-)
S
Scott Loveless wrote:
I have a Pentax IQZoom EZY-R that's ready to go. All I need is a roll
of something fast, a small notebook and an address to get it started.
Ideally, having a mailing address for anyone who wants to participate
would be cool. Each address could be included with the
Ralf R. Radermacher wrote:
That still leaves is without the link.
I'll take pity on you all:
http://www.time.com/time/yip/2005/
It's prominent on their front page... :-)
S
William Robb wrote:
At least this time, they may have a point.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000message=16139935
Their reasoning is a big pile of crap. If you want to stop people from
confusing two different kinds of battery, make them a different shape!
They admit what
John Coyle wrote:
Arrive Friday 11/11, but tied up until 15/11 - it would be possible to
do something 16-18/11, tied up on 19/11, but free again between 20/11
and 29/11. Tied up again on 30th and leaving for Hong Kong on 2/12, so
you can see there isn't much slack!
Can't do weekends and
Leon Altoff wrote:
The R-CRV-3 batteries are not recommended for use in the Pentax cameras.
They supply too high a current that can cause motors to burn out.
How does that work? Do they really have a lower internal resistance
than NiMH batteries?
S
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