Re: another round - OT

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Sapienza
I'd like to ask those who have recently concluded travel if there have been changes to airport security since this summer? Are the screeners using more powerful xray machines? Is it safe to have film pass through the xray or should I ask for a handcheck? More importantly do they still do

Re: Pentax prifit/loss

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Sapienza
Here's the web page for the financials on Pentax: http://profiles.wisi.com/profiles/scripts/corpinfo.asp?cusip=C392W0060curco nv=392 They have been losing money for years, inspite of what Pal says. ... and oddly enough, their money-losing coincides with a downturn in the world economy as a

Sorry

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Sapienza
Alright, I've calmed down a bit. Sorry about that little outlash in my email response to B. Rubenstein. It just rather annoys me to be on a mailing list with one who is basically against the idea of the mailing list, and brings very little that is constructive to the table. But that's okay,

Re: New Kodak slide films

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Sapienza
New kodak films: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/pressReleases/pr20020924-21.shtml Nice to see someone still investing in film RD! Cool beans. Though in regard to the idea of someone still investing in film RD, I think one thing most film is going to be gone next year!! type people forget is

Re[2]: New Kodak slide films

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Sapienza
Tom, My biggest film concern is not that it will go away, but that the choices will continue to diminish. The more specialty/unique films will slowly go on the chopping block as more pros turn to digital. I would be far less happy about film if my only choices were Kodak Gold and Fuji

Re: The great PDML Print-Off

2002-09-20 Thread Tom Sapienza
I thought it might be cool to see how other photographers printed the same negative, so I churned out 18 identical (as close as I could anyway) negatives and sent them off to various like thinking people. The plan is for the participants to each print a half dozen prints from the negative,

RE: testing

2002-09-19 Thread Tom Sapienza
I think I heard a 4, but I must have been mistaken ... no -Original Message- From: Feroze Kistan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 September 2002 15:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: testing testing 1...2...3, can you hear me

Re: Couple of eBay auctions just started

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Sapienza
Motor Drive LX http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1382196827 Speaking of Motor Drive LX ... I was in a photo shop the other day and they had the Motor Drive setup for an LX. I had seen the rechargable battery packs for it before, but they had a mammoth beast of a battery grip

Re: Brown Spotmatic?

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Sapienza
I once had a brown Spotmatic (SP 500, actually, I think), which slipped away from me in a bad camera swap. Are the brown ones rare? Please say they are common, so I won't feel so bad about losing it (and the nice Pentax 50/f4 Macro and Viv 200/3.5 and solidly built Soligor 105 and 135

Re: Who are you?

2002-09-17 Thread Tom Sapienza
The Program Plus isn't a bad camera! It and the Super Program are the best, last of the manual focus line. (Except for the LX which is in a special class of it's own. g) You can spend more money for an autofocus model Pentax, but your pictures won't improve that much. Spend more on film.

RE: Silicon Film is still alive... (??????)

2002-09-17 Thread Tom Sapienza
I have just looked on their website and a few important details seem to be missing from the product info. How exactly does the 'film' insert communicate to the external viewer? In order for there to be no modifications required to the camera, presumably you need a wireless connection of some

Re: Film SLR's are dead - was: Pentax Folks

2002-09-17 Thread Tom Sapienza
You can get 'em all sorts of ways 35mm or APS format, color at least 400 to 800 speed, with flash or without, waterproof or panoramic or plain, and BW, too. Prices seem to range from $2-3 up to $13 U.S. My son was carrying around a $3 Fuji 27 exposure 400 speed with flash Sat, Sun, and