Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-03 Thread Toralf Lund
John Celio wrote: Plus-X and D-76, loved Agfa APX-100 but sadly they don't make it anymore... Not only do they not make it, Agfa has not even been in business since late 2006. I miss a lot of their products. Actually, Agfa is alive and well, and I think they may even still be making

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-03 Thread P. J. Alling
Cotty wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? I'm not sure I like the timbre of your

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-03 Thread P. J. Alling
John Sessoms wrote: From: John Graves The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic Black white photos and have had trouble with drool. (Anybody want to purchase a slightly damp keyboard?)I would like to try some BW. Do I whip out my Gossen and open up 3 stops from white?

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-03 Thread Scott Loveless
On 12/3/08, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Sessoms wrote: From: John Graves The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic Black white photos and have had trouble with drool. (Anybody want to purchase a slightly damp keyboard?)I would like to try some BW.

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-03 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/1/2008 10:05:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yup - With PSE closed, go to your PSE program directory and drill down to Plug-Ins File Formats. You'll see a Camera Raw.8bi file. Rename it to something like Camera Raw.8bi.old. Then go to the

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-03 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Un-diluted HC110 will last at least two years in the original plastic bottle. Put in a tightly stoppered glass bottle, it will probably last even longer. Properly mixed XTOL will last up to a year in a tightly stoppered glass bottle. I don't know how long Rodinal will last ... when I was

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-02 Thread Jim King
Eactivist wrote on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:53:20 -0800 Marnie, do you have the latest version of Camera Raw which will work with your PSE 5 installed on your computer (I think it is v 4.6)? It may be able to deal with your Canon RAW files. Check on Adobe's website for downloads and

RE: Blank White Metering

2008-12-02 Thread John Celio
Plus-X and D-76, loved Agfa APX-100 but sadly they don't make it anymore... Not only do they not make it, Agfa has not even been in business since late 2006. I miss a lot of their products. John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-02 Thread Adam Maas
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:53 PM, John Celio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus-X and D-76, loved Agfa APX-100 but sadly they don't make it anymore... Not only do they not make it, Agfa has not even been in business since late 2006. I miss a lot of their products. John Thankfully AO bought teh

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-02 Thread P. J. Alling
Cotty wrote: On 1/12/08, PN Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. I think we should nip this one in the bud, before the

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Nov 30, 2008, at 23:04 , Cotty wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? I'm not sure I like the timbre of your

RE: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Bob W
A little trick to help with the psychology of it is to shoot RAW+JPEG and have the JPEG settings render the preview in black white on the back of the screen. It's a little psychological trick to make you think you have Tri-X in the camera. Bob Digital BW is a rendering process. Meter as

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Cotty
That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? I'm not sure I like the timbre of your questions. Cane we branch out from this

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Cotty Subject: Re: Blank White Metering That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? I'm

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Scott Loveless
On 12/1/08, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Mark Roberts
William Robb wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? I'm not sure I like the timbre of your questions. Cane we branch

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread David J Brooks
John. In my film days, i would definitly have to open up from what the meter was reading for winter, snowy BW shots. With my K10D and most of my Nikon dslr's, either what the camera meter says is good, or maybe a +0.3 sometimes. Dave On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:47 PM, John Graves [EMAIL

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread John Graves
I should have known better than to axe that question is this group! John Graves WA1JG Joseph McAllister wrote: On Nov 30, 2008, at 23:04 , Cotty wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread PN Stenquist
On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: William Robb wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? I'm not sure I

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Subash
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:59:32 -0500 PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: William Robb wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Scott Loveless
On 12/1/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: William Robb wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree.

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Rick Womer
--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? G Only a

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread ann sanfedele
Rick Womer wrote: --- On Mon, 12/1/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread David J Brooks
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:59 AM, ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Womer wrote: --- On Mon, 12/1/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 11/30/2008 8:48:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic Black white photos and have had trouble with drool. (Anybody want to purchase a slightly damp keyboard?)I would like to try some BW.

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blank White Metering On 12/1/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: William Robb wrote

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Jack Davis
PSE6's bw converter, along with its color channel options, works well. Jack --- On Mon, 12/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blank White Metering To: pdml@pdml.net Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 9:02 AM In a message

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Scott Loveless
On 11/30/08, John Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic Black white photos and have had trouble with drool. (Anybody want to purchase a slightly damp keyboard?)I would like to try some BW. Do I whip out my Gossen and open up 3 stops

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/1/2008 9:23:40 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PSE6's bw converter, along with its color channel options, works well. Jack Good to know. Probably time for me to upgrade. 5 won't import my new Canon RAW files. (What I do is use

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Jack Davis
As though we're knot sick of it already.(?) Jack --- On Mon, 12/1/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blank White Metering To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 6:59 AM On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:43 AM

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread David J Brooks
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lightroom does a nice BW conversion as well. My new camera will shoot BW, which I suppose is nice, My D200 does this as well, but i find it gives a pretty flat image, so i prefer to do it post process. I too, use the LR program for

re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread John Sessoms
From: John Graves The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic Black white photos and have had trouble with drool. (Anybody want to purchase a slightly damp keyboard?)I would like to try some BW. Do I whip out my Gossen and open up 3 stops from white? Is this something

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread ann sanfedele
Ken Waller wrote: Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blank White Metering On 12/1/08, PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: William Robb

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Norm Baugher
Plus-X and D-76, loved Agfa APX-100 but sadly they don't make it anymore... Norm John Graves wrote: The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic Black white photos and have had trouble with drool. (Anybody want to purchase a slightly damp keyboard?)I would like to try some

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Scott Loveless
On 12/1/08, Norm Baugher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus-X and D-76, loved Agfa APX-100 but sadly they don't make it anymore... Norm If the two of us don't shoot more, they might not make Plus-X anymore. -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Jim King
Eactivist wrote on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:27:30 -0800 In a message dated 12/1/2008 9:23:40 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PSE6's bw converter, along with its color channel options, works well. Jack Good to know. Probably time for me to upgrade. 5 won't

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Christine Aguila
- Original Message - From: Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: PN Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blank White Metering To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 6:59 AM On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: William Robb wrote

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 12/1/2008 6:30:16 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marnie, do you have the latest version of Camera Raw which will work with your PSE 5 installed on your computer (I think it is v 4.6)? It may be able to deal with your Canon RAW files. Check on

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Sorenson
Yup - With PSE closed, go to your PSE program directory and drill down to Plug-Ins File Formats. You'll see a Camera Raw.8bi file. Rename it to something like Camera Raw.8bi.old. Then go to the new Camera Raw Zip file and extract the new Camera Raw.8bi file to the File Formats directory.

Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread John Graves
The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic Black white photos and have had trouble with drool. (Anybody want to purchase a slightly damp keyboard?)I would like to try some BW. Do I whip out my Gossen and open up 3 stops from white? Is this something I can do in Raw

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Digital BW is a rendering process. Meter as normal. Capture in RAW. Process using one of a dozen or three different methodologies to render BW from your captures. Currently I use Lightroom 2 and its HSV control panels in the Develop module to do 99% of my BW rendering work, but PSE and ACR

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread Paul Sorenson
If you're running Windows you can get a good start by downloading and installing the BW-Plus plug-in. http://www.cybia.co.uk/bwplus.htm -p John Graves wrote: The list has done it. I have been looking at all the fantastic Black white photos and have had trouble with drool. (Anybody want to

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread PN Stenquist
Black and white photography doesn't differ from color in exposure values. Use your cameras metering to obtain a correct exposure as you normally wood. It's in post processing that you want to convert to BW. In most applications you can do it with a simple menu selection, and in some cases

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread PN Stenquist
That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. Paul On Dec 1, 2008, at 12:12 AM, PN Stenquist wrote: Black and white photography doesn't differ from color in exposure values. Use your cameras metering to obtain a correct

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread Cotty
On 1/12/08, PN Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Nov 30, 2008, at 10:56 PM, Cotty wrote: That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread Cotty
That should be as you normally would. If you try to do it as you normally wood. you'll be barking up the wrong tree. There is a grain of truth in what you say. Is this knot true? Who wood question it? I'm not sure I like the timbre of your questions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

RE: Blank White Metering

2008-11-30 Thread Anthony Farr
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cotty Sent: Monday, 1 December 2008 5:56 PM To: pentax list Subject: Re: Blank White Metering On 1/12/08, PN Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: That should be as you normally would. If you