Re: OT Crap Wildlife Photography

2020-04-18 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
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OT Crap Wildlife Photography

2020-04-17 Thread Larry Colen
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Re: Crap and Corruption follow up

2018-07-09 Thread David J Brooks
my digital storage is not up to par. I have them scatered all over Dave On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Bill wrote: > It looks like I didn't lose anything. My haphazard method of storing > multiple copies of files seems to have worked for me. > It took most of the weekend to make Lightroom

Crap and Corruption follow up

2018-07-09 Thread Bill
It looks like I didn't lose anything. My haphazard method of storing multiple copies of files seems to have worked for me. It took most of the weekend to make Lightroom happy again by creating directories and moving files into them so that it could find them. One of the things I discovered was

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-07 Thread Rick Womer
It also doesn’t help when the Gods decide that your house is overdue for a lightning bolt, and everything inside gets toasted. Hence the way off site storage. Rick > On Jul 7, 2018, at 6:14 PM, Bill wrote: > > On 7/7/2018 3:14 PM, Rick Womer wrote: The cloud can be a helpful

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-07 Thread Bill
On 7/7/2018 3:14 PM, Rick Womer wrote: The cloud can be a helpful supplemental backup.<< Indeed. My cyber-meltdown in January left me feeling cyber-mortal; the drive containing my photos got toasted, as did one of my two TimeMachine backup drives. Now I have two TimeMachine backups plus

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-07 Thread Rick Womer
>>The cloud can be a helpful supplemental backup.<< Indeed. My cyber-meltdown in January left me feeling cyber-mortal; the drive containing my photos got toasted, as did one of my two TimeMachine backup drives. Now I have two TimeMachine backups plus Backblaze. Rick On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 1:26

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread Larry Colen
Steve Cottrell wrote on 7/6/18 2:18 AM: On 6/7/18, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: Damn. Hope you can fix that. Another reason why I will never use Lightroom. It's photoshop and old fashioned file keeping and backup for this old fashioned guy. I have to say that I agree. I

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread Bill
On 7/6/2018 10:24 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: I would speculate that it has happened because it was one of the most frequently used directories on the disk. With that, when the glitch happened, something was writing to the directory, and hence the directory was corrupted. It's possible I

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread Igor PDML-StR
I would speculate that it has happened because it was one of the most frequently used directories on the disk. With that, when the glitch happened, something was writing to the directory, and hence the directory was corrupted. I assume all your image files were in subdirectories, and not in

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread Bill
On 7/6/2018 6:41 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: Paul Stenquist wrote: Damn. Hope you can fix that. Another reason why I will never use Lightroom. It’s photoshop and old fashioned file keeping and backup for this old fashioned guy. What Bill is describing is a Drobo problem, not a Lightroom

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread P. J. Alling
He always knew how to push Bill's buttons... On 7/6/2018 9:21 AM, David J Brooks wrote: That darn Brad Drobo Dave What Bill is describing is a Drobo problem, not a Lightroom problem. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread ann sanfedele
har! ann On 7/6/2018 9:21 AM, David J Brooks wrote: That darn Brad Drobo Dave What Bill is describing is a Drobo problem, not a Lightroom problem. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread David J Brooks
That darn Brad Drobo Dave > > What Bill is describing is a Drobo problem, not a Lightroom problem. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread Mark Roberts
Paul Stenquist wrote: >Damn. Hope you can fix that. Another reason why I will never use Lightroom. >It’s photoshop and old fashioned file keeping and backup for this old >fashioned guy. What Bill is describing is a Drobo problem, not a Lightroom problem. -- Mark Roberts - Photography &

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread Brian Walters
> On 06 July 2018 at 15:25 Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > Damn. Hope you can fix that. Another reason why I will never use Lightroom. > It’s photoshop and old fashioned file keeping and backup for this old > fashioned guy. Another old fashioned guy. Zoner Photo Studio does fine as my image

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 6/7/18, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: >Damn. Hope you can fix that. Another reason why I will never use >Lightroom. It's photoshop and old fashioned file keeping and backup for >this old fashioned guy. I have to say that I agree. I have always organised all my images and video

RE: Crap and corruption

2018-07-06 Thread John Coyle
Me too! Never lost a file with a two-stage backup in place, and the original files on optical media. John in Brisbane -Original Message- From: PDML On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Friday, 6 July 2018 3:26 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Crap and corruption Damn. Hope

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
Damn. Hope you can fix that. Another reason why I will never use Lightroom. It’s photoshop and old fashioned file keeping and backup for this old fashioned guy. Paul > On Jul 5, 2018, at 10:52 PM, Bill wrote: > > I opened Lightroom to find a file, but when I tried to open said file in >

Crap and corruption

2018-07-05 Thread Bill
I opened Lightroom to find a file, but when I tried to open said file in Photoshop, I discovered that the file did not exist outside of the Lightroom catalogue. Somehow, my Drobo managed to completely lose my entire image file directory. That's over 30k files dating from 2006 to last week that

Testing; or gawd, is this email crap a PITA!

2014-04-12 Thread Richard Womer
So I set up an account on gmail and linked it to PDML. I'm receiving messages, but when I tried to send a few last week they didn't go through. Turns out the plain text option in the web version is cunningly hidden. Let's see if this one goes though. Meanwhile, I can't get Apple Mail (version

Re: Testing; or gawd, is this email crap a PITA!

2014-04-12 Thread Bob Sullivan
Rick, Good that you found the gmail trick. Watch out, it tries to switch back on me all the time. All of a sudden my messages don't go thru... Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Richard Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote: So I set up an account on gmail and linked it to PDML. I'm

Re: Crap!

2011-11-15 Thread Darren Addy
You are gonna just LOVE that phone when it goes into the uninterruptible start-up infinite loop. Good times! :\ Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link

Re: Crap!

2011-11-14 Thread Miserere
I just resent the message below from my computer...because it didn't work from my phone. I'll have to take a look at the Gmail app and see if I can set it to send plain text e-mails. Let me know what you find out, Frank! Cheers,    —M. On 12 November 2011 14:09, Miserere

Re: Crap!

2011-11-14 Thread Larry Colen
On 11/14/2011 6:58 PM, Miserere wrote: I just resent the message below from my computer... I find that I resent a lot of the messages from your computer. :-) In K-9 mail, settings more settings account settings sending message format plain text -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (from

Re: Crap!

2011-11-14 Thread Larry Colen, l...@red4est.com (From Droid)
Here's a reply from my phone to confirm that it works. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On 11/14/2011 6:58 PM, Miserere wrote: I just resent the message below from my computer... I find that I resent a lot of the messages from your computer. :-) In K-9 mail, settings more settings

Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread frank theriault
I got a new phone for work. It's an Android with all sorts of bells and whistles. One of the things it can do is go on gmail to receive and send e-mails. Cool. So over the past week I've been responding to dozens and dozens of posts on this list. Thanking people for looking at my PESOs,

RE: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of frank theriault I got a new phone for work. It's an Android with all sorts of bells and whistles. One of the things it can do is go on gmail to receive and send e-mails. Cool. So over the past week I've been

Re: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread frank theriault
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: first thing to check is whether it's sending plain text or something that the Puritans, the Taliban and the Shakers would disapprove of. Good plan. Thanks! cheers, frank (not on his Android at the moment) -- Sharpness is

RE: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread Bob W
first thing to check is whether it's sending plain text or something that the Puritans, the Taliban and the Shakers would disapprove of. Good plan. Thanks! cheers, frank (not on his Android at the moment) might not be such a good plan. I've just been mucking about on my android

Re: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread frank theriault
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: might not be such a good plan. I've just been mucking about on my android phone and gmail account and can't find a way to change that setting. It might be something you have to do on the pc only, and since you're coming

Re: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Boy I've heard some lame excuses in my time but seriously - just consider you got a pass on PEsO praises and thank yous.. yours for others, others for yours, having written this. Now you won't have to take back anything you said - shhh no one knows! xo, ann On 11/12/2011 08:37, frank

Re: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread mike wilson
On 12/11/2011 15:18, frank theriault wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Bob Wp...@web-options.com wrote: might not be such a good plan. I've just been mucking about on my android phone and gmail account and can't find a way to change that setting. It might be something you have to do on

Re: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread P. J. Alling
On 11/12/2011 8:52 AM, Bob W wrote: first thing to check is whether it's sending plain text or something that the Puritans, the Taliban and the Shakers would disapprove of. The Puritans didn't shun much, they were pretty progressive for religions fanatics, the Shakers might have but usually

Re: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread steve harley
on 2011-11-12 06:37 frank theriault wrote I got a new phone for work. It's an Android with all sorts of bells and whistles. One of the things it can do is go on gmail to receive and send e-mails. [...] I went to the archives and not a single post made it to the list. I guess just hitting

Re: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread Steven Desjardins
Don't worry Frank. I made up a Gmail account with a name that looks like yours and have been telling folks off in your name. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 1:04 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2011-11-12 06:37 frank theriault wrote I got a new phone for work.  It's an Android with all

Re: Crap!

2011-11-12 Thread steve harley
on 2011-11-12 11:04 steve harley wrote maybe someone who does it can recommend one ... Larry Colen on 2 October tested sending email to this list from his Android phone using the K9 email app, saying it had a plain text option -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: You may get crap from me

2011-10-27 Thread Bob Sullivan
I believe they were multiple emails/spams to only part of Frank's contacts at one time. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:20 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I'm surprised that you can spam from a Hotmail account.  Mine was shut down because /I/ was a spammer when I attempted to send

Re: You may get crap from me

2011-10-27 Thread Steven Desjardins
Does this mean you don't want to run away with me? On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:56 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't want to put the word spam in the SL, but that's what some of you may have gotten from me in recent days.  It seems that my old Hotmail account (which has

You may get crap from me

2011-10-26 Thread frank theriault
I didn't want to put the word spam in the SL, but that's what some of you may have gotten from me in recent days. It seems that my old Hotmail account (which has lay dormant for years) has been hacked into and is being used to send spam to my contacts. I know of at least one person on this list

Re: You may get crap from me

2011-10-26 Thread P. J. Alling
I'm surprised that you can spam from a Hotmail account. Mine was shut down because /I/ was a spammer when I attempted to send all of my contacts an e-mail telling them that it was now my primary account. On 10/26/2011 9:56 AM, frank theriault wrote: I didn't want to put the word spam in the

Re: Enablements (or: holy crap this thing's awesome)

2011-03-20 Thread Boris Liberman
On 3/19/2011 8:34 PM, John Celio wrote: Holy crap, this thing is lightyears ahead of my K10D. I was thinking of keeping the K10D as a backup, but I think it may just end up in permanent storage (no one will want this lemon of a camera, so I'm not going to try to sell it). The build and layout

Re: Enablements (or: holy crap this thing's awesome)

2011-03-20 Thread Larry Colen
off I upgraded the firmware and started playing around with the settings. The first photos (and video) I took were all of my cat, so I will spare you from having to see that. At least I have a pretty redhead staying at the house who came in handy for the first shot. Holy crap, this thing

Re: Enablements (or: holy crap this thing's awesome)

2011-03-20 Thread John Celio
It took forever for my K-5 battery to charge You didn't pull the battery and charger out at work and charge it during the afternoon? I'm impressed, you have a lot more self restraint than I do. I didn't think of that until much too late. Would have been the smart thing to do, though. if

Re: Enablements (or: holy crap this thing's awesome)

2011-03-19 Thread John Celio
It took forever for my K-5 battery to charge last night, but as soon as that light turned off I upgraded the firmware and started playing around with the settings. The first photos (and video) I took were all of my cat, so I will spare you from having to see that. Holy crap, this thing

Re: Enablements (or: holy crap this thing's awesome)

2011-03-19 Thread Steven Desjardins
with the settings. The first photos (and video) I took were all of my cat, so I will spare you from having to see that. Holy crap, this thing is lightyears ahead of my K10D. I was thinking of keeping the K10D as a backup, but I think it may just end up in permanent storage (no one will want this lemon

Re: Enablements (or: holy crap this thing's awesome)

2011-03-19 Thread Charles Robinson
On Mar 19, 2011, at 19:17, Steven Desjardins wrote: Like you, I was never a big fan of my K10D. I like my K7 much better. I only liked my K10D post-K7 when the K7 had to go to the camera hospital. And that's the only reason I'm keeping it - so I'll have something to use when the K7 is out

Re: OT: help RECEIVED with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten other crap

2010-06-01 Thread mike wilson
On 31 May 2010 15:26, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: mike wilson wrote: Ann Sanfedele wrote: Got good info off list... So you guys can go back to sleep now :-) ann (UNLESS - someone knows how to bringback my 79 mgs of sent mail into the Netscape format that the update kinda

Re: OT: help RECEIVED with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten other crap

2010-06-01 Thread Ann Sanfedele
mike wilson wrote: On 31 May 2010 15:26, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: mike wilson wrote: Ann Sanfedele wrote: Got good info off list... So you guys can go back to sleep now :-) ann (UNLESS - someone knows how to bringback my 79 mgs of sent mail into the Netscape

Re: OT: help RECEIVED with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten other crap

2010-06-01 Thread mike wilson
Ann Sanfedele wrote: mike wilson wrote: On 31 May 2010 15:26, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: mike wilson wrote: Ann Sanfedele wrote: Got good info off list... So you guys can go back to sleep now :-) ann (UNLESS - someone knows how to bringback my 79 mgs of sent mail

Re: OT: help RECEIVED with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten other crap

2010-05-31 Thread mike wilson
Ann Sanfedele wrote: Got good info off list... So you guys can go back to sleep now :-) ann (UNLESS - someone knows how to bringback my 79 mgs of sent mail into the Netscape format that the update kinda forced me into...) I take it you have tried the import command under the tools menu?

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've, forgotten and other crap

2010-05-31 Thread David Mann
On May 31, 2010, at 10:01 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Adam Maas Win98 still runs? Crawls, limps, hobbles along ... whatever, but yeah it still runs. I still have my old Windows 3.11 install disks somewhere. I thought about installing it in Virtualbox just for kicks, until I realised it

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten andother crap

2010-05-31 Thread David Mann
On May 31, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Bob W wrote: Instead of using an editor that's limited why not try a different editor? Textpad is a very good one http://www.textpad.com/download/. You can download it free on a tryout basis, and pay for it only if you decide to keep it. I liked it so much, I

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten andother crap

2010-05-31 Thread Rob Studdert
On 31/05/2010, David Mann d...@multisport.net.nz wrote: I used to use Textpad at work but I switched to Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm It has a couple of simple little features that I just can't go without anymore. And it's neither vi nor Emacs ;) I've recently

Re: OT: help RECEIVED with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten other crap

2010-05-31 Thread Ann Sanfedele
mike wilson wrote: Ann Sanfedele wrote: Got good info off list... So you guys can go back to sleep now :-) ann (UNLESS - someone knows how to bringback my 79 mgs of sent mail into the Netscape format that the update kinda forced me into...) I take it you have tried the import command

OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape update... but forget that. I figured out a way to get into the mail I want to see by copying the files to an external drive, putting the files on my old computer that has windoze 98 and real DOS with Kedit on it... I'm

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread David Parsons
You can't get to DOS in Windows. You can open a command line window by typing CMD in the Run from the Start button. Windows no longer runs on top of DOS. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten andother crap

2010-05-30 Thread Bob W
Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape update... but forget that. I figured out a way to get into the mail I want to see by copying the files to an external drive, putting the files on my old computer that has windoze 98 and real DOS with Kedit on it... I'm

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Sorenson
See my off list reply about creating a bootable disk - maybe it will help... -p On 5/30/2010 12:00 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape update... but forget that. I figured out a way to get into the mail I want to see by copying

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread P. J. Alling
Win98 still runs on DOS. On 5/30/2010 1:11 PM, David Parsons wrote: You can't get to DOS in Windows. You can open a command line window by typing CMD in the Run from the Start button. Windows no longer runs on top of DOS. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ann Sanfedeleann...@nyc.rr.com

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Adam Maas
Win98 still runs? -Adam On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:37 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Win98 still runs on DOS. On 5/30/2010 1:11 PM, David Parsons wrote: You can't get to DOS in Windows.  You can open a command line window by typing CMD in the Run from the Start button.

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread P. J. Alling
As well as it ever did. Hell, I've got hardware I use a s print server. Win95 works fine as long as you don't ask too much of it. On 5/30/2010 2:53 PM, Adam Maas wrote: Win98 still runs? -Adam On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:37 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Win98 still

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
David Parsons wrote: You can't get to DOS in Windows. You can open a command line window by typing CMD in the Run from the Start button. Windows no longer runs on top of DOS David - I CAN get to Dos... I have XP (though it is not true dos I guess) not Vista or later. However, I have

Re: OT: help RECEIVED with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Got good info off list... So you guys can go back to sleep now :-) ann (UNLESS - someone knows how to bringback my 79 mgs of sent mail into the Netscape format that the update kinda forced me into...) Ann Sanfedele wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Ann Sanfedele

Re: OT: help RECEIVED with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten other crap

2010-05-30 Thread P. J. Alling
If I did the research I could probably write a KEXX macro to do that, but I'm not that altruistic. I think I'll go back to sleep now. On 5/30/2010 4:18 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Got good info off list... So you guys can go back to sleep now :-) ann (UNLESS - someone knows how to bringback my

Re: OT: help RECEIVED with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've forgotten other crap

2010-05-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
P. J. Alling wrote: If I did the research I could probably write a KEXX macro to do that, but I'm not that altruistic. I think I'll go back to sleep now. LOL! sweet dreams! ann On 5/30/2010 4:18 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Got good info off list... So you guys can go back to sleep

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've, forgotten andother crap

2010-05-30 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bob W Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape update... but forget that. I figured out a way to get into the mail I want to see by copying the files to an external drive, putting the files on my old computer that has windoze 98 and real DOS with

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've, forgotten and other crap

2010-05-30 Thread John Sessoms
From: Adam Maas Win98 still runs? Crawls, limps, hobbles along ... whatever, but yeah it still runs. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: OT: help with a couple of Windows/dos commands I've, forgotten andother crap

2010-05-30 Thread Ann Sanfedele
John Sessoms wrote: From: Bob W Ok, so I lost a whole Sh*tload of mail due to some rather forced Netscape update... but forget that. I figured out a way to get into the mail I want to see by copying the files to an external drive, putting the files on my old computer that has windoze

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread AlunFoto
2009/7/29 Mark Cassino markcass...@ymail.com: Thanks - that looks exactly what I have going on. Now I wonder if I should replace the camera - but not *ALL* K7's have this problem - right? I checked a number of exposures from mine yesterday and found nothing. But then again ambient temperature

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread mike wilson
paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: I've examined a number of my exposures and have been unable to find any faults. I've shot several hundred frames at a time, so I probably have generated some heat. You are not doing it right. Face north, drop your trousers and video

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread AlunFoto
2009/7/29 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: You are not doing it right.  Face north, drop your trousers and video yourself singing all verses of the Star-spangled Banner for 20 minutes.  Then, _immediately_ photograph a black cat in a coal cellar.  Preferably at night. You will soon see

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread mike wilson
AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/29 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: You are not doing it right.  Face north, drop your trousers and video yourself singing all verses of the Star-spangled Banner for 20 minutes.  Then, _immediately_ photograph a black cat in a coal

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread Mark Cassino
- Original Message From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net I've examined a number of my exposures and have been unable to find any faults. I've shot several hundred frames at a time, so I probably have generated some heat. Paul - Thanks,

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread AlunFoto
2009/7/29 mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com: Oh, and the correct song would be God shave the Queen, I think. :-) Now you're being picky.  But I won't get in a strop. Whether you need one depends on what you want to do with the cat. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/

RE: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread Desjardins, Steve
Glad to hear it. Always nice to deal with BH. - Paul - BH really came through on this. I called, got an RMA, they will exchange the camera. It took all of 2 minutes on the phone to explain the problem and get things set up.  They are a quality outfit. - MCC

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Mark Cassino Subject: Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem Thanks, Paul. That's what I was wondering about - looks like it is not a fault in all K7's, just some. this one will definitely be going back FWIW, my first shoot with my K7 was over 1600 shots

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread P. J. Alling
I agree that's extremely annoying. Mark Cassino wrote: - Original Message From: P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com Let me preface this by saying that if I had just bought a K-7 and noticed this I'd be disturbed, if not angry. However in a lot of the examples the issue is hard

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-29 Thread Miserere
Some people are being diligent in checking EXIF before/after the green line appearing and the sensor temp cut-off seems to be 35 C. For what it's worth. --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.EnticingTheLight.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread AlunFoto
for the heads-up and fingers crossed for a quick solution. It's crap indeed. :-( Jostein 2009/7/28 Mark Cassino markcass...@ymail.com: I got a new job and have been on the road traveling for 5 of the last 7 weeks - which has left very little time to give the K7 a real workout. Yesterday I

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Thibouille
Sorry to hear that Mark. The firmware update coming very very soon may help. I hope so. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille -- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Cotty
On 27/7/09, Mark Cassino, discombobulated, unleashed: Here's a sample - actual pixels of the very last shot I took yesterday. (Apologies - the shot is not properly focused.) Guide arrows help identify the hot pixel column. http://www.markcassino.com/temp/IMGP1267.jpg I'm sure I've seen this

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Thibouille
Makes me remember I had such a problem with my istD in Greece, years ago: the embedded Jpeg was OK but the RAW was not. It was the very singe time this happened to me. Maybe a card write problem. I will never know. hat K-7 thing however seem to be documented somehow. I still think that might be

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread David J Brooks
, but a real problem. In hindsight, I noticed it on one of the very first shots I took with the camera, but fooled myself into thinking it was just a bit of spiderweb in the shot. I'll be calling BH in the morning. Did I say CRAP! MCC - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
Thanks, Jack - if it is a known isue at least I won't have to spend as much time convincing Pentax or BH that it is a real issue. I'm seeing it at ISO 200, 400, and 800. (I haven't shot much at higher speeds...) - MCC - Original Message From: Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com Wish I

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
Thanks, Joseph - I didn't think of the pixel mapping thingy. I'll give that a try tonight. - MCC - Original Message From: Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com Did you happen to run the Pixel Mapping procedure? Not that I think in your case that it will repair your problem, but it

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
Subject: Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem Mark, IIRC, someone had a blogpost somewhere about K20D having a systemic fault that popped up in the same area for all affected cameras. In case this is another one of those, would you mind describing where the band occur in your images? I'll check mine as soon

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
I'll try to do some research on the update - hadn't heard about it but I've been more or less off-line these last couple of weeks. - MCC - Original Message From: Thibouille pentaxl...@gmail.com Sorry to hear that Mark. The firmware update coming very very soon may help. I hope so.

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
Har! - MCC - Original Message From: Cotty cotty...@mac.com To: pentax list PDML@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:35:57 AM Subject: Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem On 27/7/09, Mark Cassino, discombobulated, unleashed: Here's a sample - actual pixels of the very last shot I took

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Miserere
into thinking it was just a bit of spiderweb in the shot. I'll be calling BH in the morning. Did I say CRAP! MCC - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com www.calarti.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Gonz
, I noticed it on one of the very first shots I took with the camera, but fooled myself into thinking it was just a bit of spiderweb in the shot. I'll be calling BH in the morning. Did I say CRAP! MCC - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread P. J. Alling
Let me preface this by saying that if I had just bought a K-7 and noticed this I'd be disturbed, if not angry. However in a lot of the examples the issue is hard to see even in the enhanced images. Under normal circumstances with a good exposure, not trying every Photoshop trick to wring a

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Gonz
of spiderweb in the shot. I'll be calling BH in the morning. Did I say CRAP! MCC - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com www.calarti.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
- Original Message From: P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com Let me preface this by saying that if I had just bought a K-7 and noticed this I'd be disturbed, if not angry.  However in a lot of the examples the issue is hard to see even in the enhanced images.  Under normal

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
Er... Actually it's pixel column 2455. - MCC - Original Message From: Mark Cassino markcass...@ymail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:43:16 AM Subject: Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem The bad column of pixels is # 1265, give or take one or two

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
- Original Message From: Miserere miser...@gmail.com Marc, Not that I want to alarm you, but you are not the only one with this problem. In fact, we might want to call it an epidemic:

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Mark Cassino
- Original Message From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Crap. After this long, BH might tell you to go to Pentax. I hope not. Good luck with this, and let us know how it turns out. Paul - Paul - BH really came through on this. I called, got

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread paul stenquist
I've examined a number of my exposures and have been unable to find any faults. I've shot several hundred frames at a time, so I probably have generated some heat. Paul On Jul 28, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Mark Cassino wrote: - Original Message From: Miserere miser...@gmail.com Marc, Not

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread paul stenquist
Excellent. They did the same for me on the DA* 16-50 lens, but I think it was a shorter time period. Paul On Jul 28, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Mark Cassino wrote: - Original Message From: paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net Crap. After this long, BH might tell you to go to Pentax. I hope

Re: Crap! K7 Sensor Problem

2009-07-28 Thread Bob Sullivan
, but a real problem. In hindsight, I noticed it on one of the very first shots I took with the camera, but fooled myself into thinking it was just a bit of spiderweb in the shot. I'll be calling BH in the morning. Did I say CRAP! MCC - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino

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