Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-20 Thread Mark C
Very cool, Cotty - you managed to capture and excellent lightning strike! Mark On 7/18/2014 5:32 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Spent a few days in Cornwall and we have some hot air coming up the latitudes from Spain. Treated to a good show last night and managed to capture something half decent

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-19 Thread David Mann
on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode. http://pdml.posthaven.com/lightning-strike-polzeath-cornwall-2014 Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather - it's bakin hot here! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-19 Thread Bruce Walker
and Pentax A*85/1.4 balanced on a bread tin atop an ironing board on the holiday apartment balcony! Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode. http://pdml.posthaven.com/lightning-strike-polzeath

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-19 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 18/7/14, Richard Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: Snide comment aside, I like the pic, especially the lighting of the clouds. Was it really that purple color? The camera was on auto white balance - kept giving me orange and red results, so switched to daylight WB which was an improvement,

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-19 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 19/7/14, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: Nice drama and colour, Cotty. Thanks Bruce and thanks all :) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) |Web Video Production --www.seeingeye.tv _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-19 Thread Jack Davis
Worthy pay off for persistence, Cotty! J - Original Message - From: David Mann dmann...@gmail.com To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 11:12:15 PM Subject: Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014 Cool shot. We'd had a very mild winter so far until a couple

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-19 Thread John
On 7/19/2014 6:32 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 18/7/14, Richard Womer, discombobulated, unleashed: Snide comment aside, I like the pic, especially the lighting of the clouds. Was it really that purple color? The camera was on auto white balance - kept giving me orange and red results, so

PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-18 Thread Steve Cottrell
on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode. http://pdml.posthaven.com/lightning-strike-polzeath-cornwall-2014 Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather - it's bakin hot here

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-18 Thread Bob W-PDML
on the holiday apartment balcony! Settled on 800 ISO with about f/5.6 and kept doing 10 second exposures one after the other, finger on the shutter holding it down in Bulb mode. http://pdml.posthaven.com/lightning-strike-polzeath-cornwall-2014 Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-18 Thread Rick Womer
On Jul 18, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather - it's bakin hot here! Bakin' hot at 27C. Somebody pass me a hanky, please. Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-18 Thread Richard Womer
Snide comment aside, I like the pic, especially the lighting of the clouds. Was it really that purple color? Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Rick Womer rickpic...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 18, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Back at home now and we

Re: PESO - Lightning Strike, Polzeath, Cornwall 2014

2014-07-18 Thread Ann Sanfedele
://pdml.posthaven.com/lightning-strike-polzeath-cornwall-2014 Back at home now and we have a couple of days of more rough weather - it's bakin hot here! -- 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

Re: Lightning Strike

2007-07-15 Thread Toine
and studio took a major lightning strike on Thur afternoon. Lots of physical damage to the studio and lost a lot of electronics. My destop computer, barely a year old, lost the monitor and the ethernet portion of the motheboard. I have tried installing a 10/100 card but so far I cannot get

Re: Lightning Strike

2007-07-15 Thread Peter Lacus
Walter, If I cannot get the internet to work on the computer, then I will salvage parts and buy another. Was wondering if it is feasible to make an external drive using an enclosure and the sata drive from the computer. It is 250 gig and quite small. Just don't know how all that works. If

Re: Lightning Strike

2007-07-15 Thread Bob Sullivan
PROTECTED] wrote: My house and studio took a major lightning strike on Thur afternoon. Lots of physical damage to the studio and lost a lot of electronics. My destop computer, barely a year old, lost the monitor and the ethernet portion of the motheboard. I have tried installing a 10/100 card

Lightning Strike

2007-07-14 Thread Walter Hamler
My house and studio took a major lightning strike on Thur afternoon. Lots of physical damage to the studio and lost a lot of electronics. My destop computer, barely a year old, lost the monitor and the ethernet portion of the motheboard. I have tried installing a 10/100 card but so far I cannot

Re: Lightning Strike

2007-07-14 Thread graywolf
time I hear thunder. There should be no reason you can not put the drive in a USB box. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Walter Hamler wrote: My house and studio took a major lightning strike