RE: Miscellaneous Fairygirl ramblings...

2004-02-01 Thread Len Paris
How about the FA 28-200? Isn't that a re-badge of sorts? Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 The 100mm f/3.5 Macro is the only current Pentax lens that isn't made by Pentax. (It's made by Cosina and also sold under the Phoenix and Vivitar brand names. Pretty nice lens optically,

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2004-02-01 Thread John Mustarde
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:29:42 +1000, you wrote: As far as lenses go, like I said, it would totally suck to have to buy all new glass and flash guns, but OTOH, in the long run, I need to give my clients the best quality shots that I can afford, and the Canon and Nikkor lenses aren't exactly lacking

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2004-02-01 Thread Peter Alling
It's no longer current. Tamron is making a new version and Pentax USA no longer lists it on it's web page. It's a good bet that the only way you could get it new is new old stock. At 05:17 PM 2/1/04, you wrote: How about the FA 28-200? Isn't that a re-badge of sorts? Len * There's no place

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2004-01-30 Thread Mark Roberts
graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At one time Pentax had several rebadged lenses. I a assured by a Pentax Rep that that is no longer true. The 100mm f/3.5 Macro is the only current Pentax lens that isn't made by Pentax. (It's made by Cosina and also sold under the Phoenix and Vivitar brand

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2004-01-29 Thread David Mann
On Jan 29, 2004, at 19:29, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: Yeah, but it is still a PITA as I still need to do each one individually as they vary so much from portrait to landscape etc throughout the shoot. I can't just run all of the proofs as a batch or all of my landscape shots will then be

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2004-01-29 Thread Rob Studdert
On 29 Jan 2004 at 20:48, David Mann wrote: Just off the top of my head; separate out all the portrait ones into another folder then batch-process them there. I use ThumbsPlus which allows images to be quickly tagged and then I drop the pics to be rotated on a desk-top droplet

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2004-01-29 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello Tanya, I think that you need to try the bodies. Usually, the lower end bodies have pretty good paper specs, but their handling is not all that good, especially when you start to manually control things. Before I bought mine, I went down and tried them several times. I had the advantage

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2004-01-29 Thread Sylwester Pietrzyk
on 29.01.04 7:29, Tanya Mayer Photography at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, and even less do I want to go out and buy all new flash guns, cable releases and other accessories, but geez the specs on that Nikon D70, well, they can't be challenged by the *istD can they? Pricing aside, the Nikon

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2004-01-29 Thread keller.schaefer
To all that has been said I would like to add that the battery grip that you can get for the *ist D is a wonderfull accessory that makes the camera a joy to hold in portrait orientation - and it looks v*e*r*y cool! And, there is the finder magnification. When you are used to film cameras (even

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2004-01-29 Thread Cotty
On 29/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Firstly, my email packed it in and stopped delivering messages to my Inbox. So I went to my webmail thinking that there may have been a really big email or a virus etc blocking it, as I hadn't received any email for an entire day! I found 1542 messages,

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2004-01-29 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Flavio Minelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Tanya, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: Hey all! ... Tomorrow, I will take delivery of my new PC - it is a AMD Athlon XP 2600+ cpu (anyone know anything about these chips?!?), ... I have one of those.

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2004-01-29 Thread Cotty
On 29/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: Tomorrow, I will take delivery of my new PC - it is a AMD Athlon XP 2600+ cpu (anyone know anything about these chips?!?), 100gb HDD, 512mb RAM, 19 flat screen monitor, 64mb CDRW/DVD (52x52x24), Win XP, Digital Stereo sound with 2 speakers and a subwoofer

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2004-01-29 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello Tanya, As to people not buying Pentax just for lenses - I chose the *istD body on the merits of the body, not the lenses. In the world of digital, the body does make much more difference than for film cameras. When getting the *istD, this is how I outfitted it with lenses: Pentax F

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2004-01-29 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Tan, It's also been my understanding that several (maybe quite a few) Pentax lenses are just rebadged Tamron or Tokina glass. I have also heard that Minolta (I knew this) and SIGMA! have produced lenses for Leica. I don't know the degree of Sigmas involvement, whether they just produced the

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2004-01-29 Thread graywolf
Well, there is a fact that things are not like they were back in the 60's when highend camera makers made only highend lenses. Now, like automobiles, a manufacturer makes cheap cameras, mid-line cameras, and high-end cameras. They also make lenses in each of those quality ranges. A cheap lens

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2004-01-29 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography Subject: Re: Miscellaneous Fairygirl ramblings... Bill said: No. I set up an action in Photoshop to do the rotation. Yeah, but it is still a PITA as I still need to do each one individually as they vary so much from portrait

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2004-01-28 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography Subject: Miscellaneous Fairygirl ramblings... Question to *istD owners - does it have automatic rotation of images when you are shooting them in a portrait hold? I am finding this very time consuming and tiresome, having to

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2004-01-28 Thread John Coyle
Tan - look forward to it... I'll try to keep that weekend clear. Ryan - have you noted this? John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:44 PM Subject: Miscellaneous Fairygirl