At 06:02 PM 11/18/01 +1100, you wrote:
I worked out the equivelant time in Melbourne to the one shown in Tokyo and
HK. I just heard on the time on TV for Melbourne and it does start at 4am.
You mean there's nothing where you plug in latitude, longitude and your
grandmother's shoe size to arrive
I am amazed and pleased by the polite way Shel and Mafud are airing their
opposing views considering how out spoken they have both been at times in
the past.
- --graywolf
It must be part of the new world order!
photography, and have quite a few common interests. It is sort of like being
in a
In a message dated 11/18/01 4:08:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How hard is it really to spend a few
hours (or even
an entire day if you have a huge collection) every 20-30 years
transferring your data? Doesn't sound too unreasonable to me.
Can we say:
Oh, I see the PDML is now a conspiracy against us vegetarians... what
will be next? No flame wars on digital vs. chemical but on artichokes
vs. steaks... BTW, artichokes are way better!
;-)
Frantisek (who still enjoys a meat now and then, but no snakes yet
g, they are all seriously
FJW I use that almost every time I use my Metz flash, but you don't need another
FJW flash. I have the 40MZ-2, which has the big flash that you can bounce on the
FJW ceiling or wall, and there is also a small flash built in that you can
FJW switch on/off as desired. The little flash is direct.
to all pug-sters-
thanks for turning me onto the Leonid meteor shower. It was absolutely
breathtaking. I would never had known of it's existence w/o u fellow
pug-people.
i'm in northern riverdale, a small neighborhood just north of manhattan, ny.
i thought about going to watch the showers
Hi Guys..I've been out of touch with the PDML for a couple
of months..can you update me about the Pentax SLR digital
body (MZ-D ?) release date
Thanx,
WR It will be released at the Ulan Bator show in 2007.
WR William Robb
So nothing new,
That means don't
(1) grin a lot
(2) make unnecessary eye (or other) contact
(3) act as though you're in a hurry
anything else ?
Collin
I don't think it has a thing to do with appeaance. I think it has to do with
whether or not you trigger peoples paranoia. There is a huge difference
between
Weather here in Chicago was a bummer too!
It is positively balmy for November at 65-70 degrees F.
This is at least 20 degrees F higher than average.
But, along with the warm air has come moisture and fog.
There was no sky visible here last night, only fog below the street lights.
Regards, Bob
Well I just came back, I needed to drive 1hr north due
to a fog that
covered Toronto, IT WAS AMAZING! I just hope my
exposures were
right to get it all.
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Hi Bob,
Same conditions here, fogged in!
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
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Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Leonid meteor shower could be truly spectacular
Weather here in Chicago was a bummer
Though someone mgiht be interested in these:
Subject: FS: Pentax K-mount Lenses
Date: 17 Nov 2001 19:22:34 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ChrisPlatt)
Newsgroups: rec.photo.marketplace.35mm
All lenses have clean glass w/no scratches, marks or fungus,
clean snappy diaphragms, smooth focus
Colour films have their blue sensitive layers at the surface of the
emulsion. This is because ALL layers are sensitive to blue so to
prevent blue light from fogging the green and red sensitive layers there
is a yellow filter between the blue sensitive layer and the green and
red sensitive
looking at perhaps purchasing my 1st film scanner. i remember reading a
few
weeks/months back about the pacific image 1800u. a local shop now has
them
in stock.
Do it, unless you can afford a better one, as the scans are so much better
than flatbed scans off prints.
since i usually don't
does this scanner
accomodate 120 negatives? Just wondering.
No.
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Isaac Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using an 870, the 1270's little brother. I'm trying to figure out
how people are getting bad results. How did it suck? I have a feeling that
people are following the conventional wisdom and outputting only 300dpi or
so. Ilford states that their
Isaac Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Johnston wrote:
Bill S. wrote:
I wrote a few days ago asking for pointers for developing Agfa APX 100
in Microdol-X. Since no one responded, I presume no one had any experience.
That being the case, can anyone suggest either a website or a
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From: Mark Roberts
Subject: Re: The suspense is over...
Your digital file *Output Resolution* is measured in PPI
(pixels per inch). This
is the value that you *can* set in Photoshop or whatever
software you're using.
If you're getting an 8 x 10 from a 15
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In a message dated 11/18/01 4:08:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] did not write, but I am used to being
misquoted:
How hard is it really to spend a few
hours (or even
an
on 11/18/01 8:45 AM, William Robb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Mark Roberts
Subject: Re: The suspense is over...
Your digital file *Output Resolution* is measured in PPI
(pixels per inch). This
is the value that you *can* set in Photoshop or whatever
I had a problem here trying to balance light pollution and film speed.
Since I don't have anything wider than 50mm for the OM-10 and don't have the
electronic cable release for the MZ-S, I used my Spotmatic with a Takumar
28/3.5 lens. I was loaded with Agfa Vista 100 and bracketed at each
Hi Bob,
Shooting with BW negative allows for a great deal of flexibility. In
contrasty situations you can shoot over and then hold back on
development. With that new spot meter of yours, you can easily measure
the contrast range of the scene, and then expose and develop
accordingly.
For
Mike,
I already bought it, so I'm set on using it (no belligerence, honest!)...
Actually, I like the Agfa film, it was recommended for fine grain and has proven to be
so. I read that the Microdol also produces a very fine grain, so I thought I'd try
it. I'm developing my own after a l-o-n-g
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 01:43 AM, Mike Johnston wrote:
Amend that, in light of Tom's explanation. MOST car photographers in
studios
(that I've ever seen, anyway) use strobes.
One time I got to meet a twenty foot-long softbox filled with strobes,
built in a permanent white cove
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 03:19 PM, aimcompute wrote:
Actually your recipe and cooking method sounded great for just about
any
kind of meat.
I was gonna say, that sounds mighty yummy!
-Aaron
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On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 02:21 PM, William D. Sawyer wrote:
I wrote a few days ago asking for pointers for developing Agfa APX 100
in Microdol-X. Since no one responded, I presume no one had any
experience.
Whoops! Sorry, I had the post still back in my inbox so I could look up
On Friday, November 16, 2001, at 10:40 PM, Isaac Crawford wrote:
We have the medium format scanner here in the store. It scans 35mm
at
4800 DPI but medium format at 3200 dpi. This is still more than enough
for
home users... I have heard good things about it, the one concern being
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From: William D. Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: Film Developing
Isaac, what did it do to the grain? I'm sitting here looking at last
night's negatives through my (admittedly cheap) loupe, and
In Ps6 click Image-Image Size and you will see the box named Resolution:
Maris
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Subject: Re: The suspense is over...
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From: Aaron Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: The suspense is over...
Our first roll of the new quick-dry pearl stuff finally arrived. I
agree -- it's gorgeous, probably the best I've tried so
Hey Bob... stop lollygagging around and come into the 21st century with the
rest of us. This is not about cameras, it's about IMAGING. :-)
Tom C.
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 10:36 AM
Subject: Re:
aimcompute wrote:
It was rainy here until about 5:00 PM. Clouds moved out and it was clear
from about 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM. I may have gotten a number of shots during
that time, including one with several horizon grazers moving east to north.
This was before Leo was in the sky.
Its 5:45
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:38:53 -0500, Isaac Crawford wrote:
How does one calculate output resolution? I've seen the dialouge on
photodeluxe where you just type it in, but I don't see that on photoshop 6.0
(I'm all new to doing this myself...). So far I've done all of my work and
then resized
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can we say: affordability? The gist of the data transfer thread
assumes (mightily), that tens of millions of folks are going to buy
the latest storage medium then transfer again every time the storage
medium changes.
Huh? Go back and read what I
Isaac Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William Robb wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
Your digital file *Output Resolution* is measured in PPI
(pixels per inch). This is the value that you *can* set in
Photoshop or whatever software you're using.
If you're getting an 8 x 10 from a 15
aimcompute wrote:
Hey Bob... stop lollygagging around and come into the 21st century with the
rest of us.
I'd rather stay in the 19th with Shel.
This is not about cameras, it's about IMAGING. :-)
I am still gagging over the image of a rattlesnake steak twitching in
the frying pan. :)
Kevin, I'll bet you got some... maybe some of lightning too?
If it is clear here tonight, as predicted, I'm going out again. It's still
close to the shower's peak and there still could be things to see.
Tom C.
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Thanks, Isaac. This post goes into my Save folder. I have tomorrow off and planned
on stopping by the largest local photo store, which is on the other side of town, but
which has a large selection of darkroom material. I wanted to pick up a proofing
easel, and maybe get some Rodinal, if they
Thanks, Shel.
I'll check the grain through the Micro Focus gizmo later, though I know I need to see
it on a print. I doubt I'll be able to make a print (also my first in many years)
until later this week. While I settled on APX a little arbitrarily, I want to decide
on the developer more by
Hi Frantisek,
I don't recall whether your question got answered, so here goes.
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:07:04 +0100, Frantisek Vlcek wrote:
Why don't we get triple-ccd still cameras too? Is it just the size?
They could offer (among digital) unparalleled quality. When the
movie digitals use it
Hi Shel,
too complicated for me. When I'm in these places I do like to keep
everything as simple as I possibly can, which is one reason I
standardised on one film type - I don't have to remember to change
the film speed on the camera or meter (not a problem with the RXs of
course). Recently I've
Bob,
I'm in Chicagoland too, up at Gurnee. After going down to the lake near
the Waukegan nuke plant, I ended up driving to a dark sky sight the Adler
Planetarium folks use up near the Illinois/Wisconsin border at Caledonia, a
little past Harvard. The drive up was through pea soup fog,
Thanks for that great report, Rob!
Nate and I spent the night at my mother's place
near the tip of the North Fork of Long Island. We
woke up at around 4AM and left the house a half
hour later. I could tell it was going to be a good
shoot because while Nate was scraping the frost
off the car, I
On Sunday, November 18, 2001, at 01:26 PM, Isaac Crawford wrote:
I got it at our wholesale price, which I'm sure would be the same as
yours!
Yep, I was just trying to figure out what it was selling for at the
retail level. I've set a price, but I don't want to be overly expensive
or
Hi all
Thunder Bay was fogged in this morning, but I took a chance and drove out
into the country. Twenty minutes later, I turning off onto a side road. I
really lucked out, as the stars were blocked out over much of the sky, but I
had clear view to the south-east. I used my K1000 and 28mm
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Businesses who have a vested interest in maintaining access to their
products, (music, radio, television, video and movies, businesses)
regularly and readily transfer property to new storage technology. Ted
Turner is the Guru of the genre, by now
On Sunday, November 18, 2001, at 12:14 PM, William D. Sawyer wrote:
Thanks, Aaron. Looking back on my second post, it sounds a bit
peevish, huh...Sorry if it was - I was anxious to start processing.
No worries, it got all of our asses in gear to answer you! ;)
I settled on 1+3 dilution,
On Sunday, November 18, 2001, at 11:38 AM, Isaac Crawford wrote:
How does one calculate output resolution? I've seen the dialouge on
photodeluxe where you just type it in, but I don't see that on
photoshop 6.0
(I'm all new to doing this myself...). So far I've done all of my work
and
This morning sucked here in Montgomery County Maryland...
Got up at 3:30am and got the MX and LX ready. Walked around the lake I live
on to a previously scouted location with a clear view of The SE and Leo.
Crisp sparkling morning. Stars were blazing. Saw a dozen or so meteors as
I set up
At 08:07 AM 11/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
Weather here in Chicago was a bummer too!
It is positively balmy for November at 65-70 degrees F.
This is at least 20 degrees F higher than average.
But, along with the warm air has come moisture and fog.
There was no sky visible here last night, only fog
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Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: The suspense is over...
On Sunday, November 18, 2001, at 01:26 PM, Isaac Crawford wrote:
I got it at our wholesale price, which I'm sure would
When I was setting up around 10:00 PM MST I saw two long blue ones streak
over almost the entire length of the sky. That got a fire under me! After
midnight I had a problem with mist and thin clouds. Most of the time though
I could see some spot in the sky that was fairly dark. I was still
Um, thanks, I think, glad to know I'm on track with someone nicknamed Big Dan...?
Mooshy seems to be the going commentary on Microdol. I seem to recall the same said
of Tmax - I look forward to finding out what mooshy means. The images I've done thus
far are pretty high contrast architectural
In a message dated 11/18/01 9:56:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fortunately, the bulk of the pictures that will be lost don't
matter, even to the people who have taken them.
Exactly.
Mafud
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so, my wife and i got my 11yr and 8yr old daughters up at 245am. with
sleeping bags and flash lights along w/layers of fleece, gloves and hats,
[snip]
Robo, that was a smashing tale about your rooftop viewing of the Leonids.
Well done, mate, that's staying power! Hope the shots work out.
We
Hi,
At 3:30am my girlfriend and I got up and headed in to the park across the
road from our house. I grabbed my MX, FA*24/2, Tripod and some 100iso film,
saw quite a few spectacular meteors that left greenish trails that lasted
for quite some time and lots of just plain white ones. The clouds
Hi, Aaron,
Congrats to you too!!
Inspired by Jeepgirl and Amita? Or did you think of this one on your
own? ;-)
regards,
frank
Aaron Reynolds wrote:
Hey, and men, and men! Vanessa and I have set the date: June 2nd.
-Aaron
--
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible
aimcompute wrote:
Kevin, I'll bet you got some... maybe some of lightning too?
If it is clear here tonight, as predicted, I'm going out again. It's still
close to the shower's peak and there still could be things to see.
I would like to try again also, what time are we looking at
I don't know how my shots will turn out, I was
fighting fog and dew on
my lens all night, not to mention car head lights. I
found a spot in a
farmers field but lots of others clued in to. At least
I'll have pics
of the sunrise and the famers barn :). I'll know the
damage tomorrow
when I get the
Congratulations to you too Aaron. Man, what's causing this effect on
the PDML members? What's in it for us married folks? Bigamy?
Thanks,
Ed
http://lightandsilver.com
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Hi gang.
Uploaded some autumn images to my web site.
Also, there is now a non-java alternative for browsing the site.
You are all invited to have a look at:
http://oksne.net
Comments are always welcome.
Best,
Jostein
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I got up at 3:00 AM this morning to check-out the Leonid meteor shower. I
rolled out from between the sheets and waddled over to the window to see if
the shower had started yet.The sky was perfect. Inky black, no moon,
and tons of bright stars. I was only at the window for a few
Well Mike that is why I will only use the highest score fo r that
printer. Also I am not going to be evaluating the picture but only the print
quality. I will try to be as objective as possible, but I am only human.
Also, remember this all developed from someone telling me I hadn't seen his
Prinzflex was a name used for a minor third-party lens manufacturer (maybe East
German) in the 60's and 70's. I believe they were distributed by chains in the
UK such as Dixons, Wallace Heaton, etc, and I don't think the quality was all
that good.
M42 was the standard Pentax/Praktica
I realize this is a Mafud/Robb wrestling match, but what would be simplist
thing for most people in the same situation to do? Scanning negatives or
slides would be the optimal, but time consuming for large numbers of images.
A flatbed for prints? Still pretty time consuming, right? Would the
I recently purchased this scanner and have been really pleased with it.
It is hooked up to my Beige G3/OS 9.2/384MB through a PCI USB card and 4
port mini USB hub. I have scanned both color and BW. For BW I will
usually scan in at 36 dpi as a color image. This gives me that Sepia
toning. If
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Subject: Re: Yawsu: Some autumn images and finally Java-free.
Jostein,
Nice photos!
Just wondering, what kind of equipment do you use?
Harald
I think Jostein uses an old Praktica.
WW
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Not sure I agree with you about the no media that came next (that'll
happen in the future, not the past), but you're right about the
tapes. I'm old enough to remember wondering whether or not I should dump
my tapes and buy into this new-fangled CD technology. :)
chris
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001,
Issac,
Is half-blind Charlie still there? Jerry Smith? I knew one of the owners I
think--used to dicker with him about my camera purchases. I went to the
Corcoran. Made the walk over to the old E Street location many a time. Sorry
to hear they left the old building.
--Mike
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Hi all,
I'm back after two weeks in Mexico City. With twenty million plus
people, there are plenty of photo ops down there. There's a vibrancy and
a powerful sense of human activity that just seems to pervade
everything. And MC is certainly among the world's most colorful cities.
Even the
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Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: The suspense is over...
On Sunday, November 18, 2001, at 03:53 PM, Isaac Crawford wrote:
Funny, we've had it for a couple of months...
How
Congrats!
Stan
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 11:01:48 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I just got engaged
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 06:48 AM, Ed wrote:
Congratulations! What's going on with all these PDML
Aaron wrote:
If I have missed another post where a similar story was told but with
different specifics, I apologize. I was not attempting to flame, I was
merely frustrated by your apparent willful misunderstanding of Mike's
post.
Hey, I didn't misunderstand my post! Of course I understood
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Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 11:34 PM
Subject: Penn
Issac,
Is half-blind Charlie still there? Jerry Smith? I knew one of the owners I
think--used to dicker with him about my camera purchases. I went
Bill H. wrote:
This is about cameras? :)
Actually, it is. Really. If you hang around for a few months and read very
carefully, you'll detect that more than a statistically random number of the
posts mention the Pentax camera brand.
But the people are great, too. We seldom fight. When we do
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From: Mike Johnston
Subject: Sunrise, sunset--gotta stay away from those midnight
meteor revelries
...snip
When we do fight, we
remember that we are all civilized gentlemen and -women, and
that we are not
absolute Monarchs of divine descent upon whose
Maybe we could have a PDML Elimindate. :-) Of course, I'd probably
be the first one gone..
William in Utah.
Ed wrote:
OK, another congratulations for that too then. :) The way things are
running on this list right now, maybe your ex will show up with some
other PDMLer soon.
Thanks, Aaron, I wasn't sure if you were pulling my leg...(rubbing alcohol?)
I've heard that Ctein, the well-known printer, is fond of Xtol. I wonder how APX
would do in that.
Bill Sawyer
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That's the weekend of the Grandfather Mountain Nature Photo Weekend. All of
us PDMLers that are in attendance will raise a glass to you two that day.
Bill, KG4LOV
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Hey, and men, and men! Vanessa and I have set the date: June 2nd.
-Aaron
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On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, William Robb wrote:
...snip
When we do fight, we
remember that we are all civilized gentlemen and -women, and
that we are not
absolute Monarchs of divine descent upon whose opinions the
sun rises and
sets.
Speak for yourself Mike.
William Robb
Ha!
Tom C. wrote:
Hey Bob... stop lollygagging around and come into the 21st century with the
rest of us. This is not about cameras, it's about IMAGING. :-)
Coincidentally, the terms image and imaging are the subject of the next
Rant in issue 3 of my little ol' newsletter.
For them what
Bill Owens writes:
That's the weekend of the Grandfather Mountain Nature Photo Weekend. All of
us PDMLers that are in attendance will raise a glass to you two that day.
Get married on the mountain. Think of all the free wedding photography you'll
get :)
Cheers,
- Dave
David A. Mann,
Just returned from Queensland, hence going thru the digest from the last 2
weeks. Thanks to those who commented on Monarto Meercats.
I have a strange metering problem with my MG. The only way to get exposure
compensation is to adjust the asa rating of the film. This works fine except
that when i
In trying to set up some web pages, it's come to my attention that some
pages don't fit on some screens, and that either an image or text is
pushed from a location alongside a picture to a location below the
picture. I'm guessing that this is a result of the viewing monitor
being too small, or
Bill S. wrote:
While I settled on APX a little arbitrarily, I want to decide on the developer
more by trial. So many combinations, so little time.
Sorry to say, but it's pretty much a fool's errand. The three factors that
have an effect on image gradation are the film, the film
Aaron wrote:
Even better...showing them the prints later, the drummer says, How the
hell did you get that shot of me without being beside me? I told him
it was magic.
I've always found that in that kind of situation, people start to mug if
they know you're photographing them.
One of my
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
In trying to set up some web pages, it's come to my attention that some
pages don't fit on some screens, and that either an image or text is
pushed from a location alongside a picture to a location below the
picture. I'm guessing that this is a result of the viewing
In a message dated 11/19/01 1:56:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If anyone is using a monitor with a resolution of 800 in width, can you
please tell me if all three pics from this page fit across your screen.
Thanks!
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