Tim wrote:
Another reason for preferring FA* was that he found the Ltd more a piece of
jewellery. He expected he would feel a bit uncomfortable with using it
outdoor under rough conditions. I can sympathise with this. The built of the
FA* begs for real life use.
He asked me if I felt the FA* to
Quoting Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Make that there are probably some better deals out there.
Gawd, I hate it when I sound like a nincompoop:-).
Paul
Welcome to my world.;-)
Dave
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I think shallower DOF would do the trick.
But I'm not sure how much of a problem this is. My eyes are tired tonight,
that can be the reason I have problems focusing. My monitor is bad too :-{
New reaction: I went away from the computer, when came back I realised that
it worked better with a bit
It's most likely a masked down 4*4 frame, possibly from a Baby Rollei?
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
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My sister in law asked me to scan some old 35mm slides, which of course
is no problem. But I wasn't expecting 35 mm
On 14/01/07, Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes I do. It's just that west and south west are the directions I cannot
see in (mountain blocking). The *ist D gets very heavy and unbalanced when
I mount the 75lb OTA on it. I'm afraid of breaking the lens mount when I
pick it up. :-)
Har, how
Yes I do. It's just that west and south west are the directions I cannot
see in (mountain blocking). The *ist D gets very heavy and unbalanced when
I mount the 75lb OTA on it. I'm afraid of breaking the lens mount when I
pick it up. :-)
Tom C.
You don't have a K-mount for your big
Thank you Pål.
Tim
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Jensen
Sent: 14. januar 2007 01:31
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Subject: RE: 77 Ltd. vs FA*85
Tim wrote:
Another reason for preferring FA*
For anyone who wish to venture changing finder screen for K10D.
Here is a step by step photo instruction in someone's blog. It's a no big
deal but might be helpful for those who never tried it before.
http://www.digital1gan.com/2007/01/pentax_k10d_7.html
Ken
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Gang,
Due to financial problems, I started selling a bunch of my stuff
on eBay last month. It includes both Pentax, and non-Pentax items.
Right now, there is a Vivitar Series 1 Flat Field Zoom up for bid.
AFAIK it is rare to find this lens in PK mount. If you're interested
search
Thanks Ken for point that out. Bob S,
On 1/13/07, K.Takeshita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For anyone who wish to venture changing finder screen for K10D.
Here is a step by step photo instruction in someone's blog. It's a no big
deal but might be helpful for those who never tried it before.
On 14/01/07, Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes I do. It's just that west and south west are the directions I
cannot
see in (mountain blocking). The *ist D gets very heavy and unbalanced
when
I mount the 75lb OTA on it. I'm afraid of breaking the lens mount when
I
pick it up. :-)
I calculated wrong. About 6X the size in the photos you saw. If compared
to a 50mm lens, 61X.
Tom C.
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Subject: Re: PESO - Comet McNaught
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:01:02 -0700
On
I don't think this went through, sorry if anyone receives this twice
To everyone going to GFM:
The GFM event happens to be during the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South
Carolina. It's actual dates are from May 25-June 10. Spoleto Festival is a
celebration of performing arts, in which one
One last image. Very little post processing and presented as a vertical
crop. Hoped for better but this is what I got. Comet McNaught as it sinks
over the Owyhee Mountains
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5449400
Tom C.
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It weights 2,5 kg. That's 1 kg too much for a medium sized backpack IMO.
Cheap me finds it a bit too expensive.
But I kind of like the basic idea, a combination of a sling pack and regular
backpack.
Tim
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From: [EMAIL
I have attempted, once again, to sell my DS on eBay.
Once again, I have had a Nigerian Scammer attempt to scam me out of my
camera.
I will not sell on eBay.
Repeat again. I will not sell on eBay.
Don't give up, dude. It'll sell, and you'll be a little richer when it
does. How else
From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I like this too. Is it really a snowflake? The slight melting makes
it a pretty pioture.
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 7:06 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
Cool shot.
Like the blue and silver colurs.
Thanks for the compliments. You're both gonna crack up. It's a
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=150079244619
The first auction produced no bids, so I lowered the price and relisted it.
Will ship anywhere for PDML members, just let me know where you live, if
you're outside of the US, for an international shipping cost.
Thanks,
John
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Thank you Pål.
Tim
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Jensen
Sent: 14. januar 2007 01:31
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Subject: RE: 77 Ltd. vs FA*85
Tim wrote:
Another reason for preferring FA*
That's why I asked:-). A bit too perfect to be a melting snowflake.
But a pretty pic in any case.
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Mark Dalal wrote:
From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I like this too. Is it really a snowflake? The slight melting makes
it a pretty pioture.
Paul
On Jan
I don't consider a photo.net subsciption selling out. It's a very
nice format and well worth the $25 a year for virtually unlimited
upload space. Actually, PhotoBucket is much slower, at least from my
service. But I'm pleased to learn that I can buy rights to your
photos from
The MTF is a measure of the resolving power (or sharpness) of the
lens,
and is dependent on aperture.
Not really. MTF stands for Modulation Transfer Function. This is an
expression of how accurately a lens transmits modulation, which is
not resolving power at all.
Okay, I think I may
Continuing to photograph the area in which I live and frequent, this one
has also become part of my flag series. For those who know the area, this
was photographed on the border between Emeryville and Northwest Oakland,
right near Interstate 80, in a semi-industrial area. The wall is sealed
off
Say, anyone know how much longer the comet will be visible in the northern
hemisphere? I just remembered that I could throw my 2x teleconverter on my
K 500mm 4.5 and maybe get a nice snap or two.
Also, what's a good website with info on the comet?
Thanks,
John
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I dont think you need a lens anywhere near that long. Comets
and their tails are fairly large. I remember getting some
nice shots of Hale-Bopp (was that the name?) in the late
90's with a 200mm F4 lens.
jco
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On 14/01/07, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't consider a photo.net subsciption selling out. It's a very
nice format and well worth the $25 a year for virtually unlimited
upload space. Actually, PhotoBucket is much slower, at least from my
service. But I'm pleased to learn that I
I guess I'm not sure what it means, but it's interesting. I might
have gone to transform/distort and squared it off. It's an
interesting record of something that someone created, but I don't
think it goes beyond recording the art of another.
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Shel Belinkoff
Are you planning a trip to S. America soon? :-) Today was supposedly the
last day it would be visible in the night sky from the northern hemisphere.
www.spaceweather.com
Tom C.
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Subject: RE: 77 Ltd. vs FA*85
Tim wrote:
Another reason for preferring FA* was that he found the Ltd more a piece of
jewellery. He expected he would feel a bit uncomfortable with using it
outdoor under rough conditions. I can sympathise with this. The built of the
FA* begs for real life use.
Um, did you see the posted pics from a 500mm lens? It's tiny in frame.
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:25 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote:
I dont think you need a lens anywhere near that long. Comets
and their tails are fairly large. I remember getting some
nice shots of Hale-Bopp (was that the name?) in
I love your photo, I think it turned out great. What sort of neighborhood
did you find that in?
rg2
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From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PDML PDML@pdml.net
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:59 PM
Subject: PESO - American Wall / American Grafiti
Priceless. It will be hanging in a Detroit gallery any day now:-).
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote:
On 14/01/07, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't consider a photo.net subsciption selling out. It's a very
nice format and well worth the $25 a year for
On Jan 13, 2007, at 20:15, John Celio wrote:
Say, anyone know how much longer the comet will be visible in the
northern
hemisphere? I just remembered that I could throw my 2x
teleconverter on my
K 500mm 4.5 and maybe get a nice snap or two.
Also, what's a good website with info on the
On Jan 13, 2007, at 19:23, Tom C wrote:
One last image. Very little post processing and presented as a
vertical
crop. Hoped for better but this is what I got. Comet McNaught as
it sinks
over the Owyhee Mountains
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5449400
I found I got the
I could just build my own space as well, but I like being part of the
photo.net community. Some of the folks there comment on my photos
regularly, and I comment on theirs. It's another place where one can
connect with other photographers.
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Tom C wrote:
For
For the 25$ subscription is does a 'good' job. At least it's background
color is a neutral gray with little distractions. I wish the Larger version
image had a gray background also, instead of white.
I could have my own site if I'd dedicate just a little time... working with
computers in the
And that's an effective 750mm w/crop factor. Even though it's bright, it's
against a bright background, which means the tail dissipates into the
relatively high key background quite quickly.
Also problemmatic, at bet observing conditions, it's low in the sky.
There's a lot mor atmosphere and
Thanks Charles. You expect me to remember 3 - 6 hours back? :-)
I basically adjusted curves for the best contrast/least noise, then tried to
reduce the red in red channel only using the levels control.
The III version I did none of that. Just cropped and USM.
Tom C.
From: Charles Robinson
no, either it didnt capture the full tail
or its not near its best capture time or
its just not a great candidate for astrophotography
as its overall too far away or its tail is
at a bad angle or something. Comets and thier long tails
can be very large angularly if you capture the whole
thing.
Glad you liked it. The scene really grabbed my attention when I first saw
it. It's in a semi-industrial area.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: rg2
I love your photo, I think it turned out great. What sort of
neighborhood
did you find that in?
rg2
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Hello Paul,
I'm not quite sure how to take your post, so I will try not to read
anything into it.
You may recall that I started this series with the following comment:
One of the things I want to do this
year is to photograph the areas in
which I live and frequent, making
photos of the things
Thanks Ken - handy to have the procedure clearly spelt out.
Love the special purpose tweezers GRIN
Rod
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For anyone who wish
Looks identical to changing screens in the ol' LX ;-) or MX. Very easy.
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Rod Connan wrote:
Thanks Ken - handy to have the procedure clearly spelt out.
Love the special purpose tweezers GRIN
Rod
Tom C wrote:
working with
computers in the day makes me loathe to do it when I get home.
I couldn't agree more... :-)
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Hi,
Didn't mean to be overly critical, but if it's an effort to document
the area, then I'd like to see the context. All I see here is the art
of another.
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hello Paul,
I'm not quite sure how to take your post, so I will try not to
On Jan 13, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote:
The topology of the interfaces of the cards make CF far more reliable
from a technical standpoint, granted they may not offer quite the
mechanical durability of the SD system but rarely will you find
incompatibility issues with CF cards
On Jan 13, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Bob Shell wrote:
On Jan 13, 2007, at 6:33 PM, mike wilson wrote:
There have been quite a few obsolete formats. Remember APS film
cameras? Soon be able to add th and the digital equivalent APS-C to
the Wikipedia lists together with the DA lenses!!
APS is the
For sale is my mint condition 645 FA 75mm /f2.8 lens with 645/K
Adapter. This is the standard 645 lens with the adapter that allows
the 645 series lenses to attach to 35mm Pentax bodies (including
digital series K10D, K1000, *istD, DS DL). This is ONLY sold as a
set. They will not be
On Jan 13, 2007, at 5:58 PM, John Celio wrote:
The MTF is a measure of the resolving power (or sharpness) of the
lens,
and is dependent on aperture.
Not really. MTF stands for Modulation Transfer Function. This is an
expression of how accurately a lens transmits modulation, which is
not
Not entirely sure what you're referring to, Tim: the think tank or
the kata. In the US, the Kata is findable for about $85, which seems
quite reasonable to me.
G
On Jan 13, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote:
It weights 2,5 kg. That's 1 kg too much for a medium sized backpack
IMO.
Sorry. Should have been clearer. I was referring to the Tinktank, street
price 280USD. The Kata seem a bit small for my use.
Tim
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Godfrey DiGiorgi
Sent: 14. januar
I consider Transcend a bargain band. But time will tell.
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 10:41 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Jan 13, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote:
The topology of the interfaces of the cards make CF far more reliable
from a technical standpoint, granted they may not
On Jan 13, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I consider Transcend a bargain band. But time will tell.
Indeed, a bargain brand but they've been around quite a while and
have a decent track record.
For performance sake, standardize on Sandisk Extreme III and a
Sandisk card reader ...
Ok. Yes: $280 for that thing would be silly IMO.
The Kata Sensitivity-V is indeed a pretty slim, small-kit carrier,
not intended for a kit which includes large lenses. That fits my
style of shooting well: I only rarely carry more than two or three
lenses and most of the time they're all
I sold my FA* 80-200 F2.8 for way too much money last spring and ended up
with a hole in my lens lineup. To fill it, I picked up an SMC-A 70-210 F4
zoom on eBay recently. Here's my quick report on using it with my *ist-Ds
and pixel-peeping the results. I got this lens based on advice from Bruce
My system is basically a two-part thing. I have a 1550 Pelican, which
can hold two cameras 14 lenses (including an A 400/5.6, quite a few
memory cards, a dozen filters or so, two spare camera battekes for
the Kw0 and a set of 8 lithiums for the D, various lens cleaning
accessories, camera
I agree. I'm going Sandisk. No more peripherals for me. I'll keep the
Transcend card I have, but it will be a backup. I'm going to try to
return the one that failed. It will be interesting to see what the
maker says.
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Jan 13,
God, lots of typos. Hope everyone can read it(-:. Sorry,
Paul
On Jan 13, 2007, at 11:44 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
My system is basically a two-part thing. I have a 1550 Pelican, which
can hold two cameras 14 lenses (including an A 400/5.6, quite a few
memory cards, a dozen filters or so, two
I also tried to upload a photo today and I also got an error message
that appeared to be in tthe submission program. The error message is:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a004c'
ath not found
/autopug/Process.asp, line 102
DanM
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Pauln and others,
I've become more skeptical of off-brand cards with the K10D. I never
had a problem with CF cards in the *istD, using a number of low buck
cards. With the K10D and SD cards, I had an early failure with a
Transcend 2 gig, 150X card, and Boris seems to be having some
G'day All,
I came across this Photo Album creator today. I uploaded a few
images (nothing new, I've posted them all before) I thought I'd
share.
It's Flash based, so consider yourself well and truly warned :-):
http://www.goodwidgets.com/widgets/view/1862
To turn the pages either click on the
Have you tried a basic L bracket grip with the combo? I have used these
for
years with long/heavy lenses and they certainly help.
jco
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Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 11:43 PM
To: PDML
Subject:
The card won't hurt the camera. I doubt that it can take advantage of
any card faster then the 133x Sandisk.
Paul
On Jan 14, 2007, at 12:08 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Pauln and others,
I've become more skeptical of off-brand cards with the K10D. I never
had a problem with CF cards in the
I think you're mistaken on Transcend -- good Taiwanese made stuff.
I've got 2GB in my MacBook Pro and haven't had a single issue.
--Guy
On Jan 13, 2007, at 11:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:24:07 -0500
From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SD
Pentax now offers the DA 40-200 4/5.6. An excellent lens for the
money, although the build quality is so-so. The next lens you'll see
that meets your needs is the DA*. I believe it's a 60-210, f4. If you
require full frame, there are no lenses on the chart.
Paul
On Jan 14, 2007, at 12:19
Could be. But I had a Transcend card failure, and I'm not gong to try
for a second.
Paul
On Jan 14, 2007, at 1:06 AM, W. Guy Finley wrote:
I think you're mistaken on Transcend -- good Taiwanese made stuff.
I've got 2GB in my MacBook Pro and haven't had a single issue.
--Guy
On Jan 13,
Paul,
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Pentax now offers the DA 40-200 4/5.6. An excellent lens for the
money, although the build quality is so-so. The next lens you'll see
that meets your needs is the DA*. I believe it's a 60-210, f4. If you
require full frame, there are no lenses on the chart.
John,
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:13:27PM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote:
Hi!
John, you're the man! I just ran your program on one of the first files
I shot with K10D and it showed the Tamron lens id properly. So,
everything is cool and working, and obviously it is only a matter of
proper
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