Good point!! I'll let you know how it's done when I've got the back open.
On 26/09/2007, Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Winder!
Man, I didn't know I could load film into the d camera!
BTW the extra batteri unit is excellent. It's great to have two batteries -
at leas one of them
Lightroom can do all that quite easily.
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My wife is getting serious about trying
Cotty has always striven to be the least competitive person. If he
finds someone less competitive than himself, he works and works, and
trains and trains until he is less competitive than the other person.
He can't stand it if someone is less competitive than himself.
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On 27/09/07, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
Cotty has always striven to be the least competitive person. If he
finds someone less competitive than himself, he works and works, and
trains and trains until he is less competitive than the other person.
He can't stand it if someone is less
On 27/09/07, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed:
I really thought that you were rather competitive person, Cotty. I am
fairly competitive, but in photography I don't feel any desire to prove
anything. So I don't really participate in competitions...
My competitive side extends solely
Hi All,
I had the SMC-P version of this lens on my K10D when it decided it would
rather bounce off the concrete floor than stay in my hand. I replaced it
with the Tamron version (got a good price on it, and couldn't find the
SMC-P variant anywhere). But I am finding (based on my first few test
From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2007/09/26 Wed PM 09:44:39 GMT
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Why is it so interesting? I see nothing that makes any difference to anyone
but
a few folks who want to be taken for
From: ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2007/09/27 Thu AM 03:24:42 GMT
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Gonz wrote:
Oops that should have been family Leporidae. I'm not sure whether
Frank is a Rabbit or a Hare.
wabbit
Frank, I think your photographs are beautiful. Screw the gallery.
rg2
On 9/27/07, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 9/26/07, Norm Baugher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, but in the end you won't respect yourself. You'll find out the money
is not worth it...
Norm
So you'v been an escort to then.:-)
Dave
David J Brooks wrote:
And your point is..
Dave
On 9/26/07, Norm Baugher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you read the article a quote from the photographer about a fuse would
imply at least some were exploding shells,
Doug Franklin wrote:
Tom C wrote:
To your question... Where then are the craters from the canon balls that
must have landed *off* the road, in the likely softer soil?
I
A band saw will probably help you in that endeavor.
Peter Fairweather wrote:
Good point!! I'll let you know how it's done when I've got the back open.
On 26/09/2007, Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Winder!
Man, I didn't know I could load film into the d camera!
BTW the extra
For some the world began the day they were born and will end the day
they die, and has always been as it is.
mike wilson wrote:
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mike wilson wrote:
But. I love the comment near the bottom referring to removal
because of commanders not wanting their tanks to run over cannon balls.
Tanks? In the Crimean war? Surely the fighter-bombers would have taken
them out easily?
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A hammer cold chisel would be more entertaining.
Cheers,
Dave
On 9/27/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A band saw will probably help you in that endeavor.
Peter Fairweather wrote:
Good point!! I'll let you know how it's done when I've got the back open.
On 26/09/2007, Jens
On 9/27/07, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Actually I see any photographic competition as utterly pointless. snip
I agree 100%!
Funny thing is, I didn't see The Pentax Gallery as a competition. I
thought that as long as the photos met a minimum standard, they were
in, and it would be a
No way it could be stated any better, Frank.
Their not having anticipating a volume crunch is, however, hard to
imagine. Could be they consider accepted artist voting a handy
explanation..if needed.
When 'proven' laudable work is summarily declined, incentive wanes.
Jack
--- frank theriault
I can just about understand the need
for people to want to belong to something they believe in, or would like
to be a part of, but anything that by nature is exclusive does not get
my support or interest.
Cheers,
Cotty
2000 people from the PDML will show up at your local pub tomorrow,
What's *hard* to imagine about Pentax?
Tom C.
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:58:49 -0700 (PDT)
No way it could be stated any better,
Tom, what time is this meet... I have a production rehearsal at 7 PM
EST...so with the travel time to the U.K it's going to tighten up my day
considerably...
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From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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mike wilson wrote:
But. I love the comment near the bottom referring to removal
because of commanders not
Fascinating (in Mr Spock of Vulcan way)...
I tend to agree with you on most of the sentiments you expressed.
In fact, I kind of thought it would be competitive (the Pentax gallery
thingie) from the start. Given the fact that the submitted work is
filtered by someone else immediately implies
LOL Cory. :-)
Tom C.
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Tom, what time is this meet... I have a production rehearsal at 7
From: ann sanfedele
Gonz wrote:
Oops that should have been family Leporidae. I'm not sure whether
Frank is a Rabbit or a Hare.
wabbit
A wascally wabbit?
he-he-e-e-e
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for about 10 seconds to get a higher level of CO2, and then slowly exhale as
much as you can into the bottle. The longer you exhale the richer the CO2
concentration will be. CO2 is heavier than oxygen, so as long as the
From: Boris Liberman
FWIW, if going on travel and forced to take just one lens, it would
be Tamron 28-75/2.8 for me.
If not limited to just one lens I'd probably take three limiteds and
a wide zoom.
Cheers!
The time I was forced to travel light recently, I carried a 28-70 f/2.8
I would probably go with primes, a 24, a 43, and a 77 or 135.
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On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:09 AM, Cotty wrote:
My competitive side extends solely to my professional life. Needs
must.
Beyond that, I'm not a keen advocate of the 'I am better than you
and I
would like it personally vindicated' philosophy.
Actually I see any photographic competition as
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From: Jack Davis
Subject: Re: Pentax Gallery Resignation
No way it could be stated any better, Frank.
Their not having anticipating a volume crunch is, however, hard to
imagine. Could be they consider accepted artist voting a handy
explanation..if needed.
When
From: Tom C
I thought it was an interesting study in human nature, photography
aside.
We make assumptions and draw conclusions from what we see, or we
parrot what we hear or read, and make statements as if they are
indisputable, yet thinking a little harder...
To your question... Where
From: P. J. Alling
If you read the article a quote from the photographer about a fuse
would imply at least some were exploding shells,
Some, but not all,
... and exploding shells of that day often did not explode (or exploded
too soon). Fused shells were not reliable. For one thing, there
From: frank theriault
n 9/27/07, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Actually I see any photographic competition as utterly pointless. snip
I agree 100%!
Unless the prize for the winning photograph is worth having.
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Well I guess, my problem is that I consider news photos as editorial
illustrations, not some super meaningful documentation. Strangely without
captions those particular photos have no particular meaning at all, a dirt road
somewhere with a bunch of round stones. The are called critics because
My point was that those that hadn't exploded wouldn't and would still
look like solid shot. The would weigh considerably less than solid shot
and would be even less likely than solid shot to create craters at the
end of their flight.. Historically Russian shells were notoriously
unreliable.
Well, Robb, I'm not surprised that it's being viewed as a competition.
If one chooses to consider the accepted image count as a 'score'
against which one is competing, then it's a competition. Your choice.
Jack
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Not to mention the fact that he was scared as hell because he was under
fire. It's illogical that he would go around picking up heavy solid shot
to arrange a photo shoot.
Norm
John Sessoms wrote:
I think the most likely explanation is the photograph of the cleared
road is the later one.
I've tried both versions, as well as a Promaster-branded version, and found the
Pentax to be sharper as well. I'm fairly certain the primary difference is the
coatings, since the Tamron rep hinted at that when I asked him about this very
lens a few years ago.
It could also be you ended up
On 27/09/07, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed:
(I really shouldn't have written that. Now Cotty will have the horn again.)
Those sentences give me the horn.
(Might get my Derek and Clive DVD out tonight ;-)
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On 27/09/07, Tom C, discombobulated, unleashed:
2000 people from the PDML will show up at your local pub tomorrow, blocking
the door so you can't get in and quaff your thirst with a pint. Then we'll
see how you feel about exclusive. ;-)
Har!!
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On 27/09/07, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
Just because you aren't competing with another person, doesn't mean you
aren't competing, it just means that the rules of the competition are such
that you are competing against a standard.
Question: how subjective is this standard?
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On 27/09/07, cbwaters, discombobulated, unleashed:
Tom, what time is this meet... I have a production rehearsal at 7 PM
EST...so with the travel time to the U.K it's going to tighten up my day
considerably...
Ceeb I think you'd like it over here. Ever been? We could show you a
pretty nice
Actually, I consider I'm just vying for a favorable subjective opinion
from da 'judge'.
Jack
--- Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 27/09/07, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
Just because you aren't competing with another person, doesn't mean
you
aren't competing, it just means
Lightroom does all this quite easily.
G
BD::
My wife is getting serious about trying to organize all our photos. I
have most of them scanned and the past several years have all been
digital. So on the plus side, we can work in one medium for the
moment.
She would like to organize images
Might leave the back alone. It took me 5 minutes to work out how to
insert the SD card and that included reading the manual.
The camera seems fine but it does feel bulky after the DS.
Tomorrow I might even try taking a few pictures. I used to do a lot of
that before I contract LBA from internet
All way too complicated. Gimme a manual flash and a flash meter. ;-)
G
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William Robb replied to my remark:
I guess the bottom line is that dedicated by itself is
an empty phrase.
dedicated is not an absolute notion, but a relative one.
it is relative to a (family) of camera body(s).
Dedicated is an absolute term, and means that the flash will
A man after my own heart.
As much as I am a fan of primes, on this trip my wife and I were with
10 college students and my job was not to take pictures. The zoom is
just more effective as a photographic tool and, honestly, I find the
results very acceptable. I do note, however, that the FA
My wife is getting serious about trying to organize all our photos. I
have most of them scanned and the past several years have all been
digital. So on the plus side, we can work in one medium for the
moment.
She would like to organize images by child, by event, by date, etc.
Then
Ah ha! Just like the spouts on bar bottles of Jack Daniel's!
Regards,
Bob...
Art is not a reflection of reality. it is the reality of a reflection.
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All way too complicated. Gimme a manual flash and a flash meter. ;-)
:-)
I really, really, really like the aperrant simplicity of ttl flash -
the protocol is dead simple -- start, stop -- and all funky computations/
settings can happen in the camera, flash needs to know nothing.
I'm really,
2000 people from the PDML will show up at your local pub tomorrow,
blocking
the door so you can't get in and quaff your thirst with a pint.
Tom C.
You buying ?
Kenneth Waller
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Outside a Florist's shop.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6468680
Tom C.
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It's a personal competition, but you're not competing against others. For the
accepted image count to be a score, everyone would have to make the same number
of submissions. I recall one PDML member saying he was submitting between five
and ten shots every day. That obviously will skew the
Cotty wrote:
On 27/09/07, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
Just because you aren't competing with another person, doesn't
mean you aren't competing, it just means that the rules of the
competition are such that you are competing against a standard.
Question: how subjective is this
Well I guess, my problem is that I consider news photos as editorial
illustrations, not some super meaningful documentation.
Yes, I can see how that would be a problem and lead you into all sorts
of difficulties.
Strangely without
captions those particular photos have no particular
Tom C wrote:
Outside a Florist's shop.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6468680
Going all Godfrey on us, eh?
Nice work.
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Jack
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It's a personal competition, but you're not competing against others.
For the accepted image count to be a score, everyone would have to
make the same number of submissions. I recall one PDML member saying
he was submitting between five
I agree. If acceptance is left purely to a judging panel, then we can
expect the regular subjectivity. If it's based on a general vote of others,
then it's also suspect, as the general public doesn't know hooey about good
photography.
I'd like to know the qualifications of the judges,
You're right, it isn't. You might look at it from the standpoint of a
vocal 'artist' who looks for applause when she stops singing.
Approval can be intoxicating.
Jack
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Cotty wrote:
On 27/09/07, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
Just because
Lovely :o)
rg2
On 9/27/07, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom C wrote:
Outside a Florist's shop.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6468680
Going all Godfrey on us, eh?
Nice work.
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On 9/27/07, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Question: how subjective is this standard?
Same as all competitions: Very.
Personally, I quite like the Pentax Gallery kind of contest because,
unlike other contests, I get to aim repeatedly at the same target
(acceptance into the Gallery,
On 9/27/07, Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Outside a Florist's shop.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6468680
Tom C.
Love it!
cheers,
frank
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Cotty wrote:
On 27/09/07, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed:
(I really shouldn't have written that. Now Cotty will have the horn again.)
Those sentences give me the horn.
(Might get my Derek and Clive DVD out tonight ;-)
Lobster for tea.
Or maybe not.
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They were most likely spent solid round shot, sort of like cast iron bowling
balls. They hit the ground and then roll and bounce a long way until the come to
a stop. They were designed to do that as the bouncing balls played havoc with
massed troops. So Tom is correct in thinking many would wind
Har!!!
Scott Loveless wrote:
Marbles.
P. J. Alling wrote:
Falcon air evac bottles.
1/2 gallon
http://tinyurl.com/2kctld
full gallon
http://tinyurl.com/399yud
Bob Blakely wrote:
It would be nice if the bottles had bladders so that they could be capped
half used without any air to
That was not a problem until you go near the bottom of the bottle, then you
just
used a finger to partially block the mouth. Marbles were the standard thing
back
in the 1950's.
Bob Blakely wrote:
Ingenious, but what do you do about the marbles trying to run out with the
developer when you
On Sep 27, 2007, at 14:51, Mark Roberts wrote:
Tom C wrote:
Outside a Florist's shop.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6468680
Going all Godfrey on us, eh?
Nice work.
Was my first thought too.
Then I wondered why the photo was sideways until I realized it was
probably a brick
frank theriault wrote:
I think my problem with the Pentax Gallery is that I don't know what
the standard is. How can I aim for a target if I can't see it?
And it's a moving target, to boot. You never know who may be voting on
your photo at any given time. Subjective is one thing. Variably
Subjective is one thing. Variably subjective is irritating at best.
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... said the married man...
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Gonz wrote:
Oops that should have been family Leporidae. I'm not sure whether
Frank is a Rabbit or a Hare.
On 9/26/07, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frank, didn't you read the fine print? In Title 9, section 4,
paragraph 110, Item b) : No work shall be accepted from the class
That is always the problem with databases. BTW, Adobe bridge can attach all
kinds of info and catagories to your photos, but it does still have the problem
that you have to enter the info and select the catagories.
Boris Liberman wrote:
I think LightRoom can do most if not all that you
How can I aim for a target if I can't see it?
You must follow the Way Of The Blind Archer, grasshopper. The Blind
Archer does not see the target. He allows the target to see him, and
to guide the arrow into his heart, as the heron's beak enters the
stream. For are they not one, the archer, the
USE THE FORCE, FRANK.
Tom C.
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Subject: RE: Pentax Gallery Resignation
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:07:05 +0100
How can I aim for a target if I can't see it?
You must
On 9/27/07, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pooka
Just like Harvey...
:-)
cheers,
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On 9/26/07, Margus Männik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
it's shot with Sony Alpha camera and Sony 16mm lens last weekend.
Writing a book about Alpha system and therefore haven't had much time to
shoot with Pentax gear last times... OTOH - I have had almost all Sony
lenses to play with last
On topic for a change!
Interesting site - have a look:
http://www.cameraleather.com/
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Gee thanks. Now how do I get this arrow out of my butt?
Ob.Trivia - did you know that archery targets are called 'butts'?
Do you know why?
As far as the Pentax Gallery goes - I didn't submit originally
for a couple of reasons; my first attempt didn't work (because
I was trying to
On 27/09/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed:
Personally, I quite like the Pentax Gallery kind of contest because,
unlike other contests, I get to aim repeatedly at the same target
(acceptance into the Gallery, in this case). I may not agree with their
choices, but teaching myself (or
On 27/09/07, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed:
I think my problem with the Pentax Gallery is that I don't know what
the standard is. How can I aim for a target if I can't see it?
There's no explanation as to the criteria to get past the accepted
artists' voting: How many votes are
Bob W wrote:
How can I aim for a target if I can't see it?
You must follow the Way Of The Blind Archer, grasshopper. The Blind
Archer does not see the target. He allows the target to see him, and
to guide the arrow into his heart, as the heron's beak enters the
stream. For are they not one,
Cotty wrote:
On topic for a change!
Interesting site - have a look:
http://www.cameraleather.com/
Ugh. I really like their stuff. And so does Cesar, apparently. Since
getting the 645 I thought it would look rather dashing in some new
clothes, like the Hassy 501 cameras in the special
cool, but I didn't see any purple flame designs. Count me out. ;)
rg2
On 9/27/07, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On topic for a change!
Interesting site - have a look:
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On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Axel Belinfante wrote:
All way too complicated. Gimme a manual flash and a flash meter. ;-)
I really, really, really like the aperrant simplicity of ttl flash -
the protocol is dead simple -- start, stop -- and all funky
computations/
settings can happen in
On 27/09/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
All way too complicated. Gimme a manual flash and a flash meter. ;-)
I absolutely LOATHE flash. But it also can produce some wonderful
results. So I let the flash do all the work. Top of the range Canon
580EX that is a computer with a
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:43:38PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Sep 27, 2007, at 3:09 PM, John Francis wrote:
Gee thanks. Now how do I get this arrow out of my butt?
Ob.Trivia - did you know that archery targets are called 'butts'?
Do you know why?
I knew that they
I agree with you about the FA20-35: it effectively replaced my A24,
A28 and A35 lenses, as well as the DA16-45.
The 21 and 43 Limiteds go beyond it, however. For the situation you
mention, I would take the Panasonic L1 with its Leica 14-50/2.8-3.5
lens now. That lens is just about on par
On Sep 27, 2007, at 3:09 PM, John Francis wrote:
Gee thanks. Now how do I get this arrow out of my butt?
Ob.Trivia - did you know that archery targets are called 'butts'?
Do you know why?
I knew that they were, but I still don't know why.
Godfrey
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Mercy that's deep.
Jack
--- Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I aim for a target if I can't see it?
You must follow the Way Of The Blind Archer, grasshopper. The Blind
Archer does not see the target. He allows the target to see him, and
to guide the arrow into his heart, as the
Subjective is one thing. Variably subjective is irritating at best.
Every photo contest I've ever entered had variable subjectivity IMO
Kenneth Waller
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Subject: Re: Pentax Gallery Resignation
frank
...after hearing of all the various problems others are having, I doubt if
I'll bother to submit anything (and I *still* haven't written a bio).
I've got a fair number of images accepted into the Gallery several into
the Premiere Gallery.
I've handed out my Pentax gallery address to a lot of
On Sep 27, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Cotty wrote:
On 27/09/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
All way too complicated. Gimme a manual flash and a flash meter. ;-)
I absolutely LOATHE flash. But it also can produce some wonderful
results. So I let the flash do all the work. Top of
I had the SMC-P version of this lens on my K10D when it decided it would
rather bounce off the concrete floor than stay in my hand. I replaced
it with the Tamron version (got a good price on it, and couldn't find
the SMC-P variant anywhere). But I am finding (based on my first few
test
I've been using a friend's Pentax 17mm Fish Eye for the past week or
so. It's a damn good performer, and I find it a near perfect match
for the L1 body (fitted with an adapter of course). Funny, I like it
even more than the rectilinear Nikon 20mm lens I was using on the L1
before this... !
From: Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a fair number of images accepted into the Gallery several into
the Premiere Gallery.
I've handed out my Pentax gallery address to a lot of people the response
I get back from most of them is that are really impressed with the overall
manner in
At 09:54 AM 28/09/2007, Joseph Tainter wrote:
Pentax rebranded a 28-105 from Tamron. It was reportedly inferior to the
(then current) FA Power Zoom 28-105 F4-5.6. That one was a lovely zoom
lens. If you can find a used one of those, I would get it.
I ditto the above.
IMO it is a great lens
I keep half gallon, 1 quart, and 1 pint bottles on
hand. You can juggle things around so that only one of
the pint bottles is partially full. If that turns,
it's a small loss.
Tried the marble thing - it was a PITA.
Rodinal seems to keep forever, and HC110 goes from
lager yellow to ale tan, but
On 9/28/07, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
crap-shoot.
Going off topic.
This phrase always brings to mind Mambo t-shirts the artwork of Reg Mombassa.
Carry on.
Cheers,
Dave (I don't think non-Aussies will get the connection)
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..especially kind people.
Jack
--- Tom C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a fair number of images accepted into the Gallery several
into
the Premiere Gallery.
I've handed out my Pentax gallery address to a lot of people the
response
I get back
I agree with Mark on this.
For all of its faults, the Pentax Gallery has given my photography a bit more
focus (pun not intended). I'm not necessarily taking photos specifically aimed
at being accepted (because most aren't) but I find I'm taking more care about
composition and lighting and
On Sep 27, 2007, at 20:54, Joseph Tainter wrote:
Pentax rebranded a 28-105 from Tamron. It was reportedly inferior
to the
(then current) FA Power Zoom 28-105 F4-5.6. That one was a lovely zoom
lens.
I had one of those, and it completely sucked. Bad contrast, bad
sharpness, yuck.
I was
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