At 04:46 PM 4/03/2008, Wilko Bulte wrote:
Quoting Adam Maas, who wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:36:20PM -0500 ..
Nikon does lens data WAY better than Leica. Database in the camera,
enter your lens data, press a button and twirl a wheel to pick the
lens, no mod to the lens necessary. Of
Hey Dave,
Did you ever have two hands on the wheel? g
Jostein
2008/3/4, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, no train, but..
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b/NTS%20PHOTOS/?action=viewcurrent=plane-5584.jpg
Not a great work of art, but i think its neat
Dave
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So it seems the older F and FA lenses may have some fine tuning then.
Wonder what the A lenses will do, i have more of them than F and FA ones.
I hope by adjusting my K10D i did not throw things out of wack. But
then again i panic about things like that,:-)
K20D will have to wait. I'm more
OK
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pentax Photo Lab processed shots may look less noisy, but they lose detail as
well. If you saw the 1600 ISO shots I posted, I think you'd have to agree
that they're coparable to ISO 400 K10D shots in terms of noise -- with no
wow, huge undeed! Neat picture :)
rg2
On 3/3/08, Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Holy Sh*t! Those things are huge. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:58 PM, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One more from this past trip.
I think most lenses will benefit from some fine tuning of the focal
point. Although it remains to be seen how accurate the DA lenses
might be. The kind of adjustments I'm making are quite fine, and the
difference isn't critical for most subjects. About the only place
where it comes into
Amazing! I didn't know they were anywhere near that large. Nice shot.
Paul
On Mar 3, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Holy Sh*t! Those things are huge. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:58 PM, David J Brooks
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One more from this past trip.
Quoting Adam Maas, who wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:36:20PM -0500 ..
On 3/3/08, Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Timber, who wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:23:01PM +0100 ..
Paul,
You really want me to go totally broke? I am trying to surmount the
temptation, but
Peter Fairweather wrote:
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Just out of curiosity I looked up the visitor stats for my web site by
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Internet Explorer 6 23%
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Internet Explorer 5 2.9%
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Subject: Re: K20D focus adjustment
I think most lenses will benefit from some fine tuning of the focal
point. Although it remains to be seen how
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Charles Robinson wrote:
On Mar 3, 2008, at 17:06, Timber wrote:
Charles Robinson wrote:
Zenitar 16mm
Could you share your opinion about this lens? I am planning to buy one
MC Zenitar f2.8 16mm and any comment would be welcomed. The best would
be if you can link some
On 3/4/08, Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Adam Maas, who wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:36:20PM -0500 ..
Nikon does lens data WAY better than Leica. Database in the camera,
enter your lens data, press a button and twirl a wheel to pick the
lens, no mod to the lens
On 3/4/08, Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/4/08, Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Adam Maas, who wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:36:20PM -0500 ..
Nikon does lens data WAY better than Leica. Database in the camera,
enter your lens data, press a button and
On 3/4/08, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 04:46 PM 4/03/2008, Wilko Bulte wrote:
Quoting Adam Maas, who wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:36:20PM -0500 ..
Nikon does lens data WAY better than Leica. Database in the camera,
enter your lens data, press a button and twirl a wheel
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave,
It's essentially the same setup as the SR lens length input, just with
quick access stored items and max aperture. Quicker than the Pentax
setup, but similar.
As I thought. But I do like the idea of a in camera
A week or two ago I posted a horrendous version of this. Today's
version is a different frame of the same shoot, where I metered on
the inside of the room (without the window):
http://tinyurl.com/2rcyzr
Gorgeous! Why were you in Antartica, Walt? It is one of the places I'd
like to visit someday.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Walter Hamler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/Lake-Vanda-Antarctica.jpg
This is one of the slides I had scanned at Costco.
Wow! Very dramatic. Excellent shot. And a rather nice scan. I missed this
earlier.
Paul
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Gorgeous! Why were you in Antartica, Walt? It is one of the places I'd
like to visit someday.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008
Thanks for posting these, Bob. I remember the Downers Grove train station from
my days in Chicago.
I'm thinking that the K20D is more resistant to sensor bloom than previous
Pentax digitals. My 400/5.6 and A2X-S combination was very bad in that regard
with both the D and the K10, but I didn't
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:58 PM, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One more from this past trip.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b/NTS%20PHOTOS/?action=viewcurrent=_MOR5512.jpg
Equipment Express hauls the wind tower wings.
They had a load parked beside us in Wyoming
I do like this better. It's just a very difficult situation. Ideally, you'd
want your production assistant to position a large reflector across from the
window to push light back on the cat. What's that? You didn't have a production
assistant or a large reflector handy? Hmmm. Then I guess this
I've put two samples up on Photo.net.
They are basically DNG's converted to jpegs and compressed to 2-3 megs.
If you click on the photos you can go to a full sized image for each.
http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=814433
The train station image was taken during active snow, and those are
Yes, that's much better.
Godfrey
On Mar 4, 2008, at 7:41 AM, frank theriault wrote:
A week or two ago I posted a horrendous version of this. Today's
version is a different frame of the same shoot, where I metered on
the inside of the room (without the window):
http://tinyurl.com/2rcyzr
Production assistant? Paul it's a snapshot of a cat!
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I do like this better. It's just a very difficult situation. Ideally, you'd
want your production assistant to position a large reflector across from the
window to push light back on the cat. What's that? You
It's called being facetious, Peter.
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Production assistant? Paul it's a snapshot of a cat!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do like this better. It's just a very difficult situation. Ideally, you'd
want
Alright It's frank!
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It's called being facetious, Peter.
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Production assistant? Paul it's a snapshot of a cat!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do like this better.
Anyone done or planning to do a side by side image comparison between
the K10 and the K20 (Paul)?
Images comparing enlarged segments of a detailed scene. Shot, of
course, with the same lens and done withing a very short time span.
Jack
This is pretty interesting. I've never really noticed any BF or FF
problems, but I tend to use my FA 20-35 or my 50 1.4 in daylight. Dof
probably saves me. I'd be really curious to know how much this
adjustment differs from, say, one FA 50 1.4 to another.
Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:38 PM, David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Must be. Did you go get it or let them redeliver.
Went to pick it up. Couldn't wait for them to try and deliver it again.
Wendy
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Yes, it is interesting. I'm going to recheck my FA50/1.4. The target I used
with my FA35/2 was better than the one I used previously, so it was easier to
pick the best frame. But in picking the best frame, the difference is so
slight, I have to go to at least 100% magnification of a hi-res
I've been using a CTA branded travel charger for NP400 batteries
since I bought my K10D with no problems at all. I bought this one
from BH Photo for $23, but the same thing is available branded in
several different ways, for instance from BestBatt.com, for even less
($19.20 at
I had a similar problem when I was getting my Sigma EF500 Super back
for getting rechipped. Got the Purolator we missed you note on the
door at home.
Called them and they delivered to work the next day. I was quite
happy about how it was handled.
dk
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:04 PM, wendy beard
Hi all,
I'm following this mailing list since a couple of months, and this is
my first post.
I really appreciate any critique or comment on this photo:
http://picasaweb.google.it/paolo.vercesi/20080302IsolaDellaCona/photo#5173230268807381794
taken a couple of day ago with a K100D and Samsung
Charles,
The tree was taken with the A 20/2.8 lens.
Because of the conditions, making the station sharp was a problem.
Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Charles Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:07, Bob Sullivan wrote:
I've put two samples up on
It's a very attractive photo, well rendered. You might try cropping at either
the right or the left (probably the left) to move the horses off center a bit.
Paul
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Hi all,
I'm following this mailing
Does that mean it will only work for horses and lions?
--- David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I plan to make the K10D
the mane camera if
a lens comes out soon enough.
Dave
Never miss a
Hey, I unsubscribed a year ago and nobody noticed! I guess that should
tell me something .-)
Anything, thanks Jostein. After hearing about that movie I´ve started
thinking about making more spirit photographs, the ones I have are here:
http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=366144
The
Fun stuff, Dag. Nicely done.
Paul
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Hey, I unsubscribed a year ago and nobody noticed! I guess that should
tell me something .-)
Anything, thanks Jostein. After hearing about that movie I´ve started
Just to redress the balance
http://www.pbase.com/image/93750466
K10D, Sigma 180/3.5
Wendy
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P. J. Alling wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
P. J. Alling wrote:
Interesting. Gimmicky yet pretentious.
Funny, but pretentious is the one word I wouldn't apply to it. They
just present the images without a lot of twaddle. That and the quality
of photography pretty much sum up the few
What Paul said.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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Subject: Re: PESO Camargue Horses
It's a very attractive photo, well rendered. You might try cropping at
either the right or the left (probably the left) to move the horses off
Just for a change (for me anyway)
Some flower pics
http://www.pbase.com/wendybeard/gerbera
K10D Sigma 180/3.5 macro
(warning: the first 4 in the gallery are Canon shots)
Wendy
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Nice capture. I feel it could use a tiny bit more contrast, however.
I did note a suggestion that the left side be cropped to move the image
out of the center. The idea is a good one and while I don't generally
disagree with either Paul or Ken, in this case, and without having
tried it, I'd guess
Hi list
http://www.pbase.com/timbercode/image/93762659
Picture was made with my new toy, the Porst MC Color Reflex f1.2/55mm. I
just started to make pictures with it 2 or 3 hours ago but we're in deep
love already :D During weekend I will try to make some more f1.2
pictures, but my very first
Striking stuff, Wendy. Very nicely done and rendered!
Jack
--- wendy beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just for a change (for me anyway)
Some flower pics
http://www.pbase.com/wendybeard/gerbera
K10D Sigma 180/3.5 macro
(warning: the first 4 in the gallery are Canon shots)
Wendy
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Beautifull! The dog and the picture. Both!
Timber -- amazed :D
wendy beard wrote:
Just to redress the balance
http://www.pbase.com/image/93750466
K10D, Sigma 180/3.5
Wendy
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Nice portrait. Congratulations on the lens.
On 3/4/08, Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list
http://www.pbase.com/timbercode/image/93762659
Picture was made with my new toy, the Porst MC Color Reflex f1.2/55mm. I
just started to make pictures with it 2 or 3 hours ago but we're in
Pretty dog, pretty pic -T
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Beautifull! The dog and the picture. Both!
Timber -- amazed :D
wendy beard wrote:
Just to redress the balance
http://www.pbase.com/image/93750466
K10D, Sigma 180/3.5
Wendy
Lovely picture.
Bob
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Subject: PESO: Sisters... (my first f1.2 photo :D)
Hi list
http://www.pbase.com/timbercode/image/93762659
From: Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2008/03/03 Mon PM 11:06:57 GMT
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Subject: Re: Zenitar 16mm PK
Charles Robinson wrote:
Zenitar 16mm
Could you share your opinion about this lens? I am planning to buy one
MC Zenitar f2.8 16mm and any
Bienvenue, bemvindo, or whatever.
Do you live in the Camargue? By a strange coincidence I was thinking
about the Camargue last night, and wondering whether or not to visit
Les Saintes Maries de la Mer for one of the gipsy festivals.
I was listening to some rumba gitano and looking at pictures
Well done. It's an unique way of looking at sisters -- one in focus and one as
part of the background. But it works.
Paul
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Nice portrait. Congratulations on the lens.
On 3/4/08, Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I also have the zenitar... but since I'm oldfashioned I use it on my pentax me
^_-
some bad scans:
http://xjapan.de/Katrin/photography/japan2004/TokyoImpressions/Japan2004_0048.jpg
and here are some with that lens...
http://xjapan.de/Katrin/2_6_0_various.htm
~Katrin
Am 3 Mar 2008 um
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Beautifull! The dog and the picture. Both!
What he said.
cheers,
frank
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Wendy,
Enjoyed your Gerber Daisies. Your shots make it look easy to take
good pictures.
I noticed the shift from Canon to Pentax in photo #5, along with a
major color shift. Did you change flowers or were they the same with
a color shift based on camera or post processing?
The vivid color
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list
http://www.pbase.com/timbercode/image/93762659
Picture was made with my new toy, the Porst MC Color Reflex f1.2/55mm. I
just started to make pictures with it 2 or 3 hours ago but we're in deep
love already :D During
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Paolo Vercesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I'm following this mailing list since a couple of months, and this is
my first post.
I really appreciate any critique or comment on this photo:
http://www.pixel-peeper.com/
William Robb
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Lovely photo Timber. You clearly have her attention.
Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Timber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list
http://www.pbase.com/timbercode/image/93762659
Picture was made with my new toy, the Porst MC Color Reflex f1.2/55mm. I
just started to make
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Walter Hamler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/Lake-Vanda-Antarctica.jpg
This is one of the slides I had scanned at Costco.
It shows Dr. Sam Travis, Univ. of Nebraska (1977) pointing out Lake
Vanda in the Dry Valleys,
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Striking stuff, Wendy. Very nicely done and rendered!
Yes, it is!
cheers,
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They were just next to each other :D And in my heart they are both in
focus! :P
On this photo Édua is in focus because she just had her 2nd birthday on
first of march :D so she's in focus just a little more now :D
I really like the very narrow DOF of this lens, and it's quite sharp
even open
Just checking...
http://foto.no/cgi-bin/bildekritikk/vis_bilde.cgi?id=343691
DagT
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On Mar 4, 2008, at 15:31, Katrin wrote:
Hi,
I also have the zenitar... but since I'm oldfashioned I use it on
my pentax me ^_-
some bad scans:
http://xjapan.de/Katrin/photography/japan2004/TokyoImpressions/Japan2004_0048.jpg
and here are some with that lens...
David J Brooks wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Christian
Florida is an environmental disaster... Piranhas and South American
cichlids (oscars, peacock bass, etc) breeding in the rivers,
god-only-knows how many species of parrot flying around and breeding and
of course all the
Please don't, I've seen some worryingly good photos from the K20D.
Looks about the best IQ around. Must buy a lottery ticket to raise the
cash.
Peter
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Paul, there are some wind mills on the hills just south of the Mackinac
Bridge. You can see them for miles.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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Subject: Re: Peso Wings
Amazing! I didn't know they were anywhere
LoL.. I just checked out a dpreview lister's well done (it appears)test
comparison which includes both ISO 100 ISO 400. Lister states that
ISO 800 1600 are coming.
I admonish you..DON'T LOOK!! (image difference very obvious)
Jack
--- Peter Fairweather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please don't,
Too bad Frank didn't lean out the window when he was driving on the bridge
to get a photo that shows the bridge, the wind turbines(not mills FWIW), the
island, and any freighters passing by on the straits...
CW
Loves that area way more now that he doesn't live there... especially since
it was
On 4/3/08, wendy beard, discombobulated, unleashed:
Just for a change (for me anyway)
Some flower pics
http://www.pbase.com/wendybeard/gerbera
K10D Sigma 180/3.5 macro
(warning: the first 4 in the gallery are Canon shots)
Wow - very nice Wendy.
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All very nicely captured composed.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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Subject: GESO: Gerberas
Just for a change (for me anyway)
Some flower pics
http://www.pbase.com/wendybeard/gerbera
K10D Sigma 180/3.5 macro
What Cotty said. Nice pics. The black background works beautifully.
Paul
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On 4/3/08, wendy beard, discombobulated, unleashed:
Just for a change (for me anyway)
Some flower pics
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7002616size=lg
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erit wasn't Frank, but Dave Brooks !
The bridge was closed a few days ago due to falling ice.
I love that area cause it means when I see it, I'm about to enter the Upper
Peninsula.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: cbwaters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't use the new Pentax software much, but it does produce cleaner
results now than the first version, just not as sharp as other
converters I've been using. (I find the interface clunky as well).
Paul Stenquist wrote:
To be fair, I should add that I haven't tried the Pentax software
Well spotted :-)
The Pentax ones are the more accurate colour. There is one in the
bunch which is different and much pinker, without the white band but
the bunch is the same in shots 2 and 5, just shuffled around a bit.
The Canon ones are redder than they should be. Interestingly, I
processed all
Bloody Canadians, the both of 'em.
CW
;)
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erit wasn't Frank, but Dave Brooks !
The bridge was closed a few days ago
Meh!
I don't need to do tests.
Cheers,
Dave
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Jack Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LoL.. I just checked out a dpreview lister's well done (it appears)test
comparison which includes both ISO 100 ISO 400. Lister states that
ISO 800 1600 are coming.
I
Charles Robinson wrote:
My goodness. I emailed that on 2/29 and it shows up in my mailbox on
3/3?
The list has definitely been wonky lately
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On 3/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for posting these, Bob. I remember the Downers Grove train station
from my days in Chicago.
I'm thinking that the K20D is more resistant to sensor bloom than previous
Pentax digitals. My 400/5.6 and A2X-S combination was very bad
Hey Dag!
You came through! Nice pic too.
Jostein
2008/3/4, DagT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just checking...
http://foto.no/cgi-bin/bildekritikk/vis_bilde.cgi?id=343691
DagT
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