Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread David Parsons
It's always the way.  I usually go by Alohadave (I was born and later stationed in Hawaii) online if that helps keeps things straight. Thanks for the welcome everyone, On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:41 AM, David Savage ozsav...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/03/2010, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread Christine Aguila
Well, Aloha, Alohadave! Well to the list! Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: David Parsons parsons.da...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:00 AM Subject: Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20 It's always the way. I

Re: Sold some prints this evening . ..

2010-03-23 Thread Christine Aguila
Way to go, Stan! big congrats. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 10:43 PM Subject: Sold some prints this evening . .. We had a fund-raising dinner and auction

Re: PAW11 - Swimming lessons

2010-03-23 Thread Christine Aguila
Neato! Love the goggles and the hair splashes. nice rendering as well. Cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: DagT li...@thrane.name To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 3:25 PM Subject: PAW11 - Swimming lessons

RE: Sick of cheap scans

2010-03-23 Thread John Coyle
I'm even later on this one, but I have a ScanWit 2700 which I use with VueScan, and the combination produces very good results. As the name implies, the files it produces are at 2700dpi, and the software generally copes well with exposure variations: although some 40 year old Kodachromes I

Re: PESO - Homestead II

2010-03-23 Thread Eactivist
Yes it is, I am lucky that way. The valley my father grew up in has amazingly changed very little in the last 40-50 years (mainly because it's economically depressed, which, I guess, it good for preserving things). Well, I thought it wasn't too bad as is, but I'll crop a little off the

Re: PESO - Shasta Glow

2010-03-23 Thread Eactivist
Thanks Bruce. :-) And to Dave as well. Marnie aka Doe In a message dated 3/21/2010 5:28:19 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bkday...@daytonphoto.com writes: I'm thinking along the sames lines as Jack. Basically stronger contrast and maybe more saturation punch. Anyway, very nicely seen and

Re: Sold some prints this evening . ..

2010-03-23 Thread Eactivist
Cool. It always feels good being appreciated. Marnie aka Doe :-) In a message dated 3/21/2010 8:44:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, s...@stans-photography.info writes: We had a fund-raising dinner and auction this evening; the occasion was our church's return visit to Costa Rica in late May

Re: PESO - Weeds

2010-03-23 Thread Eactivist
Nice. Marnie aka Doe :-) === In a message dated 3/22/2010 9:28:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bkday...@daytonphoto.com writes: This is from the same walk with the kids yesterday. All shot with Pentax K20D DA* 50-135/2.8 @ 90mm ISO 800, 1/2500 sec @ f/5.6, Handheld

RE: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Bob W
Isn't the point of going abroad to experience the differences? The English are terrible for this, going to a foreign country and demanding that it be exactly the same as Scunthorpe. Some friends of ours had relatives over from England a while back. They made the tragic error

OT GESO - Snapping my surroundings

2010-03-23 Thread Derby Chang
http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_03/10_03_surroundings/index.htm PS, Film, I love you -- der...@iinet.net.au http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: PDML Exhibit participants

2010-03-23 Thread Derby Chang
F.A.B. Mike Johnston is sort of near Chicago, isn't he? Does he know about the show? D Mark Roberts wrote: OK, the curator has made her decisions and we have 41 photos selected for the gallery show in Chicago. If your name is on this list and you haven't heard from me you should contact

Re: GESO, pushing the K-x performance envelope

2010-03-23 Thread Derby Chang
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I was at a party last night and the hostess asked I had brought my camera, because she really likes to have photos of her party. This was, of course, after the lights had been turned way down for the dancing. Many of these

Re: OT PESO - Perfect Strangers

2010-03-23 Thread Derby Chang
David Savage wrote: G'day All, After attending to opening of Foto Freo Festivle of Photography, headed over to a local cafe for drinks eats and as it turned out some very cool jazzy/folk music. After the band wrapped up, I got this shot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/disavage/4449841331/

Re: GESO, pushing the K-x performance envelope

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:42 AM, Derby Chang wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: I was at a party last night and the hostess asked I had brought my camera, because she really likes to have photos of her party. This was, of course, after the lights had

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Cotty
On 22/3/10, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: Some friends of ours had relatives over from England a while back. They made the tragic error of taking them to one of our finer steak houses. Apparently they sent their steak back several times to get it cooked more, the vegetables were not

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread David Mann
Hi, Dave, I'm Dave. And that's Dave over there. Reminds me a bit of the Bruce sketch... Dave On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:00 PM, David Parsons wrote: It's always the way. I usually go by Alohadave (I was born and later stationed in Hawaii) online if that helps keeps things straight. Thanks for

Re: fun stuff .. Pentax 110 lenses on Micro-FourThirds

2010-03-23 Thread mike wilson
They have been resized without being resized, if you see what I mean. Click on them to get the full, web-resolution picture. Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, No aperture ring or blades inside. F2.8 was as big as they made them. Why are the pictures on the site so

Re: Blurb quality issues

2010-03-23 Thread Dario Bonazza
At the end, after printing them 3 times, Blurb has been able to deliver me decent books. At last! Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Full preview available

2010-03-23 Thread Dario Bonazza
Now I've got full preview on my books, so that you can waste a lot of your time: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1181451 http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1179701 http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1179501 Comments welcome. Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Bill Cunningham

2010-03-23 Thread Derby Chang
I think I've mentioned my fondness for Bill Cunningham before. He gives the impression of just casually being out there and shooting what he sees - Bill's catchphrase just having fun. But the stuff he does must take a lot of discipline and a sharp eye. And NY women are beautiful (as Garry

Re: Full preview available

2010-03-23 Thread Boris Liberman
Belissimo! On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Dario Bonazza dario.bona...@virgilio.it wrote: Now I've got full preview on my books, so that you can waste a lot of your time: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1181451 http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1179701

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread mark
Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: Welcome, although adding another Dave to the list is going to make things even more confusing than they are now. Mind if we call you Bruce to keep it clear? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: 1940 Lincoln Zephyr

2010-03-23 Thread eckinator
2010/3/22 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: I suspect that what he meant was that he hadn't changed the sheetmetal. or perhaps since he bought it? it certainly is a sight to behold and that long sweeping back end makes for impressively different proportions... an ultra wide angle drama shot of that

Re: OT - as seen on craigs list... wtf ??

2010-03-23 Thread eckinator
I feel a bit sorry for her but also hope she will learn a bit about real life from this... good luck, princess ecke 2010/3/23 Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info: My take was a bit different. Many decades ago when I was in college I earned my meals by working at a sorority house populated

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread David Parsons
This seems appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lge2_H_8IQ :) On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:32 AM, David Mann dm...@bluemoon.net.nz wrote: Hi, Dave, I'm Dave.  And that's Dave over there. Reminds me a bit of the Bruce sketch... Dave On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:00 PM, David Parsons wrote:

Re: PDML Exhibit participants

2010-03-23 Thread David Parsons
He is based in Wisconsin, IIRC. Not too far, depending on where in the state he is. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote: F.A.B. Mike Johnston is sort of near Chicago, isn't he? Does he know about the show? D Mark Roberts wrote: OK, the curator has

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Steven Desjardins
My favorite is Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck'em, i.e., scrambled eggs on toast. I used to order ti at the local diner just to say it. ;-) On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: Eggs over easy (or sunny side up) So that's what 'eggs over easy'

Re: Full preview available

2010-03-23 Thread paul stenquist
A beautiful set. Nice individually and great together. Well done. Paul On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:50 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Now I've got full preview on my books, so that you can waste a lot of your time: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1181451

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Brian Walters Subject: Re: question for the brits American to English translation Well I understand their pain when it comes to the steak. I've stopped ordering steak when I go to a restaurant. I'm a philistine who like steak well done (ie. not a pink

Re: OT GESO - Snapping my surroundings

2010-03-23 Thread Jack Davis
A pleasing group of well done exposures. Jack --- On Tue, 3/23/10, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote: From: Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au Subject: OT GESO - Snapping my surroundings To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 1:30 AM

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Brian Walters
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:04 -0600, William Robb war...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Walters Subject: Re: question for the brits American to English translation Well I understand their pain when it comes to the steak. I've stopped ordering steak when I

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread Brian Walters
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:10 -0400, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2010 01:09, Brian Walters supera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: G'day David G'night, Brian. Top o' the morning, Miserere B -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class -- PDML

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2010-03-23 8:04, William Robb wrote: I've stopped ordering steak when I go to a restaurant. I'm a philistine who like steak well done (ie. not a pink morsel anywhere). I think that's a task beyond the ability of most chefs. Any chef worth of the title would consider that a lack of taste on

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
There is a difference. Sunny side up eggs are fried on one side only, and never turned. The yolk is still fully visible and orange-yellow. With over easy eggs, they are flipped over, but just briefly, so the egg is white on both sides. In both cases, the yolk is warm but still very liquid.

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
A few years back we spent two weeks in Scandinavia. My wife got tired of fish every day (I didn't -- certainly not with the quality of fish served there). She found a restaurant that served American style steaks. She had to sign a release to get it done rare, and even then it wasn't anything

Re: Full preview available

2010-03-23 Thread Bob Sullivan
Dario, I stopped and looked, and must agree with Paul. It's beautiful work and well done. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:01 AM, paul stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: A beautiful set. Nice individually and great together. Well done. Paul On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:50 AM, Dario

Re: Interesting device for those looking into external HD, storage

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Rob Studdert Brendan MacRae...wrote: I think you meant to say doesn't support an eSATA connection. But I don't see why this is a factor since USB 3.0 is supposed to be faster than eSATA anyway. Theoretically, but there's little to be gained using an interface that's faster than the

Re: Interesting device for those looking into external HD,, storage

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Doug Franklin On 2010-03-21 17:07, John Sessoms wrote: No, I meant eSATA drives. I may be wrong, but I did write what I meant. ;-D I think you're mistaken on this, John. The drives themselves are SATA. If you install them inside the computer case, they connect using the SATA

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread P N Stenquist
On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:04 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Walters Subject: Re: question for the brits American to English translation Well I understand their pain when it comes to the steak. I've stopped ordering steak when I go to a restaurant. I'm a

Semi-OT: Photoshop Issues

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
Semi-OT, since I use Photoshop for the photos I take with my Pentax cameras. I posted earlier that I had upgraded the memory in my laptop to the maximum 4GB, although 32 bit Vista only sees something like 2.5GB for some reason. I knew it wouldn't be able to see the whole 4GB, but I thought it

Re: Semi-OT: Photoshop Issues

2010-03-23 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:21 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: I posted earlier that I had upgraded the memory in my laptop to the maximum 4GB, although 32 bit Vista only sees something like 2.5GB for some reason. I knew it wouldn't be able to see the whole 4GB, but I thought it

Re: OT - as seen on craigs list... wtf ??

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Rob Studdert On 22/03/2010, ann sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wan/1653563837.html just had to share... I think poor little princess needs to starve a little! Young people are using the internet for social networking in ways I'd never have

Re: PESO: The Scream

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Daniel J. Matyola I took the image because something about the sculpture grabbed my attention and held it. I tried to capture the feeling that it aroused in me when I faced it. I tried to make it look more like a statue -- or even a head -- than just a mask. I tried to bring out the

Re: Semi-OT: Photoshop Issues

2010-03-23 Thread AlunFoto
John, Did you also adjust the size of your swap file when you increased the RAM? I think the waits you experience may be related to disk I/O, somehow. Jostein 2010/3/23 John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: Semi-OT, since I use Photoshop for the photos I take with my Pentax cameras. I posted

Re: OT - Off Line (more or less)

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: David Mann On Mar 22, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Cotty wrote: I gather the internet finishes on that day According to an email I received this morning I won the entire internet in a lottery. I'm not sure what to do with it. Dave I think you're supposed to send a credit card number or

Re: Optio i-10

2010-03-23 Thread Tom C
What's a reputation worth? Tom C. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:50 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure it's not actually built by Pentax anyway.  There are a number other cameras on the market in this class with the same general shape and control layout.  It's

Re: Interesting device for those looking into external HD, storage

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Ken Waller Questioning the need for this at all ? Do you have internal HDs laying around that you're using as external HDs? Seems better to outright buy an external HD from the start - no need for this device. What am I missing? Seems to be for hot swapping multiple hard drives. I

ot: bbc masterclasses

2010-03-23 Thread Sasha Sobol
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Re: Full preview available

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
On Mar 23, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: Now I've got full preview on my books, so that you can waste a lot of your time: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1181451 http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1179701 http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1179501 Comments welcome. I

Re: 1940 Lincoln Zephyr

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Larry Colen On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Richard D Bush wrote: Larry, I wouldn't call that car 'stock.' To mention just a few items missing, it doesn't have the original bumpers or wheel covers. It also looks like it has been lowered in the rear. Hopefully, it still has the

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread Tom C
I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday. I would have an iPhone but will not use ATT. I do have an iTouch. After having the Droid for a little over a day I can say that it has most any app I would want (there's just a ton of stupid iPhone apps). It seems a little faster than the iTouch,

Diffraction and photography

2010-03-23 Thread Igor Roshchin
I just came across a nice page that describes the limiting effect of diffraction - in particular in case of very small apertures. http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-photography.htm The same site has a page describing MTF of lenses and how to understand it:

RE: PESO's More

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
Thoughts anyone ? Thanks http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10834691 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10834674 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10834672 Always happy to see dead squirrels. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Bill Cunningham

2010-03-23 Thread Sam L
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote: I think I've mentioned my fondness for Bill Cunningham before. He gives the impression of just casually being out there and shooting what he sees - Bill's catchphrase just having fun. But the stuff he does must take a lot

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Cotty
On 23/3/10, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: Quite unlike English or Irish fried eggs, which would bounce if dropped on the floor. G Don't know where you ordered your eggs in England mate - not where I go! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:34:00AM -0400, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2010-03-23 8:04, William Robb wrote: I've stopped ordering steak when I go to a restaurant. I'm a philistine who like steak well done (ie. not a pink morsel anywhere). I think that's a task beyond the ability of most chefs.

Re: OT - as seen on craigs list... wtf ??

2010-03-23 Thread ann sanfedele
Boy I'm getting amazingly different feedback on this... Bob W came closest to understainding why I pointed it out... in addition to Rob calling her a princess. Did you look at what she wants to eat??? No fruits or vegetables, but she _needs_ diet Pepsi. I'm guessing Mom and Dad plaid

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:51:46AM -0600, Tom C wrote: I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday. Anybody know why it occasionally verbalizes 'Drid' like a Cylon. I know it'll do this when I plug/unplug USB, but twice this morning it's said it with no action on my part. An indication of

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread mark
John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:51:46AM -0600, Tom C wrote: I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday. Anybody know why it occasionally verbalizes 'Drid' like a Cylon. I know it'll do this when I plug/unplug USB, but twice this morning it's said it with

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
On 3/23/2010 9:49 AM, m...@robertstech.com wrote: John Francisjo...@panix.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:51:46AM -0600, Tom C wrote: I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday. Anybody know why it occasionally verbalizes 'Drid' like a Cylon. I know it'll do this when I

Re: Bill Cunningham

2010-03-23 Thread Derby Chang
Sam L wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote: I think I've mentioned my fondness for Bill Cunningham before. He gives the impression of just casually being out there and shooting what he sees - Bill's catchphrase just having fun. But the stuff he does

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread mark
m...@robertstech.com wrote: My S.O. had a Droid phone and it's pretty impressive. Um, that's *has* a Droid phone. I haven't sneaked it away from her. Yet. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread ann sanfedele
David Mann wrote: Hi, Dave, I'm Dave. And that's Dave over there. Reminds me a bit of the Bruce sketch... Dave and we can always just call yet antoher Dave by his nom d'GFM Chainsaw welcome, new dave ann (the only one here, I think) On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:00 PM, David Parsons wrote:

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:49:28PM -0400, m...@robertstech.com wrote: John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:51:46AM -0600, Tom C wrote: I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday. Anybody know why it occasionally verbalizes 'Drid' like a Cylon. I know

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread Steven Desjardins
How about Kill all humans? On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:49 PM, m...@robertstech.com wrote: John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:51:46AM -0600, Tom C wrote: I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday. Anybody know why it occasionally verbalizes 'Drid' like a

Re: OT - as seen on craigs list... wtf ??

2010-03-23 Thread Eactivist
The young are frequently stupid, due to inexperience. But youth is a condition that soon gets fixed. Marnie :-) == In a message dated 3/23/2010 9:31:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ann...@nyc.rr.com writes: If she had posted without the elaborate list of specific items , gosh, I

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:49:28PM -0400, m...@robertstech.com wrote: John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:51:46AM -0600, Tom C wrote: I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday. Anybody know why it occasionally verbalizes 'Drid' like a Cylon. I know

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Eactivist
You mean travel is all about food? Marnie aka Doe ;-) In a message dated 3/22/2010 7:52:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, danmaty...@gmail.com writes: etc, etc, etc Dan M -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread Miserere
On 23 March 2010 03:00, David Parsons parsons.da...@gmail.com wrote: It's always the way.  I usually go by Alohadave (I was born and later stationed in Hawaii) I think we'll need to see your birth certificate to confirm that. --M. -- http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread David Parsons
What are you, a birther? :) On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Miserere miser...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2010 03:00, David Parsons parsons.da...@gmail.com wrote: It's always the way.  I usually go by Alohadave (I was born and later stationed in Hawaii) I think we'll need to see your

Re: Optio i-10

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
In a commodity market nothing really. Everybody does the same thing these days. Only the really top of the line cameras are likely to be anything particularly special or peculiar to the firm who's name appears on the case. On 3/23/2010 10:27 AM, Tom C wrote: What's a reputation worth? Tom

Re: PESO - Big Brothers (Redwoods)

2010-03-23 Thread Eactivist
Thanks Paul. :-) And Dave. John, :-P. Marnie ;-) == In a message dated 3/22/2010 4:56:48 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, pnstenqu...@comcast.net writes: Nice composition of a tough subject. I like it. Paul On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:58 PM, eactiv...@aol.com wrote: From my

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
What I find frightening is that she had to sign a release... On 3/23/2010 8:03 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: A few years back we spent two weeks in Scandinavia. My wife got tired of fish every day (I didn't -- certainly not with the quality of fish served there). She found a restaurant that

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
Actually eggs over easy is flipping the egg lightly cooking the top side, served while the yolk is still runny. Sunny side up is sunny side up. On 3/22/2010 11:05 PM, Brian Walters wrote: Eggs over easy (or sunny side up) So that's what 'eggs over easy' means. Never

Re: Diffraction and photography

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
On 3/23/2010 8:53 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: I just came across a nice page that describes the limiting effect of diffraction - in particular in case of very small apertures. http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-photography.htm The same site has a page describing MTF of lenses

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
Particularly handy droid programs: advanced task killer aiminesweeper battery status bubble cellfinder connectbot dolphin browser gdocs gmote google sky map k-9 mail my tracks navy clock net hack opera mini shop savvy weather wifi analyzer I still haven't found one that's good for bookmarking

Re: OT - as seen on craigs list... wtf ??

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/23/2010 9:34 AM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Rob Studdert On 22/03/2010, ann sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wan/1653563837.html just had to share... I think poor little princess needs to starve a little! Young people are using the internet for

Re: OT - as seen on craigs list... wtf ??

2010-03-23 Thread steve harley
On 2010-03-23 11:15 , eactiv...@aol.com wrote: The young are frequently stupid, due to inexperience. But youth is a condition that soon gets fixed. she sounds a bit neurotic and out of touch to me; such things don't always get fixed, but i have a different picture from the princess, i see

Re: OT - as seen on craigs list... wtf ??

2010-03-23 Thread steve harley
On 2010-03-23 08:34 , John Sessoms wrote: Used to be when you got engaged the bride dragged the prospective groom off to whatever high falutin' department store to register china patterns. Now they go to Target run amok with a bar-code scanner. it used to be you got what you got, or what

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread Tom C
I just tried the voice activated Google search. Not sure how often I'd use it, but I said the word coffee'', it understood and brought up Google page 1 on the search term. Whiz bang. I'll check out these other apps. Thanks. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:

Re: Bill Cunningham

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
Was it just me, or did anyone else find it strange that there were no links to actual samples of his work. I would have liked to take a look. On 3/23/2010 5:47 AM, Derby Chang wrote: I think I've mentioned my fondness for Bill Cunningham before. He gives the impression of just casually

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/23/2010 12:41 AM, David Savage wrote: On 23/03/2010, Brian Walterssupera1...@fastmail.fm wrote: Welcome, although adding another Dave to the list is going to make things even more confusing than they are now. Bwahahahahaha... Aw, let's make it easy and just call everyone

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread Miserere
On 23 March 2010 14:08, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried the voice activated Google search.  Not sure how often I'd use it, but I said the word coffee'', it understood and brought up Google page 1 on the search term.  Whiz bang. I'll check out these other apps. Thanks. Say awesome

Re: PDML Boston this Saturday, March 20

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
Just for you apparently... On 3/23/2010 12:34 PM, David Parsons wrote: What are you, a birther? :) On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Misereremiser...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2010 03:00, David Parsonsparsons.da...@gmail.com wrote: It's always the way. I usually go by

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
And Tom discovers yet another internet time waster... It was nice knowing you. On 3/23/2010 10:51 AM, Tom C wrote: I just got a Motorola Droid yesterday. I would have an iPhone but will not use ATT. I do have an iTouch. After having the Droid for a little over a day I can say that it has

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
If it has a Cylon voice, then By you command, seems more appropriate. On 3/23/2010 12:12 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: How about Kill all humans? On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:49 PM,m...@robertstech.com wrote: John Francisjo...@panix.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:51:46AM

Re: PDML Exhibit participants

2010-03-23 Thread Miserere
On 23 March 2010 07:59, David Parsons parsons.da...@gmail.com wrote: He is based in Wisconsin, IIRC.  Not too far, depending on where in the state he is. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Derby Chang der...@iinet.net.au wrote: F.A.B. Mike Johnston is sort of near Chicago, isn't he? Does he

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
advanced task killer Doesn't that describe an awful lot of things? On 3/23/2010 12:53 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Particularly handy droid programs: advanced task killer aiminesweeper battery status bubble cellfinder connectbot dolphin browser gdocs gmote google sky map k-9 mail my tracks navy

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
On 3/23/2010 1:14 PM, Miserere wrote: On 23 March 2010 14:08, Tom Ccaka...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried the voice activated Google search. Not sure how often I'd use it, but I said the word coffee'', it understood and brought up Google page 1 on the search term. Whiz bang. I'll check

Re: PDML Exhibit participants

2010-03-23 Thread Larry Colen
I'll definitely want to point friends in the area at the exhibit. Maybe someone closely involved with the organization could set up, or point us to, a facebook page? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML,

Re: Optio i-10

2010-03-23 Thread Tom C
I agree with the reality of commodity objects being nothing special, but I disagree in part, because users, especially first-time users, will form a perception of the brand nevertheless. If I were the first time user of a particular brand and had a poor experience, I'd shy away from that brand

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread steve harley
On 2010-03-23 12:14 , Miserere wrote: On 23 March 2010 14:08, Tom Ccaka...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried the voice activated Google search. Not sure how often I'd use it, but I said the word coffee'', it understood and brought up Google page 1 on the search term. Whiz bang. I'll check out

Re: PDML Exhibit participants

2010-03-23 Thread AlunFoto
You mean like this one? http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/DANK-HAUS-German-Cultural-Center/31727144454?ref=ts 2010/3/23 Larry Colen l...@red4est.com: I'll definitely want to point friends in the area at the exhibit. Maybe someone closely involved with the organization could set up, or point us

Re: OT - Congrats, Tim!

2010-03-23 Thread Tom C
It understood. The first results was for google image results, followed by a site named www.photoawesome.com, followed by awesome photo blogs, 20 awesome photo manipulation tutorials, and then photographs.wordpress.com. Overall I think a more specific search would likely yield better results.

Re: Optio i-10

2010-03-23 Thread P. J. Alling
Case in point: Pentax X90 vx Nikon Coolpix P100 vx Kodak Easyshare Z981. All major controls are identically placed, zoom range identical, same size and shape, differing only in details. The look like bastard brothers. On 3/23/2010 1:24 PM, Tom C wrote: I agree with the reality of

PESO: 4 in 1 Lions

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
My nature photography group is having an exhibition, and I'm considering this image for the show. Four slightly different versions of the same image. This was my second outing with the K20D and is also an example of the kind of images possible with the notorious Bigma - Sigma 50-500.

Re: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread Joseph McAllister
I think they've become traumatized by outbreaks of Mad Cow disease. But look at Will Shatner. On TV*, he extols it as a better way of coping with the day's tribulations. :-) * at the moment, I cannot recall the name of the series, tho I watched it religiously for years. On Mar 23, 2010,

RE: question for the brits American to English translation

2010-03-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Bob W This thread reminded me of some advice I gave to a friend who was going to Europe for the first time: It is important to realize that in a foreign country, people may not understand your meaning, even if they do speak English. There are certain American expressions that can

Re: PESO: 4 in 1 Lions

2010-03-23 Thread David Parsons
I used the color replacement tool to brown the grass and make it look more natural, but am not quite easy with the ethics of that. If your exhibition doesn't have a prohibition on editing, I don't see why there would be an ethical consideration. I think Lions 1 is the best one. The 8x10 feels

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