Re: PESO - Entering Chartres

2018-07-05 Thread Jack Davis
Excellent images and DOF, Rick! J Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 4, 2018, at 10:46 PM, Alan C wrote: > > You have a sharp eye. (a) the contented cat & (b) the tallest guy in Chartres. > > Alan C > > >> On 05-Jul-18 03:56 AM, Rick Womer wrote: >> We visited Chartres the day before we flew

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Tried it once, decades ago. I was bad at it and hated it.l Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Alan C wrote: > You should be a politician. > > Alan C > > > > On 05-Jul-18 04:08 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >> These are some of the

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread Alan C
You should be a politician. Alan C On 05-Jul-18 04:08 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: These are some of the finest whines around: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-whiners/n8967 Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:40 AM, Alan C

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
These are some of the finest whines around: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-whiners/n8967 Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:40 AM, Alan C wrote: > What are "better wines"? > > Alan C > > > > On 05-Jul-18 03:37 AM, Daniel J.

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread P. J. Alling
I'm disappointed, with it's name and origin I expected it to come in a can... On 7/4/2018 9:37 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I am not a wine snob, but I do appreciate certain better wines, especially Pouilly Fuisse, Cru Beaujolais and Barbera d’Asti, or any decent Pinot Grigio. My wife hates

Re: PESO - Entering Chartres

2018-07-05 Thread jtainter
Very nice. A lovely place. Thanks for posting. Joe -- 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.

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread P. J. Alling
The question is not so much better, as more palatable.  An inexpensive bottle of a local wine could easily be more palatable than a very expensive rare vintage.  Remember one of the flavors and odors wine connoisseurs use to describe a wine is merde. On 7/5/2018 1:40 AM, Alan C wrote: What

Re: Upgrade from K5 to KP???

2018-07-05 Thread P. J. Alling
I think I'd take a K70 over a KP, they have almost the same sensor, pretty much the same features, but a more useful flip out screen on the K70, the same battery ,  but I'm pretty sure better battery life on the K70.  More importantly every grip that the KP to comes with is reported to be less

Re: Upgrade from K5 to KP???

2018-07-05 Thread Rick Womer
I'm hoping to keep using my K-5 until the successor to the K-3ii is out and de-bugged. Rick On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:49 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > I think I'd take a K70 over a KP, they have almost the same sensor, pretty > much the same features, but a more useful flip out screen on the K70,

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Wine in a can can be from CA. It's called "simpler wines": https://www.traderjoes.com/digin/post/simpler-wines BTW, peach wine from this line is a good summer refresher. Dan: We've had some interesting fruit wines from NJ/NY wineries. (we like different wines for different occasions,

Pentax k-70 - damn! now I'm in trouble!

2018-07-05 Thread ann sanfedele
It has me at the fold out screen allthe other stuff is nice too, but that fold out screen is something I truly need in my studio for product shooting without wrecking my already broken back. I need to figure out a way ot finance this... will I get anything on a trade in with my k-5 body?

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Igor. What Exit also makes Peach Wine. I have a bottle, but haven't opened it yet. In Maui, the Tedeschi Winery make a nice pineapple wine and another from Lilikoi (passion fruit). I prefer their more traditional grape wines, which are quite good. I do not know much about NY wines or

smaller resolution vs native formats

2018-07-05 Thread J.C. O'Connell
are the photos from a 16Mp DSLR set to the 6 Mp setting sharper than a 6 Mp DSLR running at full resolution? My hunch is they would be but has anyone ever tried this or a similar comparison? -- J.C. O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - Using Opera's

Re: July PUG is up!

2018-07-05 Thread ann sanfedele
On 7/4/2018 5:11 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: http://pug.komkon.org/ Lovely gallery of pictures - well done all! Particularly enjoyed Ann's and Ken Waller's images - two big standouts for me. Plenty of 'ooohs' and 'hs' on them :-) Thanks much, Cotty ! -- I quite like Ken's beauty shot

Re: PESO - Entering Chartres

2018-07-05 Thread ann sanfedele
Rick - the canal/stream is my favorite - That stairway with just the tippy top of the church showing above it I'd chose over the streeet scene. I think I photographed that Tudor looking house too, back in 1981. I had some good BW light on side streets... possibly some of my colro stuff lines

Re: July PUG is up!

2018-07-05 Thread ann sanfedele
Thanks, Dan ann On 7/3/2018 9:03 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: A Truly inspirational gallery! I love them all, but especially: Paul's "Working Late in the Day" Ann's "Sunset from My Roof" Mark's "Lake Huron Sunset" Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 3,

Re: OT: Finally some GOOD news from the internet

2018-07-05 Thread P. J. Alling
I think it depends on  what they consider a "cup".  My four cup coffee maker produces four 5 oz cups of coffee, other brands consider a cup 4 ounces, or 6 ounces,  or maybe a real cup of 8 oz., (or an English cup which I think is 10 US ounces.  Then there's the demitasse which can be as small

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, PJ. The name of the producer may not be familiar to everyone here. New Yawkers look down on us hicks from "Joisy" as they call it . If you tell a New Yorker you live in Jersey they don't ask what town, but "What Exit," implying that New Jersey is just the Turnpike and the Parkway. We

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread P. J. Alling
I lived in Somerset County for almost a year working on a project for the "old" AT  There were a lot of members of the team who were commuting from NY City.  They were amazed at how nice the area was and how "inexpensive" the rents were for what you got.  None of them moved there however.  No

Re: Pentax k-70 - damn! now I'm in trouble!

2018-07-05 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 05:41 PM 7/5/2018, Ann Sanfedele wrote: >It has me at the fold out screen all the other stuff is nice too, but that >fold out screen is something I truly need in my studio for product shooting >without wrecking my already broken back. Yesterday I had to photograph a couple of horizontal

Crap and corruption

2018-07-05 Thread Bill
I opened Lightroom to find a file, but when I tried to open said file in Photoshop, I discovered that the file did not exist outside of the Lightroom catalogue. Somehow, my Drobo managed to completely lose my entire image file directory. That's over 30k files dating from 2006 to last week that

Re: smaller resolution vs native formats

2018-07-05 Thread John Sessoms
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking for. Do you mean 16Mp images downsized to 6Mp? Or do you mean there's a 16Mp camera with a 6Mp crop mode? Or something else? Downsized images might appear sharper depending on the algorithm used to downsize them. On 7/5/2018 17:22, J.C.

Re: smaller resolution vs native formats

2018-07-05 Thread J.C. O'Connell
some 16mp cameras have a 6mp shooting mode, I assume its downsizing. On Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:39:08 -0400, John Sessoms wrote: I'm not sure I understand what you're asking for. Do you mean 16Mp images downsized to 6Mp? Or do you mean there's a 16Mp camera with a 6Mp crop mode? Or

Re: OT: This and that

2018-07-05 Thread John Sessoms
Well, as it turned out they moved the fireworks display from downtown this year to where I couldn't see them from the top of the parking garage. I saw this article on PetaPixal: https://petapixel.com/2018/07/03/how-to-shoot-defocused-firework-photos/ Gave it a try. Haven't had time yet to

Re: smaller resolution vs native formats

2018-07-05 Thread Alan C
I remember setting my K7 to 6Mp to compare with my K110D (max 6.1Mp). I could see no difference but the K7 files were considerably larger than the K110D files. I'll repeat the exercise later today with the K110D & the K5 (sold the K7) & post the images & stats. Alan C On 05-Jul-18 11:22 PM,

Re: Crap and corruption

2018-07-05 Thread Paul Stenquist
Damn. Hope you can fix that. Another reason why I will never use Lightroom. It’s photoshop and old fashioned file keeping and backup for this old fashioned guy. Paul > On Jul 5, 2018, at 10:52 PM, Bill wrote: > > I opened Lightroom to find a file, but when I tried to open said file in >

Re: It's the Fourth of July...

2018-07-05 Thread John
On 7/4/2018 17:44, Bill wrote: ...And my neighbors are having a birthday. All the best on this Independence Day to my American friends. Be well bill Saw a thing on PetaPixel on how to shoot out of focus fireworks. Gave it a try. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for.

Re: Pentax k-70 - damn! now I'm in trouble!

2018-07-05 Thread ann sanfedele
Dale - only been using Pentax for 50 years :-) When I finally decided to slowly transition to digital from my sweet LX, I I got a little p Canon that had the flip screen.. then went to a Powershot pro-1 (while still doing a lot of film photography) I took it on a long cross country trip in

Re: July PUG is up!

2018-07-05 Thread Subash Jeyan
thanks for the nice words Ann. glad you liked it On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 17:48:25 -0400 ann sanfedele wrote: > On 7/4/2018 5:11 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > http://pug.komkon.org/ > > Lovely gallery of pictures - well done all! > > > > Particularly enjoyed Ann's and Ken Waller's images - two

Re: PESO: What Exit Wine

2018-07-05 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I am in Somerset County, and I did a lot of work for the old AT in the 1970s and 1980s. They were my largest single client for years. Which AT facility were you working with? I did a lot of work on the "Long Lines" facility in Bedminster, and I did the zoning applications for the office complex