Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

On 1/18/2023 7:36 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: Larry Colen wrote: For the FA 43/1.8 ( I wish it were 1.0) do the lightroom lens profile corrections work well enough for you? I find I’ll grab mine rather than my FA50/1.4 unless I need that extra bit of speed. \-- Larry Colen

Re: Re: Photography in ...

Bill wrote: > Actually, they've been computers with lenses since the mid 1980s. > > bill Of course. Dedicated microcontrollers, more like the logic processors in your washing machine that operates transparent to the user. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Re: Stock agency question

Steve Cottrell wrote: > I don’t know if I would recommend themm but there’s a UK agency called Alamy > that I used to have images lodged with. In my experience, one has to have > literally thousands of images up to make any decent money. > > Cotty That’s my goal. To go through all my decades

Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

Sadly, X2. Pen F and OM-Dii Cot On 15 Jan 2023, at 19:41, Brian W wrote: Sadly, Pentax no longer makes the sort of gear that I'm interested in. Olympus/OM System on the other hand... -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Stock agency question

I don’t know if I would recommend themm but there’s a UK agency called Alamy that I used to have images lodged with. In my experience, one has to have literally thousands of images up to make any decent money. Cotty On 15 Jan 2023, at 17:49, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: What other

Re: Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

Larry Colen wrote: > > For the FA 43/1.8 ( I wish it were 1.0) do the lightroom lens profile > > corrections work well enough for you? > > I find I’ll grab mine rather than my FA50/1.4 unless I need that extra bit > > of speed. > > \-- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com sent from ret4est I do

Re: Photography in ...

On 1/18/2023 7:52 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: 1880 You had to be a chemist and an optics expert 1900 The pro stuff now has options but Eastman made it easy for Average Joe 1950 Today we've got them in an instant 1970 Film cartridges are so convenient 1980 Electronics automated the

PESOs (3) - Aging Decorations

It was a beautiful spring-like day in Philly, and my camera and I took a walk in the neighborhood. Several houses still had Christmas decorations up. These three were the most striking. The last one is in front of a student-occupied house, and is an… ummm… interesting re-purposing of their

Re: PESOs (3) - Aging Decorations

Well seen and captured. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 8:28 PM Rick Womer wrote: > It was a beautiful spring-like day in Philly, and my camera and I took a > walk in the neighborhood. > > Several houses

Re: Stock agency question

One problem is that the amount of work you need to do just to submit is very time consuming.  For another, most of the money that is more than a pittance  if it sells is for commercial use  and you have to have releases for people and  pets and even homes or other edifices.   The quality of the

Re: Something weird

The full size images are still there on the file server. This computer just doesn't display them. If I go into the other room and pull them up on my Photoshop computer they display full size. Plus, I can't quite figure out why it's only the scanned film images? The DNGs from my Pentax cameras

Re: What Pentax gear is on your shopping (or wish) list?

OTOH, if you already had a perpetual license version of either one of them, those still work. I've got CS6 Extended on my computer & that's what I use. On 1/18/2023 9:39 AM, Bill wrote: On 1/18/2023 7:36 AM, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: Larry Colen wrote: For the FA 43/1.8 ( I wish it

Re: Re: Stock agency question

Ann, Your input is appreciated. Fortunately I won’t need it to survive. Just hoping that my fun hobby produces a few $$ to compensate. I find the time minimal (for Shutterstock) when I have shot a lot of similar-class but different images. That meant time/count, and worked out well. Time