Hmm..
I love vintage aircraft - always have - ever since I was a kid and I'd put
together model kits over and over and over again :)
Let's see.. naming..
I'll try and see how many I can get right (or wrong) :)
1) Bristol Bulldog
2) Flight of 4 - Supermarine Spitfire, F4U Corsair, P38 Kittyhawk,
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Hi !
The Red-Eye-Reduction System is switched ON !
Cheers , raivo
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Brad,
Welcome and it's called 'red eye reduction'.
The first flash gets your iris to close up so the 2nd flash can get a natural
looking picture...no goulish red eyes with people in the dark!
Regards, Bob S.
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recently picked up this little digital camera for taking
David.I have shot3-4 rolls each of the fp4+,delta
100 and delta 400 and a few of delta 3200.
I just received my first roll of Tmax100 last night.
So far i like it the best.(all developed by labs)and
the delta 400.I shot 2 rolls of 3200 in bright sun
(was not bright when i loaded the camera)and
I have altered...
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Sent: 25 July 2002 12:34
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Subject: RE: More images from PDML UK
Hmm..
I love vintage aircraft - always have - ever since I was a
kid and I'd put together model kits
Hi.
So far i have :
Me
Aaron
David Chang-Sang
Frank
Jeff
Vic
who are requesting a poster.Brendan,you out there??
Do you want one.
Wendy,are you going through Andre.?
Any one else in the Toronto,or Ontario area looking
for one?,please let me know by the weekend and i'll
order from Dario.
Are the
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, frank theriault wrote:
I know someone asked this a couple of weeks ago, but has anyone heard
from Shel lately? I e-mailed him last week, but haven't heard back. I
know at least one other list member is trying to contact him as well.
I just sent him a message Tuesday,
No noI'm no newbie. The red-eye function is off. That OF COURSE was
the first thing I checked. Believe me, the Pentax Rep. and I went over
everything. Wonder if it is a design fault. And again, I wouldn't be so
silly as to have red-eye reduction on and wonder why I got a double flash.
The one in his hands looks like a C from the very rounded look of
the pentaprism.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/24/02 04:21PM
Too bad he wasn't using Pentax gear (I think). Group
members with better eyesight and camera identification
skills can tell what brand camera he is using. I shot
this
I have noticed that Walmart offers a fairly good range of services for
digital, e.g., print from website or print from electronic media. I
don't think that most folks will print their own, ultimately. I think
the real advantage of digital will be the instant feedback and some
selectiveness in
On the digital future, Bob Keefer opined:
I really wonder whether the average home photographer really wants to
put that much energy into making pictures of the kids' birthday party
Hi Bob,
I think you've nailed it. As much as many of us PDMLers enjoy working in
the digital darkroom, I
Keep the K2 as a backup and buy the LX. It may hurt the pocketbook, but a
year from now you'll be happy to have both...
Vic
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I'm not sure every LX needs to be checked over. Use it. Run film through it
and then decide if it needs to go in for servicing
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In a message dated 7/25/2002 8:09:24 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you're absolutely right that most folks
don't want to go to all that trouble if the goal is a couple dozen 4x6
prints of vacations, birthday parties, and so forth. Hell, ~I~ won't
usually go
I love it when people have a few drinks and then post long, insightful revelations.
Chemical photography is about 170 years old, mass market digital is only a handful of
years old. Are we really shocked and amazed that digital isn't as completely developed
yet?
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Unfortunately, I do not trust any shop warranty myself, especially for a
difficult-to-service camrea like the LX.
Alan.
Please illuminate, in the first part rather than the second.
Kind regards
Peter
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No noI'm no newbie. The red-eye function is off. That OF COURSE was
the first thing I checked. Believe me, the Pentax Rep. and I went over
everything. Wonder if it is a design fault. And again, I wouldn't be so
silly as to have red-eye reduction on and wonder why I got a double
uploaded a few more images to my site yesterday.
Click the Airshow portefolio on the left menu at http://oksne.net
Anyone who knows the names of any of those planes?
Jostein. Please accept this as constructive criticism: (I should not say too much as I
did not take any pix whatsoever) - have
I haven't heard from Shel. I'm anxious to hear from
him though as I am expecting a package from him. Shel
if you can read our postings take your time with my
package. I know you are a bit under the weather. No
rush. Just get well soon.
Francis M. Alviar
frank theriault wrote:
Date:
Bruce Rubinstein asked:
Are we really shocked and amazed that digital isn't as completely
developed yet?
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Of course not. But I think it's about time we stop feeling guilty
about thinking so!
Jostein.
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Jostein, top middle photo- plane second from left is a US Navy Corsair used
heavily in the South Pacific theater, plane third from left looks to be a
P-40? used by the Flying Tiger's in Asia and plane on far right looks to me
to ba a P-51 Mustang used extensively to provide escort service to
No noI'm no newbie. The red-eye function is off. That OF COURSE
was
the first thing I checked. Believe me, the Pentax Rep. and I went over
everything. Wonder if it is a design fault. And again, I wouldn't be
so
silly as to have red-eye reduction on and wonder why I got a double
Hi, Peter!
I see your point. In this case it really makes a difference.
I'll see to it tonight.
There main reason for the chaos is that I've let Photoshop assign
filenames autmatically, while I didn't scan the images in the same
order as they are on the films.
Sorry about that.
Jostein
In the other pics:2nd row far left-Corsair, 2nd row middle pic looks to be
a line of P-51 Mustangs with Allison engines before the switch was made to
the Rolls Royce Merlin power plant, 2nd row far right might be a RAF
Spitfire, 3rd row far left-Spitfire?, 3rd row middle US B-26 bomber, 5th
Kodak spent the majority of the last century pandering to the mass
market and were very successful at it. Chances are Kodak will find a way to
be competitive, they always have. Still, if the film market continues to
lose
ground to digital they'll have some major challenges
IMO Kodak should
uploaded a few more images to my site yesterday.
Click the Airshow portefolio on the left menu at http://oksne.net
Anyone who knows the names of any of those planes?
Flight of 4:
Spitfire, Corsair, P-40, P-51
Bill KG4LOV
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ERNR wrote:
I agree if digital can't deliver ... but right now it certainly
can't?
The important part of my quote you left off was at a competitive price, by
which I mean competitive with disposable cameras and low-end
point-and-shoot. It ain't there yet, and I don't see it getting there for
Jostein. Please accept this as constructive criticism: (I should not say
too much as I did not take any pix whatsoever) - have you ever considered
the way in which the thumbs are arranged, on first viewing?
I once worked in a picture library and learned how to make up a
presentation. Most
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I love it when people have a few drinks and then post long,
insightful revelations.
HAR!
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Weird. . . The sharpness I acheived from the HP5 in
Perceptol blows away any
Tmax that I've done in D76 or in Tmax but I there is
obvious grain with the
HP5 vs the Tmax.. that I
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FP4 looks pretty cool in Rodinal
What do you mean by 'cool'? I'm about to try the same
combination, and was
curious as to what to expect.
Rodinal does something interesting in the
I received my posters from Italy today. It took three days! Nice
piece. A few bodies have a non-normal lens like the 85/1.8. It
makes me think that now we need an Asahi lenses poster!!!
I will have some posters in Quebec and leave some in Montreal at my
sister's place saturday (about
On 24 Jul 2002 at 23:51, Bob Keefer wrote:
Is it possible that digital photography doesn't have such a rosy future with
consumers as we're all led to believe?
I really wonder whether the average home photographer really wants to put
that much energy into making pictures of the kids'
On 25 Jul 2002 at 8:49, Brad Dobo wrote:
No noI'm no newbie. The red-eye function is off. That OF COURSE was
the first thing I checked. Believe me, the Pentax Rep. and I went over
everything. Wonder if it is a design fault. And again, I wouldn't be so
silly as to have red-eye
On 25 Jul 2002 at 17:21, happy just happy wrote:
i have just been down my local camera shop and for $650 australian they have an
lx they will give me 250 for my k2 is it worth the exchange or stick with my k2
what are the adsvantages of the k2 over the lx and the lx over the k2
Where are you
Hi,
I am having difficulty getting the images to load other than v.
slowly, but
David wrote:
1) Bristol Bulldog
Hawker. (Hart, I think, but can't remember)
2) Flight of 4 - Supermarine Spitfire, F4U Corsair, P38 Kittyhawk, P51-D
Mustang
3) umm.. damn.. it's on the tip
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:48:09 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Curiosity BW Old School films
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Chang-Sang
Weird. . .
Well, it could be like that combo (Mz-S/AF360FGZ) the P-TTL which I actually
have too. I know it's not a focus assist, as it actually has an IR beam
(Funny how they put it on a lowly 2.0M and not the MZ-5n, the MZ-S, etc. I
don't know if the 'user friendly' MZ models have it.)
It doesn't
In a message dated 7/25/2002 9:50:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
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ERNR wrote:
I agree if digital can't deliver ... but right now it certainly
can't?
The important part of my quote you left off was at a competitive price,
by
which I mean competitive with
On 25 Jul 2002 at 15:35, Cotty wrote:
IMO Kodak should put great effort into marketing their own brand of
digital media storage, and get them on shelves now. Cheap and cheerful
Compact Flash cards that hold three dozen good-res shots with the words
'Kodak Electronic Film or whatever
I wonder if the 730AF flash from Vivitar is any good.
Spec looks confusing when it comes to Pentax compatibility. Does it have all
claimed features in Pentax model ? (1/16 power, compatibility with MZ/ZX line
of bodies)
It looks too cheap ($65) for the impressive list of features it claims. Is
Easy. The camera measures the results of the first flash to use for
metering the second time around. The Pentax MZ-S and AF360FGZ flash do the
same thing in P-TTL mode.
--Mark
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Inkjet printers...
Slide scanners...
Digital media (inks and papers)...
Large format lenses...
Exposure meters and rangefinders...
Viewfinder cameras with autofocus (k mount?)...
K mount Digital SLR...
Underwater housings...
Could all our hopes and dreams be coming true simultaneously?
Wouldn't
How do you keep the Epson jets clean? I found that I used so much ink
cleaning the bloody thing that it became a financial burden. It sits here
doing nothing now.
D
Dr E D F Williams
http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams
Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery
Updated: March 30, 2002
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Don't forget that the big players (Kodak, Fuji, Agfa) also supply
chemicals, paper, etc for photofinishing. Inkjet and dye sub printers
are very slow on any kind of quantities. The Fuji Frontier and Agfa
D-Lab printing systems do a great job with digital input and rapidly
and cheaply output
The one unknown with German D-EBEI markings seems to be Messerschmitt Bf-108 -
forefather of the famous Bf-109.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: David Chang-Sang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vastaanottaja:
I've posted the final pics to:
http://www.macads.co.uk/pdml/
except for a few more that Mike Wilson insists are worth seeing ;-) and
except the link to Richard Seaman's web site needs activating (I'll wait
til he gets back from travelling and posts relevant pics to his site).
I sent a couple
FYI I've had this from the new publisher of the UK Pentax Club mag:
Hi Steve
I believe you were speaking with John Dickins who mentioned me and gave me
your email details.
I am now publishing the UK Pentax Club magazine which I've renamed Pentax
user. We have a web site www.pentaxuser.co.uk
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From: Cotty
Subject: Re: Article on Kodak
IMO Kodak should put great effort into marketing their own
brand of
digital media storage, and get them on shelves now. Cheap and
cheerful
Compact Flash cards that hold three dozen good-res shots with
the words
'Kodak
In a message dated 7/25/2002 10:19:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually I have Kodak's headstone in my back garden at the moment - really.
Any offers on the inscription? Also any offers to come take it away
seriously considered
Kind regards
Peter
ERNR wrote:
from what I've seen -- you put it in the machine, download the data,
push the friendly
little buttons to place your order, remove your card and take it with
you.
Certainly that's how it works at the semi-pro lab where I actually do
get
prints made.
I wish to god we had a service
Or, how about this one:
eastman kodak's defunct
who used to ride a watersmooth-silver (halide) stallion
so we may photograph onetwothreefourfive pidgeonsjustlikethat
jesus
they made some fine emulsions
and what i want to know is
how do you like your dominant market share
mr fuji?
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Don, that is really strange. I have yet to clean the jets on my Epson 1200
for the first time, and I've owned it from the first year they sold it. It
was only out about three months when I bought mine. I don't know what I've
been doing right.
I've only been considering upgrading to a new
I dunno guys,
I see Kodak printing kiosks springing up all over. You pop the media out of
your digital camera, pop it into the slot of the Kodak kiosk, crop and color
balance it the way you want and press the button. Out pops the picture,
anywhere from wallet-sized to 8 X 10. Priced very
Here are 2 lens I dont use enough and need the money.
So they are up for sale. And some other clutter.
SMC K 200mm F4
very near mint
$130
Tamron 80-210mm 3.8-4
good condition perfect optics.
$35
Pentax cable release F
New
$25
That used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11 July 2002 I emailed him with the question if he was still doing
this, I didn't get a reply.
The last overview I received from him was on 15 Oct 2001, I still have
that one..
On Thursday 25 July 2002 18:20, William Kane wrote:
Hi,
I know someone
frank theriault wrote:
...
Quite frankly, I'm getting a bit worried. I do hope he's okay.
Anyone out there know anything, or heard from him recently?
...
Frank,
my guess is he's given up on Pentax, maybe on photograpy at all. I hope
it's not for lack of funds but you don't go selling
Thanks to all who commented constructively on my first edition of the
images.
Now I have changed the order of the images so that all pics of the same type
of plane comes in sequence.
I have also identified the last unknown plane to be a German Messerschmidt,
uploaded an image of a female pilot
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here lies Kodak...and why not?
See, you can push our film to 3200.
Wouldn't it make more sense to rate it at 3200?
But..ours goes to 3200!
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http://www.infotainment.org
The destructive character is cheerful. - Walter Benjamin
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Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote:
That's not true! Pentax has published optical diagrams for ALL
lenses in current production (including FA and some F and A
lenses). You can find them in lenses catalogue from their Japan
home page (in PDF file).
Well, while this is true (and I do have show some of
Hi George,
I could not detect differences between the SMC Takumar, K and M
lens when comparing them.
I would be supprised if they really are not the same optical
design. The A is clearly different.
While I have tremendous respect for your opinion, I think that K != M.
I have received
In a message dated 7/25/2002 1:00:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See, you can push our film to 3200.
Wouldn't it make more sense to rate it at 3200?
But..ours goes to 3200!
If I told them once I told them a thousand times, it should read, Kodak
Processing first,
One of the big selling points of digital is that it's supposed to be very cheap, but
it doesn't always seem that way. I recently did a studio shoot with a friend of mine.
He was using a Fuji S1 Pro, and I was using the MZ-S. Oddly enough, the Fuji Pro
has no PC outlet, so he had to use its
David, I seem to be the only PDMLer on the Island so far, but I'll ask a couple of
Pentax shooters at the camera club tonight, and see if they'd like to get posters. I
know I'd like one.
Pat White
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Please illuminate, in the first part rather than the second.
Many things could go wrong with an old LX, and some of them could be
difficult to detect. Experience tells me that many 2ndhand retailers usually
tried to fix their used equipment quick and dirty, instead of an overhaul
(not
Thanks Tom,
I will :)
I know Rodinal is a bit grainy, but I like what it does to HP5 - it's a bit
grainy, but incredibly sharp. I think I'll like this combined with smaller
grain of FP4 (it's a ISO 100 film, so it's supposed to have small grain,
isn't it?).
Now that I have a solid tripod, I think
Hi,
Well, some of these are not new products,
Inkjet printers...
These are small ones for laptop users (I think they're on www.pentax.com
somewhere)
Viewfinder cameras with autofocus (k mount?)...
VIEWfinder cameras with autofocus == Espio series.
But never mind those, what about...
K
Just heard from him today. Seems all's okay, he's just been very busy
catching up with stuff after his being out of commission for that while.
Good gnus!!
regards,
frank
gfen wrote:
I just sent him a message Tuesday, but have yet to hear back.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of
Well, the subject is pretty much self-explanatory. For me it's any
rangefinder camera (cause Pentax didn't make one), and Canon T90. It
probably won't make me change systems, but I certainly wish Pentax made a
similar camera - very modern in design, and very advanced as far as it's
features are
Wow, that's a rather long subject line, isn't it?
Sorry 'bout that.
Lukasz
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Subject: OT:What other brand camera could make you change
But, Pat,
Digital is going to go the way that computers have gone, to some
extent. Prices have already dropped. Two 6MP bodies are now in
the $2K range. The D60 and the D-100. I don't expect lenses to
drop in price much but bodies will drop some more. Printers
have been dropping in price
Leica, if they weren't so damned expensive.
-Brendan MacRae
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On 25 Jul 2002 at 22:52, Kristian Walsh wrote:
Hi,
Well, some of these are not new products,
But never mind those, what about...
K mount Digital SLR...
WOOHOO! ! ! ! ;-)
Sounds good, I just hope those who end up talking to the trade reps don't find
the conversation very much like this
Christien wrote:
Anyone has images shot with this lens, or reviews ?
So far just positive comments, like sharp and contrasty. I hope to receive mine
tomorrow.
Pål
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Cameron wrote:
Inkjet printers...
Slide scanners...
I really hope they put out a scanner that takes medium format as well; up to 6X7. This
is likely if they bother with scanners.
Digital media (inks and papers)...
Large format lenses...
Large format lenses? That's surprising...
How do you keep the Epson jets clean? I found that I used so much ink
cleaning the bloody thing that it became a financial burden. It sits here
doing nothing now.
D
which model? i find that i use my 1270 about once a week to print something
and that is enough. i never need to clean the jets
This seems to be the only two-element close-up lens in 77 mm.
size, but it sure costs.
Has anyone tried it? Experiences?
one of my outdoor photo books recommends it as the only closeup lens worth
using by a serious photographer. otherwise, it's an extension tube.
Herb...
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I just received the following from an unknown sender (Dave's wife?) who
clearly was mining his address list on his mailer:
Dear all just to let you know that Dave now has a new e-mail address, sorry if
missed mail has been returned. He is still in hospital at present and will
contact people when
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From: Anthony Farr
Subject: Re: Push Processing Film
William,
Are these results scanned from the negatives or from RA-4
prints of those
negatives. I couldn't really see far into the dark end of the
grey-scale on
any result, but there are many places between
I have had one for several years now. I use it with a 67-77mm step up ring
on a 300mm SMC Pentax FA f4.5. I have gotten very acceptable 16 by 20
prints from images taken with this combination. IMHO it is worth every
penny as it gives me another use for the 300.
Hope this helps.
Ken Waller
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Ann you live an interesting life.
At 10:54 PM 7/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
I'll be there from Aug 17th through th 23rd working at the National
Scrabble Championship as a word judge.
It will be at the San Diego Concourse . I'll be working all day Sunday
the 18th through Wed. the 21, then half a
Could be red-eye prevention.
At 07:24 AM 7/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
PDML Members, (Hi, I'm new :))
I recently picked up this little digital camera for taking to bars and clubs
for 'fun' shots, instead of bringing in thousands of dollars in equipment. I
like the results, but the camera does
This is a no brainer for me: a 6x6 camera, leaf-shutter, be it an SLR
or rangefinder.
Mishka
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