Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread brooksdj
Since starting the darkroom course,i have shot 1 roll of colour.I'll let you know when i jump from 99% to 100%g Dave NOW FORMING The PDML Hundred Percenters Club, for those netizens who shoot 100% black-and-white. We have two members already.

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread brooksdj
Hi . For anyone who shoots HIE in the winter,how does this work out.I have taken a few lateley of coniferous trees in snow on sunny days,just trying to finish up a roll in the SP500, bracketing around the 125 at f 11 but have not finished the roll. Any comments or tips.Should have the roll done

unsubscribing for a week

2003-03-02 Thread brooksdj
Hectic week or so coming up and no daytime computer until next weekend,so i'm dropping out for 7-8 days.You have a bit of a break from my dumb qa's g Dave Brooks

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Nick Zentena
On March 1, 2003 11:10 pm, Mike Johnston wrote: NOW FORMING The PDML Hundred Percenters Club, for those netizens who shoot 100% black-and-white. We have two members already. Anybody else wanna join? So how long do we have to be pure to qualify? If we stray ?-) Nick

Re: Realistic flukes-was: A high end audio analogy...

2003-03-02 Thread Nick Zentena
On March 1, 2003 08:23 am, frank theriault wrote: They were the best deal in speakers ever. Great satellites for a sub-woofer, and great patio speakers as well (not waterproof, but you could PSB which I think is/was in Pickering,Ontario used to be great bang for the $$$. I haven't

Re: Soft Lenses

2003-03-02 Thread Nick Zentena
On March 2, 2003 12:21 am, Rob Studdert wrote: On 1 Mar 2003 at 22:23, J. C. O'Connell wrote: soft focus lenses as well as shift lenses are obsolete due to photoshop IMHO. Of course in the case of emulating an 11mm shift in photoshop from a full frame 35mm film scan would mean that a

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Peter wrote: looks like the *ist D will have a strong following. REPLY: I find that you are very selective about this. When I red the discussion about the *ist D on dpreview yesterday, the essence was that $1500 was too cheap for the Canon and that Pentax would have a hit on their hands if

Re: ist D marketing

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Peter wrote: So it seems reasonable that Pentax, at first, doesn't want to monkey with some camera that will only appeal to Pentaxians. REPLY Isn't that exactly what they have done? I believe that theres a certain number of people that will buy a Pentax DSLR regardless. And taht are those who

Re: Being real-*istic

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Mike wrote: Case in point: early adopters of the Canon EOS D30 have lost more cash than the entire cost of the EOS 10D. REPLY: This is the fate of any DSLR at this point. Probably also the *istd D. The *ist D3 will cost the same as the value loss of the *ist D. Pål

Re: Being real-*istic

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Tom wrote: But realistically, Pentax's *ist is simply not realistic enough to compete with Canon or idealistic enough to capture one's imagination. REPLY Sadly, thats my view too. I just hope the *ist D is compromised in order to be a entry level DSLR and not suggestive for Pentax design

Re: what you LIKE about *ist D ?

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Frantisek wrote: *HyM - HyperManual!!! At last. The most useful Pentax implementation, in my opinion. If it works same as on PZ1p, it effectively allows you to be in both manual mode and auto/program mode at once. Reply: Not so. The Z-1p does not allow you to be in both auto and manual mode

Re: And now, for something completely different.....

2003-03-02 Thread Mark Roberts
Don't worry, everyone will get board with it before long. Peter Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I'm sorry I started this particular branch. At 10:06 PM 3/1/2003 -0500, you wrote: Pity. I thought it might be something for keeping a log of your photo activities. It is capable of handling

Re: *ist D Competition?: The New Nikon D2

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Peter Jansen Subject: *ist D Competition?: The New Nikon D2 Here's what I've copied from the www.dpreview.com website under the discussion groups. No mention on the cost however, but it sounds high-end: SInce it's from a discussion and not from an official

Re: OT: Leica Lust

2003-03-02 Thread Steve Larson
Hi Paul and all, My wife`s aunt has a IIIg. I went over and looked at it once and it`s in great shape. Then I priced them on ebay to let her know what its worth is, and you are right, they are very pricey!!!, even a IIIg box went for big bucks. She worked at Standard Oil photographing things

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Dario wrote: That's interesting to me. However, apart from more or less sexy body, more or less complete line of lenses, more or less Pentax feeling camera (all of them being important), the most important question among Pentax film camera users (all of us) is: Will the *ist D line capable to

Re: What film do you use?

2003-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoth Frank: I'm lucky if I know what film's in what body at any given time... VBG I admire you're statistical acumen. Nah, that's just data collection. Knowing how to _use_ the info to spot meaningful trends that can show me better ways to shop for film, _that_ would be statistical acumen.

Re: *ist D Competition?: The New Nikon D2

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
- Original Message - From: Peter Jansen Subject: *ist D Competition?: The New Nikon D2 Here's what I've copied from the www.dpreview.com website under the discussion groups. No mention on the cost however, but it sounds high-end: Where is it? Can't find it. Anyway, some

Re: Soft Lenses

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: J. C. O'Connell Subject: RE: Soft Lenses no, but it's being replaced with the craftsmanship of photoshop and digital printers. Ther's craftsmanship in Photoshop? Theres a hard to swallow concept. William Robb

Re: What film do you use?

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Paul Stenquist Subject: Re: What film do you use? You can print color negs as BW on Kodak Panalure paper, but it's a pain in the a**. It has to be done in total darkness without a safelight. And the results are so-so. The best way to make BW out of color is

Re: Soft Lenses

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Nick Zentena Subject: Re: Soft Lenses On March 2, 2003 12:21 am, Rob Studdert wrote: On 1 Mar 2003 at 22:23, J. C. O'Connell wrote: soft focus lenses as well as shift lenses are obsolete due to photoshop IMHO. Of course in the case of emulating an

Re: what you LIKE about *ist D ?

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Pål Jensen Subject: Re: what you LIKE about *ist D ? Not so. The Z-1p does not allow you to be in both auto and manual mode simultaneously, only the MZ-S. Nonsense. You cannot be in two exposure modes simultaneously. Exposure modes are discreet operating

Re: what you LIKE about *ist D ?

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
William wrote: Nonsense. You cannot be in two exposure modes simultaneously. Exposure modes are discreet operating protocols. The above is pure semantics and rather counterproductive to the discussion. The fact is that you are in auto mode and dial in manual exposure and get it. Pål

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Pål Jensen Subject: Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR I'm confident that image quality is up there with compewtition. This doesn't bother me at all. However, the question about Pentax support of their products will be amplifies at this juncture. Will Pentax

Re: Being real-*istic

2003-03-02 Thread Rick Diaz
--- Pål_Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom wrote: But realistically, Pentax's *ist is simply not realistic enough to compete with Canon or idealistic enough to capture one's imagination. Tom, Fortunately, that is *not* my view on this matter. How is the Pentax's ZX series compete

RE: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
I have a question for the hundred percenters. Let's say you viewed the following on a good color monitor: - a dozen high-quality images that had been shot with black and white film, and - a dozen high-quality images that had been shot with color print film, then saved in grayscale. Then I

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
William wrote: That it's not using cutting edge technology is consistent with Pentax, but they do have problems staying less than 4 steps behind what is current camera technology, hence they were still flogging the LX as the flagship when the Nikon F5 was getting old. I think the *ist D is

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
Taz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to the list and have been spending the evening looking at some of your posts. The introductions of the *ist and *ist-D seem to be bringing in an unusually large number of new names to PDML. Welcome aboard, Taz. You wrote: I have Minolta and Pentax gear...

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
Ah--Minolta autofocus. Never mind. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Paul Franklin Stregevsky Subject: RE: The Hundred Percenters I have a question for the hundred percenters. Let's say you viewed the following on a good color monitor: - a dozen high-quality images that had been shot with black and white film, and - a

Re: Being real-*istic

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Rick wrote: Fortunately, that is *not* my view on this matter. How is the Pentax's ZX series compete realistically with the Canon's stuff? And yet, the ZX series are great sellers and compete very well with the Canons as well as the Nikons in the consumer line of stuff. That is beacuse

Re: Hands up and be counted

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
John Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I don't personalise it, in 1968 the Spotmatic cost about 8 times the average weekly wage in England. Today, the *ist D at US$1300 will cost about three times the Australian industrial average wage. OK, now we're talkin'. That's impressive. [EMAIL

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Pål Jensen Subject: Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR I think the *ist D is cutting edge both in packaging and in technology. The AF is basically batter than the competition. The feature level is very high for its segment and there no reason to assume that image

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
From what I've seen, people may be buying SLRs, but they aren't using them on a regular basis. I seldom see another SLR at public events. I don't see them out on the street. When I shoot a school event, I'll see maybe three or four other SLRs. One will be autofocus; the rest are vintage models

Re: All Is Right In The Pentax World!

2003-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Johnston pointed out: Not to ignore the content of Shaun's message, however--I agree with you Shaun. The fact is, when you have only one product, you need to make sure it is mainstream. If you try to make it too different, it will probably appeal to too few people. The *ist D looks to be

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread John Mustarde
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 08:35:48 -0600, you wrote: That it's not using cutting edge technology is consistent with Pentax, but they do have problems staying less than 4 steps behind what is current camera technology, hence they were still flogging the LX as the flagship when the Nikon F5 was getting

Re: 360FGZ, swivel

2003-03-02 Thread Matjaz Osojnik
Bruce, can you share which type of Stofen Omni-Bounce fits to AF360FGZ head? I'm thinking to order one but there is no mention of that flash on their web pages. Is the same as for the AF500FGZ (model OM-C) or something else? BTW, does somebody know which fits to AF280T head? Thanks, Matjaz

Re: Wildcards

2003-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just created a directory with this name '*ist D' No problem, so it is not correct to state that 'none of us' will be able to do that, I love Linux. If I remember correctly you can do that in UNIX, it may, probably will have side effects. (I'm not even going to try to predict what then may

Re: What film do you use?

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Johnston
Yup. I am thinking of trying my hand at hand coating my own sheet film this year. ...While wearing his hair shirt and flagellating himself with a cat o' nine tails. And every now and then, bonking himself on the forehead with a wooden psalter tablet --Mike

Ther's craftsmanship in Photoshop?

2003-03-02 Thread Cotty
Ther's craftsmanship in Photoshop? Believe it. Cotty Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/

Re: Soft Lenses

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Johnston
soft focus lenses as well as shift lenses are obsolete due to photoshop IMHO. Except soft-focus lenses and shift lenses have ALWAYS been obsolete. Well, actually, soft-focus lenses have only been obsolete since about 1910. But view cameras have always been better than shift lenses. --Mike

Re: Clean bill of health for the 120mm!

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Johnston
I would say there's no reason to be afraid of a lens with fungus (as long as the shop knows what they're doing). Just my thoughts... Steve, Just your thoughts for NOW. Talk to us in another two years when the fungus is coming back...and four of your other lenses also have itg Be

Re: an interesting view on bokeh VS sharpness

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Johnston
...For those of you who may not know, I was responsible for introducing the term _bokeh_ to photographers in America WoW! Blow me down! That's GREAT minutia, Mike! Bless you - I'll treasure this knowledge till I die! Thanks, John, it was my forty-five seconds of fame. g --Mike

Re: Good news for Pentax: Bad for Minolta

2003-03-02 Thread Taz
Hi Paul Yep my Minolta gear is autofocus2 700si's and one 9xi(currently sent into minolta for repairs..ouch!!!). But as your comment about what your seeing on the street, I think I've been seeing mostly digital PS and a few 35mm PS. My friends were all digital PS as was I for a while,

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Johnston
Many years ago (1978) I got my first camera - Pentax MX. (This was love at first sight.) Then came the 6x7. Initially I used transparencies almost exclusively until I discovered Fred Picker and took his Zone VI workshop in Vermont. Since then I have been photographing and printing in BW

Re: any one tried the SL line of lenses from Voightlander for slrs

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Johnston
You missed the 90/3.5. http://www.cosina.co.jp/90sl/ I think Rob is the only one the PDML has one of this lenses. You want one? Try this http://www.cameraquest.com/. Nope, I owned the 75/2.5 SL in Pentax K mount. Sold it to a PDMLer, although I regret I've forgotten who. --Mike

Re: What film do you use?

2003-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
William Robb commented: From: Malcolm Smith 80% BW - I assume that is because you process it yourself, something I can't do for both technical and space reasons at present. It must be great to have control over the whole process, from loading the camera to passing round the processed

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
Fair enough, William; I'll recast the question: Let's say you viewed a high-quality printout on high-qulaity paper of an uncompressed, high-resolution digital scan of a dozen... William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, since there is no way to view an image on a computer monitor

Re: All Is Right In The Pentax World!

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that in _many_ products, failing to offend has become more important than managing to thrill. I agree. A recent article in Time or Newsweek examined precisely this point in explaining why owners of Volkswagen Passats LOVE their car on an emotional level that

Re: Daylight Fill-Flash w/ 280 on Super Program

2003-03-02 Thread Steve Pearson
Glenn: First of all, I assume you set the camera shutter speed to the same as the sync setting (125x), in manual mode? Or, do I leave shutter set to AUTO? The manual does say to leave the Super Program set to AUTO for TTL flash. Second, when you say to turn the exposure compensation dial to

Re: All Is Right In The Pentax World!

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
This is not what it is all about. It isn't about making something weirdo appealing to a few. It is about being distinctive or downright appealing. Cars still look like cars but still some manages to design cars that look gorgeous without being weird. Making a copy of another makers car is a

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
John wrote: If it is not good, or not cheap, Pentax has missed their market. At this point in the DSLR market, Pentax is a third-party camera maker, much like Sigma and Tokina are third-party lens makers. But are there any indication that the *ist D is goling to be particularly cheap?

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Rick wrote: As far as I know, this is just a base platform for better things to come from Pentax, coming from a Pentax rep. I've been saying the same thing since 1996, but does anyone believe it anymore? I agree with most of what your saying but key word is trust. Are anyone believing in

Re: How does Pentax fit into the Japanese market?

2003-03-02 Thread Mark Erickson
Ken (and all), Thanks for the observations. I've been to Japan a few times on business. I've noticed a few things in wandering around Akihabara stores and, say, Yodobashi Camera near Shinjuku station. One is that Japanese products like laptops, mobile phones, cameras, etc., tend towards the

Re: OT: Leica Lust

2003-03-02 Thread Jim Apilado
I believe the Summicron is the best. Many of the early Leitz lenses were not coated so this is something to look for. When I attend swap meets I rarely see any screw mount Leica stuff, especially lenses. I heard, once, that many Leica collectors in Japan have purchased a lot of the good stuff.

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Herb Chong
the telling difference is the grain structure. BW and color films look different in that way when the color scan is converted to grayscale. Herb - Original Message - From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 11:36 Subject: Re: The

Re: Can the LCD of the *istD be used as a viewfinder

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Paul Franklin Stregevsky Subject: Re: Can the LCD of the *istD be used as a viewfinder I can relate to Steven's disorientation. My wife and I drive Fords with digital green fluorescent clocks. The digits are nice and bright until you turn the headlights on.

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Pål Jensen Subject: Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR Rick wrote: As far as I know, this is just a base platform for better things to come from Pentax, coming from a Pentax rep. I've been saying the same thing since 1996, but does anyone believe it

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Pål Jensen Subject: Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR John wrote: If it is not good, or not cheap, Pentax has missed their market. At this point in the DSLR market, Pentax is a third-party camera maker, much like Sigma and Tokina are third-party lens

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Herb Chong
i disagree with WR. a monitor's contrast range exceeds that of any printed medium and can easily achieve just as good color fidelity. 200dpi color monitors have been with us now for a couple of years and they are able to reproduce everything that can be captured from a color slide. these

Re: WA for the *ist D?

2003-03-02 Thread Joseph Tainter
There's no reason why you can't use the Zenitar. Bruce Dayton has already discussed using the F 17-28 fisheye. Since you will be using the center of the lens, you should get good sharpness and little distortion. Joe

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Cotty
first sight.) Then came the 6x7. Initially I used transparencies almost exclusively until I discovered Fred Picker and took his Zone VI workshop in Vermont. Since then I have been photographing and printing in BW almost exclusively, mainly Tri-X, XP-2 Super and APX100. I say almost since I

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread Taz
The fact is that the third party Sigma DSLR achieved more interest at announcement than the *ist D, but does it sell? I agree that Pentax has become a cheap brand but they cannot survive in the DSLR market by being cheap as I fear both Nikon and Caon have the market share giving them the power

Re: *ist D AF: Realizes enhanced focusing

2003-03-02 Thread Joseph Tainter
From the description of the new AF sytem of the *ist D: New 11-point AF sensor (SAFOX VIII) realizes enhanced focusing Does anyone know what realizes enhances focusing means? We'll find out soon enough, but it sounds more than just a tweaked MZ series AF system... Peter One assumes that realizes

Re: Daylight Fill-Flash w/ 280 on Super Program

2003-03-02 Thread Mat Maessen
The thing to remember, if you use the flash in TTL mode, ALL of the controls that affect flash exposure are on the camera, NOT on the flash itself. So in TTL mode, any compensation you do will be on the camera, not on the flash. You can change the ISO setting, or use the exposure compensation

Re: How does Pentax fit into the Japanese market?

2003-03-02 Thread Taz
I think the Pentax smaller size may well appeal to the PS crowd if they can make them auto and light enough. The ZX line seems to have accomplished this. For just everyday beating around I like to carry either my ZX-M or even a PZ-10 with a small light beater lens because of their small size,

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Taz
i disagree with WR. a monitor's contrast range exceeds that of any printed medium and can easily achieve just as good color fidelity. 200dpi color monitors have been with us now for a couple of years and they are able to reproduce everything that can be captured from a color slide. these

Re: How does Pentax fit into the Japanese market?

2003-03-02 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Taz Subject: Re: How does Pentax fit into the Japanese market? When I get serious with a have to get the shot I choose my biggest camera, minolta 9xi, before anything else. What is it about the Minolta lenses that make you choose Minolta over Pentax for

Re: All Is Right In The Pentax World!

2003-03-02 Thread Stan Halpin
on 3/02/03 11:00 AM, Pål Jensen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not what it is all about. It isn't about making something weirdo appealing to a few. It is about being distinctive or downright appealing. ... The idea that if you make something along the line of the competition the buyers

Re: All Is Right In The Pentax World!

2003-03-02 Thread Arnold Stark
Pål, the idea that if you build a product (e.g. a car) different from all the competitors then the customers will buy it is not true either. With cars as well as with cameras it is obvious that there are some trends that all major competitors follow. The design of the *ist D is just right,

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Herb Chong
you have a monitor that does 4K x 3K. they exist. Herb - Original Message - From: Taz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 13:05 Subject: Re: The Hundred Percenters Please explain this a bit further. Somewhere I'm in the dark here. If my file is

Re: How does Pentax fit into the Japanese market?

2003-03-02 Thread Taz
Well as you may well know the 9xi is a pro body. I don't think it's so much the lenses but rather the bodies them selves and I do really like the way the minolta bodies fit into my hands. I say serious as when doing a wedding and the procession is coming down the axile, and I've got but one

Re: The Hundred Percenters

2003-03-02 Thread Taz
Wow...that's big! But it would seem unusable for anything else. Everything else would be so tiny. So they must run dual monitors and just use that one for images? - Original Message - From: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:19 PM Subject:

Buying from Japan

2003-03-02 Thread Stan Halpin
Someone, possibly Shel, had put together a tutorial/guide to buying from photostores in Japan, including email and Fax addresses. I can't find where I stashed that note. Could anybody provide that to me offline please? Stan

Re: Dedicated lenses for DSLR

2003-03-02 Thread Peter Jansen
Pål wrote: If the *ist is sucessful, Pentax will keep it running forever, like the K1000 and the LX, until the interest dwindle to nothing. Hopefully, they will be moderate sucesses so that Pentax sees it worth improving. I can't help not to think how similar SLR's looked in the 70's early

Re: *ist D Competition?: The New Nikon D2

2003-03-02 Thread Peter Jansen
Get into Digital Preview web site and look under the Discusssion groups. This is info from a Nikon shooter. AGAIN a rumour, but it sounds reasonable given how old the D1H/X are, and the position of Canon these days. --- Pål_Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message -

Re: Being real-*istic

2003-03-02 Thread Peter Jansen
Pål wrote: After all, everything points towards a flexible production line for the *ist derivatives so anything is probably possible. That is probably their strategy. Pentax needs a safety net since the competition is fierce and ever changing. If no one buys the *ist D, then they may have to

Re: Daylight Fill-Flash w/ 280 on Super Program

2003-03-02 Thread Steve Pearson
Thanks Mat very much for your response. I will give it a try today! Have a great Sunday all! --- Mat Maessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing to remember, if you use the flash in TTL mode, ALL of the controls that affect flash exposure are on the camera, NOT on the flash itself. So

Re: what you LIKE about *ist D ?

2003-03-02 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
From: Pl Jensen *HyM - HyperManual!!! At last. The most useful Pentax implementation, in my opinion. If it works same as on PZ1p, it effectively allows you to be in both manual mode and auto/program mode at once. Reply: Not so. The Z-1p does not allow you to be in both auto and manual mode

Re: now just a leica R9d would just be heaven

2003-03-02 Thread Frantisek Vlcek
Adphoto wrote: heaven only if i could get pentax 43mm and 77mm in lecia r mount And the point of that would be?? William Robb Bill, don't you see? Don't you find it aesthetically enlightening seeing the small Limiteds on that overblown Zenit 212 LeicaR9 is vbg ? Ah, the nice contour lines

SMC - A 50mm f/1.4

2003-03-02 Thread Gary L. Murphy
What would be a good/fair price for he above lens in EX+ (KEH) condition including both caps? -- Later, Gary

RE: Soft Lenses

2003-03-02 Thread Cameron Hood
Soft focus maybe, although you get quite a different quality of softness from soft lenses or from the magnificent Zeiss Softtar filters than you do from a Gaussian blur in Photoshop (I have a Zeiss Softar 1 and a Vivitar soft focus filter that fit all my lenses). It does not hit and spread the

Re: an interesting view on bokeh VS sharpness

2003-03-02 Thread Cameron Hood
You are the bokeh master, Mike. So the shape of the specular highlights is determined by the shape of the aperture; the amount and quality of the bokeh ('bouquet') is determined by the optic itself. Thanks, Mike; you're never too old to learn. BTW, I love your column C. On Saturday, March 1,

Re: 200 dpi monitors? (was: Re: The Hundred Percenters)

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have a monitor that does 4K x 3K. they exist. Herb, 12 megapixel displays don't exist, except possibly in the rarefied world of grayscale medical CRTs. Even then, I doubt it. Maybe you're thinking of virtual desktops. On older operating systems, companies

Re: Daylight Fill-Flash w/ 280 on Super Program

2003-03-02 Thread Mishka
I do this trick quite often -- when having two flashes, one on camera, this allows to change the ratio, works on LX just fine. Mishka

Re: *ist D AF: Realizes enhanced focusing

2003-03-02 Thread Fred
I sincerely hope that Pentax will commission a native English speaker to write the English version of the *ist D manual. ...or even an American... ;-) Fred

Re: Daylight Fill-Flash w/ 280 on Super Program

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Franklin Stregevsky
The Super Program is my mail flash camera, and now I know why I haven't managed to use fill flash: I don't take it off of autoexposure. No wonder people buy newer camera bodies; fill flash needn't be calculated: You can just tell the camera, Make it so. Right? At least, the Ricoh XR-X3P (their

Re: I'm P*ist

2003-03-02 Thread W. Xato
No, not the camera, just the word P*ist. Warren Re: I'm P*ist Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii You mentioned you used it? So what is your overall impression? Would you buy it? --- W. Xato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (occassional poster here) I'm not

Re: All Is Right In The Pentax World!

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Arnold wrote: With cars as well as with cameras it is obvious that there are some trends that all major competitors follow. Sure, but someone who is creating the trends are more likely to be successful in the long run than mere followers. The design of the *ist D is just right, and

Re: Opinions on FA* 400mm f5.6 ED (IF)

2003-03-02 Thread Peter Jansen
I believe it is 10 feet. And yes a Pentax 300mm f2.8 is on my very short list, though getting Pentax 1.4XL 2XL + the 1.7 AF converters can be another $400-600. : ) Peter --- Paul Franklin Stregevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, I'm sending you my collected comments on the Pentax

How about a 600/2.8 or a 100-400/2.8-3,5?

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Well, it is reality sort of. The new Olydak is being previewed and although the camera is no beauty it has balls. At least this system realizes some of the advantages of digital

Re: 200 dpi monitors? (was: Re: The Hundred Percenters)

2003-03-02 Thread Herb Chong
yes, IBM's medical imaging monitors. you will have to look for them in specialized places. i have not had a chance to touch any myself, but many of my co-workers have. here is a link to the older monitor. note list price of $22K. Herb - Original Message - From: Paul Franklin

Olydak

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
Four new bodies and professional standard and wheather sealing. I believe Olympus is getting my DSLR business! Pål

vs1 28mm 1.8 72mm filter

2003-03-02 Thread adphoto
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2915155403category=46 87 is this a new version

Re: More about *ist D in Let's go digital

2003-03-02 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 3/2/2003 5:16:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.letsgodigital.nl/webpages/events/PMA-2003/news/pe ntax/ IST_uk.html Regards Sylwek Aha. This is more like it. And maybe one or both of those questions I asked (through Mike) might get

Re: 200 dpi monitors? (was: Re: The Hundred Percenters)

2003-03-02 Thread Herb Chong
the link i posted is for a color monitor. Herb - Original Message - From: Paul Franklin Stregevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Pentax-Discuss' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 15:19 Subject: Re: 200 dpi monitors? (was: Re: The Hundred Percenters) Herb Chong [EMAIL

Re: Olydak

2003-03-02 Thread Peter Jansen
Are these going to be shown at the PMA? Olympus may indeed be the DSLR dark horse... Pål I'd wait for the upper-end Pentax full-frame DSLR. No need to buy a new system of lenses... --- _Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Four new bodies and professional standard and wheather sealing. I

RE: Olydak

2003-03-02 Thread David Chang-Sang
Prototype only and we know what happens to some prototypes; they sometimes don't make it to market - no specifications listed - no release dates listed - looks nice but stating that you'd buy it is like every other person wanting to run out and buy the *ist D sight unseen. If you do go for the

Re: Olydak

2003-03-02 Thread Lukasz Kacperczyk
Four new bodies and professional standard and wheather sealing. Er... That's four new *lenses* isn't it? Lukasz PS. And I must say - the prototype looks pretty neat. --r-e-k-l-a-m-a- Szukasz banku bez prowizji ? mBank - zaloz konto

Olympus going pro

2003-03-02 Thread Pål Jensen
I wrote: Four new bodies and professional standard and wheather sealing. I believe Olympus is getting my DSLR business! And magnesium bodies. Olympus is squarely targeting the professional market according to the press releases. The camera is no beauty but it is far from bland. I believe

Re: Olydak

2003-03-02 Thread KT Takeshita
On 03.3.2 3:49 PM, Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Four new bodies and professional standard and wheather sealing. I believe Olympus is getting my DSLR business! Hi Pål, I'm intrigued by this! Could you let me know where you got the info? URL? Thanks, Ken

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