Re: ColorSynch working color space (Was Re: Printing Raw Problems)
On Mar 6, 2005, at 1:17 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Later someone told me that if I change the color space in ColorSynch Preferences, PhotoShop will use that space in ColoSynch. This is correct, if Photoshop's working space has been set to ColorSync. I don't remember if this is the default Mac setting. Am I losing some of the gamut by using generic rgb? Compared to what? FWIW Generic RGB is a little bit smaller than sRGB, looks like the difference is mainly in the red channel. Adobe is bigger than sRGB, mostly in the green. These changes might not matter much as the final printed result also depends on the capabilities of their printing processes. If your files are going to press then I'd suggest using Adobe RGB as it's pretty much an industry standard. It'd pay to ask your clients if they have a preference. Just make sure you record your current setup in case something breaks and you have to revert :) I decided to try something else yesterday, so I I checked my preference list in ColorSynch, and I don't have a lot of conventional color space choices listed. I have some that Epson supplied. So I tried Epson Wide Gamut. The results were less saturated, and not very nice, so I restored my previous settings. Can I load other color space choices into the ColorSynch utility? Should I try something other than my reliable generic rgb? As far as I know you can specify any profile that's been installed on your system. Just make sure that you choose a device-independent colour space (ie not a printer, scanner or monitor space). Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Re: Color space
On Mar 6, 2005, at 2:22 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: OK, that makes sense. But then, by the same token, wouldn't it make just as much sense to scan using a profile with an even wider gamut? You can do this if you want, but there are tradeoffs involved... There's no point using a colour space that greatly exceeds the capabilities of your scanner as you end up being able represent colours that your scanner can't even produce in the first place. As a result, a wider gamut working space means worse tonality for the same bit-depth as the same range of numbers have to represent a larger range of colours, so the discrete colour change from one value to the next is larger. Practically speaking, this is only really important if you work in 24-bit colour. 48-bit colour is a good thing despite the increase in CPU, memory and disk space requirements for processing and archiving. Most raw photos will fit within sRGB. If you're making adjustments that affect the saturation you may need to be careful about gamut clipping. If you keep today's printing technology in mind then you'll be limited if a new process comes along... but only if you actually need highly saturated colours. Also bear in mind that not many monitors are capable of displaying much outside of sRGB. Choosing the perfect working space is a real can of worms and it depends on your equipment and your long-term intentions. Luckily, for most people, it doesn't make a big difference as long as the process works (ie calibrated screens, files saved with embedded profiles and the lab being able to cope with them). Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Re: Various Lens Tests (may be long)
The only question I have is, can you tell us there was no focus error for the tests you conducted? Did you rely on AF, MF, or MF with magnifier? Just curious. If DA14 didn't perform that well, I wonder how it compared to K/A15/3.5. --- Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today I tested various lenses on an adobe (mud brick) wall. This is a good subject because such walls have joints, cracks, mortar, rock inclusions, etc., that give lots of details. All shots were done on a tripod, in RAW, then compared onscreen at actual pixels. The only thing done to the images was Auto Levels in PS, before conversion to TIFF. I mainly wanted to test the FA 20 f2.8 against the DA 16-45 f4 at 20 mm. Various people don't like the FA 20 (or its predecessor, the A 20) because of corner weakness at wider apertures. So I wanted to see how it compares to my main alternative for that focal length. Partly just for fun and partly for serious results, I also tested the DA 14 f2.8, Zenitar 16 mm. f2.8 fisheye, and the FA 16-45 at 16 mm. Finally I tested the FA 20-35 f4 at 20 mm. to compare it to the DA 16-45 at 20 mm. Sit back. Some of the results are interesting. 1. FA 20 vs. DA 16-45 at 20 mm.: Both lenses wide open (FA 20 at f2.8; DA 16-45 at f4): The FA 20 is sharper in the center, at the edges, and in the corners. With both lenses at f4 and f5.6 the results are the same (the FA 20 is sharper). At f8, center and edge sharpness of the two lenses are very close. The DA may be very slightly better. The FA is better in the corners. Yes, I know that some of you are thinking that it is nuts to compare a prime to a zoom. Of course the prime is better. Right? Well, read on. 2. FA 20-35 at 20 mm. vs. DA 16-45 at 20 mm. (just for curiousity; both are well regarded zooms): At f4 the FA lens is better all over. At f5.6 the FA is better in the center, but the DA is better at the edges and in the corners. F8 gives the same result, except that the center difference is quite slight. 3. DA 14 vs. DA 16-45 at 16 mm. Prime lenses are always sharper than zooms, right? With both lenses wide open (f4 on the zoom, f2.8 on the DA 14), the DA 16-45 is sharper in the center and at the edges. The corners are close. At f4 (wide open for the zoom, closed down for the prime) the DA 16-45 is sharper in the center, at the edges, and in the corners (although the edges and corners are close). At f5.6 and f8, the zoom is sharper than the prime all across the field of view. So sometimes it pays to compare apples and oranges. 4. Now the fun part. Zenitar 16 mm. f2.8 fisheye vs. DA 14 f2.8. Guess what? The Zenitar is sharper across the field of view, at all apertures from f2.8 to f8. 5. Zenitar vs. DA 16-45 at 16 mm: F4 (DA) vs. f2.8 (Zenitar): The Zenitar is better across the viewing area. F 4, 5.6, and 8 (both lenses): The Zenitar is sharper across the board. 6. So now a contest between the day's two champions: the FA 20 f2.8 vs. the Zenitar 16 f2.8. This test was hard to evaluate because the edges and corners of the FA 20 were quite difficult to compare to the edges and corners rendered by the Zenitar. At all apertures from f2.8 to f8, the Zenitar was slightly sharper in the center, while the FA 20 may have bettered it at the edges and in the corners. The inexpensive little Russian lens wins the day for sharpness. What a pity it has such distortion. What a pity they never developed a rectilinear version of it. Other curious findings. If you set your D or DS to mtf program line, it will tell you that the DA 16-45 is sharpest at f4 from 16-28 mm., and at f4.5 from 28 to 45 mm. Well, in my tests at 16 and 20 mm. today, sharpness increases from f4 to f5.6 to f8 at both focal lengths. I cannot confirm Pentax's belief that this lens is sharpest at f4 below 28 mm. The DA 14 came out worst in these tests. This doesn't mean that it is a bad lens. The evaluation was done at actual pixels, and in actual use you would have to go to an enormous enlargement to see the differences I was looking at. I haven't given this lens enough real-world use yet to know if I am disappointed in it for the price. It was the corner performance of the FA 20 f2.8 that prompted me to do these tests. The FA 20 gave the best corner results of any of these lenses. Could it be better in the corners? Perhaps. But I see no reason to slight it if we don't also slight the DA 16-45 and the DA 14 for their corners. Joe Alan Chan http://www.pbase.com/wlachan __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
Re: Various Lens Tests (may be long)
Don Sanderson wrote: That's interesting info Joe. The only 2 of these I own are the Zenitar and the DA 16-45. I've been quite disappointed in the Zenitar in terms of contrast and overall image quality compared to the DA at 16mm. Distortion not withstanding, I've found the images from the Zenitar to be quite soft and with poor color rendition. After reading about the clear filter being 'required' I dug out the Zenitar and compared it again to the 16-45 after double checking that the filter was indeed in place. Unless I have a specific use for the distortion of the Zenitar my moneys still on the DA. Zenitar problem perfectly highlighted. Quality control. mike
RE: Focusing screen for *ist-DS
I ordered mine from my local photo shop as I like to support business that have done the right thing by me in the past. It cost AU$45 - and it's no brighter (or dimmer) than the standard screen. Simon -Original Message- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 5 March 2005 6:59 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Focusing screen for *ist-DS - Original Message - From: jtainter Subject: Re: Focusing screen for *ist-DS Dealers don't seem to have them but Pentax US does, and you can order them direct. They cost about $70 apiece. Call customer service tell them what you want. The number is 800-877-0155. I just ordered the LL-60 from Pentax USA. They have lots of them in stock. Cost is $44 plus $5.00 shipping. Wow, you guys are getting creamed. I paid just a tad over 40 Canadian for my LL-60. I've got two more on the way for a couple of wise Americans who can wait a little bit. They should be here fairly soon, I do believe. Is this considered dumping? William Robb
Re: Psychology Question
- Original Message - From: Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] A friend of mine managed to get 80286 as the last five digits in his phone number. Yeah, but can you run Linu.oh, wait. Wrong list. AHA!! A fellow cartoon geek! :-) http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_linus.html nietsoJ
Re: OT - Thermador Cooker
- Original Message - From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any USA listers (or in fact any listers at all) have any experience of Thermador cookers? I'm looking at a professional 48 inch duel fuel (gas top, electric oven) unit and wondered about reliability and quality, etc. Interesting. Not much of a duel, though, if they're always on separate floors... Jostein
Re: Various Lens Tests (may be long)
Thanks for asking, Boris... :-) I haven't really made up my mind yet. Remember that the FA20 never left the bag in Israel... I will need to do some shooting for specific testing purposes to qualify my opinions. Cheers, Jostein - Original Message - From: Boris Liberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Various Lens Tests (may be long) Hi! Joe, that was one fascinating reading, at least to me. I suggest you obtain another instance of Zenitar and try it. My belief is that Zenitars suffer from sample variation. Your sample could be among the best... We need to ask Jostein about DA 16-45. He recently got one and may have something to say :). Boris
Re: Various Lens Tests (may be long)
- Original Message - From: David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, has anyone yet had their hands on the DA 50-200? ...or does it currently only exist on the Pentax website? ;) Seen it behind glass, and talked to a guy who had an early sample with him to Africa for holidays. He was personally pleased, but I haven't seen any of his shots. I think it's not officially for sale just yet. Jostein
Re: OT - Thermador Cooker
On 6/3/05, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I had you down as a Smeg head... http://www.smeguk.com/catalogue.htm UGH. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: LCD monitors?
Hi, Sunday, March 6, 2005, 12:42:35 AM, Amita wrote: It's time for me to buy a new monitor, and I'd like to get an LCD. Obviously I am concerned about viewing and editing photos on an LCD monitor. Do any of you have an LCD monitor that you can recommend for photography? Most hardware review sites don't seem to be too concerned with color fidelity and other such concerns. I have a Dell Precision M50 laptop, which was pitched at the professional CAD market. It has a 15, 1600x1200 resolution, 64Mb Quadro 4 500 GoGL something. I don't know what it means, but it's very good and perfectly suitable for my purposes. It's not a separate screen, but there are sure to be better ones available separately nowadays - this is about 3 years old. Undoubtedly you could get a CRT which is better suited to photography, but the top end professional monitors are really expensive, and large, and that level of investment really means you need properly equipped, standardised viewing conditions otherwise you're wasting a lot of your money. Bear in mind that you can't actually calibrate an LCD. That is, you can't really change the screen settings to match a standard. Instead you have to profile it, which means you record the settings it has and your software maps your photos onto the screen's profile. -- Cheers, Bob
Re: OT - Thermador Cooker
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:27:35 +, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/3/05, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I had you down as a Smeg head... http://www.smeguk.com/catalogue.htm UGH. Cheers, Cotty Bob, I think that translates roughly to Smeg off! g -- Scott Loveless Born free. Taxed to death.
Re: LCD monitors?
Hmmm. You haven't been in too many studios lately, have you? At Acme Photo, where they do a lot of Detroit's car photography, they have a whole bank of 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays that are used for RAW conversions and retouching. And a number of other pros I've talked to have been singing the praises of that giant screen. Paul On Mar 5, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: LCD monitors are too contrasty. Photopro's don't use them. Niether do I. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Amita Guha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 6. marts 2005 01:43 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: LCD monitors? It's time for me to buy a new monitor, and I'd like to get an LCD. Obviously I am concerned about viewing and editing photos on an LCD monitor. Do any of you have an LCD monitor that you can recommend for photography? Most hardware review sites don't seem to be too concerned with color fidelity and other such concerns. Thanks in advance, Amita
Re: LCD monitors?
On 6 Mar 2005 at 9:50, Bob W wrote: Bear in mind that you can't actually calibrate an LCD. That is, you can't really change the screen settings to match a standard. Instead you have to profile it, which means you record the settings it has and your software maps your photos onto the screen's profile. Regardless of the profiling the gamma varies from the top to the bottom of the screen on any current LCD/TFT, my 19 (Mitsubishi) and 15 (Dell) TFT are both fine in the middle but dodgy at the top and bottom. My 22 CRT however is great across the whole screen. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: OT - Thermador Cooker
On 6 Mar 2005 at 7:02, Scott Loveless wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:27:35 +, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/3/05, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: I had you down as a Smeg head... http://www.smeguk.com/catalogue.htm UGH. Cheers, Cotty Bob, I think that translates roughly to Smeg off! g No that's AGA Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: Color space
On 4 Mar 2005 at 16:49, Shel Belinkoff wrote: It just seems right to me. I can see the colors and tones throughout the process, and there are no surprises when converting at the end of the editing process. As you know, Rob, my technical skills and knowledge are pretty minimal, and this just feels right to me. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a better way, or an easier way, but I am happy in my ignorance and compulsive work processes. One day someone may show me an alternative, I'll slap my forehead, and gasp at the simplicity of the new-to-me technique and wonder aloud why I hadn't thought of it. OTOH, I can't think of a thing that's not right with the process. And as long as I can get what I see on the screen on the final print, I'm happy. Fair enough, question answered :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: LCD monitors?
On 6 Mar 2005 at 7:08, Paul Stenquist wrote: Hmmm. You haven't been in too many studios lately, have you? At Acme Photo, where they do a lot of Detroit's car photography, they have a whole bank of 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays that are used for RAW conversions and retouching. And a number of other pros I've talked to have been singing the praises of that giant screen. So what is their technical departments criterion for monitor selection, reduction in heat load, savings in desk space, ease of system integration or image quality? There is nothing to indicate in your example that the monitors have been selected simply due to advantages in image quality. I recently had to replace my monitor and had the option of TFT or CRT, I chose CRT as image quality and specifically gamma accuracy and contrast range were my primary criterion. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: LCD monitors?
I asked a similar question about 3 moths ago (my 17'' CRT burned). The responses that I got weren't encouraging regarding LCD's and photo editing, so I finally ended up buyimg a Samsung 17'' CRT for 1/3 the cost of a 17'' LCD and I am quite happy. However, I hope that technology evolves so that my next one can be a LCD with good color fidelity... Regards, Jaume --- Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's time for me to buy a new monitor, and I'd like to get an LCD. Obviously I am concerned about viewing and editing photos on an LCD monitor. Do any of you have an LCD monitor that you can recommend for photography? Most hardware review sites don't seem to be too concerned with color fidelity and other such concerns. Thanks in advance, Amita __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
Re: LCD monitors?
I agree that the best CRT monitors can still deliver better image quality than the best TFT monitors, but it comes at a price. I was merely responding to a message claiming that all photography professionals use CRT monitors. It just isn't the case. I think one factor that has driven many photographers to the Apple Cinema Display in particular is ease of system integration. It's basically plug and play on a Macintosh. And the image quality is quite adequate for all conversion and retouching tasks. Paul On Mar 6, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 6 Mar 2005 at 7:08, Paul Stenquist wrote: Hmmm. You haven't been in too many studios lately, have you? At Acme Photo, where they do a lot of Detroit's car photography, they have a whole bank of 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays that are used for RAW conversions and retouching. And a number of other pros I've talked to have been singing the praises of that giant screen. So what is their technical departments criterion for monitor selection, reduction in heat load, savings in desk space, ease of system integration or image quality? There is nothing to indicate in your example that the monitors have been selected simply due to advantages in image quality. I recently had to replace my monitor and had the option of TFT or CRT, I chose CRT as image quality and specifically gamma accuracy and contrast range were my primary criterion. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
Re: Various Lens Tests (may be long)
Good work Joe. I would love to see the M or A 15mm thrown into the mix... Vic
Re: Whee! (Enablement!)
Congrat's John. I think you'll like playin with the 6x7. Try a rool of chrome:-) I have the metered finder,but seldom use it,so if you have a decent handheld,i doubt you'll miss it. Dave Brooks Long story short, we drove down to Monterey and I walked out of Camera West with my own 6x7, a 105 2.4 lens and a roll of Tri-X 400 to play with. Sean, the fellow who helped me, was really great to work with, and got me all set up to shoot. Only thing I really wanted but couldn't afford was a metered finder, but I can get by without that for now. I was grinning for the rest of the day; no buyer's remorse for this Pentax nut! John Celio
PZ 28-105 and istD question
Hey gang. Finally am getting over this cold,so i went out on a driving tour yesterday. For just about all of the 450 odd frames shot so far, i have used either my A 28 or A50 with the odd Sigma 100-300 or the Pentaz PZ 28-105. I had the 28-105 on the istD for some icefishing shots on Lake Simcoe and i found a sporatic snag using it. Just womdering if anyones else had this happen or offer an explanation. At both extreme ends,28 and 105,sometimes when i try and AF on the subject,(infinety) i can hear the lens TRY and focus. It makes a noise but nothing happpend. The red focus dot comes on and the green focus confirmation light just blinks and the lens tries to focus. If i move it off 105 or 28 just a tad,it focuses. However it does not do this everytime. I tried it on a good contrast scene and it di it then to. Any ideas.? Battery idicator shows full. I have AA Liths in ther now,with about 400 shots. I tried the Sigma 100-300 and it does not seem to have this problem(so far) Dave
Additional info: PZ 28-105 and istD question
Should have added that the lens works fine on the PZ-1 Dave
Re: More enablement
`MX's mirror-lock-up-trick: Put the camera on tripod, cocked. Lightly but quickly tap the shutter release with your finger, preferably from a height, so that you do not press it but just tap it, and your finger bounces back. If you do it right, mirror will spring up, but shutter won't open untill you press the release again. Totally safe to your camera (perhaps unless you have one with severely worn shutter rod, which I doubt as it would work reliably anyway before the trick) With some practice, this trick works 95% of time, easily, consistently. I have done it even with handheld camera. Good light! fra
RE: More enablement
Yeah, the same with the K1000! Jens Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Frantisek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 6. marts 2005 15:19 Til: Thibouille Emne: Re: More enablement `MX's mirror-lock-up-trick: Put the camera on tripod, cocked. Lightly but quickly tap the shutter release with your finger, preferably from a height, so that you do not press it but just tap it, and your finger bounces back. If you do it right, mirror will spring up, but shutter won't open untill you press the release again. Totally safe to your camera (perhaps unless you have one with severely worn shutter rod, which I doubt as it would work reliably anyway before the trick) With some practice, this trick works 95% of time, easily, consistently. I have done it even with handheld camera. Good light! fra
The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
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Re: LCD monitors?
In a message dated 3/6/2005 4:11:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Regardless of the profiling the gamma varies from the top to the bottom of the screen on any current LCD/TFT, my 19 (Mitsubishi) and 15 (Dell) TFT are both fine in the middle but dodgy at the top and bottom. My 22 CRT however is great across the whole screen. Rob Studdert = I must be one of the few that doesn't like LCDs. Admittedly, I haven't seen a great one, and the main one I see is the one on my laptop. But to me they lack depth. And I don't like they way they are off color or have a shine or whatever you want to call it, if they are tipped a certain way. So I can't see how they could be color consistent across the screen. Since you can't calibrate an LCD, it seems to me if you buy a screen specifically for doing photography work, right now, it should be a CRT. IMHO. Not that I know THAT much about it. But not all *new* technology is great just because it is new. Or not technology is suited to all purposes. Marnie aka Doe Being ignorant has never stopped me from having an opinion. :-)
Re: LCD monitors?
- Original Message - From: Jaume Lahuerta Subject: Re: LCD monitors? I asked a similar question about 3 moths ago (my 17'' CRT burned). The responses that I got weren't encouraging regarding LCD's and photo editing, so I finally ended up buyimg a Samsung 17'' CRT for 1/3 the cost of a 17'' LCD and I am quite happy. However, I hope that technology evolves so that my next one can be a LCD with good color fidelity... And dot pitch. My CRT is a .20 dot pitch, my LCT is something like .28 I don't think it is a matter of the technology evolving, so much as coming down to a price the common man can afford for something usable. I paid almost a thousand dollars for my 17 LCD, compared to about 400 for my 17 CRT. William Robb
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
- Original Message - From: Don Sanderson Subject: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! I think I'm a millionaire William Robb
Super Tak lens caps?
Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. Glenn
Re: Super Tak lens caps?
- Original Message - From: glenn murphy Subject: Super Tak lens caps? Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. I would think that any 49mm clip on cap would work. Have you tried putting a cap from another lens onto it to see? You can mix and match caps without causing famine. William Robb
Re: More enablement
My K1000 makes mirror lockup easy. The MX so far is not cooperating in this department. I've heard that it really depends on the specific body - some will do it, some won't. Photos of the MX taken with the world's crappiest digicam are here: http://www.twosixteen.com/sdl I'm really liking this camera. Thanks, Mr. Robb! -- Scott Loveless Born free. Taxed to death.
Re: Super Tak lens caps?
The original slip-on cap's inside diameter is 51mm. Filters are 49mm Jim glenn murphy wrote: Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. Glenn
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:02:31 -0600, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Don Sanderson Subject: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! http://www.keh.com/shop/SHOWPRODUCT.CFM?CRID=10208677SKID=PK06009013540N3SID=newusedBID=PKCID=06SOID=Ncurpic=0dpsp=0 I hope this winner isn't reading this! -- Scott Loveless Born free. Taxed to death.
Re: LCD monitors?
The La Cie 22-inch CRT has a dot pitch of .24, ditto the Mitsubishi Diamond Pro and the $5000 Mitsubishi Diamondtron. The LCD Apple Cinema Display is .258. Not a significant difference. On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:57 AM, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: Jaume Lahuerta Subject: Re: LCD monitors? I asked a similar question about 3 moths ago (my 17'' CRT burned). The responses that I got weren't encouraging regarding LCD's and photo editing, so I finally ended up buyimg a Samsung 17'' CRT for 1/3 the cost of a 17'' LCD and I am quite happy. However, I hope that technology evolves so that my next one can be a LCD with good color fidelity... And dot pitch. My CRT is a .20 dot pitch, my LCT is something like .28 I don't think it is a matter of the technology evolving, so much as coming down to a price the common man can afford for something usable. I paid almost a thousand dollars for my 17 LCD, compared to about 400 for my 17 CRT. William Robb
PAW: People Portraits 2005 #11
http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/11.htm Comments and critique always appreciated. Godfrey __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
It was a mistake. The second to the last bid was $38. The last bid was $391. On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Don Sanderson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
My mistake. The auction was at $38. Then someone bid $391, apparently by accident. That was followed by a $396 bid. That last bid was probably from a bidder who set his final bid ridiculously high, just to make sure he won in a snipe out. However, he wasn't counting on someone bidding very high by mistake. Live and learn. He's an auction newbie. Paul On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Don Sanderson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don
Re: PAW: People Portraits 2005 #11
Very nice light and exposure. And while I'm intrigued by the unusual composition, I'm left feeling hungry for just a bit more. However, that could be seen as part of what makes it interesting. Good, thought provoking work. Paul On Mar 6, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/11.htm Comments and critique always appreciated. Godfrey __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Super Tak lens caps?
A 49mm or 52mm clip-on slips all the way between the threads, 58mm is too big. The H1A/H3V manual says it uses 49 filters and 51 caps, and I'm not sure why they'd be different. Glenn William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: glenn murphy Subject: Super Tak lens caps? Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. I would think that any 49mm clip on cap would work. Have you tried putting a cap from another lens onto it to see? You can mix and match caps without causing famine. William Robb
RE: LCD monitors?
No longer the case, Jens. Godfrey --- Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LCD monitors are too contrasty. Photopro's don't use them. Niether do I. __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
PESO: This Is Not a Blizzard
I was going to save this for later in the week, and make it a PAW, but we're supposed to get a couple more inches of snow today (but it might turn to rain later in the afternoon - yuck!), so today seemed an appropriate day to post this. Taken a bit more than a month ago right smack in the middle of the central shopping district at noon on a Saturday. Normally, the place would be jammed with cars and pedestrians. It's not a blizzard as the average windspeed was only 40 km/h (about 25 mph), although gusts were much higher. Environment Canada's definition of a blizzard is snow with average winds of over 50 km/h (30mph). http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3173937size=lg We always encourage comments, and thank you in advance should you choose to do so. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: PAW: People Portraits 2005 #11
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 07:33:49 -0800 (PST), Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/11.htm Comments and critique always appreciated. Interesting, but I'm not sure exactly what my reaction is. There's a lot of empty space (not a criticism; merely an observation) that I'm not sure as an observer how to process. It seems to break a lot of rules, but I have to say there's something compelling about it none-the-less. I think I'll have to spend more time looking at this one to get into it. If a photo makes one look at it, that must be a good thing. g cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: PAW: People Portraits 2005 #11
--- Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/11.htm Very nice light and exposure. And while I'm intrigued by the unusual composition, I'm left feeling hungry for just a bit more. However, that could be seen as part of what makes it interesting. ... Thanks Paul! Yes, you get the idea in this one... :-) Godfrey __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
Re: PESO: This Is Not a Blizzard
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:51:34 -0500, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to save this for later in the week, and make it a PAW, but we're supposed to get a couple more inches of snow today (but it might turn to rain later in the afternoon - yuck!), so today seemed an appropriate day to post this. Taken a bit more than a month ago right smack in the middle of the central shopping district at noon on a Saturday. Normally, the place would be jammed with cars and pedestrians. It's not a blizzard as the average windspeed was only 40 km/h (about 25 mph), although gusts were much higher. Environment Canada's definition of a blizzard is snow with average winds of over 50 km/h (30mph). http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3173937size=lg We always encourage comments, and thank you in advance should you choose to do so. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson I like it. Good exposure. You've pretty much captured that classic Leica BW feel. Too bad about the car on the other side of the street with it's lights on, but I'm guessing you weren't going to stand out there much longer waiting for a better shot, blizzard or not. g BTW, do you use a filter with HP5? I usually don't use a filter at all, and have not had good results with HP5. -- Scott Loveless Born free. Taxed to death.
M 4/200mm vs F 4-5.6/70-210mm at 200mm
I took a few test shots today. To see how the SMC-M 4/200mm is doing. Not so bad - compared to the SMC F 4-5.6/70-210mm. I think the prime is the sharper lens of the two. Both photographs shot at f 5.6 and app. 1/2000 sec. handheld. No editing except autolevels and very little cropping (almost the full frames). See for yourself: http://gallery37564.fotopic.net/p12447314.html Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
RE: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
I bid $1000.00 once for a 330FTZ flash. Meant to bid $100.00, fortunately it only went to $77.00, whew! Don -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 9:40 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues! My mistake. The auction was at $38. Then someone bid $391, apparently by accident. That was followed by a $396 bid. That last bid was probably from a bidder who set his final bid ridiculously high, just to make sure he won in a snipe out. However, he wasn't counting on someone bidding very high by mistake. Live and learn. He's an auction newbie. Paul On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Don Sanderson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don
Re: PESO -- Rock not Roll
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:51:12 -0500, Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Self explanatory, in context with the picture. http://www.mindspring.com/~pjalling/PESO_--_rnr.html As usual comments are welcome, but may be completely ignored. Ooo! Now ~that~ might look cool taken with a fisheye (says the guy with a relatively new fisheye g). That comment is not intended to take anything away from the image as presented, however, which is a good photo. Nice composition of what could be a mundane object. The cleft, shadow and snow on the rock make it quite interesting to look at. Good capture when the light was right. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: Super Tak lens caps?
The only thing between 52 and 58 is 55mm. Usually it says the filter size on the lens. That would be separate from the 1:1.8/55mm, like (theta sign)55. Also the filter should be marked with the size. The lens originally came with a metal push-on cap about 3mm larger than the filter size. If my memomory serves correctly of my H3, bought new in '61 or so, 55mm was the correct size for the 55/1.8 Super Takumar. I think some of the later ST lenses used a smaller filter however, so your camera may have an eariler lens than the manual you have is talking about. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- glenn murphy wrote: A 49mm or 52mm clip-on slips all the way between the threads, 58mm is too big. The H1A/H3V manual says it uses 49 filters and 51 caps, and I'm not sure why they'd be different. Glenn William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: glenn murphy Subject: Super Tak lens caps? Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. I would think that any 49mm clip on cap would work. Have you tried putting a cap from another lens onto it to see? You can mix and match caps without causing famine. William Robb -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3/4/2005
Re: Color space
Replying to several comments on color space - Mark Roberts posted this link to Dry Creek's web site with an interactive 3D model that let's you compare color spaces: http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/color_spaces.htm Playing with the model a bit has pretty much convinced me that I'm not losing much, if anything, by using sRGB. Given that I'm not working with a client or printing press process that requires something different. It boils down to this. I can't see anything outside of the sRGB colorspace on my monitor. I can't print anything outside of the sRGB colorspace on my printer. The lab I work with uses a Fuji processor with Chrystal Archive paper. It can't print anything outside of the sRGB color space. So, using any colorspace other than sRGB just adds more invisible unpredictability to my process. If things change in the future and we get common devices that are capable of more, I can always go back to my original RAW files and reconvert. Until then, I don't see any reason to convert my files to a color space I can't see on my monitor and can't print on my printer. See you later, gs
Re: PESO: This Is Not a Blizzard
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:00:41 -0500, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like it. Good exposure. You've pretty much captured that classic Leica BW feel. Too bad about the car on the other side of the street with it's lights on, but I'm guessing you weren't going to stand out there much longer waiting for a better shot, blizzard or not. g BTW, do you use a filter with HP5? I usually don't use a filter at all, and have not had good results with HP5. -- Thanks, Scott! Nope, no filter other than a UV. I really don't feel like paying (what seem to me to be) exhorbitant prices on eBay for little teeny 39mm filters, although I would like a yellow or orange filter for that camera, just to darken skies just a bit on sunny days. Mind you, I rarely have that camera pointed in a direction that the sky's in the frame anyway g. In terms of the composition, I actually don't mind the car over there. I kind of feel that seeing only one car is a stronger statement that the storm kept cars off the road than if there were no cars at all. I'm not criticizing your critique, BTW, just given my POV. I have to say, though, I snapped the pedestrian's photo, paying more attention to where she was in the frame than anything in the background. There were so few pedestrians on the sidewalks that day, and I could see that the wind was gusting just then, blowing her hair just so, and I felt that it was her or (maybe) no one. HP5+? I like it a lot, both in the CL and in my Pentax SLR's. It's a bit less contrasty than TriX (my favourite bw ISO 400 film - maybe my favourite overall), but I find it's mid-greys more silky (don't know how better to describe it) than TriX. Thanks for looking and commenting. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
It must be the new *istDS owners. That lens only cost about $125 new, and hasn't a great reputation (the 3.5 was better). I guess these insane new prices mean I will never own that M20/4.0 I have always wanted. You guys who stocked up on older Pentax lenses when they were cheap are going to be rich, Don. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Don Sanderson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3/4/2005
Re: More PESOs
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:07:21 +, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Being thrashed with birch twigs in the banya by a nubile 26 year old is a special memory - and I'm not sure which part of that phrase is the bit that brings back good feelings 8- I'm not sure how to respond to that one LOL cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Home again
Just returned home from 4 days in the hospital. Still sore around the colostomy, but the PIA from the ulcer is gone. Bill
Re: PAW: snow covered landscape
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:24:06 +0100, Bernd Scheffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always enjoy to have a look at those PAWs, PESOs, etc. so I feel the need to contribute. Taken this afternoon. *istDs, 16mm, F8, 1/750s, exp.corr. +1.5, ISO200; color balance and brightness slightly corrected http://people.freenet.de/bienenbernd/TEMP/Schnee.JPG Best, Bernd Lots to like in this one, a few things I'm not so sure about. I think the composition is strong, with that big old strong tree trunk on the right. It really anchors the shot for me. The fenceline with the trees (I like the fallen one) is nice, as is that strong element of the horizon with the dark trees in the background. The flare, I'm undecided about. At first I didn't think much of it, but I'm actually coming to think that it may be a positive thing - it seems to add to the feeling of cold in the photo. The tilted horizon I've decided is the only thing in this one that I don't like. I know, I know, I tilt shots a lot, but for this type of landscape, with it's strong geometrical elements, I wonder if a straight horizon might make it an even stronger image. Overall, though, I think it's still a very good photo. BTW, it's cold here, too. vbg cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: More enablement
- Original Message - From: Scott Loveless Subject: Re: More enablement My K1000 makes mirror lockup easy. The MX so far is not cooperating in this department. I've heard that it really depends on the specific body - some will do it, some won't. Rather than tapping on the shutter button, try twacking it obliquely (sort of snpping in reverse). That was how I learned the trick, and it seems to work well. Photos of the MX taken with the world's crappiest digicam are here: http://www.twosixteen.com/sdl I like mine better G I'm really liking this camera. Thanks, Mr. Robb! Yer welcome. William Robb
Re: LCD monitors?
- Original Message - From: Paul Stenquist Subject: Re: LCD monitors? The La Cie 22-inch CRT has a dot pitch of .24, ditto the Mitsubishi Diamond Pro and the $5000 Mitsubishi Diamondtron. The LCD Apple Cinema Display is .258. Not a significant difference. Reread the part about the price evolving into something that can be afforded by the common man. William Robb
Re: Super Tak lens caps?
- Original Message - From: glenn murphy Subject: Re: Super Tak lens caps? A 49mm or 52mm clip-on slips all the way between the threads, 58mm is too big. The H1A/H3V manual says it uses 49 filters and 51 caps, and I'm not sure why they'd be different. How odd. You may end up with a 49mm threaded cap, or even just use a cheap UV filter as a lens cap. William Robb
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
and that too for the M28/2.8 (not one of the 28/2s)! I don't think many people like this lens much, going by the discussion on Stan's site. Aww.. wish I had put that up for sale... Badri http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don
Re: Home again
Rest-up Bill. By the time you're caught-up with the PDML, you'll be feeling better :) CW - Original Message - From: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:33 AM Subject: Home again Just returned home from 4 days in the hospital. Still sore around the colostomy, but the PIA from the ulcer is gone. Bill -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3/4/2005
Re: Additional info: PZ 28-105 and istD question
Gremlins... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should have added that the lens works fine on the PZ-1 Dave -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
To which I can only add HOLY C***! Don Sanderson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
Of course the eBay phenomenon is strange, I guess it is the, I want that, factor multiplied by insanity. For instance I noticed a used Jiffy J-2 Hat Steamer bid up near $200 when I last looked. Now with the interest in vintage hats that might seem reasonable. Only a quick google search reveals that they are still being made and have a suggested list price of $149.95. Further that same search brings up about 50 places that are selling them new mostly for $130-135 with a couple of places selling it for under $100. So who in their right mind would pay $200 plus inflated shipping used for something they can readily get new for $100. It seems that if you list something on ebay you either give it away, or get paid 4-5x what it is worth, and hardly ever does something just go for an honest price. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Don Sanderson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3/4/2005
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
- Original Message - From: Badri A Subject: Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues! and that too for the M28/2.8 (not one of the 28/2s)! I don't think many people like this lens much, going by the discussion on Stan's site. Aww.. wish I had put that up for sale... Just a wild guess, I bet the buyer backs out of the sale. William Robb
Re: PESO - Firmly Entrenched
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:57:59 -0800, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was taken while on a walk with my daughter. We were both taking pictures and this root caught my eye. Pentax *istD, DA 16-45/4, handheld ISO 400, 1/60 sec, f/9.5 http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_1163.htm Converted from Raw to Tiff with C1 - converted from Tiff to jpg, sized/sharpened for the web. Comments welcome Catching up on some old PAW's and PESO's today. Geez, I really like this one! Great patterns and textures. Love the curves of the bark, the way ridges of bark mimic each other as they travel down the old trunk. That knot at the bottom is a real nice element, too. Love the way the greenery at the corners gives a splash of colour to the grey log. Terrific shot! Great eye to see and capture it so nicely. I'll also comment on how wonderful it is that you and your daughter(s) go on nature walks so often. My parents did that with me, I do it with my kids (although only Claire, the youngest is much into it now - Cath's a ~teenager~ now, and has much more important things to do than hang with her old dad vbg). It's just so important on a number of levels - for your kids (and you!) to appreciate the wonders of nature (sorry to sound sappy') all the much better, and for you and your daughters to bond. Just doing simple things together makes such a difference to them. I know that as a parent, it makes a huge difference to me, to spend such great times with my kids (so much so that I almost feel guilty for feeling so good g). Anyway, it always makes me feel good to see you post that you did something with your kids. You seem such a great dad, and your kids will be so much the better for it. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: Printing Raw Problems
Paul Stenquist asked: Mac or PC? What software are you printing from? A Mac of course. Is there any other kind worth using? Raw files converted to tif format in Pentax Photo Lab 2.1, opened and attempting to print in Photoshop 7. You might try printing using the ICM feature. Mac's with Colorsynch should give you good results. If Epson, or your paper's manufacturer has profiles for the 825 use them as well. I'm behind on the digests, so if this has been suggested already, sorry. Butch
Re: PESO: This Is Not a Blizzard
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3173937size=lg We always encourage comments, and thank you in advance should you choose to do so. cheers, frank Great shot Frank. You have captured a classic Canadian July afternoon.:-) Nice contrast and exposure. The lady in the shot really adds to it. It would have been pretty stark with out a fiqure in it. Dave Brooks
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
- Original Message - From: Graywolf Subject: Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues! Of course the eBay phenomenon is strange, I guess it is the, I want that, factor multiplied by insanity. For instance I noticed a used Jiffy J-2 Hat Steamer bid up near $200 when I last looked. Now with the interest in vintage hats that might seem reasonable. Only a quick google search reveals that they are still being made and have a suggested list price of $149.95. Further that same search brings up about 50 places that are selling them new mostly for $130-135 with a couple of places selling it for under $100. So who in their right mind would pay $200 plus inflated shipping used for something they can readily get new for $100. It seems that if you list something on ebay you either give it away, or get paid 4-5x what it is worth, and hardly ever does something just go for an honest price. Or the seller changes his mind and pulls the auction. A lens that I was bidding yesterday on was pulled because the sellers description wasn't accurate or some such, odd because the description was very good and matched the pictures perfectly. A friend was bidding on a boat yesterday, and the auction was pulled because the thing got sold outside of eBay. William Robb
Re: PESO: A bit of colour
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 14:30:37 +0800, David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day folks, It's a bit gloomy and overcast today, so I find myself preferring to work on bright and colourful shots. Nothing too special, just another freaking flower photo. http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/PESO/peso_003.htm It was 41 degrees C (106 degrees F) when I took this a couple of weeks ago on my way home from work. To those of you in cooler climes, hope it warms you up a little :-) Enjoy, comments criticisms welcome. Gorgeous lighting! Bright colours! Lovely flower, well captured. We're expecting an inch or two of snow today. Last week, it snowed 3 of 5 days. I hate you vbg. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: Super Tak lens caps?
To be consistent you need the push on cap for 49mm emblazoned with Honneywell Pentax. Otherwise any old 49mm lens cap will do. If you want the original push on type KEH has them *http://tinyurl.com/3qwnn.* glenn murphy wrote: Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. Glenn -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
Sometimes I forward stuff like that to winners of auctions, if they pay an outrageous price for an item, if I've been bidding on it... It usually gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling.. Scott Loveless wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:02:31 -0600, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Don Sanderson Subject: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! http://www.keh.com/shop/SHOWPRODUCT.CFM?CRID=10208677SKID=PK06009013540N3SID=newusedBID=PKCID=06SOID=Ncurpic=0dpsp=0 I hope this winner isn't reading this! -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: Super Tak lens caps?
Unfortunately the filter size is not on the lens. The filter it came with just slides into the back of the hood before the hood is screwed on, the filter has no threads on it. I don't have anything in 55mm to try, so I think maybe I'll just make a trip to Helix and look through the bin of used caps and see if anything works. Failing that, I'll take a look at my Dad's H1A next time I visit and steal his lens cap if it fits. Maybe he'll trade it for the 33 to 35 year-old film I just developed for him last night (among other things, it looks like he took pictures of a TV screen when they were showing one of the Apollo moon landings). Glenn Graywolf wrote: The only thing between 52 and 58 is 55mm. Usually it says the filter size on the lens. That would be separate from the 1:1.8/55mm, like (theta sign)55. Also the filter should be marked with the size. The lens originally came with a metal push-on cap about 3mm larger than the filter size. If my memomory serves correctly of my H3, bought new in '61 or so, 55mm was the correct size for the 55/1.8 Super Takumar. I think some of the later ST lenses used a smaller filter however, so your camera may have an eariler lens than the manual you have is talking about. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- glenn murphy wrote: A 49mm or 52mm clip-on slips all the way between the threads, 58mm is too big. The H1A/H3V manual says it uses 49 filters and 51 caps, and I'm not sure why they'd be different. Glenn William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: glenn murphy Subject: Super Tak lens caps? Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. I would think that any 49mm clip on cap would work. Have you tried putting a cap from another lens onto it to see? You can mix and match caps without causing famine. William Robb
FS: A 28-135/4
Anybody want to make a reasonable (Spelled: Real World) offer on a very nice SMCP-A 28-135mm/4 zoom. http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/lenses/zooms/short/A28-135f4.html If not I guess I'll have to sell it on eekBay and retire sooner than I expected. ;-) Don
Re: PES0 -- After the Snow -- Revisited
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:34:21 -0500, Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to revisit the flying truck of after the snow. There are three shots in the little gallery which I guess makes it a GESO but I didn't feel like posting it as such. http://www.mindspring.com/~pjalling/PESO_--_After_The_Snow_--_Revisited.html No technical details. All were taken with the *ist-D 1 3 with the Vivitar 35-85 f2.8 2 with the SMC-P F 70-210 f4-5.6 As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke Actually, I like the Context Shot best. The close-up seems without scale; hard to tell how high up the thing is. It could be 4 feet in the air, it could be 200 feet, who knows? The Patriotic photo has too many distractive elements that just aren't needed in the photo, such as the flag and the mailbox. Context Shot is the strongest of the bunch, and it's a really good shot, IMHO. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Aluminium CD-case for my home made strobe outfit
Last week I won an auction for an aluminium case, made for 800 CD's (75 USD). After a minor refurbishment (I put in three walls) it fits my four Metz 45's perfectly - including the OSRAM Pilots (carries the flash, a lightbulb, an umbrella, and a wireless triggering device - radio or optical). I have also ordered four lamp stands in Germany (140 USD at Foto Walser) as well as some wireless radio flash triggering devices. So, now I have a compact and quite cheap strobe outfit for when I'm not in the studio. All I need now is a Metz 60 CT for the main light. Case: http://gallery37564.fotopic.net/p12449006.html The CT-3 and CT-5 does TTL with my *ist D (and other Pentax'es). Osram Pilot: http://gallery37564.fotopic.net/p10042157.html Battery compartment connector for NiCad's (I have made versions for AC/DC as well) http://gallery37564.fotopic.net/p10029920.html Flash and AC/DC device, which can supply two flashes: http://gallery37564.fotopic.net/p10011017.html BTW: I bought my first Metz 45 CT-1 new in 1981. It still works like the day I got it (after 24 years)! The Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
Re: Pentax Shopping
On 4/3/05, Cotty, discombobulated, unleashed: A short but nevertheless interesting tale about a friends who are looking for a DSLR. Update below They are taking a four week break in Australia soon (she's from Sydney) and he is keen to pick up a digital camera. He has an ME-Super and a clutch of manual lenses. She has a Nikon manual focus camera (forget which) and a couple of lenses. He's cruised the internet and was hyped up about the 300D, but the thing that freaks him most of all was the small viewfinder image in these cameras. In discussing it, I pointed out that the Pentax offerings (D, Ds) would be ideal for him, as they would be compatible with his old lenses, which he liked. She was keen for Nikon, a D70 maybe. I suggested a local camera shop (small chain of half a dozen regional stores) called T4 Cameras in Witney, near Oxford. He went. He told me that he saw a D70 and an *ist Ds (no 300D there although they do carry Canon). He loved the Ds, admiring its size and relatively large viewfinder image compared to the D70 and the 300D (which he has previously handled). The sales dude told him that sensor-wise, there was virtually no difference between the D70 and the *ist Ds, and that while he would be able to use his old Pentax glass on the Ds, his wife would not be able to use her old Nikon glass on the D70. This had a large sway. My friend has retired to listen to his wife ;-) and consider his verdict. He wants the Ds. T4 Cameras sells it for 799 GBP but he can get it mail order for a hundred less if they decide to go that route. I suspect his wife (who works for a large picture agency) will balk at the Pentax, rant at the incompatibility of he Nikon glass, and order him to buy a Canon. She is Australian, don't forget. My friend drinks a lot. I hope he holds out for the Pentax. He did. He just told me that he has a brand new *ist Ds ! I get to play with it Thursday. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
RE: Super Tak lens caps?
Just measure inside the filter threads on the lens and add about 1mm. Gotta be 49, 52 or 55. Only sizes I've seen anyway. Don -Original Message- From: glenn murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:01 AM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Super Tak lens caps? Unfortunately the filter size is not on the lens. The filter it came with just slides into the back of the hood before the hood is screwed on, the filter has no threads on it. I don't have anything in 55mm to try, so I think maybe I'll just make a trip to Helix and look through the bin of used caps and see if anything works. Failing that, I'll take a look at my Dad's H1A next time I visit and steal his lens cap if it fits. Maybe he'll trade it for the 33 to 35 year-old film I just developed for him last night (among other things, it looks like he took pictures of a TV screen when they were showing one of the Apollo moon landings). Glenn Graywolf wrote: The only thing between 52 and 58 is 55mm. Usually it says the filter size on the lens. That would be separate from the 1:1.8/55mm, like (theta sign)55. Also the filter should be marked with the size. The lens originally came with a metal push-on cap about 3mm larger than the filter size. If my memomory serves correctly of my H3, bought new in '61 or so, 55mm was the correct size for the 55/1.8 Super Takumar. I think some of the later ST lenses used a smaller filter however, so your camera may have an eariler lens than the manual you have is talking about. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- glenn murphy wrote: A 49mm or 52mm clip-on slips all the way between the threads, 58mm is too big. The H1A/H3V manual says it uses 49 filters and 51 caps, and I'm not sure why they'd be different. Glenn William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: glenn murphy Subject: Super Tak lens caps? Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. I would think that any 49mm clip on cap would work. Have you tried putting a cap from another lens onto it to see? You can mix and match caps without causing famine. William Robb
Re: Home again
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:45:41 -0500, cbwaters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rest-up Bill. By the time you're caught-up with the PDML, you'll be feeling better :) CW By the time he gets caught up with PDML, it'll be time to start setting up PDML Central! vbg Great to hear all's okay, Bill (if a bit sore, which I assume to be normal). Nice to see you back. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Paw: Nother Boo picture
Hey all. For some reason i thought i posted this shot, but its not in my Paw folder, so, i'll submit this for the weeks Paw. WARNING: CUTE CAT PICTURE.g http://www.caughtinmotion.com/paw/boo3.jpg Taken the day i picked up the istD and was playing with the AF280T flash. Cropped a bit of the crap on the table and adjusted the SH feature a bit with PS Elements 3. istD with A 50 f1.7 and AF280T flash. I forgot the WB probably flash. Dave Brooks
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
No it wasn't a mistake, it was stupid but it wasn't a mistake. The bidding went like this talk2bear bid $391.00 to start which brings the auction to it's minimum of $22.00. lawr100_2005 began bidding to hit talk2bear's limit to either just barely over top him or set him up for a snip at the end of the auction, (notice he was bidding reasonably, he had no idea that talk2bear's limit was so _unreasonable_). techguy129 stuck his nose in and got nowhere. lawr100_2005 makes one more bid and gives up. joehkg decides to snipe at the end with an amount that he thinks will win the bid (I'd guess $400), and defeat any counter snipe. Jesus look at talk2bears limit!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] #%@ #%@ Paul Stenquist wrote: It was a mistake. The second to the last bid was $38. The last bid was $391. On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Don Sanderson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: Pentax Shopping
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 17:07:33 +, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip He did. He just told me that he has a brand new *ist Ds ! I get to play with it Thursday. Excellent job, Cotty! Now, just get 'em to subscribe to the list. g cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: Super Tak lens caps?
It uses slip on caps. glenn murphy wrote: A 49mm or 52mm clip-on slips all the way between the threads, 58mm is too big. The H1A/H3V manual says it uses 49 filters and 51 caps, and I'm not sure why they'd be different. Glenn William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: glenn murphy Subject: Super Tak lens caps? Hi everybody, I made an impulse buy this past week and am now the proud owner of a H3V with a Super Takumar 55mm 1:1.8 lens. I've never owned a screwmount camera before and don't really know much about them. The lens came with a hood with a skylight filter in it, but no caps. Does anyone know what size/type cap I need and have any guess where I might find one? This lens doesn't quite look like any of the pictures I've seen on the web of this model. It has a silver filter ring which seems to stick out further from the front element than on the all-black ones I've seen. Any help would be appreciated. I would think that any 49mm clip on cap would work. Have you tried putting a cap from another lens onto it to see? You can mix and match caps without causing famine. William Robb -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: PAW: snow covered landscape
At 08:38 AM 06/03/2005 , you frank wrote: http://people.freenet.de/bienenbernd/TEMP/Schnee.JPG I think the composition is strong, with that big old strong tree trunk on the right. It really anchors the shot for me. Ahh... Frank that's your other right. Gees hows that guy find his way around Trona? Powell
Re: Word Wars
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:31:00 -0500, Daniel J. Matyola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just returned from vacation and found this email from Netflix in my inbox: ** MEMBER NEWS - Word Wars ** Dear Daniel J,, Word Wars goes where no documentary has been before -- behind the scenes of the national Scrabble championship -- and makes spelling as exciting as any extreme sport. This 2004 Sundance Film Festival favorite follows four word nerds through their fastidious preparations and the smaller tournaments that lead to the 2002 national tournament in San Diego. These men are highly motivated (obsessed, even) and aren't above using a few four-letter words -- during play, of course, not on the board! -- when the going gets tough. They're the kind of fantastic real-life characters even Hollywood couldn't dream up. If you've ever felt the rush of plunking a Z or a Q on one of those elusive Triple Letter Score spaces, Word Wars is a must-see. Add Word Wars to the top of your Queue: http://www.netflix.com/EmailRent?movieid=60034781addtotop=yestrkid=4131 Enjoy the movie, Your Friends at Netflix It's a really good doc. I recommend it (otherwise, Annsan would hit me g). cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: PESO: This Is Not a Blizzard
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:29:14 -0500, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:00:41 -0500, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, no filter other than a UV. I really don't feel like paying (what seem to me to be) exhorbitant prices on eBay for little teeny 39mm filters, although I would like a yellow or orange filter for that camera, just to darken skies just a bit on sunny days. Mind you, I rarely have that camera pointed in a direction that the sky's in the frame anyway g. I spent a week at the beach last summer with HP5+ and ended up with lots of photos of the sea blending with the sky and the clouds. :( I probably could have used a filter for that situation. Of course, removing the sky from the frame may have helped. g In terms of the composition, I actually don't mind the car over there. I kind of feel that seeing only one car is a stronger statement that the storm kept cars off the road than if there were no cars at all. I'm not criticizing your critique, BTW, just given my POV. It's not the car itself. It's the headlights. For whatever reason, not sure how to explain it, they just don't do it for me. The two little bright spots tend to pull my eye away from the woman. Personal aesthetics, I guess. I agree with your statement, however. I have to say, though, I snapped the pedestrian's photo, paying more attention to where she was in the frame than anything in the background. There were so few pedestrians on the sidewalks that day, and I could see that the wind was gusting just then, blowing her hair just so, and I felt that it was her or (maybe) no one. Overall, I really like the composition. -- Scott Loveless Born free. Taxed to death.
Re: Home again
On 6/3/05, Bill Owens, discombobulated, unleashed: Just returned home from 4 days in the hospital. Still sore around the colostomy, but the PIA from the ulcer is gone. Bill Welcome back Bill. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
Re: Paw: Nother Boo picture
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:09:43 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. For some reason i thought i posted this shot, but its not in my Paw folder, so, i'll submit this for the weeks Paw. WARNING: CUTE CAT PICTURE.g http://www.caughtinmotion.com/paw/boo3.jpg Taken the day i picked up the istD and was playing with the AF280T flash. Cropped a bit of the crap on the table and adjusted the SH feature a bit with PS Elements 3. istD with A 50 f1.7 and AF280T flash. I forgot the WB probably flash. Dave Brooks Now ~that's~ a cute kitty! g Looks ready to pounce, judging by the look in it's eyes, and the body position. A really good pic, Dave, but I gotta be honest with you, that candy cane sticking out of it's ear really distracts me. I think it's the bright red. Maybe it's just me - in fact it probably is just me, so don't worry about it. g Other than that, it's about as good a photo of a cute little kitten as one could want. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: FS: A 28-135/4
a very nice SMCP-A 28-135mm/4 zoom This is a really neat lens model, one of my favorites. (Of course, I'm an old film dinosaur, but...) It's a heavy lens, but it's well built. It's my favorite walking around zoom (on a Super A), despite its mass. I also think it'd be interesting to use on an *ist D(S), too - it would make for about a 40-200/4 zoom... Fred
Re: M 4/200mm vs F 4-5.6/70-210mm at 200mm
That would be the expectation, but it's not as much better as one would expect. At least when comparing the M 200 and F 70-210 I own anyway. Marginal is the word I'd use. That's why the M stays in the cabinet and the F usually is in the bag. Jens Bladt wrote: I took a few test shots today. To see how the SMC-M 4/200mm is doing. Not so bad - compared to the SMC F 4-5.6/70-210mm. I think the prime is the sharper lens of the two. Both photographs shot at f 5.6 and app. 1/2000 sec. handheld. No editing except autolevels and very little cropping (almost the full frames). See for yourself: http://gallery37564.fotopic.net/p12447314.html Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: PAW: snow covered landscape
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 09:16:34 -0800, Powell Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:38 AM 06/03/2005 , you frank wrote: http://people.freenet.de/bienenbernd/TEMP/Schnee.JPG I think the composition is strong, with that big old strong tree trunk on the right. It really anchors the shot for me. Ahh... Frank that's your other right. Gees hows that guy find his way around Trona? Powell Right. That would be left. Not right. LOL -frank (whose job it is to navigate about the city on a daily basis?) -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: PESO: This Is Not a Blizzard
You sure? Looks like one to me. It's a bit too contrasty, but otherwise I like it. Nice composition. frank theriault wrote: I was going to save this for later in the week, and make it a PAW, but we're supposed to get a couple more inches of snow today (but it might turn to rain later in the afternoon - yuck!), so today seemed an appropriate day to post this. Taken a bit more than a month ago right smack in the middle of the central shopping district at noon on a Saturday. Normally, the place would be jammed with cars and pedestrians. It's not a blizzard as the average windspeed was only 40 km/h (about 25 mph), although gusts were much higher. Environment Canada's definition of a blizzard is snow with average winds of over 50 km/h (30mph). http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3173937size=lg We always encourage comments, and thank you in advance should you choose to do so. cheers, frank -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: M 4/200mm vs F 4-5.6/70-210mm at 200mm
See for yourself: http://gallery37564.fotopic.net/p12447314.html But the thumbnail goes to a shot with an M 35/2.8 lens... Fred
Re: PESO: This Is Not a Blizzard
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:20:03 -0500, Scott Loveless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It's not the car itself. It's the headlights. For whatever reason, not sure how to explain it, they just don't do it for me. The two little bright spots tend to pull my eye away from the woman. Personal aesthetics, I guess. snip Ah, I getcha now, and I can see yer point. Sometimes these things just distract for some unexplainable reason - kinda like the candy cane sticking out of Dave Brooks' cats ear (in the PAW he just posted). It also may be that the headlights don't bother me because here in Canada, daytime running lights have been the law for 10 years or more, so it would be most peculiar for us to see a car without them on. Or maybe that has nothing to do with it, and it's just a personal thang... vbg Anyway, thanks for your thoughtful comments, Scott, they're really appreciated! cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: Home again
Glad you're back, and that was just a lot more information than I needed. Bill Owens wrote: Just returned home from 4 days in the hospital. Still sore around the colostomy, but the PIA from the ulcer is gone. Bill -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: Color space
GS It boils down to this. I can't see anything outside of the sRGB GS colorspace on my monitor. I can't print anything outside of the sRGB GS colorspace on my printer. The lab I work with uses a Fuji processor GS with Chrystal Archive paper. It can't print anything outside of the GS sRGB color space. As far as I understand it, there is one problem with this reasoning. Your input device. AFAIK all DSLRs and all film scanners can deliver colours that are quite outside the gamut of sRGB, if so configured. In my experience, in my shooting I have had problems with sRGB clipping the colours my DSLR could capture. Of course for printing, I convert to sRGB. Good light! fra
Re: PESO: This Is Not a Blizzard
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:49:55 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great shot Frank. Thanks, Dave! You have captured a classic Canadian July afternoon.:-) Seems like it these days, eh? When the hell is this winter ever going to end? g Nice contrast and exposure. The lady in the shot really adds to it. It would have been pretty stark with out a fiqure in it. Yeah, it was pretty stark out there that day. I've never seen so few pedestrians and traffic in front of the Eaton Centre before at noon on a Saturday. I knew it was grab the shot with that lady, or wait a while for the next pedestrian. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
He's an auction newbie. [and] Just a wild guess, I bet the buyer backs out of the sale. Both the #1 and #2 bidders (the two bidding in the stratosphere for a rather mundane lens) have 0 feedback ratings. I seriously doubt that this deal is ever gonna go through... Fred
Re: The Pentax Glass Phenomenon Continues!
that should read ...snipe at the end... Peter J. Alling wrote: No it wasn't a mistake, it was stupid but it wasn't a mistake. The bidding went like this talk2bear bid $391.00 to start which brings the auction to it's minimum of $22.00. lawr100_2005 began bidding to hit talk2bear's limit to either just barely over top him or set him up for a snip at the end of the auction, (notice he was bidding reasonably, he had no idea that talk2bear's limit was so _unreasonable_). techguy129 stuck his nose in and got nowhere. lawr100_2005 makes one more bid and gives up. joehkg decides to snipe at the end with an amount that he thinks will win the bid (I'd guess $400), and defeat any counter snipe. Jesus look at talk2bears limit!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] #%@ #%@ Paul Stenquist wrote: It was a mistake. The second to the last bid was $38. The last bid was $391. On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Don Sanderson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3879053120 Holy Hoppin Horny Toads! Don -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
NorCal Meeting
A group of list members and friends gathered yesterday in the San Jose area. Godfrey, Bruce, Marnie, John Francis, John Celio, Patsy and her friend William, Marco, myself, and some strange bloke with a peg leg and wearing a black cape got together to share stories, take pictures, exchange and share equipment, and have a good time. We all got along well, although we asked Godfrey to leave early as he was creating a fuss with the caped stranger. Patsy has a wry sense of humor, and constantly harangued John Francis, who, at one point, ran home to get his wife, Wendy, to protect him from the humorous onslaught. Marnie was her usual charming self, but felt a bit out of the loop since no one spoke much with her as she's a Canon user. No way we could let an infiltraitor g participate fully in speculative discussions about future Pentax camera and lens releases. Marco was ever the gentleman, quietly taking pictures with his istDs and showing us the images on the LCD screen. Most images were unflattering, and Marco demanded small sums of money in exchange for a promise to keep them off the list. He made about $1.75 since most of us didn't care. John Celio brought his new Pentax 67 and his Pentax 110, both outdated antiques, but John, for some reason, kept showing them off. This is the digital age, John, let's get with the program. Bruce, and to a lesser extent, John and Godfrey, earnestly tried to enable me to the digital side by showing me all the features and benefits if the two Pentax DSLR cameras. Bruce was especially pushy as he insisted I use one of his istD's for the entire day, which I did along with a variety of K-mount, A-series, and auto focus lenses. Nice try, Bruce. I just ordered a Leica M4 pffft! to digital LOL Over dinner we mostly discussed other list members, and had especially good laughs when discussing Frank, Bill Robb, and, since he left early, Godfrey, as well.as other list participants. Overall we had a great time ;-)) Shel
Re: smallish enablement
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:55:24 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Won an ebay auction last Thursday and Tuesday received my 8+, smc A 28mm f2.8. Looks in good shape.Ap ring feels good and sound. First time dealing with Henrys through ebay. Nice product,timely delivery,poor communications. Dave Sounds cool, Dave (just catching up on really old posts g). Bring it to the next TOPDML so's we can all take a look at 'er. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
