You gotta have a pocket cam and, well, I'm not crazy on Pentax's. I
just got a Ricoh GX100, which I think appeals to an aesthetic that's
sort-of-similar to Pentaxians'. Anyhow, here's a first-impressions
piece (warning: contains pictures of one cat and two flowers):
On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:18 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
The current crop of digital sensors aren't able to capture the full
resolution that the best prime lenses are capable of. That kind of
levels Primes and Zooms as far as resolution is concerned. ..
LOL ...
On the one hand there are people
The 200mm prime should be quite a bit lighter.
Cotty wrote:
DA*200/2.8.
Forgive my ignorance (and it is great), but why would anyone want a
prime lens at this length when a 70 or 80 - 200 2.8 zoom is available
(assuming of course optical performance of the zoom matches up to the
Hmmm...
Which hand would be the more sinister, I wonder?
:-)
Jostein
(who's signing off today for 10 days of winter mid-term holidays and
to keep an appointment with a certain Mouse.)
2008/2/15, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
LOL ...
On the one hand there are people saying that
Great news Peter!
Congrats!
Well deserved too. :-)
Best,
Jostein
2008/2/15, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well I got a front page in a small distribution monthly, (printed on
newsprint but what the heck), for this
On 15/02/08, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed:
Well I got a front page in a small distribution monthly, (printed on
newsprint but what the heck), for this
http://www.mindspring.com/~happydogsoftware/PESO%20--%20%
20presentingtheflag2.html
No money, just a photo credit, but hey it's the
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Date: 2008/02/15 Fri AM 02:45:45 GMT
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Subject: Re: Oh, the temptation...
On Feb 14, 2008, at 7:13 AM, AlunFoto wrote:
2008/2/14, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
angel on the left shoulderYou know you want
AlunFoto escribió:
The lure of the K20D.
And the DA*200/2.8.
Saw them both today, at Pentax Norway.
Oh well...
I understand you, Jostein. Right now, the temptation for me is a K10D at
the present low prices. I keep telling myself that the *ist DS I have
now is enough for my modest
The prime should be quite a bit better than the zoom, particularly
wide open. Fewer compromises. It might also be more compact.
Paul
On Feb 14, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Cotty wrote:
DA*200/2.8.
Forgive my ignorance (and it is great), but why would anyone want a
prime lens at this length when a 70
Bob W wrote:
it builds on and extends a line of artistic descent from Fragonard and
Watteau, through Renoir and Winslow Homer all the way to Gerry and the
Pacemakers. Congratulations - you are living proof of Wittgenstein's
theory of art as family resemblance.
Thanks. I think. While I most
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You gotta have a pocket cam
I beg to differ...
Cheers,
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Cheers,
Dave
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well I got a front page in a small distribution monthly, (printed on
newsprint but what the heck), for this
http://www.mindspring.com/~happydogsoftware/PESO%20--%20%20presentingtheflag2.html
Thanks Jack. Yep, the passenger gives away my dirty little secret:-).
In truth, the cars are cruising at about 30 mph. It's only their
relative position and the 1/10th of a second shutter speed that
create the impression of speed.
Paul
On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Jack Davis wrote:
Nice
Nice shot. I recall being impressed when I saw it here a while back.
Congratulations. You should check around and see if they pay some of
their contributing photographers. Most pubs do, but many will try to
stiff you if they can.
Paul
On Feb 15, 2008, at 5:21 AM, David Savage wrote:
:-)
Jostein
2008/2/14, Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Toralf Lund wrote:
AlunFoto wrote:
2008/2/14, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
angel on the left shoulderYou know you want to.../angel on the left
shoulder
Left shoulder... Is that the feathery one or the pointy one?
Same here...but I am more tempted maybe by the K200D since I prefer its size (I
would loose the 2 wheel options though).
However, if the K20D reviews are really good in the IQ side, I could even
consider it, although I am a bit disappointed by its non-improved AF.
Regards,
Jaume
- Mensaje
Yahoo has much to answer for...
Jaume Lahuerta wrote:
Same here...but I am more tempted maybe by the K200D since I prefer its size
(I would loose the 2 wheel options though).
However, if the K20D reviews are really good in the IQ side, I could even
consider it, although I am a bit
I get the feeling that their budget is non existent for such things.
But I'll ask for a rate sheet..
Paul Stenquist wrote:
Nice shot. I recall being impressed when I saw it here a while back.
Congratulations. You should check around and see if they pay some of
their contributing
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I remember translating the tale of Mucius Scaevola, a left handed
soldier in the Roman army, who distinguished himself by taking
advantage of his opposite handed-ness to protect his commander in
unusual circumstances way back when in Latin IV classes.
They must
Congrats Peter!
The shot still gives me the willies...
Like the gathering of a coven of witches.
Don't tell the participants.
Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well I got a front page in a small distribution monthly, (printed on
newsprint
The *ist-D with 40mm lens is a pocket cam. If you have big enough
pockets. (Hell the Kodak Medalist is a pocket cam if you humongous
pockets).
David Savage wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You gotta have a pocket cam
I beg to differ...
It's all very civic minded. The participants each say a snippet about
how the flag represents freedom and responsibility, all very uplifting,
in a 19th century sort of way. The visuals are actually meant to be awe
inspiring the words are actually a bit mundane.
Bob Sullivan wrote:
Congrats
Congratulations!
G
On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:49 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Well I got a front page in a small distribution monthly, (printed on
newsprint but what the heck), for this
http://www.mindspring.com/~happydogsoftware/PESO%20--%20%
20presentingtheflag2.html
No money, just a photo
The selfless permission of allowing their use is your reward. I know,
maudlin, but true.
I get it, Peter. In the beginning..blah..blah, but the generosity
factor does tend to morph into a chipping away of your sense of photo
worth. If you should start setting firm 'realistic' prices, you'll
When I had my Canon gear, I had the 100/2, 70-200/4L and the 300/4L
IS lenses. I found myself preferring the primes most of the time, and
it wasn't because of the image quality or focal length. The prime
lenses just let me work the way I want to. I had the 200/2.8L in my
sights ...
The sad thing Jack is that I was once the Photo Editor for a small
newspaper. I had a bigger budget, ( we had a bigger staff, and we were
a weekly), than the publication my shot is appearing in. The local
quality rag doesn't even use outside photographers unless they write
for them as well.
All,
So I decided to purchase an end of life K10D before they're all gone. It
arrived, and it has Firmware Version 1.00 on it! Looks like I got a
beginning of life item. I suppose I could just flash V1.3 from the Pentax
website, but what about hardware manufacturing defects corrected as Pentax
The 'paranoid' on DPReview have already responded.
In-box configurations are very expensive to change. A firmware rev
change is an in-box configuration change. All K10Ds ship with v1.0
firmware other than the special edition GP units.
Improvements to manufacturing processes do not imply an
Yes, I forgot the GP, as reported by Godfrey. That's the only exception, I
believe.
Dario
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From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: BH Shipped me a K10D with Firmware
You don't need to check DP review I'll Channel them for you... You're
Doomed! You can pay the man on your way out.
Mark Erickson wrote:
All,
So I decided to purchase an end of life K10D before they're all gone. It
arrived, and it has Firmware Version 1.00 on it! Looks like I got a
Mark,
AFAIK, all K10D's and all other Pentax cameras are manufactured with their
respective 1.00 firmware through their whole production and none of them has
got a newer release. All firmware releases higher than 1.00 must be loaded
by the user.
So you have no clue for telling it's an early
Since BH is a very high volume seller, I would be surprised if it's an early
production run camera.
Paul
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From: Dario Bonazza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark,
AFAIK, all K10D's and all other Pentax cameras are manufactured with their
respective
Agreed. I think this is the best use of the 40, especially when you
have an FA 50. Doesn't quite work on the K10D, however, at least not
with my pockets.
Steven Desjardins
Department of Chemistry
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8873
FAX: (540) 458-8878
[EMAIL
I bought a K10D the first week it was available, and it's been fine.
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From: Mark Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All,
So I decided to purchase an end of life K10D before they're all gone. It
arrived, and it has Firmware Version 1.00 on it!
Dario Bonazza escribió:
Mark,
AFAIK, all K10D's and all other Pentax cameras are manufactured with their
respective 1.00 firmware through their whole production and none of them has
got a newer release. All firmware releases higher than 1.00 must be loaded
by the user.
So you have no
And the snake got into my keyboard.
\
P. J. Alling wrote:
I like the crop, you may have been forced to make it but it adders interest.
Alastair Robertson wrote:
A proper cat pic this time - our second new kitten Siena -
http://kiwibiologist.zenfolio.com/p410086235/?photo=436485011 -
True, looks like my K10D GP was manufactured 2007-07-04.
Thanks Carlos!
Dario
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: BH Shipped me a K10D with Firmware Version 1.00
Dario
Bob W wrote:
He is the photographer who has won this year's World Press Photo
Award. It includes a photo essay from Afghanistan:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7240590.stm
--
Bob
Excellent. I hadn't seen the photo essay before. It really puts the
winning shot in
Amazing journalism. Thanks for sharing it.
Paul
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From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He is the photographer who has won this year's World Press Photo
Award. It includes a photo essay from Afghanistan:
He is the photographer who has won this year's World Press Photo
Award. It includes a photo essay from Afghanistan:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7240590.stm
--
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Sorry if this is brain fade time - I may have asked this question here before.
Can anyone recommend a web site (maybe like Boz's Pentax site) that
defines old and new Nikon/Nikkor offerings - particularly what will and
will not work on modern Nikon DSLR cameras? I would like to hunt for a
present
Try this http://www.nikonians.org/nikon/slr-lens.html
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is brain fade time - I may have asked this question here before.
Can anyone recommend a web site (maybe like Boz's Pentax site) that
defines old and new
Cotty wrote:
Sorry if this is brain fade time - I may have asked this question here before.
Can anyone recommend a web site (maybe like Boz's Pentax site) that
defines old and new Nikon/Nikkor offerings - particularly what will and
will not work on modern Nikon DSLR cameras? I would like to
At 08:51 AM 16/02/2008, Cotty wrote:
On 15/02/08, Peter Fairweather, discombobulated, unleashed:
Three is always the great Nobel prizewinner himself!!
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm
Actually that's not bad.
But I still don't want to Help Ken Rockwell ;-)
I
On 16/02/08, Bong Manayon, discombobulated, unleashed:
Try this http://www.nikonians.org/nikon/slr-lens.html
Perfect.
Thanks.
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On 16/02/08, Derby Chang, discombobulated, unleashed:
This one is pretty good (I remember him from my LX days)
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/
AFNikkor/index.htm
For compatibility
http://www.nikonians.org/nikon/slr-lens.html
Thanks Derb.
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Cheers,
On 15/02/08, Peter Fairweather, discombobulated, unleashed:
Three is always the great Nobel prizewinner himself!!
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm
Actually that's not bad.
But I still don't want to Help Ken Rockwell ;-)
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http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm
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What do you guys think about this photoessay (and little accompanying
behind the scenes) in the NYT?
http://aphotoeditor.com/2008/02/12/ny-times-magazine-oscars-photo-essay/
Julie Christie is still kinda hot, isn't she?
D
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Remersdael is located in the northeasternmost part of Belgium, a stone's
through from the Dutch border and only a few kilometers from the German
border.
http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/770012/display/11841105
Fro all apparence, a very remote, quiet and peaceful spot NOT!
Thanks guys. I put 1.3 on the camera, did some basic brick wall tests, and
everything looks fine.
--Mark
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For Bill Robb, here are a few test shots I made with this lens on my
K10D this week. It was really frigid outside so I didn't take as may
as I would have liked to. (I know, you Canadians aren't bothered by
the cold like us mere mortals...)
http://www.pbase.com/jamesk8752/cv_58sl2
Looks
Really like the photos and the accompanying commentary, but the intro text is
badly written, IMO. The pics certainly
make a change from the usual red carpet grabs, or the heavily controlled
publicity agent's output! Interesting that you
can't see all of the subject's face in some of them.
The last time I had anything accepted in the Pentax Photo Gallery was
October last year; I submitted something like 6 sceneries and 3 got
accepted. Since then I've submitted a couple of sunsets and sunrise
but they were declined. Last Saturday (Feb 9), I took these and
submitted it later the
And well they should be. Good work!
Paul
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From: Bong Manayon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The last time I had anything accepted in the Pentax Photo Gallery was
October last year; I submitted something like 6 sceneries and 3 got
accepted. Since then
That's lovely. -T
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Bong Manayon wrote:
The last time I had anything accepted in the Pentax Photo Gallery was
October last year; I submitted something like 6 sceneries and 3 got
accepted. Since then I've submitted a couple of sunsets and sunrise
but they were declined. Last Saturday (Feb 9), I took these and
On 2/13/08, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thinking out loud time, would there be an advantage to having, for example,
all the background services running on one CPU, and then having big
applications like Photoshop running on the other one?
There are actually disadvantages to this
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:00 +0100, Dario Bonazza wrote:
Mark,
AFAIK, all K10D's and all other Pentax cameras are manufactured with their
respective 1.00 firmware through their whole production and none of them has
got a newer release. All firmware releases higher than 1.00 must be loaded
Those portraits are really bad.
-Brendan
--- Derby Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you guys think about this photoessay (and
little accompanying
behind the scenes) in the NYT?
http://aphotoeditor.com/2008/02/12/ny-times-magazine-oscars-photo-essay/
Julie Christie is still
Looks like useful information. Broken clock syndrome.
Peter Fairweather wrote:
Three is always the great Nobel prizewinner himself!!
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm
Peter
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I am personally a member of the Cream of the Illuminati.
A union with the Bavarian
They made a good choice. FTR, I gave it a yes.
I, also, just had a couple accepted this past week and in a relatively
brief time. One accepted a couple weeks ago must have taken three
weeks. Holiday back-up possibly.(?)
Jack
--- Bong Manayon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The last time I had anything
Ralf: That's lovely. I really love your work. Cheers, Christine
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 6:18 PM
Subject: PESO: Remersdael by night
Remersdael is located in the
Congrats, Bong, and the portraits are lovely. Cheers, Christine
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From: Bong Manayon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:26 PM
Subject: PESO: ...fastest acceptance into PPG ever (for me anyway)
The last
Thanks for the links, Scott. Cheers, Christine
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Subject: Re: PESO - Swinging (with a Brownie Surprise)
Christine Aguila wrote:
Scott: I
Thanks for the links, Peter. Cheers, Christine
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Film for Classics carries 127 film but
Adam Maas wrote:
On 2/15/08, Derby Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cotty wrote:
Sorry if this is brain fade time - I may have asked this question here
before.
Can anyone recommend a web site (maybe like Boz's Pentax site) that
defines old and new Nikon/Nikkor offerings -
On 2/15/08, Derby Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cotty wrote:
Sorry if this is brain fade time - I may have asked this question here
before.
Can anyone recommend a web site (maybe like Boz's Pentax site) that
defines old and new Nikon/Nikkor offerings - particularly what will and
A worthy entry to the gallery.
I had a shot very quickly accepted this week also (my Pinnacles PESO)
I submitted it Tuesday evening it was approved by Thursday evening.
Certainly a record for me.
Cheers,
Dave
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Bong Manayon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The last
They are beautiful pictures - they wouldn't look out of place in a set
of Steve McCurry's portraits in my opinion.
Bob
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