Re: PESO PAW - Luxurious Rentals at the Paramount

Hi! OK, I admit it's kind of a cheap shot, but I couldn't pass up the irony of the scene, for which an apology must be offered. Irony, in and of itself, does not make for a good photograph, although it might be worth some discussion points. I probably should have just noted the scene to myself and

Re: PAW: Because

Hi! Anyone remember Steve Martin's pixel board in LA Story? http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3360587&size=lg Comments are always welcome and encouraged. Thanks in advance to those of you who look, and again to those who choose to comment. LOL :). Frank, I seem to have sent you a priva

FS: Friday

Hi! I've decided to reduce the number of my lenses and other gear. Hence for sale: 1. SMCP M 50/1.4. The aperture does not close beyond f/16. That is f/16 and f/22 look visually the same. I am sure a person capable of taking the lens apart and back again can easily fix it. Please make an offer.

Re: impulse purchase

Hi! Jammy sod! Mr Englishman, be so kind, tell me what it means, literally. If need be, use off-list :). 30 bucks for an MX. Why not? :) Congratulations, Godfrey! Hope you'd make good use of it. Boris

Re: PAW?PESO: Queen Street Car, 3:30am

Hi! I believe that this accurately depicts my subjective perception and the time (including the slight tilt!): http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3362129&size=lg Alling complained that my last offering was too sharp, so this should more than balance that! Haven't posted ~real~ blur in som

Re: Happy Birthday Mark

Hi! Mark Roberts is 44 today. And he doesn't look a day over 43 and 3/4 ;-) Congrats... Boris

Re: I Met a Magnum Photographer Today

Hi! Larry Towell is the only Canadian ever admitted to Magnum. As part of Contact, Toronto, Canada's month long photography festival which runs throughout May, Stephen Bulger Gallery is showing "No Man's Land", a series of photographs from Gaza and the West Bank. > ... the rest snipped ... Frank,

Re: PESO Whistle Stop

Hi! She's not dating until she's 30. As the father of three girls (actually, one woman and two girls), I think your policy is a wise one, Scott! Hmmm, 30 what? Months? ;) Boris

Re: Happy Birthday Mark

Happy Birthday Francis... Hmmm... ;) -- Boris

Re: Happy Birthday Mark

Darn > Happy Birthday Francis... That was supposed to be *John* Francis. My apologies. -- Boris

Re: shooting on the beach

Hi! I am going to use a digital camera (*ist DS) that I hope to buy finally in the next 1-2 weeks, and I'll be using my lenses from ZX-5n, and the flash AF-500FTZ to soften the light if necessary. Igor, one thing that I can point out and probably never stress enough is that while on the beach too

PAW: Above the City

Hi! Took my good olde M 50/1.4 for a spin today. I think it was shot at f/4 or thereabouts... http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=189170 I rather like this little lens... Boris

Re: PAW: Above the City

Hi! Nice shot. What city is that? Godfrey Tel Aviv. This is where I work. Also, I forgot to mention - please be brutal and honest in your comments. Thanks. Boris

Re: PESO: Others 2005 - 20p, 20q - GDG (RESEND)

Hi! Doh! Messed up the URLs: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/20p.htm http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/20q.htm Comments and critique always appreciated. You sure did mess up the URLs :). I rather like the first one - tulips. Or is it those strange to me yellow poppies? T

Re: Reversed lens observation

Hi! With the recent discussion on reversing lenses and vignetting, I made an adapter with two cokin rings and epoxy glue, and tried the FA 50/1.4 reversed in front of the A*200/4 macro. There is very little vignetting, even at full opening (f/4), no matter where focus is set with the macro lens

Re: PAW: Above the City

Hi! Cool shot Boris, really nice. What conversion method did you use? Order of 20% red, 60% green, and 20% blue channel. I think I made it order of 25% blue actually. And no, the numbers summed up just a tab above 100% :). Channel mixer as usual. I find channel mixer to be flexible enough to gi

Re: PAW: Above the City

Hi! I love it, Boris! Oh my! :) I tried taking some window washer shots last summer, and they absolutely hoovered. This one is majestic. All a matter of the right perspective, I guess. He's beautifully framed by the building he's cleaning and the curved white one in the background. I was just on

Re: Raw

Hi! WIndows 98, Photoshop ELements 2.0 won't read RAW. is there a simple upgrade I can get to do it? Yes, you can get Elements 3.0. It even will take latest and greatest 3.1 version of RAW plug in. How many raw shots should fit on the head of a pin... oh no, that isnt what I meant... on a 512

Re: My London PDML 2005 Gallery, at last...

Hi! Late, but not TOO late (I hope...), my London PDML gallery is up at: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=495917 It is never too late... Gianfranco, the collective chimping shot got me laff out loud... That's hilarious... Excellent gallery. I should say that on that last picture,

Re: Reversed lens observation

Hi! Hehe... No, it's not a frankencam. Not even a franken-lens, I think. I'm just trying out some macro setups within reach. Indeed, that did not occur to me... To much influence of those British invaders :). I've shown examples from two of the setups already, the "springbug" and "spore capsule

Re: PESO: Jedis

Hi! Today is the UK premiere and special "Star Wars Celebration Day" in Leicester Square - cue fanboys (including myself) wandering around with cameras. There were also Stormtroopers, cast members (including Christopher Lee), a not very good X-Wing and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing the S

Re: PESO ||| & Vivitar wide open lens

Hi! I agree that flare on vivitar wide angle lens is terrible. I own myself Vivitar 19/3.8 and there are very few situations where it can be used without flare. On the other side I like experimentig with the flare. Here is a picture I took this weekend where the flare is a part of the compositi

Re: PESO - Waiting

Hi! http://www.alpert.com/marco/pdml/peso16.html Comments (of any variety) welcomed. Marco, may I hate you, just a little??? If you decline, I would insist you teach me how to shoot like this :). Julia also likes it. She just does not hate you :). Well, thanks for the lesson :). Boris

Re: PESO: Initmate moments

Hi! Ok, let's bite the bullet ... I'm trying to build a collection of hopefully non-cliché portraits of my daughter, as she grows. This is one of my favorites: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3374686 If you don't care for photos of other people kids, never mind, just skip this one. Eve

Re: PESO -- Working Boat

Hi! I took this shot at the same time and location as the biker chick... http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_workingboat.html Technical Information Pentax *ist-D ISO 1600 1/1500sec SMCP 400-600mm Zoom @ 400mm As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. Peter, there is one thi

Re: PESO - My Buddy Buzz 2005

Hi! I always warm up for insect shooting by photographing the first bugs available, which are usually flies. So in this cold and crappy spring here finally is are a couple of bug photos - Buzz 2005: http://www.markcassino.com/temp/peso/IMGP0283.jpg http://www.markcassino.com/temp/peso/IMGP0267

Re: PAW PESO - Bike Waiting for a Train

Hi! http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/bikewaiting.html I was about to round file this one, but decided to post it here to see what the experts thought of it. It's just a rough "work print." Comments and crits welcome. Me so thinks me is up to the lesson here. Gentlemen, kind sir Shel :), ma

Re: PESO:www.bestofswitzerlandtours.ch - Mt. Saentis

Hi! Schwaegalp and 2 views from Mt. Saentis, (each picture is around 240KB) http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3375021 (24mm, uncorrected) http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3375023 Never thought they put maps on plane wings in Switzerland :). http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?ph

WTB: wireless slave unit

Hi! If you have something like this: http://tinyurl.com/eyjas or like this: http://www.adorama.com/FASE.html lying around without use, I would be glad if you enabled me with this little piece of gear. I can pay by PayPal or listen to your proposal :). -- Boris

Re: WTB: wireless slave unit

Gentlemen (thankfully no Ladies commented this far), could we please address the photography related question I posted... Thank you :). -- Boris

Re: Paranoid question of the week...

> I just created a utility like this in 4 minutes with AppleScript on Mac > OS X and checked it with a data recovery utility. All I get from the > data recovery effort is random noise back from the last iteration of > the write loop. It's pretty efficient, takes only about thirty seconds > to run o

Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations?

Hi! > So what, you captured all the details, just use Photoshop and make the door > white or black. :) May I interject... Thank you. Correct exposure is about saving information, the information provided by the light. If you misexposed, you lost some information forever. No PhotoShop can get it

Re: A digital photographer's maxim

I would. In fact, my MZ-6 is loaded with 400 ASA b/w film that I will slowly shoot through in few weeks to come... -- Boris

Re: Pentax 16-45/4 or Sigma 18-50/2,8

Hi! > Of course, don't buy either of those plastic excuses for lenses. Get > yourself a decent bit of glass - in fact, the only real portrait lens > that Pentax ever made: > > Cotty, what's wrong with FA 85/1.4? -- Boris

Re: Okular

Hi! On 5/19/05, Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, while so many of us struggle for getting that extra detail, she doesn't > care and gets interesting pictures. Ponder... Different eyes for different beholders... -- Boris

Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations?

Hi! On 5/19/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boris ... you have learned well ;-)) I've had very good teachers... -- Boris

Re: Pentax 16-45/4 or Sigma 18-50/2,8

Hi! > >Cotty, what's wrong with FA 85/1.4? > > Probably not a lot. I wouldn't have one stuck on any of my cameras though!!! Which forces me to keep asking this question - but why?! If you see fit, please reply off-list. -- Boris

Re: Paranoid question of the week...

My script language of choice is C++ :). But then again, this is how I earn my bread... -- Boris

Re: PAW: SnowBird 1

Hi! Check out - http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/offwallphoto/id2.html Taken late April/early May in my backyard with *istD, 600mm FA, Not a great day lightwise. I like the contrast between the spring nature of the bird and the winter nature of the day. Comments - yeas/nays, what you like/don'

Re: Various manufactures look at exposure quite diffrently

Hi! I have come to the conclusion that not all manufactures agree on what a good exposure is. See link below. http://www.caughtinmotion.com/paw/nikon_1.jpg No adjustment has been made other than resizing for web. > Now you tell me. Am i nuts,or so stupid

Re: flying with gear

Hi! I haven't flown since before 9/11. I'm leaving for London out of JFK on Tuesday. Can I expect the security folks to hand-examine my lenses and make me prove that my camera is a camera? I just want to know what to expect. Amita, we flew from Oslo back to Tel Aviv via Frankfurt last year. In

Re: Various manufactures look at exposure quite diffrently

Hi! 3D matrix in TV mode for this shot Boris. I tested with this photo and a few other items, water hoses,cars in parking lot etc. Switching fro Tv to Av made no difference. It just wants to over expose in 3d matrix, whih it didi not do before. I see. Dave, all I can tell is that I've found

Re: Rumors About Pentax's Future

Hi! > That would give at least one cool thing, they'd gain easily access to > Sony sensors. Maybe faster, maybe better sensors... > > There has to be a good thing right? The question is - how many bad things for Pentax and us the Pentax users are on the other side of this coin... Personally, I'

Re: Rumors About Pentax's Future

Hi! > > Personally, I'd rather Pentax would merge with Nikon... You see, Sony > > is giant, Pentax is a small speck compared to Sony. It means, at least > > to me, that within very short period of time Pentax would loose its > > identity... > > > > Nikon has been part of the Matsushita group (Nat

Re: Rumors About Pentax's Future

Hi! > The once ubiqutous K-mount is only an open standard to whoever bothers > with backwards compatibility. Indeed... > The current incarnation is proprietary enough for Sigma to have > compatibility problems without a license for the technical quirks. And > let's face it; backwards compatibili

Re: PAW Tree like XP

Hi! this is my first Picture-A-Week... I'll try to schow one per week, as thsi seems to me the deeper meaning of PAW... Several days ago, a wonderful lense arrived here, calle SMC-A20/2,8... I must say, that I really like it... Today I went out and found this nice tree in the fields... Back o

Re: PESO: Completing A Set

Hi! One more to complete a set, then I won't post any more of her for a while: http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/cat/3441/display/3178130 Taken in April with the F* 300 f4.5 that I owned for about a month. This time I got her feet in the picture. What's very funny in this picture (at least

Re: PESO - Away From His Desk

Hi! A businessman gets out of the office: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3383716&size=lg Comments/critiques are welcomed. Anthony, there is this Swedish Vocal Jazz group called - "The Real Group"... Look them up... They have this song "Telephone Talking"... :) I think that if

Re: PESO - Sunlight and Shadow

Hi! Anyway, another one I am unsure about. It's pretty simple and maybe not very interesting. I suppose I could PS out the power lines at the top, but I am not sure the photo is worth it. Comments welcome. http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/shadow.htm Marnie, I realize you don't r

Re: PESO: Others - 21r - GDG

Hi! Meeting bronze: http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/21r.htm Comments always appreciated. Godfrey, were you in position to loose the fence? Also was it possible to move your camera to the right so as to have all of the surf board in the frame? As it is the left half of the fra

Re: PESO: One from Point Pelee

Hi! We had a nice day at Point Pelee. I went with three of my adult children who had a good time trying to shoot with my backup camera. We ran into Bill Sawyer out near the end of the point. It was a beautiful morning, and while the birds weren't arriving in abundance there were still a subst

Re: PESO: One from Point Pelee

Paul, Yes, that would be my direction of thinking. Also of course playing with tonality could help. For example you could turn to b/w and then even add some sepia and finally keep the bird in color... Or some other plan of editing as well. I am not very well versed in this kind of editing myself,

Re: PESO - Away From His Desk

Hi! Why? Seems to me the photo has interest with the swimmer there. That's what the photog initially saw (I think) and is part of the scene. The photo is not an entry in a contest, seems to me, but like most out-on-the-street photos, little more than an interesting catch. A good, interesting

PAW and a Question

Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=190899 I've been told that this photo has broken composition. It is as if there are two separates shots inside one - one with lower lamp and the other one with the lamp above. I think that the shadows and lights work together so that this imag

Re: PAW and a Question

Shel, et al :), > I'd love to read the answers to your questions. I've never heard the term > "broken composition," however, many photos contain within them other > photos or photo possibilities. This seems to me not to be "broken." You have to realize that I have good control of English but v

Re: PAW and a Question

Hi! > This works for me. The light play is quite attractive. However, I find > the crooked shade on the lower lamp somewhat distracting. Even if the > shade had been straightened, I think this is one case where I might > also try to alter the perspective so that the two lamps are parallel. > It fe

Re: CF card: normal or Microdrive?

Hi! I guess normal is: * faster ? * less power consumption while Microdrive is: * cheaper :D While I'm at it, does High Speed card really matter in a D/Ds? Or is it only useful when reading back in a card reader on the Computer? I've got 2 1GB Sandisk Ultra II cards... They work just fine. I

PAW: Etude in Soft

Hi! http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=191069 Please be brutal. But honest :). Today I took a soft lens for my project shooting... Boris

Re: Source for used gear

www.keh.com It seems to have the most respected reputation. It also has quite a choice of gear. Finally, their grading is very conservative... Good hunting. Boris _ 29 августа в саду Эрмитаж состоится выставка интерьеров Махараджей

Re: Scotland pics up

Excellent pages. I had really enjoyed them! Congrats again... Boris

New toy

Hi! Well, it is my time to announce a new toy . Yesterday my F 85/2.8 soft has arrived. Now I hope that portraits of our lovely daughter would be even better . Naturally, I cannot just post a message and not ask a question. Apparently the screwdriver of my ZX-L had a little dust around it. You

Re: Q about Chaining Filters

Hi! KK> - Is it true or an urban legend that if you chain two filters you get KK> flare/reflections? Recently I was considering to buy me some filters from a friend. So I was given them for a try. Since they were not mine, I routinely applied the filter and then applied simple UV filter to the

Re: Pentax needn't care about 300D

Hi! On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:50:02 +0100 Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jumping Jupiter! And the rest was totally unimportant. I laffed for few minutes straight. I am still chuckling... Cotty, you got me on this one... Boris _ Супер ДЖИНC!!! Сроки действия больше не действуют. http://ww

My new toy (cont)

Hi! For your enjoyment: http://www.usefilm.com/showphoto.php?id=195204 Soft lenses rule . Boris

Re: My new toy (cont)

Hi! C> Is she saying, "Daddy, waddya think of my Jimmy Durante impersonation!" ?? C> Lovely shot Boris. Thanks, but no, she does not speak any English, not at the moment at least . Boris

ATTN: Collin Brendemuehl

Hi Collin. I've been trying to contact you off-list but it seems like my message got lost. Please respond to me off-list. Thanks.

Re: comments and tips solicited

Hi! On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:52:02 +0530 "Gaurav Aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, Don't think twice before sending negative, most damnest of all remarks (ref: thread on please comments). I would appreciate if you tell me how to improve the composition, technique, get better exposur

Re: What the...

Hi! I haven't got my ME Super from the repairs. Thought he last time it was there it was assembled properly. All shots that came out on the test film were in good focus and exposure was reasonable. However, I am afraid, Alan, you ended my search for an old camera with one decisive blow... For tha

Re: PUG: September open - suggestions for themes (next year)

Hi! On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:09:22 +0200 "Adelheid v. K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi *, the September PUG is ready to go. About themes for next year I am open for suggestions. Send them to the list or offlist. Cheers Adelheid URL: http://pug.komkon.org/ I have two wishes, most humble of cour

Re: Viewfinder magnification 0.8x vs. 0.7x, why ?

Hi! On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:21:04 -0400 Bruce Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Coverage percentage is the ratio of what you see in the finder to what is on the film. Lots of folks say they want 100% finders, but I don't know why. Slide mounts block part of the image and developers never pr

Re: Viewfinder magnification 0.8x vs. 0.7x, why ?

Hi! Yes it exists. Pentax ME-F has 0.95x. Have I won anything? ;-))) -- Best regards Sylwek No, you haven't [evil grin]. Actually I was asking about modern AF cameras. ME-F is anything but. Boris

Re: Torn between 70-210 and 80-320

Hi! AF> Boris, you're a manual focus man. The 80-320 has a long throw, much AF> more so than any similar zoom. One more thing, I've seen two knocked AF> 80-320s that still deliver excellent images. It's tougher than it AF> looks. AF> Servus,Alin Then 80-320 it is. Thanks Alin. Th

Re: New member

Welcome. Well, the lines of PDML are getting enforced day by day... Boris

Re: OT - Blowing my own horn

Hi Frank. Teach me how to do this with my Pentax gear, will you [grin]. But just don't tell me I have to live in Toronto or something... What I like about this scene is the reflection of the car, dining person, and a bottom part of a baby mannequin (spelling?) on the background. They fit in very

Re: OT - Blowing my own horn

Hi! ft> Thanks for your thoughts. Actually, I quick snapped these two as I was ft> walking by. I really was concentrating on getting the two subjects more ft> or less right. I knew they were sitting on the step in front of a store, ft> but really didn't notice the other details until I had the

Re: OT - Blowing my own horn

Hi! As for the price of the CL, well, Cotty's selling it for a little bit less than it would go for on, for instance, eBay, and quite a bit less than KEH. And, with Cotty (as opposed to some eBay clown you've never seen or heard of before) you know you'll get satisfaction, and the item will be

Re: 135/2.5 Pentax or Takumar - what's the difference?

Hi! Sylwek, I've been getting similar impression from my instance of the same class . It might be that due to the fact that this is a consumer grade lens, the difference between different samples is significant. In my opinion Tak 135/2.5 is way better, than Sigma 28-135/3.8-5.6 at 135/5.6. Al

Re: G'day All

Hello there. Welcome to the list, Trevor. Now you're gonna get much more e-mail traffic, probably more than you could ever imagine . I have a Pentax SF10, MZ50 and MZ60. Lenses are Sigma 28-80, 28-90, 28-200, 100-300. I also have a Pentax 28-80 and a 80-200. I don't use the Pentax lenses as the

Re: 135/2.5 Pentax or Takumar - what's the difference?

Hi! I stand corrected then. Boris On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 06:12:20 -0700 Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not to muddy the waters, Boris, but Paul didn't mention the K-mount Takumar "Bayonet," which is a totally different creature from the Super-Multi-Coated Takumar OR the Super-Takumar 135m

Re: 135/2.5 Pentax or Takumar - what's the difference?

Hi! Paul, Takumar Baoynet 135/2.5 that I was mentioning has funny colorful markings on its aperture ring. This ad has very blurred photo of the lens that is (deliberately?) turned so that aperture ring markings are not seen. Without knowing any Flemish or Dutch for that matter, I'd suggest ag

Re: 135/2.5 Pentax or Takumar - what's the difference?

Hi! This seems to me like the well renowned Pentax (not Takumar) SMC M 135/2.5... If the rest of eBay procedure works out, then perhaps you could buy it. Boris On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:09:29 + Paul Delcour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about this one then (with hte danger that one of you m

Re: First Front Cover

Hi! Congratulations! Boris ===8<==Original message text=== HC> here it is. HC> http://www.catskillregionguide.com/ HC> local magazine with a circulation of about 30,000. HC> Herb ===8<===End of original message text===

Re: Lens test in German "Color Foto"

Hi! On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:24:21 -0400 "T Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What they don't say is that in every case individual examples of each model lens can very +-10 points or so. In other words, just like all such tests the only value to the test is they help sell magazines. The fin

Re: Lens test in German "Color Foto"

Hi Arnlod. It seems that my reply to your message got lost. So I am trying once more . - The prices given by the magazine are the prices on the German market. I stand corrected. I suppose it is uncustomary for German magazine to publish prices outside Germany. Well, my bad. - The ratings come

Re: some more *ist D samples

Hi! And if you want a 200mm prime instead of the 4th: M 200mm f/4 Lon, mind if I ask you (and other wizards) about this very lens. Is it heavy? How's it optically? Is there A version? Boris

Re: Pentax Users Gallery

Hi! Just by the way, getting a critique on one photographs should help them to extract more from their equipment and learn/advance a technique they are using. So, at least by the above reason we might need to increase PUG critique volume . Boris ===8<==Original message text=

Help needed.

Hi! A friend of mine is looking for prism for Bronica ETR SE 645 camera. If you happen to know anyone who's selling such an item, I would very much appreciate if you contacted me off list. Well, of course, he would appreciate it even more if he would get the prism. Thanks in advance. Boris

Impressions of a scholar

Hi! Let it be a little discourse away from lens resolution and other such topics ... I finally got my EktaChrome 100 slides and two films of TMAX 100 processed. 1. Proper B/W film is way smoother than T400 CN C-41 film I've been using as a study so far. I definitely am not going to use C-41 B

Re: AF 360 FGZ Flash & Sigma EX 28-70 2.8

Hi! On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 02:30:22 +1000 "Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, sometimes when I use the popup flash on the mz5n with the Sigma Ex 28-70 2.8 (without the petal lens hood), I get a semi-circle shadow at the bottom of the image. I figure this is because the lens is kinda large (be

Re: Long zoom macro lens?

Hi! On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:09:38 +0530 "Gaurav Aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have been reading the posts for around 5-6 months now. I have a Pentax ME Super with M50/1.7 (and a PZ-1 also which I don't use though). I now realize that I would like to have a longish zoom for ta

Re: macro converter or macrolens or ring set

Hi! On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:33:48 + Paul Delcour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did once put my Petnax K 2x convertor on my 100/4 macro. Gives me 1:1 but at f8 which is pretty dark. But with enough light and a tripod shots looked fine. This Panagor looks fine in your pictures, so how difficult

Re: OT: leaving old Copal electronic shutter cocked: Allowed?

Hi! On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:49:36 -0400 Lon Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My new-to-me Rikoh XR-2 has a vertical Copal CSS-E electronically controlled shutter. Will leaving this cocked weaken anything? I downloaded the manual from butkus.org, and no mention of any problem leaving the camer

Re: Re[2]: Ist D production samples (WAS: UK Street Price of *ist D)

Hi! I use IrfanView (www.irfanview.com) as my standard viewer. It is freeware and it is excellent program, it truly is. Among other things it can show EXIF info of JPG file. Boris

Re: Re[2]: Ist D production samples (WAS: UK Street Price of*ist D)

Hi! On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:47:16 +0100 "Rob Brigham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a product which lets you browse this stuff? I have just tried this and it seems OK, but it's a pain to have to open each image one by one then bring up information, then go into EXIF information. What wou

Re: OT: leaving old Copal electronic shutter cocked: Allowed?

Hi! I stand corrected. Boris ===8<==Original message text=== MCG> William Robb a écrit: >> - Original Message - >> From: "Boris Liberman" >> Subject: Re: OT: leaving old Copal electronic shutter cocked: Allowed? MCG> >

Re: OT: Pentax Image in Outdoor Photographer

Hi! Here's the correct URL: http://pug.komkon.org/01jul/IceFlwer.html Congratulations. Boris ===8<==Original message text=== KW> Well, after being advised a year ago that an image of mine was selected for KW> publication in Outdoor Photographer, "Your Gallery" section,

Re: Tripod use - hard lenses and soft films or the other way round

Hi! In light of recent tripod talk the following thought occured in my mind. The smaller sensor/film is, the worse is the effect of shake. This is because even small motion of the camera while shutter is open would translate in larger effect relative to the frame size. Also, smaller film/sens

Re: Tripod use

Hi! On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:41:20 -0400 "Christian Skofteland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill; ... Telling these people that tripod use makes for better pictures is like talking to a brick wall. They won't listen or much less, try your test. Just the fact that someone could ask "What's the

*istD and modified K/M lenses

Hi! I have a question to those who already held *istD in their hands or those who bought *ist. I suppose it is correct to assume that *ist and *istD behave similarly about K and M lenses. So if I were to modify K/M lens so that it would have proper contacts and transfer widest/narrowest apertu

Re: *istD and modified K/M lenses

Hi! It is not possible to midify an SMC or SMC-M lens to behave like an SMC-A. The reason is that the former ones have a logarithmic aperture coupling and the latter a linear one. The *ist D requires linear, so even if you modify the lens mount to simulate the presence of the SMC-A contacts, t

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