Advice for Selling Gear

[Doug Franklin]

Howdy, folks,

It's been several years since I was active in the group, but I've been 
superficially keeping up.  My inactivity is mainly because I haven't 
been doing as much shooting as I used to.  And that's why I'm posting 
today.  I have some gear I'd like to sell, and I'm seeking the advice of 
the group as to the best processes to use.  Most of the stuff I want to 
sell is older gear, that used to have collector value, but might not, 
anymore.  For example, I have an original SMCP 400/5.6 
auto-meter-but-nothing-else with case, and an LX with prisms. 
Definitely not mint. :)


Thanks for your help!
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Re: Printing

[Doug Franklin]

I haven't posted to the group in several years, but I've been following. 
 On this topic, maybe I have some information to offer.  I recently had 
reason to try the "Fracture" service that most of you (in North America, 
at least) have probably already seen advertised 
(https://fractureme.com).  I had reason recently to try them out. 
Unfortunately, the original I had to work with was less than optimal. 
The best I could do after cropping was about 6" x 8" at 100 dpi.  I must 
say that I was impressed with what they were able to do with that.  I'm 
not sure I could've done better with a local high quality photo printer 
on paper.  I'm looking forward to trying them again with a better 
(higher resolution) original.  I will admit that ICC profiles weren't an 
issue for that print (I didn't have them), but (a) the result was as 
color correct as I could've asked, lacking the profile and (b) it will 
be something I'm looking hard at on the next one.  But there will 
definitely be more.  From my limited test, 9/10, would buy again.


On 2019-09-04 16:40, Ken Waller wrote:

Eric, as I’ve posted here before, I’ve had very good results with Bay Photo.
They’ve done everything from 4 X 6 inch up to 2 X 3 feet prints on paper, 
canvas and metal for me and I have nothing but good things to say about them.
They will offer discounts (usually 20% off) from time to time when you get on 
their mail list. You use their software to upload your file and pick the 
numerous options available.

-Original Message-

From: Eric Weir 
Subject: Printing


I have never printed a single photo. I'd like to give it a try. With this image, just 
as a test: 

 It’s 2.5 MB, 4032 x 2268 pixels

I’ve checked out printing services via this review: 
 
AdoramaPix and Nations Photo Lab appealed. But I see printing is now available via 
Flickr. Thought I’d give it a try.

Wondering about a 10 x 20 or 12 x 24 paper print, lustre finish. With an image 
this size, what do you think?

Also interested in comparison of Flickr to other printing services, e.g., 
AdoramaPix, Nations Photo Lab, or other.

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Re: More help needed with new puter - sigh - think MS WORD

[Doug Franklin]

On 2015-05-28 21:51, Ann Sanfedele wrote:

OK now the problem is that my copy of MS Word is so old that Win 7
doesn't support it ... in fact, the  .doc files don't even appear on the
new computer.  I never upgraded because I was very happy, thank you,
with Word 97...


Perhaps see if the online version, Office 360, supports the old formats? 
 Or download LibreOffice or OpenOffice and convert the old files to a 
newer format?


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Re: PESO -- Unmarked Police Car

[Doug Franklin]

On 2015-01-16 15:24, steve harley wrote:

On 2015-01-15 20:55 , Mark C wrote:

Maybe someone bought a used police car that had the insignias removed,
but
kept the basic paint job?


that's rather common; they take off the insignia and the light bar, and
usually the push bars, but leave the spotlights


Usually, when that's done, you're still able to see where the decals 
were, the teardrop A-pillar lamp is still there, and you can see shadows 
of the door badges.  They don't repaint, and often don't even give the 
car a washing.  At least that's been the case with all of the ones I've 
seen (three or four dozen over the years).  I don't see any of that in 
the photo, but it's a fairly small photo, too.



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Re: PESO -- Unmarked Police Car

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On 2015-01-16 16:40, P.J. Alling wrote:

It was as clean as it looks.  No sign of any decals.  It looks like it
was bought the way it is.


Yep, based on the photo, that one was part of an official buy.  For 
those who don't know, police departments often get their cars in batches 
from the manufacturers, then send them to a cop prep shop to fit them 
out to local department specs.  This looks like someone told the cop 
prep shop just leave the decals off a few. Maybe they wanted the 
Blues Brothers market.


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Re: PESO - At the Gates of Dawn

[Doug Franklin]

Needs a piper. :)

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Re: OT - the smallest cars - funny photos

[Doug Franklin]

On 2014-10-28 13:21, Igor PDML-StR wrote:


I know that there are many car enthusiasts on this list.
Additionally, I find some of these images funny.
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20141021-driving-the-worlds-smallest-car


The BBC television show Top Gear recently (this year, I think) did a 
good episode on post war micro cars that includes quite a few of 
these.  Actually, it wasn't Top Gear itself, but rather James May, 
only.  The title of the series of shows is Cars of the People, and 
episode 2 is the one with micro cars.  There's also a Top Gear episode 
about the Peel P50 (?) and the BMW Isetta, and several including Reliant 
Robins.


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Re: Adafruit display review

[Doug Franklin]

On 2014-06-18 21:00, Peter Loveday wrote:

Yeah I got one of these some time back.  Kind of fun as a third monitor,
but Windows 7 has no support for different DPI settings on different
monitors, which makes it tricky to reconcile with the 27.  I'm not
entirely keen to update the desktop to 8.1, which does do that. (though
I use that on my laptop).


H ... but if I could build a 4 x 3 array of the little beasties ...

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Re: OT: Amazon patents studio photography

[Doug Franklin]

On 2014-05-08 15:54, John wrote:

Can you say Nucking Futs! boys 'n girls?

I knew you could.

On 5/8/2014 3:31 PM, Charles Robinson wrote:

For real:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/amazons-latest-patent-is-sillier-than-the-peanut-butter-sandwich-patent/


Absolutely ridiculous.


The patent system in the US is severely broken.

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Re: Let me see that

[Doug Franklin]

On 2014-04-24 17:38, John Sessoms wrote:

Plus, electric cars produce no useable amount of organic fertilizer.


But some of their owners do. :)

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Re: DNG converter

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On 2014-04-16 18:20, Mark Roberts wrote:


And listening to electronic music by Kraftwerk.


Possibly my favorite Kraftwerk lyric:

Die Fahrbahn ist ein graues Band
Weisse Streifen, grüner Rand

It scans really well, and it agrees with my inner driver, though on 
track we do have some Gelbe Streifen.


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Re: OT: PC Video Cards

[Doug Franklin]

On 2014-03-01 10:39, Mark C wrote:


Been a few years since I bought any PC gear. What are the current
standards in video cards? Assuming that I need to get one, I would like
to get something intending primarily to use it with Photoshop. I am
currently using an NVidia GTS 250 with 1 gig of RAM - probably pretty
rudimentary by current standards. But, of course, I don't want to shell
out an arm and a leg...


I don't keep up with the AMD/ATI side of the business, but on the nVidia 
side,  if you're only doing Photoshop and not stuff like games or 
rendering or hash mining, fifty bucks ought to do just fine.  Something 
like a GT520 or GT610.  From there, you can go up to the best part of a 
grand if you're nuts. :)


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Daytona Superbird

[Doug Franklin]

OK, Cotty, here's your chance!  A real, honest-to-God Daytona Superbird 
with an actual racing history, and a 429, is for sale. No price listed. :)


http://www.motorsportretro.com/2014/02/1969-dodge-charger-daytona/

http://www.canepacollection.com/detail-1969-dodge-charger-daytona-used-5111490.html




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Re: Daytona Superbird

[Doug Franklin]

On 2014-02-21 19:35, Ken Waller wrote:

Sticker price as equipped $2400 including optional heater  AM radio.


Seems remarkably low.


In '67 my dad bought a brand new Plymouth Barracuda Fastback for about 
$3,500.



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Re: OT: Shche ne vmerla Ukraina (Ukraine Has Not Yet Died)

[Doug Franklin]

On 2014-02-20 13:27, knarf wrote:


I don't pretend to know the answers.


If I had answers, someone would've stoned me to death by now.


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Re: SV: I have committed a book

[Doug Franklin]

On 2014-01-08 16:41, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne wrote:

I surely hope that Jostein's subject line is under consideration for the 
2014 PDML Quotations list.  I can think of a number of books I've read 
over the years that could be said to have been committed, rather than 
written.  Thankfully, Jostein's isn't one of them. :)




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Re: OT: Coolest email I've gotten in a while...

[Doug Franklin]

On 2013-12-19 21:47, Charles Robinson wrote:


Dear Charles,

my name is Wolfgang Flür, [...]


That's AWESOME, Charles!  Congrats!



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Re: Decent telephoto for not an arm and a leg

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On 2013-12-11 1:02, Charles Robinson wrote:


400mm on an APS-C.  Yow!  I shouldn't ask, but I will.. - how much?


I haven't really thought about it.  The lens in in great shape, but the 
case is a bit beat up.


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Re: Decent telephoto for not an arm and a leg

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I don't recall who started this thread, but if you're not set on AF, or 
maybe even AE, I have a K 400/5.6 with case and a Tokina SD 400/5.6 in PK-A.


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Re: HDR as a genre?

[Doug Franklin]

On 2013-10-10 17:51, Darren Addy wrote:

[...] it is controversial to call it a satisfying one, thanks
to those who commit visual attrocities in its name.


I don't hate HDR, itself.  I hate the way it seems most frequently to be 
(ab)used.


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Re: HDR as a genre?

[Doug Franklin]

On 2013-10-10 16:49, Mark Roberts wrote:

Igor Roshchin wrote:



http://blueblockphotography.com/galleries/hdr-photos/

I thought some PDMLers will be sho... err. amused :-)


My eyes! The pain! Make it go away!


If you construe the term broadly enough, I guess Utter Crap is also a 
genre. :)


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Re: Aliasing question

[Doug Franklin]

On 2013-10-09 16:25, Larry Colen wrote:


Actually, what I think Doug should do is paint his racecar in a bayer filter
of 2mm squares, just to screw with the trackside photographers.


As one of said trackside photographers, I don't think I want to give 
anyone else any ideas. :)


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Re: Aliasing question

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On 2013-10-09 17:04, Larry Colen wrote:


When the halftones get shot
and the results aren't so hot
that's a moire.


Eek! :)

Woo hoo!  Next week is Petit le Mans!  Flagging a day or two, and 
supporting the flaggers and other volunteers for the rest of the event. 
 When I'm not flagging, I'll be shooting photos.  Lots and lots of 
photos.  I don't get near enough practice, and my hit rate on the pan 
shots leaves a lot to be desired.  Of course, panning a car decelerating 
from maybe 100 mph to 60 mpy, fifty feet away, with a 200 or 300mm lens, 
is a challenge even for the practiced.


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Re: A question about high ISO and sharpness/noise.

[Doug Franklin]

On 2013-10-07 18:30, Eric Weir wrote:


Compared to what I usually get with high ISO, though….


Look at the sky and you'll see it.  The complexity of the rest of the 
scene hides it.


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Re: A question about high ISO and sharpness/noise.

[Doug Franklin]

On 2013-10-07 19:51, Eric Weir wrote:


I see it in LR. Damned if can see it in Flickr. I tried a little noise 
reduction.  I could see the effect.


Flikr's downsizing algorithm may reduce it by diffusing the individual 
errors across each other, achieving a sort of balance.


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Re: Why is this 400mm going for so cheap?

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On 2013-09-12 1:37, Zos Xavius wrote:

Oh, I was looking at pentaxforums prices and saw 1500. I swear
pentaxforums reviews manipulate prices. So you are saying that the 400
is worth less? Interesting. I'd actually love to pick up a 400 even if
it said sigma on it. Those lenses were supposedly very good and work
well with matching TCs.


I don't know about that specific lens, but I have a different year or 
model of the Sigma APO 400/5.6 Macro (mine looks different) and it's a 
good lens.  I've never bought a UG (ugly) rated item from Keh, but I've 
bought numerous BGN (bargain) rated items, and been pleasantly surprised 
each time by the condition.


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Re: A Rendering Choice

[Doug Franklin]

On 2013-08-27 7:06, Paul Stenquist wrote:


Do you find the horizontal mismatch distracting? Doesn't mayer much for the 
magazine because it will probably be stripped our if used large, but when 
making prints for car owners, it's a consideration.


The mismatch doesn't bother me, that's the real world.  I prefer the 
road and car level with the corn/horizon sloped and the road/car flat.


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Re: Article on Leica cameras on BBC online

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On 2013-07-29 7:03, Walt wrote:


I've never heard [much of a muchness] before. Is that a common British
colloquialism?


I've heard that one, but it's been years.  I've only ever heard it from 
a Brit or in a book authored by a Brit.  I don't know how common it is, 
though.  The web site www.phrases.org.uk claims that it's never really 
been common (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/251550.html).


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Re: Modern Tin Types

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On 2013-07-26 14:49, John Sessoms wrote:

Being shot at was always a heady experience when the missed.


Being Shot At  Being Shot

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Modern Tin Types

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A soldier in Afghanistan has been experimenting with making tin type 
prints of his colleagues:


http://twentytwowords.com/2013/07/24/soldier-in-afghanistan-photographs-comrades-using-civil-war-era-technique-14-pics/

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Re: PEso - Birthday girl

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On 2013-07-16 18:57, Ann Sanfedele wrote:

Warning - more cat

Ashley turned 8 years today.  Took this with the K-5 at ISO 25600 - I'm
just getting such a kick out of being able to do it.

http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/Learning-the-K-5/30564911_mcsJ8s/1/2639199018_GjQRDWV/Medium


Happy Birthday, Ashley!  Where's that tuna?!

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Re: sick transit my istD ???

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On 2013-07-05 21:14, Ann Sanfedele wrote:


Leaving the camera without batteries for a while did it finally
but this happening when I really needed the camera ... well.. very scary


I don't think I have an *istD around here anymore, but I've got a K100D 
I'll send you, if you need it.  That means moving from CF to SD, 
unfortunately.


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Re: sick transit my istD ???

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On 2013-07-05 22:31, Doug Franklin wrote:

On 2013-07-05 21:14, Ann Sanfedele wrote:


Leaving the camera without batteries for a while did it finally
but this happening when I really needed the camera ... well.. very scary


I don't think I have an *istD around here anymore, but I've got a K100D
I'll send you, if you need it.  That means moving from CF to SD,
unfortunately.


Oops, didn't really mean that to be public.

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Re: Pentax is history

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On 2013-07-03 17:54, John Sessoms wrote:

Interestingly enough, there was a lightning strike nearby with the
loudest, most ominous thunder I've heard in many a year just as I
started reading this thread. Lights flickered a bit, but none of the
UPSs even beeped.

Probably doesn't really mean anything, just one of those odd coincidences.


Someone said Frau Blucher!

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Re: OT Planes, in the south of England 1944

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On 2013-06-30 7:01, Eric Weir wrote:


On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:21 PM, mike wilson m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com wrote:


Still looking for info on the polka-dot B17…..


Yeah, I've seen quite a few photos of B17s, but never one like that. There must 
have been a reason.


It was a group assembly aircraft.  The assembly aircraft left the base 
first, and circled for the attacking aircraft to form up on.  When the 
formations were in order, the attack headed to the target and the 
assembly aircraft returned to base.  Different groups painted their 
assembly aircraft in different highly visible and recognizable paint 
schemes so they'd be easier to identify from the combatant aircraft.


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Re: GESO Eversand-Oberfeuer

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On 2013-06-16 18:26, Thomas Bohn wrote:

An old lighthouse at the North Sea coast in Dorum-Neufeld, Germany. After it 
was decommissioned it was brought here as a tourist attraction.

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/95985450@N08/sets/72157634166563244/


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Re: Ctein on Photoshop CC

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On 2013-06-12 19:06, Larry Colen wrote:


Our local costco carries it.
Zab picked up a flat of it before the party this weekend.


For non-Coke products, if you get the Throwback versions, they're made 
with sugar.


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Re: Grandfather Mountain 2013

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On 2013-06-11 19:25, Kenneth Waller wrote:


I didn't say snoring Dave.


One of these days, I'm at least going to get close enough to the GFM NPW 
that I can hear the snoring.  Of course, I only have to get about five 
miles into South Carolina (from Atlanta) for that.  If I make it, you 
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Re: Ctein on Photoshop CC

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On 2013-06-11 19:24, Bill wrote:

On 11/06/2013 11:25 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:

On 6/5/2013 6:21 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:

Bill wrote:


One wonders if Adobe hired all the ex Pentax marketing people that lost
their jobs when Ricoh bought out Pentax.

I'm working on an article for my own blog about the Photoshop fiasco.
Working title: Adobe Introduces New Coke

Ah, New Coke, all of the flavor of Pepsi without the rabid fan base.
Too bad Classic Coke isn't made with actual sucrose.


My understanding is that the Mexican bottlers use cane sugar.


That would be 'caine sugar.

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Re: OT Photoshop CC spurs competitive market for Photoshop, replacement

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On 2013-05-19 19:17, P.J. Alling wrote:

On 5/8/2013 3:56 AM, David Mann wrote:

On May 8, 2013, at 4:45 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:


Not to mention what are you going to do if the FBI decides Adobe's
cloud is the new Megaupload?

Adobe's pockets are probably deep enough that the Feds would have to
actually do some due diligence first.

Cheers,
Dave



Deep pockets help after the fact, not necessary before.


Bullshit.  Deep pockets lead to grease, in this case, avoiding the 
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Re: OT - This is Why Your Pictures Suck

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On 2013-05-18 19:02, David J Brooks wrote:

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:53 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com

Btw did Shel write that?


Double HAR


My pictures suck because I don't shoot enough, and, when I do, I don't 
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Re: Long ago and far away . . .

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On 2013-05-13 22:41, Stan Halpin wrote:


http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/h5f467bc0#h5f467bc0


Very nice.  But I'm kinda partial to cows.  I might consider taking a 
little off the left and the top, but it might change the composition too 
much.


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Re: OT: Drive question.

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Try safe boot and chkdsk?

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Re: OT: Drive question.

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On 2013-04-29 20:24, P.J. Alling wrote:


I don't know if you can count the PC Jr as any kind of influence since
the few who ever bought one denied ever owning one, and it was more
expensive than a number of full featured PC clones available at the time
so who'd even want one.


We sold the piss out of them to K-12 education ... the snot proof 
chicklet keyboard was a great selling point, in an era when nearly no 
keyboard was snot proof, much less IR wireless.


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Re: What are the shortcomings of your gear?

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On 2013-04-15 4:12, Larry Colen wrote:

What photos are you losing because your gear isn't performing
well enough, or because it doesn't have a feature that you need?
And in what situations does this present itself?  If there is a
work around, what do you need to do to get the shot?


The two main ones for me are AF speed (and reliable locking), and buffer 
size.


Occasionally, shooting auto racing, there are enough different shots 
close enough together that I fill the K-10Ds buffer (I haven't upgraded 
from there yet), even with fast-ish (20 MB/sec) SD cards.  The only 
thing I know to do technically to work around the problem is to always 
reformat my SD cards rather than simply deleting all of the files. But I 
doubt that really makes an appreciable difference.


To work around AF speed, I mostly use full manual mode with prefocus 
zones and DoF, just as if I was using my LX.  If I'm shooting with the 
Sigma APO 400/5.6 Macro, or a pre-F Pentax lens, I can use trap focus. 
Trapping seems to take a lot of decision paths out of the AF logic, but 
it still misses occasionally.


And it really hurts when trying to capture a developing action, like an 
on-track incident, and both get in the way of the same series of shots.


I wouldn't mind faster lock time, either.

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Re: Posting photos of street art can get you arrested

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On 2013-04-09 14:56, John Sessoms wrote:


Looking back, I can't believe that my High School Trig course never once
mentioned that Sine, Cosine and Tangent are all based on the
relationship of the sides of a triangle. That would have made it so easy.


Holy Crap!  I can't believe that, either!  sarcasmI mean, it's not 
like the transcendentals grew directly out of the triangles or 
anything./sarcasm


It's along the lines of my experience with physics.  In regular high 
school physics classes, they couldn't assume we knew even rudimentary 
calculus, so we had to memorize a gazillion discrete formulae.  F=ma, 
P=mv, E=mv^2/2, etc.  It got much simpler in college when we did know 
calculus and discovered that you really only need to know a handful of 
basic equations, and a little basic calculus, and you can derive all of 
the other formulae you need.


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Re: Posting photos of street art can get you arrested

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On 2013-04-08 19:58, Rob Studdert wrote:


OK, in my school day (only around 30 years ago) parenthesis in math
were only applied in the case where the operational order would
otherwise have been ambiguous [...]


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Re: Insuring your photo gear...

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On 2013-03-08 19:18, steve harley wrote:


went back to State Farm, and they both raised their quote and raised the
deductible (from $500 to $1000); i wasn't thrilled with State Farm, but
i am still with them; i will never do business with American Family again


My personal rule is to never make a claim for less than twice the 
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Re: Insuring your photo gear...

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On 2013-03-06 21:06, Darren Addy wrote:


I'd like to be insured against theft and also equipment damage in the
case of an accident. (I take a camera bag back and forth with me to
work almost every day). Is there something special that I must do to
get this covered under my homeowner's policy and my auto policy (or is
there separate coverage that one purchases). I really should know
about such things at my age, but I don't.


Check with whoever has your homeowner's policy.  That's what usually 
covers goods like cameras.  They'll most likely want some sort of proof 
of ownership.  Typically, photos or videos of the gear are acceptable. 
Most homeowner's policies will cover you up to some number of dollars 
without even doing that.  On my policy, it's US$2,500 for stuff like 
cameras, guns, coin collections, etc.  Above that limit, they want the 
photos/videos, and will work out a rider on the policy for you.  The 
added cost is often only a handful of dollars a year.  At least that's 
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Re: Odd Vendor for Pentax Lens

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On 2013-03-05 17:53, J.C. O'Connell wrote:


http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12643721utm_source=SH
OPutm_campaign=productutm_medium=CSE


Wow!  They've got a surprising selection of lenses, but few bodies.

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Re: Update on Kodak agony

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On 2013-03-04 8:53, Igor Roshchin wrote:


... if somebody cares, Kodak files a plan for emergency from Chapter 11:
http://www.rbj.net/article.asp?aID=194171

With this much of regular loss, I am surprised it is not dead yet.


Cue Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch or the Bring out your dead 
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Re: OT: Central Park

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On 2013-03-02 16:52, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

http://themetapicture.com/aerial-view-of-central-park/


That's very cool, Dan.

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Re: RIP: Bran Everseeking

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On 2013-02-28 19:36, Paul Stenquist wrote:

Bran Everseeking of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, whose given name was Thomas 
Dunbar, passed away today from a heart attack. Bran hung around these parts 
from time to time. He was a man who embraced many causes and seemed to be 
genuinely kind and generous. Sorry to hear of his passing. He was only 54 years 
old. Taken too soon.


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Re: Writing is hard

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From: Mark Roberts

For those who don't know I'm in the midst of writing my own Photoshop
textbook for the classes I teach.


Oh, crap.  Please don't be one of /those/ guys.  We used to call any 
class in which the instructor wrote the text a Read along with Larry 
class, for reasons that should be obvious.  Absolutely the most 
worthless, on average, classes I ever had to suffer through.


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Writing is Hard

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Good Heavens, folks, it sounds like some nerves got stomped on with that 
one.  It seems to me (for the comprehension impaired, that means I'm 
about to state an opinion) that, like anything artistic, and many things 
not, it's an individual experience.  If you require a definition for the 
phrase individual experience, you're out of your depth.


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Re: Writing is hard

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On 2013-03-01 23:11, Mark Roberts wrote:


In fact, I'm writing the book to cover the things I *don't* want to
have to talk about in class. So we can get on with the other stuff.


That's great to hear.  That's not typical of my experiences, though, as 
you might imagine from my earlier post. :-)


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Re: Windows 8 is Horseshit.

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On 2013-02-22 0:51, Larry Colen wrote:


Microsoft is trying to make a UI that will work on both tablets and desktops.  
What it will get is something that doesn't work well on either.


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OT: Way, /way/ OT: VCS/SCM Systems

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OK, this is kinda a long shot, I suspect, but I'll throw it out there. 
Do any of you folks have experience with the Fossil configuration 
management system (or others, what the heck)?  I'm trying to move up 
from local and client/server SCM solutions to distributed ones.  For 
really small projects, Fossil looks good since it bakes in a wiki and 
ticketing sytem.  Any counter arguments or experiences out there in PDML 
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Re: What lenses do you regret parting with (or will *never* part with)?

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On 2013-02-12 15:57, DagT wrote:

That would be the A*85 f/1.4. The worn exterior reminds me that it was my 
favorite lens for almost 15 years, and the glass is still nice because of the 
UV filter I used and changes when it was to full of dirt and scratches.


For me it would be the FA* 200/2.8 ... and the F* 300/4.5 unless someone 
offers to give me a F* or FA* 300/2.8 (I surely can't justify buying 
one) ... and the FA* 80-200/2.8 if I can ever afford to get one in the 
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Re: At least they didn't shoot me

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On 2013-02-05 2:14, Larry Colen wrote:

I, once again, point out that it's very easy to be cooperative when six people 
are pointing guns at you.


Probably not required, but MARK!. :-)

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Re: OT- Instagram now has right to sell your photos...

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On 2012-12-18 22:00, Bob W wrote:


It becomes a war of attrition as these greedy bastards do their damndest to
fuck the ordinary people every which way in pursuit of their filthy lucre.


Preach on, brother, preach on.  Time tested techniques on display there.

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Re: OT- Instagram now has right to sell your photos...

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On 2012-12-18 22:17, John Sessoms wrote:


The essential difference between Fascism  Communism is that under
Fascism the government tells the people what to do and under Communism
the people are told what to do by the government.


I've long been under the impression that, at least as practiced by the 
Germans and Italians in the 1920s-1940s, the difference was that fascism 
was based on (allegedly) what's good for the peasant folk versus 
communism's (allegedly) what's good for everyone, in both cases, as 
judged by the powers that be.


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Re: OT- Instagram now has right to sell your photos...

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On 2012-12-18 22:33, Tom C wrote:


LOL Bob. Unfortunately. You may very well be right. Just look at the
'rights' we implicitly have waved by using the internet, smart phones,
and GPS, It's a gradual slide into having no or little individual
rights.


I've seen a commentary or two lately that claim, with some historical 
backing, that personal privacy was an aberration of Western society in 
the 19th and 20th centuries, as compared to the rest of human history.


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Re: OT- Instagram now has right to sell your photos...

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On 2012-12-18 23:23, Tom C wrote:


In what way I ask. There's certainly much I don't know. Are you
referring to the concept of personal privacy or the state of personal
privacy (i.e. the ease with which it can be invaded and trampled
upon)?  I understand privacy can be invaded in any number of ways, but
never in human history have major portions of populations, via
technology, enabled powers to clandestinely track them, including
their whereabouts, contacts, purchases, transactions, etc.


If I understand the argument correctly, it's about expectation of 
privacy.  The argument seems to go along the lines of how, outside 
fairly recent Western societies, privacy didn't really exist due to the 
living conditions, to the extent that no one really thought much about 
it, much less agonized over whether it was a right, a privilege, a 
circumstance, or a symptom.


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Re: OT- Instagram now has right to sell your photos...

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On 2012-12-18 23:53, Tom C wrote:

When I wrote clandestinely track them, I meant the ability to, or to
back-trace an individual, were the desire to do so arise.


If you're on the internet, or have a cell phone, you're almost certainly 
trackable.  Almost because you can do those things and remain 
untrackable, but it takes a significant amount of effort.


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Re: OT: Anyone know how to extract records from an old btrieve database?

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On 2012-12-12 18:05, Bruce Walker wrote:

Can't help with Btrieve specifics, but this sort of thing is why I
always keep an instance of WinXP (and also Win98SE, a Linux or two,
etc.) in VMware, ready to fire up. Install cranky old app; do crufty
thing; restore VM back to checkpoint to get rid of it.


And if that's not archaic enough, you could try building a VM with 
FreeDOS in it and see if you can scare up the old Btrieve command line 
tools some dark corner of the Internet.


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Re: Files reduced in size when attached to email

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On 2012-12-09 11:35, Eric Weir wrote:


I've discovered that large-ish jpg files---740 KB---are significantly reduced 
in size---10K---when attached to and sent with an email message.

Is this normal? Is there any way it can be avoided?


Where do you see the difference in the attached file?  Has it already 
been reduced in size before sending the email?  Then it's happening in 
your email client and that's where you'll find any avoidance measures.


If you're not noticing it until after it's been received by someone, it 
could be happening at any of several points along the way.


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Re: Long Exposure Rule of Thumb

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On 2012-12-09 12:58, Bob W wrote:

That seems to make sense - 100:6400 = 1:60 as near as dammit


So, do digital sensors not suffer reciprocity failure, or not to the 
extent that film does?


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Re: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)

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On 2012-10-24 16:28, Bob Sullivan wrote:

If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer...


If it doesn't fit, force it.  If it breaks, it needed replacing, anyway.

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Re: Totally OT - philosophical question (Was: Structural engineering question)

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On 2012-10-24 16:49, Larry Colen wrote:


On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Doug Franklin wrote:


On 2012-10-24 16:28, Bob Sullivan wrote:

If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer...


If it doesn't fit, force it.  If it breaks, it needed replacing, anyway.


Doug doesn't need a torque wrench, he just tightens it until it strips, then 
backs it off a quarter turn.


Followed by application of Shoe-Goo, SuperGlue, or JB Weld, as 
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Re: OT: Consumer Reports

[Doug Franklin]

On 2012-10-01 20:44, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:


We did double-blind AB testing and 8 out of 10 listeners couldn't tell the 
difference...


Odds are that's 100% truth.

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Re: copyright small claims court

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On 2012-10-01 20:58, Mark Roberts wrote:


Excellent. And long overdue.


Excellent, long overdue, and 100% probability of being ruined by 
Congress before becoming law.


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Re: OT: WinXP boot problems.

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On 2012-10-02 1:32, P. J. Alling wrote:

OK I'm at my wits end on this.

After installing an update to my Laptop the machine won't boot. Well not
quite anyway.  It goes through post and then stops at a blinking curser
on a blank black screen.   So I built a slipstream recovery disk with
the proper drivers on it and then attempted all manner of recovery.  I
rebuilt boot.ini.  Still no boot.  I rebuilt the boot sector, no boot. I
rewrote the mbr, no boot.  I did a full repair of windows.  (Did I
mention the drive tests out as just ducky?), no boot.  I reinstalled
windows preserving drivers, laptop restarts no boot.   Now here's the
salient issue.  I'm using it right now.  On startup the laptop gives the
option for a one time boot menu, which includes all attached bootable
devices, including the internal harddrive.  Just for laughs selected the
that drive and it boots!  WTF.   Now I know this isn't a tech forum but
heck, I've tried all of the ones I usually frequent and no one has a
solution to this.  This is causing me to tear out what's left of my hair
and I don't want to look like Cotty.


Hmm, that's an odd one, dude.  Did you use Windows to try to fix up the 
MBR, partition boot record, etc.?  If so, maybe try it again with a 
Linux distribution geared to system recovery?  I have to wonder if one 
or more of those tools is assuming that it knows better than you and not 
actually writing a new loader.  It almost sounds like a UEFI boot where 
the crypto certificates have gotten corrupted.


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Re: iPhone 5--sheesh!

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On 2012-09-28 23:44, Miserere wrote:

It's called Verizon Backup Assistant Plus. Free up to 500MB, beyond
that there's a charge. It backs up media files, documents and
contacts.


Just be aware that Backup Assistant is not equal to Backup Assistant 
Plus.  I've been backing up my contacts and stuff from my old, 
non-smart phone for several years using Backup Assistant.  Just 
replaced my phone with an Android smart phone, which only has Backup 
Assistant Plus.  I could not pull over any of my backed up stuff to the 
new phone.


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Re: PESO - Life's Greatest Pleasures?

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On 2012-09-25 20:41, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:

Never tried a pipe. Nor a ~good~ cigar. Smoked cheap cigars and I always found 
them nasty.


Cheap cigars suck.  Expensive cigars suck, too, but you're less willing 
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Re: OT: High Performance Laptops

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On 2012-09-16 22:58, Tom C wrote:


Thanks for that reminder. I've noticed that as well when it comes to
text. I'm thinking, hoping, I won't experience similar issues with
images however.


Font sizes are configurable on all the GUIs I've used.  Most also let 
you choose the size of the icons they use.  That's all on the desktop. 
 Some apps definitely don't do as much as they should to accommodate 
differences in screen pixel size.  I generally make the fonts, in 
particular, bigger, so that (a) I can see them and (b) they're smoother 
and less jagged (more pixels under each character).


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Re: Anybody got a line on an inexpensive ring flash?

[Doug Franklin]

How about one of these,

http://www.bellparts.com/enlarge/495572/

and one of these,

http://www.frys.com/product/5351708

plus a pair of 9V batteries, a switch, and some wire ... and probably 
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Re: OT Nik acquired by Google

[Doug Franklin]

On 2012-09-17 16:20, Darren Addy wrote:

Saw stats today that Google+ has passed 400 million registered users
(but only 1 in 4 is considered an active user). I wouldn't consider
myself in that active class, but I am registered. From what I
understand, from a photographer's standpoint, Google+ is considered a
far superior product, but way behind in the number of users when
compared to Facebook/Instagram.


Hmmm, I don't have a Google+ identity, but I have eight or ten Google 
identities.  I wonder which of them they consider active?


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Re: OT: High Performance Laptops

[Doug Franklin]

On 2012-09-16 3:26, David Mann wrote:


IMHO I think it's pretty marginal.  When I used to upgrade my desktops I'd need 
a new motherboard to upgrade the CPU.  Then I'd find that the memory slots have 
changed, the graphics slot has changed, the power supply connection has changed 
and so on.  So you end up having to buy a whole new machine anyway.


It depends on what you're finding yourself upgrade.  I don't even 
attempt to upgrade the motherboard and CPU, but I find that I can extend 
the useful lives of my desktop systems significantly by upgrading the 
memory capacity, non-volatile storage capacity (and type, now, with 
SSDs), and video boards.  When I need to upgrade the motherboard or CPU, 
I replace the system.  Doing that, I average five to seven years on each 
desktop.  That said, my built-in-2007 Core 2 Duo is starting to feel a 
little creaky, and I'm trying to fight the urge to build a new machine.


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Re: OT: As a former pro wedding photographer...

[Doug Franklin]

On 2012-09-13 10:48, Darren Addy wrote:

... (who never wants to do another wedding, BTW) this still makes me
throw-up in my mouth a little bit:

http://content.photojojo.com/tips/how-to-shoot-a-wedding-on-your-phone/


Offer to shoot my wedding with a phone, and I'll offer to shoot you 
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Re: So... K-5II huh? But without a net work link, Do I want that?

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On 2012-09-13 8:51, Bruce Walker wrote:


The low effective transfer rate and high latency make sending
real-time RAWs impractical for me though. I think the puny CPU in the
chip can't handle efficient TCP/IP so it takes 15 seconds or more to
send a single K20D RAW (8 Mb) and a K-5 RAW would be awful (25 Mb).


Yeah, I'm guessing the silicon in the camera is just about exactly the 
right size to support the imaging mission, with little or nothing left 
over to support the download mission.  For me, though, it wouldn't be 
terrible.  I don't need full real time.  The trick for me would be the 
interaction between opportunistic downloading and me needing to switch 
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Re: I think my bigma may be wonky

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On 2012-09-13 17:54, Larry Colen wrote:


I suspect that it is out of alignment, I wonder what it would cost to repair?


All I can offer is an anecdote, Larry.  I got the Sigma APO 400/5.6 
Macro about a year after it was discontinued, at a get it out of our 
inventory sale.  I'd had it a year or two.  One day, I picked up the 
case, and the thing made a weird clunking sound from inside the padded 
case.  I didn't even mount it to the camera, just boxed it up and sent 
it to Sigma with a letter of explanation.  Got it back less than three 
weeks later, fixed, with an invoice that told me what they fixed 
(can't remember what it was) and a total due of US$0.00.


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Re: OT Posterior vitreous detachment

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On 2012-09-12 1:11, Joseph McAllister wrote:


Why did it take so long to attain that, as an average?


According to a class I took years ago, the answer is infant mortality. 
IIRC, the professor claimed that if, in 1776, you ignored the deaths of 
those less than either six or ten years old in the calculation, the 
average lifespan was over 60, rather than the under 50 or so that you 
get when you include the infant/child deaths.


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Re: So... K-5II huh? But without a net work link, Do I want that?

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On 2012-09-12 19:12, Bruce Walker wrote:


I don't think this is yet practical. Assuming the camera has built-in
Verizon 4G LTE, and you shoot 400 RAWs in one outing, your camera will
be pushing files up to the cloud for more than 50 minutes.


I'd be happy enough with 802.11b/g, or especially /n, to a server 
running on a laptop, if the camera would opportunistically send files 
over as continuously as possible.  I have no idea how much power that 
requires as compared to the power consumed by the rest of the camera system.


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Re: OT: High Performance Laptops

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On 2012-09-11 1:25, Tom C wrote:


I'd like an i7 CPU. I can't tell the difference between the various
versions of it. Yeah I see the minor differences in speed and cache,
but in real noticeable terms what does that mean? Is it worth $200 or
$500 for a different version? I suspect not.


It's not to me.  And certainly not the difference between a $200 or $300 
normal i7 versus the $1000 extreme versions.  I doubt you'd notice 
any difference in daily operations for photo management and editing.



More RAM? I think that could make a noticeable difference. 16G vs 24G
vs 32G? I have no idea other than that more could be better but also
possibly overkill.


You might be right.  I haven't used the Adobe products in some time, but 
working with 4k x 3k scans of 35mm frames, back when I did use them, 
Photoshop would eat swap space like a dog in an Alpo bag if I did much 
at all with the image.


Actually, I'll change my mind a bit, and suggest getting one with some 
SSD for swap (desktop) or for main storage (laptop) rather than the 
extra 16GB of memory.



I haven't researched the mSATA drive stuff that's available. Can
someone explain what that means?


Can't help there.  I've used SATA and eSATA but not mSATA.


My gut tells me that in addition to CPU, RAM and SSD drives are the
items that will enhance performance as far as speed is concerned. The
slowest component in a system will drag down all other others.


Completely agree, I'm just suggesting that RAM and SSD (I/O speed) will 
have a bigger impact than the difference between a Core i5, Core i7, or 
AMD Bulldozer CPU.


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Re: OT: High Performance Laptops

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On 2012-09-10 12:31, Igor Roshchin wrote:


I have it on my Fujitsu laptop, and it works well as long as you can be
consistent with moving your finger.


Everyone should be aware that the software for some of the fingerprint 
readers does some very stupid things, like leaving your password, 
verification answer, and/or fingerprint residue unencrypted in 
insecure locations like the Windows registry.  Unfortunately, I haven't 
followed the issue closely enough to know how prevalent the problem is 
or which vendors are good or bad about stuff like that.



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Re: OT: High Performance Laptops

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On 2012-09-10 18:23, Darren Addy wrote:

Not a lot to input here, but I think the most important considerations
should be: CPU horsepower (i7), maximum RAM (and I'd load it up,
preferably 16GB minimum), and connectivity [...]


I disagree, to a point.  In his shoes, I'd get less CPU, more RAM, and 
faster storage.  Photos have a huge impact on storage, especially if 
you're using Adobe programs (assuming they're still doing the 'we know 
better than the OS how to manage memory' thing).


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Re: SEB Fall Marathon 2012 in Tallinn

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On 2012-09-09 11:01, Bruce Walker wrote:

I'm really struck by the brightness and colour in these.


Reminds me of Bulgaria ... very brightly painted houses and other 
buildings.  Gives the towns an almost festive air year round.


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Re: Peso, eyes front

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On 2012-09-09 11:49, David J Brooks wrote:

Franks tattoo shot prompted me to submit this for approval.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/djbrooks/7963255892/in/photostream


I like the way the earrings peeking out from under her hair sort of 
mirror the eyes tat on her back.  Must be a teacher.


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Re: Peso: My Yard

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On 2012-09-08 13:26, John Sessoms wrote:


At least with dogs there's no question about who is owner  who is
owned.


There's no question with cats, either, it's just reversed from the 
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Re: MOre OT - help with monitor

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On 2012-09-07 11:20, Ann Sanfedele wrote:


any recommendations for a monitor?  I'm running XP on a dell dimension
C521 - thank goodness i have a PC Richards credit card (only one I have)


If you can find one that's 1080p, take a look at the LCD TVs in the size 
that interests you.  I've been pleasantly surprised at the color 
rendition on those units and at how much cheaper they often are than 
similar IPS monitors.  The TVs often cost no more than a TN monitor but 
give colors as nice as IPS monitors.


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Re: PESO - R.I.P. The Divine Ms. P.

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On 2012-08-31 18:13, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:


Gonna miss her like heck.


So sorry about your loss, Frank.  I know about missing them.

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Re: OT: Jury verdict is for Apple (vs Samsung)

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On 2012-08-30 3:03, Joseph McAllister wrote:


Anyway, my recollection is that TrueType was a method of minutely smoothing 
what was once lumpy pixels. As opposed to Adobe's vector drawing formula. It's 
been so long since I had to even think about it. Ya gotta let go of some of 
what you knew to make room for FaceBook timelines and Netflix streaming. Gagh.


TrueType character forms are composed of a set of vectors on (IIRC) a 
2048 x 2048 coordinate grid, like a lot of font description languages. 
One place TT gets it's umph is that it also includes a robust hinting 
language to take care of things like the lumps that happen when that 
huge grid is transformed to a much smaller one on the output device.  It 
also helps the font designer do things like make sure that the vertical 
stems in all of the letters end up the same width, regardless of where 
they fall in the mapping of the character coordinate system to the 
page coordinate system.


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Re: OT: Jury verdict is for Apple (vs Samsung)

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On 2012-08-27 6:19, Joseph McAllister wrote:


TS TK  NOFORN.


I know what TS and NOFORN are, but what's TK?

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Re: You don't have to be terribly visionary to see where, still photography is going...

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On 2012-08-24 5:54, John Sessoms wrote:


Don't forget Death by PowerPoint.


http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/

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Re: Kodak sells Personal Imaging Division

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On 2012-08-24 8:30, Bruce Walker wrote:

While I can't dispute his other points about film being beloved and
all, Olivier Laurent's claim:

The resolution is still a thousand times higher than most digital
cameras can offer so long as a good scanner is used.

... is questionable at best and probably just wrong. Considering
available scanner resolution and film grain size, I'm pretty sure that
pixels have met and exceeded film for resolution.


My experiences with scanning 35mm negatives at 4000 dpi lead me to 
believe that a 4000 dpi pixel and an average film grain are of 
approximately the same size (same order of magnitude).  However, the 
pixels are arranged in a grid, while the grains appear stochastically in 
the emulsion.


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Re: Peso, thirty years ago, today.......

[Doug Franklin]

On 2012-08-15 7:05, David J Brooks wrote:


I would if i could only remember it.:-)


It was thirty (twenty) years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to 
play ... Congratulations!


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Embedded Programming

[Doug Franklin]

Just for giggles, anyone on the list interested in playing with Arduino 
stuff?  I've got one running a 9-axis position/rate capture system.  I'm 
trying to get GPS working with it, but either I'm an idiot or I have a 
broken integration or a broken GPS receiver.  But I'll fix it ... or 
metaphorically beat on someone until they send me a replacement.


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Re: PESO - I Get aDrink

[Doug Franklin]

On 2012-06-20 19:34, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:

In order to be brainwashed doesn't one need a brain?


A brain, at least an operational one, ironically enough, is an 
impediment to brainwashing.  Usually, anyway. :-)


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Re: Ponytails For Decency -- I get more complaints

[Doug Franklin]

On 2012-06-20 19:40, John Sessoms wrote:


Some people just don't have any sense of proportion.


Some people are born jackasses.  Some people find themselves in that 
position and decide that it's not extreme enough, so they invest huge 
amounts of money to become even better at it, at which point they 
graduate to professions like politician or TV evangelist.


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