Re: K10D review online

2006-12-15 Thread George Sinos
Not specifically a reply to Alex, just tagging into the thread here with a couple of comments. I've read the reviews and a bunch of the threads on DPreview and found them interesting. If you read the review and try to stay objective, he's saying that Pentax hasn't designed the JPEG conversion to

Re: Shake Reduction Doesn't Work...

2006-12-16 Thread George Sinos
Bob - My opinion is that if it's working, you shouldn't be able to feel it. If you can feel it, it will be inducing it's own blur. If the sensor is counteracting your movement I would think it's motion would be imperceptible. My introduction to Pentax SR was with the A10 point and shoot. If

Raw vs. JPG - depends on group

2006-12-16 Thread George Sinos
I always find this discussion a bit entertaining. Especially when I hear that question about why people buy an expensive SLR to shoot JPGs. I don't think most of the folks that hang around this group have a real appreciation for how little most non-hobbyists understand about photography. I do

Re: K10D Dust Removal

2006-12-18 Thread George Sinos
Mark - I have the feature turned off and only activate it after changing lenses. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 12/18/06, Mark Cassino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the folks who have K10D's - how have you set the dust removal setting? I originally set it to turn on with every

Re: SDHC Support - Firmware updates

2006-12-20 Thread George Sinos
Your ist-D already takes high capacity CF cards. See you later, gs On 12/20/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 20, 2006, at 9:53 AM, John Francis wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:29:02PM +0900, David Savage wrote: http://www.pentax.co.jp/english/support/ Cheers,

Re: you guys will like this

2005-08-11 Thread George Sinos
Amita - After taking a quick look at the two manuals on the Pentax website, I think you have the relative functionality of both cameras nailed. The two cameras are aimed at different audiences, but they both have an adjustment for exposure compensation. That's a feature I wouldn't want to be

PESO: Billionaires and Smugmug maps

2005-08-28 Thread George Sinos
Just a couple of semi-related items: Warren Buffet and Bill Gates recently ate a local restaurant when Gates visited town. I snapped these shots of the Restaurant's tongue-in-cheek marquee. http://georges.smugmug.com/gallery/763341 Not great art, just a fun snapshot. After you're checked out

Re: Batteries for istDS?

2005-08-30 Thread George Sinos
Shel - I have to throw my vote in with the Lithium AAs. On the D, I'm getting about 1000-1200 shots per set of four. A 4-pack is $9.99 at target. The CR-V3's perform better but are as much as twice the price. I seldom use the built-in flash. When I feel the need for flash I use an external

Re: DS Test Shots 1 2

2005-09-03 Thread George Sinos
Shel - Which raw converter are you using? gs On 9/3/05, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, i did something like you suggested, and the final results were better, although for the purpose of putting the images up I wanted to show them with no adjustments. I was hoping you'd

Re: Am I an Ignorant Klutz ....

2005-09-03 Thread George Sinos
Shel - have you tried formatting the card with your pc? I'm willing to believe the Ds has a problem, but I'm more willing to believe you have a bad card. That little switch on the SD cards it pretty tiny. It's the thing I like least about SD cards. See you later, gs On 9/3/05, Shel

Re: Optio S40 ???

2005-09-04 Thread George Sinos
Hi Marnie - I bought S40's for my kids last Christmas. (What a grandfather will do to get pictures of the grandkids!) The cameras work well and I am being supplied with lots of photos. The camera is well suited to their needs. Lithium AA's last a long time. Photos are relatively well exposed

Re: Fried Highlights

2005-09-09 Thread George Sinos
There are a lot of differences between CS and CS2. Of these there are a few I use often: You can straighten and crop an image in Camera Raw, these changes are non-destructive and are stored in the DNG file. The major camera raw sliders all now have an auto setting. For most of the stuff I

Re: Fried Highlights

2005-09-09 Thread George Sinos
Shel - I bought Elements 3 to get the updated version of Photoshop Album. I don't use the Elements part of it much these days. Here's a link to a screen shot of the single PE3 raw converter screen and five shots showing the CS2 raw converter with each of it's five tabs selected.

Re: Some Posting Suggestions

2005-09-13 Thread George Sinos
Replying in general to long URLs... You can include a long URL as long as you surround it with these long url in here Most popular mail programs will correctly interrpret anything between the 's as a single URL, even if it spans more than one line. See you later, gs

Re: green button wars (again)

2005-09-18 Thread George Sinos
JCO - I agree with you in concept. But, in the end, no matter how many folks write to Pentax about their old lenses it's just not going to make any difference. I'm one of the guys with an old screw mount Spotmatic and a few lenses. It served me well from 1968 through 2001 when I bought my 5n.

Re: DS Noise

2005-09-25 Thread George Sinos
Just adding my two cents on evaluating noise on the screen vs. prints. I agree with Paul. I've noticed that my ink jet prints show much less noise than I would have been led to believe was there by the screen rendition. I don't know if this is a side effect of the printer's conversion software

Re: *ist-D raw files compressed: results

2005-09-25 Thread George Sinos
I convert my raw files to DNG, then make a set of reasonably sized jpegs. Everything gets mirrored to another external hard drive. Once a month all the new stuff goes to DVDs. Storage is relatively cheap and getting cheaper. It's certainly cheaper than processing the equivalent amount of film.

Re: Pentax repair turn-around time?

2005-09-26 Thread George Sinos
Don - I'm one of those guys that went to autofocus because it's almost impossible to focus quickly with my bifocals, so... take this question with a grain of salt. Because of the bifocals I fiddle with the diopter correction more than I'd like. I always focus on something at the far end of the

Re: Pentax repair turn-around time?

2005-09-26 Thread George Sinos
Kostas - That certainly clarifies it. (Sorry about the pun.) gs On 9/26/05, Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, George Sinos wrote: My guess is the correction has more to do with the distance from the focusing screen to the eyepiece than anything else

OptioMX snapshots

2005-09-27 Thread George Sinos
These photos were taken with the 3 megapixel version of the OptioMX. I've had it for over a year and am still surprised by this odd little camera. It has a nice combination of size and features and is great for those times when you don't want to carry anything very large. Here are a few

PESO - The Morning Drive

2005-09-27 Thread George Sinos
Here's my morning drive. http://Georges.smugmug.com/photos/37815932-M.jpg Eastbound traffic goes straight into the morning Sun. See you later, gs http://www.georgesphotos.net

Re: PESO - The Morning Drive

2005-09-28 Thread George Sinos
A few folks wondered about the lens, etc: The car was at a dead stop, so I opened the window and held the OptioMX steady on top of the side view mirror. The OptioMX has a 5.8mm-58mm zoom lens, f2.8-f3.5. The exif data says the exposure was 1/750 second at f/8, ISO 100, 7mm focal length. I

Re: OptioMX snapshots

2005-09-28 Thread George Sinos
We held belt sander races at last year's woodworkers picnic. Here's a link: http://georges.smugmug.com/gallery/170694/1 The belt sander shots are near the end of the gallery. See you later, gs http://www.georgesphotos.net

Re: Setting Up a Web Site

2005-10-05 Thread George Sinos
Shel - My Photo site is hosted at Smugmug. They offer an excellent product for a reasonable price. Go to http://www.smugmug.com and click on help. The bottom line is for $29.95 per year you get unlimited storage space. At that level I think you get 4 gigabytes/month of bandwidth. It's hard

Re: Digital Primer?

2005-10-09 Thread George Sinos
Cotty wrote, requesting info on a digital camera primer. Cotty - I teach a couple of non-credit courses at the local community college. The materials at this site http://www.shortcourses.com/ seem to work very well for beginners. In particular a short course in choosing a digital camera and a

Re: Picture Window Pro. Was: PESO - Memorial

2005-10-12 Thread George Sinos
John Don't know about the manual, but had to toss my two cents into the conversation on Picture Window Pro. I used Picture Window Pro at home and Photoshop at work up through Photoshop version 7 and never felt the need to spend the money on Photoshop for my hobby photography. In fact, I felt

Re: Picture Window Pro. Was: PESO - Memorial

2005-10-13 Thread George Sinos
to the reasonable price, it's pretty much a win-win situation. And thanks to the link to the Koren site. Plenty there to while away the idle hour! John On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:44:30 +0100, George Sinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Don't know about the manual, but had to toss my two cents

Re: OT kinda - making PDF files with Photoshop (elements hopefully)

2005-10-23 Thread George Sinos
Ann - Have you used the free Open Office software suite? It's the free alternative to some of Microsoft's office products. Among other things the latest version included their take on Word. What will make it helpful for your needs it can output your document directly to PDF format. You can

Re: Sent My Brother to the Dark Side

2005-10-31 Thread George Sinos
On 10/31/05, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on the complexity of digital point and shoots cameras and the less than useful, extremely large manuals. Graywolf I've mentioned before that I teach a how to use your new digital camera class at the local community college. The requirements are to

Re: PESO - February Sunrise

2006-02-22 Thread George Sinos
around the office. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 2/22/06, frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/10/06, George Sinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I picked up the DA 40mm a few days ago. Here's a sunrise I captured on the way to work yesterday. http://georgesphotos.net

Re: PESO - Waiting....

2006-02-22 Thread George Sinos
Bruce - This is a classic. I like the way the muted colors don't overpower the textures. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 2/22/06, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was taken the same day as the Angry Sea shot, but we had moved to a different beach. Pentax *istD, A

Re: PESO: Still winter

2006-03-05 Thread George Sinos
Jens - This one would look good over my mantle. With all that detail it needs to be printed large. gs http://georgesphotos.net On 3/5/06, Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a shot I took today - a small creek somewhere in Denmark - perhaps 40 km from Copenhagen.

Re: PESO: Still winter

2006-03-05 Thread George Sinos
I'll expand a little on my earlier comment. I think this is one of those photos that must be large to be appreciated. Its one of those photos that you put over your mantle or on the wall in your office or den. The kind you sit back and look at, and every time you see it a different part of the

Re: Enablement: Optio A10

2006-03-16 Thread George Sinos
My original OptioS died a couple of weeks ago, leaving me without a pocket sized camera. I was anxious to try out the A10 as a replacement. I stopped by my local camera store, thinking they would not have it yet, intending to have them call me when they arrived. Unfortunately, they were in in

Re: Cleaning of equipment

2006-03-21 Thread George Sinos
I don't know if many of you follow the http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ web site. The owner, Michael Reichmann finances the site by selling DVDs. The current DVD (#14) has a fairly long segment that contains a tour of Butcher's darkroom and a walk-a-long on a shoot in a swamp. Butcher makes

Re: GESO: Fire at Billiards Hall

2006-03-21 Thread George Sinos
Jerome - That is a great group of shots. It looks like you kept your wits about you in the bad weather and early morning. Lately, I've also started using the higher ISO settings on the D and have been very satisfied. The high ISO performance is one big advantage over my old film shooting days.

PESO: First Day of Spring

2006-03-26 Thread George Sinos
After an unusually dry and warm Winter, the Midwest was hit with several inches of snow on the first day of Spring. This lawn sprinkler was parked outside and caught in the snow. http://georgesphotos.net/photos/61509111-M.jpg See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net

Optio A10 - Early Samples

2006-03-28 Thread George Sinos
I've had the Optio A10 for a couple of weeks and have taken quite a few photos, mainly snapshot type stuff. Here's the link to a gallery with a few samples. http://georgesphotos.net/Photography Comments on the A10: I haven't yet found anything in the exif data to tell me when the anti-shake

Re: iview pro

2006-06-27 Thread George Sinos
I just saw over at http://www.luminous-landscape.com/ that ivew was just purchased by Microsoft. It's under What's New in update #2 to the June 27 entry. There's a link to an opinion written by the author of The DAM book See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 6/26/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi

Re: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera

2006-07-02 Thread George Sinos
Not specifically replying to Paul, just tagging onto the thread here... I've been teaching non-credit photography classes at the local community college for a bit over three years now. The basic class is aimed at family photographers. At first, this class was filled with people trying to figure

Re: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera

2006-07-03 Thread George Sinos
On 7/3/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike, snip - IR, UV, X-Ray ... all are easily accessible, specialized cameras that expand the capabilities are also available. snip G I agree with Godfrey here, but in the case above it's probably fair to point out, that other than

Re: SD 512 memory card

2006-07-03 Thread George Sinos
Ann - I just bought an adaptor for about $20 that will let you put an SD card into a CF slot. It looks like a CF card with a slot that accepts the SD card. I have a bunch of CF cards for the istD and all of my other cameras take SD cards. For $20, it seemed like a good idea. See you later, gs

Re: Film recommendations?

2006-07-06 Thread George Sinos
Back when I still shot film I had settled on Kodak's Portra UC. It was touted to have been developed to scan well. My experience with the color was very good. It was one of the few films that did a good job on both skin tones and vivid colors. The brighter colors were well saturated, but not

GESO - Red, White and Blue Kites

2006-07-07 Thread George Sinos
On July 1 - the local kite club held their Red, White and Blue Festival. Here's a link to a few photos from the event: http://georgesphotos.net/gallery/1638381 This is a friendly bunch of guys. They had seen the photos I took at last October's event and let me have the run of the field. I got

Re: GESO - Red, White and Blue Kites

2006-07-09 Thread George Sinos
I forgot to say these were taken with either the DA 16-45mm or the 50-200mm on the istD. Thanks for the comments. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 7/7/06, George Sinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On July 1 - the local kite club held their Red, White and Blue Festival. Here's a link

GESO: Fourth of July Photos

2006-07-11 Thread George Sinos
Fourth of July was busy. The City of Ralston, Nebraska always celebrates the Fourth in a big way. I've split the photos into two galleries, one for the parade and one for the fireworks. The parade shots were all taken with the DA 16-45 and 50-200 on the istD. Mostly with the former. The

Re: GESO - Red, White and Blue Kites

2006-07-16 Thread George Sinos
Thanks, That's my favorite shot of the bunch. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 7/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 7/7/2006 11:20:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On July 1 - the local kite club held their Red, White and

Re: PESO - Pond

2006-08-02 Thread George Sinos
Bruce - This is beautiful. It's another one of the images that probably looks much better when printed very large. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 8/2/06, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of several beaver ponds in the park near my home. Pentax *istD, DA 16-45/5,

Re: Lens Blur Filter - Photoshop

2006-08-13 Thread George Sinos
Russell Brown is one of those guys that has the gift of clearly explaining relatively complex topics. Combine this with his knowledge of Photoshop and you have a guy that can create excellent tutorials His style is a bit odd. He reminds me a bit of a combination of Mr. Rogers and Bill Nye the

Re: Antishake, Pentax style

2006-08-13 Thread George Sinos
Bill and all - I had an interesting Anti-shake experience last weekend. I've mentioned before that I teach photography classes at the local community college. In the basic class I connect the AV output of a point and shoot camera to the classroom video projector. This allows the group to see

Re: The *ist D sensor and hue

2006-08-20 Thread George Sinos
Don - Is this something you can fix in raw conversion? http://georgesphotos.net/gallery/796655 These are the screens from the CS2 raw converter, I was thinking the Calibrate tab (last photo on the page) might be what you're looking for. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net -- PDML

Re: DA 100mm f2.8 Macro

2006-08-20 Thread George Sinos
Just tagging onto the thread here - not arguing with Paul - I use one of the Stroboframes with flash quite often: http://www.tiffen.com/products.html?tablename=stroboframe With this, or even with a long telephoto I find the wheels much more convenient. When I use the bracket I'm always

Re: Kodachrome processing: Ambiguous press release

2006-08-20 Thread George Sinos
I'll go along with that. Last year I scanned a few hundred of my Father's old slides from the late fifties and early sixties. At the same time I scanned a bunch of my stuff from the late sixties and seventies. The Kodachrome looked like it was developed yesterday. Can't say the same about a

Re: Testing the K100D and some more K10D hype

2006-08-21 Thread George Sinos
After reading the press releases on the new A20 and M20 I have figured out the killer feature that will make him give up his medium format equipment. Wait for it.. Face Recognition Mode Sorry, it's a dirty job but someone had to say it. See you later, gs

Nostalgic SD card carrying case

2006-08-22 Thread George Sinos
The recent discussion of memory cards prompted me to fill what may be a niche market for carrying cases. I may have a limited number of these nostalgic SD card carrying cases available for sale. Most are the frosted variety with a plain black cap. Some caps have labels printed with the names of

Re: Nostalgic SD card carrying case

2006-08-22 Thread George Sinos
--- George Sinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent discussion of memory cards prompted me to fill what may be a niche market for carrying cases. I may have a limited number of these nostalgic SD card carrying cases available for sale. Most are the frosted variety with a plain

Re: Survey: How do you use the Histogram/Blinkies?

2005-12-27 Thread George Sinos
Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...clip... However, the histogram (and apparently the blinkies as well) in the *ist cameras describe the jpeg image. When shooting RAW, some highlights that might shown as off the scale can actually be accommodated. ...clip... I agree with Paul, and

Re: PESO Shit happens...

2005-12-27 Thread George Sinos
Hey look - When you hold a Pentax up to the mirror it looks like Nikon On 12/27/05, Albano Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.flaneur.albanogarcia.com.ar/2005/12/27/operado/ I'll be out of business for about 3 to 4 weeks. I got a simple surgery on my hand due to a

Re: Canon 1Ds MarkII Test Drive

2005-12-29 Thread George Sinos
Only slightly off topic. I saw a firewire/USB comparison on the television show Call for Help. The results were interesting. I don't remember the exact details, but they used firewire and USB to transfer about 10 Gbytes of data. They did the test on an apple and on a dell. Here are the

Re: Quality of Domke Bags/Satchels

2006-01-02 Thread George Sinos
Shel - I've never washed any of my bags. The closest I've come to cleaning them is either brushing them with a stiff brush or blasting them with a burst of air from the air compressor. I have a bunch of bags, but primarily use two. The Tamrac Velocity 9 is a one strap sling bag that is worn

Re: DVDs

2006-01-02 Thread George Sinos
Marnie - Yeah - it's easy to recommend an expensive solution. But the key is to have at least two copies. If the two copies can be different types of media all the better. In it's simplest form, it can be a working copy on your hard drive with one or two sets of DVD's as backup. One can be

Re: Web Page

2006-01-28 Thread George Sinos
If you have your heart set on starting a new hobby of web site design, you've received some good advice in the other messages. Frankly, I think you'll do better saving that time for your photography. Smugmug offers a bit of the best of both worlds. You can let them do 99 per cent of the work,

Re: istDS sensor tilted?

2006-01-29 Thread George Sinos
The screens are also interchangeable. Is there a bit of play involved in the focusing screen? gs On 1/29/06, Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Studdert wrote: On 29 Jan 2006 at 20:13, Gonz wrote: I'm very disappointed with the viewfinder/base misalignment. This means that you have

PESO - February Sunrise

2006-02-10 Thread George Sinos
I picked up the DA 40mm a few days ago. Here's a sunrise I captured on the way to work yesterday. http://georgesphotos.net/gallery/781336/1/55859051/Large See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net

GESO - Kite Flyers Round-up

2006-02-10 Thread George Sinos
Last October a local kite flyers club had a round-up at a nearby park. I intended to drop by, grab a few quick shots and hit the road. Once I arrived, it got a more interesting then I expected and I ended up spending a couple of hours and filled a couple of memory cards. I pulled a few shots

Re: Digital darkroom frustrations!

2006-02-12 Thread George Sinos
Just a short reply on the general topic - The best reference I've see for this is Wayne Fulton's web site http://www.scantips.com See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net

Re: Pop Photo D Shoot-out

2006-02-13 Thread George Sinos
Not a reply specifically to Mark's comment, but to the thread in general. I read the article and remember reading that all of the cameras were judged capable of eaisly making excellent images up to 11x14. For all practical purposes, any of the differences in image quality will be swamped out by

Sudden popularity of A10 samples

2006-04-04 Thread George Sinos
I was surprised by the sudden popularity of my A10 samples when I did my daily check of my web site stats. It had tallied a bit over 800 unique visitors since I posted the samples on March 29th, then, over 2000 new unique visitors in the last 24 hours. It turns out Smugmug (my site host) added

Re: RSS/RDF feed (testing help needed)

2006-04-15 Thread George Sinos
I have a feeling Shel is pulling our leg about not setting the clock in his DS. For those of you that haven't thought about the clock. It's not just there so you don't have to buy a watch. The time and date of exposure is embedded in each photo. If you don't set the clock, this embedded info

Re: Who's Not Shooting Raw?

2006-04-16 Thread George Sinos
I've never paid much attention to the time it takes to do the Raw conversion. The topic has come up again in this thread. After returning from a visit to the local zoo I thought I'd keep track of the conversion process. So, for my three year old Dell, here are the times for 164 Raw files from

Wildlife photos

2006-04-16 Thread George Sinos
Here are a few shots from the weekend's batch of wildlife photos. http://georgesphotos.net/gallery/1373870 I printed most of these earlier today. Some of them look much better when printed large. The bear and bison shots, in particular, look better on paper. See you later, gs

Re: Wildlife photos

2006-04-17 Thread George Sinos
. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 4/17/06, Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George Sinos wrote: Here are a few shots from the weekend's batch of wildlife photos. http://georgesphotos.net/gallery/1373870 You seemed to nail the exposure of this pelican. Nice pose too. http

Re: ist D - PE4 questions

2006-04-21 Thread George Sinos
Here's a short quote from the page linked below: The box of crayons you're given for displaying photos on the web is called sRGB. There are other color spaces, such as Adobe RGB (1998), but no Windows-based browser can display them correctly. The Macintosh browsers Safari and Internet Explorer

Re: Picassa2

2006-04-21 Thread George Sinos
Don - Check the documentation to be sure, but I'm positive it makes a point that Picassa 2 never modifies the originals. See you later, gs On 4/21/06, Don Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If it were not that Picassa2 alters the originals...

Re: ist D - PE4 questions

2006-04-21 Thread George Sinos
download time for the 1K byte or so of profile data. Godfrey On Apr 21, 2006, at 2:56 PM, George Sinos wrote: Here's a short quote from the page linked below: The box of crayons you're given for displaying photos on the web is called sRGB. There are other color spaces

Re: ist D - PE4 questions

2006-04-22 Thread George Sinos
The guy that wrote those articles is Chris MacAskill, President of Smugmug, the photo sharing service. He's done a bit of research on this topic to help his customers get predictable results. I think the bottom line is, if you use Adobe RGB it will look washed out when viewed with a windows

Re: PESO - Trees in Fog

2006-04-23 Thread George Sinos
This one's all about subtle tonal variation. It looks surprisingly good on my screen. I'm guessing an old fashioned chemical print would look great. GS On 4/23/06, Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://home.earthlink.net/~shel-pix/trees_in_fog.html From an old negative ... Shel

Re: Saving for Web in PE4: update

2006-04-23 Thread George Sinos
OK Godfrey - This is the kind of thing that drives me nuts until I figure it out. First - in the context of this message I agree that the metadata isn't extraneous junk. Especially your copyright data. Now, let's talk about the ICC profile. If you're using a Mac, the ICC profile is not

Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?

2006-04-27 Thread George Sinos
Lots of good answers in this thread. Here's my theory and practice. I back up to more than one type of media, and store the copies in more than one location. All of my files are stored on two different hard drives with two additional copies on DVDs. The DVD sets are stored in two different

Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?

2006-04-27 Thread George Sinos
And of course, five minutes after I wrote all that I checked the release notes. They just made the formal announcement of all of that stuff here: http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/ On 4/27/06, George Sinos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lots of good answers in this thread. much deleted

Re: Life in the Raw

2006-04-27 Thread George Sinos
I didn't mean to sound critical of your post Shel. I agree that the proprietary formats are a bad thing for the photographer and photography in general. I'm a big fan of DNG and convert my raw files immediately. There's a couple of reasons. First of all, with Adobe's clout, I think DNG will

Re: batteries discharging quickly in *istD

2006-04-30 Thread George Sinos
My experience is similar to others. I use the grip, but for my own convenience, I only put batteries in the grip. I get about 800-1200 shots on a set of lithiums. These will last several shooting sessions for me, so I don't feel the need to load two sets of batteries in the camera. I got

Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?

2006-04-30 Thread George Sinos
Bob - I don't see the time or cost of format conversion as different than the investment I'm making in scanning slides and prints into digital formats. And digital files are much easier and cheaper to convert to new formats than film and paper. Usually these conversions can be performed over a

Re: batteries discharging quickly in *istD

2006-04-30 Thread George Sinos
My wallet is glad the istD can take either. The difference in price can be significant. The local Target store prices a two-pack of CRV3s at $14.95 and a four-pack of AA's at $9.99. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 4/30/06, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original

Re: camera club question re: projected image contests

2006-06-16 Thread George Sinos
I thought I'd chime in on this one. I just joined a local club in January. Evidently, until this year they used a digital projector, a 35mm slide projector and a third projector for two-and-a-quarter square format slides. This is was in addition to prints. This year the fellow that runs the

Re: RAW vs JPEG - The truth is out

2006-06-17 Thread George Sinos
Not really replying to Marnie, just tacking on to the thread here - Here's how I explained jpeg/RAW to some fairly non-technical folks. If pictures were brownies, a raw file would be like a grocery sack containing a brownie mix, eggs, water and oil. (or whatever else the mix requires) Within

Re: OT: help with WORD and Publisher - question

2005-11-13 Thread George Sinos
Ann - I use publisher quite a bit and have wondered about this myself. If you get an answer let me know. Thanks, gs On 11/13/05, Ann Sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I have MS word _ I used tables to make pages in a engagement calendar format but word doesnt let me put something to the

close call with disaster

2005-11-13 Thread George Sinos
Short version - The hard drive on which I store my photos crashed. I restored the backup copy and didn't lose anything but time. At the same time I discovered a hole in my backup process and plugged it. Long version - Late last Saturday afternoon I returned from a surprise party. The family

Re: close call with disaster

2005-11-13 Thread George Sinos
Godfrey - Just a couple of questions. Do you disconnect the backup drives when you're not using them? and Do you take anything off site? GS

Re: Digital file numbering?

2005-12-01 Thread George Sinos
Given the number of good ideas here, it's probably not a bad place to mention photo organization software. Google offers Picasa at www.picasa.com. This is free software and is a good inexpensive way to see what this type of software can do to help you out. My current organizer is imatch

Another DAM book

2005-12-18 Thread George Sinos
Not really, this is a new book devoted to Digital Asset Management from the viewpoint of the photographer. http://thedambook.com/ I picked it up yesterday at the local Barnes and Noble and have been using it as an excuse to not finish those Christmas Cards. Chapter 1 is downloadable from the

Re: Semi-OT (but photography): Some Family History

2005-12-21 Thread George Sinos
Responding to the conversation on family photos - I'm in the middle of a similar family project. I thought the scanning would be tedious. Other than time consuming, it's not that bad. The part I don't enjoy is taking the photos out of the various album pages that the family has used over the

Re: Samsung GX-1L?

2005-12-21 Thread George Sinos
My guess it will be a huge hit at the big box electronics stores like Best Buy and CompUSA. gs On 12/21/05, Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if it will be sold without the lens. Given the fierce competition in the DSLR field, who does Samsung think will be the market for

Re: Digital Leica M8?

2006-08-27 Thread George Sinos
Reminds me of what happened to watches in the 1970's. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net On 8/27/06, Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas Newman wrote: My thoughts exactly. They've replaced the ultra-precise, very-limited-production, mechanical internals of a Leica with

Herb Keppler's comments in Photo Reporter

2006-09-02 Thread George Sinos
Keppler always has an interesting take on the industry. He's been around long enough to put things into perspective. He's authored this article on the battle for the 10% of the DSLR market not owned by the big two.

Re: OT: Becoming Pentaxian Again

2006-09-02 Thread George Sinos
Marnie - Welcome back the fold. Just a little advice if you're trying to save a little cash. After you get the new Pentax camera body, don't try out the DA 50-200 zoom. See you later, gs http://georgesphotos.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Herb Keppler's comments in Photo Reporter

2006-09-02 Thread George Sinos
of us who know him, is Burt. To anyone else he is Herbert or Mr. Keppler. Show the man some respect. Bob On Sep 2, 2006, at 1:01 PM, George Sinos wrote: Keppler always has an interesting take on the industry. He's been around long enough to put things into perspective. He's authored

Re: APS-C sensor $34?!

2006-09-07 Thread George Sinos
For the type of work I do, I'm not sure I'd pay a lot more for a full frame body. The 6mp istD has been more than satisfactory so far. The 10mp successor should be better. Thinking down the line, a multi-megapixel FF upgrade will require more memory, more disk space, and everything to support

Sunrise with DA 21mm

2006-09-07 Thread George Sinos
This is rapidly becoming my favorite lens. Here's an example, shot on the way to work yesterday. It was morning, the Sun was on the way up, the mist and fog were hanging over the fields. I pulled off the highway and shot this out the side window of the car. If you have the bandwidth, check the

GESO - Hot Air Balloon Festival

2006-09-08 Thread George Sinos
At the end of August I attended the Lighter than Air Balloon Fair sponsored by the Iowa Western Community College. The Nebraska Balloon Club and several others put on a great show. I was there for about three hours on Saturday evening and filled several memory cards. This gallery contains some

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