you need a Wimberley Plamp to hold the light shade.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Barry Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: Tongue operated shutter release
So, when I'm in the field with my ZX-5n taking
i don't see APS being a problem, and i don't see anyone owning a *istD
willing to pay what it costs for much greater than 10MP. the Nikon D200 is
rumored to be 10MP and come in at around $2500, and just a little less than
that is what i figure the *istD replacement will come in at. i think that
anonymous contents.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:25 PM
Subject: RETHINK: Survey results to date.
After reading the web page again I better ask before I
post names with this,
have any 29.5mm Cineiplan? i'm missing UV and light yellow.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Enough Already!
Wow. I'll bet we had one or two of those in a drawer
there are quite a few people who shoot flight with a 600mm, just not with a
20D. that is why i said it.
Herb
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From: Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive
Well,
given the rising popularity of stitched panoramas, the ultrawide lenses are
more important than they used to be relative to film cameras. i could use a
10mm 180 degree full frame fisheye on my bodies, if it were sufficiently
high quality. it would save me a lot of time.
Herb
-
your Internet history or cache were highly fragmented.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: David Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PDML pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: OT: A favour to ask - Update
I don't understand how doing this fixed the
have you priced the right kind of gear? for a week's rental, it would be
about $1500 plus a $14K deposit.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Re: How Pentax Could Survive
try shooting with something higher end than your 20D and a 600mm and let me
know if you still think that. my experience is that it's easier to shoot
flying birds with MF and a 300 because there is more DOF to work with.
Herb
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From: Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
even in NYC, there are only one or two. only one i could find easily via the
Internet was in San Francisco. they weren't recent model lenses either. the
glass may be the same, but the electronics aren't.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
CorelDraw manages to ship with a new load of bugs every release that take a
few updates to fix and then they send out a new release. i use Illustrator a
lot for mapping work. CorelDraw has no concept of plugins and that makes
things like custom co-ordinate spaces impossible. i also find that
because i have a lot of money stacked away in Pentax lenses that i would
have to sell at a large loss, and, in a brief moment of lucidity, Pentax
announced what they were going to do and it made sense, for that brief
moment. i was under the illusion that it might happen again. that ended the
squirrel and sparrow shots for me are routine enough that i do them while i
am waiting for something else to happen. sometimes, they will do something
really unexpected and then i get a great shot. most of the time, taking them
stops me from getting bored and missing something important. if i'm
the frustrating part is that the day i saw the mating eagles, the guy next
to me, whom i have shot with a once and crossed paths with several times,
banged off a sequence of shots on his D70 that were all sharply focused and
kept up with the action. content-wise, most of them had something
they won't be worth very little especially if Pentax goes completely out of
business, they would be worth a lot more. i could sell them all to this
mailing list. in fact, some of them will wait until they are 30 years old
before being sufficiently aged. it will, however, take a couple of years
Pentax announced a couple of months ago that they had an early retirement
incentive for Japan and that they were doing early retirement on another 150
people around the world for other people that reported to HQ. last week,
they said that they had met their limit on early retirement incentives
Pentax Japan has a little over 1600 employees now.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: John Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: EBay Pentax Seller Question
I'm amazed they had so many people TO lay off. Did he
as i said earlier, i can't wait that long, but i have also said that i will
pick up the new Pentax body too unless it is a real dog or way, way too
late.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Tom Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 6:20
i don't think so. rarity will prevent that.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Jens Bladt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:31 AM
Subject: RE: Sensors That Shift?
I guess used shift lenses will get cheaper, since most people is OK
if you can, try stripping the superfluous 4 zero bits from every pixel and
then rerunning the compression.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Thibouille [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 8:38 AM
Subject: *ist-D raw files compressed:
Illustrator is a vector graphics program while Painter is an image editing
program. they are about as far apart in the art creation world as it is
possible to get. vector graphics means you are dealing with only with
shapes. images are a bunch of pixels. Illustrator takes no advantage at all
would you believe that Illustrator is better than Corel Draw and Freehand? i
have all three. for a variety of technical reasons, i have to use
Illustrator, although i haven't needed to upgrade from 10 to CS. that's
coming though.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Mark Roberts
i spent a lot of time comparing tripods before buying Gitzo CF tripods. i
found them lighter and stronger than any Bogen/Manfrotto competitor in the
same size range. i decided that i just had to get used to the twist locks
instead of the levers, even though they are not as convenient.
for
seeing a set of flying bald eagles mating and not being able to capture that
except as out of focus blurs while my companion with his D70 gets sharp
captures was the final straw, especially when my camera locked up writing
its buffer. the birds were too close for effective manual focus as they
let's see you do it.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Shel Belinkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: Re: How Pentax Could Survive
It's rant time
I get so tired of certain people claiming that the only
being an excellent wildlife photographer isn't enough. photo editors are
continuing raise the standard for what is acceptable and that 1 out of 1000
shot of 30 years ago has become a 1 out of 10 shot of today, most because of
technology.
Herb
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From: [EMAIL
- Original Message -
From: Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Herb Chong pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Irrelevant Poll: What do you WANT in a digital camera?
Friday, September 23, 2005, 12:55:47 AM, Herb wrote:
HC if it has a digital
that too. browsing the Internet and looking through photo galleries and
such, there are thousands of top-notch wildlife photographers out there. of
my Calgary trip collection, i figure 4 or 5 of the images i took are
publishable in print. the rest are OK for the web and not much better.
you haven't mentioned anything about fade resistance. the Epson is much more
so than the HP. don't know if you care, but i do, which is why anything
other than an Epson won't do for me.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PDML
Godfrey's 1270, the 1280, and most of the higher end consumer Epson printers
all have it.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: printing papers ...
The Epson R series printers
i spend a lot of time studying my competition, their techniques, and what
they deliver. i know just how hard it is to make those shots with my
equipment, and i know just how many more shots my shooting acquaintances
make with their non-Pentax equipment that cost about the same as mine. i
also
Canon makes an industry leading 18% averaged across their entire camera
line. i don't remember what the DSLR numbers are alone, but it is closer to
about 35%.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Friday, September 23,
the people i sell my prints to care. they are buying an archival print and
expect it to stay around longer than they will.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: printers
If you
so Dag's summary of modern sports and wildlife photography as artless
repetition is?
Herb
- Original Message -
From: keith_w [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive
Amateur wannabe? Why this
that's usually a sign of wearing heads. have you tried looking for an Epson
maintenance cartridge? it has cleaning solution inside instead of ink. might
be pricy.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PDML
one of the things that Wilhelm has found is that 3rd party papers generally
provide significantly less fade resistance than the vendor's own papers.
this has been my limited experience too.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
a Pentax body that can't focus on a moving object while a Canon or Nikon
body can is solely technology.
having worked for 10 years in industrial research generating patents, i am
quite familiar with what patents can be used for. i see no evidence that
Pentax got any of those uses.
Herb.
if it has a digital sensor, the winding won't generate enough new power to
put up the low battery warning. it might be enough to run the K1000 light
meter.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Frantisek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pål Jensen pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September
anybody who recognizes a Leica as more than a cheap PS doesn't need to
steal one.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: New England Vacation
I carried my Leica (which
exactly. assuming the EXIF is correct, the sequence was shot with the 500/4
with a 1.4 extender. my guess is that these are cropped parts of the images,
not full frame. otherwise, even at 1/1000, motion blur would have been
visible on the wing tips.
Herb
- Original Message -
place these new images side by side with some 30 year old shots and you will
see why such old shots aren't publishable any longer. i have birding books
from the late 60's to 70's. amazing for their time, completely unpublishable
today because they don't meet today's standards for sharpness, let
under those lighting conditions, manual exposure is feasible. based on the
constant shutter speed and aperture setting, i think that is what they used.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22,
at 700mm, there isn't usually enough DOF to let this work, if you're trying
to fill a reasonably large amount of the frame.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: How Pentax
Pentax hopes to sell 120K cameras at an average sales price of $600 this
fiscal year. if Pentax truly meets its sales goal of 10% market share in 2
years, that will mean about 500-700K cameras at about the same average
price. since they have stated that they also hope to make 10% on their DSLRs
doing the same thing today means you are an amateur wannabe. the photo
editor wants choice and the entire sequence might not be appropriate, but
several from it at the same time would be.
Herb.
- Original Message -
From: DagT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent:
Pentax has been using FedEx since 2003 to deliver most camera equipment
direct from the factory to the distributor. that would be a place like BH.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Gonz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:48 PM
i've seen almost no visible proof of that. i've seen lots of proof of after
the fact invention by Pentax to avoid having to license patents from other
companies. the only easily verifiable example i have seen is the sliding
lens assembly on the PS digital cameras, but then Pentax doesn't
it's also why some K and A lenses are still listed as current. the 500/4.5
is a K/M lens, as is the 2000/13.5, and there is a raft of A* lenses.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:48 PM
there is a name for that specific condition and there is a treatment. there
is also the equivalent for JCO's too.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: Camera engineering
i have and they aren't competitive anymore, sharpness being one of the most
important reasons.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive
Obviously
for wildlife too. 5-6 images for a single specific stock request would be
normal. this one would be bald eagle stealing from another bald eagle. to
get those 5-6 images, you would take several hundred, probably 10 or so
sequences like this.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: P. J.
i know what i specialize in.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive
Herb, I've come to the conclusion that you're never wrong.
i've found that cheaper batteries may have the capacity (no way to tell
without measuring), but they can have a much higher self-discharge rate and
can also last far fewer charge cycles. Radio Shack sells RCRV-3 chargers
with a single battery and batteries separately. however i am tempted,
i bought the *istD knowing that at only 6MP, it could not possibly the
camera i would stay with, but it would be an adequate 2 year stepping stone
to the upgrade from it which i expected i could live with for a long time.
6MP is a lot better than film bigots give it credit for, but until DSLRs
you are a little on the high end of average.
http://www.pmai.org/pressrelease/releases.asp?id=28386
Herb
- Original Message -
From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax Discuss pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Camera
Epson printer drivers are addressable only to 360 ppi. HP printer drivers
can be set to 600ppi, but don't recommend it for photographic work.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:42 PM
i have read that the distortion and sharpness of the 10.5 leaves much to be
desired. it's not a true fisheye in the sense that it's got distortions that
cheaper panorama stitching software can't deal with. so i have read.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Scott Loveless [EMAIL
unfortunately, i think you have just spec'd a $4K camera, ignoring the noise
requirement.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Irrelevant Poll: What do you WANT in a digital camera?
i never found it useful except to impress the Nikon and Canon owners.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Mark Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: Orphaned Power Zoom Lenses
So now I have two FA*
Paul wants a 20 shot buffer in RAW at 5fps, more or less what i want. the
20D doesn't have a 20 frame buffer when shooting RAW, it's 6. the DSC-R1
uses a Sony sensor, so they can undercut everyone on retail price. i can see
$2.5-3K, but only if it is missing a lot of physical ruggedness.
i think the noise requirement is going to be the most expensive to meet.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Irrelevant Poll: What do you WANT in a digital camera?
my Duracells are acting like regular NiMH batteries ought to. the off-brand
batteries have fared worse, with one set refusing to hold a charge now, and
another pretty close to that.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent:
if that is the case, the D200 ought to be the same spec of camera that
Pentax should release as the high end body.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: Irrelevant Poll: What
between April and June 2005, KM sold 10K, Nikon sold 330K, Olympus sold 40K,
Pentax sold 20K, and Canon sold 500K DSLRs. everyone else was enough under
10K not to matter.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Adam Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday,
Zeiss and Voigtlander can appeal to the retro market as they have done in
the past. they will release new film cameras with small changes from their
basic chassis. most of the differences will be cosmetic.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
since it is on a tripod, one handed makes little difference.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: green button wars (again)
For you maybe, I find I'm a lot steadier if I
given that Pentax hopes to sell 120K DSLRs this fiscal year, all of which
are low profit margin, what do you think?
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Mark Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'pentax-discuss' pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:27 AM
Subject: Camera
and irrelevant. that is the part he doesn't get.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax list pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: Rename request
On 19/9/05, J. C. O'Connell, discombobulated, unleashed:
Now
you haven't figured it out yet, my position represents the same as that of
people who manage hundreds of millions of dollars of Pentax stock. Pentax's
camera business is in serious trouble, not the company. if Pentax pulls out
of the camera business, then all the money have i have put into
because all the first time buyers will have bought and it's only upgraders
left.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Mishka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive (was:Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm)
tell Pentax to stop announcing that another quarter went by where they lost
money again. they ought to respect your sage advice. as for not telling the
truth, there are laws against that.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: John Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
John also doesn't know what i do for a living. photography brings in money,
but not enough to live on. working on Wall St is what lets me buy the amount
of camera equipment i do. i put my money directly where it counts most,
buying more new Pentax equipment in last few years than most people
what's the problem? Pentax hasn't upgraded the *istD in 2 years. it is
incapable of capturing many images i have to let pass because the camera is
unable to capture it. the specific capabilities missing are significantly
large capture buffer and much better AF, especially in the tracking of
no, i look at the underlying data that the analysts are using and i find
nothing to refute their conclusions. none of them depend on whether Pentax
lies or tell the truth to analysts. if they are lying on the numbers that i
look at, it's illegal.
Herb
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From:
Pentax has stated that they hope to have a 10% profit margin on their DSLRs.
your numbers are close enough.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Mark Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:48 AM
Subject: Camera
at best, FocusFixer does a tiny bit better job. however, since i got my copy
when CS just came out, it was worth it. anyone who has CS2 doesn't need to
get it.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, September
not being a better bean counting company is part of what got it where it is
today.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
In
i have found two features of CS2 very useful. the first is that Adobe Bridge
lets me work with batches of RAW files applying adjustments to them in
background. the adjustments are stored in the Camera RAW image database and
don't produce images other tools like Capture One and RAW Shooter
JCO counts for at least 20 of us by message volume.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
How ridiculous. Millions?
I doubt if
so are aperture rings in lenses headed. the K/M lens compatibility we have
is as good as it's going to get.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm
No
it's clear from the DS, DL, and DS2 announcements that Pentax was aiming at
the low end of the market and mostly to people who have never owned any type
of SLR before. the D was aimed a little higher. competition is going to be
much worse in a few months. in a brutal market starting in 2000,
sorry, you're wrong. that's exactly why the low end DSLRs are selling like
hotcakes. they are selling to people upgrading from digital PS cameras
being used every day. if they had a film camera, it has been in the closet
for years. the high end market like people here account for a tiny
the Sigma 12-24
instead.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Herb Chong wrote:
that i have used mine. the only primes besides
a paraphrased comment in an equity analyst's report on Pentax last month:
Pentax has indicated that they will resume their camera marketing campaign
when the imaging products division starts to make money again.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax
lens quality will become an important selling point when award winning pros
start talking about their top end Pentax lenses on their top of the line
Pentax cameras giving them an edge against Canon and Nikon shooters. Pentax
should have been working on a derated clone of a Nikon D2X, but they
i'm one of the people who shoot f11 under those conditions. i can look at
the histogram if i think the shot is improperly exposed and correct if need
be. every time i have had to correct exposure, it's not because of the lens
or the camera, it's because i wasn't paying attention and not
i've been using it since it came out. it is one of the true deblurring
Photoshop filters. until Smart Sharpen came out in Photoshop CS2, there was
no real deblur function in Photoshop that allowed modifying any settings.
Unsharp Mask is not a deblurring function. once you are able to understand
unless it is available in 2 weeks, it's too late.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: Tom Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive (was:Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm)
I think you'll have your
win on Sunday, sell on Monday used to be a Detroit slogan. that means
brands, not the actual cars.
Herb...
- Original Message -
From: J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:47 AM
Subject: RE: Pentax K 2.5/200mm
I think you
this list is about as far from the buyers as you can possibly get.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: J. C. O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:09 AM
Subject: RE: green button wars (again)
Lets see some proof/numbers to back
Pentax did their market research well enough that they know people who buy
their new cameras buy some new lenses too, beyond the kit lens. people who
have old lenses to use is a small portion of the market, but an important
one since they tend to buy more new lenses than people who have just
i need to run my camera one-handed a lot of the time. aperture rings are
redundant. autofocus is just about required.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 11:51 AM
Subject: RE: green button wars (again)
if Pentax stayed as an engineering company and continued to run the camera
business as it was 5 years ago, it would no longer be in the camera business
by now.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19,
they will fail by not being used.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: green button wars (again)
I've got 35 year old cameras with their potentiometers still
working fine.
and that is
all.
Herb
- Original Message -
From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Herb Chong wrote:
i have the 77 and three variants of the 50 besides the FA
he dropped out of the Nak Talk mailing list too, whether willingly or not,
because of the same things.
Herb...
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From: Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Rename request
Brian,
JCO was
if you need to do interior panoramas, you need very wide angle lenses. you
have to show at least up to the ceiling and usually well onto the ceiling so
that the VR software showed enough to be realistic. unless you are into
multirow panoramas and stitching dozens of shots at a time, you want
you were the market Pentax hoped to capture before you switched to Canon or
Nikon.
Herb
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From: E.R.N. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: green button wars (again)
I wonder which category I
there are plugins that replicate film grain from specific emulsions quite
accurately too. sometimes, it is worth doing. most of the time, i am not
interested in replicating the look of any film as i consider film a more
limiting medium than digital.
Herb
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i was shooting yesterday in the Catskills and needed an in-between ND filter
of 4 stops because i only had my 6-stop B+W filter with me and not my 3-stop
one. since i carry a Hi-Tech 85mm square ND filter with me in my Cokin P
grad ND filter bag, i placed it on the filter holder in front of the
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