Re: Bag for GFM Outing

2007-01-03 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:12:03PM -0500, Walter Hamler wrote: I'm a fan of photo vests as well. They look a little geeky, but they work well if you just want to carry a couple of lenses and some small bric-brac. Thanks Bill. Now there is an option I never even considered. I will check to

OT - recommendation for non-DSLR

2007-01-04 Thread John Francis
a friend of mine is in the market for a new camera. He doesn't need a DSLR, but will occasionally want to print at A4 or larger. Money isn't a big factor in the deal (although I don't think he's ready to spring for a Leica :-); I remember one or two of you (Godfrey?) seem to be pretty satisfied

Re: K10D and DA 50-200 and AF performance

2007-01-05 Thread John Francis
I rather doubt that the 60-250 will be available in six-seven months. In any case, if you want to rely on auto-focus, you should get the K10D - with the more powerful focus motor it will operate faster than any of the earlier models, even before the DA* SDM lenses come along. I've shot kid's

Re: K10D and DA 50-200 and AF performance

2007-01-05 Thread John Francis
I think (and hope) that's a bit of an overestimate. I'd guess that 2x the (current) price of the K10D is the upper end of the price range, and it may even end up just a little cheaper than that. After all, the FA* 80-200/f2.8 (with a larger front element than a 60-250/f4) didn't cost that much.

Re: K10D with AF540FGZ

2007-01-05 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 01:43:21PM +0100, Henk Terhell wrote: Well, that will be another reason to keep my *istD as backup. See also the critical notes on the absence of support of TTL in the newer Pentax models, and the underexposure of P-TTL of the K100D built-in flash in the article by

Re: K100D and raw converters

2007-01-05 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:55:31AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: P. J. Alling wrote: I'm using W2K All the power of WinXP, just as stable, No stupid Microsoft tricks. (At least no more stupid Microsoft tricks than Win98). It works well, with no muss or fuss. A rarity in the high tech

Re: OT - The French Chef / Julia Child

2007-01-05 Thread John Francis
It's a great resource for techniques (and some good recipes, too). It's probably one of our most-referenced books. Other standbys are Jacques Pepin's two-volume book, the Time-Life cookbook series, and Marion Cunningham for baked goods. On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:30:23PM -0600, Gonz wrote:

Re: OT Is returning a phone message really that complicated

2007-01-07 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 01:08:05PM -0500, graywolf wrote: While we are talking about this kind of stuff. What about folks who take the stroller inside the store. When I was young no one did that. If? they took the kid in with them they picked carried him/her. Now you go in the store and

Re: OT Is returning a phone message really that complicated

2007-01-07 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:54:33AM +1100, Digital Image Studio wrote: On 08/01/07, Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see the issue with cell phones is that many people let the phones rule them. If it rings it must be answered. Its a tool as such the user should be in control not

Re: OT Is returning a phone message really that complicated

2007-01-07 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:52:54PM +, Cotty wrote: On 7/1/07, graywolf, discombobulated, unleashed: While we are talking about this kind of stuff. What about folks who take the stroller inside the store. When I was young no one did that. If? they took the kid in with them they picked

Re: Ford and Microsoft go wireless

2007-01-07 Thread John Francis
Not just Japanese vehicles ... One of my friends calls my BMW Z4 the largest Bluetooth hands-free headset he's seen for a long time On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 08:43:45PM -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: Its Ford way of catching up. My understanding it will have the capabilities of Bluetooth systems

Re: OT Is returning a phone message really that complicated

2007-01-08 Thread John Francis
Yep. Now I 'only' get 1-2 unsolicited sales calls a week. If I only got one every two months it wouldn't be a problem. Mind you, that still doesn't get rid of the biggest source of unwanted calls (especially in the late evening) - our phone number is one simple digit transposition away from the

Re: OT Is returning a phone message really that complicated

2007-01-08 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:11:31PM +1100, Digital Image Studio wrote: On 08/01/07, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mind you, that still doesn't get rid of the biggest source of unwanted calls (especially in the late evening) - our phone number is one simple digit transposition away

Re: Ford and Microsoft go wireless

2007-01-08 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:52:42AM +1100, Digital Image Studio wrote: On 09/01/07, Kenneth Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess a lot has to do with what you do with your car. My 31 year old son is looking for a new vehicle is having a hard time considering any without Blue tooth

Re: Ford and Microsoft go wireless

2007-01-08 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 04:56:56PM -0600, Charles Robinson wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 16:39, Cotty wrote: On 8/1/07, Charles Robinson, discombobulated, unleashed: One wonders if the PalmOS-based Treo700 has the same limitation... Palm based Treos are the 650 and 680. I have the 650 and

Re: OT Question (was Re: OT Is returning a phone message really that complicated)

2007-01-09 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:07:41PM +0100, Thibouille wrote: I think those are nice example but they do not generate any buzz in my brain. Variations like Elevator/Lift are more notable and Through / Thru is like touching Reset button of my computer. Same with Night/Nite ... I feel like those

Re: PESO: Show Pony

2007-01-09 Thread John Francis
Ford are very aware of the problems with large doors and tight parking spaces. A few months ago I went along to the first public showing of two new variants of the Ford GT - an open-top version, and one with doors that opened just like the ones on the Mustang you show. The benefit quoted for

What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread John Francis
Recent discussions here about Lens Identification, and inquiries about the cumulative frame counter, prompted me to revise my little program to peek around inside the various IFDs, MakerNote tags, etc. in a Pentax file. I've now added the ability to find the original contents of a MakerNote tag

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:49:25PM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: Digital Image Studio wrote: Excellent John, thanks for sharing that. Now if I begged would you consider a rewrite of your little app halfsize so that it could be used to work with the K10D PEF/DNG files? It's become so much a

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-09 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:39:39AM +1100, Digital Image Studio wrote: Excellent John, thanks for sharing that. Now if I begged would you consider a rewrite of your little app halfsize so that it could be used to work with the K10D PEF/DNG files? It's become so much a part of my RAW work-flow

Re: FS: Pentax SMC-A 35mm f/2

2007-01-09 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:16:45AM +1100, Digital Image Studio wrote: I do like to twiddle mine occasionally, just to remind me of the good old days :-) Mark ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-10 Thread John Francis
with the source code in C or C++, I'll see if I can build it for Mac OS X. G On Jan 9, 2007, at 2:24 PM, John Francis wrote: Recent discussions here about Lens Identification, and inquiries about the cumulative frame counter, prompted me to revise my little program to peek around

Re: Finally got my K10D. but........(update)

2007-01-10 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:38:08AM +1000, jim wrote: Have found a site that has for sale several new lens for sale such as Pentax - SMC P-A 15mm F3.5 Lens for $3.146 aus Pentax - SMC P-A 50mm F1.2 Lens for $1.582 aus Pentax - SMC

Re: Pentax rebate programme started

2007-01-10 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:29:05PM -0700, Mike Hamilton wrote: On 1/10/07, K.Takeshita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.pentaximaging.com/purchase/rebates_offers/ Ken I thought, coming from you Ken, that this might apply to Canada also. Not that I need any more encouragement. That

Re: Finally got my K10D. but........(update)

2007-01-10 Thread John Francis
of successfully using a big lens.) - Original Message - From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Finally got my K10D. but(update) On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:38:08AM +1000, jim wrote: Have found a site that has for sale several new lens for sale such as Pentax

Re: Finally got my K10D. but........(update)

2007-01-10 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:20:52PM -0600, William Robb wrote: - Original Message - From: John Francis Subject: Re: Finally got my K10D. but(update) http://www.panix.com/~johnf/gallery/images/sdwap615.jpg That is an incredibly surreal picture. Isn't

Re: Finally got my K10D. but........(update)

2007-01-10 Thread John Francis
but your technique is great to get what you got in those situations. Well done! Kenneth Waller (owner of a 600mmFA who's aware of some of the issues of successfully using a big lens.) - Original Message - From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Finally got my K10D

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-11 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:04:42PM +0100, Jan van Wijk wrote: Hi John, On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:06:40 -0500, John Francis wrote: There's a zip file, with sources, for anyone who wants it at: http://www.pdml.us/raw/ShowTags.zip Compiled it without any modifications for the OS/2

Re: Introduction (Raw work flow)

2007-01-11 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:50:42PM +, Cotty wrote: On 11/1/07, Tim ?sleby, discombobulated, unleashed: Correct me if I'm wrong. I've only been here a year and a half. Wow, seems more like ten. Only if you count in dog years ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-11 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:28:46PM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: John Francis wrote: http://www.pdml.us/raw/ShowTags.zip Good. I thought I knew how to write platform-independent portable code by now, but it's nice to receive independent confirmation. Has some minor issues

Anyone got a DS2, K100D or K110D? (or a Samsung DSLR)

2007-01-12 Thread John Francis
it. If anyone has a Samsung DSLR, I'd like to know about that, too. On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:24:05PM -0500, John Francis wrote: A summary of what I've discovered about the Pentax tags can be found here: http://www.pdml.us/raw/index.html A (Windows executable) version of the program I use

Re: Anyone got a DS2, K100D or K110D? (or a Samsung DSLR)

2007-01-12 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 04:03:01PM -0500, Ed Keeney wrote: John, From my K100D... MakerNote: PentaxModelID 5 4 1 @0x00012B9C 76700 Is that what you needed? That's exactly what I needed. Thanks. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Anyone got a DS2, K100D or K110D? (or a Samsung DSLR)

2007-01-12 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:25:41PM -0500, Mat Maessen wrote: On 1/12/07, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has a DS2, K100D or K110D, I'd like to know what value is stored in the PentaxModelID tag (TagType 5). From my *istDS2, firmware 1.02: MakerNote: PentaxModelID

Re: PESO - Holden Efi jy @ N A I A S

2007-01-12 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:43:05PM -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: Check out http://mypeoplepc.com/members/kwaller/cars/ for a look at what I think is the wildest car at this years North American International Auto Show - the Holden Efi jy. That is one ugly vehicle. It makes a Gremlin look

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:13:27PM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! John, you're the man! I just ran your program on one of the first files I shot with K10D and it showed the Tamron lens id properly. So, everything is cool and working, and obviously it is only a matter of proper software

Re: Blog Spam

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 03:37:57PM -0500, Doug Brewer wrote: Been having fun. Some of you may enjoy today's entry. http://www.drivingtheflies.com You are seriously disturbed.I like that in a person. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: For those who use PHOTOBUCKET

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:17:04PM -0500, Bob Shell wrote: On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Y. Rowe wrote: Photobucket does not claim any ownership rights in any User Content that you choose to post to the Site. After posting User Content to the Site, you continue to retain all

Re: OT: What Film Format Is This?

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:02:19PM -0500, Bob Shell wrote: On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Bob Shell wrote: On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:44 PM, mike wilson wrote: 126 format, I believe. Came in a cassette, like 110. My first camera, an Agfamatic given to me when I was about 8, used this.

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
It's nothing to do with Windows. The Mac version will probably be a command-line (shell) program, and will need to be run from a command prompt, just like the Windows version, and just like the version for Linux. If you're not happy with command-line utilities, and expect everything to run with

Re: Modulation Transfer Factor

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:58:34PM +0100, Bertil Holmberg wrote: Looks like the K10D brought back something very Pentax - the MTF - or Modulation Transfer Factor. The excellent DCWatch Longterm Test #5 covers this in detail with many example images taken with the DA 40, FA 43, and DA

Re: Anyone got a DS2, K100D or K110D? (or a Samsung DSLR)

2007-01-13 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:00:34PM -0500, John Francis wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:25:41PM -0500, Mat Maessen wrote: On 1/12/07, John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has a DS2, K100D or K110D, I'd like to know what value is stored in the PentaxModelID tag (TagType 5

Re: SD Cards

2007-01-14 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:40:00AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Jan 14, 2007, at 4:15 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I'm surprised. I'll have to see how my Extreme III compares to my 150X Transcend. (I don't have it yet.) I know my Sandisk Ultra II cards don't seem to be a lot slower

Re: SD Cards

2007-01-14 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:15:48AM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: I'm surprised. I'll have to see how my Extreme III compares to my 150X Transcend. (I don't have it yet.) I know my Sandisk Ultra II cards don't seem to be a lot slower in the camera than the Transcend card. Paul The last time

Re: quick report: A 70-210 F4 on *ist-Ds

2007-01-14 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:08:17PM +0100, Thibouille wrote: I do not see any build quality on my particuliar DA 50-200. It feels certainly beter built than ma DA 18-55. Wow. I'd seen quite a few put-downs of the 18-55, so I was very pleasantly surprised when I actually got one. It might not

Re: Gotta Go ....

2007-01-14 Thread John Francis
Good luck, Shel. On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 05:32:17AM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: The doctor called me yesterday and wants me to go into the hospital for some tests. I'll be leaving in a couple of hours and will be away for a short while. I usually don't put my business on the internet, but

Re: Faulty film processing

2007-01-14 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 10:38:55AM -0500, Mark Cassino wrote: David J Brooks wrote: http://www.equiman.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Forum8/HTML/022168.html This is from an Equine BB i moderate. Sometime they ask about were to get processing done. I ~could~ be wrong, but check out the replies

Re: Funny photographer's photos link

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:00:27AM -0500, Bob Shell wrote: On Jan 14, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Markus Maurer wrote: I found this link on photo.net and of course there is *no Pentax* gear involved ;-) Enjoy some funny photographer shots :

Re: 18-55 vs 16-45?

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:04:26AM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: The kit lens is relatively worthless, due to the number available. Put it on the shelf for the day you sell the camera. I think it's a little better than that. I've got one as a stop-gap until the DA* 16-50/f2.8 is available,

Re: K10D RAW and DNG image size

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:07:41AM -0800, Rick Womer wrote: Oddly, the K10D compresses the PEF files but not the DNG files. Not too odd. Compression (of any kind) was only added at the last minute; as little as a month before the final release of the camera there was no compression of either

Re: K10D RAW and DNG image size

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:15:26AM -0700, Mike Hamilton wrote: On 1/15/07, Dario Bonazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PEF = 10 GB DNG = 16 GB Yikes!!! I'd better get a new hard drive! And a few more SD cards! I'm watching the price on the Buffalo 2TB setup. That's 1TB fully mirrored (which

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:51:56PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Once I get it sorted out, I'll think about whether I want to put in the time to wrap this into a useful UI, etc. It is a largish effort as I will need to unwrap all the code that extracts the data and separate it into

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:59:13PM +1000, jim wrote: Just tried a Sigma 28-90 3.5-5.6 AF zoom (macro) and show tags reported the following. DNG Data: Lens Identification63 1 2 @0x032C 3 44 SIGMA 18-50mm F3.5-5.6/12-24mm F4.5/Tamron 35-90mm F4 AF Maybe a small

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:28:36PM +1000, jim wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:51:56 -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Under lens ID part, it has correctly picked up both a 80-320 zoom and a tamron 28-300 zoom. I have tried an A lens and all it said was a series lens. It really said A series

Re: Funny photographer's photos link

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:12:53PM -0500, K.Takeshita wrote: On 1/15/07 3:05 PM, John Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True. But some of them just show a group of photographers at work. I don't see what's particularly noteworthy about a truck fitted out with a multi-tier photographer

Re: PESO - Rally racing (was: Funny photographer's photos link)

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:59:32PM -0500, Christian wrote: John Francis wrote: Every year at this time, while I'm watching the Dakar rally from the comfort of my own living room, I wonder whether it might be fun to be out there as one of the event photographers. Then sanity prevails

Re: PESO - Rally racing (was: Funny photographer's photos link)

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 05:39:33PM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: Twenty-five years ago I had a chance to ride with Stig Blomquist in his Saab rally car. I got quite a few shots of him driving on a dirt test course in the Saab proving grounds. I'll have to see if I can find them. Paul

Re: PESO - Rally racing

2007-01-15 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:41:28PM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: John Francis wrote: I want to get dust trails, blurred wheels, cars coming over jumps, ... Lots of practice panning at slow shutter speeds and knowledge of the course. :-) Yeah. I think I'm beginning to get the hang

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-16 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:33:22PM +1000, jim wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:18:01 -0500, John Francis wrote: That depends on what the camera does. ShowTags just reports what the camera has put in the various fields. If the camera fills in the focal length (which I believe the K10D does

Re: PESO - Rally racing

2007-01-16 Thread John Francis
, the second at an 1/8th. You'll find numerous other slow shutter pans on the same page. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3633673 http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3708948 Paul On Jan 16, 2007, at 2:15 AM, John Francis wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:41:28PM -0500, Doug

Re: finally put my hands on K10D... part II

2007-01-16 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:17:19PM +, Peter Lacus wrote: Howdy all! I've tried Photoshop CS2 today to develop some RAW files and the results were (probably as expected) the best so far. While smoothness remained about the same as with SilkyPix (very positive), Camera RAW extracted a

Re: PUG form up and running

2007-01-16 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:41:04PM +0100, Jostein ?ksne wrote: Hi gang, Sorry about the unavailability. Ken Waller's submission dropped into the database just now, so it must be working. thanks for the patience. Should we re-submit emailed entries using the auto-pug form? -- PDML

Re: Pentax DA70 lens has arrived ...

2007-01-16 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 03:46:36PM -0800, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: Thanks Godfrey and Thibouille... The lens is attractive but expensive for my standards...and I still don't feel confident enough to make such an investment in a reduced circle lens (at least until Pentax states that they would

Re: PESO - Rally racing

2007-01-16 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:54:44PM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: John Francis wrote: I want to see how the K10D handles panning with a 1/10 shutter speed. It might not work. There again, it might do something interesting. Unless the cars are virtually at a standstill, I wouldn't expect

Re: Pentax DA70 lens has arrived ...

2007-01-16 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:59:10PM -0500, John Francis wrote: If Pentax do ever come up with a 36x24 K-mount body I fully expect it to operate in a cropped 24x16 mode if you mount a DA lens. It could even offer a choice of crops: 24x16, 16x24 (for portrait shots without having to rotate

Re: What's in a Pentax image file (2007 edition) ?

2007-01-18 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 02:51:56PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Once I get it sorted out, I'll think about whether I want to put in the time to wrap this into a useful UI, etc. It is a largish effort as I will need to unwrap all the code that extracts the data and separate it into

Re: Site for comprehensive CF/SD memory tests?

2007-01-18 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:30:25PM +, Peter Lacus wrote: Peter, Mike, Please write on the chalkboard in front of the class. Ken Rockwell is a bonehead. 10,000 times. There isn't that better. mike wilson wrote: Of course! http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/cf-sd.htm

Re: Hello! (introduction)

2007-01-19 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:17:45PM -0600, Mike Dausin (PDML) wrote: rg2 wrote: Hi Mike, welcome to the list. What part of Austin do you live in? Hello rg2! I actually live in Cedar Park right now, but I also lived in Round Rock for several years while I was an indentured servant

Re: A warning about mail filtering

2007-01-19 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:29:45PM +, Cotty wrote: On 19/1/07, Boris Liberman, discombobulated, unleashed: Ladies and gentlemen, as of now it happened several times: the e-mail I sent out or I received from fellow PDMLers ended up either in my spam folder or marked as spam by GMail

Re: Camera sold, but worries remain (yet another eBay question)

2007-01-19 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:42:28AM +1100, Digital Image Studio wrote: On 20/01/07, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He said he already transfered the money to his bank. Sorry I didn't read that, I still can't find the reference to the transfer actually. I did see that reference, so

Re: The D has left the building

2007-01-19 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:15:53PM -0500, cbwaters wrote: I received the payment for the *ist D Kit yesterday and mailed it off to Illinois this afternoon. Unfortunately, the Paypal account is still a little shy of the funds necessary to acquire the new camera...I'm a LOT closer now though.

Re: Camera sold, but worries remain (yet another eBay question)

2007-01-19 Thread John Francis
And, as I've pointed out before, you want to do that at a different bank; US banks, at least, are only too happy to take funds out of one account to pay off overdrafts in a different account. If you don't have another account at the bank, of course, then you are going to be paying the bank for

Re: where to send the money?

2007-01-21 Thread John Francis
Adorama are good, too. And I can (unfortunately) testify to their satisfactory return exchange service; my first AF-540 was defective (probably damaged in transit - I hate UPS), but I now have an exchange unit where the wide-angle adapter and catchlight reflector slide in and out properly. On

Re: Film vs. Digital - not a religion

2007-01-21 Thread John Francis
My conclusion is that in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing even a small-frame 6MP DSLR is more than capable of delivering the results. I'm not surprised that someone who is used to group photography can come up with an example like this. Of course that's not going to stop the

Re: Asked to do a wedding.

2007-01-24 Thread John Francis
Well, of course. We all know of your penchant for dog's bottoms ... On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:55:41PM -, Bob W wrote: If somebody offered me the choice between photographing another wedding, and rolling around naked in an open plague pit whilst licking a leprous dog's bottom, I would

Re: K10D RAW convertion.

2007-01-24 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:28:51PM +0900, David Savage wrote: At 05:05 AM 25/01/2007, Jens Bladt wrote: Phase One just told me that the support for the K10D RAW files won't come until April 2007 - LE version 3.7.7 What do you guys do? Shoot .dng use Photoshop. The K10D can produce

Re: K10D RAW convertion.

2007-01-24 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:38:23AM +0100, Jens Bladt wrote: Thanks guys. Photodhop is not the converter for me. It doesn't do batch convertions, does it? Even Photoshop Elements can do batch conversions ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: manually focusing a DSLR

2007-01-25 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:57:17PM -0500, graywolf wrote: Well, I do not have a DSLR, so you may be correct, but every one I looked through had this small image with lots of black space around it, so I naturally thought that they simply cropped the viewfinder to the reduced image size. But

Re: Faded History: May be of interest to the Americans

2007-01-25 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:57:27PM -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: .1976 seems a recent year Hell, I've got shoes older than that! My MX is that old (one owner, since new - still runs well. I wish the same could be said of the owner ...) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - Taking Your Photography To The Next Level.

2007-01-25 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:35:59PM -0500, Kenneth Waller wrote: Interesting reading, well written, that most of us could benefit from. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/next-level.shtml Kenneth Waller Interesting, indeed. So getting a 4F rating would be seen as a good thing? --

Re: OT - Taking Your Photography To The Next Level.

2007-01-26 Thread John Francis
Cut the guy some slack - this is, after all, just part one of a three-part article. The prescriptive stuff comes later, as alluded to in the final part of this initial article. Sure, it's nothing earth-shattering. But it's a reasonable set of definitions, laying the groundwork for later

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Scott Loveless wrote: On 1/26/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Gonz wrote: On 1/26/07, P. J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only a Lisp bigot would call it an elegant language. Its IMO one of

Re: Faded History: May be of interest to the Americans

2007-01-26 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:18:07PM -0500, Amita Guha wrote: On 1/26/07, ann sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1976 was a significant year for me and I was here for the event - a spectacular floatilla of old and new vessels ( although I dislike the warships in this cover photo, there

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-26 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: Thibouille, I have a proposal but indeed it requires an approval of another club member. Perhaps you could pair with John Francis and come up with nice GUI and may be handful of extensions for his program that analyzes Pentax

Re: Differences between the *istD, DS, DS2?

2007-01-26 Thread John Francis
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:44:00PM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote: I also recall that the -D does not provide the option of a displaying a histogram after taking a shot. It's available, but only after poking through a menu or something. Or something. Just push the Info button.

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:40:22AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't care about beauty, I care about readability and understandability. I find well written, well formatted Lisp to be quite readable. Same for C, Pascal, BASIC, and even FORTRAN up

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-27 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:22:24PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: On Jan 27, 2007, at 10:08 AM, John Francis wrote: ... Mind you, the important qualifier there is well-written. ... Aside from the fact that I think you're the *only* person who ever said to me that they found C++ easy

Re: OT: DNG conversion challenge (was: aliasing/moire)

2007-01-28 Thread John Francis
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:09:51PM +0100, Tim ?sleby wrote: So far, I've decided I'll be using Elements as my backend. The only downside that is significant is the lack of batch processing capabilities. Elements has batch processing capabilities. They are somewhat limited (you can't write

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread John Francis
ExifTool. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/index.html On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:35:16PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: Anyone know of an EXIF editor that will allow you to insert/edit *all* the EXIF tags? I'm looking for something to do this and everything that I've tried so

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-28 Thread John Francis
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:13:02PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: Well, my hat's off to both you and Boris. C++ is simply impenetrable to me. I find it a seriously damaged, bloated language with too much overloaded stuff added to support high level features . . . I'd agree with that.

Re: Post firmware control changes are interesting

2007-01-28 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:03:39AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: The way I set mine up is: P: EV comp front, P-shift rear Tv: EV comp front, Shutter rear Av: EV comp front, Aperture rear Since these are my most used auto exposure modes, I want them all to operate the same

Re: Interest in developing a software around photograhy?

2007-01-29 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:31:11AM +0100, Thibouille wrote: Mmm I might program just that but it will not come before a time and would be specific to Pentax (at first, at least). BTW anybody knows where to find EXIF specifications ? Well, the two most obvious things to do would be: 1) Try

Re: New T/C's?

2007-01-30 Thread John Francis
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:41:59AM -0800, Jack Davis wrote: I'm braced for the 60~250 USM price, which I'm afraid, will be scary. That may make your decision easy. 8-0 I believe I read awhile back that the intended availability date of three USM lenses was this March.(?) Since revised; only

Re: New T/C's?

2007-01-31 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:32:09PM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: Patrick Genovese wrote: Yes [a DFA 120-300 f2.8] would be like carting a howitzer Since my normal at the track kit contains the Pentax 16-45/4, 50-200/?, 200/2.8 and 300/4.5, plus a Sigma 400/5.6, a monopod, and other stuff, I

Re: OT - Wedding photography advice solicitation

2007-01-31 Thread John Francis
I've used one. There's no doubt it's a nice lens, but I never felt I needed the extra speed over my 28-105. But I'm sure that if I shot more in the shorter focal length range I'd think again. On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:32:41PM -0500, Paul Stenquist wrote: Wow! I didn't even know that lens

Re: I gotta brag

2007-01-31 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:46:20PM -0600, William Robb wrote: We had a Springer for 12 years. Mostly he was a pretty laid back dog. It's in the nature of terriers to bite, more so than any other group. William Robb I'd reckon Corgis to bite more than terriers. Mostly, of course, it's just

Re: Lightroom crashing my PC

2007-03-15 Thread John Francis
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:40:34PM -0400, Mat Maessen wrote: On 3/14/07, Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the last few days I've had some problems where LR crashes my whole PC. It seems to happen during long-running processes, such as importing, and uploading to the website. That is,

Re: GFM headcount thus far

2007-03-15 Thread John Francis
It's never necessary to load Zoom Browser et al. onto your machine. The only part of the installation that you might have needed on an old machine (one running Windows 98, say) would have been drivers for whatver you were using to connect the camera to the computer. It would have been possible to

Re: I'm Back!

2007-03-15 Thread John Francis
TMI ... On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:30:14AM -0700, Bob Blakely wrote: Well, my head's never been ok. Just ask my ex wife - but that's another story. Regards, Bob... -Original Message- From: Cotty Subject: Re: I'm Back! On 9/3/07, Bob Blakely, discombobulated, unleashed:

Re: Gallery Access

2007-03-15 Thread John Francis
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:09:21PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: Hey Dario, now you're not the only one with motorcycle racing photos in the gallery! :-P Are you sure those are permitted under the terms of the gallery? Or do you really have written permission from any people in the photograph?

Re: Lightroom crashing my PC

2007-03-15 Thread John Francis
- I bought more RAM specially for Lightroom. The system doesn't hang though - it switches off the power. -- Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Francis Sent: 15 March 2007 13:16 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List

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