Re: Stupid lens survery

From: Cotty > On 05/09/07, David Savage, discombobulated, unleashed: >> I'm not pro cat stew. >> > Don't believe him - he cooks up a huge pot once a month and freezes the > leftovers! Still, it could be amateur cat stew. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: Sometimes it's hard to shoot Pentax

From: "Tom C" > Foveon X3 in K10D? How 'bout full frame to boot? If'n you're gonna' go dreamin' ... might as well dream big. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Metering Question

From: Adam Maas > Moron dealer wants to sell another digital. Film isn't dead. Some > forms are likely going to disappear in the next few years (cheap C-41 > colour, Kodachrome, possibly 35mm slide) but I'd expect to see B&W and > MF/LF slide continue on for just about ever. I'd disagree with yo

Re: Film Gone?

From: Adam Maas > The dealer is full of shit (as usual on this subject, Dealers seem to > say this a lot). Fuji remains heavily committed to film, and even > Kodak (which has been making occasional noises about the death of > film) has just updated the Portra line. > > -Adam > > Glen Tortorella

Re: PESO - If a tree fell ...

From: "Kenneth Waller" >> Same here with the purple tinge > You & Jack are correct. > > Reposted with a little less blue. > > Kenneth Waller > http://tinyurl.com/272u2f > > > - Original Message - From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PESO - If a tree fell > > Same here with

Re: Sometimes it's hard to shoot Pentax

From: "Tom C" > Do you like green or red cabbage in yours? > > Tom C. > > From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Don't forget Coles Law. Yes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Metering Question

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think Adam is correct. The popularity of the disposals is waning. Most > cellphones can take a better picture than a plastic lens, fixed focus > disposable. And consumers will eventually figure that out. But films that are > applicable to fine art photography will con

Re: Pentax Lens Producers

From: Rebekah > he closest you can probably get is the "Third Party Lens Resource > >Megasite" http://medfmt.8k.com/third/index.html > > > I think I'm offended. That guy called the Pentax 50mm 1.4 a "cheapy". I think he was talking about the price difference between the Minolta and Pentax lens

Re: Pentax Lens Producers

From: Rebekah > Honestly, I'm looking at a site that's alternative to Ebay and there's > lenses here with names I'm unsure of...Yashica, Hanimar, Chinon, > Rokinon, Soligor, Tokina, Sears - what camera did Sears make lenses > for? I think Sears brand SLRs were OEM Ricoh's - Ricoh licensed the K-ba

Re: Pentaxian.com

From: Rebekah > I'm unable to open it with Explorer or Netscape. All I get is a > maroon page. Do I need a program to open it? With Firefox I get a kind of orange-brown page with green text and sky-blue hyper-text. It says "Flash Player version 9.0 or higher ( get it here

Re: Pentax Lens Producers

From: Scott Loveless > John Sessoms wrote: >>> Megasite" http://medfmt.8k.com/third/index.html >>> >> Unfortunately there are too many dead links to be sure. The site >> doesn't look like it's been updated for a long, long time. >>

Re: Metering Question

From: graywolf > It takes a pretty large changing bag to fit an enlarger in it . > I did know a guy once who had a darkroom setup in a trailer he hauled > around to events with him. > They're also not that convenient if you prefer the lift-rod method of agitation. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Pentaxian.com

From: Mark Roberts > > I think we need classifications for the PDML. I was trying to come up > > with a few but couldn't get beyond "old fart". > I don't see any *need* to get beyond "old fart"! Speak for yourself. I'm planning on being around a *LONG* time beyond "old fart" -- PDML Pentax-Dis

Re: Equipment for developing B&W film in your kitchen or bathroom sink. (With commentary). was [Re: Metering Question]

From: Scott Loveless > Next is fixer. Depending on the film and the age of the fixer, it > usually takes around 5 minutes. This goes back into the bottle, too. > As the fixer depletes it will take longer to clear the film. So keep > an eye on it. There are quite a few methods for determinin

Re: Equipment for developing B&W film in your kitchen or bathroom sink. (With commentary). was [Re: Metering Question]

From: Rebekah >> >Silver is a cumulative toxin like mercury. >> > >I don't think it's such a good idea to pour used fixer down the drains. > Where would you take it then? I've heard that lots of places that > "dispose" of liquid waste like used oil just pour it down the drain > too. Is there

PESO - Wall

From: Bruce Dayton > I would be curious as to what you think of this one. > > Pentax K10D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ 108mm > ISO 200, 1/45 sec @ f/5.6, Handheld > > http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4965.htm You need to cut the grass. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman

Re: Sometimes it's hard to shoot Pentax

From: Bruce Dayton > My local store that does stock some decent Pentax gear always > sends me out of the store with my stuff in a bag emblazoned with Nikon > on it. Probably for the best. You wouldn't want just any Tom, Dick or Harry standing around outside to know you've just bought the good g

RE: Problem with my mother's Optio MX4 (purple party)

From: Thibouille > warning: 4MB file > > http://users.skynet.be/thibouille/lethi.jpg > > There's this purplr thing eveywhere. What the heck is that and how to > care about if it can be avoided. This camera never made such kind of > pictures before. > It is warning it is dying? > > The problem is de

Re: Metering Question

From: "P. J. Alling" > The Valley Railroad, in Essex Connecticut. It's a working Steam > Railway museum. They run a couple of Restored Steam Loco's and have a > couple of Modern Chinese Steam Loco's, (one of which they run on the > line as well, the other on display), (to the untrained eye, with

Re: Metering Question

courage > visitors, but they're old fashioned, no digital computers in the age > of steam, (but I bet they'd love to have a Babbage Difference Engine > to display). > > John Sessoms wrote: > From: > "P. J. Alling" > >> The Valley Railroad, in Essex

Re: The occasional 300mm

From: mike wilson > From: Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2007/09/11 Tue PM 12:30:41 GMT > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: The occasional 300mm > > > > Hal Davis wrote: > >> > > What are thoughts on the Pentax A 300mm f2.8? >> > > It's a great lens, but /expens

Re: Harrisburg PDML is now Philly PDML!

From: John Graves > Now I know I'm too too old. What is a "rave"?? It's the love child of punk rock and disco. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: A few more images....

From: "Digital Image Studio" > On 12/09/2007, Pål Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After all, they are supposed to look colorful and vibrant. Thats why I shot >> > them! They are mostly shot under spectacular lighting conditions with very >> > vibrant colors. Velvia helps as well. >> > Wh

Re: A few more images....

From: "Kenneth Waller" > I've shot a fair amount in south central Utah & have gotten similar > comments about some of those images, especially those shot in canyons > under optimum lighting. It's hard for those who haven't experienced > those colors to appreciate what can be captured. > > Some

Re: Pentaxian.com Contest

Because commercial "games of chance" aren't legal in Canada. But if you have to answer a mathematical question, something along the lines of "How much is 2 plus 2?", then it's no longer a "game of chance", but a "game of skill" ... and commercial "games of skill" are legal in Canada. From: Reb

Re: The occasional 300mm

From: "Bong Manayon" > For Pentax? The Tamron site says it's only for C & N... > > Bong > > On 9/12/07, Paulus Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have that lens (Tamron 300/2.8 AF) and can confirm that its a great lens. But that was not always so. Tamron (and Tokina) *USED TO* offer s

Re: Pentaxian.com Contest

From: Scott Loveless > Anyone else just spend 20 minutes touching every square on that damn map? > > Congrats John! > > John Celio wrote: > Holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit! > > I think I just won a DA 21mm lens from Pentaxian.com. No, 'cause I figured it was already too late ... a

Re: Pentaxian.com Contest

From: Charles Robinson > On Sep 12, 2007, at 13:30, John Sessoms wrote: >> From: >> Scott Loveless >>> Anyone else just spend 20 minutes touching every square on that damn >>> map? >>> >>> Congrats John! >>> >>> John Celio wr

Re: Pentaxian.com Contest

He does make a valid point though. I'd be far more likely to buy a lens for a camera I just won than I would to buy a camera to fit a lens or a flash ... although I think Pentax'd probably get better marketing value for giving away a camera kit. I'd be far more likely to buy *ANOTHER* lens for

Re: A few more images....

From: "P. J. Alling" > Those look like typical Velvia, or as I like to call it Velveeta, > (Kraft Corporation's processed "Cheese Food", since it has the same > relationship to natural color that Velveeta has to natural cheese), to > me.. I still have a hard time believing that this stuff actual

Re: A few more images....

From: "Kenneth Waller" >> .Velvia may give some images that little boost that makes them >> appear closer to our memory of >the scene. > > Probably why most (if not all) of the current nationally known outdoor > photographers shot Velvia for years before switching to Velvia. --

Re: Price of Pentax Lenses in Australia

From: graywolf > Interestingly enough I do not believe any state here in the US taxes > service, only goods. That was one of the reasons that after my first > attempt as a commercial photographer I changed my rate structure to a > pure service one of time + a service charge for obtaining materia

Re: Pentax Gallery

From: "Tom C" >> On 9/13/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The question you posed is indeed "What is a good picture?" a sibling >> > to "What is art?" ... >> >> We haven't had this debate in at least a month. It's time... >> >> ;-) >> >> cheers, >> frank >> > > Let me be the fir

Re: Pentaxian.com Contest

From: Mark Roberts > John Sessoms wrote: >> I'd be far more likely to buy a lens for a camera I just won than I >> >would to buy a camera to fit a lens or a flash ... although I think >> >Pentax'd probably get better marketing value for giving away a camera

Re: A few more images....

From: "Tom C" > Here it comes: > > You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't > pick your friends nose. But a careless ditch digger could hit your friend in the nose with a pick. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.

Re: Pentax Gallery

From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > What is "sheer beauty"? The dance of the seven veils ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Pentaxian.com Contest

From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > How many people who do not already own Pentax equipment would hang out > on a "Pentaxian" community website looking at what other Pentax users > had to say? > > I feel the criticism is misplaced. It's a little easter egg hunt to > inspire enthusiasm for pentax users, not

Re: Pentax Gallery

From: "P. J. Alling" > Much modern art is a scam, just so much crap, (oh after my last post > that's poignant). Drivel that's passed off as "Art" is simply a method > of separating people with more money than brains, and that includes > museum boards, from that excess of money Hey! Works for me

OT: Photoshop Question

I bought a new laptop and I'm upgrading to CS3. I checked Adobe's site and license allows me to have PhotoshopCS3 on both my desktop and my laptop as long as I don't use both at the same time. My question is this - Am I going to have to install CS, then the CS2 upgrade on the laptop BEFORE I ca

Re: OT: Photoshop Question

From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > On Sep 13, 2007, at 8:36 PM, David Savage wrote: >> At 11:17 AM 14/09/2007, John Sessoms wrote: >>> I bought a new laptop and I'm upgrading to CS3. I checked Adobe's site >>> and license allows me to have PhotoshopCS3 on both my desktop

Re: spam: Back From Paradise...

From: ann sanfedele > was with you until you said Tony Sweet :):) > > otoh -- I do like _your_ abstracts and it is such fun to do, isn't > it? Learned one of my most important lessons about photography workshops from Tony. Always be one of the drivers when you go out on location. That way th

Re: Nikon D300 sample photos

From: "Digital Image Studio" > On 14/09/2007, Pål Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I'm wondering about is when anyone is going to manufacture a sensor >> > that actually capture sharp images >> > Indeed, I think it's appalling that people will have to put up with > ISO3200 images

Re: Back From Paradise...

From: Paul Sorenson > Nope - Paradise is in the UP, Well, it used to be in Muhlenberg County Kentucky, along the Green River, that is, until "Mister Peabody's coal train ... hauled it away" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Pentax Gallery

Are you going to start that shit again! From: Gonz > Well if you want to be anal bout it. > > On 9/13/07, Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 14/09/2007, Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > > > What I say is art, IS art. >>> >> > > >> > > If it h

OT: New Laptop

Still don't have Photoshop installed, may get to that later today. I hope. The computer I was using for email and newsgroups died. I'm pretty sure it's a CPU/Motherboard problem, and I may be able to fix it eventually. Anyway, I've spent the last 6 hours trying to configure this laptop - turnin

Re: OT: New Laptop

From: Mark Roberts > John Sessoms wrote: >> Still don't have Photoshop installed, may get to that later today. I hope. >> >> > >> >The computer I was using for email and newsgroups died. I'm pretty sure >> >it's a CPU/Motherboard pro

Re: OT: New Laptop

From: graywolf > Having just done 3 installs, I can sympathize. > The very first thing I do is turn off the balloons and shut down > Window Security Center. Like I need it telling me my computer is not > safe because I do not have windows firewall active when I am behind a > hardware firewall, a

RE: OT: Life will never be the same again

From: "Bob W" > We're probably not supposed to laugh at stuff like this: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/6958580.stm Just enough information to be totally useless. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

OT: Test

Got my main email computer back operating, but having some trouble with the mail and news servers. This is to test whether I can send to the list. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

From: "P. J. Alling" > He seems to take the Rule of Thumb, and applies an incomplete > understanding of the underlying theory to produce very poor baffelgab, > (a science fiction term for complete nonsense dressed up in > scintillator or engineering sounding terms). This makes his technical > s

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

From: "P. J. Alling" > I really should read these after the spell checker is finished with > them before I hit send, I have no idea what this word "scintillator" > means. Any substance that absorbs high energy radiation or particles and fluoresces at a different (usually lower) wavelength. They'

Re: Kenny Boy does MTF

From: "P. J. Alling" > How the hell do you build buckyballs out of iridium? > > graywolf wrote: > Try a radioactive iridium one-foot diameter buckyball meteor with an > 160 million year old atmosphere eating virus inside. From a 2004 novel > by a best selling author. > > You don't have to go back

Re: OT: New Laptop

From: mike wilson > John Sessoms wrote: >> Anyway, I've spent the last 6 hours trying to configure this laptop - >> turning off and un-installing all of the pre-installed CRAP. >> > Think yourself lucky - at least you can do it. My networked work > machines ass

Re: OT: New Laptop

From: Mark Cassino > --- John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I've got a lot of work ahead of me tweaking the >> > software so it'll work >> > like I want it to - e.g. I've got to go into >> > preferences on Thunder

Re: OT: Test

From: Charles Robinson > On Sep 16, 2007, at 9:45, John Sessoms wrote: > >> Got my main email computer back operating, but having some trouble with >> the mail and news servers. This is to test whether I can send to the list. >> > > Seems you can. Or did I imag

RE: OT - Shuttle pics

From: Cotty > Space nuts have a look at these wonderful snaps. Warning - large file > sizes. Excellent quality. > > I've been using the second one as my desktop wallpaper for about 6 or 7 months now. Replaced one that showed the USA at night as se

Re: OT: Don't fergit..

From: Rebekah > arrg! do we get to drink like a pirates too? > > rg2 > > On 9/18/07, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > ...ye flea bitten scurvy dogs, that September t' 19th be talk like a >> > pirate day. >> > >> > Pirate walks into a

Re: OT - Shuttle pics

From: David Mann > On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Cotty wrote: > >> Space nuts have a look at these wonderful snaps. Warning - large file >> sizes. Excellent quality. >> >> > > I'm in the second one but you might have to squint a bit. Holding up

Re: OT - Shuttle pics

From: keith_w > David Mann wrote: >> On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Cotty wrote: >> >>> Space nuts have a look at these wonderful snaps. Warning - large >>> file sizes. Excellent quality. >>> >>> > >> I'm in the second one but you might have to sq

Re: The Cult of Leica

From: pnstenquist > BTW, I remember reading that Eisenstaedt's Times Square smooch was > staged. True? Apparently the writer of the article doesn't think so. > Paul The Eisenstaedt quote would indicate it was not. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo

Re: Upcoming October PUG and ultimatum

From: Rick Womer > Okay, I submitted a PUG. It had -nothing- to do with > Scott's threats. Honest. Really. Nerves of steel. > > A paucity of digital autumn pix caused me to dive into > my slides for the first time in months. I chose > something from November 2007. Boy, am I ever out of > pr

OT: An oddity

I run a photo mini-lab. I've mentioned that before. I had a customer come in yesterday, wanting re-prints from some negatives. They'd been processed by another store in our chain, and she had the index print. I wrote down the frame numbers from the index print and how many of each she wanted on

Re: Upcoming October PUG and ultimatum

From: John Graves > How many people understand the phrase "I just dropped the and sorter is > down"? Face down, nine edge first. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: OT: An oddity

From: Paul Stenquist > Are you sure it's not 126 film? > Paul It had the regular 2:3 ratio frames and sprocket holes on both edges like 35mm film. Base + Fog was a little thin looking, but that may have been because I'm so used to all the edge print, and don't remember ever seeing a complet

Re: OT: An oddity

From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > Seattle Film Works sold respooled movie film. It wasn't horrible but > it also wasn't C41 process or intended for standard photofinishers' > use. It was designed for printing onto movie stock for a positive and > no one had the setups for it. > > I don't know what John's

Re: Upcoming October PUG and ultimatum

From: Scott Loveless > John Sessoms wrote: >> From: John Graves >> >>> How many people understand the phrase "I just dropped the and >>> sorter is down"? >> >> Face down, nine edge first. >> > My high school was next door to a

Re: OT: An oddity

From: Axel Belinfante >>> There was a place in Hollywood called RGB that rewound several >>> > > movie stocks for still camera use. They would process it both as a >>> > > film positive and as prints. >> > >> > That's the place! I have more than a few RGB boxes of slides in my >> > drawer.

Re: OT: Virgin, Creative Commons & Flickr Lawsuit

From: Mark Roberts > Adam Maas wrote: > >> >There's a little more to the story. The family did try and deal with >> >Virgin Mobile but got stonewalled. > > Where did you get that information? I couldn't find it in any of the > news stories about the case. > >> >So they filed suit. This would

Re: OT: Virgin, Creative Commons & Flickr Lawsuit

From: Cotty > On 21/09/07, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> > So they filed suit. This would have happened in any first-world country. > > We *are* talking Australia here. The suit is filed in the US (Dallas, TX) against Virgin's US subsidiary as well as Virgin's Australian operati

RE: OT - Pythonesque

From: "Bob W" Tickled me. > > > > > > >>> > > >>> > > Sheesh. Why didn't she hide it in her golf bag? >>> > > >> > >> > Absolutely. Whenever I'm looking for an iguana I always check >> > inside bras first. It's the obvio

re: Kenny boy on film formats.

From: "P. J. Alling" > I just finished reading Kenny Boy's page on film formats, and my God > he almost made sense. I mean there must be something wrong with me, I > found myself agreeing with him, at least most of the time. He's still > cocky, annoying, and more sure of his own opinions, (and inca

Re: OT - Image repair

From: mike wilson > John Graves wrote: > >> Given the number of OT's, I think it ok to add to the mix. Leroy >> Whitter is my great great grandfather and the person for whom my >> Grandfather was named. Although everyone who really know my >> Grandfather called him Roy, a source of great merr

Re: Peso Stack o sticks

From: ann sanfedele > That's one scary photo Dave! > Nice grab. > > ann (remembering scary logging trucks in BC and Alaska) Wait 'til you see one comin' down the road at ya' SIDEWAYS! ;-D -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

RE: Peso Stack o sticks

From: "Bob W" > That's a scary - something's about to happen. > > It reminds me a time when I was about 21, hitch-hiking around Europe > with a girlfriend. We were in the South of France and were picked up > by an articulated wagon driven by a couple of gypsies. As they drove > off we realised th

Re: PESO 2007 - 39e - GDG

From: Rebekah > I like this one a lot. > > Has anyone figured out what "let's baja" might mean? :o) Drive like they do in the Baja 1000 off-road races? http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Baja+1000&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mai

Re: Peso Just how wide is this thing

From: ann sanfedele > David J Brooks wrote: > >> Sorry gang, one more from the trip. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6451100 >> >> These bridges were a suprise to them the first week, so they blocked >> up the loads a bit for week two and managed to get across a bit better >> with l

Re: OT (motorcycles): For Ducati fans and Australians

From: Mark Roberts > Mat Maessen wrote: > >> >On 9/24/07, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >> I've been channeling Dave before I even knew who he was... >> > >> >MARK! > > Way ahead of you Mat... > > > Good. While you're out there, how 'bout explaining that "MARK!" thingy to some

Re: Processing very old color movie film?

From: mike wilson > If it is Kodachrome, there is a Swiss lab still processing it. You > would only pay the standard charge. Not sure if it deals with the > USA but there are ways round that The Swiss lab is no more. It's just a mail drop. Film sent to the Swiss lab is forwarded to Dwayne

Re: OT - Pythonesque 2

From: "P. J. Alling" > You forgot that the student was a idiot as well. Yeah, but last time I looked, the 1st Amendment didn't make an exemption for idiots. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit t

Re: New computer

From: Doug Franklin > Walter Hamler wrote: > >> > My question is, is it feasible to buy one of those external enclosures to >> > make an external HD using the sata drive that is in the old computer? Since >> > it is a sata drive, I was hoping that if I could enclose it and hook it to >> > either

Re: OT - Pythonesque 2

From: "P. J. Alling" > The first amendment: "Congress shall make no law... or abridging the > freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people > peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress > of grievances." This doesn't seem to cover meetings held on private >

Re: OT - Pythonesque 2

From: "P. J. Alling" > Churches and schools, even publicly funded schools are considered > private property under most if not all state laws. You might want to ask Governors George Wallace and Orville Faubus, or Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr about that. Publicly funded schools, colleges and universitie

RE: Pentax Gallery "Resignation"

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. Groucho Marx From: "frank theriault" > Copy of e-mail recently sent to The Pentax Gallery: > > "Sirs/Mesdames, > > I may be "an accepted artist

RE: OT - Pythonesque 2

From: "Bob W" > This is how our former deputy PM deals with protest: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRQDnGTcc4A > Pitiful. If he'd a' followed that left jab up with a good right cross, he'd a' decked that asshole (arsehole I guess on your side of the pond). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

RE: Developer Turned Black [Was: Sad state of Photo Stores]

From: "Bob Blakely" > It would be nice if the bottles had bladders so that they could be > capped half used without any air to oxidize the contents. "They" make bottles with accordion pleats so you can compress the bottle to exclude air as you use up the contents. http://www.2spi.com/catalog/ph

Re: Pentax Gallery "Resignation"

From: ann sanfedele > Gonz wrote: > >> Oops that should have been family "Leporidae". I'm not sure whether >> Frank is a Rabbit or a Hare. >> >> > wabbit A wascally wabbit? he-he-e-e-e -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCR

Re: Travel Lenses

From: Boris Liberman > FWIW, if going on travel and forced to take just one lens, it would > be Tamron 28-75/2.8 for me. > > If not limited to just one lens I'd probably take three limiteds and > a wide zoom. > > Cheers! The time I was forced to travel light recently, I carried a 28-70 f/2.8

Re: Chicken or Egg Photo Story - NY Times

From: "Tom C" > I thought it was an interesting study in human nature, photography > aside. > > We make assumptions and draw conclusions from what we see, or we > parrot what we hear or read, and make statements as if they are > indisputable, yet thinking a little harder... > > To your question.

Re: Chicken or Egg Photo Story - NY Times

From: "P. J. Alling" > If you read the article a quote from the photographer about a fuse > would imply at least some were exploding shells, Some, but not all, ... and exploding shells of that day often did not explode (or exploded too soon). Fused shells were not reliable. For one thing, ther

Re: Pentax Gallery "Resignation"

From: "frank theriault" > n 9/27/07, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > Actually I see any photographic competition as utterly pointless. > > I agree 100%! Unless the prize for the winning photograph is worth having. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mail

Re: OT: ...Err...Ahh....Ahem!

> > From: > Norm Baugher > Never eat anything that is deemed "good for man"... > Norm > Years ago, I read a Sci-Fi story "To Serve Man" or something like. http://members.cox.net/kaiotea/serveman.htm > David Savage wrote: > I don't want to here that Shel. I'm going there on business soon. > > A

Re: Anti-stress link

work. Probably would have gotten fired if the brass had known about them. In the end it didn't matter, because we all got laid-off and the jobs were outsourced offshore. > Does the USPS give you an ammunition allowance? > > John Sessoms wrote: >> From: >> John Celio &

Re: PESO - Tight Squeeze

> > From: > Jack Davis > ood catch, Frank. It actually looks like that damage is too much for > this scrape/wedge. > Bad aim I guess. ;) > > Jack > --- frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > Or: "I thought I had room" >> > >> > http://gmapuploader.com/iframe.php?mapId=jGGBdePIS

Re: About "Chimping"

> > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In a message dated 5/2/2007 8:58:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Just curious, > > Anyone knows where the term "chimping" (as in checking the lcd of your > camera) comes from? or who was the first to coin that term? Is it > related to

RE: Light Tent / Box

> > From: > Feroze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've bought this : http://www.ezcube.com/. I'm trying to build a > little portable kit where I can go to the customer and shoot his > jewellery, some of their insurance dose not apply off the premises and > some are just to valuable to move around (I don'

Re: OT: rootbeer?

> > From: > Scott Loveless > Adam Maas wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>> In a message dated 5/8/2007 6:54:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> "Everything not prohibited is mandatory!" The only reason drugs >>> were made illegal in the US is because goo

Re: Pentax - Selling HQ and Apparently Drops 645D

> > From: > "P. J. Alling" > Maybe Pentax is planning a private offer to Sparx at a the same or > higher price than Hoya. (Blackmail is such a dirty word). In corporate speak, it's called a poison pill ... taking on a load of debt or some such other action that makes the corporation less attra

Re: OT: rootbeer?

> > From: > "David Savage" > WTH(ell) does any of this have to do with rootbeer? > > :-) > > Cheers, I have no idea. I was responding to whatever was in the thread when I finally chanced upon it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Pentax - Selling HQ and Apparently Drops 645D

> > From: > "P. J. Alling" > Tjis action would seem to be the opposite of a poison pill. > > John Sessoms wrote: >> From: >> "P. J. Alling" Maybe Pentax is planning a private offer to Sparx at a >> the same or higher price than Hoya. (Black

RE: OT: PC question

> > From: > David J Brooks > Hi all. > > I think i may have a major problem with my PC. Pentium 4 winblows XP > Home. > > It will power up, i get the Nvidia dos start sceen, then the Intel > Pentium 4 colour screen, and then it just sits there and does nothing > after that. > > I have hit the reb

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