itch afterwards. It's
surprisingly simple to do, but of course more time consuming that a
software tool.
Jostein
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From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:14 PM
Subject: RE: Arcsoft Panorama Maker
>no
Brain fart...
Last sentence should read:
..., but of course more time-consuming than a software tool for
general stitching.
Time to sleep.
Hopes for colder weather in Oslo tomorrow. :-)
Jostein
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From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: We
Is this situation similar to the real world, when the SO lingers, and
you're just about to get married if you manage to wash your own
winsocks?
Jostein,
just wondering...:-)
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From: "Mishka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 14,
TW, we've been through this semantics before, just after the tragic
accident of Lady Diana. At that time, we discussed the role of
photographers and in particular, the term "papparazzi" which all of a
sudden was lifted into the public limelight.
Jostein
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directions are more challenging to photograph than
even, directional falls.
well, those are my experiences, at least...
Cheers,
Jostein
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From: "Stephen Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax List"
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:54 PM
Hi Pål,
Have you asked Fovi if they're able to obtain one?
With a bit of luck, they're in stock at the European HQ in Belgium.
Would reduce the wait a bit...
Jostein
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From: "Pål Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, Jul
Strange that they hadn't heard about it.
It used to be in the MedF catalogues on the early nineties...
Unfortunately, I don't have the part number. :-(
Jostein
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From: "Pål Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 5
flash, the highlights become specular and burned out.
Using a miniature softbox lessen the problem, but it's not all gone.
Does anyone know a good way to handle this without resorting to ring
flashes?
Jostein
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From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Does anyone know a good way to handle this [specular highlights]
without resorting to ring flashes?
Matte spray.
LOL.
s and maybe half a body in one frame, flash or
not...:-)
Jostein
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From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: PESO - Herding Livestock
Why do you need flash?
Shel
Jostein wrote:
>
&g
bed down and removed that pole to the right of the shag.
In all three shots it shows that the film is pushed one stop, but it's
only the last shot that suffers from it, imo.
Jostein
PS. I just feel like being harsh because I'm envious...:-)
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From: &q
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From: "keithw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.oksne.net/paw/herdingants.html
[...]
Most impresssive shot, Jostein, Sir!
You're fortunate the aphids are pretty slow movers, or you'd have a
heck of a time of it!
Thanks, Keith.
ter
the eruptions in the nineties?
Jostein
from the focus setting on the primary lens.
So for a reasonably flexible solution, I think I will look for a bowl
that protrudes about 30mm from the lens.
Jostein
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From: "Tom Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 2:05
LOL, yes, I'll try that. One technique that sometimes work well is to
do two raw conversions, one optimalised, and one that's two stops
underexposed. Then copy the highlights from the underexposed one into
the optimalised one, with a suitable degree of feathering.
Jostein
Thanks, Markus.
Now that you've said it, I might pester the list with a few more as
summer passes...:-)
Cheers,
Jostein
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From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: PESO - Herding Livestock
the concept of pyroclastic flows for him.
On NASAs photo, the flows from the volcano covers almost a third of
the island, but I don't know how old the image is. It must have taken
NASA some years to collect enough detail shots to display the whole
globe without obstructive clouds.
Jostein
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From: "Tom Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Jostein,
I've been thinking about the actual requirements for using a bowl.
You'll have to do something to keep the bowl from flopping around.
My guess is that you'll need to glue a couple
Apparently, the Montserrat volcano is still very active. Last eruption
was just a fortnight ago:
http://www.mvo.ms/chronology.htm#2005
Now imagine the photos one could get there...:-)
Jostein
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From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Frida
to do
exactly the same thing, only that it spreads the light much broader
than a ring flash. The chance of illuminating some near background is
larger.
Besides, I don't have a ring flash, and fear the enablement powers of
this forum...:-)
Cheers,
Jostein
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Fro
Thanks, Tom.
That, too.
Jostein
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From: "Tom Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: PESO - Herding Livestock
Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
What is wrong with ring flash for this type of shot?
You get
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From: "E.R.N. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
So THAT's what Ivan and Jeanne and Dennis and Emily and all their
siblings are so busy working on over there!
Or maybe the volcano is the reason why they're desperate to reach you
in such a hurry? :-)
Jostein
I've been wondering about the same, Bill. Haven't really pursued the
matter, but I suspect that there must be some software designed for
astrophoto that can do it.
Jostein
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From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax Discus
intless to investigate the possibilities.
The astrophoto people have been using digital since the first webcams
came around. They certainly had to do their own dark-frames.
Jostein
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Saving a dark frame together with actual exposure and pro
Peter,
You're so predictable...:-)
Jostein
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From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: PESO - Herding Livestock
You know you want one.
Jostein wrote:
Dan,
I think the Pentax (for exampl
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From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Note to self:
Gotta go to Negev. Gotta visit Mitzpe Ramon...
Damn, you're good :-).
Aha! Desert enablement! :-) :-) :-)
Enjoy yourself, man!
Jostein
e helpful.
To get mad at them just because they're pioneers or early adopters is
almost obscene, IMHO. Certainly below the usual standards of the
poster in question.
YMMV, of course.
Jostein
ps. posts with Masked F***-letter Words will be filtered. :-)
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pulling through the hottest days of the year... *sigh*
You have my full sympathy.
Very interesting shot... Though I wish I was there with my 50 mm
lens, to do what you know I like doing :-)...
Glad you liked it. I'm also glad you weren't there with your 50mm. :-)
Cheers,
Jostein
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.oksne.net/paw/herdingants.html
Pretty darn good for hand holding Jostein.
I like the cripsness of the ants and the eriee science fiction movie
feel to it.
Thanks Dave.
Cheers,
Jostein
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From: "keithw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
All very well considered and well said, Jostein!
Thanks for speaking your thoughts and sharing them.
Probably a little for everyone, there!
keith
Thanks, Keith.
Myself included, even if I managed to
Um...
Just a very basic question...
Has KonicaMinolta released any "digital-only" lenses, or is their
lineup strictly 35mm still?
Jostein
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From: "Joseph Tainter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 7:24
Thanks Herb,
That's interesting. I imagined that for the in-camera stabilisation to
work properly, the lenses would have to have a larger-than-sensor
image circle. Maybe that's a wrong assumption?
Jostein
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From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL
Boris,
What's the root of the word in Russian?
"Råd" means council in Norwegian.
OTOH, it gives a nice spin to the animal's latin name "Rattus
norwegicus". :-)
Jostein
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From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To
Moreover, following the same logic, the names of the Pentax' digital
SLRs are actually unsuited for the sensitive photographer. :-)
Cheers,
Jostein
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From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 1:12 PM
Sub
ivers waaay too much
light. All my exposures have been at least two stops over. Much to my
disappointment, because it was my macro flash of choice for use with
Z-1 and LX. :-(
Jostein
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From: "Brian Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July
Personally, I think you should stop shaking *ists at each other. :-)
Jostein
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From: "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Cotty"
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Definitions
So, are you suggesting that the "ability"
ions now play a greater part. If the metering is still done
off the medium, it has to cope with a CCD that has different
reflective properties than has film.
Jostein
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From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:53
Congrats, Boris.
Wear them gracefully. :-)
Jostein
PS. My 31 is not for sale...
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From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 8:58 PM
Subject: Major Enablement :-)
Hi!
It arrived, finally!
Now I am happy owner
ameras were not
(afaik) equipped to make use of distance information in calculating
flash exposure when the FTZ flashes were introduced. It certainly
applies to the LX, but I think also for the Z-1.
IIRC, the *istD manual claims that both flashes are useable, but
without specific mention of macro.
Jostein
Quoting Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> What distances are you working from?
Anything from 40 cm and downwards.
My recent pic of ants and aphids, for example, was taken at 3-4 cm working
distance for focus. Flash to subject distance ca. 5
Quoting Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > PS. My 31 is not for sale...
>
> A-ha... Do I sense some fear in the steady tone of mighty Norwegian? ;-)
hehe. No fear. Just fierce protectionism.
Btw, where the heck did you get "mighty" f
lectronic languages. I was hoping someone had an idea about what's
going on, and whether my theory was on the far side. :-)
Cheers,
Jostein
Jostein
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;-)
Oh, well.
Mighty from getting sand between my toes while holding a camera.
I can live with that...
Jostein
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Quoting mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Anyone who can fit a washing machine into a hole that is too small has got to
> be at least mighty.
:-)
Thanks Mike.
I can't spoil it by disclosing how I solved it now, can I.
Jost
Thanks for commenting, Tim.
I agree with you that Tom's solution probably is the right way to go. The light
diffusion will largely be determined by the translucence of the plastic.
Jostein
Quoting Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've been reading the whole thread, and o
g. I did not expect what I saw!
>
> What an amazing photo, Jostein. Worthy of National Geographic or any
> other world-class publication. Just incredible!
Thanks, Frank!
Btw, did you see Cotty's spider with the ringlight
on his chair, the password
worked fine.
Nobody could explain this until a couple of colleagues owned up and confessed
having switched the labels on two keys on his keyboard. When the guy was
standing up, he was looking at the keys while typing the password with one
finger. When
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From: "mike wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/cat/3407/display/3555157
ROTFL!
Unfortunately, I can't show this to Vera until Sunday. Link stored!
Has the English wife acknowledged this? :-)
Jostein
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From: "Sylwester Pietrzyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
H... there is still big Fuji with their own CCD technology.
Fuji already produce dSLRs for the Nikon mount.
Jostein
Don't worry, Boris. I have plenty to retaliate with already.
But I'll save it for later...
Jostein
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From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: Major Enablement :-)
Hi!
I heard
typical situation where using spot metering would give you much more
consistent results.
Jostein
Quoting Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/2up.jpg
>
> Just nine seconds separate these two pics. They are almost identical
> shots. Both were m
re of a
shot-saver than a perfect tool. At least to the exposure connoiseur. :-)
Cheers,
Jostein
Quoting Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I saw that and thought that might have something to do with it. But look
> at the left side of the subject where the lower shot has a muc
important.
Jostein
Quoting Powell Hargrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There is usually some change in the image which causes the difference. In
> this image I would suggest the bright area to the right of her eyes caused
> the first to cut back the exposure as the camera attempts to keep som
eralise from Mike's description of "English Wife", maybe the main
problem is to shoot after moving target? :-)
Cheers,
Jostein
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eady with the MZ-D.
Jostein
Quoting Tom Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Pål Jensen wrote:
> > Tom wrote:
> >
> >
> >>In any case, we all have the choice to acquire information and decide
> >>whether what we think we're hearing is BS and igno
with them, right?
C'mon, Herb! The lenses just change owners. What makes the 645D less interesting
for the buyers?
Jostein
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hree hours. If I don't, I suspect she
> will just appear as a pink tornado to the interviewers.
As I've said before;
Beware of pink! :-)
Cheers,
Jostein
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LOL.
Woe the ones to Manor Born.
Btw, anyone remember the TV series with Penelope Keith?
Jostein
Quoting Mishka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> as one of a civilized gentiles (ie, goyim), i protest against
> abusing language in this manor. and highly recommend a spell-checker
> to a
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From: "Pål Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Quote from 23/9-02:
"I have no idea why anyone seriously thought, as opposed to wished,
that Pentax would sell a DSLR"
By whom, Pål?
Mail me privately if appropriate.
Jostein
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From: "keithw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"To The Manor Born," with Peter Bowles. ca 1979.
There's a re-run this summer on a Norwegian channel.
Tonight, the good lady's car has broken down, and she resorts to using
a horse for her shopping...:-)
Jostein
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From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
P.S. The Lims rule!
Is that a typo? You mean the Sims?
Pentax Simited lenses?
Nah...
Jostein
ke away half the fun unless the translator is
very, very good.
Jostein
BenQ is the second largest brand in the Norwegian market for home
cinema projectors, only behind Epson.
Jostein
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From: "Jim Hemenway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:39 AM
Subject: Re: Pentax sells lenses on OEM basis
The
from watching
faces, body language, stuff like that, only occasionally checking
the text to see if I'm right!
Keith,
My opinion, too. Exactly!
Cheers,
Jostein
alised one step at a time, but I fail to see the seriousness of
this particular matter.
Even with the special significance of the actual percentage. :-)
Jostein
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From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:11 AM
Su
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From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 21/7/05, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed:
If you are travelling by car, I am almost exactly 1/2way between
London and
oblivion ;-)
LOL!
Considering what the Cottrells have been up to in Inverness...
Jostein
Well you can't blame a guy for being connoiseur, can you?
Isn't that why we're here in the first place?
;-)
Jostein
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From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Pentax Profits Fall 42%
Kostas,
After I bought mine in November 2003, I kept track of all the list members who
confessed to buying before the List. :-)
A couple of months later my count passed 110, and I gave up on it. Many of the
regulars were on my list already then.
Jostein
Quoting Kostas Kavoussanakis <[EM
e for this type of shots.
I don't think bringing motifs within grasp makes the photographer any
better, but it is a form of enablement that gives a competitional
edge. Not so much in sports photograpy anymore, but for nature
photographers the race is still on.
Jostein
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way.
I would also argue that Lomography is not snapshooting. Simply because
a Lomographer is basically very mentally aware of the kind of pictures
that is recorded. :-)
Jostein
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From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, Jul
.
Preferably a couple of seconds before it happens, though.
Like Precognition...:-)
Jostein
(Okay, MikeW. I know you know I was going to say that...)
That's very interesting, Shel.
Amazing how many facets this term has...:-)
Jostein
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From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: What is snapshot? (seriously)
Hmmm ... Elliott Erwitt takes
e separates it from snapshots by as much as
a huge chasm. Possibly the one on Iceland with the light ray across.
:-)
Jostein
heers,
Jostein
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From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:47 AM
Subject: PESO -- A Neighborhood
I debated a while about posting this but I've decided to after all
http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_aneigh
Still get an error message:
"ADODB.Field error '800a0bcd'
Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted.
Requested operation requires a current record.
/aspupload/detail.asp, line 36 "
Jostein
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From: "Jack Davis"
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From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
But is it a snapshot?
]'-)
Godfrey
hehe.
That's a secret buried in the photographer's mind, isn't it?
He doesn't have to let us know. :-)
Jostein
On Jul 24, 2005, at 1
at my first
posting, and realised that what I wrote could easily be interpreted as
pointing to Shel directly.
I was not, and I want to apologise for this insinuation.
Jostein
Now it works. :-)
Nice composition to go, too.
Cheers,
Jostein
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From: "Jack Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:23 PM
Subject: PESO: MoonSquat (Jostein)
I can't believe the frequency and severity of my
vertu
ck gmail invitations:
http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/
:-)
Cheers
Jostein
Quoting Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> http://2.718281828459045.com
That's for sale.
In ln condition.
Jostein
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Interestingly, this is a negative process, and thus predates Talbot's process
(which is generally considered as the first negative process) by more than a
decade.
Cheers,
Jostein
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I told this girl she wasn't supposed to fly away. At least she stayed
long enough for a pose. :-)
http://www.oksne.net/paw/humle.html
Jostein
Don't believe him. :-)
Jostein
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From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
oh dear. Now I have something to live up to. Well, I have to say I'm
much
more fascinating in email than I am in person, I'm afraid.
edium.
:-)
Dave,
My personal, and not well-funded theory is that the algorithm that
selects the white balance is more sensitive to the distribution of
tones in the image area than is the exposure. Did you use auto
whitebalance?
Jostein
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From: "Shel Belinkof
Thanks, Mark.
Absolutely hilarious.
Jostein
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From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:55 PM
Subject: Totally, completely OT but too good to pass up
Acts of Gord
http://www.actsofgord.com/index.html
Don'
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From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What is your opinion of "Aperture" magazine?
Or the Norwegian version:
A Perture.
Jostein subscribes ;-)
A pt, according to Mike W.
No, I don't subscribe anymore. After two years and eig
et on Saturday.
Any ideas for time? If none, I'll pick one to suit my own biorythm by
Monday...:-)
Here's my cellphone number for lurkers wanting to join: (+47) 958 928
22. eMail is OK too, of course.
Jostein
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From: "Tim Øsleby" <[EMAIL PROT
Same measures here.
Jostein
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From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:47 PM
Subject: OT Survey - Computer Desk-top Size
I guess it's about time for another PDML survey, it's been about
three month
f the site:
http://www.legemiddelverket.no
The photographer's name is Lazlo Borka, a now retired colleague. His tools of
choice was a Pentax SuperA and an old Olympus microscope. :-)
Cheers,
Jostein
Quoting Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The dolphin is a discontinuity -- a
> f
HAR!!!
Jostein
From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pentax Prayer... was Nikon D200, 18-200 lens and flash system
[...]
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From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
what is with these people? Puritanical surfers. Taliban in trunks.
omg.
Taliban in trunks behind photoban on trunks.
Jostein
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From: "Ann Sanfedele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
they have added a sh** load of new words
You won't get any points on the two blanks, Ann...:-)
Jostein
as it is. But I find it hard to believe that the chinese
will repeat the mistakes of the soviets.
It's a different people with a different culture, and I'll bet they'll
find some quite unique mistakes of their own...:-)
Jostein
mike
who was tortured today
Been shopping, have you? :-)
Jostein
s nothing wrong with the cameras...:-)
Jostein
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From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "pentax list"
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:31 AM
Subject: Full Frame
I mention this not to tout another brand, but to inform th
Most Norwegian emigrants ended up in places looking like home too.
Like Montana:-)
Jostein
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From: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: PESO - Autumn or Winter?
You Norwegians aren
ybe in the FiddlyBits? :-)
Jostein
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From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 8/11/05, Tim Øsleby, discombobulated, unleashed:
There is a chance you will have a second chance on that.
Me and Jostein may have a plan. To be continued ...
Har! And does Ryanair form any part of this pla
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From: "mike wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Har! And does Ryanair form any part of this plan??
Good job I bought that shed!
8-)))
Why? You can't possibly mean to bring it on the ferry?
Jostein
Well...:-)
Many emigrants came from the East side of the Norwegian mountains.
Your comment makes me wonder about Norwegian descendants in
Oregon/Washington, though.
Jostein
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From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, November
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