Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish.

2002-12-12 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Keith Whaley Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. I don't suppose you could find some time to post some of the svenska-flikka, could you? Now we're talking! How much d'ya offer? :-) Lasse (And it's svenska flicka (same prononciation). Or better still svenska

OT Help! Windows.

2002-12-12 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Sorry to bother with this OT message. However, it's all for the benefit of work on Pentax photos... Please reply off list. (I would very much welcome replies that are not merely guessing.) Bought a second hand P-166 w 128mb ram. Windows 95. Two hard drives. I have started getting mostly blue

Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish.

2002-12-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. Lasse, Good to see you are alive and well. Thanks Bob! Sorry to hear about your mother. Thanks, that was a couple of years back now, but still... well, you know. Hope you can work out the income/employment

Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish.

2002-12-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Paul Stenquist Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. It's great to hear from Lasse. He was one of my favorite posters, and I miss his robust presence here. Paul Thanks a lot Paul. Robust sounds good enough. Now I will only have to figure out what it means... Just

Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish.

2002-12-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Dan Scott Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 05:00 PM, Lasse Karlsson wrote: Hi Lasse, Nice to see you back again. Congratulations on all the good things happening to you. And congratulations to the 17 year old's mother

Re: For our friends in Sverige

2002-12-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Daniel J. Matyola Subject: OT: For our friends in Sverige Happy Santa Lucia Day! Thanks. In fact your message arrived yesterday just as I was checking my camera for some film in order to go down town and shoot a couple of shots of this town's elected Lucia for this year. Think I got a

Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish.

2002-12-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Just another Sandinavian report. Longish. Out shooting some bands at a concert in late summer I was more or less picked up by this young woman who very much wanted to become a model. Well, she was nice and funny, and very persistent. (And she said

Re: OT Help! Windows.

2002-12-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Herb Chong wrote: Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have started getting mostly blue screens, fatal errors, access violation and such. (Very often including vxd at mcscan, win32 and at a unit? 0028... something, if this means anything to anybody.) I have run virus scans,

Re: Hi, I am back!

2002-12-18 Thread Lasse Karlsson
- Original Message - From: Raimo Korhonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:43 PM Subject: Hi, I am back! For the last 5-6 weeks I have been to Estonia once a week (and once to Ventspils, Latvia) so I unsubscribed. Now I am back, with my

Minolta Dimage Scan Speed. Comments wanted.

2003-01-11 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Finally, I've got myself a film scanner. Minolta Dimage Scan Speed F-2800. A photographer friend, who upgraded to some recent Nikon model, trusted me enough to let me pay it - what's the word for it? - in parts till summer. I installed it last night and am trying to learn how to use the

Re: Minolta Dimage Scan Speed. Comments wanted.

2003-01-13 Thread Lasse Karlsson
on the net, I would still welcome some more comments on that. Thanks, Lasse --- Original Message - From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 4:30 PM Subject: Minolta Dimage Scan Speed. Comments wanted. Finally, I've got myself a film scanner

Re: Photo Book Collecting

2003-01-13 Thread Lasse Karlsson
- Original Message - From: Bob Walkden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 10:16 AM Subject: Re: Photo Book Collecting The shipping forecast, for anybody who's curious, is a quirky little British thing. Four times every day a weather

Boy, am I good!! Or what?

2003-01-15 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Hi all, Please put on your generous glasses for this message. I'll get to what the subject line refers to a bit further down. First a few small notes, with some Pentax references. Some of you may remember that I once, around May last year, mentioned that I discovered some previously unknown and

Boy, am I good!! Or what?

2003-01-15 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Here comes part two. And I have't yet arrived at what the subject line refers to. Christmas night me and a couple of friends went to a night club (mostly young people between 20 and 30). Met and talked to a lot of nice people. This guy comes up to me Damn, your pictures were good. Fantastic!.

Boy, am I good!! Or what?

2003-01-15 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Here comes part three. Now we're approaching what I meant by the subject line. I got this film scanner last week. I have been scanning a lot of very old as well as recent rolls and frames. Quite a few times I have stopped just to watch some picture that I never really seen before, other than as a

OT Plea for urgent Windows help

2003-01-25 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Hi, I am about to partition and format a harddisk I got from a friend. I am looking at a fdisk window, not knowing what alternatives to pick. All advice I have deals with preparing a C drive. I don't want to do that. The disk is supposed to be a 10 gig:er. For some reason it has been partitioned

Hail the PDML! (Was: What is better? Digital Full Frame against 67

2003-01-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Bruce R.wrote: Everyone is right, everybody is wrong, no one really knows what is being talked about and it's another pissing contest. Yup. That's the PDML in a nutshell. And part of what I like about it. (Although it means all hell of a lot of time consuming deletion sessions.) Lasse

Re: Question about Mamiya 500 DTL and Lenses

2003-01-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
- Original Message - From: Ed Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:13 AM Subject: Re: Question about Mamiya 500 DTL and Lenses The Mamiya M42 mount cameras had a open aperture metering system which not only was different than that adopted

Re: Joking aside -- PCs, Macs, WAS OT Refurbished Dells

2003-01-30 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:39 AM Subject: Re: Joking aside -- PCs, Macs, WAS OT Refurbished Dells Your mom sounds like quite a gal ;-) You _never_ stop, do you? :) Just deputising for Lasse ! Thanks Cotty, for keeping the flame

OT Pentax wife (Was: Shit, Crap Politics, Was:Re: Vs: car shit, not politics, not Pentax, but about as valid as any of the crap that is allowed without rancor. WAS: bRe: PMA and Pentax DSLR

2003-02-02 Thread Lasse Karlsson
John M. wrote: On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 09:41:09 -0500, you wrote: If I wanted to have an aggravating, pointless discussion, I would go talk to my wife. BR Geez, BR, you need to get a Pentax wife. Sweet, amenable, easy to get along with - and not too expensive. Not as fast as other brands,

Re: Tantalizing news

2003-02-02 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Mike J. wrote: However, how about this: there will be MORE NEW PENTAX PRODUCTS at PMA this year than at any show during the past ten years or so. Both new digital and new film products. Multiple new cameras. This would be the best Pentax news I heard in years and years. Rhetorically: Now,

Re: OT Pentax wife (Was: Shit, Crap Politics, Was:Re: Vs: car shit, not politics, not Pentax, but about as valid as any of the crap that is allowed without rancor. WAS: bRe: PMA and Pentax DSLR

2003-02-02 Thread Lasse Karlsson
John P. wrote: [Sorry, for some odd reason the message text won't appear as I hit reply. (It also disappeared from my preview window on a second highlight.) Never encountered this before. If anyone can explain, please do.] My apologies to everyone on the list if my message was as inappropriate as

Re: OT Pentax wife

2003-02-02 Thread Lasse Karlsson
My previous reply appears completely blank in my reader. Just in case and to make sure I resend it (shortening the subject line, if that had anything to do with it): John P. wrote This joke is not at all funny. It is quite simply disgusting. We should all have nothing but contempt for a

Re: Re: Optio S first look

2003-02-06 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Maybe it's already been mentioned, but in that case I've missed it - what will the initial street price be? Apart from it's size, can anybody roughly tell me what the Optio S offers in terms of specifications in comparison to other existing digital Point and Shoots in the same price range? (I am

Exhibition preview tonight.

2003-02-07 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Hi all, Just want to say that there will be a sort of a kick-off or preview of my exhibition tonight in a couple of hours. I'm late and pretty exhausted, but I have managed to finish 12 of the planned 24 images that finally will make the exhibition. I'm going to put up these twelve at tonight's

Re: Exhibition preview tonight.

2003-02-07 Thread Lasse Karlsson
- Original Message - From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:37 PM Subject: Re: Exhibition preview tonight. Ditto! tom wrote: Good luck! Thanks guys! (and to those who wrote me off-list) (What's the level after exhausted?

Re: Cheapest k-mount body

2003-02-12 Thread Lasse Karlsson
One thing that keeps puzzling me is how some people seem to be in such a total lack of selfrespect that they don't hesitatet to, or obviously don't care if they even show the whole world what an extraordinary asshole they are. Lasse - Original Message - From: Gary L. Murphy [EMAIL

OT. WTC - Why no helicopters?

2001-09-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Those of you who might know more than me. When the towers were hit, I never saw any helicopters even trying to make any rescue efforts. From the beginning it was obvious that people were trapped. And it was not altogether obvious that the towers would collapse. Would such an operation be deemed

Message disappeared. Advice wanted.

2001-09-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
I happened to post a rather lenghty message. However it has not appeared on the list, like later messages from me. Is there any formal maximum size or anything which may have prevented it from getting through? Also, what would be regarded as maximum lenght/size (in kb:s) for a (text) message to

Re: OT. WTC - Why no helicopters?

2001-09-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
, September 14, 2001 11:34 PM Subject: Re: OT. WTC - Why no helicopters? The Helicopters would blow stuff all around, and there isn't enough room for them down there, Lasse. It would be very dangerous - that is my guess. ann Lasse Karlsson wrote: Those of you who might know more than me

Re: Vs: OT. WTC - Why no helicopters?

2001-09-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Chris wrote: That being said, I'm surprised that there weren't more measures in place to rescue people from skyscrapers quickly. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they were able to do virtually nothing, right? Seems to me that with all our current technology we should be able to come up with

Re: OT. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings Part 2.

2001-09-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
William Robb wrote: With all due respect, this sort of post has nothing to do with the present situation that the world finds itself in, Who said it had? And what has this got to do with anything? is not at all constructive, You've got thousands of other messages to write. has nothing to

Re: OT. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings Part 2.

2001-09-15 Thread Lasse Karlsson
posted recently. I thank you for this. (But I am still worried about Nenad and his people. Have you made friends with him, or do you still threaten to drop the atomic bomb on him and his people?) Lasse Lasse Karlsson wrote: William Robb wrote: With all due respect, this sort of post has

Re: An apology to Lasse

2001-09-15 Thread Lasse Karlsson
reason for any other list member having to adjust to your admittedly low level of tolerance. Since you have assured us that you did not mean your posts that way, I apologise, I was wrong. Apologies fully accepted. Lasse Karlsson - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: OT. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings Part 2.

2001-09-15 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Dan M. wrote: You want to believe the US is evil, and no one will talk you out of it. I still invite you to read Flags of our Fathers or one of the other good accounts of the battles at the end of the Pacific war, before you declare, from a safe distance, that the US should have acted

Re: OT. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings Part 2.

2001-09-16 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Bob wrote: Actually, the suggestion is a good one. I don't see your point, Lasse. Hi Bob, I should have been more precise, I apologise for that. My words about trolling is not directed at the suggestion for the reading, but at the rest of the implications. I think that Dan is being

Re: Massive Attack Seems Likely

2001-09-16 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Sorry, it got long. Mostly just ranting. Peter A. wrote: What should we do if we don't respond I think it's an illusion to think that a miltary attack on Afghanistan, the overthrowing/destruction of the Talibans and the possible killing of Bin Laden (he would most likely not let himself be

Rescue work ends Monday

2001-09-16 Thread Lasse Karlsson
I don't know it this is known already, but according to a Swedish newspaper the rescue work will Monday afternoon, local time, turn into primarily removal work. A Swedish engineer on site, assisting in measuring/determening the stability of the remaining constructions, says that this decision

PUG Comments: Stenquist, Buhler

2001-11-21 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Hi, These are the pictures that were assigned to me this month. (Mentally I am at least a week behind calendar time, so I am not really that late this month... :) ) Home of the Ancient Gods by Paul Stenquist Fascinating colors and scenery, indeed. The framing is well done, the shooting too.

Re: My first sale!

2003-11-20 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Congratulations Bill! It does make you feel good when people ask (and is willing to pay :) ) for you pictures, doesn't it. Lasse - Original Message - From: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:46 PM Subject: My first sale! One

Re: The morality of taking a photograph

2003-11-22 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll confess I find it difficult to look at her, I should be lying if I did not. annsan Okay, I'll add one thing, because I finally figured out how to word it, annsan. By trying to protect her you are coming from the place that she NEEDS protection. I.E.

Re: The morality of taking a photograph

2003-11-24 Thread Lasse Karlsson
hate that.) Lasse From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] snipMaybe so. May I ask you why you think this lady is interesting? Is it possibly just because she is abnormally fat?snip

An observation re Pentax for sale

2003-11-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
I noticed an unusually high number of Pentax 67 and 645 items for sale on a Swedish second hand online store yesterday. Is this a sign of the times? And in that case, what does the sign tell us? Lasse

Re: Welcome back, Fairygirl!

2003-11-27 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Tanya Mayer - Photographic Artist [EMAIL PROTECTED] My very own thread, aaaw! lol. Thanks guys, I can't believe that you remember me, actually! Here's from another who remembers you well! (In Stockholm, Sweden at the time, now in Åland (Aland, or The Aland Islands) some five-six

Advice re home studio

2003-11-27 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Hi all, I've got this spare room around 4 x 2.7 meters (ca 13 x 9 feet) (yes Stan - in case you're reading, the one you used for a guest room) and I was thinking of trying to use it for some sort of a portrait studio (or maybe for shooting smaller products, in case there will be a demand for

Re: on the subject of privacy

2003-11-28 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Bob Walkden http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3246718.stm Bob Let's hope that the laws which allow this verdict remain unchanged, and that any appeal won't change the verdict.. Lasse Diana paparazzi found not guilty Three photographers have been acquitted of invading Princess

Re: on the subject of privacy

2003-11-28 Thread Lasse Karlsson
I wrote Let's hope Read I hope. Thanks, Lasse - Original Message - From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:21 PM Subject: Re: on the subject of privacy From: Bob Walkden http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe

Re: on the subject of privacy

2003-11-28 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Lasse Karlsson Subject: Re: on the subject of privacy From: Bob Walkden http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3246718.stm Bob Let's hope that the laws which allow this verdict remain unchanged, and that any appeal won't change the verdict.. Actually, lets not. William

Re: Advice re home studio

2003-11-28 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Thanks a lot Tom R., Tanya, Pat and Tiger for very useful comments! Your posts and advice have gone to their special folder for future use. (I may get back on details later.) Lasse

Projector lights as studio light source?

2003-12-01 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Hi all, As mentioned in another thread I am about to try to set up a small kind of home studio. Cleaning the garage today I found two old slide projectors that I haven't used for many, many years (hardly at all in fact). One is a Leitz Pradovit, the other maybe an Agfa. Has anyone found any

Re: Advice re home studio

2003-12-04 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: mike.wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lasse wrote: I've got this spare room around 4 x 2.7 meters (ca 13 x 9 feet) (yes Stan - in case you're reading, the one you used for a guest room) and I was thinking of trying to use it for some sort of a portrait studio

Re: Projector lights as studio light source?

2003-12-04 Thread Lasse Karlsson
. 00.08 skrev Lasse Karlsson: Hi all, As mentioned in another thread I am about to try to set up a small kind of home studio. Cleaning the garage today I found two old slide projectors that I haven't used for many, many years (hardly at all in fact). One is a Leitz Pradovit

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-12-04 Thread Lasse Karlsson
- Original Message - From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 1:07 AM Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions The T3 has an expandable body. Me too. It's been expanding ever since I gave up smoking over 14 years ago. Now I need to fix

Re: Grayscale Experiment (was re: greyscale (grayscale to us Aussies!))

2003-12-04 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:24 AM Subject: Re: Grayscale Experiment (was re: greyscale (grayscale to us Aussies!)) Ok, so I've just done a little experiment. If you click on this link - you will find some thumbnails

People eating Pentax (Was: Re: Faces to names...)

2003-12-05 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Andreas Wirtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:12 PM Subject: RE: Faces to names... Be careful! Germans are eating people! Andreas That's an interesting, but a highly questionable statement. And should it suffice to warrant an alarm for us to

Re: AutoPug decision needed (was Re: More Months, Please)

2003-12-05 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] How many contributions should each photographer be able to submit each month? Just one. The monthly PUG is already quite large enough, even before the expected increase in size from photographers who have nothing that fits a theme. A gallery

The Pentax 135/1.8

2003-12-11 Thread Lasse Karlsson
For those who have been following Pentax second hand prices. How much would a Pentax 135 1.8 be expected to fetch? Lasse

Apologies Marnie

2003-12-13 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Marnie, Now that you're back on the list I want to take the opportunity to apologize for being unfairly rude to you in a previous post a couple of weeks back on the morality-thread. You seem to be a good person and you are a good contributor on this list as well, (even though I sometimes may

The BBC being smart in business

2003-12-13 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Hi all, I just ran into some smart business, that I thought was worth sharing with you. The BBC News on line invites readers to contribute by sharing pictures that they think may be of interest to others. At http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2780295.stm the BBC gives instructions on

Re: The BBC being smart in business

2003-12-13 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Len Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Lasse Karlsson' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 11:58 PM Subject: RE: The BBC being smart in business That shouldn't be a surprise. That's how Socialism works. Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Lasse

Star shooter Gorman. From Pentax to digital Canon.

2003-12-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Just happened to read an interview with Greg Gorman, which I found interesting reading in light of all the discussions we've had on the list on film vs digital etc. Nothing spectacular, but it it seems to reflect well the general transition to digital among photographers in his league. (I was

Re: *istD and prime lens aperature

2003-12-14 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 7:58 AM Subject: Re: *istD and prime lens aperature This one time, at band camp, William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your 135mm f/1.8 is still a 135mm f/1.8. That hasn't changed. What has

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-15 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Tanya, your wedding story was fun reading. However - and from a professional point of view - there may be a good reason or two to think twice about what comments on your clients you make in public and about uploading photos from this assignment on the net (unless you already got the go ahead

Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...

2003-12-16 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:44 AM Subject: Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend... [snip] HOWEVER, your point is well taken, and I do apologise if I came across at all as conceited, or disloyal to them. No need, and no you

Christmas greetings

2003-12-24 Thread Lasse Karlsson
I wish you all a peaceful Christmas. Lasse

Test. Read it if you're dumb.

2002-09-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Honestly, I really didn't know that you were. But now I do. :) Lasse

Re: Pentax annonces digital SLR

2002-10-16 Thread Lasse Karlsson
- Original Message - From: Pål Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:47 PM Subject: Pentax annonces digital SLR Release in spring APS sized CCD About $2000 New wide angle lenses Pentax fill shift their operation fully to digital

Re: My wonderful day, sort of OT

2001-07-03 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Jon Hope wrote: Hi all I managed to catch up with my 84 year old aunt today, or is it yesterday already? Whatever. :-) I haven't seen her for almost 5 years and haven't visited her for the best part of twenty five years. (inspiring story snipped) Thanks Jon, for sharing. Here's to hoping

Re: rubber stamp functionality of photoshop - OT

2001-07-04 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Anand D. wrote: I am referring to this 'Shadows at Play' photograph. On reading the technical things - rubber stamping - I believe it is photoshop functionality. Would someone tell what it is. Thanks in advance. Hi Anand, The rubber stamp tool is simply the Photoshop version of what

OT Re: UK copyright (exhaustive - anecdotal - and long!)

2001-07-17 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Cotty wrote: HOWEVER, obviously if you go clambering through a neigbour's bushes to get that all-time-great shot of Anna Kornickerova sunning butt-neked by the pool Maan, you shouldn't have said Kornickers. :) Lasse (Thanks for nice reading. (I used to be a TV reporter, and I just came

Re: Ramblin' Man Keeps Ramblin' On

2001-07-19 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Which totally clichéd subject really rubs you the wrong way? Glamour type nudes. Which one do you have a weakness for, despite your better judgment? This one is difficult. I don't have any better judgement. :( What the hell - nude women! Lasse - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss

Re: A Harder Game

2001-07-19 Thread Lasse Karlsson
This one is easy. Which body and two lenses would you choose? MZ-S 77/1.8 50/1.4 Totally optional: name the subject and/or locales you'd choose to photograph. Nude ladies/the US. Lasse - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net

Re: Aching Shoulders

2001-07-22 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Thanks for your report Glenn, nice reading. The atmosphere and the circumstances are familiar. D. Glenn A. wrote: I think this is the first time I've used a focal length wider than 50mm shooting a concert. I have had some fun and nice shots shooting with my Cosina 19-35 zoom at it's wide

Why 20mm? (Was: Ebay 20mm/4.5)

2001-07-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Mike J asked: As an aside, why do people like 20mm lenses so much? Almost no photographer I know of uses them well (I can think of only one photographer of the hundreds if not thousands I know who works a lot with a 21mm lens and does good work with it). They're unnatural and hard to shoot

OT. Imagine? (was: Pentax AF speed)

2001-07-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Tom C. wrote: Imagine how boring the list would be if we all agreed with each other! No, I won't. Lasse - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at

Re: I want soft images..

2001-07-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Norm wrote: Or as Lasse would say, use a woman's stocking to cover the lens... Or, if it's a really bad case - use it to cover her head... Lasse (Ouch! Oh! Yeah! Pleeease... Hit me some more..) Maciej Marchlewski wrote: Take a cheap filter and spread butter on it Maciej yes

Re: July thoughts

2001-07-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Collin wrote: Birds In The Sky by Lasse Karlsson I don't really understand it. + + + + + Someone mentioned my picture! Someone mentioned my picture! :) Thanks Collin, for trying (to understand it). Actually, I can't help you a bit, unfortunately. Because there is really nothing

Idea re comments on the PUG

2001-07-26 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Just because Collin reminded me about the July PUG I returned to the gallery and felt like adding a few comments too. However, you guys are simply too good! (Like usual nowadays) there are so many good photographs, that it feels almost impossible to pick out just a few. Anyway, doing like

Re: Just joined the group.

2001-07-29 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Don W. wrote: Hi Folks, My name is Don White and I just joined this wonderful Pentax group. I just wish I had known about it earlier. I know I will learn a lot from the group and hope to contribute to it as well. I live in Moncton, New Brunswick in Canada (60,000 people) and find it easy to

A Pentax link colllection (Was: Just joined the group.)

2001-07-31 Thread Lasse Karlsson
/~distudio/publications.html http://webhome.idirect.com/~spirop/pentlens.html http://www.photo.net/photo/pentax/index.html http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-one-category.tcl?topic=photo%2enetcategory=Pentaxtopic=photo%2enetcategory=Pentax http://www.concentric.net/~Sherfy/ Lasse From: Lasse Karlsson

Re: If you could hang 1 PDMLer, who would it be?

2001-08-06 Thread Lasse Karlsson
If I could hang one PDML:er it would have to be (Saskatchewan) Bill (or any other Canadian volunteer). I would hang him (probably) on that big TDK-sign at the corner at the start of the finish in the Edmonton stadium where the World Cup in athletics (track and field) is taking place right now

August PUG - Larson, Cohen.

2001-08-21 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Sorry for being so late in commenting. Busy and summer time.. I was also asked to comment on Dave Brook's picture. However I can't find any picture by him in the August gallery. Has there been some mix up? I happen to be somewhat critical in today's comments. Please remember that I am only

Furriners (Was: Asahi vs Honeywell.)

2001-08-22 Thread Lasse Karlsson
- Original Message - From: Gianfranco Irlanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: Re: Asahi vs Honeywell. Hi Doug, I'm not sure I understand what does furriners mean. Could you please explain? Thanks, Gianfranco It's another

What is Pentax equipment? (Was: More Yipping...

2001-08-31 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Bill Robb wrote: I have had another look at the PUG Gallery submission guidelines, and after conferring with past maintainers have changed the submission criteria slightly. We will no longer be publishing submissions taken with non Pentax cameras and lenses. What is Pentax equipment? It has

Re: What is Pentax equipment?

2001-08-31 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Bob B. wrote: I agree with you, Will. If yer going to be submitting to the gallery, why on earth would ya submit photo's taken with other brand equipment? Maybe because the submission guidelines says that during open months pictures shot with non Pentax equipment are welcome... Oh. yeah. I

The revised new rules for PUG

2001-08-31 Thread Lasse Karlsson
As I write this Bill Robb hasn't yet reported to the list, but these are the latest submission rules, as I just now found them written on the PUG submission info page: Submissions must have been made using Pentax K-Mount or M-42 screw mount camera equipment.Third party equipment is allowable

Re: MZ-S Blah, blah, blah. Apology follows.

2001-08-31 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Jody wrote: Also I was getting a wee bit annoyed with all these long emails from Pel with lots and lots of propaganda about the MZ-S. Is he a salesman in real life? He seems to have the gift of the gab (not meaning to offend here). Well, for one using a lot of list space for general OT

Re: What is Pentax equipment?

2001-08-31 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Daniel's, and let folks have and state their opinions about the PUG. You continue to do the same, and let me state my opinion about bulls*t posted to the list. Lasse Regards, Bob... From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob B. wrote: I agree with you, Will. If yer going

Re: Not able to pay attention, sorry

2001-09-01 Thread Lasse Karlsson
- Original Message - From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 6:58 PM Subject: Not able to pay attention, sorry Sorry, I've been so busy I haven't been able to keep up with the digests. What was the question? Hi Mike. Regarding

Re: Please, stop all other topics, we must address the Pal issue.

2001-09-01 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Kevin wrote: As nearly as I can tell, sometime between 10:30 am (US Central (GMT - 6:00)) on 8/30/01 and 9:46 am on 8/31/01 P*l as we know him ceased to exist and his alter ego, Pel, took over. Was some change to the server made during that time interval? What time is that? g (I'm not

Re: Please, stop all other topics, we must address the Pal issue.

2001-09-02 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Grobert wrote: Lasse Karlsson wrote: My first observation of the misspelled Pel was in a message from Jody some 21 hours ago: You mean it must all be Judy's fault? Wonder who's name she will change next. Bob Just to make sure here (and since there was no smiley attached.): I certainly

Re: Please, stop all other topics, we must address the Pal issue.

2001-09-02 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Sorry Blob, not until I hit the send butt'n I realised that Djodee's name had gotten the spell too. I meant to write Gyuodee of course.. Very sorry about that. This is certainly getting absurd, isn't it? Galassee - Original Message - From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: question re: Star-D 28mm lens and other stuff

2001-09-02 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Peter A.: wrote: I've never used that lens however I did some quick research and here's what I've found out. It was manufactured sometime between 1960 and the early eighty's you don't mention the mount but if it's k-mount then early eighty's by default Unless I've misunderstood something,

Re: PUG Commentary

2001-09-07 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Paul S. brought up an issue worth discussing or being pointed out: I'm disappointed that less than half of the PUG commentators have posted remarks. Well, so far it's only the 8th of this month. But I'd agree that the sooner the better. (How did the commentators do last month? Seem to

Cory's comments (Was: My PUG Assignment.)

2001-09-08 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Thanks Cory. I appreciate your comments. Cory wrote: The Finish Line -- Lasse Karlsson I have to admit that on the first pass through the list I didn't notice that the runners were the only things in color. Guess my mind disregarded the obvious difference. Yes, that's funny. You're

Re: August PUG - Larson, Cohen.

2001-09-08 Thread Lasse Karlsson
A few weeks ago John Cohen wrote: Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:48 PM Lasse's comment on my picture (of my daughter) with the spectrum on her face are exactly on target. I think I liked the picture because I like the subject so well, and it was an unusual way of looking at her; plus, she

Lasse's picture (Was: Cory's comments (Was: My PUG Assignment.

2001-09-08 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Paul Stenquist wrote Lasse Karlsson wrote: I decided to try to pull them out by desaturate the colours around them. This was done in Photoshop Hi Lasse, Did you select the runners and then go to the inverse? Did you use the wand or the pen or both? I think you did a very credible job

Re: World Trade Center burning

2001-09-11 Thread Lasse Karlsson
. Lasse Lasse Karlsson wrote: Yes, just like all over the world we are in chock. I was to meet a fellow photographer outside his work in the suburbs. He was late. I thought it funny that, for this hour, surprisingly many persons (men mostly) seemed to leave their offices like they were

Re: World Trade Center burning

2001-09-11 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Washington. An unbelievable situation! -frank Lasse Karlsson wrote: Yes, just like all over the world we are in chock. I was to meet a fellow photographer outside his work in the suburbs. He was late. I thought it funny that, for this hour, surprisingly many persons (men mostly

Re: World Trade Center-GONE

2001-09-11 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Frank wrote: Arafat may not be involved. I can't imagine Arafat having anything to do with this. He's is obviously not fully in control even of minor Palestinian activist groups active in the Middle East. Lasse - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to

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