Cotty wrote:
If I win the Lottery I'll book you all flights, with an *ist D waiting on
the seat.
I'm sorry, but giving away an *ist, is already at becoming a Mayor.
I think you're bidding against yourself! Can you raise the bid to country
house ownership and lottery win?
Malcolm
William Robb wrote:
Hi Bill,
Late in on this one but I pretty much share the same viewpoint.
Photography is my leisure time.
I want to spend it working with equipment that pleases me. If I don't like
the feel of the equipment, I won't want to use it.
The best equipment in the world won't
William Robb wrote:
How a tank is built has nothing to do with how a camera is built.
Just as well! We have had special edition LXs and nice snakeskin covered
LXs. If they made them like tanks, who would want a 55kg camera around your
neck?
Malcolm - constructional comment only
Graywolf wrote:
To those who have wished me well, a big thanks.
PS: the ME Super is going with me, does that make this on topic?
LOL! Good luck and don't forget to update your journal, wherever your cargo
takes you :-)
Malcolm
Glenn wrote:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=817ncid=757e=10
u=/ap/20030609/ap_on_fe_st/britain_photo_damages
Somebody got an $8000 settlement for a lost vacation film.
I caught the last of this on the local news, he said that he would not be
cashing the cheque until they had
Christian wrote:
Point taken that DSLRs are disposable And no I don't
expect to be using
my current DSLR in 30 to 40 years. I expect to be using
whatever is mostly
current at that time.
Well, you have to laugh. Do you all remember the excitement not that long
ago about the introduction
Graywolf wrote:
Now just what does it take to equal the Anti-Digital
Intentional Photography Camera*?
*My Crown Graphic 45, for those who don't know. I added the
Intentional Photography (from another thread) because it
does one shot at a time GRIN.
Kodak Holosuite Plus. So good, you
mike wilson wrote:
Not necessarily. On the route of this plethora of upgrades
the company finds that it has to relocate its manufacturing
(which it has already removed most of the human element from)
to outer Mongolia or some other place where labour is cheap
and unprotected, in order
William Robb wrote:
Either pay full price or steal the product?
Surely there must be other acceptable options.
World politics perfectly described in two lines.
M
Steve Desjardins wrote:
We talk a lot about the art and process and digital and film, etc. I
still think the greatest impact of photography is that it can
extend a moment in time for us fragile and mortal beings.
Nice shot and story.
I very strongly agree with that; it's the images we
frank theriault wrote:
Of my mechanical Pentaxes, the MX is relatively quiet. My
LX, in comparision is like an elephant in high heels walking
down a deserted hallway with no carpet (that is to say, LOUD).
My Leica CL is pretty damned quiet, much more so that any SLR. But,
my quiet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, yes, in comparison with an M-series, the LX is on the loud side.
But a K1000 is REALLY REALLY loud. I'm sure it's worse than the LX.
All the ZX bodies I've encountered have the hamster sneeze
that the *istD also has.
I compared my MX to Ken Archer's ME Super
Powell Hargrave wrote:
Great stuff Cotty.
How did you balance the exposure and what was the shutter speed?
Must give it a try if I can find some thing that moves around here.
Powell
Saturday afternoon. A lad with a football and a dad with a
camera
:-)
William Robb wrote:
Sheep and the British have a long, sordid history.
It started with the Welsh, spread into Scotland, and then south.
Best you not ask any more questions
Triumph in marketing.
Rebranded and exported as mobile leisure centres.
Malcolm
Tom C wrote:
For example here people access the net a lot from work.
Ooooh, We would NEVER EVER do that in the US! Yes to all
three (when people are shopping on the web). I've never sold
on e-bay, but as a buyer I tend to like auctions that end in
mid-evening. I like Buy it Now
Here we go again!!
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Malcolm
Anthony Farr wrote:
But when the *istD appeared without mechanical linkage there
was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, because this was
not a budget camera to be dismissed as a newbies' camera.
Pentax had sent a message that it would not maintain full
backwards and forwards
Richard Chu wrote:
I told her to go ahead and send me that label but I would
only send the package after I receive the money order. She
emailed me the label for a Nigerian address and also arranged
FEDEX to pick up the package from my house. I wasn't at home
when FEDEX came and told
William Robb wrote:
Minilabs are doomed anyway.
Print counts from digital won't keep them open, and while I
am seeing a blip
at the moment, I am sure that is all it is.
As much as i would like it to be otherwise
The bulk of the people I mix with are camera owners and make no pretence of
mike wilson wrote:
On an industrial estate in town (east coast of England) next
to the sea, is a tripe factory. Luckily, the prevailing
winds are westerly. When they change, business drops off in
the town centre. We used to have a brewery on the west side
of town. Boiling hops is not
mike wilson wrote:
Any chance of sending some rain down south?
Would sir like the three inches in two hours storm (a la
Sunday evening) or the full monsoon?
Hmm! Tricky one.
I'd rather like to gradually phase a monsoon in, with an option on a big
storm. Might be able to take some
mike wilson wrote:
You must be living in a different country to me. Are you on
chalk? We have a clay substrate here and it takes much
longer for the rainwater to disperse, if it's not causing
flash floods.
I can guide this back on topic to photography at this point, because in the
last
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
So, what's your favorite Pentax - even if it's one that you
don't use or use very much.
LX.
Malcolm
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I was thinking about this little survey earlier, and how
few of the replies indicated that the digital cameras were
their favorites. I've not counted replies and made any
effort to organize or tally the results, but, just from
reading, it seems, even amongst
mike wilson wrote:
Olympic games in London 2012.
OPDML, anyone?
Time to move :-(
Malcolm
mike wilson wrote:
Olympic games in London 2012.
OPDML, anyone?
Time to move :-(
Malcolm
I think the virus spreads as far as Manchester.
It's good for sport here, right now. For the future? What concerns me is
that resources will not be used well. There was an opportunity
frank theriault wrote:
I think that the rest of the world learned from Montreal '76.
I doubt that debacle will ever be repeated. In fact, IIRC,
the Olympic Commitee now makes sure that a proper funding
plan will be in place for each bid, to avoid such problems.
I hope you're right, but
Steve Jolly wrote:
IIRC they're building one enormous athletics stadium that
will stay after the event, but many of the other events will
be re-using existing facilities (eg Wimbledon, Wembley,
Lords, the Dome) or held in stadia that will be dismantled
afterwards and shipped off to
Scott Loveless wrote:
Since joining the list in February, I've experienced
enablement in the worst way.
I don't know, enablement can be very useful!
I have acquired no less than
one body, three primes, one zoom, a camera bag, everything
necessary to process black and white film, a film
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good example Shel. I find Replace Color to be a very valuable
and frequently used tool. I shot an engine the other day with
a tan distributor cap only to learn later that the original
cap was black. An easy fix with Replace Color. A big job
doing it any other
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
sounds like a good method for you but if you really know the
ebay system you will find that it is very hard and time
consuming to look up OLD negative feedbacks, more time
consuming than its worth most of the time.
Reason is ebay wont sort feedbacks by type so you
Graywolf wrote:
Well, I really want to thank you guys. Awhile back (about a
month) I ran across a real bargain BIN. It was so good that
I, remembering all these kind of posts here on the list, had
to check that the guys feedback was real. While I was doing
that someone else got the
E.R.N. Reed wrote:
Tom Reese wrote:
Pål Jensen wrote:
According to Pentax the *ist name is reserved (thank God)
for what they consider entry level; typically ones first dslr.
If they are to be believed high-end bodies will not have
that stupid
name. Lets hope they don't
Rob Studdert wrote:
It's about film, not bells and whistles. I want a DSLR that
I'm confident will provide me with the equivalent if not
better than the quality that I was used to using top end 35mm
film bodies and expensive film. The *ist D isn't there yet
though I assume that you know
Rob Studdert wrote:
I guess the very bottom line for me is that it isn't just
inconvenient, it's getting difficult and becoming limiting
having to tote and juggle two systems, plus quality film and
processing is now a significant cost. My frustration is
compounded by the fact that I'm
Bob W wrote:
What photographs and photographers were your first inspiration?
A school project at a very early age that gave me an excuse to ask for a
camera I suspect; then the realisation I could capture places and moments
outside and bring them indoors to keep. My father took very good
Rob Studdert wrote:
On 25 Jul 2005 at 18:40, William Robb wrote:
I really, really, really, suck.
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/I_SUCK/I_SUCK.html
I think you've got what I had a few years ago, you can get
treatment for it.
I was at my lowest at six LXen and five
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep. I saw it four or five days ago. Been watching it all
week. Please don't mention ebay auctions on the list.
This is similar to the 'how to unsubscribe' thing about how other lists
work. There are some lists which actively encourage telling all and sundry
about
Tom Reese wrote:
I just don't buy this argument. eBay has enough people
looking at their auctions that a few PDMLers won't make any
difference.
That lens isn't mislisted under Kowa medium format or
something where it's hard to find. Anyone who does a 600mm
lens search is going to see
Tom Reese wrote:
I don't believe for a minute that it will make any
difference. There are thousands of people looking at those
auctions including photography dealers. You're not going to
get a steal on eBay unless the item is grossly mislabeled. If
the seller advertised a Petnax lens in
Angel Ramos wrote:
This is something that the
digital camera comunity has to take into account. This
generation will loose their family history if they have most
of the pictures saved in their
family PC's hard drives. I can still make copies of the pictures my
mother took of me
Rick Womer wrote:
The only certainty involved with film is that you will be
able to view the image, somehow. What makes me nervous about
film is that I have about 10,000 slides in a closet. A burst
pipe or a fire and they're gone, with no backups.
If you look at auction houses -
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
... Yet I know my slides from the early 70s are OK. What I want is
digital flexibility and film storage certainties. ...
I've lost far more of film photographs then I have of digital
photographs through deterioration/failure of the media.
Matter of fact, I've
Paul Stenquist wrote:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3582841size=lg
Fantastic, I could look at these all day. I went out in one again recently
and it's surprising how modern they feel.
Malcolm
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
The *only* way to ensure that your work will persist through
time is to publish it. NO photographic recording media lasts
forever. Good, archival process prints can last a while, both
silver-gelatin and quality inkjet, based on the quality of
the paper (and ink)
David Mann wrote:
I've used my partner's head to support a 400mm lens. She's a
foot shorter than I am so it made for quite a comfortable
shooting position. More of a bipod than a tripod but still
better than handheld, and she can carry a bag of gear up a hill.
I bet she's hoping you
http://beckycarter.com/color.html
These are scary. Is it legal to stuff people for display purposes?
Malcolm
Vic Mortelmans wrote:
No family members or photographers inspired me. For me, the
most important photographs are pieces of memory. How people
were, how the city was looking. I'm very intrigued by
pictures of decennia old; times I cannot remember anymore, or
times I even wasn't born yet.
Hi Shel,
Your comment reminded me of an article I read in the local
fish wrap a few days ago.
http://tinyurl.com/av2ta
Thanks, an interesting link. Just goes to show that any effort involved
shows through to the results. As an aside,
from when I was young I remember family members
frank theriault wrote:
I may go out to celebrate tonight!
That certainly calls for it! Great news Frank.
Malcolm
Bruce Dayton wrote:
Hi Bruce,
I don't disagree with what you have said. One slightly
different angle though, is that those people who are now
thoughtlessly using digital to create worthless images,
didn't use to create images at all or thoughtlessly used a
one time use or PS camera to
Gautam Sarup wrote:
I do like my M6TTL. Thought Leica overpriced till I got it
but now I'm hooked on it paired to the 50mm Elmar-M.
I've always had a desire for one of these myself. I haven't looked at going
prices for over a year now, so I don't know if the digital age has made a
dent on
Cotty wrote:
Dixons, a major high street electronics and photo retailer in
the UK has pulled the plug on restocking 35mm film cameras
from its branches once current stocks have gone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4130620.stm
Saw that on the news this morning, they were the first to
John Coyle wrote:
Even those who know the risks can get caught out: I spoke to
Ryan today, and he has lost all but 20 of the pictures he's
taken since March due to two hard drive failures!
I'm even more glad I use both Cd's and HD's for storage...
Yes, it must be a horror when it happens,
Tanja wrote:
The Newspaper deadline I was talking about? I got a front page
A bit behind with my mail, so this is great to read - fantastic.
Well, bugger me dead, I just went to the newsagents, and look
what I found!!
I hope that means something different on your side of the globe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd forgotten how nifty the LX is. It's smaller and lighter
than I remembered, and yet feels very solid and well built.
The finder is very bright, especially compared to the
spotmatics. Compared to the K2 and Spot F I was fiddling
with earlier in the day the
William Robb wrote:
Could you reprt back about what your solution was to get a full frame
copy?
Hi Bill,
It's this PAW idea (thanks Shel) that makes me want to do it. I have no
scanner at present and this seems like the obvious way to get a slide I can
provide a link to. Most of my work needs
Mark Roberts wrote:
I think the T-90 would be an excellent walnut shell
cracker. Though
it might pulverize them too much.
T90, hell, get an F1--either old or new type. If you're not a Canon
guy get a Nikon F2. In either case there's enough mass that
a flick of
the wrist would
Cotty wrote:
I received this silly email as well. It contained a Zip file
that needed a code to unzip it, containing an exe file. I
followed the instructions and unzipped the attachment and
looked at the exe file. I shrugged my shoulders and deleted it.
And some people wonder why I like
Michel Carrère-Gée wrote:
I have tried:
*istD + M42/K adaptor + Pentax Auto-Bellow (screw) + SMC
Takunar 1.4/50 (and 1.8/55, screw, normal or reverse) +
Pentax Slide-Copier Post 2:
Not full frame, approximately 20x30mm with 1.4/50mm Post 3:
I tried two new tests:
- with SMC 2/55mm:
Christian wrote:
How about the Leica Digital back for the R-8 and R-9?
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0306/03062502leicadigitalr9.asp
ERN wrote:
Unless you specifically meant an SLR, I hear Leica Panasonic have
produced
such an animal.
Bruce Dayton wrote:
Zip disks or what they now call Jump drives are the ticket.
The jump drives are really just a SD card or some such with
the USB interface. All you do is plug it in and you have an
instant drive.
If you need more permanence then the zip disks work quite
well. I
Cotty wrote:
Malc, external USB floppy disk drives can be purchased and
will work on a Mac as well as a PC. May I make a suggestion?
If you have a computer, I would hope that you would be
backing up at the very least all the user data you create?
Oh yes! Having learnt the hard way, once a
Paul Stenquist wrote:
I shot this at a concert with my nearly silent 1953 Leica
IIIf RD and Summicron 50/2 collapsible. The film was Ilford
Delta 3200, rated at 1600. The exposure was f2.8 @ 1/25 It's here:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2188979size=lg.
Caught the atmosphere
frank theriault wrote:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2188556
I'd really like to hear your comments on this one.
Shocked and stunned of London, UK writes:
Brilliant. I love the way as a spectator you are 'caught in the moment'. No
real shock value anymore, but I wonder what
frank theriault wrote:
You're right, I do need something fast for my LX, though.
So do I. A Murcielago would be about right ;-)
Malcolm
Mark Erickson wrote:
So what's on your list?
Pentax 67II
Pentax K2
Malcolm
Nick Clark wrote:
My understanding is that the problems with PayPal are on the
seller's side, so there's no reason why someone can't use it to pay.
I've known payments to go missing for a while. I also don't like paying a
percentage on top to cover fees, as many sellers do. None of my eBay
Hi Mark,
Well I have a K2 for sale. LN condition. $150.00
I'm negotiating a swap of my ME-Super for one at the moment. It gets around
the current 'no more cameras' embargo!
Malcolm
From London 'Metro' newspaper 10th March '04.
Auction website eBay's payment service has agreed to hand over £82,000
compensation after admitting it misled shoppers into believing it offered
credit card-style protection. PayPal struck the deal after eBay customers
found they were not entitled to
http://www.atomiczombie.com/
Graywolf wrote:
Heck, Frank, get yourself an ordiary (Penny-Farthing) and
watch the wrecks as they all forget they are driving in
traffic and stare at you. (grin)
Stopping and starting them is the problem. I had one success out of three
attempts at riding one twenty plus years ago (when I
Aric wrote:
This is the bike I ride.
http://www.haluzak.com/products/horizon.htm
The feature which attracted me to this particular model is
user X-Seam
adjustment at the crank, not at the seat. (X-Seam is the
distance from a wall to your heel, when sitting on the floor
with back
frank theriault wrote:
Non sequitor: Speaking of mantras, my sister gave me a
t-shirt for Christmas, which says: I'm kind of like a
superhero, with no powers or motivation. Kind of sums up my
life. My sister knows me all too well.
You're NOT 'Bicycle Repair Man'?
Malcolm
Jim Apilado wrote:
Remember when we were all inconvenience using film? I use
both. I have friends that love getting pictures in envelopes
addressed to them. It is more personal.
Our family is scattered about, some of which like the immediate
participation of digital photos. Some of them
frank theriault wrote:
Actually, I do many of my own bike repairs. That's one thing
about track bikes - not much to go wrong/replace. A new
chain (I have a chain breaker) every couple of months or so
(time to get one, BTW), along with a daily clean and oil of
the chain is about it.
Nick Clark wrote:
Just thought I'd let you all know about a success. I 've had
a picture of bees printed in the UK publication Photography
Monthly, April issue. It's as part of a portfolio from
Edmonton Camera Club.
They should be sending us some films as payment.
Woohoo is the right
Nick Clark wrote:
I've yet to fathom the need for a slide duplicator for a
digital camera. Isn't a film scanner better?
Yes.
If you have one that is. Otherwise a slide duplicator.
Malcolm
This morning, whilst changing lenses, I noticed a black spec on the mirror.
Having carefully cleaned it, I put the lens back on and saw another and
anotherthe dreaded black snow of disintegrating foam. So far the
purchase and maintenance costs of this camera have worked out to approx GBP
0.015
Veteran BBC broadcaster and writer Alistair Cooke has died at
his home in New York, aged 95.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3581465.stm
Steve Desjardins wrote:
One more time, complete with URL:
http://home.wlu.edu/~desjardi/
Great composition, really like this one.
Malcolm
In the hope that the following is a one off piece of delivery genius:
One of my friends had a parcel delivered by Parcelforce yesterday. He wasn't
in, but was expecting an expensive eBay purchase from Australia (a book).
Instead of trying next door, the delivery driver put a note through his
Robert Mapson wrote:
That's it - First of April! ;-D
Thought about today's date after I posted it, but sadly this isn't a joke,
it happened yesterday :-(
Malcolm
Graywolf wrote:
Ah the old toss it in the trash trick.
When I was in the Air Force a long long while back my parents
decided to toss out those boxes of old books I had, including
a first edition of The Swiss Family Robinson. On the one
hand, I had only paid 99 cents for it. On the
William Robb wrote:
They have decided that it is more profitable to screw up and lose the
delivery. Their insurance coughs up the replacement cost, and in all
likelyhood they will deliver the replacement.
It's called profiting from ones mistakes, and they have elevated it
to a business
William Robb wrote:
And in who's world does a company not carry liability insurance as
standard procedure?
They are paying for it, whether or not they make claims.
It's a complete fallacy to think that companies don't take use of
liability insurance into account when they are setting up
frank theriault wrote:
UPS won't dump the residential deliveries, because they want
to be Your One Stop Courier Company. They want
secretaries, rececptions and mail room guys to have one
courier company on their speed dial, for all their needs.
Whichever company delivers 'whatever to
Graywolf wrote:
Maybe what is needed is for everyone to place their order,
then when they say they can not ship the way you want, tell
them to cancel it. I think only a lot of canceled orders are
likely to reach management's ears. Just not ordering will not
get to them.
BH now will do
frank theriault wrote:
Well, Malcolm, you're right. The culture of I just want
this off my desk
should change. Problem, it's not so easy a fix as one might
think. With the advent of computers, receptionists must now
be much more than a pretty face to smile at the business men
who
Keith Whaley wrote:
When something is done incorrectly, and there's only two ways
to do it, right and wrong, there IS a wrong way.
Now, it's up to the boss or supervisor or parent, or
whomever, to soft pedal the word and insist that it be done correctly.
I think you're trying to avoid
Graywolf wrote:
Boy am I glad I am out of the work force. Did I ever mention
the time I got a bad work review, so I just quit trying to do
my job. Just came in, sat there, and was friendly to
everyone. Ignored the job description completely. Did no
actual work. They told me how much I
frank theriault wrote:
Taken last autumn, when I went apple picking with the kids,
this is my youngest Claire:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2269307
Just a family snap, but I'd still like to hear what you
think. This is proof that:
a) I do shoot colour sometimes,
b)
Robert wrote:
As of Thursday we have another *istD. One for me, one for my wife :-D
Are we the first to have 2 *istDs?
Good question? It's certainly something my wife and I have spoken of and
would guarantee me access to one. I can certainly appreciate why some people
have changed from film
frank theriault wrote:
http://www.nrg666.com/pdml/portraits/pages/FrankTheriault.htm
Is this available in milk chocolate?
Happy Easter, Frank and all PDMLers.
Malcolm
Nick Clark wrote:
I find I still enjoy film more despite all the advantages of
digital. It's something about the MZ-S which I find
ergonomically superior to the *ist-D, although that could be
because I'm not yet used to the latter. I haven't yet got the
lenses for the 1.5 multiplier
William Robb wrote:
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/paw/IMGP2786.html
The eyes. Not sure about this one. Umm!
Malcolm
Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
http://www.tanyamayer.com/weddinggalleriesprivate/bean/images/Bean0259.jpg
My favourite (and difficult to make).
Malcolm
Bruce Dayton wrote:
I had the same thought when I saw that one.
Shel wrote:
SB Get those trees outta there. Looks like big antlers growing from
SB the bride's head.
SB Malcolm Smith wrote:
Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
http://www.tanyamayer.com/weddinggalleriesprivate
Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
Kostas, it was Malcolm Smith who wrote that, and not I.
However... despite its seemingly simple nature, it was indeed
a difficult shot to make, but probably not for reasons that
Malcolm even realises. Firstly, I was on the other side of a
busy highway
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
http://www.tanyamayer.com/weddinggalleriesprivate/bean/images/Bean02
59.jpg
My favourite (and difficult to make).
Why difficult?
Honest question,
A question for Tanja I suspect, but for my part I liked them all, this one
above the others - just.
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