get it back.
So you're tho one who looks like Rolf Harris, then?
:-P
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William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
645 is a fine format, and the Pentax is one of the betterones.
For myself, I didn't like 645 because of the way the negative sits in the
film carrier.
If you do portraits, it's great, but for landscapes it's a bit sucky.
???
Could you elaborate?
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the page to look the way they
like. (This is especially important for visually impaired users.)
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!
Then the 100mm f/2.8 Macro. A digital camera that is good at macro is
something I dream to own.
I also took some macro shots using the F100/2.8 macro. Yes, macro shots
with digital are lots of fun :)
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horizontal framing. For portrait orientation you have to
turn the camera on its side (but it has an extra tripod socket on its
side for when you're doing a lot of portraits - very neat feature).
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. And Canada sent us
only the watered-down version of their cold. ;-)
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is dead.
These cameras will most probably never have a film loaded :-)
If my local stores are anything to go by, there won't be film available
to load into them before long. Well, good film, at least. There'll
*always* be Kodak Max 400.
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...
:-P
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The Straight Dope on swastikas:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_156.html
:)
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doesn't make any cutting edge products?!
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bosses pretty damn quick and told to retract the
statement. We can't count on anyone making mistakes like that in the
future.
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at some indoor horse venues.It actuall makes a half decent 8x10. I dont
think i'd go bigger though.
Wait until next year's digital cameras. Or perhaps the year after. Not
much longer, though.
The writing is on the wall.
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in keeping
up with the list.
-Lon
Mark Roberts wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone think there'd be use for a page listing some more useful tools for
the digital darkroom, perhaps organized by freeware/shareware/buyem and by
application type? You know, stand alone apps, PS plug-ins
Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
If my local stores are anything to go by, there won't be film available
to load into them before long. Well, good film, at least. There'll
*always* be Kodak Max 400.
Gosh, where do you live?
Pittsburgh. Only two really serious photo
there is a dentist (non-fictional) here in Greenwich called Mr. Payne.
In Rochester, one could get a vasectomy from a (non-fictional) urologist
named Dr. Stopp.
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has warmed up since we've been keeping records is
indisputable.
It's also been established that it began right after the beginning of
the industrial revolution. Nah. Probably just a coincidence... :)
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, focal length, time, date, film ISO (if the DX code is
overridden), latitude, longitude altitude (the camera would of course
have built-in GPS), outside temperature, sign of the zodiac,
birthstone...
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and found it maddening
because I only had ISO 100 film on hand. It would have been nice to just
instantly switch to ISO 800.
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to be the two major reasons.
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up and I get to take that day off as a
state holiday.
Are referring to the war of Northern aggression? :-)
What? You guys got attacked by Canada??? I had no idea!
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I took
the shot; it was the *horizon* that wasn't level.
Which brings up a philosophical question: Do you try to get the horizon
so that it *looks* right or the way you really know *is* right (but
looks funny in the final print)?
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Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2969470695category=4702
Drat...no aperture ring.
Well lenses without aperture rings have advantages and disadvantages.
Kind of a double-edged sword...
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(as far as I know) Canadian band called FM. Heard of them?
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. they kept going
until the mid 1980s.
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William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Which brings up a philosophical question: Do you try to get the horizon
so that it *looks* right or the way you really know *is* right (but
looks funny in the final print)?
I want em to look right.
To do
Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GFM - well, BAD news guys and gals!
snip
So...we're all coming down to your place then?
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esteemed Cotty! g
Guilty as charged, sigh.
You can get the book, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (18 pages,
$7.00), from here:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp
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) - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast
Lotus 6-6-6 - Spreadsheet of the Beast
Word 6.66 - Word Processor of the Beast
I66686 - CPU of the Beast
666I - BMW of the Beast
6, uh...number again? - Number of the Blonde Beast
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Thomas Stach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Waa!!!
LOL!!!
ROTFL
Is that all out of your head or which source do you have ;-) ?
Brilliant!
Not mine. Just one of those things that gets passed around the Internet.
probably has several authors. No idea tho originated it, though.
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://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm
It's also free :)
It simulates Kodak Wratten filters. Works fairly well for me.
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Ann Sanfedele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
Look at it this way: Yellow light has a wavelength around 575 nm.
Combining red (650 nm) and green (500 nm) *doesn't* produce light of 575
nm wavelength - you just have two separate wavelengths present at the
same time - but it'll
Robert Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The lack of deep
resources is one of the few things thats preventing the Foveon
technology from getting a stronger presence.
Yeah, that and being stuck in a Sigma camera body!
;-)
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Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Konica bought Minolta
Who's going to buy Pentax?
Not me; just spent all my spare cash on Christmas presents.
:-P
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Butch Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately Mark Roberts is a much more common name so I'm only the
5th web site listed. Even more unfortunate is what happens to be the
*first* one listed...
I don't know Mark, it sounds like good exposure to me :0) (someone had to
say it)
Yeah. Looks
up here today, with about 85%
relative humidity!
It's ONLY 34.8 in Sydney at the moment :-P
Heck, it's only 25 here in Pittsburgh!
Oh, wait...we're talking Fahrenheit, right?
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.
This is the only online review I know of:
http://luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/14-vs-16.shtml
I'd say that $395 sounds like a bargain, though!
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Joseph Tainter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Same sensor as one of the Nikon DSLRs
The Nikon D100
which, I believe, can do ISO 100.
Nope. The D100 only goes down to ISO 200.
It's a sensor limitation.
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cameras)
after discovering how much I like the 200mm focal length on my 645.
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think quality black white film will remain a
viable niche market.
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://www.dpreview.com/news/0312/03121901fujifilmback.asp
OK, so it's not available in the U.S. (yet) and it's a lot of money.
There's an inexorable trend for sensors to increase in size and decrease
in price.
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, but there's a certain panache to a genuine
silver gelatine print, even if it's largely snobbery.
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Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
There's an inexorable trend for sensors to increase in size and decrease
in price.
A 24x36mm chunk of silicon wafer will always be a 24x36mm chunk of
silicon wafer, and there's no real reason that I can see to expect the
price
Malcolm Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where the imagination goes, the wallet is sure to follow.
Ooh, that's a keeper!
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I've just added the K2 service manual to my web page at
http://www.robertstech.com/pentax.htm
Happy tinkering!
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dirctly, but you'll have to sign up for Hotmail or some other
free email address because wanadoo.fr is blacklisted form my domain because of
extensive spam problems.
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David A. Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Roberts wrote:
I've just added the K2 service manual to my web page at
http://www.robertstech.com/pentax.htm
Downloading as I type. Thanks Mark... now I might be tempted to fix my
shutter release button which seems to be less smooth than it used
Posted in rec.photo.equipment.35mm as an example as to why it's important to
crop your photos properly before putting them on the web...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1766539274
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Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark, this info would be most EXCELLENT as a web page. (hint, hint)
It's all on Boz's most excellent web page already!
http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/
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for this one..
Personally, I'm beside myself wondering what to do...
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tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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^^^
Maybe you should stick to one or the other?
HAR!
Yikes! That sig's been like that for ages and you're
Francis Alviar wrote:
Have you ever brought two different camera systems on vacation?
I do it all the time: 35mm and 645.
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Brad Dobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I even had the money, I certainly wouldn't spend that amount on Ebay.
One word: Escrow
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-mount lenses.
According to the Pentax USA web site
(http://www.pentaxusa.com/products/cameras/camera_specs.cfm?productid=01459),
the MZ-60/ZX-60 is compatible only with KAF and KAF2 lenses. I expect Boz just
hasn't filled in all the details for this relatvely new camera yet.
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tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I break something *every* week
I thought you hired assistants to do that?
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tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a broken 10 foot 5p cable if any of you DIYers want one.
I'll go for that one, Tom. I can't resist a DIY opportunity! (Besides I have to
catch up with Cotty in the tinkering department.)
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/english/lx.html
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Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Minolta has already produced two lenses with _adjustable_ bokeh...
Oh they're *way* late with this. Juah Buhler pioneered the Bokeh On Demand
concept years ago: http://jbuhler.com/HLimited/
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. The better the
quality the sensor the *more* important lens quality (or sensor size) will
become.
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film) but I'm making progress. Slowly.
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Photographers too.)
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obsolete too
quickly.
Not an enviable task. It's certainly one *I* would like to be responsible for.
Although I'm certainly not going to stop second-guessing Pentax with the rest of
you! (Being an armchair corporate manager is such fun!)
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tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't seem to email you...I'll take you up on your offer
If my main email address is inaccessible try [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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prospective clients by making duplicates, but there's always
a loss of quality with dupes, as well as the time and expense of making them.
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to take a pic
of a new bridge. I have a very strong opinion on current security
measures as well as people feeding public histeria (Russians/Arab
Terrorists/Green Monsters Are Coming!).
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of it...With Photoshop and some adhesive paper to put through the
inkjet paper...I could make ISO 1600 labels to go on all my film canisters and
never have to reload anything (I just have to make sure my labels don't cover
the DX code).
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, the
correct way to ask for this is:
Hello Officer. I am from insert name of country here. May I have a
hand job please?
Ah well. At least you didn't insult the Pope!
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I heard Nikon's new full-frame digital SLR (not announced at Photokina but
coming soon, trust me) has no LCD at all - it comes with a 17 CRT monitor
that's connected to the camera via a cable.
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to this and the build quality of the unit, they rarely seem to turn up on the
second hand market.
If anyone wants information about this scanner, just contact me.
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Nosal, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ugh. I hate meaningless Flash intro pages.
meaningless Flash intro is redundant.
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Forbes magazine:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2002/09/30/0930photokina.html
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immediately copy the tilted top plate design. Of course,
the Rebel Ti is loaded with head-turning Canon style!
BTW: This non-flash URL worked better for me:
http://www.canoneos.com/rebelti/html/index.html
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to 1975,
which would make 2003 the 40th anniversary of that particular introduction.
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for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the joke and spent
several weeks in hospital. But apart from that things went pretty quickly, and
we soon had the joke by January, in a form which our troops couldn't understand
but which the Germans could.)
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in digital?
Yes, I too have used a K1000 in -40 for an extended period of time.
Martin
I tested a K1000 in below -40ºC. It did surprisingly well,
lasting nearly an hour. The shutter actually froze open.
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William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Boxing day is December 26th, and has to do with putting the
remains of the Christmas feast into boxes and giving it to the
poor, or some such.
Close. It's the day the churches used to *open* their alms boxes and give the
money to the poor.
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bag. On my web site
(for a limited time only!) at http://www.robertstech.com/files/releasex.pdf
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files into the camera from anywhere.
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that way.
The only way I can see a virus getting into a digital camera is through a
firmware upgrade.
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Michael Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I love London #19!
London #17 is my fave. What a wonderful juxtaposition!
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to be without at least one in my collection. It's a
real gem; my carry around with me all the time just in case camera. It's also
the one I use whenever I'm packing light.
Stop me now before I keep babbling on about this camera!
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frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to ramble on so OT, but I think that these things are important. Thanks again.
Some OT subjects are worth rambling on about.
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construction is. Stop
it down to f8-11 and it'll probably be OK.
I bought a Cosina 20mm f4.0 on eBay for $20.00 and found it to be surprisingly
sharp once stopped down. Now I keep it in my mini kit with the MX, M28/3.5 and
FA43/1.9 Ltd.
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Tim wrote:
K mount?
Yes :)
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underemployed
state - at least not for a charity job (web page for my organic food co-op).
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that to mean that 40% of
*Pentax's* annual sales were medium format, 12% SLR and 25% PS. I assume the
remaining 23% would be lenses and accessories.
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uses of the same
shots. (I'm doing the initial shoot for free but I wouldn't be averse to future
paid use of the same material.)
Looks like I'll give the E160T a try. (Man, that upcoming Pentax digital SLR
would be useful for this, wouldn't it?)
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Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Tim S Kemp wrote:
What would be the factor (1.6??), if the sensor has APS size?
I think it's 1.5
1.25, I think.
1.44
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Shaun Canning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 'rest' of Pentax's market is diverse. They manufacture riflescopes,
endoscopes, EDM's, GPS receivers, and god knows what else.
Any GPS-guided endoscopes?
Just wondering ;-)
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Mark Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Tim S Kemp wrote:
What would be the factor (1.6??), if the sensor has APS size?
I think it's 1.5
1.25, I think.
1.44
BTW: I arrived at this figure by using the ratio of the 35mm full
' testimony of what the images were and her sworn statement that
they accurately represented what she saw through the microscope.
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of it.
What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at the next place she visited...and
the one after that.
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how
long it took chemical photography to go from Daguerrotypes and wet-plates to the
first Kodak Brownie.
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investigation around Washington, I've seen
lots of police officers taking crime scene photos with digital cameras.
My household pathologist uses digital and film for her photos. It makes no
difference in court which is presented.
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Pentax service manual page (I may add K1000 and Super Program service
manuals shortly)
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(original, manual
focus version) because I take it hiking in some pretty rugged country sometimes;
My decision was based on size/weight issues, but I've never regretted it from in
image quality standpoint (or any other standpoint).
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