) was shot at 17mm at around f/8-f/11.
William Robb
ing.
Thanks Shel.
Ok is about the best I can hope for. I was shooting JPEGS, not RAW, and I
seem to have a lot of trouble with out of camera jpegs being somewhat
overexposed.
I suspect eh artificial turf was throwing things off a bit too.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OT: Alfa Romeo cars
Blaming the US government is silly.
But you have to admit, it's fun.
WW
r
exposed.
My LX's habitually underexpose film when shooting in automatic.
Doesn't matter what colour the light is.
William Robb
a converter of some
sort?
In the istD, I had been using NiMh batteries, but finally got tired of the
unending maintenance that they require, and their rather fickle power
output. I bought a set of CR-V3 batteries
back in July, and have been quite content with them.
William Robb
I tend to stick to the rated speed and compensate accordingly.
I've never had much luck with the LX in auto. I'll be happily shooting away,
and when I process the film, find a few shots per roll that are, for no
apparent reason, 4 or so stops underexposed.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Pancho Hasselbach" Subject: Re: Scary photoshopping
And, this explains why "perfect" bodies appear always in magazines but
never near a swimming pool.
Obviously, you've never seen Cakalic in his BVDs
WW
- Original Message -
From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: First attemt on B&W conversion
I think we should shoot him now...
May I suggest you use a Canon
William Robb
o stops underexposed.
My LX used to do that, too.
I'm not sure what is causing the problem. When I had my fleet serviced a few
years ago, I had both the ISO resistor and the aperture simulator resistor
changed out and the problem persisted, much to my annoyance.
William Robb
of the market is a losing game.
Do you think they would sell enough high end, high performance bodies to
make a profit?
I mean, providing they sold for less than the price of a Mercedes Benz?
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Tom C"
Subject: Re: Scary photoshopping
Are you the guy that was
lurking around our hotel at 2 AM?
Couldn't sleep.
WW
t.
The exception for me would be if it would use, and use well, the 6x7 lenses,
in which case I would certainly consider one.
But it would have to use CF cards.
William Robb
t after a year or so of use, the performance really
started to deteriorate, with the batteries no longer holding a charge for as
long, and not giving as many shots per charge either.
I'm willing to pay extra for a zero maintenance battery if it means the
camera is ready to go when i am.
William Robb
We couldn't change this to a political discussion could we? It would be much
less boring, and far more inclusive.....
William Robb
guess. With their product replacement scheme,
anything you buy is almost "done" in production.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Derek"
Subject: Next Pentax DSLR
When is the next Pentax DSLR going to be announced?
This was discussed either last week, or the week before.
Pentax traditionally announces it's new DSLRs at the Ulan Bator show.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: Pentax-M f/13.5 2000mm
The biggest Pentax lens I've ever seen was the 800mm/f4.0 for the 6x7 ...
I saw one at a store in Saskatoon. I think it weighed about 30 pounds.
Massive lens.
William Robb
From: Monty Python's Flying Circus
(A sign hangs in a chemist's office, "Dispensing Department." John Cleese is
a chemist and is behind a chemists counter. One man is standing and a man
and lady are sitting, facing CHEMIST on the other side of the counter)
CHEMIST: Right I've got some of yo
st shipping, no damages, and interestingly, no onerous "brokerage fee"
that I have railed against in the past.
William Robb
Consider camping at Kodachrome Basin.
The scenery is quite nice, and there are some food photographic
opportunities to be had there.
Devil's Garden State Park is nearby, as is Hole in the Rock.
It's a bit of a drive to Bryce through some nice countryside.
William Robb
person that needed to be convinced of that
being a warranty-covered defect?
I tried and failed to get this information from Pentax Canada, via my
vendor. I never did try Pentax directly.
It seems to be a non issue at the retail level.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "mike wilson"
Subject: Re: Re: FedEx Hoovers!
I think I see a pattern there.
They take turns.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Norman Baugher"
Subject: Re: What Are Hot Pixels?
Shel my only advice is to stay away from them, they will eventually
break your heart.
Cats are like that too.
William Robb
x27;s lifted, and to realize that most lifted images find a pretty mundane
existence as desktop wallpaper, if they get used for anything at all, other
than harddrive spacefiller.
Also, post em small with lots of compression if possible.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Igor Roshchin"
Subject: Re: FA J Lenses
The Almighty Google told me:
``Jalla Jalla means "faster faster". In Turkey it is a stomach
complaint...''
The feeling I get looking at pictures taken with Minolta glass.
HAR!!
WW
me to
repect the intellectual property to be found on his university's website.
I think they stopped, but I could be mistaken.
William Robb
ith some strobes AND a
couple
mentions of the Wein devices.
The solution is the same in all cases, reverse the polarity of the flash
cord.
People I know have had this problem with Nikon and Olympus, and have solved
it in the manner you describe.
William Robb
e of whatever you are
doing at the time.
William Robb
The annual sojourn is upon us. We will be taking off for a few weeks to more
mountainous locales to the west.
For the first time in forever, I am taking no film.
Behave yourselves, and don't be inviting no wild wimmen into the place while
I'm gone.
Have fun
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Jens Bladt"
Subject: RE: PESO - Night Fire
Very dangerous tool! Don't you ever dare to point one at your wife! She'll
make you sell it and buy a Soligor in stead.
Meet Tom's wife sometime.
You'll be eatin those words.
William Robb
ness.
People want prints, always have, always will.
It was the C22 process, BTW.
William Robb
utton, the camera is ready.
Watch that you don't knock yourself out of metering range with the green
button metering method.
William Robb
pes if one can't use grad ND filters.
A
http://www.calumetphoto.com/ctl?PAGE=Controller&ac.ui.pn=cat.CatItemDetail&ac.item.itemNo=XB6550&ac.cat.CatTree.detail=y&type=PRDINDEX
might work.
William Robb
llions of K/M lenses.
Nope. Canon released AF about the same time as Pentax (1987). Pentax was
inndeed firts of all with AF in 1981 (ME-F) but there was only one lens...
Sadly, AF was where Pentax fell off the wagon. The Minolta and Canon AF
cameras far outclassed the Pentax's of the day.
William Robb
siness decision for Pentax, K/M non support is probably not a bad
one, they sold me
another half dozen new lenses. I may not be a typical user , but I suspect
I am not all that atypical either.
YMMV
William Robb
to have to go a long way to
prove that one John.
Maybe you have some production figures you aren't telling us about?
William Robb
Nikon has been kind of spotty regarding lens
compatability since the late 70s.
William Robb
e
such a bug up your ass about it.
William Robb
o focus? It's crap.
But I only sold the stuff for a living for 15 years, I probably am wrong.
William Robb
cks an aperture
indicator coupler you say? Sod it. We can always come up with a
software workaround if enough people complain.
The ist film chassis is completely different from the istD chassis.
One is not based on the other.
William Robb
is just particularly good.
No examples, just my usual unscientific way of looking at pictures.
Oh yes, the FA also offers autofocus, macro focus and full metering
compatability with the istD.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Tom Reese"
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
How about a shoe mounted external radar unit for autofocusing? How cool
would that be?
How about a shoe mount spotting scope for the 600.....
William Robb
ility for THE MAJORITY of users.
For most users, this means programmed exposure automation and autofocus,
neither of which are supported, or supportable, by K/M lenses.
William Robb
sterday.
The fact is, this subject comes up at least 3 times a year in one iteration
or another, gets discussed to death and goes away until the entire thing
gets regurgitated again.
Rather that rereading the old thread, I will just wait until it comes around
again.
William Robb
relating to or suggestive of pomp : MAGNIFICENT
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
Have you read the entire thread from the beginning yet?
No.
I am not going to respond until you do.
Please don't.
William Robb
ce body, even though they are buying the bottom of the line
product.
For most people, a lens is just something you stick onto the camera because
you need one to take pictures with.
William Robb
r the course of reading the choice gobbets, I recall reading much
the same thing from you, repeated over and over again more than in duplicate
or triplicate.
If you'll do it for them, why not for me?
William Robb
sibly as little as seven, since we don't know if
they were full years, so to speak, possibley 9 years, if there was old stock
to get rid of.
William Robb
support, but rather whether it was pressingly
necessary to keep it.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From:
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
How about wheels and a motor for the 600mm
Hire an angry young man.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From:
Subject: Re: Camera engineering (was Re: Rename request)
I'd rather hire a pretty young lady.
Sure, have her stand a half mile away and do portraits....
William Robb
rror lens
to A series, I suppose.
William Robb
fuckface, if I am replying to a post, I am replying to that post, not
the entire thread.
If something in the post I am replying to has already been replied to, then
what does that make the person who has posted the same thing a few times to
draw out the redundant reply?
A really dumb ass?
William Robb
't a bad lens, just that the FA is exemplary.
Money wasn't mentioned as part of the criteria in the original post.
William Robb
with the current digital SLRs.
What was the pressing need to maintain the mechanical couplings for 20-30
year out of date lenses?
William Robb
sale from time to time,
ususally to someone doing some sort of specialty photography.
William Robb
lens, and
they had compatability problems because of it.
I only know one Leica R user which is where this info came from, so I could
be full of it again.
William Robb
a second, think that the bulk of the consumers who
are plunking down a few hundred dollars for a DSLR are going to start
seeking out 30 year old lenses that don't offer autofocus and don't zoom?
William Robb
ught em, they'd still be making them.
William Robb
er again just for you. NO - its VERY wrong for
you to expect a retread of entire thread you missed
when all you need to do is read it first.
What don't you understand about that simple concept?
Think dude its hard to believe you are even asking
for that let alone expect that
You need an irony checker.
William Robb
haven't
gone out of my way to find problems with it, either.
it wouldn't surprise me at all if the DA14 is a better lens, it is a much
newer design. The A15 is the same design as the K15, which makes it a pretty
old lens formula, possibly as much as 30 years old.
William Robb
S shooting rate until the buffer fills.
I like the istD size and build for the most part.
Smaller, sleeker RAW files. For me, the DNG format would be about perfect.
Glass prism, good viewfinder.
Fast AF, and more importantly, accurate metering (my istD seems a bit of a
shambles in this regard).
William Robb
just don't know which post you are replying to John. It wasn't the one you
quoted though.
William Robb
t with Pal that involved nailing some private parts
to a tree if a Pentax digital SLR camera wasn't delivered by a certain
date? Bob S.
Who won?
Pretty sure John did. By the time the istD came out, it was WAY overdue.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "frank theriault"
Subject: Re: Saskatchewanian Returns
cheers,
frank (life-long Alouettes fan)
Is that what they are called this season?
WW
..
All low to mid range DSLR buyers are the same demographic, the brand they
choose is immaterial.
Mid to high end DSLR buyers are, at the moment, a different demographic, and
they are not the same demographic as Pentax DSLR buyers.
William Robb
888
8888888
WILLIAM ROBB WROTE:
The most important factor is lens usability for THE MAJORITY of users. For
most users, this means programmed exposure automation and autofocus,
neither of which are supported, or supportable, by K/M lenses
ng tiles in the
basement under the kitchen and I cut a hot water pipe with the Sawzall.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Update on my profile snags
However i order the ibook before this discovery.
Its not going back thats for sure.LOL
Just stay away from iPhoto.
William Robb
e met a number of people who I now consider friends from this list.
Anyone know if Casselbury is still around?
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "Don Sanderson"
Subject: PLEASE, buy these lenses!
KEH has both a 43/1.9 and a 77/1.8 in E+ condition.
Would someone please buy these before I do some-
thing really stupid!
Thank You for Your Support,
Have you bought them yet?
WW
get closer.
You've screwed up the bokeh with unsharp mask.
William Robb
in your own small, obtuse mind,
then call others dumb for not playing your stupid little game.
Don't you have a swimming pool to take pictures of?
William Robb
fun of stupid people,
steal candy from small children, and torture and mutilate helpless animals.
I just can't help myself, I am a product of a small gene pool.
My momma wore army boots, too.
My work here is done.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: Camera engineering (This is signifigant)
I told you this would happen didn't I???
Sure John, whatever.
William Robb
So, dropping aperture preferred AE as an exposure mode, had they done it,
wouldn't really be a big deal.
However, aperture controlled AE is still available on the Pentax DSLRs,
admitedly in a somewhat modified form, for those who want to use older
lenses, so the feature has not been completely dropped as you like to think
it is.
William Robb
camera would be capable of getting this
series.
William Robb
her a pain...
I would like to see a directory tree with less levels (CDs don't like that
many sub directories), no file renaming, and all the image files appearing
only once and all in the same directory so i don't have to go seeking them
out.
Any advice?
Thanks
William Robb
it gets a
bit testy.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Update on my profile snags
Tell him to download his files from his camera to a directory folder.
Don't use I-Photo for download. He can then copy the files right from the
folder to your CD. He can still import them into I-
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hmmm, on further relfection, I shouldn't have said that. Some people on
this
list buy new tools all the time.
And some just are tools...
WW
- Original Message -
From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: Camera engineering (This is signifigant)
=======
WILLIAM ROBB WRITES in post quote BELOW:
"I need to point out that AE is still available with
e lens was contemporaneous with the camera.
Even now, they have forward compatability issues with old lenses not able to
mount at all, or work on new bodies, though new lenses will mount, and
generally will work on older bodies.
William Robb
t.
Does anyone else heard such gossip? Sylwek?
I know 3 pro boys using D70s, all have had reliability problems of one type
or another.
William Robb
in business by inventing technology and then licencing it
to other companies, without implementing it in their own products.
William Robb
ra?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:46:15 -0400
On 9/22/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And some just are tools...
You talking to me? Are you talking to me? I don't see anybody else here.
sincerely,
Travis
--
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
ject I could give a hoot about.
Any time Pentax keeps us waiting too long (in our sometimes not so humble
opinion) for a new flagship, we get testy.
William Robb
matic exposure by pressing one button, rather than having to turn a
dial, or change a menu setting to get an automatic exposure quickly.
Call it what you will, if the user sets one exposure parameter and the
camera sets the other one, it's auto exposure.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: How Pentax Could Survive (was:Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm)
I don't want to do stupid unnecessary
things.
HAR!
Is someone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to post this stuff?
(It's a joke, John)
WW
well be zero (no one).
Sort of like the number of people that feel ripped about Pentax and their
DSLR compatability "issue".
Once a number falls below a certain threshold, it may as well be zero.
William Robb
have a nice new DSLR.
William Robb
u keep that up.
Sort of like the same credibiltiy issues that keep cropping up when people
say it would cost Pentax nothing to offer full support to K/M lenses?
Curiously
William Robb
re control.
William Robb
o low that it may as well be zero.
There's the fantasy land some live in, where all things are possible, and
all things are done, then there is the real world most of us live in where
some things are possible, and few things are done.
William Robb
h
to fry over there.
William Robb
ing you want a picture of.)
Seriously, the Synchronicity theme is more of a slice of life thing than
anyting else.
Take a picture of a stick at the appropriate moment.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: "J. C. O'Connell"
Subject: RE: Camera engineering ( GREEN BUTTON has just officially DIED...)
Do we have a Pentax Discussion List
"Hall of Fame"? I suggest we
start one if not, and I submit this
post of mine as the first inductee
into the "greatest posts o
ionable
at best
What reasons are those?
Please be specific with regards to the company policy on this
matter. It would help if you had available a Pentax press release on the
subject.
William Robb
precisely which camera you are talking about
that is difficult to use, list why it is difficult to use, and give at least
one example of when you have missed an important picture because of the
camera's lack user friendliness to give some credibility to the complaint.
William Robb
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